Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome in. It is a Saturday night,
November the twenty second here after the Ring four night
of champions Card and Riadd Saudi Arabia has concluded, and
we're here to recap it. Glad that you were with
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somewhat capable host TJ Reeves here on YouTube, our insider
Dan Rayfield. This year, we got a lot of action
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This is the recap on the pod feed. But you
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Dan Rayphield on a Saturday night. How are you? I
have flown all the way to Los Angeles, a longer
way away from Riodd Saudi Arabia than where you are
in Northern Virginia. We're both a long way away in
the United States. We saw I'm gonna say this off
the top, we saw an action pack card with four
world title fights. The most recent of those is David
Benavitez having KOed Anthony Yard right before we have started
this show, welcome in. What are your thoughts overall on
the card before we get to the benavidaz win first?
Speaker 2: Well, overall, I thought on paper going in, I thought
it was an excellent show. We discussed it at length
on the pre fight and I've written about it. It
was a terrific matchup. In terms of all the title fights,
none of the fights stood out as blatant mismatches or
anything like that. And I thought though in execution it
was a little bit uneven the we're gonna get to
all these fights. But the first fight of the night
on the main card of Abdullah Mason and Sam Noaks
for the lightweight belt vacant w BO light the whit title.
Awesome fight, tremendous action start to finish, two guys just
all out warriors in that battle. Just a really good
fight will be you know, perhaps a fight of their type.
Candidate was an excellent fight. The next fight was Bam
Rodriguez in the three belt unification against Fernando Martinez. That
was a brilliant, brilliant performance from Baan Rodriguez in out
to the knockout victory to unify the titles. But it
was after like one round. This is a complete mismatch,
you know. It turned out that way, totally dominating. There
was no question he was winning every single round in
the fight. You know, it was like a masterless I mean,
it was like a man and a boy and then
you get to the next fight. So that wasn't a
great fight. It was a great performance. I'd make a
differentiation between the two co feature between Devin Haney and
Brian Norman. Hainey challenging for the WBO welterweight title was
a masterclass type performance from Devin Haney. There were some
exciting moments at least in the first half, but you know,
Devon was so far ahead. He obviously felt like that
was the case, and he became a lot more cautious
and it really was not that good of a fight, frankly,
if you look at the coffee box for example, just
very little output on both ends, but much worse from
Norman overall than Haini, but still a great reform chrom
Haney main event kind of the same thing. Benavitius with
a great performance against that Anthony Yard, who just had
really nothing for him and it was just a matter
of time he could just tell after like you know,
the I don't know, I was thinking after maybe like
round one or two, Like this season, this is no contest.
He was gonna gonna get to him, knock it out.
The you know, our friends on his own kept talking
about how he's starting slowly to build up, and they
also were talking about how he's never really that good
in the back end of a fight. Well, if you're
giving away the first half of the fight and you're
usually not that good as the second half of the fight,
what's your game plan? Like? Yard just looked like he
had no fucking clue what he wanted to do. I'm
not saying he's a bad fighter, Yeah, just the game
plan was awful.
Speaker 1: And he was overwhelmed as the third round became the
fourth round became the fifth round by the punching power,
et cetera. All right, so there's a good summary of
all of it. We're gonna go specifically into these here
in the recap mode on this Saturday night. We will
get to some of your comments in a little bit.
Hang in there. So let's be again with the Benavidas
knockout again. He hummeled Yard, especially in the last two
or three rounds of the fight. The fight ends in
the seventh round. He was impressive. I'm saying that he
defends the WBC title again the night the main event
belongs to him. As much as you want to say
Yard didn't have a game plan, etc. Bita Vita's really
good tonight. That's my assessment. Another thought or two from.
Speaker 2: You, Yeah, no, I agree with that. The fact of
the matter is, on the one hand, you had a
deavid band of Videz who was on his game against
the Yard that had no game or no nothing to
speak of. And if you want to make comparisons, now,
Anthony Yard is zero to three in light heavyweight world
title fights. He got knocked out in the eleventh round
by Sergey Kovalev. He got knocked out a couple of
years ago also by Arthur Bedderviev. That was a fight
that was in his hometown of London. And now he
goes to Saudi Arabia. In this fight he gets knocked
out again. And you know, as they say, always the bridesmaid,
never the bride. You know, I can't say I'm surprise guys.
Every time he's ever stepped up, he's been beaten. Because
the three guys he's ever fought who were legitimate, like
world class level fighters, and the three guys I just
mentioned are guys that all stopped him. Now. He had
the great misfortune of when he did get these title opportunities,
they were against like, really really top level, superstar caliber fighters.
He didn't get to cherry pick against like a softer
touch type of champion. You know, maybe in a different situation,
if he was fighting another guy that was just, you know,
a good fighter but just had a belt, maybe he
would have been able to get over that hump and
win the title. But when you're coming up against guys
like better BF Copal eleven, David Denavide's in his prime,
that's a real problem. So he just didn't really have
much a show. He never really landed a good solid punch.
I didn't feel like and the main thing was, and
I haven't looked at the copy box yet, I will
when we're done here, the number of punches that David
Denavide's was throwing and landing. He had to out throw
him outland him two to one. At least he threw
out just a I'll use the word you like TJ.
A bevy of our right hands and left hooks had
him back up against what was the what was the
one moment and he would throw back maybe one and
there was no chance he was gonna win at that case.
Speaker 1: What was the one moment where Yard was trying to
hold his right arm and benevete is literally and I
think Mike Coppinger on the broadcast said it was fifteen
fourteen or fifteen consecutive left hands. He just wailed on him,
bang bang bang bang bang and swollen face, bloody nose,
maybe even the right eye like the eye orbital of swelling.
It was just gonna be a matter of time, and
he pummeled.
Speaker 2: I thought when David finally got him up along the
ropes there in round number seven, as he was teeing off,
he landed a good left hook. A couple of seconds
that landed another good left hook. He still hadn't extricated
himself from the ropes. And then when he finally landed
a third left hook, which really rocked his head back
and forth. At that point, the referee, Hector Offu, stepped
in and made a very perfect stoppage. In my opinion,
it was just a matter of time. If he hadn't
stopped it, then maybe maybe Yard would have lasted a
little bit longer, maybe he would have made it out
of the round. But that fight was going to be
a knockout. At that point. It was very obvious Steard
was breaking down. You mentioned his nose was bloody, his
face was starting to swell up. And David Benavidez hadn't
taken really any significant punches. He had like a little
nick I think that he mentioned in his post fight interview.
