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Speaker 1: The countdown is on to fight time. This is Big

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Fight Weekend. Now here is your host, DJ Leaves.

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, we are live on this Thursday evening

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stream time.

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Speaker 1: It is still Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Afternoon out in Vegas for the Canelo Crawford upcoming humongous fight.

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Speaker 1: I am merely a somewhat capable host. TJ. Reeves.

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Speaker 2: Hello to our insider, Big Dan Rayfield. Good afternoon. Where

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you are as the anticipation builds for this undisputed super

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middleweight title fight.

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Speaker 1: You are there.

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Speaker 2: You are there among them and have been around it

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and have been a busy guy. Good to be with you,

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live here exclusively to start off on our Big Fight

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Weekend YouTube page. My friend, good to be back with you.

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Speaker 3: Good to be with you. It's gonna be uh. I've

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been here, Holy, I've been here like twenty four hours.

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I feel like I've been here for a week.

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Speaker 1: It has been a bit of a grind.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's like a good It is a good thing.

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Speaker 2: He's hit the ground running with his track shoes. He's

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making like Carl Lewis. There's a reference to the eighties again.

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YouTube page exclusively for the podcast audience that's hearing us

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later on the audio podcast. Obviously, we did this live

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first on YouTube late in the afternoon in Vegas early

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in the evening. Thank you for finding us, however you

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have found us. For those of you that are watching live,

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feel free to get some comments in as we go along.

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We're gonna be previewing, obviously the main event with Canello

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defending the four super middleweight titles against a two division

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super two division undisputed.

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Speaker 1: Champion himself in Terrence Crawford.

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Speaker 2: We should say upfront, you interviewed Canelo Alvarez on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: They can see the video.

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Speaker 2: The YouTube audience that's watching us, they can see that

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video on this page. For the podcast audience that's hearing us.

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I'm gonna keep all this straight. You'll hear it here

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in a little bit that you interviewed can.

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Speaker 1: But Dan, let's begin right there.

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Speaker 2: You spoke with him, as the build up is is

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well underway here. What about getting a chance to chat

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with Canelo? And I thought it was very interesting revealing

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on a couple of fronts. What about going one on

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one with Canelo as you did on Wednesday?

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Speaker 3: Well, to me, anyway, it's not a Canelo fight U

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till I do my interview with him. I've probably done

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a one on one interview with Canelo. I mean before

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I couldn't even count. I mean it's probably ten or

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fifteen fights in a row. I mean something along those lines.

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It's kind of like I used to do interviews when

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Vladimir Klitchko was the heavyweight champion. He used to joke

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with me we would have an interview, not I mean,

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I did my interview with Canelo during fight week on

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the Wednesday. With Ladimir would be a couple of weeks

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before the fight. He didn't feel like he was getting

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ready for a fight unless he did the interview with me,

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and I got the feeling. It's kind of like that

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with Canelo because it's been so many times, through so

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many years, through so many big fights. But it was

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good to talk to me, you know. I'm always interested

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to see, like what this sort of feeling, sort of

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like the bodylane, which how he sounds like his enthusiasm

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level for the event. I can tell you one thing,

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he's way more excited to do this fight than he

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was when I spoke to him before the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, on that point, way way yeah, on that point.

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He said that to you in one of his comments,

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almost in passing, and I know he's doing much better

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with the English and with whatever he said, I didn't

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really want to fight, meaning I think because of Saudi

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Arabia early in the morning. I thought that was honesty,

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and it was interesting honesty.

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Speaker 3: Follow up on that, it was more than just that.

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I don't think it was anything against Saudi Arabia or

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anything like that, but the timing was messed up, But

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it was more because he did the fight at six

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or six thirty in the morning to accommodate his audience

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in the United States and Mexico. But I think it

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was more because of the way that the way that

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that skull fought him, where it was very obvious that

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he was not there to fight and just to survive.

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And you know, canel obeyed the point that at some

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point in that fight, it's no longer about making a

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good fight, It's about I need to win because I

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got bigger business to attend to. With Crawford, it was

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ringside and everybody knew that when the fight was over,

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as long as he had his hand raised, that they

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would face off in the ring and Turkey, Ali Chic

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would announce the fights, and that's exactly what happened. So

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you know, some people will say, Okay, that's maybe an excuse.

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Others might say canelos washed. Whatever it is, we'll find

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out what the real deal is on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I suppose absolutely Again for those that are just joining us,

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and a lot of live audiences joining us along the way.

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Speaker 1: We are live on this.

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Speaker 2: Thursday night here on YouTube previewing the Canelo Alvarez Terence

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Crawford upcoming undisputed super middleweight battle that will take place

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Saturday night in Las Vegas, and we'll be you'll be

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able to see it with your Netflix subscription.

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Speaker 1: That's another big part of this. I thought one more point.

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Speaker 2: When Canelo was talking to you, you said, you know, hey,

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is this the biggest that you've had? You fought Floyd Mayweather,

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you fought Codo, you fought Glovekin three times, the first

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two which were tremendous with huge interest in them. And

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he said this may be the biggest ultimately because of Crawford,

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because of the Netflix audience. He said, this may be

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biggest in terms of audience. So I wonder what do

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you think of all that?

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Speaker 3: Well, the reason I asked him that TJ was because

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when he did his grand arrivals on Tuesday, I wasn't here.

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I didn't get here until Wednesday. But I watched back

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when he stopped and did like a little scrum and

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such with some of the press guys, and so when

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that happened, I heard him say that he felt like

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this was the biggest fight of his career, and that

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sort of like took me back, because, yeah, this is

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a huge fight. I'm not in any way, shape or

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form downplaying you downplaying this fight at all. But when

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you said you fought Triple G, you fought Floyd, you

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fought Codo, you fought Covilev, you fought you know, undisputed fights,

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you fought you know, the Billy Joe Saunders fight, a

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record crowd for United States indoor attendance, had a lot

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of huge fights. He walked it back a little, Yeah,

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this is one of the biggest, but still it's a

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huge fight because in his mind he knows how good

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Crawford is and maybe not tested as a super middleweight,

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but certainly as the other way classes that he has

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been involved in. And also because as he mentioned, it

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is netflix so the audience in terms of the eyeballs

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on this fight has the potential to be the biggest fight.

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It probably will be the biggest fight he's ever had,

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because as big as those fights were against TRIPLEG and

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all the other guys I mentioned, they were on pay

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per view, and then he had, you know, a couple

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of fights that were on regular to zone when he

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first got there. But the zone is only in a

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few hundred thousand sub you know, subscribers in the United

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States anyway, and you mentioned Netflix three hundred million or

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so worldwide subscribers, about ninety million here in the United

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States alone. So from that standpoint, it's massive because everybody

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can see it for free if they have a subscription,

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which you know most people do. And they're doing the

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fight not at one of the traditional arenas like the

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T Mobile Arena or the MGM Grand or Thomas and

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Knack Center where they've had so many fights here in

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this city. They're doing it at the Allegian Stadium, which

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is a relatively new stadium, and so they're expecting a

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crowd of about sixty sixty five thousand people. And if

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it draws that kind of crowd, and it can get

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past sixty three thousand, let's say, which is the record

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that stood for many years of an indoor fight attendance

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for Ali's spanks number two that was in the New

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Orleans super Dome in nineteen seventy eight. That was the

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long established record. Canelo's fight with Billy Joe Saunders did

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seventy two thousand and change and broke that. But this

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fight has a really likely opportunity to become to become

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the number two in terms of an indoor American boxing event.

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So there's a lot of stuff there. It's the biggest

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indoor fight ever in Nevada history obviously already. So you know,

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Canello has said a thousand times DJ that one of

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the things he likes about what he's done in his

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career is making history, and those little bits are just

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other things to add on top of all the other

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things he has done.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting that, again, that's the Raiders Stadium. It's at

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the south end of the strip. I'm assuming they've not

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let the media or anybody else get in to see

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the setup as of yet on Thursday, right, you've not

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been there. I don't know that they're letting anybody in

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there to see the setup. Maybe at least until tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, there's nobody's going to be at the

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staium and tell.

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Speaker 1: The fight day there you go until fight day.

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Speaker 2: But Canelo, to your point, has been in this environment

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in the Cowboys Stadium before, the Astros Baseball Stadium in Houston,

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at Minute Made Park, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

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Speaker 1: He's been in the.

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Speaker 2: Big bullfighting ring before. He was in the Guadalajara Stadium

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when he fought John Ryder. He's been in those atmospheres before.

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Speaker 3: Because he's fought at AT and T Stadium and you know

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a few time as a matter of fact, right, I mean,

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he's got the more experience in terms of that. But

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Crawford is not a guy that's going to be unnerved

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by anything. Crawford's got you know, uh ice in his veins.

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He's not gonna worry about that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, again, thank you for finding us. As

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we go over this, we're gonna go over the undercard.

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We also have other action this weekend as part of

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this live preview here on YouTube this evening. I always

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love doing this with you. Give us an idea here

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of as Wednesday has become Thursday, has there begun to

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be some buzz or is it still too early yet?

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Speaker 1: We got to get to and Friday night.

