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Speaker 1: Well off of a weekend that has seen the Monster

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get it done with the unanimous decision win in Saudi

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Arabia of all places, and it does look like he

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is setting up a matchup with Junko Nakatani, although Nakatani

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had problems in his fight. We're going to recap both

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of those the entire night of the Samurai Card. We

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have some other action to talk about in Japan as

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well as in Nigeria. We are worldwide. My Lord on

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the Fight Freaks Unit Recap podcast, I am the somewhat

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competent host TJ. Reeves. Hello to our insider Dan Rayphiel.

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Fight Freaks Unit. Is the substack in the newsletter? I

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Speaker 1: Yes, But the way I like to put it is,

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Speaker 1: And you and I are independent doing this. We work

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for each other, We work for the fans. And let's

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just say thank you while we're throwing out the bouquets.

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You and I will be jousting with plastic silverware soon

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enough on this podcast. While we are saying compliments, thank

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you to the audience. By the tens of thousands, you

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have found us again in this calendar year, in this

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We're here. We have done a diligent job for four years,

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you and I of previewing going into the weekend, recapping

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coming off the weekend, and we're going to recap one

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Speaker 2: And they said it wouldn't last exactly.

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Speaker 1: Let me say this further. I have been in Miami,

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as we touched on when we departed for the preview pod,

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and it has not gone well again, my friend from

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my Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Amazingly with all the bad football

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that the Bucks fans and media and observers have endured,

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seven losses in eight games, still including Sunday in Miama,

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still not eliminated from the playoffs. It comes down to

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a winner take on game with Carolina this week. I'm

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just saying to the audience, if I'm a little shall

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I go into the vocabulary bag, I'm a little pensive.

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If I'm a little off tonight, there's a reason why.

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It's because my NFL team can't make my Sunday nights

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enjoyable anymore. The last two months.

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Speaker 2: I sat through the New York fucking Football Giants, Yeah,

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who have stunk out loud for the better part of

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a decade, come to a game on the road where

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they were winless this season to play the only other

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team in the National Football League there was also two

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wins and thirteen losses, knowing that if they lost the game,

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they would since the number one pick in the draft,

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which is franchise altering whether you make the number one

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pick or traded for a boatload of players and draft back.

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And what did they do. Not only did they take

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the big first half lead, which I wasn't totally sold

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they would lose, that they would win because they've blown

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so many second half leads this year, but they went

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on to route the Las Vegas Raiders. Did they my

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entire life, where I ever rooted for them to lose

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the game? They fucking won the game. You are still

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alive in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 2: We couldn't even fucking lose when we needed to lose.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. You can't even lose, right, you can't even you

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can't even lose to the Raiders right now?

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Speaker 2: You got me fired up, man, all right?

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Speaker 1: I understand. So we got to get to the boxing

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is kind of therapeutic in some ways too, because we're

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talking something other than Baker Mayfield throwing interceptions. The buck

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defense can't figure it out, and it's another loss such

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as life. All right, uh, final, by the way, we

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get into it. I did get a chance to watch

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all of this on Saturday before leaving for Miami and Naoya.

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In a way, did win, I will say at the top,

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and then I will set you three two one blast off.

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I really felt like he was trying to wear him

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down Picasso and was going to take him out. I'm

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a little disappointed is the wrong word. I felt a

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little unfulfilled that he didn't go for the KO when

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he's a world class fighter. He clearly is better quicker

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than Picasso, and it's like he was content that, Okay,

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I'll win by decision, I'll win by landslide decision. I've

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won most of the rounds. I felt a little unfulfilled

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by that. What is your take? He won, He won decisively,

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that's all he needed to do. I get that, But

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what is your take on what you saw out of

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in a way in sauny Arabia.

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Speaker 2: I thought, in a way looked absolutely spectacular. I mean,

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I know he didn't get the knockout, and he himself

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after the fight in his press conference or in his rather,

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his post fight interview in the Ring said he was

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disappointed with his performance, which a little surprising to me

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because he won a shutout one twenty to one aw

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eight on one score card, one nineteen to one oh nine

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on the other card, which I thought, if you were

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going to have any other score other than a shutout,

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perhaps you could give Picasso maybe the last round of

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the fight, where you know, he did like at least

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make the effort and try, and in a way was

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obviously you know, I knew he had it in the back.

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the score one seventeen to one to eleven. The fact

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that Dad Judge could find three rounds to get to

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give Picasso is absolutely like a mind fuck to me.

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I don't even understand that. That is so bizarre.

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Speaker 1: A good way we're gonna get to the chain or

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two in the Knakatani fight coming up. But yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I would agree, I mean, forget about it. I mean anyway,

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but I wasn't disappointing to get the knockout. I mean,

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some guys have great chins and they're not going to

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get knocked out of it given night. I don't think did.

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Speaker 1: You really sense in the back half of the fight

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that he was looking to go for big combinations, big punches.

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it was like, Okay, I can tag him to the

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body when I want, I'll put a combination together here

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and there. He's not really hitting me. I'm winning the rounds.

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Speaker 2: I look, I think that I don't. First of all,

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the best fighters don't look for knockouts. They come, I

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mean when you land, So I don't think he was

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there thinking like I'm I mean, I'm sure he said

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he wanted to get a knockout, but I don't think

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he was like trying like I'm going to get a

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knockout with this next punch. So sometimes you have to

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give credit to the opponent. And David Picasso came in

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to this fight undefeated. He is a good contender. I

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don't think he's even close to the same level as

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an inn Away, but he you know, he was coming

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down from featherweight. You know, if he sticks around at

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one hundred and twenty two pounds, you know, once in

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a way leaves the division or if he goes back

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to featherweight, like he'll give other good guys, you know,

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tough fights and win some of them. I am sure

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it's just a different level. So I wasn't disappointed.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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not getting a knockedout. I also look at it like

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sometimes you have to give the opponent to credit for

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not getting knocked out. You know, he was there to

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take whatever was coming his way. He was a very

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tough fighter, and uh, you know, I give him credit

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for hanging in there for twelve rounds and fighting one

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of the greatest fighters of our generation and not getting

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no doubt.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt. I mean, he is amazing with the run.

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Speaker 2: I'm not disappointed, just to be clear a couple things,

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but in a way, real quick, he's a great fighter still,

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even even though he's now getting a little older. He

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has of course risen through the weights. Remember he started

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his career in terms of his first world title was

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at one hundred and eight pounds. Now he's undisputed one

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hundred and twenty two pounds, So I don't think his

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power is the same at one twenty two as it

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was when he was in a smaller way class payer.

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He also has gotten better from just a just the

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reps in the activity level, and this was his sports

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fight of the year. He's a he's a much better,

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I think, guy that uses his speed, angles his jab.

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early days. He's he's refined his style a little bit

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and sometimes that's going to lead more to boxing than all.

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Speaker 1: Right, So one interesting aspect, And if you were gonna

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give Picasso around, I thought the second round might be around.

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You gave him. He landed several left hands in the

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second round. And one thing we have seen in the fight,

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starting with the Luis Nary fight and then with the

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Cardinias fight earlier this year, he got dropped by left hands.

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Is that something to pay attention to moving forward that

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in a way tends to get hit with lefts and

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a power puncher might give him problems.