Maybe Yard caught him in like a nice right hand
earlier in the fight, but that was like one shot,
whereas benavidas caught him with him out, you know, probably
twenty good shots.
Speaker 1: Oh and again, Benavitez said after the fight to uh
his zone in the ring, to Claudia Treo's I thought
this was a B plus performance. I gave him an A.
I mean, he gets a guy out of there, looked impressive. Again,
some were remarking on social media, et cetera that Benavita's
maybe not his cut looked a little you know, maybe
a little flabby in the middle or whatever it does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, David David looked at David looked like tonight, though
he's looked every time I've ever seen him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by and by the way, the hands were
quick and the punches were powerful. So who cares right ultimately?
Speaker 2: So I know, can you look a little bit like
Larry Holmes if he wants and Anthony Yark can look
all cut up or you saw what happened?
Speaker 1: Doesn't make a difference exactly exactly, all right. So that
leads to the next question. While we're in the recap mode,
what do we think is next? How realistic is it
that he gets an undisputed shot at some point with
Dmitri b Vole Archer better bev is lurking out there?
What else is realistically out there for Benavitez.
Speaker 2: Well, what he said in the ring is he's going
up the cruiserweight and he's going to challenge the unified
title holder, Zerto Ramirez on single demio, which will be
a big fight for the Mexican community and for boxing
in general, and probably in Las Vegas. So now that
came us a little surprise, not to say that it
wasn't something that I thought could happen, because in the
prefight he spoke about the prospect of that fight was
offered to him, he would definitely take the chance and
jump up another weight class to go after it. So
for him to so cavalierly say in the ring, I'm
fighting Zerdo Ramirez on single demyo, I wasn't quite sure
about that, so I made it in a few minutes
between the time that the show ended and here we
jump on to discuss everything, and I was all over
my tech messages that I've texted with people at Golden Boy,
who you know, are the promoters of Zerdo Ramirez as
well as other people involved with David Benavide's And while
they basically say that's what we'd like to do, that's
what we're working on, nothing has done yet. By what
they tell me, there's still a good reasonable chance that
Zerdo Amir is coming off of a shoulder surgery, might
have a tune up fight he like, you know, January February.
Not necessarily a big fight, but he certainly could find
himself on a card in the very early part of
the year. I don't think you want to be a
Zerdo coming off of a very long layoff, coming off
of a you know, he hit fought least in June,
so he'd be coming off of not a huge layoff.
But if they fought in May, you're time.
Speaker 1: At eleven almost a year.
Speaker 2: And also the surgery. You don't want to go into
a fight of that caliber not knowing if you're sound physically,
and I think it would behoove him. Frankly, you know,
I'm not a big lover of female fights, but when
you're coming off in an injury like that, you probably
should take it, as long as you're matched appropriately. So
the name that they've mentioned as a possibility is the
cruiserweight that recently won a Golden Boy Promotes now Rob
and so far who is you know, a good fighter,
but I don't think he's certainly not at the same
level as of Benavides so that that might be something
to do. But the bottom line is the plans, even
if not done, is the fact that they're going to
try to make that fight because Bivol nobody knows when
he's back because of the back surgery. Better bv is
is certainly a viable opponent. But if you're if you were,
if you're Benavidees, why wouldn't you go over that you
have a you have a danger fight with Benavides, you
got a danger fight with Zerto. Why not take Zero,
which I think will probably pay him more money. Number
one and number two, you get to go back to
Las Vegas where you've wanted to fight. You're fighting another Mexican,
you know, David being a Mexican American Zero being a
Mexican national. That makes it even a bigger fight in
some ways. And it's on the Mexican holiday, so that's
where he wants to take over. I mean, with Canelo
still viable on those dates, but certainly not fighting in May,
I don't think this is coming year because of all
what's going on with him and with Turkey and him
also coming off of his surgery and whatever. In the future,
David's gonna look to Squad on those dates as the
new face of Mexican slash Mexican American boxing. That's a
that's a tremendous fight him in Zerto Ramirez. I actually
would I would say, I'm not saying I'd rather see
that than the better BF fight, but I'm down for
that fight. That's a really good matchup. And look, the
card for him is better better, Better BF doesn't offer
him to glory. It's a title defense. He fights Zerta.
He's got a chance to win two belts, that cruiserweight.
Speaker 1: Not another division, right and another division as is now
also one in line heavyweight, so he could become again division. Yep,
big night for David Benavitez. And again a lot of
people just joining us here. We will get to some
of your comments. We're recamping the entire card. We've just
gone over the main event fight and uh again, David
ben Vida's thet story earning morning in Saudi Arabia. He
took care of his business. It was not a lackluster
effort at all by him. He was throwing punches at
bunches at the beginning of the fight and dominated. All right,
let's move to the co feature. You touched on this,
Devin Haney early knockdown of Brian Norman eventual decision win.
Comically one judge had the fight six to six with
the knockdown, a barely one fourteen one thirteen win, but
pretty dominant performance.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: The first thing I would say to you when Haney
scored the knockdown, Norman appeared to be in trouble. Did
you sense maybe this could be over with quick or
what did you think on the welterweight title fight there
as it began with a quick knockdown by Hane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got the knockdown. It was a clean, hard knockdown.
He scored with a left hook and then came came
behind it with a very solid right hand, which is
really what did the most of the damage. Put him
on on the deck. He got up, you know, he
was shaking a little bit. You know, I think he
had also a no's injury as well. And so while
I was I was impressed by the knockdown. You know,
Hainey showed, you know, still the quick hands, even having
moved up another weight class. I actually had the feeling
when that occurred that, you know what, he's hurt, but
he's gonna get through it and it's not going to
be the end of the fight. I say that because
I've seen, like you know, they made their reference on
the broadcast, which is what I was exactly thinking. To
remember when he fought at one hundred and forty, when
he challenged Regius Programming for the WBC title in that
way class, he also scored a knockdown and it looked like,
oh maybe he can get him out of here. And
you know, he never came close. He won every round
other than you know, you know, beyond the knockdown r anyone,
every other round in the fight. But I didn't think
the fight was over at that point, and I thought
Haney though. Overall, although once again there was very low
output in terms of the punches from both fighters in
the entire fight, there was only one round where either
one of them produced double digit connects. According to Comedy Box,
that was in round two, when Devin Hainey was credited
with landing fourteen punches. The rest of the fight, nobody
landed anything but but Brian Norman for the entire fight,
never landed more than six punches in a round. You're
just not gonna win like that, you know. At least
Hani was landing like eight pounds.
