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indeed we are back here in the month of February,
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first here with some previews and some fight news. All right,
let's begin with Guadalajara, Mexico in the match Room box
Stars card. This is a WBO bantamweight title fight Christian
Medina Medina and Adrian Curiel. So that will get things
underway on to Zone on Friday evening. Let's get into it.
What about this one?
Speaker 2: Well, I have said this many times TJ when we've
talked about the Matchroom cards that they do in Mexico
and they work with box Stars protions they do. I
don't know, I guess four or five of these shows
a year or something like that, even if you never
heard of the guys on the card. Like most of
the time, these are good shows, Like they provide action.
There's usually like this type of fight in the main event,
some type of smaller weight world title fight, not necessarily
but oftentimes, and they just produce good action. I mean,
it's it's been a hallmark in my opinion, of this
particular level of the match room deal that they do
down in Mexico, and this is frankly should be no different.
Medina is taken on a fellow Mexican and carry ol
Kyriel is the former junior flyweight title holder of the IBF.
Medina in his last fight, well first of all, back
up in January, early like early January this year is
when he signed with Matchroom Boxing and he was coming
off of having won the belt. He scored a knockout.
If you recall, he thought Yoshiki Takai back in September,
this is one of the title bouts that was on
the undercard on the night that Noya in a way
ran through mj Acmadalia in that mandatory fight that took
place in Japan. Then Medina, you know, went in with
not a big reputation, but he ended up getting a
knockout and winning this title. And soon after in the
beginning of this year is when he signed with Mattroum
and so this will be his first defense and his
first fight with Matchroom, and he's taken on a solid fighter,
I mean, a guy that was a champion in the
one way class lower they're about the same age. Madina's
twenty five, Kiel is twenty six they've got very similar records.
Madina's twenty six and four with nineteen Kryell. The big
difference though was the knockouts. He's twenty six six and
one only as the five knockouts. But it's not as
though he has shown the inability to punch, because if
you remember he went in when he won the title,
he was not considered to be much of a threat
in terms of his punching power. And oh, by the way,
guess what happened. He scored a crushing second round knockout
against Non Shinga, and of course then he lost it
in a late in the rematch, and then in his
fight after that he lost again to in a row,
he lost a technical decision to Sonny Edwards, but he's
won two fights in a row since then by decision,
and now he's getting this opportunity against Mendina, and you
know it should be should be if you ever watched
the two guys fight, they both have been in entertaining
fights there, you know, classical Mexican type, aggressive fighters, and
I expect nothing less in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Again, We're always interested in these and there is a
WBO bantamweight championship that is on the line for this
and it's Dizonne from Mexico coming on Friday. Okay, I
have to say that the next one that we're about
to preview here in the preview mode, I am very
much interested in Saturday afternoon US time and then Saturday
night in Liverpool, England in primetime in the UK on
his own Queensberry main event. Nick Ball, the WBA featherweight
champion who always seems to be in exciting, entertaining fights,
against Brandon Figueroa of the United States, a Texan who
always seems to be in entertaining fights. Again, can we
have good things here for the matchup? I saw some
of the press conference in the comments, etc. Thursday for
this it will be a rabbit atmosphere for Ball and
now we'll see with Figarola going on the road what
he has in this matchup. I'm saying that give me
some more in the preview.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's true. I mean he is going
on the road. Figure O has mainly fought in the
United States, of course, on the PBC cards that take
place in the United States. Ball has made his hometown
of Liverpool, you know, sort of like the Fortress if
you will. I mean he won the title on a
read card. He had a nice victory, a split decision,
but I thought, you know, a worthy victor in that
fight against Raymond Ford to win this title. And then
he's defended the title three times since then, Ball against
pretty reputable opponents. I mean, maybe not the perfect opponent,
maybe not like the ideal number one can there, but
very legitimately professional, solid fighters. Ronnie Rios who always gave
everybody a good battle, he stopped him in round ten. TJ. Dohaney,
who had been a champion and you know the one
hundred and twenty two pound division, stopped him. And Sam Goodman,
who had moved up to challenge him when the fight
with in a way you know where he was the
mandatory had been postponing, then canceled because Goodman had suffered
a second cut in a training camp and had to
pull out. He was undefeated when he fought in. That
was another fight that took place in Riad, but two
of the title defenses that Nick Ball has had have
both been at the same arena in Liverpool, and like
you said, he draws a crowd, you know, is a
popular figure there. So he goes in now to this
defense against Figureoa, who I think, with all respect to
Goodman Dohaney and Rios, is definitely the best challenger that
he has faced so far in terms of a title defense. Figueroa,
you know, is well known if you follow the sport,
has been in some very good fights. His fights with
Steven Fulton for example, So you know, Nick had his
hometown fights. He didn't necessarily fight like the best guy.
Figure O is the mandatory. He's going on the road,
so you know, props for that. He's making his fourth defense.
And if Nick Ball comes and pressures him the way
that he often does his opponents and digs that body
because he's so short and squat in Figuaroa, we've seen
in plenty of entertaining fights, it has a chance to
be something spectacular. I mean, I'm not saying it will be,
but it's got a chance.
Speaker 1: We know, we know this Figaroa is not gonna be
hard to find figuratively and literally.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have a advantage.
Speaker 1: He's he's much taller, but uh, he generally fights in
about a four foot square whenever he fights, and so
he I mean, it's not like he's gonna be inclined
to stick move jab. You're not gonna have to worry
about that if you're Nick Ball. The one interesting thing
you kind of made mention of this that Ball tends
to start a little slow and come on later on
the fight. That'll be interesting if that's the case at
the beginning of this fight at home with the loud crowd,
just as one more aspect of it in the preview.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that figaroa is a is a
very experienced professional. Whatever happens in terms of the the
the the raucousness of the crowd, he's not I don't
think gonna be unerved. And I think at the moment anyway,
I think it's fair to say that based on who
he has faced, his activity level, the manner in which
he has won his fights, then he's probably considered the
number one featherweight. At the moment. You have Nick Coba
holding the WBA belt, Angelo Leo has the IBF title,
Rafael Espinoza has got the WBO title, and of course,
just the other night on the Chakor and Tia Fimo
Undercardia Shoeshoe Carrington winning the vacant WBC title. Some might
argue Espinosa. I feel like Nick has faced a little
bit better opposition overall, and we've joked around about how
what a great fight that would be to ce in
terms of the visual because you have the the you know,
the very very short Nick Ball against the extremely tall
Rafael Espinoza. But Figueroa is no joke now, he is not.
