Speaker 1: The countdown is on to fight time. This is Big
Fight Weekend. Now here is your host, DJ Leaves.
Speaker 2: Well, we have moved into a new month, and my goodness,
do we kick it off with arguably the biggest the
event in the United States in terms of fight cards
for the remainder of the year. Subject to change, maybe
something else will be bigger, but right now, Terrence Crawford's
return in the main event, plus other world title fight
with Pittbull Cruise, plus heavyweights, other big names on this card.
We're ready to talk about it as it gets underway
from Los Angeles. The Riodds Season DEZONEANPPV dot com pay
per view that is upcoming. I am the somewhat competent
host TJ Reeves. He is our insider and who else
and where else would he better be than to be
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: That's why he's our insider.
Speaker 2: Hello, Dan Rayfield of Big Fight Weekend dot Com and
Fight Freaks Night is Substack Tinseltown, Hollywood for you. As
we get ready for this weekend. How are things out
on the Left Coast? As we like to say, things
are good. J.
Speaker 3: It's a little hot, little sticky, but it's all good.
I'm for the fights. I haven't been to Los Angeles
in quite a while. It's good to be back.
Speaker 2: You did roll into town, and again, as I joked,
we've already We've already done our bet Us boxing show
on Thursday, so find that on YouTube through the bet
Us platforms. I joked, have you worked out your three
picture deal yet with one of the big studios out there?
You know, you're always under negotiation. So I didn't know
if you were working on a big movie contract or
what you're up to, or maybe you're going to be
on the latest edition of American Idol trying to sing
or America's Got Talent. I have no idea what you're
out in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: As they say, as they say out here in Hollywood,
I got to talk to my people.
Speaker 2: You get your people to talk to my people, and
my people will talk to someone or they'll talk to themselves.
In any event, Thank you for finding us on this
podcast feed. Where have you been? We've been here about
two and a half years doing this Preview mode Thursday
nine into Friday, recap mode Sunday and Monday. Whether you
found us through Dan substack, through a social media link,
make sure you're following or subscribing on Apple, Spreaker, Spotify, Ratus,
and reviewers. Dan I said this last weekend. As we
enter August, we are coming up in the search engines
of Apple, Spotify, etc. Whenever you put boxing in for
a podcast, we're right there. That's because of you, the
fans that are helping us. Keep helping us. If you
haven't done it, leave us a ten second review, five stars,
ten second review that helps with the algorithms. We're doing
great and we're ready to go. Okay, So at the
time you and I are taping this, the press conference
afternoon has happened in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I got like more Rayfield than I know what to
do with.
Speaker 2: On Thursday, We've done the bet Us show, Rayfield got
himself some late brunch or early lunch. You then have
the press conferences out there for this fight car and
now we're doing the podcast. So since you and I
have talked and for the audience, here give them an
idea of what press conference Thursday was like. As we
head to this fight card Terrence Crawford obviously headlining against
Israel Madromof and the other fights below it, but just
set the scene a little bit.
Speaker 3: Well, First of all, I didn't have brunch. It would
have been nice. I've been a little busy. But the
press conference they had it, they had it. They've had
the events for the you know, when you're at back up,
when you're in a fight in Vegas, you're not like
the MGM for an event. That's just an example. Pretty
much everything is in the hotel. Maybe the really big
fight at Timo, but they might have the way in
in front of you know, the ceremony away in might
be outdoors, and then that big giant plaza which is
you know, a pretty quick walk from the from the
MGM grant. But here in Los Angeles for this fight,
everything is kind of all over the place. So they
have the arrivals and the workout at the Santa Monica Pier,
which is like a good thirty thirty five minutes depending
on the traffic. They had the press conferences on Thursday,
took place at the very famous Chinese Theater in Los Angeles,
outdoors unfortunately, where it was you know, pushing that degrees.
That kind of think it was me.
Speaker 2: Rayfield's the shower of the of the last twenty four
hours after being there.
Speaker 3: And then they'll do the ceremonial wagh In on Friday.
It's at nighttime. They'll do it in La Live. That
big area here, which were this hotel that's for the
fight hotel is right at LA Live. So that's actually convenient. Gotcha,
as you just walked front door and you know, I'm
not sure exactly where in l Live it will be,
but wherever it is, it's you know, pretty pretty dark close,
so it's kind of spread out. And then of course
the fights themselves will take place on Saturday at the
BMO Stadium, which is about about a three or four
mile drive. It's like a fifteen minute drive, probably three
or four miles, about a fifteen minute drive, probably.
Speaker 1: Spending on the truck.
Speaker 2: And we should mention we should make mention this is
an outdoor facility where the La Galaxy play soccer in
Major League Soccer. It's right next to the La Colisseum.
And I didn't ask this before. Have you ever been
in that venue because it's not regularly used for boxing,
So this is interesting what you're going to do this.
Speaker 3: This is I believe the third boxing event that they
will have in this building. They've previously had. I believe
that Golden Boy promoted to my recollection a Zerdo Ramirez
fight card there at one point, and Top Rank has
done one boxing show there at one point, and I
think this is the third one. Obviously, in terms of
the caliber of the show, not that those events were
not decent shows, this obviously is a much more loaded
card with a lot of bigger names and more significant fights.