Speaker 1: How gun shy? Right? How gun shy do you think
Norman was? After the yearly knocked down? What?
Speaker 2: How much?
Speaker 1: How much weight do you put on that?
Speaker 2: How much would you say? How it was gunshy? Was Norman?
Speaker 1: Was Norman gun shy in your mind? After round two?
What do you think? I mean?
Speaker 2: I think he was all hurt. I mean, he obviously
wasn't looking to get mixed up into a war right there. Uh.
I think that it was. It impacted it for sure,
but I think the nose was given the more of
a problem than just having the fact that he got
knocked down. I've heard lots of fighters talk about, you know,
they get dropped, they're not so hurt. They're more embarrassed
than hurt, to tell you the truth, and so I
didn't think that was like a devastating knockdown. Uh, but
it gives you the extra point, and he's already won
at that point, he probably uh uh is feeling good
about himself. I gave Brian Norman the first round of
the fight, but then I thought that Ainy pretty much
dominated the rest of the fight. When it was all
said and done, I don't think there's any question you
know who the actual winner of the fight was. That
was to me, it was like, yes, kind of think
I had Devin Hainey winning one eighteen to one oh nine.
If you wanted, I could have. There was maybe one
or two other rounds I considered giving Norman, so maybe
have it like the two judges that that were the
not ridiculous judges, one who had at one seventeen to
one ten and the other had at one sixteen to
one eleven, one fourteen, one thirty is to me is
just crazy to that's crazy town. I mean, like you said,
that's that's if you don't score a knockdown, that judge
has to fight a draw, which is just ridiculous. Uh.
You know, I don't know how you can win if
you don't score a knockdown of your own and you
don't get a knockout. I just don't see how you
win a fight if you only land literally never more
than six punches. That's that's the most. There was a
bunch of rounds where Brian Norman landed like two or
three punches the whole around. Yeah, you're not gonna win
like that. I just thought.
Speaker 1: I thought he was very apprehensive until about the eighth
or ninth round that he was gonna get countered the
way that he got countered early on in the in
the fight with a left hook and got hurt, and
then he eventually got dropped by the right hand again.
Full credit to Hainey moving up to one forty seven.
Quick thought from you, he looked thicker. He still looked
fast at welter Waite. We had questions about that. He
answered a lot of those questions tonight because he was
the tougher probably of the two fighters at one forty seven.
That was interesting.
Speaker 2: Well, the reality is he probably should as he said,
I agree with him, he probably should have been at welterweight,
you know, a few years ago, but there was so
much at stake, so many bigger fights for him at
the time, so much money involved, whether it was at
lightweight when he was becoming on the way to undisputed
and then the opportunity at junior welterweight. So maybe it
was a couple of fights ago that he should have
been in that way class. But he got there and
you know, sometimes the opponents got a lot to do it.
But he looked pretty good. I mean, again, that wasn't
the most exciting fight, but that's Devin Hainey. If you
if you go into a Devin Hainey fight thinking you're
gonna see something spectacular in terms of action, then you
just don't know what you're looking at. So you always
have to have a certain kind of you know, you know,
a normal type of expectation. It's like I watched I
covered a ton of Floyd Mayweather fights. I always knew
he was gonna outbox guys. I never expected he was
gonna be in these wars. So even when he got
like a fight that might be a little bit more
entertaining than your typical Floyd fight, you were kind of
really thrilled about it. So, for example, you see him
fight against like a Megalakota when it turns out to
be a much more entertaining fighter, Marcus Maydonna. You know,
Hani is capable of being those types of fights, but
tonight was not one of them. But that said it,
Sures was a lot better at entertainment wise than it
was when he fought against Josey Ramirez in the may fight.
That was one of the biggest thing bombs I've seen
in a long time. So listen, I'm a Devin Hating fan.
Credit to him, he hed he ain't planning, stuck to it.
He won the fight. A lot of people picked Brian
Norman because he was real hot. You it would look
good in his last few fights, so he was, and
I thought that Brian would win the fight. So you know,
we got it wrong on that one. But I'm happy
for Devin Haney. I mean, he gets a bad rap.
The guy only does his fight top opponents, and uh,
you know, people want to continue to harp on what happened.
Speaker 1: Against and by and bye and by the way, not fair. Yeah,
we'll talk about Garcia a second. By the way, just
a commentary, and I want your comment Uh. They put
Eddie hurt and Connor ban on and Connor Band's going
on and on about how he didn't do anything the
whole fight. He fought scared, blah blah blah. Sorry, connor
Band has not won anything of significance even with the
U Bank win last week. Connor Band also using peds.
By the way, settled down my man. Devin Haney was
undisputed at one thirty five. Listen to me, sounded like
he's pr Guy ray Field. On a Saturday night, Devin
Haty moved up to one forty and one over Regis
Pro Gray. Devin Hay now moves up to welterway to
third division and beats an unbeaten fighter that had had
scored three straight knockouts in championship fights. He settled down
Connor and Eddie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has to win against Lomachenko. He has two
wins on the road against them. He's got wins over
guys like NRS who would have been at their peak,
but was still very serviceable.
Speaker 1: At Pro Gray.
Speaker 2: I mean well, Pro Gray was a champion and it
was in his uh you know, was defending his title.
He won literally a twelve rounds to zero shadowt and
scored a knockdown. So again for for connor Ben, who
you know, I got nothing against Connor Ben, and I
was a big fan of his fathers also, But like
you said, it's ridiculous, so he can talk only wants
let conn connor Ben hasn't even won so much on
a fucking British title. He's never won the Commonwealth title.
He's sure won the European title, correct, and he sure
has won not won a world title. And as you said,
he did, you know, a suspension for a blatant p
PED violation and he has obviously you can't take away
the win he had against you Bank a couple of
weeks ago. But by the way, let's not forget he
lost in the fight against you Bank in the first
one they had. So you know, they're out there and
I understand it. He's he's spreading his wings a little bit,
he's creaming like the peacock with his towel out off
the big win. But Devin Haney's got more accomplishment in
his little finger as a professional boxer than Connor Ben
has in his entire body.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that leads us, therefore to this. Ryan Garcia
put on social media that he bet fifty thousand dollars.
I don't know if he showed the betting slip. Maybe
that's what he was signing the other day on social
media was his bet for Devin Haney. He bet fifty
grand on Haney to win. Is this leading us to
a Hainy Ryan Garcia rematch at one forty seven? Is
that possibly next?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 1: I know, definitely been talking about Garcia and Barrios would
be next. Do you think Garcia and Barrios remains next? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely that. Listen, boxing is like, it takes time to
play things out. Nobody really ever generally rushes into these things.