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Speaker 3: What you said, there's definitely buzz, There's no doubt about it.

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you know, I've covered, you know, a ton of fights

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in Las Vegas, and I've covered fights in various places,

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and I've been at many hotels that have served as

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the host, but primarily it's been the MGM Grand and

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then at some point, you know a lot of fights

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at places like Mandalay Day. This fight. The host hotel

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is the Font and Blue, which is all the way

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down downtown, the opposite end of the strip from where

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Mandeliday is and from where the MGM Grand is. But again,

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they're doing a great job at you walk into this hotel,

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you know there's a big event that they're hosting because

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there's they got the you know, similar to like the MGM.

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They got the big ring right there in the lobby

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with the signage. They have the you know, I was

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walking through the casino last night and all the blackjack

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tables have the table felts are of the fight. They've

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got some pop up shops where they're selling merchandise, you know,

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T shirts and baseball hats and some of the things

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like ring magazine related gear. But with the fight on it,

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you know, because obviously Turkey owns the ring and he's

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on site doing things, and they're involved heavily with this

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whole event, and you know, you just know there's a

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big event. I mean, and that's it's nice to see

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and this is bigger than your average big event.

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Speaker 1: Let's say understood on that.

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Speaker 2: All right, So you and I, by the way, we

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are reviving for this week the bet US Boxing Show.

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We're going to handicap this fight live at one eastern

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ten Pacific on the bet Us platforms different from our platform.

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You don't have to go on the record right now,

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but size up what intrigues you. Size this up here

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in terms of the matchup. We know obviously Crawford moving

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way up in wait Traditionally one hundred and forty seven

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pound fighter has fought one fight at one point fifty four.

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Now he's moving up two more weight classes. Size up

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the matchup, Give me a thought or two place.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we've seen guys go up and wait before.

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Hopkins for example. You know we've seen it plenty of

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times for the years. Nanny pack is a great example

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of Rose and Rose and Rose and Rose and other guys.

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get over that hump. And there's plenty of historical examples

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of that. You know, we talk about like Ray Robinson,

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when he went to light heavyweight, it didn't work out

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so well for him. So there are people who wonder

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is he able to handle that size jump, because yes,

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he's going up two weight classes because his last fight

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was at one hundred and fifty four pounds. But reality

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is he's a welterweight because he fought in the welterweight

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division for several years, became the undisputed champion, and took

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a year off and came back and had one fight

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at one fifty four and won a belt where he

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didn't look particularly that good even though he won the fight,

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take on Canelo, who's been very comfortable and been in

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the super middleweight division for many years at this point,

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has has even fought as high as one seventy five

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and won a world title and that fight and you

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know lost obviously the Bivol, but still fought, you know,

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such an elite fighter in him and and you know

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lost the decision. So people question can he handle the weight?

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his ring intelligence, that yeah, he can the question Kenny

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do enough to actually win the fight. And that's the

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thing now, I think it's fair to say when you

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think about will Crawford win, that part of the equation

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is how much do you think Canelo has faded because

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he looks so terrible in the Skull fight? And then

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you have to determine that he look terrible in the

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Skull fight because of the things we talked about, because

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of the atmosphere, because of the opponent being such a stinker,

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because of just him wanting to get to win and

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get out of there so he get the Crawford fight

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or is he watched. I don't know the answer. I mean,

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we're going to find out, and I think we're gonna

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know real early in that fight, what the deal is,

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and so all those factors for me anyway, make it

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where absolutely Terrence Crawford can win that fight. Remember another

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thing also, now, I know Terrence Crawford hasn't fought sixty

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eight pounders in real fights, but certainly through the course

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of his career he's shown a good chin. Never been

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down officially one time against Kabalawskis that wasn't officially ruled,

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which wasn't knockdown. But even if that's the case, that's

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one time in forty plus fights in two hundred and

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forty something rounds. If you take a look at Canelo

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and Crawford together, they have more than one hundred professional fights.

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They have almost eight hundred professional rounds between them. Never

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an official knockdown for either guy getting dropped. That's pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 1: It is remarkable.

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Speaker 2: The one thing that I will say too is Crawford

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is what thirty six pushing thirty seven, and he's basically

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had three fights in the last three and a half

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almost four years. He has not been active. He had

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one fight obviously a year ago at one hundred and

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fifty four pounds and didn't look great in it. I

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think there's every bit the question mark of how washed

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is he? He was great the night against Errol Spence,

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but Dan, that was twenty five months ago, you and

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I were there, I don't know how sharp he's gonna be,

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et cetera.

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Speaker 3: If this is a contest about who's more washed, if

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you believe they're washed, it's definitely Canelo that's more washed

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than Crawford.

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Speaker 2: In a contest with you and me, who's more washed?

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I would like to think I'm a pretty clean guy,

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But you're also big on the showerhead pressure.

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Speaker 1: On the hotel water flow there on that I don't

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know who's.

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Speaker 3: Watching that's he did that, All the things that we've

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just been talking about, like whether they're not as good

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as they were, can he handle the weight? How good

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is Canelo? What do we think about what happened in

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the last fight for both of these guys, The magnitude

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of the history that can be made, especially if Terrence

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Crawford is the winner. There's so many things that make

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it an intriguing fight that you gotta watch. And again,

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I'm going to reiterate this for like the thousand times

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since the fight was made. It's not going to cost

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ninety dollars. I mean, there's no way around that. It's

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it's a wonderful thing. But to me, what intrigues me,

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and you know, you know me as a historian type,

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the types of things that Crawford can add to his

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legacy with a victory. And we spoke about it a

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little bit in the interview that I did with him

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that's on the on the on the YouTube page, and

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what we've played on the podcast is very extraordinary. I mean,

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let's just think about that. If Canelo wins, it's a

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great win over a pound for pound, superstar caliber, Hall

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of Fame, four division champion, you know, but I don't

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wouldn't consider it his biggest win. It's a great win,

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but it's not bigger than I don't think then even

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if he when he you know, even if it was

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questionable the triple G win or you know, some of

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the other great victories he had against Arislondi Lara or

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Miguel Coto or or any of you know, any of

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the guys he's beaten through the years, becoming undisputed against Plant.

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But for Crawford, he can become a five division world champion,

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which is still hard to do. Very rare. Only a

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handful of guys have done it. He can become a

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three division undisputed champion, which has never happened in the

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multi belt era. We're not talking four belt era like

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we often do. We're talking two, three, and four. The

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last time there was a fighter who was acknowledges undisputed

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when there was only one title, you have to go

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all the way in three weight classes. You have to

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go all the way back to nineteen thirty eight, almost

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one hundred fucking years ago, and that was Henry Armstrong,

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who in nineteen thirty eight simultaneously held the featherweight, lightweight

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and welterweight title. So that's the kind of.

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Speaker 4: Company neighborhood didn't lasts, right, And on top of that,

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and this is one of the things that we did

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speak about on the interview, and he was very you know,

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excited about the prospect with the victory that he would

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become only the third fighter ever to be a four

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division lineal champion, five division champion and yes, but four

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division lineal, meaning he's the guy who beat the guy who.

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Speaker 3: Beat the guy, et cetera. The only other two guys

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are Manny pack Alwin Floyd Miyler. So I just named

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you like four different things that are massive things that

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go on his resume, on his legacy, on his Hall

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of Fame credential list. If he is the winner, now

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it's a big if because obviously he's the underdog and it's.

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Speaker 1: A huge amount of work. It's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if he does it, it's huge.

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Speaker 2: I just look, it's basically a fifty to fifty fight

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right now on the betting odds. I mean, Canelo is

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like a minus one fifty and literally Crawford's like a

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plus one sixty. So that's fascinating to me when Canelo

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is the bigger guy, and usually the bigger guy should

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be more favored. And there's a real outstanding question on

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whether Crawford's punch will have the same effect at one

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hundred and sixty eight pounds, and he can say all

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day long that it will, but he doesn't know till

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he gets in there.

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Speaker 3: I've never looked at this fight where whatever a power

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he has or doesn't have is going to be the

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difference in the fight. This is not about Tarro. Listen,

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anything can happen. You know that it's boxing. But to me, anyway,

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the chances of Crawford getting a knockout or like Slim

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and Nunn and Nuns on the way out of town.

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But can he out box Canelo Aavarez? Does he have

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the speed advantage? Does he have at least as good

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of an intelligence, maybe more so? I mean, do he

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have experience the way you know they all have experience,

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They've been in the ring with big fights before. Crawford's

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gonna have to box. He's not going I don't think

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he's gonna go in there looking to knock the guy out.

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You're talking about it's never been down.

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Speaker 1: That I got you, I got you.

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Speaker 2: But he's got to be able to stop him in

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his tracks, get his attention. Do those kinds not necessarily

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knock him down? And we don't know how that translates.

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So as much as we want to talk about what

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he accomplished at one seven that ain't helping him at

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one sixty eight, will find out what helps him at

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one sixty eight or what has helped him in his

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training and leading.

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Speaker 1: Up to it.

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Speaker 2: Again, we're doing this live here on the YouTube page.