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Speaker 2: What say you, Yeah, I mean, that's that's fair. I mean,

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but not like they don't know that. I mean, they'll

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they'll study that. I mean, obviously, if he does fight

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Knakatani in the next fight, like is expected, Knakatani is

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a southpaw. He's got a great straight left hand, and

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that's gonna be something that that potentially could be problematic.

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But uh, you know, he did get knocked down a

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couple of times, but how many times has he drilled

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guys with body punches with right hands of his own

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or taking a good left hand. And just in terms

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of the scoring that you mentioned about, you know, what

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round could you give Picasso? I'm looking at the official

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scorecard Steve Weisfeld, who had it eleven rounds to one

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in favor of anyway, he gave Picasso the twelfth round,

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which I thought was not out of the realm. Obviously,

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one of the judges how today shutout and then one

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of the other judges, the one that ridiculously gave Picasso

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three rounds. One of the three rounds he gave him

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was in fact also the twelfth round. So the twelfth

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round was in the majority of the judging panel. That

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was really, to me anyway, the only and I didn't

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give it to him. I scored to fight a shutout,

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but if I was gonna give him one round, it

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was the twelfth round. But in a way, look, he's

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like old man over these days, he's twenty seven and

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oh now in world championship fights in a row. It's

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not like some guys have a ton of world title

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fight appearances and they have a great record in world

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title fights, but they don't necessarily do them all consecutively.

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Though when they move up to the next division sometimes

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that first or second fight is not A champion in

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a way has gone from one division to the next,

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to the next to the next, all in world title fight.

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So twenty seven consecutive victories in title defense in title

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fights rather uh and two division undisputed, four division overall

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in terms of world titles. Just a brilliant fighter. And

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by the way, with the retirement of Terrence Crawford in

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the recent weeks, it is not even a discussion. I

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don't think that if you don't have either in a

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way or usk as your number one pound for pound,

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I just don't respect your list number one and number two.

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I thought it was absolutely fucking fantastic that Alexander Usik

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was at ringside sitting with Ganati Glovkin by the way,

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watching the fight, and after the fight. I don't know

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if he and I know I'd ever met previously, but

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they met and there's I saw a video on social

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media where he was getting in a ways autograph on

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his credential. I mean that they shows you.

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Speaker 1: That that is, you know, as the kids like to

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say game that was game or game respects game. I'm

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just gonna say what that's what that is?

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Speaker 2: So that I mean two two greats to two time.

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I mean, uh, what do you call it in a

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way being two division undisputed? You think being two division

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undisputed clearly number one and number two or one in

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one A or one whatever you want to say, town

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for pound. But the fact that they would they would

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have that moment. I hope somebody got some good photos

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of that because that's a great picture. And they're both gonna,

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you know, be Hall of famers someday. I mean, it's

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just it's just, look, we can talk about boxing is

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not what it once was years ago, and you and

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I go back to the eighties when we grew up

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watching fights, and maybe even the late seventies. Uh, and

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it's certainly not what it was. But I would tell

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you that a guy like Alexander Usak and know you

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in a way, I don't care what an era you

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want to talk about. They would fit in and do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's have fun. Can we have fun for ninety seconds?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: In a way, Salvador Sanchez, I know it's a featherweight fight.

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Speaker 2: Amazing fight, but I mean because.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to equate it in a way. Pernell Whittaker, right,

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was an early featherweight or was he always super featherweight

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and lightweight?

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Speaker 2: Now he was? He won his first world title at

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one hundred and thirty five pounds, So lightweight, they're just

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not the same size.

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Speaker 1: I mean, give me another one, give me another all

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timer in the seventies, eighties, nineties that you would have

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loved to have seen in a way fight featherweight junior featherweight, man,

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I mean junior featherweight.

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Speaker 2: And but I mean obviously him and will fred O Gomez.

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I mean he was the big bomber at one twenty

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two who had a long stretch of like, you know,

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a million knockouts in a row. If you went further down,

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you know, when he was at like one hundred and

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eight pounds, imagine in a way against like a Michael Carbahall. Oh,

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those types of fights. Chiquiita Gonzalez, you know he he's

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in the conversation. You know for greatest fighter maybe of

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all time anywhere from like flyweight and below. And he's

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certainly making a name for himself. He did so at

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vandam weight. Look, he became undisputed Bandon White champion, only

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the second one in fifty years and at one twenty two.

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I don't think he's achieved necessarily on the level of

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what will fred O Gomez did, but he is now

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in the four belt era that we've discussed. Sometimes he

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has more defenses than anybody that's ever won. It's crazy

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or four world you know, the unified the four titles.

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Speaker 1: This was all the fighters that fight once a year.

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This guy has literally fought like ten times in the

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last two and a half years.

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Speaker 2: Well this was his fourth fight of this year. Yes,

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he's now made seven defenses at junior featherweight. Six of

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them have been of the four belts. That's the record.

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The next guy that's made the most defenses of four

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belts is Canelo, who did it four times in his

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first run with the super middlewent title. So he's spectacular.

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So TJ. Reeves can be disappointed with his performance.

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Speaker 1: But I would not say. I said disappointed is the

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wrong word I said. I felt unfulfilled that I really

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thought he could step on the gas and get that

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guy out of there.

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Speaker 2: I didn't look at it. I didn't look at it

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the same way.

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Speaker 1: All right, But I'm not saying it was a bad performance.

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It clearly was a good performance. And he is that

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much better than almost everybody he fights. So you worry,

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you know, does he lose interest here or there or

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whatever in one of these fights and get caught blah

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blah blah. I don't know, all right.

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Speaker 2: He seems to be like one of the most focused

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and serious fighters.

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Speaker 1: The body puncher, dynamite in either hand. He is tremendous

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for the sport because he's been active. We get to

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see him a lot, we get to debate him a lot.

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He's fought worldwide. He fought in the United States, he

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now fought in Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 2: By the way, he's also I mean, maybe Saturday's fight

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wasn't like one of his classic exciting fights, but he

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was in the Fight of the Aar a few years

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ago against Nonito don Air in their first fight. He's

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been in highly entertaining fights against like Luis Neeri and

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other fights. So he gives you value for money. He's

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a spectacular technician, he's a great punter. He's just a

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fantastic fighter. You know, he's just the one place where

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he kind of lacks, at least my way of looking

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at He known then the biggest personality in the world.

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Maybe it's a cultural thing. I don't speak Japanese obviously,

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so maybe he talkshit in Japan and we just don't

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know it.

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Speaker 1: But uh, apparently not a whole lot.

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Speaker 2: I say that's like jokingly, he's a great fucking fighter.

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I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that leads us to what could be next.

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And we had built it up and you interviewed Junto

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Nakatani moving up to super bandom way junior featherweight, whatever

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you want to call it, and he had problems. Oh yeah,

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on I mean obviously on Saturday, and I'm gonna say it,

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lucky to escape with Sebastian Hernandez going toe to toe

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with him and at times wobbling him. A couple of

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times he wobbled him, swollen right eye badly. Then we

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comically get the scores red and we've got the the

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the once again, the one eighteen one ten should be

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a hashtag at this point, what planet is that judge

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on that Hernandez only got two rounds on that card.

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I can understand you didn't give Hernandez seven rounds for

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the win, but two. Yeah, he was winning the back

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half of the fight, Dan, I mean you look at

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that eye of Nakatani. He was in danger in the

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eleventh and twelfth round with an eye.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. I mean I thought the fight was

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one fifteen to one thirteen, as did two of the judges.