I don't think what he was at his best when
he was first champion at one twenty two, then became
a title holder at one twenty six. He's had some issues,
if you ask me. When he won this title, he
won a title eliminator to qualify as the mandatory for
this fight. He took on the well traveled three time
world title challenger Joet Gonzales. That took place this past July.
He was on the undercard when Nanny Paco had the
draw with Mario Barrios. He was lucky to escape with
that win. And while Joe at Gonzalez is a good professional,
he's a step below Nick Ball in my opinion. And
so I don't know if that was Figaroa maybe just
having a little bit of a rough night, a bad night,
or maybe he's starting to show, you know, the you know,
the the amount of wars and hard fights he sad
through the years. You know, they're the same age at
twenty eight, but I feel like Figueroa is absolutely older
in terms of his boxing age because of the tough
battles that he has had. So we shall see. I mean,
he lost the featherweight belt to Fulton and this was
the next fight he's had since then when he escaped
with that victory. So it's like his last two fights
have not been spectacular, if you will, like he struggled
to some degree, but now he did fight the two
times in twenty twenty five, and now he's got a
great opportunity. He's going on the road. He's got a
formidable opponent in front of him, but he's not a
big puncher, Nickball, And similar to what I was saying
about the fight that we're gonna see on Friday night,
you know, with the with Medina and in his title
defense against his fellow countryman Curio, I feel like Figaroa
and nig Ball has a chance to be a highly
entertaining fight.
Speaker 1: Let's look for that. And again it's Saturday afternoon on
the Zone. How about that. We got a couple of
uh title fights that you don't have to pay extra
pay per view prices for with your regular de Zone subscription.
So find those, check those out, and we'll be in
the recap mode of those fights off the weekend. Let's
get to the news. There's a bevy of.
Speaker 2: It, A bevy.
Speaker 1: I like that bevy. B Yes, we often pull out
the vocabulary twins are working on SAT scores and vocabulary
words and whatever. We were going over the word compartmentalize.
A lot of times I have to compartmentalize with you
with we have so many news items, previews, et cetera.
That's a big word. Bevy a little smaller word, but
we do have a bevy. Hey. I thought Shakur Stevenson
was the WBC lightweight champion when he was standing in
the ring on Saturday night in the pay per view
win having moved on to junior welterweight against Tyo Fima Lopez.
He was the chap right on Saturday.
Speaker 2: But that was like four or five days ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so four days later, what what the hey?
Why does he need to be stripped of anything? Four
days later WBC doing WBC things. I'm saying this.
Speaker 2: This was a little surprising and disappointing, I must say
most of the time that I can ever think of that.
If you if you are if you are a champion
of an organization, whichever organization it is, and you go
to a different weight class and you win a title
in that division, they offer you the grace period, usually
at least two weeks, and oftentimes a lot longer. They
give you the rope to decide what you're gonna do.
Am I gonna stay in the weight class in which
I just won the title? Or am I again I
go back and continue to hold the belt in the
in the other division in which I hold the title.
Speaker 1: Correct me if i'm let me stop you on this point.
Correct me if I'm wrong, help me with my memory.
In the last few weeks, somebody else did this, and
who was it?
Speaker 2: It was when O'shaki Foster Okay retained the title at
one hundred and thirty. I'm sorry he won the interim
title at one thirty five because Fulton was overweight. Right
when it was over, he went back. He said I
would give up. That was also the WBC that he
would give up the WBC thirty five pound title and
continue to hold this one thirty titles. So and there
you go.
Speaker 1: And again that's the belt that SHAQR. Stevenson had where
they were talking about interim title. But in that case,
that was a weird situation where they suddenly made that
fight a one thirty five title fight. Generally speaking, isn't
this at least a couple of weeks, if not thirty days?
Speaker 2: I said, it's often two us much longer.
Speaker 1: But yet, let the fighter decide do I want to
continue at the higher weight or do I want to
move back down? And some of that has to do
with what you talked about off the off the weekend.
What's a lucrative fight in either division that I might
want to make. This is not the Burger king drive
through for that to be he decided in four days.
So this is really going on here.
Speaker 2: So okay, when the WBC made their announcement, they put
out a press announcement about what was happening that, you know,
and they said it in a nice way. You know,
he's you know, because Shrequor has been a WBC champion
in the junior lightweight division. Now then he had won
the title in the lightweight division. He won I think
his first ever professional title was a WBC regional title,
which is, you know, a stepping stone belt that puts
guys in their rankings and steers them towards fighting for
their world title. So it's not as though he doesn't
have a relationship that is long standing with this organization.
But we'll go back to what happened after Terrence Crawford
won the undisputed title against Clenelo Alvarez in the one
hundred and sixty eight pound weight class. A few weeks later,
he was stripped to the title because of a disagreement
or a b for however you want to describe it,
over the fact that he did not pay the sanctioning fees. Now,
in that particular fight, he was fighting for the WBC
Super middleweight title, which he won and didn't pay the fee.
That seems pretty obvious that you'd have to pay the fee.
You can disagree with the amount of money and this
and that, but it's sort of like, if you decide
to fight to fight, you know the rules of the road.
It's not like Terrence Crawford is a guy that never
fought for titles in different organizations. So in my opinion,
it's sort of the same thing as if you know
you and I go out for a lunch and we
split before the bill comes and we dine and dash.
That is what that is. Corse Stevenson is in a
similar situation. The difference though, is that he was the
WBC lightweight champion fighting in a WBO Junior Wealth their
Way title fight. But and this is part of the rules.
You can agree with it or you can disagreete it,
but they're in black and fucking white. If you do that,
the WBC must sanction that fight as what they call
a quote unquote special event, and you must pay a
sanction fee for fighting out of your division for somebody
else's title. Now it's not as much of a sanction
fee as when you fight for your own title, which
is usually three percent. I believe in the case of
what's going on here, you pay one and a half percent.
And I don't know if it's got a cap on
it like they do, if it's a full three percent
on the full title.
