Off a weekend that has seen an impressive win by Dalton Smith in the main
event for Matchroom Boxing in Sheffield, England, and a women's title defense for
Sandy Ryan. The Dan Rayfield and I didn't see coming. Holy smokes.
We're ready to recap what went on with that fight card. We've got news,
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way. Dalton Smith gets a body shot KO the liver Shiver Quiver maybe with
the body shot KO of Jose Zepeda. Big win for him in the one
hundred and forty pound division relative it's the biggest step up for him. He
got the knockout. So Dan, let's go over that and the rest of
the card that had some other interesting results the Matchroom shows Saturday in the recap
book. Well, first off, just tremendous performers from Dalton Smith. He's
been a hot prospect, rising contender ever you want to describe him, for
a while. A lot of expectations for him in especially in the UK where
he is from. He was fighting in Sheffield, which is his hometown,
and he finally was able to step up against a world level opponent, not
just a British level or a European level opponent, and there were some questions,
you know. I mean, I thought this was a fight he would
win, but I did not think it was going to be an easy night
at the office. Because I don't care whether Jose Zepida wins a fight or
loses a fight. Rarely, if ever, is the opponent in an easy,
easy fight that whatever happens, he's gonna make you know you were in
a fight when it's over. And Dalton Smith probably had harder sparring as a
turnout. Now, it wasn't a liver shot that knocked him out. The
shot was right in like the below the solar plexus, like in the gut,
like they called it on the broadcast, in the bread basket, I
mean, And it was such a great shot. It was a punch that
landed so perfect right in the center of the gut and he sort of bent
over and it was almost like in slow motion where you could just see he's
like the pain is going to the spot and he just then fell almost slow
motion, like it was a delayed reaction to some degree, and he just
wasn't getting up. I mean he was down, you know, for a
number of seconds or minute round he folded. When he folded, when he
folded off of his knees down onto his four arms, face on the mat,
that was it. And Dalton Smith knew that was it. Heck of
a body shot, no doubt. And by the way, not only was
it a great body shot, but everything leading up to the body shot before
the knockout. This was a very dominating super performance. I mean, you
can't give Dalton Smith higher marks. That was an a plus performance. You
know, I'm not and I don't mean to say that it was like he
didn't beat Floyd Mayweather or somebody like that, but I mean in terms of
stepping up to fight a bonafide solid contender who's got good wins on his record
and even in losses have been competitive, this was a very good this is
what you call in the business was This was a statement. This was I
am Dalton Smith. I am a junior welterweight contender to be taken seriously,
and I'm ready to move in to fights at the world level, fighting in
fights that are against other contenders or world title eliminators or potentially because this was
for one of the WBC regional beltsa is like their silver title, which in
and of itself to me as a fan, is meaningless, But for the
boxer and his team, it's meaningful because it will it will improve his ranking
within the WBC and it puts him on a path to a title eventual title
opportunity in that organization. I think he's the real deal. I mean,
he's now sixteen and oh he's got twelve knockouts, and I have seen several
of his fights, and I mean I can't say I've seen every single one
of them, but I can't think of a time where I've ever seen him
in a fight where I didn't come away from the fight thinking, well,
that was that was pretty impressive, like that was a good job, you
know. And again, you have to keep it in perspective of the kind
of opponents he has been facing. But I've always made the point that if
you're fighting a certain guy that you're supposed to be in a certain way,
do it, you know, and nobody can complain that if you're in with
a guy that you are vastly better than on paper anyway, show us and
don't struggle and take him out of there, and don't mess around and don't
play with your food. And you know what, Jose's Apeida was definitely the
step up that he's been waiting for. And he didn't mess around, and
he didn't play with his food, and he didn't, you know, make
us ask questions when it was over where he got to win. Maybe with
shaky maybe he wondered did he really win? You know? Was it a
controversial No, this was a man who went in the ring with a good
opponent and took him apart piece by piece and knocked him out with a great
body shot. And by the way, that was by far and away.
I don't I kind of discount the loss that Zapeida took years ago when he
dislocated his shoulder in the second round. He didn't no idea what was happening
in that fight. That was a world title fight in the lightweight division against
Terry Flanagan. But the other losses besides that one that he has suffered,
this was by far the most impressive by the opponent. Jose Ramirez world championship
fight. That was a fight a lot of people thought's the paid a one.
He lost the majority decision. Next loss he had on his record was
a eleventh round knockout to Regis Prograye for you title and the WBC Vacant one
forty title. And even though he got stopped, that was a competitive,
excellent fight up until that point. So fight against Richardson Hitchins that was a
twelfth to nothing shut out, but that was a terrible and it was a
good performance from Hitchins, boring but good, But that was the kind of
performance where Zepaida going into the fight you knew this was the worst kind of
matchup for him ever, and because style wise, Hitchins was gonna just box
his ears off, and that's exactly what he did. Dalton Smith, though,
to go in there and pound him out the way he did. To
me, that was even more impressive than Hitchins scoring a twelve to nothing shut
out, more impressive than Regis stopping him in round eleven of a competitive fight
at the you know, for a world title, and certainly more impressive than
Jose Ermirez being lucky as anything to have gotten the hometown decision in Fresno in
a majority decision to retain that title. And again I kind of not on
disavowt, but I don't. I can't really take much from a second round
knocket that was due to specific a shoulder injury where nothing had happened. So
you could say that maybe Zapata was a little bit on the downslide, that
he that he'd seen better days and he was a little bit older, and
that's fair. But still he has recent wins on his record that were pretty
good and pretty solid, pretty impressive. You know, the Joe sway Vargas
knockout in the first round in his hometown as an underdog, the Baranchick fight
of the year against a former world champion in a just a wild and crazy
fight. You know, he didn't look great against say like a Hank Lundy,
but he still got the job done pretty handily on the cards, you
know, like an eight to two type of win. This was a tremendous
performance from Dalton Smith. And the other thing it does about it, TJ,
if you're watching that match, it makes you say to yourself, goddamn,
I need to see Dalton Smith in the ring again. Because that was
exciting. Yeah, he really did a good job and he had a crowd
there and it was everything you could have wanted. And by the way,
I'm not going to use the explotis because I'm not that guy. This is
the fourth time that he's fought in the last sixteen months now. He hadn't
fought since last July. But we fully expect we will probably see him this
summer against somebody. Let's hear it for activity. That's another reason why why
why we like a Dalton Smith was well. I think part of Smith's laugh
I think partly was an injury that he was dealing with, not one hundred
percent of that, but it was good to see him. I said it
beforehand. I thought this was good matchmaking. This was let's see what our
man can do. We're putting him in with a real guy. And let's
just sayst test passed. It was all right. So in the co feature
we were handicapping these on the bet Us Boxing Show, I did get the
Smith ko so like cash that we didn't get a whole lot else, right,
And what a performance by Sandy Ryan. You and I both liked Terry
Harper, the veteran, and Ryan really overwhelmed her with bigger punches, and
this one was over midway through. I don't I don't know if Ryan had
an injury. She's older, but the corner stops the fight. Semis Harper,
Harper, excuse me? Ryan retains the title. She was very impressive.
