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has lots of better action.
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Speaker 1: Very entertaining co feature fight to go over.
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with junior lightweight's Anthony Kasachi and Lee Wood. To talk
about even a world title fight in Japan. That's an
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Speaker 2: All right, so all the promos are done, The contest
brief contest winner that we did from the last couple
of weeks is done. I will say this, I am
interested always in e Manuel Navaraate and here he is
back defending the WBO Junior lightweight title. I would love
to say that I know something about our unbeaten Charlie Schuarezrez.
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about him. I want you
to educate me on him.
Speaker 2: This is the ESPN Top Rank show that leads off
our preview mode for Saturday night in San Diego. All right,
let's go with with this one as Navarata. One things
for sure. Navarate throws a lot of punches and he
gets hit. So this should be again we qualify, should
be an entertaining main event.
Speaker 1: Give me more.
Speaker 3: Well, he's always in good fights. I mean, that's the
most important thing if you ask me. But he's been
discussing in the build up to the fight that he's
returning to this arena in Sant Diego called the Pachanga Arena,
where he has fought before and scored some wins, and
in his mind though two fights ago when he decided
to go up from one hundred and thirty pounds to
challenge Denny's Brentchik for the title at one hundred and
thirty five pounds. That was when the WBO title was
vacant and because he was a reigning champion at one
hundred and thirty, he was eligible under the rules also
challenge for the thirty five pounds title if he wanted to.
In Brentchick was the number one contender. So they fought
that fight back in May, you know, off last year,
so a little over about a year ago, and he
lost a split decision, but it really wasn't that close frankly.
So that was in the same building. So now after
that fight was over, he went back down and wait,
he scored the six run knockout against Oscar val Dez
in their rematch. I remember in their first fight that
took place in twenty twenty three, he won a decision
against Valdez in a really outstanding fight, but it was
a very clear decision. That was back in one hundred
and thirty pound title fight also, so he comes off
that victory against Oscar Valdez having returned to the junior
lightweight division. He'll be defending the title now once again
at one hundred and thirty against Charlie Swarez. Now he's
also you know, can be in the mix with any
of the guys in those and in and around those
weight classes. My hope was that Top rank would have
made the obvious fight that they said they were interested
to make, which is a unification fight between Nevereta, who
was the WBO champion and the other champion that they
promoted in the weight class, the WBC champion O Shaggie Foster.
Contrast of styles, and you know, for their reasons, they
decided not to make the match. That kind of irritated me.
So he fights Charlie Suarez, Charlie Swarez. You said, well,
who the hell is Charlie Swarez. He's a guy that
is a Filipino fighter. He is undefeated, he is eighteen
and zero. But it's not like he, you know, has
fought a who's who or any thing of the you know,
even remotely close to that. He has fought a couple
of fights on some top rank undercards. If you watch
the you know, the stream preliminaries that they that they
do for their events, So you know, I suspect it'll
be a fun fight. I mean, usually you take a
Mexican fighter, you match him up with an undefeated Filipino fighter,
you're probably gonna get some kind of entertainment value out
of it. But Suarez has not really done much to
be sort of, you know, merit the fight of my opinion,
I'm not saying he's not a good fighter. I'm just
saying if you look at his record, there's not a
single guy on there that is any uh, anywhere close
to being what you'd say is a top level contender
or or guys that you might have heard of. He
has fought most of his fights in the Philippines. He's
coming to America now this will be you know, he's
fought here in it. This will be his fourth consecutive
fight in the United States. But like I said, those
fights were sort of on those undercards against nobody in particular.
So again, it doesn't mean he's no good, but what
it does mean is it doesn't have the type of
spice that would get a casual and to say, oh,
I really need to see that fight on the top
rank ESPN show, and and that's uh, that's a problem.
I mean, I don't. I still don't quite understand why
they didn't make the Foster fight to unify. That would
be a bigger deal.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, only top rank knows the answer to that.
I've never gotten a real answer to it. But so
be it. That's the main event. Never at They's always
good for a fun fight.
Speaker 2: And Navarati, as you mentioned, did pummel Valdez and looked
a lot better after looking slow at one thirty five
and out of shape. Honestly, I think against Baranchick, I think,
you know, what do I know? But I think he's
better suited at the lower weight, So maybe that maybe
that will be an indication here that this is going
to be an easy night for him.
Speaker 1: I always love him, I always say this. I always love.
Speaker 2: Him for the the different the uniqueness of the left
upper cut, the wild angle left upper cut punches that
he throws from every because you don't you rarely see
fighters that utilize that punch or happy He's always had
that punch.
Speaker 3: He reminds me. I mean, they're they're different in theirs,
but the unorthodox nature of the way they punch, and
the reckless abandoned with they punch and you also using
both hands. It is reminiscent in some manner because of
the way the way I just describe the way they fight.
He's kind of like a little bit of a you know,
a heavier version of Rafael Espinoza, who's the WBO featherweight champion.
Now that's the fighter we just saw on the in
a way undercard and do his thing against Vasquez and
score his knockout. And I know that that Espinosa's at
twenty six, and I think waiting and hoping that Inawe
will come up to fight him in the featherweight division.
But you know, it's not like he has the easiest
time making featherweight. I would absolutely love that would be
a monstrously exciting fight if they were to do Spinoza
going to thirty to match them with Navarette. I mean,
the punches would be coming from all angles, all over
the place.
Speaker 1: As we like to say, sign me up.
Speaker 2: So we will look for that one in the main
event with Navarate in the cold feature. I know you
are very high and have been for a while on
Raymond Murataya, tell me more about Abdolajev and this is
the vacant IBF interim lightweight title. Here we go again
with the IDF. This one makes sense teaching go ahead.