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Thank you for joining us. A lot of live audience

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has joined us. Let me look at the comments for

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just a second. Here and then we're gonna get to

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the undercard and then move on. We got a couple

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of other world title fights as well in Ireland for

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the IBF Welterweight Championship, the Crocker A Donovan rematch, and

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then the Monster. Oh, by the way, is an action

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on Sunday. I need my up update from Rayfield. Can

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we see the fight in the United States? That's a

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that's a tease. Don't tell them yet. That's a tease

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that we can see the Monster fight.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.

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Speaker 3: It happened during the podcast.

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Speaker 1: It happened while we're doing the live show.

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Speaker 3: I got one of my text messages popped up while

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we're doing the show.

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Speaker 1: Let's see uh.

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Speaker 2: Viewer questions Aaron Dan, do you agree with Max Kellerman

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saying the fight will get more views than Mayweather Pacquiao

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since it's on Netflix. Put it in perspective with the

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Maye they're packing out pay per view buys.

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Speaker 3: I think, well, here's the thing. Mayweather in many packet

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was the all time record in terms of number of

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pay per view. When I say that it's in the

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United States, Okay, we're doing apples to apples. It did

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four point six million pay per view buys in America.

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It destroyed the previous record before that was like two

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point two million or something like that, like a two

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point four million I think was Mayweather against Oscar. It

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was either Floyd against Canelo. But it destroyed the record.

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It blew the record away. Like in their wildest dreams,

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the television executives and the boxers, nobody involved never would

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have thought that it was going to do that many buys,

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and so they always do as a formula that if

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the four point six million people bought the pay per view,

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it's not four point six million people buying it and

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they're watching it by themselves. There's us like they do

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like it's four people per home or whatever the numbers,

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if you do the math like that, And then of

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course there's obviously lots of people are watching out of home.

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They're at closed circuit locations, are at bars and restaurants

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that have bought the event for a closed circuit. You know,

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it gets up there. But because the fight's on Netflix

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and it's in thirty ninety million American homes, yeah, probably,

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I do kind of agree with Max that from the

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standpoint of the people that will watch it Live. It

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might have a chance to do better than pay Mayweather

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packet because Mayweather Pacat was the first time they ever

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charged one hundred dollars for a pay per view. It

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still did four point six million. But this one doesn't

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cost but a monthly subscription.

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Speaker 2: Then why didn't you tell me that they made off

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the pay per view, off the four million plus pay

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per view buys? Didn't they make over a couple hundred million?

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Speaker 1: Whatever? The math was?

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Speaker 3: The total the total gross for that fight in all

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revenue stream is pay per view, the gate, the merchandise,

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the foreign sales, you know, you name it, the sponsors

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that they had. It total about six hundred and fifty

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million dollars.

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Speaker 2: I mean, good good luck with what the Netflix will doing.

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You gotta love the savages, all right. The savages are

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all over the place.

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Speaker 1: Nico our man.

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Speaker 2: Nico says, just got to Vegas today playing in a

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poker tournament while listening multi tasking, Nico, thank you good luck,

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and let us know if you win with like aces high?

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Speaker 1: Is that a poker term? I made that up?

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Speaker 2: Maybe he just won with that kind of a poker hand.

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Martin says, last four fights on Netflix, where can we

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see the rest of the Prelams love the live broadcast.

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All right, explain again to the audience. We're going to

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talk about the undercard coming up and explain the broadcast.

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Speaker 3: So the top four fights on the card, which are

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obviously a Canelo versus Crawford, Callum Wallash versus Fernando Vargas

475
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Junior Christian and Billy versus Lester Martinez, and the prospect

476
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from Saudi Arabia Mohammed Alcal against Travis Kent Crawford no

477
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relation to Terrence Crawford. Those fights are the main Netflix broadcast.

478
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The remainder of the card, which includes fighters like Sorry

479
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Boachug against Brandon Adams and as you know, the young

480
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,200
Mexican Olympian that's with Eddie renosom or Verde, and you

481
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know other fights on the show. Those are going to

482
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be on I believe it's on the UFC YouTube channel

483
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and other social channels, maybe the ring channel Netflix. You'll

484
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be able to find that easily on the social media channels,

485
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particularly on YouTube, and those are free for everybody to watch.

486
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Speaker 2: Uh, let's see a lot of people still weighing in here.

487
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Julio wants to know how is the vibe for this

488
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fight compared to other super fights. You kind of answered

489
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that already, but for the live audience joining us another

490
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quick recap.

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Speaker 3: It's good, but I'd be less than honest if I

492
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said it even came close to like the Wednesday of

493
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like Mayweather Canelo, or the Wednesday of Mayweather against Oscar

494
00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:39,559
those were ridiculous, or like when Ricky Hatton fought Floyd

495
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and half of England was in the lobby of the NGN.

496
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I mean, it's not it's in no way is it

497
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a negative about Canelo and Crawford. But I'm just being real.

498
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I was at those fights, and I was at those

499
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fight weeks, and they were extraordinary compared to what we

500
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see for not only this fight, for a lot of

501
00:22:54,759 --> 00:22:57,720
recent fights where it's just not that same vibe. There's

502
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not like a there's not a crazy group of passionate

503
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fans that have traveled. I'm Surelle will have lots of

504
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Mexicans from both coming from Mexico as well as Mexican

505
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Americans who will come into town for the fight. I

506
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haven't seen them yet, all right, but it's this hotel's

507
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popping though.

508
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Speaker 2: There you go, and it's not Friday night it's not Faddy,

509
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,240
it's not Fridday night yet moon Man wants to know, Yo, Dan,

510
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what's the possibility that Bud gets a KO?

511
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Speaker 1: Where would you gauge?

512
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Speaker 2: You just said a couple of minutes ago, you think

513
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highly unlikely? Is that a way to phrase it?

514
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Speaker 3: I would say less than ten percent chance. It's just

515
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I mean, yay, look, anything can happen, But as I've

516
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used the phrase before, the preponderance of the evidence would

517
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,880
say that's virtually not happening that it would. Now, could

518
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Canelo get an injury or suffer a cut that may

519
00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,079
be cause it? What would go down officially as a TKO? Yeah,

520
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,480
of course. But and you're talking about like where he's

521
00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:53,039
teeing off on him and the referee jumps in and

522
00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:54,920
stops the fight right where he puts him on his

523
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back for ten seconds. I just don't think that's likely.

524
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I mean, the guy has not had a moment in

525
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,880
fight other than if you go back to when he

526
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,559
fought Jose Miguel Coto on an undercard at the MGM

527
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,880
fifteen years ago, whatever it was, in the first round,

528
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,519
he was badly hurt. I've never seen him visibly really

529
00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:15,519
hurt since then so no, he's and Crawford is not.

530
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I don't think he's training for a knockout. He's too

531
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smart for that. You think that him and his team,

532
00:24:19,519 --> 00:24:22,799
Brian mcintyren and all the guys. They look at Canelo's record,

533
00:24:22,839 --> 00:24:24,720
they see the guys got close to seventy pro fights

534
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,960
and never forgett about getting stopped. Guy's ever been down,

535
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,319
real quick, He's never been He's never really been close

536
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:31,119
to being down, even.

537
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Speaker 1: Though he had not significantly hurt.

538
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Speaker 3: Got a great he didn't go down.

539
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Speaker 1: Got a great chin adam real quick.

540
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Speaker 2: I understand that Kanelo has a great chan, but Crawford

541
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is a legit is a legitimate KO artist, seventy five

542
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,279
percent KO ratio, having KO ten of his last eleven opponents.

543
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Speaker 3: I again, he KO to eleven guys in a row

544
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in the welterweight and junior welter with the vision.

545
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Speaker 1: That's correct.

546
00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:55,039
Speaker 3: And then the first time he went to one hundred

547
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and fifty four he went to this it was.

548
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,279
Speaker 1: Not on a knockout, That's correct.

549
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Speaker 3: That's what I was.

550
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,079
Speaker 1: That's where I was going with that. And we have

551
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talked about that.

552
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Speaker 2: Uh and one more while we go through the comments

553
00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:06,920
our buddy, Alaska Bow is watching, and Alaska Bow wants

554
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,640
to know if Crawford and in a way are successful

555
00:25:09,759 --> 00:25:12,839
this weekend, where would you rank them pound for pound?

556
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,680
I wonder does he mean currently? You got to put

557
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,480
them all time as well? But currently who would you

558
00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:19,920
put ahead if they both have won?

559
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 3: I would never even say that ahead of time because

560
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,759
to me, it depends on how the fight goes. You know,

561
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if Crawford were to get like a controversial decision, but

562
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,599
in a way goes in there and destroys Zach Mndellia, right,

563
00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:31,759
and you're gonna prop me rank Acmdelia, I mean, uh,

564
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,920
in a way ahead of him. If if if Bud

565
00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:37,279
goes in there and boxes circles around Canelo, Oliverson looks

566
00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:40,240
absolutely fantastic and becomes young disputed champion, you know, moving

567
00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:42,480
up a couple of weight classes, and you have in

568
00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:44,119
a way getting knocked on his ass again like he

569
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,400
did against Cardenas, then you're probably gonna go with Crawford,

570
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so he can't stay till the fight's over all.