That's what that's me saying that I was. I was surprised, obviously
by this result. I had Harper winning by decision, but Sandy Ryan deserves
the credit in the co feature there on the Matchroom show. Yes you look
great. I can't. I can't argue with what you said. I mean
when I pick Harper on our bet Us show. Part of the reason for
the motivation, and that was the the odds were so I felt very skewed
in favor of Ryan. I thought it was much more of a fifty to
fifty kind of fight, and I saw that. Plus, what did I
always have fun with you? What did I try to tell you? These
odds makers build these billion dollar empowers and casinos, and they entice us because
if they put that fight as a fifty to fifty fight, we probably don't
touch it. But they put that line out there, teasing you, teasing
me. Take Terry Harper, the veterans and TJ. I understand camp and
we just took the bait right, But you're missing the point though. I
understand how odds making work. I know, I felt like that was a
radical error. I thought it was a mistake to make Sandy Ryan that head
of a favorite. And you know what the odds makers and the casinos love
is people thinking there's radical mistakes but the odds, But no, most of
the time that's not mine. In this particular fight, I thought that was
just an absolute mistake and so whatever. But the bottom line was in terms
of forget about the big the gambling aspect of it, just in terms of
the way the fight went. It wasn't competitive. Sandy Ryan went in there
and beat the shit out of Terry Harper and made her corner stop the fight
after the fourth round. She did a really good job, and she was
hitting her with punches that were rocking her, moving her, and good for
her. It was a heck of a performance. I mean, you know,
Terry had been a champion at the higher way class and at the lower
way class, but she had come down to this weight to try to win
a title in a third division. They both had a resumes with some decent
wins on them before. I felt like it's fifty to fifty on paper,
they're both coming off draws against top level opposition. But Sandy Ryan was in
my mind, she was a lot more ready for this fight than Terry Harper
was. She seemed like she was in better condition. And Terry's actually the
younger woman. Terry is like twenty seven, Sandy, with much with fewer
fights, was already thirty. I mean, not that that makes a huge
difference, but it just was a a little bit surprising. But I thought
that Ryan looked like she was in better shape. She carries a h I
can't say like she didn't look like a devastating puncher, but she definitely was
hurting Harper with the right hands. Like I felt like maybe the referee might
have stopped it during the fourth round before the corner stopped it at the end
of that round. And it goes to show you that this was one of
those kinds of fights where if if women's boxing matches had three minute rounds and
Sandy Ryan had had an extra minute to play within that fourth round, she
might have got the stopage before the corner took care of it. But all
you can say is, hats off Terry Sandy Ryan with a really good performance
against you know, a good opponent and Terry Harper. You know she just
had her assy on a tour that day. I mean the end of the
story, yep, And sometimes that happens. Welcome to the sport, Welcome
to what we always say, right then, Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes
you're the book theater the unexpected too. Uh. Speaking of unexpected, Campbell
Hatton beaten by decision of very competitive brawl fight loses in the ten round decision
to James Flint. All right, so give me more on this one in
one hundred and forty pound division because it's a bit of a surprise in the
recap mode real quick. Yeah, I mean, obviously the Campbell hadn't team
and his promotion at Matt Troom and I think the fans, I mean,
he was expected to win. But that said, we talked about this in
the preview. By far and away. This was the biggest step up in
terms of the level of opponent that Campbell had had faced, and there was
a lot of conversation going into the fight. They were fighting for the British
Board has their area titles. They're like regional belts of the Central Area,
the Southern Area, etc. So he was fighting for the Central Area title.
Doesn't mean anything to the Americans, but in Britain it's like one of
those stepping stones on the way up. But the big kind of thing about
it was his father, Ricky, had had been the Central Area champion twenty
five years ago, so he was going after one of the belts that his
dad had had, you know, quite a bit of time ago. Obviously,
Ricky his father was their ringside. He's trained by his uncle Matthew.
But James Flint to fight as did Campbell. Look, he he lost the
fight, and it was a fair decision. It wasn't like he got h
that that James Flinton got a gift. A lot of people who are so
cynical as they should be. I saw on social media as I was sort
of following along, they're gonna give it to Campbell Atten because he's got the
name and his dad's Ricky, and he's gonna, you know, gonna and
escape by with us. Which decisions, which, by the way, that's
a lot that's a logical thing to think, but whoops, not right.
The Judges got it right number one. But here's the thing that my takeaway
was this, And and I have a friend of mine, uh my man,
Mark Stein, the long time basketball guru writer who worked for a long
time with me at ESPN, went on to work at the New York Times,
and that was like me doing our own thing. He's got his basketball
substack. I've got my boxing substack. But Mark's my boy. And Mark
is a die hard pat and fan and love is Ricky Hatton and has been
following his son Campbell and was asking me for updates and I'm texting you about
the fight and this and that. So I felt for him when the kid
got the loss. But I told him in our text exchange, I said,
this is gonna make Campbell Hatten a better fighter in the long run.