There was a big movement to make a rematch between
the two after the fight. They were put on the
card in Times Square by Turkey, and if they had
won those fights, they would the rematch was done. Ryan
Garcia lost to Roly Romero, and even though Devin Hainey won.
It was a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible fight.
So therefore, even though Turkey still could have gone forward
with it if he wanted to, he made the right
choice and said, you know what, I'm gonna take a
step back from that. But now there's a reason why
maybe it will work because hany came through and won
the fight against you know, in the in the fight
against Norman, and win another title. He's now a three
division champion. Uh Devin Haney is in position. It was
maybe not a great fight, but at Sures was watchable.
And then you have Ryan Garcia still coming off the
lost to Romero. He's gonna fight Barrios that fight again.
As I wrote, they've you know, Ryan said he signed
a contract, and I've explained ad nauseum that he can
sign anything he wants, but there's lots of other parties
that have to sign and agree to fight before a
fight is official. But it probably will get done. So
he'll fight Barrios most likely in February. If he wins
that fight. Now he's the WBC champion and Haini is
the WBO champion, and it's a fight that the two
sides want to reconvene and try to make the match.
Whether Turkey's involved or not, then it's absolutely a fight
that can be made. And obviously there's a storyline. There's
a lot of animosity there. Everything that happened with the
first fight, with the knockdowns will be really legated. All
the shit that went down with Ryan Garcia's peal drug
test within missing weight, with everything that, there's a lot
of drama in that fight. As far as all the
storylines and all this stuff going into it, I have
no doubt in my mind that should they come out,
if Ryan wins that title against Barrios, that they probably
would look to do that fight. Would it be the
next fight, yeah, would it be one more fight after that? Possibly,
But that fight is going to happen eventually. There's too
much money and interest and everything around it and for
it to not happen again.
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So moving down the car, guess he Bam Rodriguez becomes
the three belt unified Junior banhamweight champion, and really from
the jump against Fernando Martinez of our Argentina the San
Anto video, guy Bam goes all the way to Saudi
Arabia and dominated. I put that word up there. He
dominated him and then he eventually knocked him out with
a big left hand. Dan, give us your thoughts in
the recap mode here on this Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Dam Rodriguez right now, because this is a young
man who is absolutely in his prime. He may only
be twenty five years old, but in these smaller weight classes,
you're in your prime when you're that age, especially as
long as he has been boxing so far as a pro.
What does he not do like what did his defense,
very sound offense, obvious footwork, is among the best in
the business. Jabb there, willingness to fight the best fighters there,
fought in multiple weight classes there. I mean, has a
great team behind him. Whether you talk about Robert Garcia,
who's been with him his entire career as a manager,
slash promo or trainer. You know, he's obviously with Matt
from boxing. They've done a tremendous job with him to
bring him certain opportunities. And he's also just an extraordinary
likable person. I've had the chance to talk to him
and meet him and talk and get to know him
a little bit over the years. Just a first class guy.
I mean, he embodies everything that's right about boxing. Doesn't
cut corners, it doesn't seem comes in shape, takes it
seriously and is willing to fight the best, and he
shows up in shape and goes to work every single time.
He did that exact thing tonight against Fernando Martinez. By
all rights, he should have been the undisputed champion tonight,
but because of the sanctioning body nonsense that we deal
with all the time, Fernando Martinez ended up vacating one
of he had unified two titles against Ioka in their
first fight, which was part of the Earth Right, but
after that was over, he had an you guessed the
TJA and IBF mandatory, so the IBF doing IBF things,
and so he ended up vacating that title to go
forward with the rematch against Ioka and defend the WBA
belt that he had won against him, so that the
IBF belt ended up is now held by Willibaldo Garcia,
who's actually gonna fight in Saudi Arabia coming up on
the Inn a Way card in December, and so now
he's got three belts. But Van Rodriguez obviously is the
number one fighter in the weight class. He already now
has three belts and the ring belt and the lineal belt.
Put that in the perspective as he's a guy who
had won the title in that way class went. The
WBC title went down in Wait and unified titles at
flyweight came back up to jingor Banham. Wait knocked out
Wan Francisco Estrada, who's going to be in the Hall
of Fame someday, in a great performance to win the
WBC title in his fight before this one that took
place this past summer, he knocked out Cafu, who was undefeated,
to win the WBO title, went right into this unification
against Martinez. Now he's got three titles, and it was
like a big week for him. As we've discussed, as
they talked about on the broadcast, he left his pregnant girlfriend.
I guess they're not legally married, but they're together for
many years and have two children together while she was pregnant,
knowing that there was a very good chance that she
was going to deliver their child while he was away.
But you know, the the legacy at stake first career,
the amount of money that he was going to put
in the bank for the family, they decided that it
was worth it for him to take the trip. So
he missed the birth of the of his son. His
son was born on Wednesday, skipped out on the open
workout understandably and watch it on FaceTime.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so he he sounded like, you know, he said
in his interview in the post fight, like I could
cry right now because he was still sort of disappointed
and an emotional about the fact that he missed the
birth of his son. But then at the other and
said he'll understand, you know when he when he's older,
and I explained it to him, but I did this
for my daughter, from my girlfriend, from my son. Yeah,
and a million he's got he's got another belt to
hold up, and he's got millions of dollars to go
in the bank account Monday morning.
Speaker 1: I thought from the very beginning of this fight, while
we analyze it, he had some power punches, was picking
his spots, and Martinez just did not have punching power
to do much of anything to disrupt Bam Rodriguez from
doing what he wanted to do, and he wore him
down and knocked him out.
Speaker 2: What do you think he I think he had the power,
he just couldn't deliver the power. I always think about
what my old pal, Teddy Allis from our ESPN days,
would say, you can have the greatest uh, you know,
bombs and missiles and weapons and that you can possibly have,
but you need a delivery system. And if you'd nothing
to deliver that power with, then what good is it?
And Bim Martinez completely negated what Pluma Martinez had to offer,
and other fighters have not been able to so much
do that, but he just took away everything. If you
watch the Ioka fight, the first one in particular, I
forget the number, but he threw like freaking eleven hundred
punches or something in that fight. He was so far
below that output against against Bam. It was because Bam
was coming back with stuff and his defenses really sound,
and he was kind of worried about what was coming
back because he has power, also more than Ioka does,
and Iopa is not the athlete. And I think as another.