Speaker 3: This is an interim title that actually is the logical
reason why interim titles should be used. This is not
the nonsense that is used by some of the other organizations.
It's used when there's a champion who is bonified injured,
such as the case currently with the silly Lomachenko who's
been dealing with the back injury and also still not
sure if he's even gonna try to fight again even
if he overcomes the back injury. And so you have
the top contenders who've been waiting for that opportunity knowing
that that Oma is out of the ring for an
extended period of time. So the IBF has done what
they should do in this instance, which is ordered the
interim title fight, and then the winner will be obligated
and vice versa, Lomachenko obligated if he returns to fight
the winner of this fight in the title fight. If
Loma decides not to return or to vacate the title,
then whoever wins this fight on this card will become
the IDF lightweight champion. So Murataya has been a guy
that's been waiting for this opportunity for a while. He's undefeated,
you know, a good offensive minded fighter trained by Robert Garcia.
You know, sometimes we've seen him kind of fight down
to the level of his opposition. I don't know if
it's boredom or you know, with lack of motivation. I
can't speak to that. He did have a close fight,
but got a good win against Tevin Farmer back in
July of last year. That's probably the biggest name on
his record. And Farmer has been in the ring with
a lot of good guys, you know. But another guy
like a Jamea Jeremiah Nakatia that's been in the ring
with a lot of good fighters. You know, he wiped
him out in a couple of rounds. It looked good
in that fight. You know, he's done what he's supposed
to do. You know, this is a worthy type of
fight for him. Zaar Abdaliav is a Russian fighter who
has only got one defeat. You got to go back,
you know, several years ago when he fought against Devin Haney,
back at the time when it was for the This again,
this was an interim title fight and not how much
you love them. He was fighting for an interim title
fight at lightweight against Haney and Hen he knocked him
out in the fourth round. But that's his only loss
Since then, He's won, you know, several fights in a row,
and he's beating some like pretty decent guys along the way.
He beat the former champs, the John's laticin In, he
defeated did Cory lenaroz Soo granted was you know, sort
of on his last legs. He knocked him out in
the twelfth round. Back a few years ago, he beat
Ricardo Nuniez, who was a pretty decent contender. Roman Andrev.
I mean not names that are like household, Roger Gutierrez
who is a former world champion. But he's been doing
what he's supposed to do. He's been winning. He's won
several of those fights by knockout. He was high in
those ratings. And so now he gets the opportunity here
to do this fight against Abdelia. And I have to say,
having seen Abdelia fight a several times, and you can
go look, he's got a handful of fights that have
shown up there on YouTube. He's got a couple that
have been on ESPN plus, the Top Rank has done
the events and you certainly can find Mura Tia fights.
He's been on ESPN and Top Rank under cards many
many times. Style Wise, I think this is actually a
good fight. I mean, title or no title, these guys
are gonna make I think a very interesting matchup.
Speaker 1: I trust you whenever you tell us that.
Speaker 2: Now, again, we thought we had some decent fights going
into last week.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I you know, again, there's a lot
on the line.
Speaker 2: There's a lot on the line here for Mura Taya
in the lightweight division, and we'll see if Abdelijah gives
him a good shot.
Speaker 3: This also, TJ is the guy who wins if he
becomes the full champion of the IDF because Loma either
vacates or decides to retire. That puts Top Rank in
the position where they're gonna have the guy who's well,
they don't have uh, they're not promoters of Abdelia. That
was a deal they made with this promoter. But if
very High is the winner, they'll have Murratai as a
title holder in the lightweight division. I have Navarette as
a title holder in the junior lightweight division, who obviously
would perhaps move up again at some point. And they
also have the WBO champion in the lightweight division, which
is the young rising star and that's Keishan Davis. So
they've got fighters on the top rank roster among others
that will make good fights or quality connectors. And as
I mentioned, they able Shaki Foster who also could find
himself decided to move up and wait. So this is
a very like you said, not only is it to
get the interim title, but it sets up a lot
of possible business and money for the guy that emerges
as the winner, especially if it's Murthaya given his ties
to tie break.
Speaker 2: So that is San Diego on Saturday night, State Classy
San Diego on Saturday Night. Now, earlier in the day,
we've got the Queensbury Desown main event from Nottingham, England,
and this is getting a lot of hype right now
for Lee Wood and Anthony Kassachi. Now you know Kasachi
obviously as a former world champion, but now he has
moved up to junior lightweight here for this showdown and Dan,
give me more here because this is a great setting.
And I was checking out some of the press conference
earlier today. There's a lot of anticipation in the UK
for this one Saturday afternoon US time, but Saturday night
primetime in London.
Speaker 3: And I mean Kasace, as you recall, had the big
upset where he won the IBF title at one hundred
and thirty pounds one of the cards in Saudi Arabia
and Lee Wood has been a popular champion that was
from also from the UK, that had vacated that title
and hadn't fought for a while. You know though he
you know, well back to Kassat for a minute, he
had scored like a big upset stopped Joe Cordina to
win the belt. When he fought his next fight that
took place in September last year against Josh Warrington. Because
Warrington hadn't really been active, hadn't really fought in the
weight class, hadn't really looked good, blah blah blah. Whatever
the reasons are, they the IBF did not sanction that
fight as a title defense. Now Casace holds the nominal,
much lesser regarded IBO belt. For whatever that's worth, I
don't think it's worth much. But he decided to give
up the IBF title and now he'll defend that IBO
belt for again. I'm just making the factual point here
that that's going to be the title he defends against
Lee Wood in this matchup. Now, Lee Wood had had
a series of popular fights. He had the great knockout
against Michael Connin if you remember, he had the back
to back fights with Mauricio Lara one where he got
stopped some a little controversially, then he got the win
in the rematch. Then he also fought Warrington and knocked
him out. But that was all the way back in
October of twenty twenty three and he has not fought since.