If the end game was not just to go as long as I can be
undefeated and then give it up when I lose, that would be the wrong
attitude. The idea is it's a marathon, not a sprint. So the
kids got a loss, but he's been improving in my opinion over the last
few fights. This is the kind of loss where you came up, you
fought your ass off, it's like Eddie Hearn said in the interview afterwards,
he fought as good as he could fight. He gave it everything he had,
as did James Flint, and he came up short. And he's gonna
know what he's got to work on when he goes back to the gym.
He's still only twenty three years old. Maybe there's still a chance that he
can develop into a higher level fighter. I'm not saying world champion necessarily,
but certainly you know, British title level that type of thing. With some
more experience and in the long run this may make him a better fighter.
Show him things he needs to work on. And the thing I like that
Eddie Hearn said after the fight was you know what, it was so such
a good fight. The fans enjoyed it. It was rousing entertainment value.
Give the kid a chance to come back, get you know, shake off
the loss, get some confidence back, you know, put him in a
regular fight and then do the rematch. That makes a lot of sense.
I think that will happen. It'll be a good payday for for Flint,
who can probably go on and win other and get other fights. But there's
probably not anything financially going to be as satisfying for him as a rematch with
Campbell Hadden maybe sometimes near the end of this year. So take the loss
and stride for the young man, but don't I hope it doesn't get him
down and he comes back stronger. And uh, you know, all you
gotta do is take your hat off to James Flint because these two guys fought
a heck of a fight. But I'm gonna tell you an other thing,
DJ, if you just I know, this is not how you score boxing
matches. You score it round by round every three minutes. Who does you
know the most in that three minutes. But if you just looked at the
way the guys looked at the end of the fight. Campbell hatt looked like
he'd been like out for dinner at a dinner party, and James Flint has
face was all busted up, Yes it was. He sort of looked like,
it's a good point that you make. It's a good point that you
can't just go by that. And one more thing, you can use whatever
cliche you want, and we do all kinds of things in different sports.
Adversity does not build character. I love this, It reveals it so now
we're gonna find out now that there's some adversity for Campbell Hatten, what does
he have, what does he have inside of him? How much does this
motivate him? What happens next, We'll find all of that out. So
Will said on that. All right, So there you go, the recap
of the most prominent card. Again, that feels like kind of like an
appetizer like next week's recap. We're gonna need a lot. We're gonna,
I mean, we're gonna have a ton to recap next week. Yes,
okay, so stand by for that. And by the way, I did
make mention of the bet US show first time. We're gonna mention this as
we release this podcast. Our bet US Handicapping Show is Wednesday, Wednesday,
one pm Easter Time. Due to conflicts with bet Us not being able to
do the live show on either Friday or even on Thursday, we're gonna go
Wednesday live and mix it up about the Zoo Fondora main event, Zerdo Ramirez
cruiserweight title fight, Oscar Valdez main event with Liam Wilson. I mean,
we're gonna have a blast on that show. But it's coming two days early.
Peeps. As we released this podcast Wednesday, one Eastern time on the
bet US platforms, not Friday. We'll be on with that. So there's
a little housekeeping, all right, Let's move on to the news. Speaking
of announcements. Interesting that in and around this match Room card and main event
Turkey Alashiki there with the Saudi Entertainment Authority, and we already knew about this.
You've been talking about this, you've been reporting it on your substack.
They made it official, they have. Now they're like, give it us
breadcrumbs. Rayphiel here with the five fight card with the Matchroom and the Queensberry
Fighters, but they're not giving us like the full meal. So give me
the latest of what they were talking about Saturday night in England. All right.
So, I mean you've been following along, you know that that in
addition to the great fight between Arthur Vetter BF and Dimitri Bibo that's gonna be
coming up on June first, that the undercart of that event is supposed to
be what they're calling the Five on Fire. It's gonna be five Matchroom fighters
against five Queensberry fighters and they're going to try to figure out what matches to
make they got obviously picked the you know, go through the team, you
know, the rosters of each company and figure out what they think can make
the best and what weight classes. So the way that Turkey Alshikhu's in charge
of the whole thing came up with the idea, I guess, is that
each promoter will pick a weight class and then they'll draft their guy to do
the fight. Obviously, they got to talk to their teams, the fighters
and make sure that they're amenable to doing these matchups. So what they revealed
was what the five weight classes will be. They didn't now the fights will
be announced I guess when they do the press conference prior with the formal kickoff
for the Better b of People fight, which they'll do a press conference in
London like they've done for these other big Saudi cars with the heavyweights. So
what they did was they went through the they made the announcement. He did
like a video that Turkey and Frank and eddiewhere in and so first they let
Frank pick the first division. He picked the heavyweights, so that's one weight
class, so they'll come up with heavyweights from their rosters. Then Eddie made
the second pick. He felt like he's strong that Matchroom in the featherweight division,
so that'll be the second fight, and then you have the third one,
which went back to Frank to make his pick. He picked the middleweight
division, so he got a heavyweight, a featherweight, a middleweight. Eddie
had the next pick. He went with light heavyweights, which is good because
that sort of dovetails with the main event, which is obviously such a huge
fight in that weight class. And then Turkey had the right to pick the
fifth division and he picked another heavyweight fight. So the fights apparently the first
four that we talked about will be a Matchroom fighter against a Queensberry fighter for
the Turkey heavyweight. That the that the promoters can pick a they can go
out and sign a wild card quote unquote to fight somebody, and so that
that kind of meshes with the word on the street, if you will.
Although not done yet despite some reporting out there, they're talking about doing the
Jang July fight against Deontay Wilder, the co feature. That's obviously a very
big heavyweight fight, despite the fact that both of those guys are coming off
losses, But that would fit the that would fit the bills. Talking about
a wildcard because Jang is with Frank Warren, and obviously Deontay Wilder would come
in as as as you know, he'd be the wildcard, whereas Zang is
with Queensberry. So that that's sort of what they're looking at there. They
haven't, I guess, figured out every single matchup yet. And as Eddie
was saying, and this is the same thing I've heard for a while,
is that when Frank and George Warren who's Frank's son, and Eddie Hearn and
their team and Turkey and they get on the phone or they see each other,
they literally talk about, you know, dozens of different permutations of fights.