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Speaker 1: HM.

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Speaker 2: Seemed perfectly appropriate on the Zones broadcast it was the

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draw f one fourteen to one fourteen. Uh. I saw

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some smattering of people on social media that thought it

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was one fifteen to one thirteen in favor of Hernandez.

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I think maybe very slightly generous, But the reality was

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Nakatani was the dominating figure through the first four or

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five rounds, like to the point where I thought maybe

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he would stop Hernandez. Like he was that dominating. He

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slowed down a little bit, he got caught, the eye

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started to blow up. Hernandez has got a big heart,

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He's obviously a sturdy puncher, and he just kept moving

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forward and doing his thing. I feel like Nakatani maybe

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he got a little bit tired and in the end,

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you know, it was everything he had to do to

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hang on. If you take a look at round twelve

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in that thing, I thought, and I think it was

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mentioned on the broadcast as well, it almost got the

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feeling like he was looking up at the screen to

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see how much time was left to tiny to kill

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the clock, to make just to see how much there

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was left now. The one thing that is very irritating

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to me is while we consider and we can say, yeah,

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one fifteen one thirteen for Nakatani seems perfectly fine, the

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issue is, and this is completely fucked up, is that

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the way that they achieved the one fifteen one to

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thirteen was the problem is because all three judges gave

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Nakatani the twelfth round, which the way I looked at

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it was like that was a really big round for Hernandez.

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I thought he definitely won the twelfth round of the fight,

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and that Nakatani still had won enough rounds on my card, right,

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who still emerges the winner. Even if you give hernan'z

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round er, you had him up.

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Speaker 1: Three, you had him losing the twelfth round to finish

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up to one fifteen one thirteen, and the two judges

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that scored it officially one fifteen one to thirteen, they

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had it even going to the final round.

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Speaker 2: And they gave him the last round. So I'm not

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sure what that says. Doesn't look good, you know, because

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what happens is you see the final score, like, okay,

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fifteen and thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry they had my bad on the math. And

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again I'm fuzzy because I've been in Miami. They had

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him up by one point, where if they had given

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Hernandez the final round, it's a draw. Instead they gave

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it to Nakatani and he wins by two.

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Speaker 2: So again, the one fifteen one thirteen is fine, but

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when you dig underneath a little bit and you look

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how did you arrive at one fifteen one to thirteen,

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you have a little bit of an issue and a

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little bit of a problem. Regardless, he did win the fight. Uh,

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it clearly was not his best night. This was a

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man who was moving up to one hundred twenty two pounds.

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Perhaps he was a little tired, Maybe the size difference

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was getting to him because of the punching power of Fernandez.

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Maybe it was on his mind that he knows the

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big fight is there, and you know, he kind of

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froze up a little bit of thinking about like I'm

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gonna maybe blow this big, big, mega fight and didn't

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have his best night.

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Speaker 1: But he clearly, I mean, we talk about this also

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a lot of heart. That's clearly. Clearly it's a pressure

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pack situation for him, mega fight on deck. He's moving

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up against a guy that is tough, that is and

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he looked again Hernandez looked bigger, looking on the rehydration whatever,

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and was, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Hernandez was undefeated. He didn't know how to so he didn't.

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He was there to preserve his record and get a

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big himself.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, he was obviously in a dog fight,

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if you will, in a battle, he gets the victory.

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I guess the way that I will phrase it to you,

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does this give you some pause, some concern about how

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Nakatani might fare moving up in way to fight a

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much more accomplished championship level fighter, Like in a way,

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what do you think.

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Speaker 2: Got he got the one fight at one twenty two,

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uh in in his you know, in his experience now

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and now he's gonna have this next fight again against

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in a Way at one twenty two, and that's a

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good thing that he got that experience in there. But

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as you mentioned earlier, one of the things that does

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give in a way some trouble is the left hand.

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That's Nakatani's best punch from the south bust stand. So

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that's a positive. If Nakatani was always going to be

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the underdog against in a way, so now maybe because

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maybe his performance wasn't the best, he'll be a little

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bit of a bigger underdog. But the bottom line is,

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you know, once that fight gets announced and everybody gets

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excited about this, I mean, he had he had to

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go through with the gauntlet and he had to win

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a tough fight, and you know, I think there's not

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that's not necessarily a bad thing when guys just win easy, easy, easy. Yep,

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you know it's it's not necessarily a good thing because

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you have to think that once he looks back at

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the video of this and Rudy Hernandez his trainer, and

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they go over it and they talk about it, and

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then of course they got to prepare for anyway. You know,

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they're gonna learn some things from this fight. It's sometimes

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it's good to have that.

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Speaker 1: But what I thought was interesting and I knew I

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wanted to bring this up, and you just prompted me,

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so well done. Is you interviewed Nakatani through a translator,

475
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and we played that obviously on the pod feed. But

476
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,079
Hernandez Rudy Heran is right? Do I get the name right?

477
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,039
Forgive me, because I'm in many places. He's speaking English

478
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,559
in the quarter the whole time He's saying stuff to

479
00:21:57,599 --> 00:22:00,000
Nakatani and English, and I couldn't tell was there an

480
00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:02,680
interpreter like whispering in Nakatani's ear, But it seemed to

481
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,440
me like Nakatati was understanding him.

482
00:22:04,559 --> 00:22:06,519
Speaker 2: I think it's like a lot of fighters that are

483
00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:09,839
not English speaking as their first language. He spends a

484
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,640
lot of time in the United States and trains in

485
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,960
the United States in Los Angeles. If you notice, when

486
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,200
he wrapped up the interview on his own, he spoke

487
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,960
in English and said, you know, thank you to the fans,

488
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,359
or thank you very much, or something like very basic

489
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,119
English obviously, but it sounded good. So I think that he,

490
00:22:23,599 --> 00:22:25,359
like a lot of guys, he understands a lot of

491
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,880
what is said, but he's maybe not as comfortable.

492
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. Yeah, because in in a

493
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,200
way's corner in the next fight, they were speaking Japanese

494
00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:35,759
NonStop to him. I don't know how good his English

495
00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:38,200
is or how much he understands, but they were going

496
00:22:38,279 --> 00:22:40,880
ninety miles a minute, and it was it was funny

497
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,359
at times to hear the translator for the Dizone broadcast

498
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:45,960
trying to keep up with what they were telling him,

499
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,519
and they kept saying, go to the body, use the

500
00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:51,440
left of the body. I loved the advice, by the way,

501
00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:54,799
skipping back to Picasso's corner in Spanish, saying to him

502
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,880
stop standing in front of him. If you don't move,

503
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,039
you're going to get hurt. Exactly. Well, the thing pasta

504
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,039
modesty in the corners on Saturday in.

505
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 2: Saudi Ara, and Picasso actually said to his quarter one

506
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,440
point that that he got hurt to the body, which

507
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,480
you don't really ever hear. So there was, honestly and

508
00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:13,200
just by the way, as far as the language situation,

509
00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:16,160
Rudy Hernandez, obviously he's you know, he lives in Los Angeles,

510
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,079
He's Mexican. He speaks Spanish also, uh, but he also

511
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,799
has worked with through the years a lot of Japanese fighters.