Speaker 1: Thing that I noticed, and I even commented, Sergio Mora
commented on this, Bam was giving him different angles. He'd
hit him, he'd move, he'd move sideways, he'd move laterally.
He was not an easy target. He didn't stand in
front of Martinez, and Martinez had no answers for that. Right.
Speaker 2: If you watch Bam Rodriguez fight anytime, you watch him, okay,
obviously watch and see what punches he's throwing, what he's landing,
and what's going on. But I always try when I
especially with Dam, because it's so good and so fluid
and so pinpoint, I sometimes don't look at the punches.
I spend some of my time if the camera angle
is correct. I watched his feet because his feet are
so perfectly in position all the time. You know, they
talked about it. It's very obvious if you watch any
number of his fights that the footwork that he has
is just just really almost perfect. He can move the
way he wants whichever direction. He can go lateral, he
can back up, he can go forward, he can do it.
You know, he can you know, move on a dime.
He's not like a speed demon, but it's enough to
really take anybody out of their game. And he just
has such a good innate understanding of how to move
and where to put his punches and how to have
his body placed. You know that these are the kinds
of things they work on endlessly in the gym. We
see the finished product on fight night. But you know,
it's like the old saying, you're out there in the
dark putting in here ten thousand hours. And he's done that,
and it's and it has got it the perfection, and
he's done it so many times, and he's fighting against
good opponents. So we'll know if Eddie Hearn gets his
way and dam gets his way and Robert Garcia gets
his way, he'll fight the winner of the uh not
the it's not which fight is it's the the Willibaldo
is defending the title on that card that's coming up
in uh what do they call it, the Night of
the Samurai. That's the card within a way, it's going
to take care at the end of December, yeah, December.
So so the outcome of that fight, uh, you know,
we shall see because what he would like to do,
I think is and again Turkey's involved with them, so
maybe they can make it work that if Willibaldo or
or or you know, if he loses a title or
he retains a title against Taraji, that the ideal fight
would be for Bam to fight the winner of that
fight Taraji or Garcia, to produce the undisputed champ. Now
he talked about in the lead up, I want this fight,
meaning the one he just won tonight. Then I want
the undisputed fight after that, and then I'm going up
in wait, so he'll move up to banham Waite and
look to try to do some damage up there. And eventually,
as we've discussed, you know, if in a way is
still at one twenty two or not Tony is still
hanging around. Those are major, major fights in those way classes,
huge fights.
Speaker 1: And again for Bam Rodriguez. That's nine straight title fight wins.
That's five straight knockouts in title fights for him. So
he is delivering right, yes, and deservedly. So deservedly he's
not He's not a number. You know.
Speaker 2: Look, the top three are are to me anyway, and
I think most people agree, whatever order you're gonna put him,
you got you know, certainly Terrence Crawford, Alexander Usik and
and uh in a in a way, once you get
past those three guys, you know, if you want to
tell me you got Bam there, fourth, fifth, sixth, I
can't argue. I mean, who else is there gonna put there?
Maybe you can put bevil Is in the is the conversation,
even even off the loss, better be maybe in the conversation.
I mean, those those are the types of guys we're
talking about. You know, Canelo probably drops down a little
bit after losing the way he did against Crawford. Uh.
But but there's no doubt that Vamguez is one of
the elite boxers in the world. He epitomizes the sweet science.
He's entertaining, but he boxes and he punches. There's fewer
guys that are more complete he does everything well.
Speaker 1: All right, give him a lot of credit and we'll
recap the fourth of the four title fights. This led
off the main card of the title fights, and that's
Abdullah Mason unbeating American out of Cleveland, Ohio out slugging
Sam Noakes of England for the WBO lightweight title. Full
credit to Noakes. He took a lot of punishment, bloody face,
busted nose, cut eyes, swollen face, kept firing back, but
I just thought Mason was just better, especially as the
fight were on. So Abdullah Mason does get the decision
win in this one, Dan, what are your thoughts? Has
he becomes a world champ? And am I correct? He's
the youngest world champ now in professional boxing by virtue
of this win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're sort of saving the best for last. This
may have been the first of the four title fights
by by far and away, it was the best. No
matter what you you know, whether you like the other
three fights or not, there's no doubt that just in
terms of the pure sort of unbridled action that this
fight produced, it was clearly the best fight of the show.
He is, at age twenty one, now the youngest active
male world champion in boxing the previous The guy that
he surpassed was his top ranks stablemate Xander's Eyes, who
won the vacant WBO Junior Midway title back in July.
He was twenty two years old when he won the title.
He has since turned twenty three. And here you now
have You have Abdulla Mason, twenty one years old, coming
off an absolute war with Sam Noaks, who put up
a great fight even if he was sort of behind
pretty much the whole way, and Mason got the job done.
I mean, it was very obvious, and they talked about
in the broadcast also, but I was noticing the same thing.
He certainly could have made the fight a lot easier
for himself. He had so much more length on him,
He had deater boxing ability, at quicker hands, quicker feet,
He could have definitely been a I'm not saying naked boring,
but if he had taken a little bit more time
on the outside and use the jab a little bit
more and you know, still could have been entertaining, but
not as physically demanding and grueling as it turned out
to be, he could have won the fight, you know,
way easier in my opinion. But his mentality is he
likes to fight. When I think of fighters like that,
I think about guys I've always enjoyed watching Oscar de
la Hoya could box with anybody, but love to fight.
Shane Moseley could box with anybody, but love to fight.
Meldrick Taylor could box with anybody, but love to fight.
Those types of fighters, and Mason seems to have that
sort of thing in him also where he knows he
can box a guy, but he likes to get in
there and mix it up and fight, and that's exactly
what he did. And Sam Noaks, who is much more
limited in his abilities but still had a big heart
and some power and was there to fight, also was
more than a welcoming of that type of matchup and
they just put on a great fight in the end,
though it was no doubt that Abdulla Mason was the winner.
Two judges head at seven to five, one fifteen to
one thirteen, one judge had at one seventeen to one eleven,
which is how I had to fight. But he you know,
however you slice it, there was no question that it
was Abdulla Mason that won that fight, deserved that fight,
and uh, you know, what. I can't wait to watch
him again. And even sam Oaks losing, who cares bring
him back? Find a dice opponent for him. I'll watched
sam Oaks fight all day long.
Speaker 1: Should be in the conversation for Fight of the Year,
just because Notates kept firing back. I mean he was
hurt late in the fight and kept firing back, and
Mason was just better. The crowd roaring there in sauny Arabia, Yeah, yeah,
it was a full credit to him. And again Mason
gets the championship win. All right, So let's get some
comments in from the Savages and see what they think
live on the YouTube show on this Saturday night. Again
for the podcast audience, just indulgees. You're hearing it after
the fat, after it is done. Look at this the Savages.