They've got all kinds of different matchups that they can make. And so
I don't I know for a fact that the Deontay Wilder h Jang July fight
is definitely being discussed, but by no means is it a done deal yet.
If it does get done, that's a very good matchup and that would
certainly be a tremendous co feature for the Big Daddy Fight with the undisputed light
heavyweight title for the main event between Better BV and Bbele. But obviously they're
they're not messing around with these five on fives, And the other thing that
was interesting that that Turkey said was after these fights take place that they will
look to do an event, not in read, but to do a event
that the Saudis are involved in, but do the fight in England. He
talked about doing something in Wembley, which that sounds like to me if you
mess it with the you know the possibility of doing the rematch between Usik and
Fury. Fury has stated on a multitude of occasions, yes he's tied there
for two fights, but he liked the second fight to be in the UK.
We'll see what happens with that, but obviously it's a big deal.
These are going to be big fights. They're not just going to look to
match some random Queensberry with a random matchup. They want to make quality matchups.
And just for my benefit of everybody else, what's the timeline on when
we think this card will be? What are they saying or what are you
hearing in reports im about the five on five? The five on five,
Yes, it's going to be June first as the undercard for as the okay,
so we should win pretty soon. Whenever they have that kick off press
conference, what these are gonna be exactly so the Vivo. My understanding is
there's no issues and Bevo and Better B is gonna happen, but they're still
going through the process of getting the better BF side of the paperwork squared away.
Once everything is signed, sealed and done with that, at that point,
presumably they will announce the fight and do a press conference and at that
press cards they will reveal supposedly, and Turkey actually in the video that they
put on a matt Room Boxing put up on that YouTube channel, it was
kind of funny. Turkey was there talking about he wants the fighters to come
in like wearing masks so they can do like a reveal at the press cards,
so they don't know what the singer now on Fox or you and I
are pro wrestling people like the old mass wrestlers being on Unknown apart from Parts
Unknown, the heavyweight contender, I love it. I love it. Uh
working with that, Okay, So that's good good bread crumbs there on that
To connect for the Queensberry and match Room, I'm just laughing because these guys
at Hern and Frank Warren wanted nothing to do with each other together, like
they have infectious disease. And now because there's money and the Saudis are in
blah, oh, we'll do a five fight card with you. Sure.
And then, by the way, there's no reason why they can't get along.
They're both obviously, especially when there's money. Especially when there's money,
they're competitors. I mean, it's a competitive business, and so you know.
But now, whatever the whatever happens in the long run with the Saudi
situation, you know, you're nothing like that lasts forever. But if the
if, the if, the byproduct of it can be that whatever it ceases,
that it has made a relationship between the Warrens and the Hearns. That
not that they have to always be best friends, but they're capable of sitting
at a table and understanding where the other is coming from and do a business
deal to make a fight that is beneficial for them, their company, their
fighters, for the sport, and for the fans. There's no reason why
they shouldn't do that. And so for that reason alone, this entire Saudi
endeavor has been worthwhile. All Right, on to some broadcast news. We
do have the first premiere Boxing Champions Prime video pay per view coming this coming
Saturday, March the thirtieth. You are reporting the broadcast team. You but
you were talking about this just briefly on the preview podcast. You've continue to
report it. Gee, the fight is days away as we release this recap
podcast. Tim Zuo Sebastian Fundora in the fourth Championship fight card. All right,
so give us a little more here on what you found out and we'll
and we'll add to it for the broadcast team coming up Saturday night pay per
view. So I won't surprise you, by the way, if somebody is
listening to this this podcast, like say later on Monday, or maybe they
don't get to till Tuesday, like obviously, they'll probably gonna make that announcement
maybe Monday or Tuesday, of what this lineup is going to be. But
I've talked to several sources who are definitely know what's happening here. So for
the for the broadcast team that we'll see for this pay per view, between
Zoo and Fundora, you'll have a lot of people that will look at and
say, this is like very similar to what the showtime team was. You
know, this is no surprise. Lennon is going to be the ring announcer.
That he's already been doing work with them for this event in terms of
their press covers, but in terms of the folks that will call the fights
and do the broadcast, Brian Custer, who was obviously the outstanding host for
a long time for Showtime Championship Boxing. He will be hosting this event.
That's not a surprise. He's back to do that. Most role they're also
going to have as the blow by blow announcer is going to be Maro Ronaldo
obviously from Showtime, been there for a long time with Showtime since like twenty
twelve or whatever it's been, comes over from that now defunct Showtime Sports.
Joining him on the call will also be his ringside colleague from Showtime who had
been the one of the analysts for a number of years, and that's the
former world champion Abner Marris. And then taking the place of the great Al
Bernstein in the role of the other announcer will be Joe Goosen, who has
vastly experienced as a broadcaster. Obviously, people know him most as a Hall
of Fame trainer. People who watch PBC events know him as in that same
role for the several years that PBC was doing events with Fox and with Fox
Sports one and so that's the deal. And so some might say, well,
why did they bring why didn't they bring al Bernstein back? Also because
Al is one of the best who ever did it? Nothing against Joe.
My hand is up by the way, even though the audience can't see me
on this, So go ahead, No, Al al is I mean,
if you're creating like the mount Rushmore of boxing broadcasters, al Bernstein is probably
on that, on that mountain because as the analysts, yes Rushmore analysts,
yes, well prepared, entertaining, knowledgeable, even handed, you know,
described by many people that have worked with him as the glue to that team.
Uh and a great guy on top of that. And basically it really
didn't come down to It's not like, you know, there was a problem.
You know, he doesn't get along with people. He wants too much
money, he's no good, he's too old, he's do this, who's
do that? We don't want to be showtime two point zero. So they
felt compelled to make at least one change. And Joe Goosen, who's an
excellent broadcaster himself, has a familial relationship with the PBC team because his brother
in law is Tom Brown who owns TGV Promotions. They're the house promoter for
all of the PBC events, and so Joe gets the gig. That's the
bottom line. Not to say he's not deserving of it, because like I
said, Joe's a really good broadcaster also, but you know, I love
Al Bernstein also, So that's the reason it seems to me and Al will
get other gigs, I'm sure, as we're going to talk about in just
a minute, and that's the team. Now. One thing I want to
point out though, because it needs to be made clear my reporting, in
my understanding, is that this is going to be the team for March thirtieth.