There was some efforts to make some type of big
fight for him, you know, in his home and in
one of the big outdoor stadiums he comes from. You know,
this is a hometown fight for me. He's from Nottingham
for whatever the reason. Are took quite a while, but
Kasachi gives up the actual world title belt. He's gonna
fight him, and the fans don't care. I mean, if
you want to see a good fight. These are popular
figures where they're from and they match up, it will
probably be a fun fight. Now I've been to Nottingham, England.
I covered I went there for Carl Frotz fight once
many years ago when I was doing the ringside commentary
for the Epics Network and we were in like about
an eight thousand seed arena when Carl Frotz regained or
not regained, but he won the ibl's Superman awight till
he had held other belts in the supermanoweight division. But
he won the IBF title in what was considered an upset,
even though it was in his hometown against Lucianbute, who
had traveled from Montreal and was the away fighter. He
and Carl Frosch looked great. The point I'm making is
that the Nottingham fans turned out like crazy that night.
The city was on fire that night. You know, we
joked around that the city probably ran out of beer
that night. That's how excited and how great of an
atmosphere was. I will tell you being in eight thousand
seed arena, it sounded like it was eighty thousand though,
you know the way it was, And we were doing
that fight at ringside. So in this particular fight, it's
taking place in a much larger arena, and Leewood is
a popular fighter from Nottingham. I suspect given that Kasachi's
got some fans, even though they're not from Nottingham, they'll
turn out. Also. It will be an amazing aage. It'll
be a lot better than Times Square A read at
six thirty in the morning, that's for damn sure. And
then they'll put on, you know, hopefully a good fight.
I mean, one thing about Lee Wood, he is moving
up from featherweight into the junior lightweight division, so that's
always something to keep your eye on. But Kasace, you know,
even though he came out of nowhere in that big
upset that he won when he won the title against Cordina,
he does only have one loss. You got to go
all the way back to twenty seventeen. He lost a
twelve round decision that was awfully close on the score
cards against a fighter that was undefeated at the time,
Martin J. Ward. And he has not lost since then.
And he's also notched you know, the big wins against
against Cordeena and Warrington. So I mean, I feel like
this is going to be another fun fight. I mean
these are maybe you know, for the for the entirety
of the weekend, Navarette and Suarez, who's not known, Lee
Wood and Casace again, not the biggest name is necessarily worldwide,
but certainly at least in the home area for Nottingham
and in the UK maybe. But even though they're not
the biggest fights, all things considered, I think both of
them probably shape up to be fights that when we
get back on to do the recap podcast, we're not
going to be ditching and moaning that they're shitty fights.
Speaker 2: I would say, yes from your lips to their gloves
and some action exactly. All right, let's move on on
Saturday real quick.
Speaker 1: The Pro Box car.
Speaker 2: We don't talk a lot about the Pro Box TV cards,
but this is not far from me in Kassimi, Florida,
the Orlando suburbs. That's where Ericson Lubin will fight our
Drill Holmes in an IBF Junior middleweight eliminator. All right,
so Holmes had kind of been an up and comer,
had been on the Showbox series. Lubin is a former
world champ, had the wild fight with Sebastian Fundoro. Right,
all right, what else do we make of this Saturday?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Well, it's a good matchup. Like you said, their stakes
because the winner will become the mandatory for the IBF
champion at one hundred and fifty four, which is Baker Martazeleev.
Last week seen of him, he was destroying Tim Zou
in a few rounds and knocking him out very brutally,
and so this is for that. Now Lubin, you know,
has been a tantalizing prospect. Now then become a contender.
But he's taken, you know, a couple of tough losses
by knockout. As you mentioned, he got stopped by Sebastian
Ferndora in the ninth round. That was three fights ago.
If you go way back before that, you know he
was way in over his head, way too young, way
too soon. He got absolutely destroyed in the first round
by Jermel Charlo. That was a WBC on hundred fifty
four pound world title fight. Since the Fandora loss, he
has won two fights in a row. He beat Luis Arius,
who was a one time contender. He got to win
over Hayesus Ramos in September of twenty twenty three, a
fight I was ringside for. I thought he got a
gift in that fightage. I thought Ramos won that fight. Yeah,
but it is what it is. So he was highly
ranked in the IBF. He goes into this fight. Holmes
is a Dimitri Salita fighter who was undefeated, more of
a boxer than a puncher, doesn't really make great fights.
But maybe Lubin, because of his offensive minded style, that
he'll force him to maybe dance with him a little
bit closer, let's say, than on the outside just boxing
and moving and not giving much entertainment. But Holmes, you know,
he's the south paw, he's from Flint, Michigan. He is undefeated,
seventeen to zero with six knockouts, and you know, thirty
years old. But it's two American contenders looking to take
the next step up and put themselves in a title
shot position. For Lubin a chance to get another title
shot and for Holmes the chance to get the first
title shot. Holmes says, you know, for me, he's a
good boxer, but he's never really like been super impressive.
And Lubin, who I picked several years ago as the
prospect of the year, had to be honest as underwhelmed
and so but this is a chance for both them
to put all that stuff behind them.
Speaker 1: And from the area. So maybe there'll be some atmosphere.
Speaker 3: But it is a home it's a home game for
when he's from Orlando, because to me is like next
door Ostrack.
Speaker 2: But the other thing is Lubin hadn't fought anybody, as
you mentioned, for virtually eighteen months.
Speaker 3: So and when he did fight the last fight, I mean,
I thought he lost against Romps.
Speaker 2: But and here we go again with one PBC fighter
after another. We will name it that stays inactive, inactive, inactive.