571
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,799
Speaker 2: Right, fair enough, real quick? A little more on the undercard,

572
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:58,119
Callum Walsh. Antonio Vargas helped me. Fernando Vargas My Bad

573
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is the co feature Christian Mobili also on the Netflix card.

574
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Speaker 1: Just touch on the undercard again real.

575
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Speaker 3: Quick, yeah, Well. Walsh and Fernando Vargus are two undefeated

576
00:26:09,079 --> 00:26:11,279
up and coming fighters. Fernando Vargus Junior, of course, is

577
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the son of Fernando Vargas, the former junior middleweight world

578
00:26:14,519 --> 00:26:17,039
champion and Olympian who was in a lot of great fights.

579
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,039
I had the privilege to cover some of them. His

580
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,880
younger brother, Emiliano was the red hot junior Walterway prospect

581
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that's with top rank. They have a brother in the

582
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,519
middle who was also an up and coming fighter named Amato.

583
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,599
But this is Fernando Vargus Junior's biggest test. He's taken

584
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,480
on kalum As, who was an undefeated Irish fighter who

585
00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:36,960
based in southern California, now trains with Freddie Roach. He's

586
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,759
gotten a lot of attention for his fights on UFC

587
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,480
Fight Pass. Tom Loeffler, his promoter, is very close to

588
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:45,480
Dana White. Dana White has given them basically a series

589
00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:49,319
of three sixty Promotions cards that are on UFC Fight Pass,

590
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and Callum has been fighting on there for the last

591
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several fights and you know, they're both good prospects. I

592
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,000
think Walsh is probably a little bit of a better

593
00:26:57,039 --> 00:27:00,240
prospect than my mind. But at least it's they're not

594
00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:02,359
superstar fights. I mean, it's a big spot to be

595
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,119
in the co feature obviously of a fight like this,

596
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but at least it looks like on paper a competitive

597
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,400
fight between two guys who are on the upswing, who

598
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,599
are in their twenties, who still have you know, they're

599
00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:13,200
trying to still make their bones, so to speak.

600
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Speaker 2: We should point this out also when those two get

601
00:27:16,519 --> 00:27:19,680
to the ring, Walsh and Vargas, most of the crowd.

602
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,039
I'm just saying this, most of the crowd will be

603
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filing in or in their seats, and those two have

604
00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:27,559
never fought in front of forty to fifty sixty thousand

605
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whatever the crowd is filling in to be.

606
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Speaker 3: In front of probably ten thousands exactly, So this is.

607
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Speaker 2: Going to be a moment for them because we can't

608
00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:37,680
we can't speak to two fights earlier. How full it's

609
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,440
going to be an allegiate stadium, But you would think

610
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during the fight before.

611
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Speaker 3: The main event, not even just about the amount of

612
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people that are there, it's just when you walk to

613
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the ring. And I've covered plenty of stadium fights. I've

614
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,599
covered fights that you know, Houston Mini made the Yankee Stadium,

615
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,119
eighteen Stadium, the soccer stadium in Cardiff, I mean in

616
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,519
in Carson, California, I covered it. You know, fights at

617
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Wembley Stadium. You know, it's not even about the crowd.

618
00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:03,519
Your ring walk is like three times as long. Yeah,

619
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,759
walk to a ring and like a small ballroom or

620
00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:07,839
on a casino. You know you walk to the ring.

621
00:28:08,079 --> 00:28:09,720
You walked to a ring at Wembley Stadium. You know

622
00:28:09,839 --> 00:28:11,720
you can stop and take a piss along the way.

623
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That's how long it.

624
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Speaker 2: Cos there's an image. It's not likely to happen though,

625
00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:19,400
anything else on the undercard. Mabilly to me, this is

626
00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:23,599
the future opponent for Canelo possibly. What about Mobilly's fight.

627
00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:27,039
Speaker 3: And well, the winner, the winner of Mabilly versus Martinez

628
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,480
is going to be his mandatory in the WBC. Uh,

629
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,039
it's a Mobility's got the interim title. Uh this to me,

630
00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:35,920
I mean Lester Martinez is not a well known fighter,

631
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,839
but he's looked good on his probox fights and Mobility

632
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,960
we've seen on his ESPN plus cards that uh that

633
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,640
his promoter's top rank and I the Tiger have done

634
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,960
over the last couple of years. They're both exciting fighters.

635
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,920
This should be a good fight. This to me, I mean,

636
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:50,000
I know they put the calum Washed Fernando Vargas fight

637
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in the co feature spot because of their their efforts

638
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,839
to build up callum Wash. But for my money, the

639
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,960
fight of the night other than the main event is

640
00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:01,119
this mobility fight against lest That should be an action

641
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,440
pack fight in my mind, and made the best man

642
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:04,839
win that one. This is going to be a punch

643
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:05,480
out in my mind.

644
00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 2: Love it all right, let's do this because we're savvy again,

645
00:29:10,079 --> 00:29:13,319
we're serving two masters here. We're live on YouTube tonight.

646
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,240
You can see the Canelo video interview with Dan that

647
00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:19,839
he did on Wednesday on this YouTube channel for our

648
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,400
podcast audience that obviously is only hearing us on the

649
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,960
normal podcast released Thursday night into Friday. We're now going

650
00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:31,640
to play Dan's interview with Canelo, So live audience watching

651
00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:33,240
us stand by for a second. You're not going to

652
00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:35,920
see it or hear it. But podcast audience, here's Dan

653
00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:39,079
one on one with Canelo prior to the Crawford fight

654
00:29:39,519 --> 00:29:40,960
coming up on Saturday night.

655
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,599
Speaker 3: It's my pleasure to be joined today by the one

656
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,599
and only undisputed super MINOWA champ with the world, Canelo Alvarez.

657
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:49,000
We know why we're here, Canello, to talk about your

658
00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:52,039
mega fight takes place Saturday on Netflix at the Allegiance

659
00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:55,559
Stadium against Terrence Crawford. You're defending your title. And you

660
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,160
know what, this was a fight that when we talked

661
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,359
about in a while back before you had your fight

662
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,559
in May, when it being discussed, this was not a

663
00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:03,680
fight that you were really that interested in. I'm wondering

664
00:30:03,759 --> 00:30:04,200
what changed.

665
00:30:05,599 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: Uh.

666
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Speaker 5: You know when you guys asking about that fight I

667
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:12,000
never had in my mind before.

668
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 3: I was a surprise for me.

669
00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 5: So that's why I say why I'm gonna you try,

670
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,440
you guys to fight me with terror scaffle, Right, But

671
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,119
if you see everything, you can see how big is

672
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:29,680
this fight. No, it's one of the biggest in the

673
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,359
boxing history. So that's why I accepted. Terre Scraffer is

674
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,960
one of the best fum for POEM out there. So

675
00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:40,799
two of the best for PEM fighters fighting each other

676
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:41,799
is a big.

677
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Speaker 3: Fight, absolutely, And I was going to ask you about

678
00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,440
that because I saw the the interviews that you did

679
00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:50,400
during your Grand Arrivals on Tuesday, and you said that

680
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,240
you thought this was the biggest fight of your career.

681
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,240
And it's a big one, I'll give you that, But

682
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:56,319
you've had so many, and I wonder why is it

683
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,039
that you think this is bigger than Triple G one

684
00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:02,599
and two, Miguel Colo, Floyd Mayweather, Kayla Plant, Covid lev

685
00:31:02,759 --> 00:31:04,640
you know you name it, Billy Joe Sauners with the

686
00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:07,599
record crowd. Why is this one bigger than all of those?

687
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:08,359
Speaker 1: Oh?

688
00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 5: You see, everything is involved Netflix Threat season. Everything around

689
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:17,039
the fight is big. You can see how big. You

690
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,279
can see the energy, you can see different everything And

691
00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:24,720
I've been there before and I know how big is

692
00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:27,960
this fight. So that's why I call this fight one

693
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,680
of my biggest fights in my career.

694
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 3: I thought you said it was the biggest.

695
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Speaker 5: And it's one of the biggest. Okay, fair Maybe that's

696
00:31:38,599 --> 00:31:41,640
gonna be the more watches, right, the most watch it

697
00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:45,680
in in in time so on other things, maybe it's

698
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:46,480
gonna be the biggest.

699
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about that.

700
00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 4: Uh.

701
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Speaker 3: You know, First of all, congratulations, I know you and

702
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,000
your wife had a lovely baby girl. Last month. Saw

703
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:56,880
your your postings on your social media, So congratulations. It

704
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,119
is a wonderful thing. But I wonder you know how

705
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,559
much of a distraction was that to break camp and

706
00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:04,039
and be with your family when when your baby came

707
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,920
and and has that sort of been been at all

708
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,480
a disruption to your training for this fight?

709
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 5: Nothing was was a motivation for me. It was a

710
00:32:12,079 --> 00:32:15,759
big motivation for me. And you know what, then, the

711
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:21,559
universe is great because it happened in the weekend. So

712
00:32:21,759 --> 00:32:26,319
I finished my my, my, my workout, and my wife

713
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,759
called me, hey, it's coming. So I fly there for

714
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,680
two days and some day I was back to training camp.