Speaker 1: But of Corse Stevenson put it on social media, we're
coming to this that it was one hundred thousand dollars
whatever that comes to, right, And are you saying clarify
that he didn't pay it because it seemed like in
his post that he did pay it and that he's mad.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think he did pay it. That's
the thing. That's that's the myny. And now I tried
to track down I talked to Chakor's people, and nobody
seemed to really know for sure. But if he had
paid it, they wouldn't have stripped him. They would have
given him the two weeks to decide. So you know,
I've reached out to Mauricio Suliman about it. I saw
something on his social media that he lost his phone
so he couldn't get back to anybody.
Speaker 1: So okay, hold on, we'll get to that in a moment.
Shakur word for word in a tweet on Wednesday, and
I just paid these dudes after my last fight fight.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, but that was a WBC mandatory defense, where
of course he paid that. That was a WBC title.
Of course, He's making the point in one of his
posts that I don't know why I got to pay
one hundred k this. They weren't even involved with this fight,
and they really wanted to be involved with the fight,
and so I'd rather give thee hundred k to my daughter.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing what he said, so I think
that it was the same situation. Now, in the WBC's announcement,
they never mentioned anything about sanction fees because they just didn't.
That would probably be a bad look for them.
Speaker 1: This whole thing is a bad look for them.
Speaker 2: But here's the other aspect of it. Though, Shakur is
very very close to Terrence Crawford, Right, I'm sure I'm
not saying he did it because of that, but clearly
he's aware of what happened with you know, big brother
Terrence Crawford. So you know, that's the way that goes.
So he was shripped after four days. Now, I guess
he could still theoretically go back to one hundred and
thirty five pounds. Maybe, you know, let's say he would
fight Raymond Murrattai for the IBF title. Probably that would
be for the ring title also.
Speaker 1: But this whole thing, I have a friend of mine
that loves this phrase. This whole thing stinks to suburbia
because he fought the WBC's number one contender last July. So,
in whatever vernacular, a subheading of whatever WBC rule, he
doesn't have to fight anybody from the WBC right now
next week.
Speaker 2: You know, that's not That's not what anybody's contending.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying, what is the urgency that
we have to have a vacant world title fight, which
it says in the WBC statement, there is no urgency.
He fought the number one guy.
Speaker 2: You're missing the point. It has nothing to do with that.
This is a Again they didn't say this, but the
inference is this is about the money. It's always about
the money.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but but by the same.
Speaker 2: Paid the money. If he had paid the hundred k.
This is my interpretation because no one wants to give
a straight fucking answer. If he had paid the one
hundred k, he would still be the WBC lightweight champion
today and still have another, you know, a couple of
weeks to figure.
Speaker 1: Out what he wants. And that tells you all you
need to know about these organizations. These organizations and they
make up whatever they want to do.
Speaker 2: I cannot accept that.
Speaker 1: Here here I come again, because you're dead on this point.
Speaker 2: Capitol d E very much alive, brother, no.
Speaker 1: Brother, here you go. Jamal Charlow was allowed to keep
the WBC see Middleweight titles that three years. Forget about
sanctioning fees. He fought no One. You are d e
a d on Them's the rules. This is the business.
Hold on, hold on, make uh. They make it up
as they go along, but they don't make them have
to fight anyone without being stripped.
Speaker 2: If you fight, you gotta pay. If you disagree with that,
if you fight, you gotta.
Speaker 1: We just we just suspended or just stripped a guy
four days after he fought. I'm not talking about the why.
I'm talking about on my reference point. Jamal Charlow fought
No One for three years, So enough with the can
They always follow the letter of their rules, and they're.
Speaker 2: Not even go to make this statement in the they're
totally unrelated. You're conflating related, my friend. Let me help
you one more time. It is the same organization who
health strip the other fighter.
Speaker 1: That's the point they are again.
Speaker 2: In Charlot's case. You can agree with it or you
can disagree that. I will give Mauricio Suliman even though
I disagreed with his decision, he didn't come out and
ignore the questions. He said, our guy Charlot was struggling
with his mental health. We're not going to put him
in a position to make that worse by stripping of
the title. Now, if you disagree with that, no problem.
But at least he came out and said that this
is totally different. This is a fighter who knows the rules,
who didn't pay the fee, and therefore the title is
now stripped. End of story. Now the title is vacant.
They have an interim champion, Jadier Herrera, who became the
interim champion after the whole Fulton Oshaki Foster craziness, and
presumably when they get around to it in the next
you know, a few days or a week or whatever,
the WBC will order Herrera to fight their next leading
contender in the WBC ratings. I don't have them in
front of me. I don't know who it is. And
Chaquor will be just fine making a lot of money
fighting at either one thirty five or one forty. I
think he should stay at one forty because there's bigger fights,
there's bigger money. He looks so fucking good at that weight,
and the way he fought the fight in terms of
everything about it, that the way his body looked, his punching,
his jab, everything about it. So in the end, he'll
have a beef with the WBC, and fucking life will
go on for all of us.
Speaker 1: I again say, they do whatever they want for their
own purposes. They violate their own rules.
Speaker 2: They want what should they have done?
Speaker 1: What should they have done? Just give him some time
to decide whether or not he's gonna fight at one
thirty five, and then work out the whole work out
the one hundred thousand dollars, Then work out one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: But if he said I'm not paying, what's what is
the difference? If I'm not gonna I'm playing devil's ad.
If you get a little bit, if a.
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate like you do on every podcast about everything,
all I'm saying to you, he's not going to pay
in four days. In four days, it doesn't make that
much difference.
Speaker 2: But if you're not going to pay in four days,
and you're not going to pay in ten days or
twenty days or thirty days, what's the difference.
Speaker 1: But if he's gonna come back and fight at one
thirty five and defend their title, don't sit here and
act like they wouldn't have worked out the one hundred
grand for this fight. Please he clear that to somebody
else that doesn't know the sport and doesn't know.
Speaker 2: It seemed to be of the opinion and based on
what he put on his social that he wasn't paying
the money all right, because they were not. It was
not a w I it was not.
Speaker 1: If this whole this whole thing is a joke at
one thirty five for the WBC and we can let it,
we can litigate it for another ten minutes. The fact
that they made up a vacant title fight to try
to salvage whatever they could salvage out of the Oshaki
Foster situation tells you what a joke it is at
one thirty five right now.