512
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,359
He's been a favored trainer for a lot of the

513
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,240
fighters that come out of teaking promotions in Japan. He's

514
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,559
gone to Japan a thousand times so and I've known

515
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,640
Rudy for a very long time. I don't know if

516
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,880
he's fluent in Japanese. But if you spend that much

517
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,640
time training Japanese fighters, and you spend that much time

518
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,920
going to Japan for fights, you know you know how

519
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,960
to speak boxing basically. I'm sure he knows you know

520
00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:45,640
the word jab or or what left left or whatever.

521
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,319
So you know they're able to be able to communicate

522
00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:48,759
me the time.

523
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,839
Speaker 1: So Nakatani gets to win. And what's the latest on

524
00:23:53,279 --> 00:23:56,359
the mega fight we've been talking about and when it

525
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,240
might happen? Just real quick, one more time for the

526
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,960
audience tonight that might not have heard his talking about.

527
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, the reality is it. I don't think it's

528
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,960
like signed or anything, but the plans are to do

529
00:24:05,039 --> 00:24:08,640
this fight in May at the Tokyo Dome. I am

530
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,519
told it will be Sunday, May third. Maybe that will change,

531
00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:14,640
but you know, again have to lock everything in and

532
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,839
get it announced. I mean in a way in his

533
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,559
postfight interview, was a little bit evasive when asked specifically

534
00:24:19,599 --> 00:24:21,680
about the fight. You know, he kind of smiled and says,

535
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,680
you know, we'll see, but you know, I think the

536
00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:27,119
Japanese fans will be very happy. We've got something, something great. Obviously,

537
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,359
that's what they're talking about. And there's gonna be huge

538
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,200
amount of money at stake, a tremendous amount of stakes

539
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,599
in terms of pound or pound in the undisputed championship

540
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,240
for Japan. It's going to be the biggest fight between

541
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,880
two Japanese fighters, I think in the history of the country.

542
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,039
And if you're a boxing fan, even if in Nakatani

543
00:24:44,079 --> 00:24:46,000
didn't look spectacular in his victory, I don't know how

544
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,319
you would possibly miss that fight.

545
00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: Good stuff, all right. On the rest of the card,

546
00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:55,680
we unfortunately did not have the Wilibaldo Garcia kin Shiro

547
00:24:55,799 --> 00:24:59,240
Taraji fight. You're about to explain why that did not

548
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,160
happen and and give me a little more on any

549
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,359
of the other action that caught your eye real quick

550
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,160
in the recap mode.

551
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,599
Speaker 2: Go ahead, So, Willibaldo Garcia was to defend the IBF

552
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,000
Junior bandamweight title against Knciro Taraji. You know other than

553
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,039
in a way in Nakatani is probably the next top

554
00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:17,640
Japanese fighter going today. That was a big deal him

555
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,079
trying to win this title, and it would have been

556
00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:21,400
I think would have been terrific fight. They weighed in,

557
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,839
both guys made the weight that was in the morning,

558
00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:26,319
then they had the ceremonial way in later in the day.

559
00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:30,079
The guys did interviews on his own after the ceremonial

560
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,480
way and you're like, okay and listen TJ. Once you

561
00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:34,960
get passed the way in, and then the ceremonial way in,

562
00:25:35,279 --> 00:25:37,480
like the fight's happening, I mean very rarely. I mean

563
00:25:37,519 --> 00:25:39,599
I can think it maybe a couple of times, but

564
00:25:39,759 --> 00:25:44,039
it's almost unheard of for something to happen. But Willibaldo

565
00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:47,759
became ill and ended up having to cancel the fight. Now,

566
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,079
it's not clear to me if this is the reason,

567
00:25:50,519 --> 00:25:53,920
but it strikes me that it probably is is because

568
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,640
this was an IBF title fight. Even if he once

569
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,319
he made the one hundred and fifteen pound weigh in,

570
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,759
it you have to keep yourself within ten pounds because

571
00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:03,400
you have to weigh in the next morning because the

572
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,160
IBF has a stupid rule. Because the IBF does IBF

573
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,079
things to me. If the weigh in is on Friday

574
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,400
and you make the weight, that's it, unless for some

575
00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:15,960
reason there's a rehydration clause between the combatants, which happens,

576
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,960
but it's very rare and it's only occasional that the

577
00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:20,720
organization should.

578
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:20,839
Speaker 1: Not do that.

579
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,279
Speaker 2: Or if you're going to do that, require the same

580
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,359
day weigh in for the actual fight and we'll see

581
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,640
how many fights your company does. Regardless. He apparently was

582
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,039
having some trouble keeping the ten pounds within that limits

583
00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:35,240
there as he's not rehydrating as much as he should

584
00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:37,920
have and became ill stomach problems. They took him to

585
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,440
the hospital and the fights off, which totally sucks because

586
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,880
it fucks up Taraji, who probably spent the last eight

587
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,279
weeks training his rear end off. Same thing for Willibaldo Garcia,

588
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,160
and further, it fucks up the prospect of Bam Rodriguez

589
00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:51,319
trying to go for the undisputed title against the winner,

590
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,160
which is what was something that everybody was interested to

591
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,039
try to do because he's not going to stick around

592
00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:58,240
in that weight class for much longer anyway, and so

593
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,559
it fucks up everybody that had an interest in that fight,

594
00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:08,079
the fans, the fighters, the promoters, you know, the even

595
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,039
the IBF who doesn't get paid either. I mean, it's

596
00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:14,920
just it's a terrible rule. And I again I believe

597
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,759
this to be the case. Had he just been able

598
00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:19,119
to go to the weigh in and rehydrate like normal,

599
00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:20,440
everything would have been just fine.

600
00:27:21,079 --> 00:27:22,759
Speaker 1: But instead we don't get that fight.

601
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 2: So and by the way, we have other that fight. Yeah,

602
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,839
so that fight got canceled. We already had another fight

603
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,640
that was supposed to be a world title fight with

604
00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:32,559
the WBA one hundred and thirty pound title holder, James Dickens.

605
00:27:32,799 --> 00:27:36,200
That fight was canceled because his fight against Sutsumi was

606
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,920
canceled because of an injury to Sutsumi. So that fight

607
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,359
was off and they couldn't replace him on literally like

608
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,039
two days. There was no time to get somebody new.

609
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,920
And so that card, you know, took another big hit

610
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,720
with the two title bouts to being off. They did

611
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,039
have two other fights. It was only a four fight card.

612
00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:54,599
This was these were prospect fights. You had the the

613
00:27:54,680 --> 00:28:00,000
Japanese lightweight prospect Taiga Imanaga, who was the slight favorite,

614
00:28:00,079 --> 00:28:02,799
I guess, against a fighter named Aaronson and Garcia, who

615
00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:05,960
was much more experienced, and he pulled the upset. Good

616
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,079
for him. He got to split decision victory. That was

617
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,920
a really good fight in terms of entertainment dout, even

618
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,839
if it didn't have big, big stakes, but heck of

619
00:28:12,839 --> 00:28:15,039
a fight. And then you had a Ray tu Satsumi

620
00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:17,799
who was the brother of the other Tatsumi who got injured.