715
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,519
Speaker 3: So you didn't really even miss any of your camp.

716
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,200
I don't.

717
00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:41,839
Speaker 5: I don't miss any training and what's perfect and was

718
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:45,720
very motivation, a lot of motivation for me. I got

719
00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:50,559
the discipline you know always, but discipline version with with

720
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,160
with that motivation is amazing.

721
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,839
Speaker 3: So I want to ask you just a little bit

722
00:32:56,839 --> 00:32:59,799
about your fighting me, because you've seem very motivated and

723
00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:02,759
very excited for this fight with Crawford. That one. Obviously

724
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,960
you won the fight. I thought you won basically every round,

725
00:33:05,039 --> 00:33:07,720
but it certainly was not a crowd pleaser. A lot

726
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,680
of people were disappointed with the way Williams call fought

727
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,960
against you boring fight. But you also didn't really seem

728
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,039
to have the ability to cut the ring off, to

729
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:16,720
land a lot of punches, to do any kind of

730
00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:18,440
hurt on him. And you just sort of tell me,

731
00:33:18,599 --> 00:33:20,519
uh was it? What was your what was your reasons

732
00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:22,759
for that sort of situation and why it wasn't as

733
00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:24,759
good of a fight as Canel Alvarez fights usually are.

734
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know at that point with that situation, you

735
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,880
need to win the fight. It's all matters. Win the fight,

736
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,160
because a fight a fighter like him running and when

737
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,960
you try to to cot and and and try to

738
00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:44,920
get in, he put the head in front of him.

739
00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:49,119
So a lot of a lot of bees there know

740
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,720
to have a head in my in my face and

741
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,160
blows that guy. Don't don't really.

742
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,559
Speaker 3: Want to fight that night, understood, I want to just.

743
00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 5: And thus and those situations you need to be more

744
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,440
patient because if you go and try and everything, he

745
00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:15,199
started touching you and winning the rounds. You know what

746
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,679
I mean? At that point, you need to find a

747
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,280
way how to win, because a win is a win.

748
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 3: You know you're okay with one more question? Yeah, I know, Uh,

749
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:27,480
you know you're I look at this kind of like

750
00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:29,400
you're in maybe a little bit of a no win situation.

751
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:31,920
I know, you always come prepare for your fights and

752
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,840
you want to win and you know, put the pot

753
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,559
on a great fight for the fans and all that business.

754
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,519
But here you are fighting a guy like you're coming

755
00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:42,679
off from welterweight essentially. So if you if you win

756
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,239
the fight, a lot of folks will say, well, you know,

757
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,599
it's uh, you know, we love Canelo, buddy beat a welterweight.

758
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:48,679
If you lose the fight, you're like, oh my god,

759
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,280
Canelo lost to a welterweight. So it's sort of you're

760
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,000
damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

761
00:34:53,079 --> 00:34:55,199
So do you, uh, do you look at it like

762
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,360
a no win situation? Do you care what those critics

763
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,360
might say at Dina the day done?

764
00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 5: Is their opinions. Its opinion, just opinions. For me and

765
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,480
my Mimi is opinions.

766
00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 3: I know what I need to do.

767
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 5: I know I need to win the fight. I know

768
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:14,480
how big is for me, How I know what means

769
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:17,840
for me and for my team and for everybody. And

770
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,840
the people talk, they always talk, no matter what, you know,

771
00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:25,440
what what does mean for you, Oh means a lot.

772
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,639
This fight two of the best fighters out there fighting,

773
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:37,079
and the stage, the magnitude of the fight, Mexico VERSUS America,

774
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,599
you know it is. It's big for me, means a lot.

775
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's big for everybody, big for the fans,

776
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,920
big for boxing, big for Netflix, big for Las Vegas.

777
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,280
Thank you very much. You know, I wish you the

778
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,159
best of luck Saturday. I look forward to being at

779
00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:53,480
the fight watching you do your thing.

780
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 5: Thank you that take care.

781
00:35:56,639 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 2: Put a bow on it one more time. We're excited.

782
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,960
We're now within forty eight hours of the main event.

783
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,760
We're ready to move on to the other fights worldwide,

784
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:04,960
and we're ready to move on to the news.

785
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,199
Speaker 1: But Canello Crawford approaching Dan Rayhaield.

786
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 3: Listen, it's a huge fight, and in boxing, you're lucky

787
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,360
to get one of these a year, one of these

788
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,679
every couple of years. And I think it's fair to

789
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,920
say that this is I'm not as hype like the

790
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,199
promoters aren't say it's the biggest fight of the century,

791
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,679
that type of stuff, And I get you know, they're

792
00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:22,440
trying to build it up. But it is a big

793
00:36:22,519 --> 00:36:26,239
fight because it's not often where you have two automatic

794
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,760
Hall of famers who both won world titles and four

795
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,239
way classes who even if they haven't been at their

796
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,599
absolute best and their most recent fights are still on

797
00:36:34,679 --> 00:36:36,280
the pound for pound list. And you know, only two

798
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,840
fights ago, Terence Crawford looked as spectacular as you can

799
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,719
look when he destroyed Erol Spence. And even though Canelo

800
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,480
maybe didn't look great against William Skull, guys still winning

801
00:36:44,519 --> 00:36:46,639
his fights. Handle It's not like anybody thought it was

802
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,360
controversy against Berlanga or Mongia, you know, or even Skull,

803
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,719
et cetera. So you know, these are all time greats

804
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,960
and they're fighting in a huge stage on a big platform,

805
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,639
and boxing fans should be happy to see it. That's

806
00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:00,159
the way I look at it, and I'm excited to

807
00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:02,039
be I don't go to as many fights as I

808
00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:05,039
once did, and that's my choice, but I come for

809
00:37:05,159 --> 00:37:06,159
these types of fights.

810
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,199
Speaker 1: Sure, And here we go with this one in Vegas.

811
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,599
Speaker 2: All right, now, another continent away earlier in the day

812
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:17,280
in Ireland, let's talk Lewis Crocker Patty Donovan for the

813
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,960
IBF welterweight title. This is primetime in Ireland, Saturday afternoon,

814
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,519
in the United States early Saturday afternoon in Vegas in

815
00:37:25,559 --> 00:37:29,239
the West, where Dan is again. This was a controversial

816
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,239
first fight in March Dan take us through that, a

817
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,519
DQ for Donovan, a win for Crocker, So take us

818
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:39,960
through this is they now fight for the full IBF

819
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:43,360
title that Terrence Crawford used to have for the Saturday

820
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,239
Ireland main event.

821
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,199
Speaker 3: It was Terrence had it when he became on disputed,

822
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,599
but after that it became Bouttennis's title, right. So what

823
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,480
happened was when Crocker and Donovan fought. They're both Irish,

824
00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:56,079
one is from Northern Ireland, one is from Ireland, but

825
00:37:56,159 --> 00:37:59,000
they're both Irish. Obviously they have those fan bases. So

826
00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:01,480
they fought on March first, and at that time it

827
00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:04,199
was a totally eliminator to become the Boots mandatory of

828
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,840
the IBF title. Obviously, as we know, Boots ended up

829
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:11,360
fighting Stanionis became the unified champion and eventually vacated the title.

830
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,440
But when the so he was still champion when the

831
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,599
March first fight happened. When that fight happened, Patty Donovan,

832
00:38:17,639 --> 00:38:19,679
who has been considered for a number of years, is

833
00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:22,000
a really good prospect he had originally done with top rank.

834
00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:24,159
They weren't doing shows in Ireland. He got released. He

835
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,119
was now going to fight overseas, you know, in his

836
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:31,280
home area, and so he was the guy that was

837
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,280
sort of looked at as a guy that was gonna

838
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,039
be a future champion. But Crocker, i know, had a

839
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:37,880
good record and was undefeated, and you know, was also

840
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,559
coming along. So in that first fight, Patty Donovan was

841
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,559
whitewashing him. He was winning every round, he was totally dominating.

842
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,039
He was way ahead on the two score cards, a

843
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:49,119
little closer on the third score card. And then in

844
00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:51,480
the eighth round, like as you mentioned, he knocked him down.

845
00:38:51,679 --> 00:38:54,360
He heard him badly, and when the fight resumed, right

846
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,480
at the end of the round, he landed a monstrous

847
00:38:56,519 --> 00:38:59,760
punch or right hook, and it knocked him out. But

848
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,800
the last punch was like a split second after the bell.

849
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,599
Now Crocker didn't hear it, Donovan didn't hear it. It's

850
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:09,239
very obvious that Donovan did not throw the punch on

851
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,159
purpose after the bell and try to commit a foul.

852
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,639
The referee did not hear it. The referee was reprimanded

853
00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:16,800
by the IBF when they went through the appeal process

854
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,719
for not being in the right position. The referee, when

855
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,599
they know the round is coming to an end, supposed

856
00:39:20,599 --> 00:39:22,480
to move closer to the two fighters so they can

857
00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:24,199
be in position to break them when the bell rings,

858
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,679
and that referee, Marcus McDonald just was nowhere to be seen.