And I don't know what we're gonna get Saturday night.
Speaker 3: If Lubin is the winner, he'll be the first PBC
fighter of consequence coming off of a long, long layoff
to get a win. Because most of the time when
those guys come off the long layoffs, Charlow and plenty
of others, Uh, they take a loss. Why it happened
with Wilder, it happened with Charlot, It's happened with Errol Spence.
I mean, we can go on down chapter and verse.
So hopefully for Lubin's sake, you know, maybe he can
reverse the curse, as they say.
Speaker 2: All right, and then we get to Sunday. This will
be Sunday morning, US time, Sunday night in Tokyo, the
rematch of Fernando Puma Martinez and kaz Ioka. What was
a highly entertaining first fight. They will battle for martinez
is WBA Junior bantamweight title. This was a fight that
during the fight week, Martinez came to Japan and became
ill a few days before the fight week and was
unable to fight Ioka and everything was called off. So
now it's been rescheduled and now they're fighting on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Fill in the blanks a little more, if you would.
Speaker 3: When they met in July of last year, it was
to unify the WBA and the IVF titles, and they
turned in, as you mentioned, just a tremendous battle. I
picked it as one of the top I forget exactly
what number I had at, but it was in the top,
you know, five, let's say something like that. Will fight
to the are a really outstanding, high fast paced, high
class boxing, really really good fight, one of the better
fights you'll see, just a really and it was not
a total shocker. I mean, I've seen Ioka in plenty
of good fights through the years. He's a I've said
just before, like a borderline Hall of famer. In my opinion,
Martinez doesn't have that level of accomplishment. But nonetheless, so
after that fight was over, because of mandatory obligations, Martinez
he vacated the IBF title, and so now it's only
gonna be for the WBA title, the one that's taking
place on Sunday, unfortunately at the moment, and I don't
think this is going to change. There's no like official
American television. For in Mexico, it's on the ESPN Knockout Show.
Some people picked it up on various satellite service, you know,
if you're in the sort of the region, I guess.
But in any event, he'll defend the WBA title and
not see if they put another great fight. I mean,
it was balls to the wall the first time around.
It was unfortunate what happened when they try to get
the rematch going and the illness happened, but both guys
stayed steadfast, And the reason that the title was vacated
was because for Martinez it was like, I can make
a way more money fighting this rematch against Ioka in
Japan than I can to fight an unknown IBF typically
unknown I the F mandatory challenger.
Speaker 2: And I know you're a great resource. What do you
remember what wasn't this about ninety days ago?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: At the was it the last fight of the year
New Year's Eve weekend that they was to do it.
Speaker 1: That's when it was okay and they.
Speaker 3: Ioka has fun. If you look at Ioka's record through
the years, ye, he's made a living fighting on New
Year's Eve. He you know, he had fright. I mean,
he's had other fights in the year.
Speaker 1: I think it was like like seventeen times.
Speaker 3: It was like fourteen years in a row or something
like that he fought on New Year's Eve. Then he
had other fights. Obviously he didn't just fight once a year,
but some of those times he was fighting, you know,
once a year. But he's had a ton of New
Year's Eve fights in Japan. That's sort of like it's
kind of like that became his date the way you'd
see Canelo fight on single Mayo or on September second
weekend for the Mexican Independency.
Speaker 2: So that's interesting that it's now taken five months to
put it back together, to get him over there, get
the money right, get the date right, the venue right,
and we shall see will certainly recap it off the
weekend on Sunday night, because again that's Sunday morning US
time in Japan. Sunday Sunday morning US time in Japan,
it will be Sunday night.
Speaker 3: For as it relates to Ioka, he doesn't get the
play in the hype that in a way gets or
that what we've seen from like recently, let's say Tarajiaani,
Na Katani. You know, guys who are in the pound
for pound discussion near the bob. Obviously in a way,
he's way at the top in a way deserves it. Obviously,
Na Katani super exciting. Taraji is super exciting, been fighting
in Taraji, He's been in a million world title fights.
But the guy that doesn't get to love is Ioka.
Now I'm not saying he's on the same level talent
wise or even you know, in terms of his popularity
at home in Japan as the guys I mentioned, But
he's been around for a long time. He's been a
professional since two thousand and nine. He's thirty one, three
and one, he's never been knocked out, He's won a
multitude of titles in different way classes, and he has
just been like the you know, old man river. He
just keeps doing his thing and he keeps winning. He's
thirty six years old and he's fighting really well. Still,
he did take the loss, I guess you know. Obviously
in the in the first fight with Fernando Martinez, it
was highly competitive. One judge in that fight ridiculously. I
mean there's always that whack y al ier scored at
one eight, which was app that that judge should just
be you know, thrown off a pier if you ask
me with a cement block time round.
Speaker 2: So now you're coming over on board with me on
some of these judges, like the one that gave five
rounds to Williams.
Speaker 3: In one of the best fights of the year, where
the other guy took a lot of damage. He didn't
win one round stopped that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, all right. Let's move to the news.
Speaker 2: And I said it at the top, this is legit
about Manny Pacquiao. Let me ask it another way. How
is he in a world title fight four years after
he last had a substantive fight.
Speaker 1: When he lost.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna tell you to your.
Speaker 2: Dennis Ugas and has it correct me if I'm wrong,
I must have missed something. Uh, he hasn't had a
fight in four years. How is he in a world
title fight four years later? Let's put aside the forty
six and a half year old part.
Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that in a minute. How's
he in a world title fight?
Speaker 3: Well, he did have an exhibition where he looked horrible.
It almost got stopped. But that's a different story by
against a kickboxer from Japan. So we want to discuss that.
It's very simple. Number one, Barrios is an optional timeframe.