The Savages donating to the Rayfield Retirement Fund. Here, know
what I see somebody, don't I see somebody else donated
twenty dollars tonight. We may be going to Sizzler, like
in uh, white men Can't Jump, We're going to Sis.
Were going to Cizler.
Speaker 2: We definitely for the happy Meal.
Speaker 1: Now, I guess I think I think we can all right,
let me get to the top with the comments, and
we'll get to as many as we can. Tyler Watching says,
what's up, fellas? Hello? Tyler Dave says, Hey, guys, thank
you Dave. I mean, I'm just shouting out. Whoever, let's
see mister big play Bray says that was a good card,
too good fights, too okay fights. You would agree with that.
Speaker 2: I give. I gotta give the name of the person
that threw in the twenty bucks though, looks like it's
Sebbs ninety three eighty four, who's now my favorite person
on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Seb He's the favorite YouTuber for us. Sebs. Thank you.
You agree with two good fights and two okay fights.
I think the notes. I think the Mason Notas is
a really good fight.
Speaker 2: By the way, So what was the second fight they
were referred to, which was the one that they thought
was good?
Speaker 1: He's probably he's probably saying that the that the that
the Benavitas Yard would be the good fight out of
the other ones, because as you mentioned, the other two
were basically one sided. Uh band nominated and Devin Haney
got the early nightdown and Norman didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Noaks and Mason was a terrific fight, hands
down fight of the night, going to be in the
conversation on those lists of when people make the top
ten fights of the AAR for sure. The other ones,
I mean there were different reasons to enjoy them, but
none of them are going to be the car classics.
Speaker 1: But you saw, you saw action, and you saw knockouts also,
and so I mean you had everything in this in
this including the main event.
Speaker 2: Always sort of my sort of thought about a pay
per view, what did you think about the matchups when
you bought the fight card? How and how much did
you like them? Obviously in this card, pretty much everybody
liked them. If they bought it, they knew this was
you know, quality matchmaking and good good guys evenly matched
to it, you know, with no blatant blatant you know, massive,
massive favorite. And then there's how to play out. So
in the end, we got a Fight of the Year candidate.
We got an absolutely masterpiece, brilliant performance from Bam. We
had a very very good performance from Devin Hainey with
a knockdown, and you add another really good performance from
Benavide's in a little bit better of an action fight
and a stoppage. So I would say this if you
spent the fifty nine to ninety nine, or you maybe
you upgraded your Zone subscription and bought their Ultimate plane
which includes all the pay per views. I can't imagine
you walked away from tonight's activity being disappointed, because, look,
you're just not gonna get better overall events like that.
I mean, you just can't snap your fingers and make
them happen.
Speaker 1: It's rare. Turkey al Sheik's got the money. It's rare
that you're going to get four title fights on the
same pay per view, But you got it in the
present day.
Speaker 2: Happened on a regular basis. There's been a ton of
shows with four title fights, but at this level of
the competition, yes of the fighters is not the same
as a lot of those other things. Like they'll be
real quick, but it'll be a big mismatch, all right,
real quick.
Speaker 1: Because the string is kind of getting a little wonky.
I'm in the hotel in La Ray, Fael's in his
home in Northern Virginia, and we've been here for a
couple of minutes. Kevin says, Benefte is going to cruise
of weight, so he's never really gonna fight Canelo, better
Beev or b Bowl Well hold On certainly looks that way, right.
Speaker 2: Him not fighting Canelo is not David Benavitez's his fault.
Number one hundred, that's correct, that's all correct. Number two
is correct. Bivol was ordered to fight him and declined
and gave up the WBC titles, so that's not him either,
And better bv was coming off the loss and there
was really that that never even was a thing. So
he may go to cruiserweight for the chance to win
two more titles, make a shiitload of money. And if
he goes up there, I don't know if it's a
guarantee that he would never come back down, but probably
if he does go, he's probably done. But that's that's
that's not on him. That's on on on the circumstances
of whether there was going to be a third fight
between better bvan Bvol, whether they were going to give
him the opportunity. I mean, you know, even if Bevo
had not given up the title, that fight probably wouldn't
happened anyway, at least not yet because of the fact
that Dimitri had back surgery. You know, that's not that's
that's not a guy's I'm ducking. That's that's a guy saying,
you know.
Speaker 1: And I don't think. I don't think uh, I don't
think Kevin was blaming Benevidez. He was just saying he's
not gonna get one of those fights against one of
those fighters. But again, if he chooses to move up
to cruisewaight, he could always move back down, like you said,
he could move back down after he fights Zero if
that fight is coming as you were talking.
Speaker 2: But there's nothing that would preclude in the future of
better Be or Beebe going to cruiserweight either, true, let
me remember quickly, but mostly supers as a super midleweight,
so he's jumping up another weight class. Biebo has been
fighting at light heavyweight his whole career, and so is
better BF. So they could take the chance to go
up to the cruiserweight. Also, maybe I'll give maybe if
he beats Zero, one of those guys wants to come
up and challenge him at cruiserweight, that'd be fine.
Speaker 1: Dwayne A Watching says, so much better than the Times
square card across the board. Absolutely, of course, almost anything
would have been better than that. Car uh Jay Deep
says Anthony Yard had a great potential but ruined by
a terrible trainer. Do you buy that that he was
not instructed well enough? Certainly he didn't have a whole
lot of a plan. Uh tonight. I know Sergio Moro
was saying early on in the fight, Yeah, he's looking
to counter punch him. You know, he definitely looks like
the thicker fighter. That didn't matter. Benavidez was just faster hands,
wore him down and battered him. I'm saying that, but
what what about the trainer situation? Did that ef?
Speaker 2: I don't know how, I don't know went on in
the gym and what the what? How they worked that out?
But uh so, I'm not really one to really ever
lay the blame solely at the trainer's feet. I mean,
certainly they're part of the team, and they're a big
part of the team. But Anthony, uh, Anthony, He's had
different trainers through his crowd. Don't think this is the
only trainer he's ever had. And he's never gotten over
the hump before. So he may have tried this guy,
tried that guy. But at the end of the day,
then you know, you can be given information, but you're
the one that's got to go and do the job.
And uh, you know I I'm not blaming the trainer.