Speaker 2: At the fight that we're had on Saturday against Ben,
let's say a WBC Junior walterweight title fight. I do
think he would have paid the money. I think he
issue the fact that it wasn't a WBC. That's kind
of very clear in the rules. If you're not fighting
WBC fight, you're fighting a different division for a title,
you still got to pay some type of fee. They
got a sanction as a press and.
Speaker 1: Unless, of course, once more, the rules are Jamal Charlow
can keep the belt for three years. I'm not saying,
okay one more time. I'm not saying it's the exact
same scenario. What I'm saying to you is this is
an organization that did not strip the fighter for three
years when he fought No One. They didn't obey their
own rules. It's not the same reason. They didn't obey
their own rules, and he made up the reason. Thank you,
I need a tile In all.
Speaker 2: We did not pay the money is the only thing
that matters in this case, No, no.
Speaker 1: It does not. What matters is the WBC will do
whatever is in their financial interests, including violating their own
rules about having to fight a fight to keep their title,
if it's in their interest, that's the point. That's the point,
and it's obvious that that's the point. Get rid of
the guy in four days, please, all right, let's move
on before I have to have two tile and all.
Speaker 2: Jervonte Davis, by the way, you think you need to
talent alls? How do you think Tank Fiels?
Speaker 1: But by the way, who's been saying for the better
part of about six months on these podcasts and elsewhere,
probation violation to go back to jail in Baltimore, and
here we go. That's the development now. First of all,
to me, it's comical that they turned right around and
let him out on bail after they looked for him
for the better part of like eighteen days and couldn't
find him.
Speaker 2: It was half of that.
Speaker 1: So now this is on a serious charge, domestic violence charge,
and the Baltimore authorities and the Baltimore judge want him
in Baltimore with a warrant because he's going to go
to the Baltimore jail for probation violation that appears to
be black and white.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to go to if
they can.
Speaker 1: Fight, That's exactly what she's going to do. This is
what probation is all about.
Speaker 2: And I understand that, but until he actually does it,
I can't sit here and tell you that that she.
Speaker 1: Put him in jail for violation of the house arrest.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: She's looking to check in to see if he's in
shape to have a fight in the next ninety days.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying to is, most likely, yes, he's gonna
end up doing some time, But I don't know that
for sure, and neither do you and till it actually occurs.
But here's the more important point. Uh, This man, Kank
Davis has had more arrest warrants issue for him in
the last two weeks then he's had or he has
had the same number of arrest warrants in the last
two weeks as he's had boxing matches in the last
two years. That's why his career is in the toilet.
Speaker 1: His career is in the toilet, and he's had a
much bigger problem. He's he's got much bigger problems than
boxing right now because his freedom is going to be
at stake for a while.
Speaker 2: Ahead and boxing, well, you know, he got a lifeline
to go make a ton of money again Jake Paul
in a fight didn't even count on anything. But before
that he couldn't keep his hands to himself right as
he hasn't been able to do it for.
Speaker 1: Years, is right throw in allegedly because he hasn't been
convicted of that one. He was convicted in Baltimore of
leaving the scene of hit and run with serious injury
and felonies. He actually not a plea deal. He wasn't here.
Speaker 2: It was in that particular case, there was fourteen counts.
He pleaded guilty to four, one of which was a felony.
The hit and run injured four people, including one woman
who was pregnant.
Speaker 1: And she's also been suing him and I don't know
how that ever got resolved. But again, if you're putting
your money on what's going to happen in Baltimore, he's
going back to the lock up to serve some more time.
How long, I don't know, but probation violations and this
judge was having none of it back before when he
violated the house arrest.
Speaker 2: He's already raised her ire earlier in the case.
Speaker 1: Yes, and by the way, he hid from the authorities
for two and a half weeks before he was finally caught. Comically,
as you were coming out of a store with shopping bags.
Speaker 2: I mean, you just can't make the shit up, TJ.
Speaker 1: No, we cannot. Shall we move on to more comedy?
And that is the decision that was rendered in the
IBF Junior Middleweight Championship fight with Josh Kelly and Bakram
martaz Aliev is now under question. Martaz Aliev has formally
asked the IBF to give him a rematch, and this
all goes back to the judge Steve Gray scoring the
final round ten to ten and not for Matazalaiah potentially,
which would have made the fight a draw. All right,
So let's cut to the chase. Realistically, wouldn't the rematch
be the ideal solution here on this? And realistically what
chance does he have? What leverage does he have to
force that rematch?
Speaker 2: Bachraum, Well, he has no leverage. All he can do
is kind of throw himself on the mercy of the court,
so to speak. With the IBF. Now, the IBF rules
are clear. The President of the IBF and their championship
chairman have the ability to order a direct rematch if
they so desire, It says that Cleary. It's one of
the rules that I listed in the article that I
wrote about it. It is. It is highly unusual. We
discussed it the on the post fight stuffhen we were
talking about this fight for that level of a fight,
for a experienced judge, or any judge for that matter,
to score round twelve of a championship fight or any
fight Joe ten to ten, it is ridiculous. It is,
it is frowned upon. It's not against the rules, but
the reason that ten ten rounds exist are basically the
way that they're most often implemented is two reasons. One,
it's round one and literally nothing happens. Or you have
a scenario where a fight is stopped from like a
like a for a foul reason or a head butt
or something along those lines, and it's only a few
seconds into the round and nothing literally happens. So they say,
you still have to score the round, and then it's
going to be a ten ten round if no punches
are thrown. And I've seen that happen. You know, fight happens,
rebell rings, guys playing heads, and you know, five seconds
into the round, nothing neither punch. They score ten to ten,
but ten ten in in that And by the way,
it wasn't round where nothing happened. It was a good
action pack round rounds well, it was probably the best
from entertainment value, was probably the best round of the fight.
So anyway, they wrote their letter to the IBF President
Darryl Peeples. I have a copy of it which I
read and wrote some stuff from that letter in the
story that I wrote about it, and I have followed
up since then. The IBF has informed the Kelly Camp
that this has happened. They have forty eight hours to
respond to give their perspective, and then at some point
over probably the next few days, I would say probably
early next week. Anyway, the IBF will end up making
a decision. If they order a rematch, that'll be what happens,
and if they don't, then Kelly can go on about
his life. I don't think Kelly really wants to do
a rematch. Why would he. It was a really tough,
close fight and that has got the opportunity to go
and make whatever fight he wants. He doesn't have a
mandatory do when he can fight and bring in a
big crowd up in his home area in Newcastle, England
and then move on with his life. He doesn't want
to fight Backerraam again. Why would he? But I can
understand why Bakram wants to fight because he wants to
get his title back.