621
00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:20,440
He was a prospect and he scored a fourth round

622
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:25,519
knockout against Leo Bardo Tuintana. Also a good performance for

623
00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:28,400
another young prospect to definitely keep an eye on. He's

624
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,160
one of the more interesting prospects I've seen out of

625
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,559
Japan in a long time, maybe frankly going back to

626
00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:35,480
the time when in Away was a prospect.

627
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: And clearly in a way was the star delivered. Nakatani

628
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,799
got his win. We looked for that fight and we

629
00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:42,119
gave you a little more on the rest of that corn.

630
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,960
And that was not all of the action back in Japan.

631
00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:47,000
These were in Sauni, Arabia. Back in Japan, there was

632
00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:51,960
also action this weekend for the IBF flyweight Championship. Correct,

633
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,640
what's the recap? What happened?

634
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,759
Speaker 2: So this was the champion, Masamichi Yabuki, who is you know,

635
00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:01,960
his record is nothing spectamt He is now nineteen and four,

636
00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:05,000
He's been stopped twice. He's got eighteen knockouts in his

637
00:29:05,079 --> 00:29:07,960
nineteen wins. He's no spring chicken at thirty three fighting

638
00:29:08,599 --> 00:29:11,640
in the flyweight division. But he is a hard man,

639
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,119
as they say. He's got good, good punching power and

640
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,000
when he's on his game, he can be very, very formidable,

641
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,440
and if you look at the way he has conducted himself.

642
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,400
He does have a victory by knockout against Taraji back

643
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,759
in twenty twenty one. That was an upset when he

644
00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:28,559
won the flyweight WBC title. He stopped Taraji in the

645
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:31,680
tenth round. They had an immediate rematch. Taraji scored a

646
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,720
third round knockout in twenty twenty two. That is, you know,

647
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,039
was a big win for Taraji to get that title back.

648
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:44,839
But to Yabuki's credit, after that was over, he ended

649
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,359
up getting an opportunity at the end of twenty twenty

650
00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:51,119
four against Nonshinga. They fought in a you know, he

651
00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:55,400
got an opportunity to fight for the IBF Junior flyweight

652
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,000
title and he won that title by knockout and he

653
00:29:58,039 --> 00:30:00,240
didn't even defend it. He went strade from there up

654
00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,839
to the flyweight division and he scored a twelfth round

655
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,240
knockout in a very good fight against Angel Ayala, also

656
00:30:07,359 --> 00:30:10,599
in Japan, and this was his first defense of that title.

657
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,599
Felix Alvarado is a veteran, a veteran. Okay, this guy

658
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,720
is now forty two wins and five losses. He's thirty

659
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,960
six years old from Nicaragua. He had never been stopped

660
00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:24,599
before in his five defeats. He is a soldier of

661
00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:26,359
the sport if you will. Fought a lot of good

662
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,799
fighters through the years, including a loss he had to

663
00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:34,160
angel Ayala by decision. Has a unanimous decision, but a

664
00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:37,000
very very close fight. When he challenged Sonny Edwards for

665
00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:40,359
this IBF flyweight title back in twenty twenty two, like

666
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,400
he's never going to be a Hall of Famer, but

667
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,480
he must be respected. He's a damn good fighter. He's

668
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,960
fought all over the world, a very tough dude, and

669
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,279
this was the first time he ever got stopped. Yabuki

670
00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:52,440
was ahead on all the cards and he scored a

671
00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:55,279
very impressive knockout in the twelfth round. It was a

672
00:30:55,319 --> 00:30:57,640
little quick for my liking. I was a little surprised

673
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,720
that they stopped it when they did, but nonetheless he

674
00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:03,599
got the knockout, and it's a great win for for

675
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,279
Yabuki in terms of just the way he did it

676
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:09,839
and against who he did it again, not a pound

677
00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:12,440
for pound guy, but Almabado, a tough nut to crack man.

678
00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:13,359
He had him hurt.

679
00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: He did.

680
00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:16,079
Speaker 2: He did a hell of a job in that fight,

681
00:31:16,119 --> 00:31:17,960
and that was that was you know, I watch it

682
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,440
on YouTube. The fight in its entirety is there. It's

683
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,200
worth watching if you like little flyweights. In Japanese commentary,

684
00:31:24,279 --> 00:31:25,079
it was a good fight.

685
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: All right. And then also from last week, we didn't

686
00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:33,119
we didn't make mention of this. Ike Abyabuci.

687
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:34,839
Speaker 2: Oh, your boy who we've.

688
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: Talked about before, who's fifty two years of age, was

689
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,559
in prison for a long time, former heavyweight contender. He

690
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,960
actually had a fight and it says on my rundown

691
00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:44,799
he lost.

692
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 2: He did.

693
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: Is this going to be the end of the club

694
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,240
level crusade of Abayabuci in Nigeria?

695
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:55,359
Speaker 2: Well after? Okay, Well, let's back up a little bit.

696
00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:58,599
In the late nineteen nineties, I K. Babuchi was the

697
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,000
number one heavyweight contender period, whether you're talking about sanction

698
00:32:02,079 --> 00:32:05,400
bodies or just deserving. Because he had one of the

699
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,119
great heavyweight fights of the nineteen nineties that he won

700
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,400
by decision against David Tua. It's an amazing, sick battle,

701
00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:14,960
just massive punchers team off. We've talked many times in

702
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,799
the past about when big punchers fight each other, sometimes

703
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:20,319
it doesn't turn out to be the big punch fest

704
00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:22,279
you think it's going to be because the guys are

705
00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:25,440
so they realize what they're in with and they're a

706
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,119
little more careful. So he got this great win against Tua.

707
00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:31,319
A couple of fights later, he had a devastating knockout

708
00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:34,039
against Chris Bird, who was undefeated at that time, who

709
00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:36,759
went on to win versions of the heavyweight title twice.

710
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,200
And after the Chris Bird fight, you're like, this guy's

711
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,240
on his way to the heavyweight championship. He looked a part.

712
00:32:42,799 --> 00:32:44,960
He was menacing, he was undefeated, he was built like

713
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,279
a fucking piece of granite. He was fighting on HBO

714
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,319
and then he got himself in trouble. He was arrested.

715
00:32:51,359 --> 00:32:53,599
He had a sexual assault charge against him. He ended

716
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,920
up doing sixteen years in prison. He had all kinds

717
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,880
of mental problems yep, and he got eventually when he

718
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,200
got out, then he got the poor. There was talks

719
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,559
of comebacks at the time back in the day in

720
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,920
any event. From nineteen ninety nine till twenty twenty five,

721
00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:09,920
he went twenty six years. He didn't have a boxing

722
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,880
match at fifty two years old. In August of this year,

723
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,200
after lots of rumors and discussion, he actually did fight

724
00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:20,880
in Lagos, Nigeria. He is from Nigeria and he won

725
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,200
by a third round knockout against an eighteen and eight

726
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:27,920
opponent with two draws in Lagos at fifty two and

727
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,359
promptly declared after that fight. You can watch the interview

728
00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:32,680
on YouTube. As I have done that, I want to

729
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,240
fight Alexander Usik for the heavyweight chick. We can always

730
00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,440
dream big, you can't. I don't deny anybody their dreams.