He doesn't have a mandatory to make. I don't get
me wrong, I'm not advocating it. I'm just telling you why.
And this is the bottom line. And anybody that knows
anything about just entertainment and business, when you're a legend,
membership has his privileges. End of story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you didn't phrase that the right way. When
you were a legend, he was a legend in.
Speaker 3: Will always be a legend.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but he Okay, let me.
Speaker 3: Let me reframehy Mhammad Ali get the title shot?
Speaker 2: Muhammed Well, Muhammad Ali got a title shot because he
was still in his late thirties and he had recently
beaten Leon Spain and defended the title another time and
fought the next year while we're going over semantics everybody. Okay,
but he was not forty six years old. That's a
different part of the argument. I'm back to this part
of the argument, which is this is four years removed
from fighting anyone. The WBC has other guys that they
could say, you need to fight one of these other No, no, no.
Speaker 3: That is not true. He's not in a mandatory period. Okay,
So the WBC is a business Manny Packet is a legend,
and I'm not again, I'm not advocating the fight. You
asked me, why is it happening because there's a business
opportunity for Mario Barrios to make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: I understand that you're not explaining anything to anybody that understands.
Speaker 3: But you know the answer. I shouldn't have to pay.
Speaker 2: So let me again say, why should we take the
WBC rankings seriously at all?
Speaker 3: Did I ever say you should?
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go, because we've seen example after example
after example from then about this kind of stuff. Where yeah,
all right, so now we get to the part that
he is forty six and a half years old. And
as you mentioned, how long ago was that exhibition? It
was at the at the end of the year, right,
it was like December. I forget, but it was I
think it was like December something like that. And it's
now again.
Speaker 3: I'm not making excuses, and I have asked Many's people
about this. I was told flat out Many didn't train
a day for the exhibition, literally didn't train a day. Okay,
that's just not mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, But at I mean, we're talking about forty
six and a half and at some point too, don't
commissions have to step in and as well look at
this and say.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you're being a little bit, a little bit,
I'm not heavy handed. Here's the point.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 3: It's not like he was out class and beaten up
by organ.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's thirty eight. It's not like he's
thirty seven.
Speaker 3: It was the last fight in August of twenty twenty one,
when he fought ugas, he competed. It was just it
was a competitive fight. He lost, like you know, seven
five eighty four kind of fight. He didn't disgrace himself.
He still could fight a bit and maybe not what
he was the second hind I get it. Listen, Let's
let's also go back a minute a couple of things. One,
this is not a one done deal, all right, That's
the main thing. The second thing is the WBC and
Mauricio Suliman have said the fight's going to happen. There's
been people I've talked to that said it's probably going
to happen. The date would be July nineteenth. That is
a date that the uh PBC folks have requested and
TGB have requested from the Las Vegas you know, from
the Nevada State Athletic Commission on their agenda. So nothing
is going to happen though, because and we won't have
to find that we don't have to wait too long.
But next week is the Filipino senatorial election. Akioas held
the Senate seat. He then left the Senate. He ran
for president. He did not win. He didn't even come
in the top three, I don't think in the election.
But then he ran again for another Senate or if
he wins the election or he loses the election, I
guess it won't start immediately. There'll be a time frame
in which would actually give him a few months where
he could train and prepare for the fight and then
do his Senate business after the fight was over in July,
and so it won't. We won't know for sure until
after the Senate happens, whether you know, whatever the result is.
At that point, Manny will probably make a public statement
and I expect him fully to announce he's going to fight,
and it will be against Brios. Now, the good news
is if that fight takes place, I am told not
a done deal, but very very good chance that on
that card when Pakya would fight Barrios, that the co
feature would be the rematch between Tim Zu and Fandora
for Frendora's WBC title. So that would definitely add some
spice and some bigger reason to tune into that pay
per view. I'd totally be down for that. You put
many Pakyo coming back against a good, exciting fighter like Barrios,
you throw on an excellent junior middleweight title rematch of
that very dramatic fight from last year, and now that
you've got yourself an event. But I'm not gonna make
excuses say Manny Paco should be fighting for the title.
But I've been around long enough to understand the way
the business operates. And then, like I said, when you're
a legend, membership has this privileges. The end of the story,
it ain't that fucking comp And just.
Speaker 2: So we're clear, because we're going to have back and
forth on this when it comes around again.
Speaker 1: But I'm just doing this preemptively.
Speaker 2: You don't have the slightest concern that at forty six
and a half years of age that this shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have my concerns, but I also am not
a doctor. I have faith in the medical professionals at
the Nevada State Athletic Commission, who do as good a
job as anybody in boxing in terms of the way
they deal with medical things for their fighters. And so
if Manny pac Yo is able to go through the
battery of testing because of his age and because of
the number of rounds he has had, he will be
subject to more rigorous testing standards than if he was
twenty five trying to get a boxing license. There is
a line of demarcation in terms of age and rounds
where they require additional medical testing, and he'll go through that.
If he comes out okay, so be it. He's a
grown man. He makes his decision about what he wants
to do with his life the way you and I
make decisions about what we do with our life. And
if he chooses to fight, and then that that Athletic
commission passes him to do it, you know, so be
it not my fucking problem.
Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali, by the way, was thirty eight when he
fought Larry Holmes, and I was incorrect. He did not
have a fight in between. He had beaten Spain since
September of seventy eight. The Holmes fight was in October
of eighty. Also, thirty eight is not forty six, but it's.
Speaker 3: A different time, you know. I don't want to make
it sound like I'm advocating the fight, because I'm not.
I just I'm more real going back and understanding of
the scenario than you are.
Speaker 2: Apparently, Mario Barrios barely held on to the title in
a draw back on which is.