859
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,199
He was off like sunbathing in the other corner or whatever. Anyway,

860
00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:34,639
in the end, because of that happening, he ended up

861
00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:38,119
disqualifying Paddy Donovan. They appealed to the IBF seeking an

862
00:39:38,159 --> 00:39:41,039
immediate rematch. They were granted that immediate rematch. Now while

863
00:39:41,039 --> 00:39:44,360
this is happening, Bhutan has vacates the title, so now

864
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,320
instead of having the rematch be just another eliminator. Obviously

865
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:48,719
they were the two highest rated guys and we're going

866
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,280
to fight to fight for the title. So now the

867
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,320
two of them with the title vacant, we'll fight for

868
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,000
the vacant title. So that's elevated stakes in a fight

869
00:39:56,079 --> 00:39:58,679
where you know, Crocker kind of got lucky, lean honest,

870
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,920
because the knockout pun was not with malice, it was us.

871
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,320
I think that he couldn't have held up anyway. I

872
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,239
think it was in the context of the bell ringing

873
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,559
and it was bang bang, but they did call the

874
00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:11,079
DQ and you know, in the end at least the

875
00:40:11,199 --> 00:40:13,800
result was that they were able to order the rematch.

876
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,239
And for bonus sake, it's for the title and it

877
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,239
is I guess I can't find another example to discount

878
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,400
what the promoters are saying, I believe and what they're

879
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,079
saying that this is the first time ever in the

880
00:40:25,159 --> 00:40:27,239
history of boxing that two irishmen will fight for a

881
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,519
world title, a major world title.

882
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,159
Speaker 1: I believe that is correct.

883
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: I was checking with our buddy David Payne, a great historian,

884
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,679
the boxing writer over in the UK, and he said,

885
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,679
there's not really another reference point of two Irish fighters

886
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,960
in a massive world title opportunity like this. They certainly

887
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,119
have had Ireland against England, Ireland against the United States

888
00:40:45,199 --> 00:40:46,599
through another country, et cetera.

889
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 3: So again that is on the il fighters that have

890
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,039
won titles.

891
00:40:50,599 --> 00:40:54,519
Speaker 2: Of course, that is on the Zone on Saturday afternoon,

892
00:40:54,559 --> 00:40:58,440
the Matchroom de Zone show from Belfast earlier in the afternoon,

893
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:01,000
so that kind of whets the appetite for what we're

894
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:04,079
doing on Saturday night with Canelo Crawford, and then that

895
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,679
gives way to Sunday morning in the United States Sunday

896
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,519
night in Japan, and that Naoya in a way defending

897
00:41:11,599 --> 00:41:15,960
his undisputed junior featherweight four world titles against Murra John

898
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:19,239
or mj Akmadaliev. Dan give me a little more in

899
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,480
the preview mode about this one, because in a way

900
00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:23,800
is certainly one of the greats in the sport right now.

901
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,840
But Akmadaliev could could give him a test, could he not?

902
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,039
Speaker 3: I think so, especially given that we've seen in a

903
00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:33,880
way look like he does have you know, human blood

904
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,599
running through his veins in recent fights where he got

905
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,599
knocked down by Cardenas, found himself on the deck against

906
00:41:38,679 --> 00:41:41,599
Luis Neary, came back in one, of course. But Akmadaliav

907
00:41:41,639 --> 00:41:44,519
has been a former champion, a unified champion at that

908
00:41:44,679 --> 00:41:47,840
he is now the mandatory tremendous amateur career. He's the

909
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,280
by far, in my opinion anyway, the best one hundred

910
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,679
and twenty two pounds that hasn't been in the ring

911
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,960
within a way yet. He Morgan deserves this opportunity. And

912
00:41:57,559 --> 00:41:59,840
it's like me though, this is like the forgotten fight

913
00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:02,800
the week because this is a I mean, it's not

914
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,760
a mega fight for the this part of the world.

915
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,039
And maybe in Japan, it's obviously a lot bigger, but

916
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,320
it's gotten zero attention, partly because of the fact that

917
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,679
you have Canello Crawford taking place in the previous evening.

918
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:16,880
Mattroom has done a good job, at least to the

919
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,239
United States media and fan base, marketing and promoting the

920
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,000
Crocker and Donovan fight and the other fights on you know,

921
00:42:24,199 --> 00:42:26,840
early early in the morning both West Coast and you know,

922
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,719
East Coast, super early for the West Coast are a

923
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,239
little like six o'clock or whatever it'll be on the

924
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,719
East Coast. But the problem is Top Rank, which is

925
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,559
the co promoter for anyway, has done absolutely dick to

926
00:42:36,639 --> 00:42:40,000
promote this fight. Nothing uh, and they didn't have a

927
00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:42,239
broadcaster for the fight. They have the worldwide rights for

928
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:43,639
the fight other than in Japan.

929
00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 2: But however, however, we have breaking news on the live show.

930
00:42:48,519 --> 00:42:50,519
Can we see this, Dan Rayfield.

931
00:42:50,679 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 3: It's pathetic, but yes, we can see it. They announced

932
00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:55,440
while we were doing the beginning of the show that

933
00:42:55,559 --> 00:42:59,719
this fight will be live on the Top Rank Facebook page. Okay,

934
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:01,559
I don't even know why they're not even putting on

935
00:43:01,639 --> 00:43:04,119
their YouTube channel. That's a lot better than a Facebook page.

936
00:43:04,159 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 2: In my mind, maybe they have a YouTube restriction because

937
00:43:07,039 --> 00:43:09,239
of what I'm just speculating, whatever's going on in Japan.

938
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 3: They can't put it on Brocket the whole world they have.

939
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, all right, So on the Top

940
00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:17,079
Rank Boxing Facebook page.

941
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,159
Speaker 1: You can see this fighting streaming listen.

942
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,559
Speaker 3: That's al fucking travesty, and that shows you where Top

943
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:25,440
Rank is right now in their in their business that

944
00:43:25,559 --> 00:43:28,320
they can't get it on the best fighter in the

945
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:35,280
world not named Terrence Crawford or Alexander Usik, no better

946
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,599
than Canelo. Canello is not number three, and anybody's pounds

947
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:40,880
for poundless anymore. It's Usik, it's Crawford, and it's in

948
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,400
a way in whatever order you choose. But the point

949
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,039
I'm making is that for that fighter of that magnitude

950
00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:49,480
a fight against such a top notch opponent, he's not

951
00:43:49,559 --> 00:43:53,840
fighting some drec opponent, and they don't have any place

952
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,119
to put the fucking fight anywhere in the United States.

953
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,639
And when they finally do, it's a fucking Facebook page

954
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,039
and they don't even announce the ship until Thursday of

955
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:08,519
fight week. Now, I was told a few days ago

956
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,239
it was probably gonna be ESPN plus on like a

957
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,400
one off basis. Obviously that did not take place. That's

958
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,760
a fucking crime. Yeah, you have to watch this fight

959
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,000
on Facebook.

960
00:44:19,159 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: Well, good for Mark Zuckerberg. There'll be some audience. There

961
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,159
will be some audience, either live or on demand later

962
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:25,760
in the morning.

963
00:44:26,079 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 3: I'm much annoyed with everything about this fucking fight. One

964
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,440
realistic not the fight, but.

965
00:44:34,079 --> 00:44:38,519
Speaker 2: But what kind of realistic chance do you give akhmadaliav

966
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,559
Here he's going into the Lions Dan figuratively in Japan.

967
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: What do you think?

968
00:44:44,159 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 3: I give him a chance? But I mean I still

969
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,000
think in a way, as he may not be at

970
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:50,760
his absolute apex anymore, I think that's past. He's on

971
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,280
the slow decline like like that just happens naturally. And

972
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,440
he's been around a long time. He's moved up several

973
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,800
weight classes. But I think he's still a top notch

974
00:44:59,119 --> 00:45:02,760
A plus a week. And although Acmadelli it has my respect.

975
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,880
He's a tremendous fighter himself. To me anyway, you know,

976
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,679
in a way gets the job done. But let me

977
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,960
tell you something, don't don't sleep on Acmadad. He can

978
00:45:10,039 --> 00:45:12,480
crack to a degree. Uh, and you know he has

979
00:45:12,559 --> 00:45:14,679
experienced he may not have a ton of professional fights.

980
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:16,239
You look at the record, I forget what it is.

981
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:17,519
I want to say he's like thirteen in one or

982
00:45:17,519 --> 00:45:19,480
something like that. That's very misleading. He had a ton

983
00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:22,519
of amateur experience and he's fought good fighters as a

984
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:26,679
professional and he takes it really seriously. He comes in shape. Yeah,

985
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,800
he absolutely gives some problems to Tony in a way.

986
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:29,679
There's no question about it.

987
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 2: All Right, latest fight news before we're going here, let's

988
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,039
spend a few moments on that. Some more people are commenting.