731
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,200
And this was the second fight of the so called

732
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,839
comeback against a fighter named Kebiru Tolawani, another Nigerian fighter

733
00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:52,200
with the robust record of twenty six and sixteen, who

734
00:33:52,319 --> 00:33:54,920
was a relative spring chicken to the fifty two year

735
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,880
old ike Ayebebuci. This man was just a mirror forty

736
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:03,079
five years old, and they fought fight on on Christmas

737
00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:06,680
Eve on December twenty fourth. I have not seen the

738
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,039
complete fight, but I did watch a highlight package of

739
00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:13,239
it on YouTube. Amazingly, this was available on a streaming

740
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,000
service for like thirty dollars pay per view. That was

741
00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:18,480
probably gonna like infect my computer if I had even

742
00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:21,360
thought about buying, right, I mean, you know, I just

743
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,360
wasn't going to go for it.

744
00:34:23,039 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: But he was beaten in this fight, and.

745
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 2: He lost a decision in a twelve round fight.

746
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,159
Speaker 1: So so he finally gets to win the forty five

747
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,559
year old that was twenty six and sixteen. So I

748
00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,800
asked as the lead up, is this the end for

749
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,559
a Beyabucci? Or is he going to keep fighting like

750
00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:40,039
all of them do? Is he gonna keep fighting at

751
00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:40,960
fifty two years old?

752
00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:43,079
Speaker 2: I would I would think that he's probably gonna keep

753
00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:43,960
fighting because.

754
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: This is club level stuff and.

755
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,679
Speaker 2: What else is he gonna do? All right, but he

756
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,840
had become like within boxing, if you were following fights

757
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,280
in the nineties, he was always like this great what

758
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,400
could have been? And he had like his cult following

759
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,559
the nickname the President, you know, I know.

760
00:34:59,679 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: After uh Ike, you know, Eisenhower yeah, I go.

761
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: I mean, so he had this whole mythic thing about him,

762
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,039
and so now you know, a quarter of a century later,

763
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,719
the guy's back. And so to me anyway, I had

764
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,400
to like see what actually happened. And so from my

765
00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:18,480
interest of even like remote interests, I guess now I

766
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,760
guess over it's been exposed. He takes his first loss,

767
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,360
no harm in losing, but at fifty two, losing to

768
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,000
a forty five year old, you know, there's no prayer

769
00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:30,079
for anything. I mean, but he can still if he

770
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,360
draws in and he has to make a living. I

771
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,119
don't think he's about to go become a you know,

772
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:37,199
a rocket scientist anywhere. So he'll fight, that's what he does.

773
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:42,559
Speaker 1: Let's get to some news. So the January thirty first

774
00:35:42,679 --> 00:35:46,760
Taya Femo Lopez of course Stevenson Ring six Madison Square

775
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,960
Garden card has now been filled out, Turkey Alischik announcing it,

776
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,480
and there there are some intriguing names and fights here

777
00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:55,199
go ahead, So.

778
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: In the co feature at least when they when I

779
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,360
say co feature, that's the way that it was listed

780
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:03,199
in the graphic that that Turkeyoshik posted to his social media.

781
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,440
It will be Kishan Davis, the former WO lightweight title

782
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,199
holder who had probably one of the worst years in

783
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,280
boxing in twenty twenty five that he could possibly imagine.

784
00:36:13,519 --> 00:36:15,679
He will be taking on Jamaine Ortiz in a twelve rounder.

785
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:18,159
He's moving up to junior walter right now. Kishan, as

786
00:36:18,159 --> 00:36:22,719
people recall, was supposed to defend his title in Norfolk, Virginia,

787
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,119
his hometown, and then missed weight by about four pounds

788
00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:30,199
pound pound wasn't quite five pounds, but it was a lot.

789
00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:31,840
It was like, I want to say, four point three

790
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,000
pounds or something like that. So he wrecked his hometown fight.

791
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,320
He fucked up top ranks event, he fucked up ESPN's event.

792
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,599
He fucked himself up because he missed out on a

793
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:43,679
million dollar plus payday. He lost his title, and then

794
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,639
at that was not bad enough, he and his brother Keon,

795
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:49,599
who was his younger brother who boxed on the undercart,

796
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,320
went into the dressing room of the opponent that had

797
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,320
defeated by upset their older brother on the undercart and

798
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,960
attacked him and then later in the bowels of the

799
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,119
arena and got involved in a melee and had to

800
00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:03,159
be kicked out of the arena by the police in

801
00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:06,920
his own hometown. An absolute fucking embarrassment and shameful to

802
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,800
the Virginia Commission that still has not issued any kind

803
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,199
of punishment that I am aware of, and I have

804
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,000
checked with the Commission. But nonetheless, he is coming back,

805
00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:16,800
and by the way, and then after that was over,

806
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,639
at some point he went on his social media and

807
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,360
claimed he was retired, which nobody believed, and he was

808
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,199
not retired obviously, So he is coming back and going

809
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,880
to try to, you know, make a mega go of things.

810
00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:30,239
He has changed his team around. He has parted ways

811
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,880
with Brian McIntyre, his trainer. He has not announced to

812
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,039
my knowledge who his new trainer is, but hopefully he

813
00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:38,400
has one because he's fighting in a month. He has

814
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,199
signed with the manager James Prince, which I'm sure is

815
00:37:41,199 --> 00:37:43,599
how he ended up getting on his card because James

816
00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:46,239
is also the manager of Shaquor Stevenson, who was in

817
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,920
the main event. And he's taken on Jermaine Ortiz, who

818
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:52,039
has only got two losses, but they were against the

819
00:37:52,119 --> 00:37:54,239
very best fighters you could find when he was fighting them.

820
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:58,159
He lost a very competitive decision against Vasili Lomachenko, and

821
00:37:58,199 --> 00:38:01,559
then when he challenged Tiyafimo Lopez for the junior welterweight title.

822
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,880
It was one of the worst fights to ever lay

823
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,760
eyes on. It was absolutely terrible. But I thought he won.

824
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,599
I thought he won the fight. He stunk him out,

825
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:11,199
any buddy, I thought he won that fight close seven

826
00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:14,400
to five type score. Horrible fight. But again he gave

827
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,719
TFMO all he could handle, and so now it's up

828
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,840
to him to see if he can give young Keyshan

829
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,440
Davis a test when he moves up to the next

830
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,599
weight division. So that'll be the co feature. Then you've

831
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:25,519
got a couple other title bouts on the card. Bruce

832
00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:29,159
Shushu Carington, who is currently the WBC's interim featherweight title holder.

833
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,280
He has not been elevated to the full champion in

834
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,440
the wake of Stephen Fulton vacating the The WBC doesn't

835
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,239
necessarily have to do that, so in this case, he's

836
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,480
taken on Carlos Casher, who is the number one contender,

837
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,920
and they will meet for what is the vacant title,

838
00:38:45,039 --> 00:38:47,920
so he's not an interim title holder being elevated and

839
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,559
they'll just say and still champion in the ring if

840
00:38:50,559 --> 00:38:53,519
he wins. But if he wins or coastra Wins will

841
00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:56,159
just say the new champion, not interim, and so I'm

842
00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:58,960
glad about that aspect because this as an interim. Him

843
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,199
having an interim title was ridiculous in the first place.