Speaker 1: All right, state tune on whether the IBF orders that.
And they've done those kind of things in the past.
All these different organizations have done those kind of things.
So let's see what they believe. How much weight does
it carry on the ten ten scoring in the final round?
Being dubious, that's the word that we will use speaking.
Speaker 2: I use, by the way TJ or dubious, I use
the word of fust ship.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, that's a more direct way. Caka uh ca
in the Espanol.
Speaker 2: It's it's such an absolute fucking disgrace to score that
round ten to ten. I'm with you, it really is.
It's just and the people I've been like arguing with
people on fucking social media about it the last two
days about it. The fact that people are defending that
is just I don't even understand it. It doesn't make
any sense. These are professional judges, they like.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the judge that gave Buru eight
rounds in the fight in Puerto Rico and the junior
middleweight unification title. But still, I mean, that's that's repeatedly
giving guys, giving a guy rounds that he didn't deserve, and.
Speaker 2: Potentially the decision. You know, that's true.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the IBF, all right, the lineal IBF cruisweight
champion gi Opataia we knew, We've talked about it already,
has gone with ZUFA Boxing as his new promotion, at
least for now, co promoter. He's going under their umbrella.
You've mentioned he's still with Tasman Fighters and this is
a very interesting test case. So the fight has been
announced for March the I don't even if they announced
it from market, but you've been you've been talking about
that date, March the eighth.
Speaker 2: They said it on the on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: When the interview, they go, so Sunday night, March the eighth,
and you've learned the opponent. Brace yourselves, folks. I'm gonna
go ahead and tip it. It's not earth shattering, but
you've learned the opponent, so go ahead here on the pod.
Speaker 2: Well, I think there was a lot of people that
thought it might be the unification fight with Noel McCallion
because when gi Opataia was at the Apex as a
guest after he had signed with ZUFA, and he was
interviewed on their first broadcast, behind the scenes they had
done a face off because McCallan was there. Won the
WBC belt in December against in the rematch he had
with Ded Dude Jack. He has he's unenclumbered promotionally. I
guess Don King is still as promoter, but he's allowed
to go do his own thing and Don will just
get paid on whatever the next fights are and so
some people thought, oh, that's an interesting you know in
Jiy's whole point was I want to be a unified champion.
So there was I think some hope that he could,
you know, be in that unification fight because the only
way he can get another belt is to do that
match because the other guy with the titles, which is
Zerto Ramirez, is already signed to fight Denvidez in May,
so that that avenue of those belts was not there
for him. But maybe they'll make the Opataia and mccallian
fight after this. But instead of doing that fight, in
the March eight fight, he's gonna take on the Atlanta,
Georgia contender, Brandon Glanton, who is twenty one and three
with eighteen ncouts, a very good puncher. You know. He
lost a fight to Chris Billem Smith in a non
title fight that was back in mid twenty twenty five.
One one fight since then, and it was pretty good win.
Actually he stopped in the sixth round. This is one
of those cars that took place in Lagos, Nigeria, back
in October. He stopped Marcus Brown, who had been the
United States Olympian, had been a light heavyweight contender, had
had suffered a knockout loss to Arthur Better Beev in
a fight that was in Canada, had moved up the cruiserweight.
But still, you know, a reputable name and a pretty
good fighter, and and Glanton, you know, stopped him at
the end of the sixth round, so he gets the
title fight of the peers. I don't think it was.
It was uncessarily a one percent signed, sealed, delivered, but
my sources told me that's the guy, and that's the
fight that will headline the zoofa card from the Apex
in Las Vegas on March eighth.
Speaker 1: All right, uh, stay tuned, and again I would love
to know. And this thing is going to progress. How
many fights is Opataia signed up for beyond like two?
We don't know, we'll find out. Stay tuned, we'll see.
But that's the March eighth opponent. Okay. Continuing with the
IBF per spid, this was interesting earlier this week for
the welterweight title owned by Lewis Crocker. The mandatory challenger
is Liam Parro and in the end, Parro's promoter, No
Limit Boxing, in association with Premiere Boxing Champions and TG
TGB Promotions. They got the winning bid, give us the
details and what does this mean for where the fight's
going to be.
Speaker 2: Well, this was a little bit of a surprise, I mean,
and if you're Lewis Crocker, you kind of be kind
of really disappointed because they were trying to do matchroom
boxing to do to do him Crocker in a rematch
with you know, a fight that would take place in
Delfast with ConA Walker, which would have brought in a
big crowd and he'd be fighting in front of his
home crowd and defending the title. And then the IBF
put the cabash on that and said no, no, no, no,
you got to make the mandatory because he already I
guess it was due. And then Paro had had become
the number one challenger or whatever. So okay, now they
got to negotiate to fight with Parro, who is a
former IBF title holder in the one and forty pound
way class. They couldn't make a deal, or they didn't
make a deal. It went to a perspit on Tuesday.
And now in a perspit situation, the champions team has
the edge because they only have to give up thirty
five percent of the money, as opposed to if you're
the the Challengers promoter and you win the PERSPID, you
got to give up sixty five percent of the money.
So from a financial point of view, it's always better
in terms of the business if you if you are
the champions promoter. So it was a little bit of
a surprise that it was in fact No Limit Boxing
that won this pers bid. They outbid Maatchroom Boxing by
only twenty seven thousand dollars, which, when you're talking about
a bid that's over a million bucks DJ, that's pretty close.
They bid one million, one hundred and fifty two grand and
Bathroom bid one million, one hundred and twenty five thousand.
And so when you win the purse bid, you get
control of the fight, so you tell the other side
when the fight is, where the fight is is, you know,
within the rules and the parameters of the timeline that
they offer, it's usually like, you know, ninety days or
sixty days. So while they have not said that eight
of this fight it will take place, as as No
Limit said when they announced that they had won the
person fit, it will take place in Australia, giving Carrow
the hometown and then and so instead of fighting in
delphas against Kona Walker, now Crocker's got to go to
Australia to fight when I think most people would look
at as a much tougher fight on Parro's home turf.
And there's a probable chance that this fight, although will
be a pay per view in Australia on their platforms,
in the United States because of PBC's involvement, very strong likelihood.