It does not mean that these guys are all signed on for the long
term, will be the same folks that we see that do the Canelo event
or that do whatever they're going to do in June with you know, Tank
Davis and Benavide's and going forward or whenever they start up in June their non
pay per view events. I mean, I assume that some of them will
still be involved, but it's not This is not like we're doing this and
they're on long term contracts. Like you know, it was showtime they were
there for years and years and years. There could be some changes after this
first event, all right, in a couple of things. This is me
saying this my opinion, they are worse off without al Bernstein on the contract
because he still got his fastball, He's very insightful ahead of the fact,
etc. I will go a step further if we're doing an either or,
I don't care who whose brother in law is al Bernstein's better than Joe Goosen
at broadcasting it. I understand the politics of what's going on. So I'm
encouraged by what you're saying, which is maybe they're evolving with trying different combinations.
Al might be on the Canelo pay per view, for example, on
the call we don't know down the road. I was told I was in
Las Vegas last week and I was around somebody and I know Al a little
bit. I'm not friends with him. We've had him on this podcast,
we've interviewed him, but somebody that does know him real well have been talking
to him and he said to me, Hey, he can't announce it or
talk about it, but he's going to be on a disown broadcast. He
announced me. And so now on this was last week Rayfield. I was
there last week. When I was there, I was told he's going to
be on a dizone broadcast but he can't talk about it yet because they haven't
announced it. Well. Al started talking about it on social media. He
announced it on Saturday Night. Here's hoping that he's involved somewhere with with Zone
or with PBC and Amazon coming up later this year, because that would be
a shame if not a great guy. Yeah, I want to I'll explain
to people what he's going to be doing. So when he's he posted that
he's gonna be involved in a boxing event on his own this coming Saturday,
March thirtieth. The main fight card that jumps out to you, that's the
one card. Their main card is the fight that's between Gomarian defending the Cruiserweight
belt against Zerdo Ramirez the Golden Boys, right, But that is not the
card that Al is going to be part of. What he's going to be
part of is going to be a card. And I don't know if he's
going to be on site or they're doing it from a studio or whatever.
But Epic Sports had made a deal with his owne to do what was supposed
to be the WBA a regular heavyweight title fight between Manuel Shar and Kubra that's
taking place in what in Pulev's hometown of Sophia, Bulgaria. As I reported,
Shar dropped out because he had an army at biceps injury, similar I
guess to what happened with Keith Thurman. He had surgery, so he's out
for three to six months. And because Pulev was the one selling all the
tickets and where it was his hometown, they're going forward with the show.
They've got a replacement opponent for him in a name I'm not even gonna try
to pronounce, God bless al. If he can pronounce it, I hope
he gets some good analysis on how to say the guy's name. In any
event, the main event will be Kubrat Pulov against this other heavyweight, and
that's the card that I was gonna work on. Hired by Epics to do
this event, which is going to be broadcast on his own. I'm going
to try a chevin Zutskaya looks like Ihre chevin Zutskaya. What I do is
I got to make sure I spell it right. In my stee. There's
a lot of consonants in that name, other lot of consonants in that name.
So that's who's fighting pool Lev and you're saying Al is part of that,
and again just a rapid here's hoping he's involved somehow in a regular role,
either with his own or with PBC Bison and who knows somebody he should
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All right, some more news here and then we'll get to some nostalgia
and we are done. Tell me more. I hear Shaquur Stevenson's fight card
in July. In fact, Top Rank's got a couple of things that you're
reporting about Top Rank fight card in July with Shakur. But also backing up,
you've got the rescheduled fight for Xander Zaiez coming up as well. So
what have you found out about these two top ranked fight cards. Okay,
so on the thing about Kishan is this, and I reported this a while
ago, and now Shaquarze Stevenson has been talking about a little bit on his
social media and things. So his first defense of the WBC lightweight belt that
he won not that long ago, is supposed to take place July sixth in
his hometown of Newark, New Jersey. No opponent that's been announced or said
yet. Matter of fact, I actually asked Shaqur the other night, I
said, do you have an opponent? He goes and they haven't told me
anything yet. So no, But in any event, the undercard fight is
going to be. Look, he's very tight with Keishaan Davis, the younger
fighter coming up right, and you know who's coming off a tremendous performance in
his last fight where he demolished Jose Padraza. It was very reminiscent actually in
him demolishing Padraza and making a statement that I'm here, kind of like Dalton
Smith did in Zapeida. Similar kind of veteran, you know, similar kind
of stage of their careers. But any event, so that was the fight
where remember Keishin had come off the suspension for the marijuana where he looked pretty
bad in the fight that turned into a no contest that he originally had won
that took place last October. He blows away Pedraza, and now his next
fight supposed to be back in July on the undercard of of course fight that's
gonna be Newark. So that's my reporting on that that he'll be on that
show. So good to see him be back in the ring relatively quickly after,
you know, by far and away his biggest victory, and hopefully Top
Rank will find him an opponent that is a commensurate with that type of performance
and they can step him up a little bit more and keep him on that
fast track. So that is what's going on July to sixth, And I'm
thinking, you know what, I may, I may, depending on what
else is going on in my life that weekend, I may take a right
up to Newark and cover that event there we go about So the Top Rank
also has a schedule. It looks like speaking of New York for June for
Xander Zaiaz, right, what do you think? So okay? So when
so Shaky Foster had his defense at the Madison Square Garden Theater in his you
know, first fight with Top Rank, the undercard fight that was the fight
that he won against Abraham Nova. The undercard fight for that was supposed to
originally be the co feature was supposed to be Xander Zias against the former WBO
one fifty four tit hole there from Brazil, Patrick Casita. Top Rank.