Speaker 3: Why some people might say, man, he's got a chance
to actually win this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean it would be more entertaining to
see that rematch with Ron.
Speaker 3: It would do if I won't do any business.
Speaker 1: Of course, it wouldn't do any business.
Speaker 3: But here's the funny thing.
Speaker 2: I understand all the business parts. You don't have to
explain that. We all get it. The money's there for that.
Speaker 3: Yes, if the fight actually takes place in July, as
I expect it will, this will be kind of crazy.
Many will be back in the ring boxing like a
month after he's inducted into the Hall of Fame. This
is the exact reason why I'm strongly against the Hall
of Fame's uh changed when they went from five years
to three years of eligibility to be elected to the
Hall of Fame, because three years in boxing is very
common for a guy to maybe take off, especially a
legend or an all time.
Speaker 2: In this case, it's four for him because it's August
of a right at four August.
Speaker 3: But he was I'm saying he went to the eligibility.
He was elected on the first ballot. You know, this
past December. The elections, the inductions will take place in
mid June, and he's gonna fight theoretically in mid July.
So now, there are been fighters who have been elected
to the Hall of Fame and then come back and fought,
But I don't know if there's ever been one that fought.
Speaker 1: A month later.
Speaker 3: A month later. I mean, you know, Sugar Ray Leonard, when.
Speaker 2: The poster from the podium at the at the induction
ceremony and catch me in July.
Speaker 3: This is actually a great view. This is a great
like trivia barbette type question. Who are the guys that
they were already inducted into Hall of Fame that came
out of retirement to fight besides you?
Speaker 1: One off the top of your head, Sugar Ray Leonard
would be one.
Speaker 3: I can give you three. I'm not sure if there's
a fourth. Are there's there's at least four, I don't remember.
If there's five. Pacio would become one of them if
the fight happens. But at Sugar Ray Leonard when he
fought Camacho, a very bad decision that he made in
that one. Virgil Hill did it, the former light heavyweight
champion and cruiserweight champion and Olympic medal winner.
Speaker 1: What about Larry Holmes?
Speaker 3: No, he never, he never. Uh, he didn't come out.
He didn't. I didn't get in the Hall of Fame
and then fight after that. But the this is the
tough one. This is the Alexis Argueyo did it. Also
there was another one he did it, so that's at
least five. The other two are are one I always forget,
but it's a great one because they came out of
retirement to fight each other in a third fight of
their great rivalry. Does that give you a hint?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking with somebody else.
Speaker 3: Who is it a Zuma Nelson against Jeff Fennick. They
fought two fights against.
Speaker 1: Each other, would not have gotten that.
Speaker 3: But yes, they're both in the Hall of Fame and
they both came out of retirement many years later and
fought each other in a third fight in Australia where
Finnick is the know a legend. So Pakia would join
that list of greats that have fought after being elected
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: More on Manny in a few moments with the nostalgia.
By the way, you have an interesting nugget off the
weekend on Canelo and Crawford.
Speaker 1: What have you found out for September?
Speaker 3: So if you noticed, if you were still awake after
you watched the fight between Canelo and Williams Skull, and
you saw Terence Crawford and Canelo in the ring having
the face off to announce that they would be fighting
each other in the obviously long expected fight on September
twelfth at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. I think
most people would have didn't announced the television of it,
but most people are probably like, yeah, that's going to
be a pay per view. Obviously, you know, there are
certain fights where nobody's going to bitch and moan or
complain if it's a pay per view. That obviously would
be one of them. But what I am told, and
while it is not maybe one hundred percent signed, sealed
and delivered, let's use the popular vernacular of the day,
it's trending this way, this fight's going to be on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, not announcement as in not a pay per view.
Speaker 3: If that is the case, it'll follow the same kind
of thing they did with Mike Tyson against Jake Paul.
Netflix has its second ever boxing event coming up this summer,
which is the all women's fight that will be all
women's card, headlined by fight number three between Katie Taylor
and Manda Serrano, who obviously had their second fight on
the undercard when Mike Tyson and j Paul had their event,
and this would be their next endeavor into professional boxing.
And as we've discussed in the past, if Netflix is
going to become involved in boxing, you know they want
to do massive events, ten pull events, I've always gotten
the impression from TEK speaking to a lot of people
in the business who've had conversations with Netflix about perhaps
doing something is it's not like they're anti boxing or
any other sport, but they don't want to just do
ron of the mill, you know, a monthly series, a
weekly series of this that they want it to be
appointment viewing. They want it to be on the level
of this where people will have parties, people will invite folks,
people will subscribe, people will tune in, and will get
a tremendous amount of publicity. But it won't be pay
per view, and that would be obviously a huge win
for boxing bans. It's one thing for Jake Paul and
Mike Tyson to not be on pay per view a
fight that was more of a curiosity than a real
box that was just more of you know. On the
opposite end of the spectrum, this is two Hall of
Fame level fighters fighting for the undisputed super middleway title.
Neither one of them may still be what they were
when they were at their absolute best. Part, they're two
of the biggest names in boxing, two major stars, two
major fighters, and with massive accomplishments, and I find it
to be fascinating because one of the hang ups when
they were trying to do the Jake Paul Canelo fight.
This is before Canelo opted to take the deal from
Turkey al Chic and go and fight William Skull and
Conford and potentially two more fights next year in Saudi Arabia,
was they were basically done or almost done with a
deal from the fight Jake Paul. One of the hang
ups was the Canelo team wanted it as a pay
per view and Jake Paul had negotiated and wanted to
do the fight as a Netflix event. Apparently, though, Netflix
is willing to pay a lot more money to do
a fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo, or at least
Canelo's portion of that money would be greater than he
would have received had it been a non pay per
view on Netflix against j Paul. So again, like I said,
it is not a done deal. To my knowledge, it
is not signed, but that is what is clearly in
the process of being done. This would be a Netflix
and I think that would be great for boxing fans.