I am told it, it will wind up as a as
a non pay per view just as part of your
regular prime video endeavor.
Speaker 1: Let me let me help on that point. There is
zero pay per view market for that fight in the
United States, certainly Australia is, Certainly in Europe you could
probably get away with I'm just making yeah, no, I
got you. But in America that there's no reason to
put it on pay per view because no one will
buy it.
Speaker 2: I'm making the point that most people in the hear
prime video in America, they think of pay per view
because that's pretty much all they've done. This would not
be that, this would be, you know, just part of
your regular prime video.
Speaker 1: And what is what is the timeframe? Do we think
this is March April is it later than that or
what do we think? Because typically they want the fight
like within ninety days of the purse.
Speaker 2: Bit right, they have they have ninety days to put
on the fight. So until they send the contracts back
and everything gets signed, sealed and delivered. Right now, they
know what the purses are, but they don't have the
I'm sure that that no limit has an idea of
when and where they want to put it on, but
that has not been made public. But they do have
ninety days to get everything tidied up.
Speaker 1: All right, One more item here? I thought, can't we
have good things? I thought we were getting Diego Pacheco
and Hamza Shiraz for the vacant WBO one hundred and
sixty eight pounds super middleweight title. That is not the case.
So who is the new fighter that is now inserted?
What have you been able to find out? You've been
doing some digging what's going on?
Speaker 2: So I have talked to the WBO about this, and
it is very disappointing. First and foremost at Diego Pacheco, who,
after he had his last victory against Sajo, he and
Eddie Hearn stood there in the ring and in the
interview talked about what they wanted next, and they specifically
mentioned Hams of Sharraz as the opponent that they wanted
to fight. All right, I'm signing up, as you would say,
that's a good fight to you know, two quality young
guys you're looking to make a name for themselves, looking
to become a champion. I mean that that's a good matchup.
Diego Pacheco has decided against that. He is now with
a new manager. I'm not sure what that has to
do with it, but you know he's headed towards free
agency at some point in the near future.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But to me, you know, I don't know how a manager,
you know, you might be able to get more money
if you just you know, hit he can negotiate even
if he doesn't have a new contract. Because minimums are minimums,
it doesn't mean you can't negotiate more than your minimum.
And obviously, if you're fighting Hams of Shiraz, you would
think he can his team can negotiate more money from
that room on that fight compared to if he's fighting
you know, Kevin leile Sajo, which is obviously a much
smaller fight. So I'm not gonna sit here and tell
you it's a flat out duck, but they made a
strategic decision to do something else in the meantime. Okay, fine,
So that leaves Sharaz with the next in the ratings
for the WBO, and it is a thirty eight year
old German fighter named Alam Begich who has a glittering
record at twenty nine oh to one with twenty three knockouts.
And then, as our good friend Steve Farhad would discuss
on the old Showbox series, okay, take us behind the numbers.
But when you go behind the numbers, you look at
his reck and you see you fought a bunch of nobody's.
I mean, it's a glittering record built on literally nothing.
So that doesn't mean he's not good. It just means
he's obscure. And it's a disappointment because it's not the
same level of the of an interesting kind of fight
on paper as it would have been had he been
fighting against Diego Pacheco. Now, it's not Hamasa Shiraz's fault.
He was willing to do the fight. You got to
fight who they put in front of you. Obviously, he
wants to win a title.
Speaker 1: Does this against I understand, So this is his fight
that he's gonna have, and what's the what's the timeframe?
What's the date we're looking at again for this?
Speaker 2: Okay, so this fight has not been formally announced, but
I am told by sources involved that it will be
Main ninth in Manchester, England.
Speaker 1: All right, So this makes me wonder. So that's that's
now to be a good three months away. This makes
me wonder. Is Pacheco somehow in play for Christian Mobilly?
Here we go again with the WBC because they elevated
him to the WBC one hundred and sixty eight pound
full championship, or is there another potential title fight that
Pacheco was more interested in. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I don't know if it's specifically
that fights necessarily. I mean, although if you tell me,
I didn't you know that Pachecko didn't do a fight
with the Shiraz. Oh, by the way, he's gonna fight Mobilly?
I mean, how could you complain about that? Now? The
thing about the super midiweight division right now is you have,
like you said, Mabilly has the WBC title, but Hams
of Shiraz and the German Degic are going to fight
for the WBO title that's vacant. The IBF title is
presently vacant, and you have Armando Armando Resendez who was
elevated from interim to the full title holder when Crawford
ended up retiring and vacating all the titles, and Rizendez.
Nothing is definite, but there's a possibility that he may
fight Berlanga. They've been this, that's been something that's come up. Uh,
we shall see. But what what Pacheco does, I don't
know if it's going to be that type of fight.
I think that he wants to have another fight that's
maybe not as taxing while he does whatever he does
when his.
Speaker 1: Why would you not want to fight Resendez for a
world title or fight Mobility for a world title if
you're not gonna Fightendas.
Speaker 2: Is not on the table for Pachecko as far as
I know, So that's not even an option.
Speaker 1: Much so that we can watch Edgar Berlanga, who got
picked up with a snowshovel off the mat at the
uit at the United States Tennis Center after he fought Sharaz.
We need to have that fight instead. Can't we have
good things? I began the whole premise. I got to
have good.
Speaker 2: Things Berlanga far Resendez, I can't. I'm not gonna get
bad about that. It's probably a fun fight. I mean,
whatever you think about Berlanga, it's not like he's not
fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I just want better fights. I thought we were gonna
have a good win with this one, but apparently we're not.
Pacheco's gonna fight some guy or I'm sorry, Shara is
going to fight some guy we never heard of in
Manchester coming up.
Speaker 2: And the other name that's come up, by the way,
is like a mongia as well as one of the
possibilities for for them.
Speaker 1: That's more compelling than Berlina, by the way, but I
don't know. Yeah, one more thing, Let's do a little nostalgia,
because my man Rayfield was salivating that earlier. This week
was the thirtieth anniversary of an absolute barn burner Boxing
after Dark on HBO, the first ever boxing after Dark right.
The inaugural one was February three, nineteen ninety six, and
it was Marco Antonio Barrera and Memphis, Tennessee's Kennedy McKenny
wax nostalgic with me, my friend.
Speaker 2: First of all, we haven't done any nostalgia in a while.