844
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,320
So that's on the card. And then you also have

845
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,760
the WBC Middleway champion, Carlos A. Damis is defending the

846
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,039
title against Austin M. L Williams. This is not a

847
00:39:09,079 --> 00:39:11,960
surprise at all. The Shoes Shoe Carlos Cashrow fight not

848
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,480
really a surprise, just now official. In terms of the

849
00:39:15,559 --> 00:39:19,039
Kishon situation, that fight was originally supposed to be a

850
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:21,920
Jermaine Ortiz against Richards and Hitchins for the IBF title,

851
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,280
but they made a switch and Hitchins posted on his

852
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,480
social media I had reported that the fight was made.

853
00:39:27,559 --> 00:39:28,960
He said they had signed for the fight, it was

854
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,920
supposed to be on the card, but apparently they've made

855
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,800
some kind of arrangement either with matrim or with the

856
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,239
Saudi's that he's gonna have another fight soon after and

857
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,000
what he claims is a bigger, better fight. We'll see

858
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,760
what they come up with. In terms of the rest

859
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,440
of the part. They also added the heavyweight Jerald Miller,

860
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,960
who was a New Yorker. He's in with Kingsley Ibea,

861
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,079
who has been on a really good winning streak even

862
00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:51,199
though he's not really fighting top guys. And then the

863
00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:56,159
Saudi welterweight prospect zaiyad Omleyoff, who was in the ringing

864
00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:59,480
an eight rounder in the opening fight. So there's your

865
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:01,639
your here card for January thirty first.

866
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I have an affinity for Bronco Adamis, who

867
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:09,679
I think has been long overlooked neglected on getting bigger fights.

868
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,519
Had to wait forever on Jamal Charlow never got to

869
00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:15,480
fight him, so it's good to see him back after

870
00:40:15,519 --> 00:40:21,159
that Shiraz draw previously. So I mean that stacks up

871
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:24,800
as some intriguing names on that car. All right, you

872
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,800
were doing some digging here, we talk about the fight

873
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,960
Freak Unit substack, and I stay on my substack and

874
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,800
I stay on your social media. So give me some

875
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,079
on Zoofa Boxing because they're going to begin their new

876
00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:37,599
series here in the new year in January, and they

877
00:40:37,639 --> 00:40:40,239
have begun to sign at least a couple of names

878
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,119
that some of us might recognize, right.

879
00:40:42,679 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 2: Correct, So they have said their first event of this

880
00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:50,480
new ZUFA Boxing League which is part of a deal

881
00:40:50,559 --> 00:40:53,320
that they made with Paramount Plus or with Paramount as

882
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,760
the parent company. But Zoofa Boxing's events will will stream

883
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,000
on Paramount Plus much like the UFC, which obviously Dana White,

884
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,440
it's involved with both obviously in any event. So the

885
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,760
first event is going to be January twenty third. They

886
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,639
haven't really announced any other details. I'm told it's going

887
00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:08,800
to be at the Apex in Las Vegas, which is

888
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,880
a place where they do a lot of the smaller

889
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,840
UFC events. People referred to it as warehouse fights, you know,

890
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,360
small crowd whatever. So January twenty third is right around

891
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,400
the corner. I mean we're talking like three weeks away basically,

892
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:23,079
and there had been no details on anybody that they

893
00:41:23,119 --> 00:41:25,360
had signed or a certainly not with the matchups we're

894
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,000
going to be for any of their cocoming shows that

895
00:41:28,039 --> 00:41:31,320
are going to be monthly. So in my conversation with

896
00:41:31,679 --> 00:41:35,039
boxing people on a daily basis, I have names of

897
00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:37,679
a handful of guys that they have signed. Now it

898
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,000
has been misconstrued by some people that these are guys

899
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,039
that are on that first card. I never said that.

900
00:41:42,119 --> 00:41:44,239
I just said their first cards in January. Here's some

901
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,400
guys that they have signed that they're going to be

902
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,000
working with, and a couple of them will be recognizable.

903
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,039
One of them is the former WBA Junior welterweight titlelder,

904
00:41:52,199 --> 00:41:56,679
Jose Reo Valezuela. He has parted ways with Robert Garcia.

905
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,920
He has signed with this league and again he's of

906
00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:02,880
of the guys I've heard. He's like probably the biggest

907
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,440
name so far. You know, he had a fight with

908
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,840
Pitt Bull Cruz. He's been in the ring with some

909
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,679
other good fighters. So he's making his way from PBC

910
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,159
toa ZUFA. You have the former WBA Regular welterweight tit

911
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:18,360
holder radzab Buttayev, who was involved in some fights. You

912
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,679
may have seen him on showtime. He worked with PBC

913
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,079
also not anymore. He's been very inactive, just have like

914
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:25,920
I think one fight in the last like two years

915
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,199
or so. He's going to be involved with this. They

916
00:42:28,199 --> 00:42:32,840
have the undefeated junior lightweight prospect justin Valoria. We mentioned

917
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,400
earlier in the show one of the undercard fights from

918
00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:39,280
Riod that took place on Saturday, the lightweight Ariicson Garcia,

919
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,000
who scored the upset against Imanaga from Japan. He's one

920
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,239
of the guys that's going to be involved with this league.

921
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,280
So that's the kind of fighters that has been explained

922
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,519
to me that they're signing, and now that's actually happened,

923
00:42:51,519 --> 00:42:54,320
they haven't announced it, so they're getting like that Onan's well,

924
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,000
I would consider somebody that boxing fans have heard of,

925
00:42:57,079 --> 00:43:00,320
maybe I've seen, certainly know as a former champion, tie

926
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,880
of less so partly because he's been so inactive. And

927
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,960
then some prospects like this Garcia, like Valoria, and that's

928
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,960
what we're gonna wind up seeing. We'll see who else

929
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,760
they announce in the coming weeks. I guess they're gonna

930
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,840
have to announce their fights at some point. And I

931
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,639
would say getting guys like that there, it's actually better

932
00:43:18,679 --> 00:43:20,159
than I thought it would be, to be quite honestly.

933
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:21,880
I mean, I'm sure we're gonna see some, you know,

934
00:43:22,079 --> 00:43:24,920
dsh level type of guys, but you know, to get Abutai,

935
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,039
who's a world class guy, even if he's been an active,

936
00:43:27,079 --> 00:43:30,840
getting of Alezuela who's got some accomplishment, even an undefeated

937
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,239
prospect like Vloria Garcia coming off a good win and

938
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,760
a very exciting fight, that's not a bad thing.

939
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: Common sense is they got to have at least a

940
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,199
couple of names here and there that people would recognize

941
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,320
what this is gonna be. It's a work in progress.

942
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 2: And I the one person I know actually described this

943
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to me as like and and it wasn't said in

944
00:43:51,039 --> 00:43:53,880
like a negative way, but and I'm very familiar with

945
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,480
this because I used to cover it independent league baseball,

946
00:43:57,079 --> 00:43:59,119
where they can play a really good brand of baseball.