Xander pulled out of that fight. Top Rank described, I asked the reason,
well why and they said he had some nagging injuries. He wanted to
rest and not know risk that. So okay, so he withdrew from the
fight. But the plan from Top Rank was always to reschedule about But rather
than make Patrick Desda wait. You know, however, many months it was
going to be, his manager got him a fight that was last week in
Brazil, just to stay busy, you know. He knocked out a guy
in like the fourth or fifth round. And so now that he's safely through
that tune up fight, this fight again, this has not been announced up
by Top Rank, but the plan is to have now the rescheduled Zias versus
Cecida fight as the main event June eighth, Madison Square Garden Theater. The
date obviously is significant because that is the eve of the annual Puerto Rican Day
Parade in New York. Obviously, he's anders Puerto Rican. He's the next
guy to see if he can step up to that Puerto Rican star level to
start to headline these types of fights, and so that is the plan for
that and Top Rank will do what it always does, They'll load up the
card with a lot of younger fighters from the area who sell tickets. I
am told that the excellent featherweight up and comer Bruce Shoeshoe Carrington, who was
so spectacular in that same February sixteenth card with the knockout of Bernard Torres,
he'll also be on that card. I'm assumed. I don't know this for
sure, but I can't imagine that he won't be part of the main card
on ESPN. Given what he just accomplished in the way Top Rank is pushing
him, he'll look to go to twelve and zero. So that's sort of
if you're thinking about what's going on Puerto Rican Day weekend, which is an
annual date that Top Rank typically would do, you know, some type of
card in New York City. That's where we're looking at the reschedule fight between
Zias and tSida, as well as having Shoe Shue Carrington on the card.
All right, and one more bit of news, and that is for the
Canelo Jimi Mungia pay per view. You have learned about one of the undercard
fights, go ahead and give us more about that form May fourth, right,
So obviously they're going to make a pay per view undercards for that now.
So this is not a fight that I can tell you is signed,
sealed and delivered at one hundred percent official. But this is one of the
fights and it sounds the way I think about it, it makes sense.
It seems very doable both within the matchup the money blah blah blah blah.
And that is a fight between the WBC's interim featherweight title holder Brandon Figueroa,
who has been off a little much longer than he should have been, taken
on the former junior featherweight title holder Jesse Magdaleno. It gives another good quality
Mexican undercard fight there Mexican Americans exciting fighter. Figure is one of the most
exciting fighters in the sport, but he's been off for a ridiculous amount of
time relatively speaking. I thought when they started up with the Amazon. I
figured he might be the first guy out of the gate because when the when
the whole endeavor started. Remember back at the end of the year last year,
a fight between him and ray Vargus is a fight that we're talking about
for one of the showtime parts. It didn't happen. Vargus ended up fighting
Nick Ball to a draw in Saudi Arabia, and you know, now he's
looking to get back in business. But now Magdaleno, you know, only
his only losses have been like reasonable losses. He got stopped in a world
championship fight by the prime Isaac Dogbay back several years ago. He did lose
his last fight to Raymond Ford by a decision that was competitive for in parts
of it. But that was a rough style for Magdaleno and for a figure.
Oa about time he's back in the ring. I mean, this guy
is just, you know, one of the more fun fighters to watch you
can think of. Now he has not fought since March of last year.
He'll be coming off of what would that be about a fifteen month layoff,
right, and that was a big win for him. You know, he
had his only loss. He lost a majority decision that was very arguable.
Everybody debated who really deserved to win. That was a fight against Stephen Fulton.
That was a high class two Belts of the Year type fight. They
brawled for twelve rounds. Yeah, unification fight for the WBA or the WBO
and the WBC. And he's won two fights since, and he moved up
after that fight to one twenty six. He's won both fights. Had a
really good solid win and knockout against Carlos Castro in his only fight of twenty
twenty two, then was off until March of twenty twenty three. He got
another good quality win to win the interim belt against Mark Macxio, who had
lost the featherweight belt to Gary Russell, or rather I mean who had lost
the belt, not the Gary Russell. He had beaten Gary Russell. He
had lost about to Ray Vargas. But the point is he hadn't vondsince then.
Figueroa, so I think he'll he'll wind as my sources tell me that
he'll probably be on this card and Magdaleno seems to be the opponent. That's
a good matchup. All right, great news for this week. So now
let's get a little nostalgia going. It was twelve years ago today as we
released this podcast. March twenty fourth, twenty twelve, Danny Garcia gets a
decision win over Eric Morales to win his first world title. You were there
for this. What do you remember about Danny Garcia's first world title win?
Well, it was it. It was at the Reliant Arena in Houston.
What I remember more more about the fight was really the the the raucousness of
the weigh in that they had at a food court in a big mall in
Houston. Uh. And Eric Rowse didn't. I mean, what can I
tell you? They were They were hyping it up. Wait right right by
the Panda Express and the Sparrow and the and the Chick fil A, and
Houston was going back pretty much pretty much in the food court. Yeah.
Absolutely, Uh. You know, you got to sell, sell, sell,
you go where the people are. But anyway, this was this was
this was a big opportunity. Garcia was a young fighter on the rise.
He'd been coming off some good wins against guys named Nate Campbell, good champion
Henda Holt, who was a formidable opponent, and now he's stepping in to
fight Eric Morales, who was the you know, maybe a little long in
the tooth, but still a good fighter and had a world title. Eric
Morales did not make the weight, did not try to lose the weight,
figured I'm going to just pay the fine and not break my body down,
and you know, forget about the title. So it became vacant. But
obviously Danny had the opportunity to win the title, and he went out there
and he put on a great performance. He dropped Eric Morales, a guy
with a great chin, put him down in round eleven, when when went
on to win the obvious decision and got that world title, which he then
after that in his next fight was able to unify with his superb knocked out
against Amir Khan, and of course then he had the rematch with Eric Morales,
which was mandated, and he spun him like a top and knocked him
out with that massive left hook and sent Eric into retirement. But the first
win for him was a suite because it got him the first world title of
several that he won in his career. And you asked what I remember most
about the fight. I remember actually more about the undercard fight, which was
a fight between James Kirkland, the big puncher, and Carlos Molina, who
had been a he had been a world title holder in our when I came.
Heer if it was before or after, but he had hell they belt
in that division. And he got disqualified because the corner had entered the ring
thinking that the corner was over, that the round was over. So Kirkland
got the win. But it was very, very bullshit. It was.