So when I looked at the calendar and I saw this,
and I posted my pictures of my poster, and not
that long ago, I actually bought a credential from this
fight from my collection. And as I say, whenever this
fight comes up, I don't know if there's a program
for this fight or an I have the HBO poster.
I don't know if there's an on site poster. And
I always say when I've written or mentioned it, if
you're out there listening, you know if one exists, or
you have one or a lead on one, hit me up, baby,
because I'm in the market.
Speaker 1: You want the poster and or the program. You said both,
you want.
Speaker 2: The pro yes, sir. If I don't know if they exist,
that's okay. Wait, if they exist, somebody let me know.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see boxing after dark at the Forum
in Inglewood, California, February ninety six. Barrera McKenny. Hit Rayphael
up on the d MS or wherever on the sub stack.
If you got some merch, he would be interested. But
tell me, tell me more about this fight.
Speaker 2: That's an absolutely fucking spectacular fight. I think it's one
of the most underrated fights in like of the you know,
nineteen nineties to the present. I mean it's just everything
about is beautiful this fight. So, like you mentioned, you know,
HBO of course had their their land, you know, their
cornerstone series, World Championship Boxing, and in nineteen ninety six,
our good friend lud de Bella was one of the
main creators of this series. The idea was still have
you know, fun, exciting matchups, but it's going to be
a lot of guys that aren't as well known. Translates
also to you know, to less expensive to produce and
to have rights. Feace four gonna be a lot of
fights in the smaller weight divisions, and they thought they
could make a go of it. And when it became
as popular as it did, there were times where the
best boxing after Dark events were on par in terms
of viewership with World Championship Boxing. That's how great of
a fucking series that this was. And for this to
be the main event of the first show, it really
set the tone. Now, the opening fight on this particular
card was Johnny Tapia, who was a holding a junior
bantamwaly title at that point, scored a quick second round
knockout against a fighter named Giovanni Andre, which is a
very forgettable type of fight other than the fact that
Tappy is a Hall of Famer and you know, was
one of his many title defenses. But the main event
between Barrera and McKinney. You Barrera was a forum boxing
fighter who was a did not have the big time
American popularity, but was you know, kind of had a
great reputation coming out of Mexico. McKinney was a well
known fighter on the on the scene. He had been
in the Olympics and won a medal, and had been
in some, you know, a lot of televised fights. It
was just a great matchup, you know, Mexico versus America
white fighter or black fighter rather against the Mexican fighter.
You know, two warrior type guys, I mean, and they
delivered better than you could ever possibly have imagined. And
I will quote the great legend Larry Merchant, our dear
friend who at one point I was watching this back
such a great fucking quote as they're beating this ship
out of each other, and they're just going crazy in
this fight, and the crowd's going wild. Larry, you know,
I feel like we was speaking for everybody that night
when he says, I can watch this fight for a week.
I was just so Like Larry Brera got knocked down
in the eleventh round of that fight. I believe that
was the first time Marco was ever dropped in his career.
But he scored five knockdowns against McKinney over the course
of the fight, twice in the eighth round, once in
the ninth round, two more times in the twelfth round.
And he went when he went down for good. Uh,
you know, the referee in the fight was, uh, you
know you can hear because HBO had I guess I
had the uh they had him. I had a micd
up so you could kind of he didn't have like
the perfect audio of it. But I'm trying to remember
who the referee was. But he went and he said,
you got the greatest that you got like the best
heart I've ever seen, meaning McKinney, because he got off
the deck five times to you know, just show give
everything he possibly could. It was such a fantastic fight,
and the like I said, it's set the tone. The referee,
as I look it up here was Pat Russell. He
got the greatest heart I've ever seen kid or something
to that extent, and like, fights just don't get much better.
Speaker 1: Hey, I got much love for Kenny McKinney. He was
rarely in a bad fight and was a fantastic smaller
weight fighter from my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. I've often
shared when we do this nostalgia that my freshman year
of college at Memphis State University in Memphis, Tennessee what's
now the University of Memphis, Kennedy McKinney that fall that
September had won the gold medal the nineteen eighty eight Olympics,
and they had a Kennedy McKinny day and a parade
all through Memphis for him. There was such pride for him,
and he a again was in a lot of battles
late eighties and into the nineties, including in this fight.
Speaker 2: For sure, Like if I was doing like, I'm not
sure Kennedy McKinney would be a guy I'd put in
the International Boxing Hall of Fame. But I have a
lot of memories of some of his good fights. I
think of like hall of really good, Like he was
on that level. He he hung with everybody, He fought
a lot of top guys. He obviously had this classic
fucking battle with Barrera, which is, you know, to me
for as much love as we all have for like
the Morales Barrera trilogy and other Marco Antonio Brera fights,
his victory against Nasim Ahmed and other exciting matches he's
been in. For me, the McKinney fight is literally, if
you said, Rayfael, make your top ten list of all
time favorite fights, I'd put this fight on that list.
Interesting one of my very favorite fights of all time.
And the thing about is because it kicked off Boxing
for Dark and set the tone, it went even greater
because like a few weeks later, I think it must
have been the second episode of Boxing to Dark had
another incredibly ridiculous classic in the in the main event,
and that was the night that Arturo Gatti had the
legendary comeback against Wilson Rodriguez to retain his title at
one hundred and thirty pounds. So you know, it's like
they this this series was like, are you kidding me?
We're gonna get this shit every single month. I mean,
obviously not everyone lived up to that, but you know,
early on you're like, okay, we got something here. Yeah,
the matchmaking was supreme, The everything about the broadcast was incredible.
The music that they ended up settling on for their
theme music, you hear that today and it just takes
you back to those great fights. But Brer McKinney, man,
what a fucking listener.
Speaker 1: I don't want to accept that thirty years or thirty
years ago. February third, nineteen ninety six. Go YouTube that,
uh Marco Antonio Burra on the deck and the eleventh
round got up off the deck and still got a
TKO win.
Speaker 2: Incredible for that night. Great so by the way he
was he was defending his junior featherweight title at the time,
which was when Breer was still you know, the baby
assassin and just you know, just going after everybody, and
McKinny gave him some of the best competition you ever
had despite the five knockdowns.