947
00:43:59,159 --> 00:44:01,519
They had a lot of good Colays guys that went

948
00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:04,000
high up in the minor leagues, and every team usually

949
00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:05,840
sort of had like a guy that might have had

950
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,159
a little bit of a cup of coffee in the

951
00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:09,840
major leagues, or was maybe a major league veteran that was,

952
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,639
you know, no longer good enough to play in the

953
00:44:11,679 --> 00:44:13,960
major leagues, but had a good name like that. That

954
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,480
to me, at least in the early stages of the

955
00:44:16,599 --> 00:44:19,760
zoof of boxing, uh rollout. That's kind of what it

956
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,599
feels like. Now as the years go on, I assume

957
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:25,000
they're gonna up their level of talent as people see

958
00:44:25,039 --> 00:44:26,800
how this is going to have to Yeah, of course

959
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,960
it feels like it it has. And again I don't

960
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000
say this in a negative way because I loved my

961
00:44:34,119 --> 00:44:36,880
days of going to see independent league baseball games, both

962
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,280
as a fan and as a as a reporter covering

963
00:44:39,639 --> 00:44:42,199
that for the local newspapers I worked for. They would

964
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,239
play a very fan friendly type of baseball, put on

965
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,360
you know, uh, you know, good games and have great promotions,

966
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,400
and it was just a lot of fun. And if

967
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,639
we can get fun, even if we're not gonna have

968
00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:56,119
major world championship fights involving sanction bodies or things along

969
00:44:56,159 --> 00:44:59,440
those lines, but we can get good fun entertaining fights

970
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,679
with guys would good stories. That is a good start.

971
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,960
And these first few guys they signed, like I said,

972
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,840
better than I thought they would be seeing early on.

973
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: All right, So stay tuned on how regular and what

974
00:45:12,039 --> 00:45:14,159
the names are and how much interest there is. All

975
00:45:14,159 --> 00:45:15,920
of that to be determined, and it's a long play

976
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,960
for them. We get that one other thing before we

977
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,400
are gone. Matchroom Boxing has made an announcement to about

978
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,840
their February show in Nottingham, England. I'm just gonna keep

979
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,559
it real and I'm a little tired of a little punchy.

980
00:45:30,199 --> 00:45:32,800
The announcement of these names doesn't do a whole lot

981
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,039
for me. But over ahead with what's.

982
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,679
Speaker 2: There well, it doesn't do a whole lot for me either,

983
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,519
but you know, we give the people the news, good Bady.

984
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,519
So the main event is obviously a fight. A lot

985
00:45:42,519 --> 00:45:44,480
of people wanted to see the rematch between Leewood and

986
00:45:44,519 --> 00:45:46,800
Josh Warrenton. Obviously the main event's got to carry the show.

987
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,199
And they also had previously announced the British and Commonwealth

988
00:45:50,599 --> 00:45:55,159
junior middleweight title down between Ishmael Davis and de Laal Fawase,

989
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,360
so those were already announced. But in terms of the

990
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,920
rest of the cart they announced that, you know, a

991
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:03,599
couple of prospects in Juni in Boston and the female

992
00:46:03,679 --> 00:46:07,519
band weight Tia Maya Iten. But they also announced the

993
00:46:07,559 --> 00:46:10,360
return of David Allen, who is the cult hero heavyweight

994
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,840
in the UK. And then the other fight of some

995
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,760
consequence was Sandy Ryan, who's the former women's welterweight titlder.

996
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,639
Obviously we saw her in two significant fights against michaelam

997
00:46:20,639 --> 00:46:23,400
Mayer back to back where she lost. She is now

998
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,199
moving down in weight. She's going to challenge for the

999
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,559
vacant WBC Junior welterweight title against Carlo Ramos from Mexico.

1000
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,000
And that is the lineup of what they've added to

1001
00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:34,280
the show. They'll probably add maybe I guess maybe might

1002
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,360
add another fight. I don't know, but that's what the

1003
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,199
show is. But obviously the main event is what sells

1004
00:46:38,199 --> 00:46:39,119
the show anyway.

1005
00:46:40,199 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: And again that will be in February. February first, yes, sir,

1006
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,119
for that. All right, we've given you a full recap.

1007
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:53,079
We're not done in twenty twenty five because once again

1008
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I'm promoting here. You and I are going to come

1009
00:46:55,199 --> 00:46:58,719
back Monday night into Tuesday, as we do this on

1010
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,960
the podcast feed with Fighter of the Year, and then

1011
00:47:03,039 --> 00:47:05,599
Tuesday night into Wednesday, which will be New Year's Eve

1012
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,840
Day and New Year's Eve, you will have another new

1013
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,280
podcast that will be Fight of the Year debate. You

1014
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,920
and I spread it out here over the next couple

1015
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,320
of days to end out twenty twenty five.

1016
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Speaker 2: We're not gonna we're not doing like an hour on

1017
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,159
the Fighter of the Now. No, it'll be a show.

1018
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: It will have some good debate, but uh, you know,

1019
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:31,000
I think it's pretty well established. Let's put it this way,

1020
00:47:31,679 --> 00:47:35,039
what the Fight of the Year is and what the

1021
00:47:35,079 --> 00:47:37,039
Fighter of the Year is. But we can certainly debate

1022
00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:39,079
two or three probably in and around it.

1023
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:39,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

1024
00:47:39,679 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 1: I means that for a tea, stay tuned, stay tuned

1025
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:42,440
on what we think.

1026
00:47:43,199 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 2: I think that the you know, we'll get to it

1027
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,400
and we actually do the show. But in terms of

1028
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,519
the Fighter of the Year, there's only two candidates. We'll

1029
00:47:49,519 --> 00:47:50,760
get to it, and in the Fight of the Year

1030
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,519
there's a few good ones. I mean, yes, I have

1031
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:54,360
my I actually I have to be honest. I mean,

1032
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,960
I'm gonna write my piece about that, and I've had

1033
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:58,920
in my mind what I think it's gonna be. But

1034
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,880
what I always do is I go back and I'll

1035
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,599
probably do that at some point like today or not today,

1036
00:48:04,599 --> 00:48:06,639
I'll probably do it tomorrow or the next day. Is

1037
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,920
go back and at least watch like large chunks of

1038
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,480
the fights that I think are the number one candidates

1039
00:48:12,519 --> 00:48:15,159
and see which one kind of gets me more emotional.

1040
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:18,239
Let's say, yeah, new deal of it? Hi to move

1041
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,159
me if you will to this day there is the.

1042
00:48:20,159 --> 00:48:24,679
Speaker 1: TS fight a Fighter of the Year first, then Fight

1043
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,280
of the Year coming on Monday night and Tuesday night

1044
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,000
on the pod feed. That's why you got to be following,

1045
00:48:29,039 --> 00:48:32,880
subscribing and be here ratis and review us. Again. We're

1046
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,000
almost done for twenty twenty five and the calendar over

1047
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:36,639
later in a week.

1048
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,199
Speaker 2: Go take advantage of the final days of the subject.

1049
00:48:39,559 --> 00:48:40,280
Substacks out.

1050
00:48:40,559 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: You've got the substeck, you got the Rayfield. The gift

1051
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,840
of Rayfield right now is discounted before the end of

1052
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:52,280
the calendar year. Make sure you're following subscribing to this podfeed, Apple, Spreaker, Spotify,

1053
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,840
RTIs and review us here as well. My friend, let's

1054
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,360
reconvene and talk Fighter of the Year. That'll be the

1055
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,719
next pod here on the feed. But for now we're good,

1056
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,320
I believe on the recap, Big Dan, have a good week,

1057
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:06,679
good into twenty twenty five.

1058
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 2: Thank you, sarting you too.

1059
00:49:08,079 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: There's Dan Rayphield. I'm merely TJ Reeves. Thank you for

1060
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,639
being with us on the Fight for You Tonight Recap

1061
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podcast