It was one of those calls where if you go by the letter of the
law, yeah, you can disqualify them, but the referees got the discretion.
It in no way impacted the fight. The guys were on the other
side of the ring. They literally thought because they heard the cat the clapper
thought it was the bell. They took like one step in the ring.
It didn't impact the event whatsoever. And and they and they canceled, you
know, they called the fight. And it's very unfortunate because, uh,
you know, Molina was probably on his way to a victory because he was
way ahead on on at least one of the scorecards. And uh, I
just remember going to the hotel afterwards, and and and I and I knew
some people on the Maliina team and they were having like a like a pizza
party in like a room, and it was like the most sad pizza party
you ever saw, because like they feel like they should have they got,
they got inappropriately disqualified from the sound really bad for him. So I remember
that you would you would like to confirm they did not have the post fight
stuff at the food court either. Have you ever got have you ever had
Panda Express by the way you looked at the light cross side? Yeah?
In your life at the food court? That seems to be a stable at
the food court. I mean that subways borrow pizza. Those are always at
the food court some point probably the country, especially airports, airport food courts.
Okay, So, by the way, there's also our Turo Gotti nostalgia
as well, before we get a little more nostalgic with the little eighties movies
and our youth, Our Turo Gotti. Twenty eight years ago, Saturday,
March twenty third, as we released the podcast from this weekend Knocked Out Wilson
Rodriguez, Rayfield puts on his rundown sheet here this is the best fight for
Gotti not involving Mickey Ward. You got that out there right away. About
this fight twenty eight years ago with thunder Gotti. This is such a sexsational
fight. I don't I mean, I know it's a long time ago now,
so I'm me. I'm not sure if our listeners and how many I've
seen it, but I know I always say I urge you to go on
YouTube and watch the fight. I truly urge you to go on YouTube and
watch this fight. Keep in mind, our Taro guy at this point is
a young fighter. He just won the IBF one hundred and thirty pound title
in December of nineteen ninety five in a really good performatory Really he actually won
a decision, really in box his way in many ways to the decision over
an excellent champion, Tracy Harris Patterson. Now he comes back. He's on
Boxing after Dark on HBO. It's the second member. The first one we
talked about this before. The first main event was the phenomenal fight between Kennedy
McKinney and Marco Antonio Barrera. Right now, this is the second Boxing after
Dark main event, and you're thinking we're gonna get obsolute classics every month,
because now we get two in a row. This was Gaddy in the main
event. That night, they just had a very classy undercard fight between Orlando
Canizalis and Junior Jones in a bantamweight title fight that was spect and now we
get the main event between Gaddy and Wilson Rodriguez, and it had everything you
want to see. It had huge punching back and forth, ebb and flow,
a lot of drama. Goddy's eye is swollen shut and they go to
the corner. The doctor does and basically does the eye test like he's holding
up his fingers telling Gotty to guess. He's like, I know, don't
worry about it. He's like, you better guess, or I'm gonna stop
the fight. He guesses, right, They let the fight go on,
and it's desperate times and our tur turned around with the left hook from the
gods that put this dude, Wilson Reriguez tough his nails out in an absolutely
dramatic, like the kind of fight where if you're watching, I don't care
if you're a ringside or you're just watching on TV, you're so enthralled in
what's happening, the drama and the action, that you're probably sweating yourself,
even not being in the Oracle and I like to say, when that moment
happens with a big punch like that, you belt out oh when you're out
of your chair, no matter where you are ringside, Absolutely sensational. Yeah,
I mean, and if you and the call that the HBO broadcasters made,
which was Jim Lampley and Roy Jones and Larry Merchant, made it even
that much more dramatic. I mean, they don't. You just don't get
better fights just for a pure fight. And going into the fight, I
don't think anybody had the expectation that this is going to be like there's certain
fights they make where like, oh my god, that's going to be a
war. I mean, you figured it's going to be a good, exciting,
fun fight, But I don't think anybody expected that there'd be a reason
for guys talking about it with such a reverence twenty eight years later. And
so the truth of the matter is it is, in my opinion, the
best Gaddy fight that was not involving Mickey Ward. A few years ago,
when The Ring magazine did a special addition about Gaddy and Ward in the trilogy
largely about Gaddy, I was asked to write one of the pieces, and
the digist of the story from Doug Fisher, who's the editor of Ring.
He said, can you write me a piece, you pick your top five
fights of Arturo Goddy's career, not involving Mickey Ward. I said, no
problem, and so when I went to sit down and do it, it
was the easiest thing in the world. Now, putting them in order was
maybe a little bit more called beyond number one, but picking number one was
really easy. This was definitely despite because God, he's got a lot of
great fights, even fights he lost, but this one was fucking spectacular.
And again twenty eight years ago, go relive at the ko of Wilson Rodriguez.
Love it one more bit of nostalgia, and then we got to get
out of here forty years ago on Sunday, March twenty four, nineteen eighty
four. The reason we know this is because it's the date put up on
the screen in the movie Saturday Morning Detention and the movie The Breakfast Club and
eighties Classic. And you and I are contemporaries. We like a lot of
the same things. We are about the same age. We are children of
the eighties, youth of the eighties. I got to point blank ask you
before we get into the movie nostalgia in the fun did you ever have Saturday
detention? Did you ever get in trouble? You were an angel? I
never had a kid engine either. I never had Saturday detention either. So
you and I vicariously through the movie the Saturday Yeah, God, I never
had I never had Saturday detention. I did have AFO. But you never
had to report Saturday morning at eight a m. At the school. Like
the characters played by what Judd Hirsch, Molly Ringwald, Amelia Judge Reinhold,
I'm sorry, not Judge Judge Hurst from Taxi Judge you getting hold on,
hold on, Molly Ringwald, Emelio s Judd Nelson, Judd Nelson, not
Judge Reinhold. You're doing like you're doing like Belly Hills. Judd Nelson is
the one that was in the in the In the film all right, Judd
Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Amelio, Estevez, and uh Anthony Michael Hall and
Ali Sheety are the five members of the breakfast Club Saturday Morning Detention. And
it's a tremendous cult classic movie. We in my in my college, I
took a psychology class in college at Memphis State we watched this movie and analyzed
it because the name of the class was Theories of persuade Rayfield. Did you
know there's like over fifty examples in this movie where somebody persuades somebody else to
do something for them or something that they might not normally do. So there's
a lot of that. There's a lot of peer pressure, yes, like
try the marijuana, go take the bolt out of the door, you know,
all the different things. Let's break out of the room and go somewhere
else. There's all these different things where one peer is persuading the other to
go do something and misbehave while in detention. That's the whole premise of the
movie. So great, Great eighties. It is not the premise of the
movie. The premise of the movie is about different groups of a clicks in
your high school correct finding out that everybody's dealing with the same problems, even
if you're vastly different people. But we also are. But think about all
the things where it's like Molly Ringwald persuades Ali she to put the makeup,
they get the brain, to try the joint, and all of these different
things. That's the whole point. Everybody comes together we're also forgetting the two
other stars of the movie. You don't get the proper credit, and that
is the legendary Hog Lison Yes as as principal Richard Joe Dick some respect,
and also John Capelos as legendary janitor Carl. Carl is like in many ways
the heart and soul of that Yes, no, no, no, I
am the eyes and ears of this institution, my friend, he says.