I think Anthony yard I got you. He was behind
the eight ball from the standpoint that he didn't start
boxing until he was eighteen years old. He didn't have
any an amateur fight till who was almost twenty years old.
So you're always going to be behind the eight ball
when you're dealing with a guy like a David Denavidez
who has been in a boxing family's entire life and
picked up gloves when he's probably like eight years old.
So I'm not blaming the trainer.
Speaker 1: A couple more quickly, let's see this is Lexi Poigner
or Pointer says fight of the night was Mason Noakes.
Do you guys think Mason started too fast? Can't always
shoot off at first? Almost cost him the fight? Did
you think that Mason was going to wear himself out
early on in the fight? I did not sense that.
What did you say?
Speaker 2: I didn't sense that He's twenty one years old, he
could have fought fifteen rounds. He was in a great condition.
Sam Noak started off fast. Also, the styles meshed like
that that's just the way it was going to be.
As I said before, he has the mentality where he
could have made it easier on himself and done a
little more boxing and taking a step back from time
to time, but he likes to mix it up. So no,
I don't think he made a mistake. Maybe that's the
type of thing that when they get back in the
gym and they start to go over the tape and
he talks to his dad and the people involved with
his corner or the matchmakers a top rank have a
word with him, they may bring up that type of
suggestion that you know you But also I can understand
here he's he's excited, right, He's fighting a world champions
and fight. He's twenty one years old, four years ago
this month he turned pro. That's a you know, unless
you're a Lomachenko or that type of fighter with that
amateur career and you're thirty years old already, he's super
pumped up. So I don't blame him. He did, he
did what he wanted to do. He was able to
be there and he did what he had to do
and he made a great fight out of it. But
the thing is, again, you can't do that every time,
you're gonna have a very short career.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And plus he took some shots. That's what you're saying.
He took some shots fighting that way late in the
fight from notes, Boxing God weighs in and says Mason
noakes fight of the year. He says, Ben you bank
fight of the year. He means the second one, and
then he references a great fight. If you want to
go back on YouTube something YouTube Uplo Cicero, Caveman Lee.
I think that were middleweights the old ESPN Grainy Top
Rank boxing. Is that really nineteen eighty two? What a
great reference from Boxing God. I love that.
Speaker 2: That's a great fight. I remember, yes, I'll tell you
so I went one one time year. So Al al
Bernstein our buddy, you know, ye wrote those years. But
back back in those days, he was one of the
voices on the old He was on the call, right,
he was on the call on this fight. So besides boxing,
Al as an entertainer. He sings, and you know, he
does these stage shows and all that. He's a very
talented guy. So he would have these like boxing parties,
like on a Thursday or Friday night before a big fights.
I remember when I don't remember what fight it was at,
but I was. I think it was a big fight
at the Mandalay Bay and he did one of these
shows in one of the lounges there, and a lot
of the boxing people shut up and it was like
a boxing party. So he's saying and he told jokes,
and they showed some videos and there's some trivia, and
one of the things he did was he showed that
fight and people are going crazy, and that's like, you know,
still thirty years before the fight. You know, it was
thirty years old, and peoples like.
Speaker 1: Taggler, hearns and both guys down multiple times in the fight.
We're talking about Lo Cicero Caveman League. Great fight from
nineteen eighty two. Great reference. So a couple more comments
and then we're going to get out of here. On
the recap because we've been here, I'm looking for different
people with questions. The aircraft carrier wants to know Dan.
What's next for Brian Norman Junior. After that, he calls
it a train wreck loss. After the train wreck loss,
I mean, his career is not over.
Speaker 2: No, what do you think, He's twenty four years old.
He lost a decision to a guy that's now a
three division world champion, that's been at the top of
the mountain and has been one of the top fighters
in the sport for a long time. Yeah, he had
a rough patch there with the situation with the Ryan
Garcia fighting, and maybe not an exciting fight, but it
certainly a win against Hosi Ramirez. So that's that's happened.
He's twenty four years old. You know he didn't I
don't mean he got knocked down, and I don't look
at it like he took punishment and Devin hinting and
land enough punches in the whole fight to really doll
out significant punishment. So you know what, you go and
you learn a guys lose. That happened. So I have
no doubt, knowing the fact that he comes from a
boxing family, knowing sort of his old school mentality. Certainly,
I've known his manager, Joelane the Zone for my entire career.
She knows what she's doing. They'll they'll take a little
break and they'll get him back in action. He's not done,
I mean, so I think has a bright future out
of him. Keep in mind, by the way, Walter Waite
is not the most loaded division in the world either,
So you know he'll get back on the horse and
they'll they'll put him back in position, and I believe
he probably will be able to win another world title
at some point.
Speaker 1: By the way, the aircraft carrier agreed with me that
Norman Junior was badly hurt. I don't know how badly hurt,
but clearly the eyes were not there. The legs buckled
some with that left hook, and then the right put
him down. He survived the round, he survived the distance,
but I think he was a different fighter after that.
I think it's I'm looking for anybody else different commenter
in here? Stir? Do I have this limpete? If I
have this right says that Noakes and Mason was the
fight of the night. I would agree with that. Anybody
else that's different.
Speaker 2: In Is there anybody that would disagree with that?
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would disagree with that. The classy alcoholic?
Is there such a thing? Never thought I'd be interested
in a Hainy Garcia rematch again, but here we are. Well,
don't get too interested yet, because Ryan Garcia still has
another fight with Barrios, and we'll see what that looks
like is Dan's reporting that's coming in February. I'm looking
from my name here is what is this name? This
is web I can't even remember. I can't even read
all that webfoot Chicano, he says. Jim says. Jim Lampley
has said multiple occasions he envisions Bena Vetas at heavyweight.
Benavitez versus Usik is a super fight. Can we settle
down that he's fighting at light heavyweight. We don't even
know what he can do a cruiserweight. Can we settle
down on having him fight Ousick.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I want everybody to take a
deep breath and understand something. And I'm not knocking Anthony Yard,
but it was Anthony Yard. He didn't beat Roy Jones.
He didn't beat Sad Mohammad. You know, he didn't beat
Bob Foster. Everybody, calm down, You didn't he didn't. He's
got three fights at light heavyweight, three solid wins. Beat Vodzik,
former champ, Legit, had an excellent fight with David Morrell,
who was a super midleweight who we beat. That was
a great fight and a clear win. Now he has
a solid victory against Anthony the Art and they're one
to fight Alexander Usik. Now that said, could I see
at you know, David right now is what twenty eight
years old, you know, six or seven years from now,
maybe seem as a heavyweight. Yeah, I think that's absolutely
a possibility. But I was in a Rusk's gonna be
long retired in my opinion, before David Enemy's ever even
sniffed heavyweight division.