Speaker 1: Love that Memphian all right. One other thing, Hey, there's
a football game Sunday and a couple of people care,
at least in North America. I don't know how much
the rest of the world cares. Although the NFL is
branching out. Did you see this Raypiel? We are we
looking to go cover the La Rams and the San
Francisco forty nine ers in the first ever NFL regular
season game in Melbourne, Australia. They announced that on Thursday
at the Super Bowl Gaday they're gonna play in Australia
by American rules, with helmets.
Speaker 2: And short American rules.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna play Australian rules football where those dudes
run around like twenty five guys on a side killing
each other with no padding, no helmets to kick the
ball through the uprights and have the guy or the
gal in the white hat and the white coats do
the little signal like we used to watch on ESPN
back in the day, when this is American football is
going to be played in Austo.
Speaker 2: When I hear it so, I mean, like any good
American sports fan, of course I'm watching the Super Bowl.
I'm looking forward to it. But when I hear that
it's the Patriots who I despise, it's the Seahawks, which
I have no particular opinion one way or the other on.
When I hear that's the game that is going to
settle the NFL championship, I think to myself, how many
days until spring training?
Speaker 1: My friends, well, right, it's coming around the corner. But
but for this game, we've gone over this before. What's
on the spread? Now, Yeah, you are bacheloring it this weekend.
So John Rayfield and Missus Rayfield are gone. So there
are they back on Super Bowl Sunday evening. You have
a bachelorette with your own food and your own eats
for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: No, my wife and my son. My wife took my son.
They went to Minneapolis, not to be involved in protests,
to visit friends of ours who my son is friends
with their child and we are friends with the parents.
So they live like an hour outside of Minneapolis. So
they are going to spend the weekend visiting with our friends.
They will arrive home probably like like in the third
quarter of the football game.
Speaker 1: All right, so safe travels to them. I haven't is
what are the eats, because like I just found this out.
I checked with the social coordinator aka my wife. We
got married by the way, in nineteen ninety six, thirty
years ago, around the time of that Kennedy McKinney Barra fight.
Speaker 2: He's beating you ever since I checked.
Speaker 1: I checked with a social coordinator on what are we doing?
My my updated schedule is that we're going to my
sister and brother in law's house for the eats. And
apparently so I can. I can say this because my
sister does not listen to us on the Boxing podcast.
Of all the thousands and thousands and thousands of you
that do listen to us, she ain't one of them.
She's not really a big fight fan. She's like laying
out that they're gonna have some vegetables and some cheese
and some kind of chip and dip. And I did
to get started as her brother going and are we
talking like chicken wing? Are we talking about little pizza bytes?
Are we talking about little slider hamburgers. There's gotta be
a payoff besides like rabbit food and appetizer food. We
gotta we gotta do better.
Speaker 2: Than that people over for the Super Bowl or we
do like we just watch as a family. My wife
like whips up. She'll she'll bust out, like besides just
traditional stuff like you mentioned, she'll go make like shrimp cocktail. Yeah,
well that type of thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, good stuff, something with some protein, not just
the rabbit food. We're not just having you know, cheese
and spiders. Throw something going, We got to find this
out and straighten this out ultimately. Here Seattle and New
England is a rematch. By the way, the last time
the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl. There are a
few guarantees in life, all right, death taxes, Ray, Phil
and Reeves are gonna bicker on the podcast. Few guarantees.
Let me give you another guarantee. If this game's down
to the final seconds and the Seahawks have the ball
inside the five yard line, I can tell you right
now they're not going to throw the ball on the
goal line like they did back in twenty fourteen when
Russell Wilson very famously threw the pass and Malcolm Butler
jumped in front of the receiver and picked it off
and sealed the win when it looked like Seattle was
about to win back to back Super Bowls again. Few guarantees,
But the Seahawks ain't throwing in the clutch on the
goal line in the final seconds of the game. That's
not going to happen again.
Speaker 2: I'm all about this. When you get down in that
close to the goal line takes me back to my
days watching my early New York Giants Super Bowl championships,
Smash mouth.
Speaker 1: Yes, give it ToJ anders right, give it to oj
Anderson and let him smash it in or one of
those other giants, Tiki Barber, whoever Wheelers Steelers had, Frank o'harris.
I'm trying to think in the day, you know that
the Cowboys would give it to Emmitt Smith, much to
your chagrin, when the Cowboys were actually relevant thirty years ago.
Speaking of a way, by the way, Barrera Morales thirtieth anniversary,
that is also the final time the Dallas Cowboys. Actually
it was February of ninety seven, the next year, six seasons,
the last time the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl,
much less McKinney, Right, yeah, Barrea McKinney, My bad, Barrera
McKenny is the same year that the Cowboys. The last
time the Cowboys had a Super Bowl season thirty years ago,
and yet we still talk about them incessantly.
Speaker 2: As much as I hate the Cowboys as a Giants fan,
I actually always was a fan of Emmitt Smith as
an individual player. I mean, he destroyed the cow the
Giants on a number of.
Speaker 1: The Casicola, Florida's Emmitt Smith all the way up in
the panhands.
Speaker 2: But he is a great player.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was tremendous.
Speaker 2: I mean, my my favorite guys to watch in the
non giants category back in those days. Huge fan of
watching Emma Smith, huge fan of watching Barry Sanders.
Speaker 1: Of course, all of Barry Sanders highlights are against the
Buccaneers in the oranget. Just go back and watch on
all the commercials and all the YouTube videos.
Speaker 2: I mean viighlights against everybody.
Speaker 1: You've got Buccaneers grabbing air over and over and over.
A Hall of Fame players too, Derek Brooks, John Lynch
grab an air. Can't find him. Nonetheless, the super Bowl
will be played this weekend. I think Seattle wins this
against New England.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned. I hope Seattle wins because I just hate
the Patriots that much.
Speaker 1: I understand. But Boston is all about this. New England
is all about this. Stay tuned for that game. You
and I will come back here off the weekend. Again,
we've got these two world title fights. The first one
in Guadalajara, Mexico for the WBO bantamweight title Christian Medina
Adrian Curriel. Again is Friday night. As we released the
podcast Thursday night, and a Friday morning and then Saturday
afternoon US time Saturday night in Liverpool, England, Nick Ball,
Brandon Figarola. That should be should be an entertaining one.
We'll recap those when we come off the weekend. Other
than that, Dan Rayfield, are we good?
Speaker 2: I think we are.
Speaker 1: We're done bickering for another episode and giving you the
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