He says about knowing everything about everybody. So they have Saturday morning detention.
It's about the whole day and about how they're supposed to be there, and
gets punishment and whatever, and then Bender starts getting in trouble Judd Nelson's character
where Yeah, the assistant principal says, you'll find out the answer to that
question next Saturday. Mister Bender gives him another one, and then he says,
you want another one? Yeah, you want another one after that?
You know, does Barry Manilowe know you rate his wardrobe? Listen? I
can just say this so good. The date on the screen was March twenty
fourth, nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty four correct. The movie came out
in February of nineteen eighty five. I saw this movie in the movie theaters.
I was fourteen years old, and it is this seminal movie of my
life. I mean, just is the fact I've seen the movie a military
right. It just I was a teenager at the time. I wasn't quite
as old as the kids that you know, the characters were portrayed in the
film. But to be like in junior high you see it with your friends,
you kind of it just made such an impression that forty years later,
Oh yeah, it's still in some way, shape or form, a line
comes out of my mouth to a friend of mine or to my wife or
something that's from that movie. Yeah, forty years later, it's been like
that my entire life. Okay. And so these were the movies being made
in and around this time. The Sixteenth Handles movie with Molly Rainwald. Anthony
Michael Hall, who was in the Vacation movie first of all with Chevy Chase,
and he was really on a roll kind of at this point doing this
movie. He was also in sixteen Candles. He was also later in Weird
Science. Emelio Estevez making two or three movies in and around that time.
Ali Sheety the whole bit, but we got to give props to the person
that that was the writer and director. All right, So here we go
John Hughes, who was tremendous, as were all these films, Ferris Bueller's
Day Off, et cetera. Home Alone with Us, all right, so
home Alone movies? All right? So are you ready for a couple of
trivia nuggets. I'm gonna hit you with him. Let's see if you know
these answers. Okay, Shermer Illinois exists or not? Come on, come
on, we go does not exist? Fictitious? The high school they're showing
you out front film that it was a place in Chicago. Okay, hang
on. The school they show you is Glenn Brook North High School, real
live high school. That's a fairly famous suburban Chicago. I got a tribute
for you, all right, go ahead. So I mentioned you that Carl,
the eyes and ears of this institution, who was ahead of the janitorial
sciences, played by the legendary John Caplos, who was the actor that was
originally supposed to play that role. And I'm glad he did not that he's
a bad actor. But I can't imagine anybody other than John Kapitlo's in that
role. I don't know who it was. Who's the actor was supposed to
be Rick moranis oh really? Yes? From a strange Brew and the Mackenzie
brothers and then eventually the honey I shrunk the kids, all right, a
couple more, Uh, speaking of the cameos, who drops Judd Nelson off
at the school? You just Judd Nelson walked? He walked, Well,
who somebody else is dropping Ali sheety off? I believe it is who it
is? Yes, it was the The person in the car was very it's
the it's John Hughes. No, I know that. I was gonna say
it's the it's the cameo the way Alfred Hitchcock used to always have a cameo
in his movies. That's right, without really speaking, because bender bender walks
by, and I think John Hughes almost hits him with the car dropping Ali
sheety off. That's the n Hughes was the driver of that car. That's
correct, Okay, true or false? There were actual actors, family members
dropping off off actors. Yes, and that well, hold on Anthony Michael
Hall's character when he got out, you know they were telling him, you
know this was uh, he played a character named Brian Johnson, and the
and his mother and younger sister dropped him off and she's telling him, you
know, you better not let this happen again, young man, and the
and the sisters like, yeah, that woman and that little girl was his
real life mother and sister. That's exactly right. She says, you better
make use of the time. He says, mom, we're supposed to just
sit there, Well, you better find a way to make use of the
time for your academics. And the little girl, Yeah, just absolutely tremendous
on the breakfast. Got nothing to do with boxing. But by the way,
because we're just so nostalgic, this is the truth. The movie was
filmed in a condemned high school in part that they were going to tear down,
and Hughes found out about it, and that's why they had the free
run of the place. So all that you saw is is an actual high
school that was about to be torn down. Here's an arth thing that's really
cool about the movie. There very unusual when you're filming a Hollywood movie.
This movie was filmed sequentially. In other words, they didn't film this scene
and then another scene. The first scene they shot in the first day was
the scene of them dropping the kids off at school. Then they filmed the
next scene when they're in the school, et cetera. And then the last
scene they filmed were the scenes at the end. So they did it all
sequentially, which I thought is really cool. And you know, John Hughes
is one of the great filmmakers of that time, a million classics, you
know, he he he passed, you know, several years ago. But
this is the legacy movie of Oli Ray. The Breakfast Club tremendous and by
the way, the great song from Simple Minds, Yeah, don't You Forget
About Me? And by the way, the library converted by the Hollywood pop
makers. That's the gymnasium of the Kendemned High School. They made it into
the library. That's why it was so huge. Libraries aren't usually that big.
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