Speaker 1: All right, Raimundo Marquez says Bam should be top five
pound per pound at worst. I would agree with that.
You would agree with that, as we were saying earlier,
and I don't know other than I.
Speaker 2: Might have him six.
Speaker 1: But he says top top five, Well, who would you
put besides you mentioned Crawford in a way, Uhsik, in
whatever order, who would be the fourth and the fifth?
If not Bam, he's got to.
Speaker 2: You probably could put dam in there, but you have
to also take into considers. I still think better BF,
although little a little inactive at the moment, uh and
coming off with the loss, but because it was against Bevall,
it was against one of the very best out there. Uh,
Bevo is going to be on that list also among
those top five so I can still see the two
light heavyweights ahead of Dan. I haven't really sat down
and thought.
Speaker 1: Of part Maybe all right, maybe A hard liner says,
I feel the pay per view delivered for the money
I paid. Amen on that. Who is who is this?
This is night life one one one says, good evening, gentlemen.
I'm sorry to ask, but can you settle a debate
I'm having with a friend, which is bigger Jake Paul
versus Tank or Jake Paul versus A j.
Speaker 2: Joshua in the United What would you say to that?
In the United States it's Tank.
Speaker 1: But in the UK. But in the UK it's Joshua,
and Joshua was certainly the more accomplished fighter as a
unified heavyweight champion. I'm saying that, Well, it's also here's
the thing, Oh, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting question. Tank Davis fight was an exhibition
match between a two hundred pound or one hundred and
ninety five pound contract weight Jake Paul against one hundred
and thirty five pound Tank Davis. Who you know, maybe
you would come in at one forty something. Most people
would have thought that Tank would not have a chance
in that fight because he's short, he's short armed, maybe
a good puncher in the lightweight division, but I don't
you know, I don't know if his power is gonna
be devastating against a two hundred pounder. And it was
not even a real fight. Now the interest becomes Joshua
coming off of the knockout loss and the surgery, but
like a foot taller, you know, look literally like six
or seven inches taller than Jake Paul, A much much,
much much bigger puncher and a more accomplished fighter in
the professional ranks. I mean, honestly, I looked at the
photos from their press commerce they had on Friday, and literally,
there's a shot I saw in the photo gallery, you know,
because we got a photo link from the promoters of
you know, to use for articles and things where you
have Jake Paul is literally and you watched the video. Also,
Jake Paul's looking straight at He's looking like in the
center of Anthony Joshua's chest and Joshua was looking down
at him. And there's a I saw on Twitter Jake
Paul posts this. Uh, it was like a juxtaposition. The
one photo was Rocky Balboa from the movie Rocky four
looking up at Ivan Drago and the picture underneath it
was the exact same thing, but it was the other
where they were standing, and it was Anthony Joshua looking
down on a much much smaller and shorter Uh yeah,
so the thing. So yeah, it's a bigger fight with
Joshua at that. For the very least, it's an actual
official fight. You know, you can, we don't have to
use the word real fight. But it's an official, sanctioned
boxing match, and it's not a exhibition like it would
have been against a tank fight. And I think most
people and think that he's gonna knock Jake Paul out
in one round and like, honestly, if it goes more
than like two rounds, people are gonna think it's a
it's a fix.
Speaker 1: All right, uh quickly a couple of others and then
we're gone, what is this? I am all right? I
am on the Hawkins Junior. He says, Happy Thanksgiving gents.
Who was the biggest turkey of the night? Is that
besides turkey Alischik? Who's not a Thanksgiving turkey? I'm at
this point with the biggest turkey of the night might
have been It might have been Brian Norman at the
end of the day, Brian Norman didn't do anything after
he got knocked down. For sure.
Speaker 2: I say the biggest turkey was definitely Puma Martinez, very
disappointing before I got hammered.
Speaker 1: At least Brian hammered throughout the night.
Speaker 2: At least Brian Norman got off the deck and showed
some balls to try to get back in the fight.
And you know, never never stopped trying, even if he
was kind of outclassed a little bit. Martinez, I felt like,
kind of gave up when you know, he just had
not he couldn't do anything with the guy. Yeah, his
body ling was just terrible.
Speaker 1: Didn't have anything on the punches. I would agree. Maybe
he is the turkey of the night. All right. Again,
for the fans on YouTube, thank you for being with
us live. We did it exclusively on YouTube Saturday night.
Make sure you like and subscribe. We'll come back and
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So be subscribe here and we'll have all kinds of
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the recap podcast, the Fight Freaks to Night recap podcast.
Anything else in closing before we head to the Thanksgiving holiday,
and you and I will be back right before Thanksgiving.
We'll do something right before Thanksgiving. Anything else, Dan Rayfael
on the Saturday night as we're live here.
Speaker 2: We covered I think we covered everything. We even got
into Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua stuff. I enjoyed the
show tonight. And now when we're done here, yeah, get
back to writing my articles for my substacks. I hope
that everybody out there that's watching will go on Dan
Rayfield dot substack dot com and check it out.
Speaker 1: Great stuff here tonight. Thank you to the YouTube audience. Again,
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comment on the video down below that helps us out.
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thank you for hanging in here with us on the
podcast feed on Applespreaker, Spotify. If you didn't know that
Dan and I have have the podcast Go find it
Big Fight Weekend podcast Feed, Apple, Spreaker, Spotify. This served
us both my friend, great job tonight. The night again
belongs to David Benavitez in the main event defending his
light heavyweight title. Kudos also to Devin Haney winning the
WBO welterweight championship by virtue of his easy decision win
over Brian Norman. Bam Rodriguez again by me by means
of recap, has won the three belts, now at one
hundred and fifteen pounds with a knockout over Puma Martinez.
And how about Abdullah Mason who's now just twenty one
years old and the youngest world champion in boxing. He
gets it done in the win tonight over Sam Noakes
of England. Congratulations to Kim tonight as well. Other than that,
I think we have done well. Thanks to everybody that
has watched us I hear either live or after the
fact and listened to on podcast. Dan, have a great
rest of the weekend. We'll talk to you Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2: All right, t J. I appreciate it. Great job.
Speaker 1: There is there is Dan Rayphiel. I'm merely TJ. Reeves
out in Los Angeles. We'll see how my Buccaneers do
on Sunday Night Football. Dan, have a great weekend. Thank
you everybody for watching on the Big Fight Weekend YouTube
page Live h m hmm.