989
00:45:35,119 --> 00:45:36,599
We'll try to get to a couple more comments on

990
00:45:36,639 --> 00:45:38,480
the live YouTube show as we do this. But give

991
00:45:38,519 --> 00:45:43,360
me some fight news that includes Adam Azeem has re

992
00:45:43,639 --> 00:45:49,400
signed with a boxer. Correct that that was a speculation

993
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,679
he might go somewhere else, the junior welterway, right.

994
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was announced on Thursday. I mean Adam Azeem

995
00:45:54,519 --> 00:45:55,840
has been for the last couple of years one of

996
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,320
the most promising British fighters, exciting, has a big time

997
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,960
fan based. It been growing undefeated that had gotten to

998
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,719
the point where he won the European title. He's gotten

999
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,119
his best two wins in his last two fights against

1000
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,239
you know, his last fight. He had a victory against

1001
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,159
a former world title holder, Sergei Lipinitz. You know, he's

1002
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:18,000
done what he's supposed to do. But there was a

1003
00:46:18,039 --> 00:46:20,440
lot of speculation that with the contract coming up, and

1004
00:46:20,559 --> 00:46:23,519
with Boxer no longer being with Sky Sports, which is

1005
00:46:23,599 --> 00:46:26,760
what his fights were always televised on, that they thought

1006
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,719
he might leave. Now, Boxer announced just a couple of

1007
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,920
weeks ago that they had done a deal with BBC.

1008
00:46:31,559 --> 00:46:33,480
But most people look at that deal and say, Okay,

1009
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,719
it's great that you can have some guys on on

1010
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,000
the terrestrial television instead of like a cable channel the

1011
00:46:39,039 --> 00:46:41,159
way Sky Sports is, but that the money that they're

1012
00:46:41,159 --> 00:46:42,840
getting for those fights is not nearly as much as

1013
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,679
what they were getting from Sky and that as he

1014
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,800
might look at other places like a match room like

1015
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,000
a Queensberry or wherever that do fights in the UK

1016
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,840
as well. But in the end, Adam Azem, who was

1017
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:54,639
twenty three years old, has been with boxer since he

1018
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,719
was one to zero. And you know, some guys they

1019
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,719
like the comfort of where they are. I'm sure they

1020
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,000
have a good deal in place for him, or you know,

1021
00:47:02,039 --> 00:47:03,679
hopefully his team did a good deal for him, and

1022
00:47:04,039 --> 00:47:05,719
you know, he'll get to stay there and hopefully they

1023
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,559
can continue to bring him along and get him to

1024
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:09,119
the point where he can fight big time names.

1025
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: And he's he's got talent, he's on the rise. Interesting.

1026
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 2: While we continue to roll call through the fight news,

1027
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,239
Oscar Valdez won last weekend in Mexico, former two division

1028
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,519
world champ in a non title fight. But he's got

1029
00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:23,559
an injury now, updats real quick.

1030
00:47:24,119 --> 00:47:26,599
Speaker 3: Well, he got the win against Ricky Medina. That was

1031
00:47:26,639 --> 00:47:29,000
the Nogallas, Mexico homecoming fight. He was coming off the

1032
00:47:29,039 --> 00:47:31,760
lost in Navarete by knockout, and it was sort of like,

1033
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,840
let's see what Oscar Valdez has left in the homecoming now.

1034
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,440
He said in the post fight interview after he got

1035
00:47:37,599 --> 00:47:39,719
the victory in a ten rounder, he won a clear decision,

1036
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,480
but he didn't look very good that he said he

1037
00:47:41,519 --> 00:47:44,159
had hurt his left shoulder in the first round of

1038
00:47:44,199 --> 00:47:46,440
the fight. As it turns out, they made an announcement

1039
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,400
a couple of days ago that he actually had suffered

1040
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,559
a shoulder injury about two weeks before the fight. But

1041
00:47:50,639 --> 00:47:52,000
he didn't want to pull out. He didn't want to

1042
00:47:52,039 --> 00:47:54,480
disappoint the hometown fans. He felt they could still get

1043
00:47:54,519 --> 00:47:56,719
through it, and obviously he did and he won, even

1044
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,440
if he didn't look so great. But they also announced

1045
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,519
that he had suffered like a of ruptures to portions

1046
00:48:01,559 --> 00:48:04,159
of his uh his shoulder, and he's gonna ouch and

1047
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,039
be out for a while. And they didn't say if

1048
00:48:06,039 --> 00:48:07,559
he's gonna have to have surgery, but they did an

1049
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:09,840
MRI and he's got some issues there. So they're gonna

1050
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:11,519
see what the next thing is in terms of his

1051
00:48:11,639 --> 00:48:13,599
medical how they're gonna work on that, if it's going

1052
00:48:13,679 --> 00:48:15,199
to be rehab, if it's going to be a surgery.

1053
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,800
But he's certainly gonna be out for a bit. And uh,

1054
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,039
you know, I think at this point because of that injury,

1055
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,239
he's had other injuries before. You know, I'm not one

1056
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,639
to tell him he's your retire. He did get to win. Uh,

1057
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,599
it wasn't you know, particularly difficult overall. In my mind,

1058
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,039
what a great way if he were to walk away though.

1059
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:33,159
The guy won two world titles. He fought a lot

1060
00:48:33,199 --> 00:48:36,079
of top names, he won some super exciting fights, he

1061
00:48:36,159 --> 00:48:40,039
beat some good quality opponents. He made you know, good money,

1062
00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:42,519
millions of dollars. Not like he's gonna have you know,

1063
00:48:42,599 --> 00:48:44,239
one hundred million dollars in the bank, but he made

1064
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,039
several many millions of dollars through the course of his career.

1065
00:48:47,159 --> 00:48:49,800
Two time Olympian, and you go home and you have

1066
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,440
your first ever fight in your hometown as a professional,

1067
00:48:53,079 --> 00:48:54,840
only the third time and he ever fought in Mexico

1068
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,559
in a long career as a professional. What a great

1069
00:48:57,599 --> 00:48:58,239
way to walk away.

1070
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, you won these guys.

1071
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 2: These guys don't seem to be able to walk away guys,

1072
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:07,239
or who knows if he will real quick. Gabriella Fundora,

1073
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,599
who were interested in the women's undisputed flyweight champion, obviously

1074
00:49:11,679 --> 00:49:15,679
the sister of Sebastian Fundora, spectacular fight on her own, right,

1075
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,440
She's got a new opponent tell us more Dan for

1076
00:49:18,519 --> 00:49:20,559
her fight coming up next weekend.

1077
00:49:20,639 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 3: Right, Well, it's kind of six and one half a

1078
00:49:22,039 --> 00:49:24,360
dozen of the other because well, Gabriella Fondora is the

1079
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,159
one that people know and is kind of growing fan

1080
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,960
base herself. She's one of the more exciting female boxers

1081
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,760
out there, and you can certainly hold your head high

1082
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,639
if you put her on your female pound for poundless.

1083
00:49:34,159 --> 00:49:36,079
She's a really good fighter, obviously, comes like you mentioned

1084
00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:38,760
the boxing family. So she's on this Golden Boy card

1085
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,000
September twentieth, that's in Indio, California. The main event is

1086
00:49:42,039 --> 00:49:45,239
the unified strawweight Champion, Oscar Colaso. I kind of like

1087
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,480
the fact that Goldenway was putting the unified strawway champ

1088
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:52,039
and the undisputed women's flyweight champ. So two unified champions,

1089
00:49:52,039 --> 00:49:54,440
who are you know, top up and coming champions if

1090
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,159
you will, on the same card. So she was on

1091
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,599
that undercart in the co feature. So her original opponent

1092
00:49:58,639 --> 00:49:59,960
I got to get here. She was supposed to fight

1093
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:06,320
a fighter named Alien Granadino who was from Argentina and

1094
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,480
her WBA manager she could not get a visa to

1095
00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:12,199
come to the United States. So in the last couple

1096
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,920
of days, Old Boy had got a new opponent. So

1097
00:50:15,039 --> 00:50:18,679
now she'll fight another fighter named Alexis Kubiki. But most

1098
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,639
I guarantee you ninety nine percent of people who are

1099
00:50:20,639 --> 00:50:22,559
watching us never heard of either one of them, So

1100
00:50:22,679 --> 00:50:25,079
for the most people, it's irrelevant that they switched. But

1101
00:50:25,199 --> 00:50:27,800
it's notable that Fundora still has a fight coming up

1102
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,840
and will still defend the undisputed crowd.

1103
00:50:30,679 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: She is a fun fighter, all right. We have one more.

1104
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 3: You know, you can't stella without fun.

1105
00:50:36,639 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 2: That is, you know that is well played by you,

1106
00:50:39,199 --> 00:50:41,119
even though you're a little punchy and a little grouchy.

1107
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:42,960
Here tonight, we got one more thing that we need

1108
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,760
to We need to share one more thing with the

1109
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:49,079
audience on a Thursday night when we start talking fight news. Here,

1110
00:50:49,639 --> 00:50:52,480
wait a minute, I saw a social media picture on

1111
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:56,559
Wednesday night into Thursday morning. That's my man Rayhael with Turkey.

1112
00:50:56,679 --> 00:51:00,360
Ala chic there Turkey doing the fists and in the

1113
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,199
polls there, give me more.