Speaker 2: Interesting, all right, stay tuned on that. Okay, one more
nugget and that is Claressa shields she is going to
be back in action. Tell us more about what it
is and when it is for her.
Speaker 3: So they announced that she will be fighting in her
undisputed heavyweight title defense against the light heavyweight title holder
of the IBF, Lanny Daniels. It will take place on
July twenty sixth that the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
That's a home game for Claressa. She's from Flint, Michigan.
She's fought in that building at least twice. To my recollection,
She's drawing nice crowds there. You know the matchup, uh,
you know, Lennie Daniels is eleven to two and two
with one knockout. She's thirty six years old from New Zealand.
You know, she does have the IBF title at light heavyweight,
you know. And I'm not I'm not knocking the matchup.
But the problem is when you get above a certain
weight limit in women's boxing, it's impossible.
Speaker 1: We've talked about before.
Speaker 2: It's just completely you love bereft, I love devoid of
people distinguish distinguished. For me, what is the heavyweight and
light heavyweight difference for the women?
Speaker 3: I don't even know because she's.
Speaker 2: The light heavyweight IBF champion, but Claressa is the IBF
heavyweight champion.
Speaker 3: The organizations do different weight limits for those higher up
weight classes. I'm not even sure what they are. All
I know is the following. Claressa Shields is a generational
fighter who has nobody to fight. She just doesn't have
anybody to fight.
Speaker 2: She's beaten all of the fighters at middleweight and super
middleweight at.
Speaker 3: The end and junior middleweight. She was a champion, and
she's moved up to scale. I mean, I guess if
the right fight was there, she would move down to
some degree. I don't know how far down she could
get at this point, but it's unfortunate because her events
they just don't generate the kind of the spice that
you'd want to see. I mean, this is not anything
against Claressa, make that very clear. She's a great fighter,
really legit. I mean, she can box and she has
great skills, and she's got huge accomplishment both as an
amateur and as a professional. But she does not have
a rival to bring out the best in her or
to make the public other than her diehards in the.
Speaker 1: There's not a talent pool. What you're saying, there's not
a talent pool. That really matter of.
Speaker 3: Fact, if you take a look at the organizations, go
on their websites and look at the women's rankings, you
will find in their heavyweight divisions, and some of them
don't even call it heavyweight, they call it light heavyweight,
or it's at a slower weight limit than you know.
The two hundred plus and men's boxing. I think it
was the WBO had nobody ranked in the division one
woman in the world.
Speaker 2: It's not as if it's not as if there weren't
enough in the talent pool.
Speaker 1: You're saying nil. There was a rod So I.
Speaker 3: Actually did this once. I forget the exact number. I
went through and I looked at all the four major organizations,
and if you added them all together, there was like
fifteen women in the world that were ranked between all
the organs. Not he might not even been that many. Well,
I'm only making the point that it's hard to get
excited about a Clarssa, even though she's a phenomenal fighter
and pound for pound, the best female boxer in the world.
It has been for a long time. She's long since
dispensed with the women that people thought might give her
a problem, Savannah Marshall for example, those types of opponents
Christina hammerback when she you know, that was considered a
big test for back like six five, six years ago.
I mean, the only fight out there and I don't
even think it's a fight, I think that Claressa absolutely
wants her easily would be a rematch against Franchise Cruise Dessern,
who was the undisputed Superman Await title holder champion after
Claressa was that champion. She's been stripped of a couple
belts or giving up a couple belts. But they fight
each other. Actually, I was at the fight they fight
in their professional debuts, and a four rounder that was
you know, a firefight for four rounds, and Claressa won
that fight. That was back in twenty sixteen, and so
that's the only fight I can even see remotely out
there for Claressa right now that people would even have
a minute care about would be a rematch with Franchion
Cruz Dessern. So, you know, good luck to Lanny Daniels,
but it's just unfortunate that a fighter like that has
nobody to fight.
Speaker 2: Well, it is what it is, all right, nostalgia before
we're gone and we're back talking Manny Pacquiao. We're back
talking twenty one years ago, as we do this headed
into the weekend, maybe eighth of two thousand and four,
the first installment of the four fight series of Paqui
How One Manual Marquez is May eighth, two thousand and four,
twenty one years ago, as we do this podcast Thursday,
Thursday night into Friday, Marquez's IBF title, Manny's lineal featherweight title,
as Rayfael always sticks in.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: What he always sticks in?
Speaker 1: You always stick in the lineal.
Speaker 3: That's a bigger deal than the IBF. The guy fucking
destroyed Marco Antonio Brera, all right, and the other guy
beat like genuine.
Speaker 1: Point out that you always stick it in. Don't get offended.
Speaker 3: I am offended.
Speaker 1: I point out that you always stick it in.
Speaker 3: I'm not sticking it in. It's it's it's better than
you sticking in the IBF was more important, all right
to you?
Speaker 2: It was more important Marquez had the IBF belt. And
what else do we remember about? No winner that night?
Speaker 3: It was a great fight, that's the most important thing.
A tremendous battle set the stage for a four fight
series that is I would say one of the greatest
series in boxing history. Whether it's three fights, four fights,
five fights, whatever, I mean, every single fight that they
had was at a very high level. All of them
were exciting. I mean, there was the one that maybe wasn't.
The best was probably the second fight, I guess, but
the first first fight was maybe I'm missing, maybe it
was a third fight I forget. All I know is
that the first fight was outstanding. It was the one
fight of the four that wasn't on pay per view,
and everybody got their money's worth on HBO that night.