1114
00:51:03,039 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: You were around the Royal Highness the Saudi prince there.

1115
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:08,960
That's it's bank rolling.

1116
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 3: He's not a royal highness. He's not part of the

1117
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:11,480
royal family.

1118
00:51:11,599 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: Not part of the royal family.

1119
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 3: They call him his excellency.

1120
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,119
Speaker 1: As his excellency. Okay, we'll get ader of respect that,

1121
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,199
yess okay, Okay.

1122
00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 3: So I never met I had never met Turkey in

1123
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,800
person before right for the last you know, a couple

1124
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,360
of years. Turkey and I have exchanged voice mails, conversations

1125
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,639
and and text messages and things like that for a

1126
00:51:29,679 --> 00:51:32,280
while about different things, on fights and all kinds of things.

1127
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:34,239
But we had never met We were supposed to meet

1128
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,079
when I was in Los Angeles last year at the

1129
00:51:37,159 --> 00:51:39,599
Terrence Beff fight, which was a read season card that

1130
00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:43,079
they put on in LA. I'm not sure what happened

1131
00:51:43,119 --> 00:51:44,480
when it didn't it didn't work out. I think he

1132
00:51:44,559 --> 00:51:46,199
might have got to town really late. Whatever it was,

1133
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,239
we didn't. We didn't hook up that that week, but

1134
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,559
for this one, he knew I was coming for this fight.

1135
00:51:51,199 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 4: Uh.

1136
00:51:51,639 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 3: We had discussed to fight a little bit on messaging,

1137
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,440
and you know, I wanted to meet him and he

1138
00:51:56,679 --> 00:51:59,840
wanted to meet me. So it was an intermediary that

1139
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,920
we're both acquainted with set up a meeting for us,

1140
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,719
and we met. I sat with him at the fights.

1141
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,239
They had some of the so called undercard that's supposed

1142
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:09,920
to be on Saturday, but they did some free fights

1143
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,840
here at the Font and Blue last night, and I

1144
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,440
had the occasion to sit with him and talk to him,

1145
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:15,719
and it was good to meet him in person. And

1146
00:52:16,119 --> 00:52:18,559
he have to say, I mean, I know everybody has

1147
00:52:18,599 --> 00:52:21,880
their opinion about him, how he's operating, what he's doing,

1148
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,400
the fights, he's doing, their whole sort of plans for

1149
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,000
what they're doing with boxing. One thing is for sure,

1150
00:52:28,519 --> 00:52:30,440
he is a knowledgeable boxing person if you want to

1151
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,559
ask him about fighters. You know, he's a historian. He's

1152
00:52:33,599 --> 00:52:36,760
a collector guy, and we have sort of that weird

1153
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,360
bond that we've collected stuff. But he is a true

1154
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,000
die hard boxing fan. And you can tell by the

1155
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,920
amount of money that they're spending and the kinds of

1156
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,000
fights that they're making on such a regular basis. So

1157
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,000
you know, to me, I, you know, that's a great thing.

1158
00:52:50,199 --> 00:52:51,880
He seems like they're in it for the long haul.

1159
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,320
You know, I don't know how long that means, but

1160
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,519
you know, the guy was there from the beginning of

1161
00:52:55,599 --> 00:52:58,559
the show, watching the undercard fights and stay till the end,

1162
00:52:58,639 --> 00:53:00,559
and you know, kind of like aeron that sense where

1163
00:53:00,559 --> 00:53:01,960
you see Bob show up at you know, the first

1164
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,239
four rounder of the night, and and Turkey was there

1165
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,039
to watch the guys in action. And so, like I said,

1166
00:53:07,039 --> 00:53:08,039
I had a chance to talk to him, to have

1167
00:53:08,039 --> 00:53:10,440
a nice conversation with him, and it was good. And

1168
00:53:10,519 --> 00:53:13,039
then we did take the obligatory photo and it was

1169
00:53:13,079 --> 00:53:16,079
funny because somebody took it with my camera, so I

1170
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,639
texted him the photo. Right, so it was only later

1171
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,239
like lately, I mean, actually been this morning. I didn't know.

1172
00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:25,480
I didn't post it on my social. He posted on

1173
00:53:25,599 --> 00:53:28,880
the social and I saw it. He didn't tag me

1174
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,360
on it, but I saw it because I follow him

1175
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and I was like looking through my feet and I

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was like, oh shit. He posted the photo of him

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and I at the fights last night.

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Speaker 2: You know, I got a lot of response on that,

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but it was hanging out with Turkey Alishik. All right,

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So the countdown does continue here a couple more comments

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before we're gone, because we're serving the live audience, the savages,

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the peeps, thank you all for watching live on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I know the pod audience is hearing it in its

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normal routine.

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Speaker 2: But from the live questions, Little Penny like my man

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Penny Hardaway and Little Penny in the nineties says top

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five best chins in the history of boxing Hagler one,

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Ali two, Dempsey three, Canelo four, Triple G five. You

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got a problem with that list, Rayfield.

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Speaker 3: Those are all guys that are those are all worthy entrance.

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But I'm sure if I sat and thought about it,

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I might come up with some guys that belong to

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it as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering who else might go on that. Yeah, certainly.

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Certainly it was hard to knock some of those guys.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I mean Ali was down a couple of times in

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his career and he fought all the big punches and

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all the Marvin Hagler I think was down like once

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and it was kind of a questionable knockdown. Right, Who

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else did he mentioned Canell? We talked about who else

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was over there? Might have been down maybe once, But

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I mean the heart to argue with that list.

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Speaker 1: Alaska Bowl, by the way, it brings.

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Speaker 3: Up a great golf can also never never down.

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Speaker 2: The lasta bow points out, it gets it's better to

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watch in Away on Facebook better than paying forty nine

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ninety five on KO Sports.

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Speaker 1: That's true. You would save some money and go to

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the Facebook page. That's true. Uh, let's see anything.

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Speaker 3: The fact that one of those fighters at the caliber

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of an Away is relegated to Facebook.

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Speaker 1: In the United States, Well, it tells you what's going on,

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all right. I believe that's it.

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Speaker 3: That is it.

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Speaker 2: On the comments again, thank you to everybody with us.

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We say again on our Facebook page that we would

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to all the commenters in the live chat as well.

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That helps us out. As a matter of housekeeping, again,

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we will be live on the bet Us Boxing Show.

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It is a one off opportunity the massive fights. They're

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still interested in having us, so we will be on

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the bet Us Boxing play platforms, on their YouTube, their

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social media coming on Friday one Eastern time. So podcast audience,

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if you're listing on Friday morning, Ray Pel and Reeves

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are back handicapping the fights again. Canelo and Crawford is

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virtually a fifty to fifty fight right now by the

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odds makers. That's interesting. I thought Canelo would be like

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to surprise you. Canelo's not like a two to one

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or three to one favorite that.

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Speaker 1: He's only like.

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Speaker 3: Start off like that. But it's come down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's come down. There's some money coming on Crawfes.

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Speaker 3: I've talked to a bunch of people in the business

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and really knowledgeable boxing people since I've been here. As

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i've been making the rounds and seeing old friends and

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talking to people. A lot of people, I mean, certainly

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a lot of people want you know, I think Canelo

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wins the fight also, and they mainly based on the

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on the on the disparity in terms of the weight

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that they're used to fighting at. But there's a lot

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of people that I respect their opinions quite a bit

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who also give Crawford a one hell of a chance

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to win this fight.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: It's got to move up three weight divisions. They all

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got to keep that in perspective. You've been watching him.

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I'm just saying, collected that you're not saying this. You've

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been watching him fight David Evanessian and Israel Madramov. That's

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two of his last three opponents in the last three

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or four years.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: He ain't fighting those guys on Saturday, and I know

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you're not saying that. All right, great stuff again, I'll

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see you on the bet US show. We will attempt

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to do a live show on this YouTube channel. I

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say attempt because it could be chaos at Allegiance Stadium,

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et cetera. We will attempt a live YouTube post fight show.

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Stay tuned will be promoting that. If we can pull

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that off, for certain, the podcast will be a recap

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podcast whenever it comes off the weekend.

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Speaker 1: For now, Dan has got a regroup.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to go real quick to the fights tonight

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at the Fontain Blue a late night Pacific time.

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Speaker 1: Right in.

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Speaker 3: The Canelo main event press conference. Isn't like it is

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about an hour right, but you.

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Speaker 2: Can hear Canelo again you heard him on the podcast,

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or to just go to the YouTube page where you

1276
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are right now and going to the videos and you

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can hear from Canelo with Dan from yesterday about this fight.

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Speaker 1: Listen, great job here tonight. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Let's regroup and I will see you on the bet

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US show Friday one Eastern time, ten am Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Deal. Yep, there is big Dan Rayfield again. Hit that

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Speaker 1: Thursday night into Friday, with usually recap.

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Speaker 2: Coming off the weekend Sunday night and a Monday for

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Dan Rayfield I am merely TJ Reeves. Thank you for

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being with us. The countdown to Canelo Crawford is on.

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You've been watching us on the Big Fight Weekend YouTube page.