But Manny was coming off of having absolutely destroyed Marco
Antonio Brera, stopping him in the eleventh round to become
the lineal champion. Remember, Breer had gained that recognition by
defeating Prince Nasim Ahmed Marquez. He had won the IBF
belt against Manuel Medina, a much lesser fighter than Marco
Antonio Breer, which is why I placed way more gravitas
on him being a lineal champion than Marquez having been
the IBF champion. But regardless, they fought a great fight,
and Pakiao scored three knockdowns in the first round, and
you're like, oh shit, this fight's gonna be over. Joe
Cortes was the referee. I thought he made the right
call by not stopping the fight, because Marquez, although he
was a little bit hurt, he wasn't out and it
was round one and he got up off the deck
and showed the will and the heart that he's always had,
and he fought a tremendous battle after that. And when
the fight was all said and done, Burt Clements scoring
the fight one thirteen to one thirteen, Guy Jutra scoring
it one fifteen to one ten for one guy, and
John Stewart scoring one fifteen to one ten for the
other guy. Now, Burt Clements made a mistake. He for
whatever reason afterwards, he didn't think he could score below
the ten to seven in the first round even though
there was three knockdowns, So we should have scored that
round ten to six. If he had, we would have
had a winner. It didn't happen, and it turned out
to be a draw now for me, even though one
Manuel Marquez got knocked down three times. Unless I was
not the only one, I was ringside for this fight.
I was ringside for all four Mani Pacyo, one one
men Well Marquez fights. I scored the fight one fifteen
to one ten in favor of one Manuel Marquez. I
thought he got up and he stormed back and won
the fight despite the knockdowns. And he didn't get the
decision that night. And you can say, I'll put it
to you like this, other than the fourth fight where
he knocked Manny out and obviously was the win. You know,
he didn't get to win any of the other three.
I thought he. I thought Manny Pacyo never won any
of their four fights. Because to my recollection, I scored
three of the fight, well two of the fights for
for Marquez. He knocked out Pact win the fourth fight,
and the other fight I had it a draw. So
for me, Lanny Packet was winless against one Manuel Marquez,
even though he's an all time great fighter. But in
the in the end, in terms of the actual scoring
that occurred, you have Paco two wins, Marquez with one
win and one fight at draw, which was his first fight.
But it was a tremendous fight. It set the stage
for a great rivalry and uh, you know, honestly. I
mean the fourth fight became the fight of the decade,
is an all time great fight. Uh. I think the
second best fight of their of their series is this
first fight.
Speaker 2: And again, uh, you talk about trilogies or in this case,
four fights, et cetera, the things that you remember. There
was no winner in the opening fight there for Pacquiao,
and here we are still talking about him twenty one
years later, looking to be active if it gets today,
if it gets.
Speaker 3: And not pay per view either, by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so we get ready for this big
weekend in the preview mode, Well, we get ready for
having multiple fights in multiple locations and multiple chances for
at least one or two of them to be compelling.
How am I doing on selling the recap pod?
Speaker 3: We don't have to sell it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying we.
Speaker 3: Have our audience. I respect the intelligence of our audience
to know when this is just a good weekend, not
a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Did I say great weekend?
Speaker 3: You kind of made it some that way.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that we have compelling fights in different locales
from sane, I don't coming to England to to Tokyo.
Speaker 3: Uh, you don't find that I find that.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait a minute, let's back up.
Speaker 2: While you just want to argue you don't think the
Mura Taya Abdalaiyah fight is competitive and compelling.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's compelling.
Speaker 3: I think it's competitive. I don't know if it's compelling.
I don't know if it's much.
Speaker 2: Kasachian Wood is compelling. It's more compelling in the UK,
but that's compelling. And I think the Puma Martinez and
Kazioka fight is compelling.
Speaker 1: In the remax, I'm interested in. I'm interested in all
three of those fights.
Speaker 3: I agree on the Ioka and the rematch with Martinez.
Speaker 2: So that's what we have and that's what we will be.
By the way, further handicapping on the bet Us Boxing show,
because it's back live at one Eastern time on Friday.
This is the first time in three weeks that it
hasn't been on Friday. That it has been on Friday
at one Eastern time. The last couple of weeks it
was not there for scheduling reasons, in a holiday for
our friends at bet Us, and then last week again
for scheduling reasons and a holiday. We did this on Wednesday.
So you and I are trying to get back to
some normalcy with that show Friday one Eastern time. Bet
US platforms, YouTube, their social media, et cetera. Will be
there handicapping the Navarate main event for top Rank, the
Kasachi Wood for Desone and Queensberry that night, and we're
even going to handicap the Martinez Ioka in Japan. Disappointingly
at the moment, No US TV, but find it if
you can find it after the fact on YouTube, on
social media, etc. For whatever happens with that on Sunday morning.
For now, though, I believe we are good. Anything else,
Congrats to our winner again, Tyler Torres. We'll be in
touch with you for rating US, reviewing US, etc. Anything else.
Dan Rayfield before we head.
Speaker 1: To the weekend.
Speaker 3: Nothing, We're good, baby, all right, There you go.
Speaker 1: There's big Dan.
Speaker 2: Follow him the fight, preach to night, substack and the
newsletter again once more, go back and relive Corrales and Castillo.
Speaker 1: With us off of YouTube.
Speaker 2: Dan with tremendous stories not just about fight night, but
after fight night, watching the fight with Corrales as he
explains memorabilia. You'll see the memorabilia that you have on
that YouTube show on the Big Fight Weekend YouTube channel.
It was a YouTube exclusive. Go back and find that.
For now, we are good previewing going into the weekend.
Thank you for being with us for Big Dan. I'm
merely TJ on the Big Fight Weekend preview