But you know that building where they're having the stadium
was built on top of the acreage of where it
used to be the La Sports Arena right out Los Angeles.
I believe the Clippers played there correct for years and
where they've had other they boxing events or Muhammad Ali
fought there, but that was raised years ago, and on
top of it was building you.
Speaker 2: Know your Rocky Trivia. That's where Rocky fought Apollo Creed
in the movies. That was the La Sports Arena that
had very few people in it when they shot Rocky
back in the day back in nineteen.
Speaker 3: Fought him in this spectrum.
Speaker 2: But they the second, well, the second one was in
the spectrum, but the first one's the LA Sports Arena
in Rocky it's the I'm telling you, I'm just giving
you a little.
Speaker 1: Trivia long torn down though you're right.
Speaker 2: They demolished that thing like over a decade ago and
built this massive soccer facility. So it's an outdoor facility.
And I promise we're gonna get to the fights in
a second. On the pay per view you said something
though interesting on the bet Us show that the buzz
has not been great Wednesday into Thursday. The hope is
it will pick up in the next day and a
half or so. But in fairness, there's a ton always
going on in LA sports, entertainment, whatever, but.
Speaker 3: Not in terms of sports. I don't think there's much
going on. We're in the dog days of the baseball season, right,
you know, the Angels, you know, I don't think the
Angels are even really you know, making any kind of
debt and things. The Dodgers obviously are popular and they're
doing very well. But there's no college sports. There's no
other real pro sports. But the big thing in the
United States in terms of sports, whether it's in Los
Angeles or anywhere, is if you're focused on so many
people are paying attention to the Olympics, right, so they
scheduled this. In my opinion, I mean, I don't get
me wrong, I'm a diehard boxing plan, and I'm excited
for the show. It's a tremendous part. No knock on
the show, great fights, loaded, stacked. I don't use those
words lightly. Anybody that is familiar with my work or
my my punditary however you want to look at it.
But doing a outdoor stadium fight in the middle of
August in Los Angeles during the throes of the Olympic Games,
with a non Mexican main event, with an opponent that's
not well known, It's just there's a lot of things
that are It's a great show, but I'm not sure
it's meant for this market. That's just my opinion about it.
I wish I'm nothing much success in it because I
want to see the fight do while I want what you.
Speaker 2: Can I interject, what's your speculation on why Turkey Ala
Chic and read that season picked Los Angeles when, as
you pointed out, Terrence Clawford doesn't have a real connection
and he's the main event. You can argue that Pittbull Cruise,
who has a Mexican following as a Mexican.
Speaker 3: You can stop right there. You can stop right.
Speaker 1: Why would they pick La what's your guess? What's your
what do you know.
Speaker 3: If you're selling a fight, particularly a paper you fight,
it's wonderful if you can put on a great undercard,
and that will help get attention to those fighters. The
people that tune in that see them, they may become
interested and become fans. But it's always, always, always, always, always, always,
always always not the main event when you're selling a
pay per view right period. So and again, it's not
a bad main event at all. I like the main event.
Mage Web's not that well known, but Crawford is best
fighter in boxing, arguably one of the top two or
three at worst, and it's a signific fight. He's moving
up in wait coming off of a spectacular victory a
year ago against Errol Spence. So why they put it
in Los Angeles? I think they liked if they were
going to come and make their first event in the
United States, they liked the idea of being in, you know,
one of the most important cities in the country. If
you're not going to be in New York, you're going
to be in Los Angeles. And that was pretty much
the deal. And it's their money and they can spend
it how they want. That's the way I looked at
it for the fights in Los Angeles. So I'm not
unhappy about that aspect. I just would I just don't
know their their reasoning for putting it where they put it.
But again, that does not detract from the fact that
if you're not here in Los Angeles in put it
like this, if you're enough of a box again there
listening to our podcast, then chances are you're interested in
the card and you're looking forward to the horse and
you're gonna buy it, or you're gonna maybe watch with
friends or whatever the case may be. Because you know, again,
if you're listening to podcasts like ours, you know that
this is a really fucking great show exactly for end
of story.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, all right, So let's get into it.
And I already know again we're a little off kilter.
Dan and I are trying to keep it all straight
because typically we do this podcast Thursday and Friday, and
then we do our bet US handicapping preview show. So
since we've already done because of a scheduling situation, since
we've already done the bet US show, I already know
and you know, and we've been over this kind of
what we think about these fights. But the podcast audience
is a different audience.
Speaker 3: But we haven't. We don't because we've only gone over
a couple of someone.
Speaker 2: We went over the first four. We we'll go over
all of them again. We're going to do it for
the podcast audience.
Speaker 1: We will do that.
Speaker 2: So Crawford in the main event with Israel madram Off,
and you talk to madram Off building up to this
fight within the last couple of weeks. We've played that
on the podcast speed All right, here we are on
the verb of this happening. Give me your thoughts, Give
me your thoughts on this and Crawford's return first fight
of this year, et cetera.
Speaker 3: I have been pretty steady since this fight with then
nouncedj that this is a real fight. That just because
Israel Majimov only has eleven pro fights and is ten
zero one and the one draw, by the way, was
a technical job because of a headbutt, not because he
was trailing on scorecards or anything like that. That was
just the rule difference between fighting here and fighting overseas.
If that fight had taken place in America would have
been a no contest. In any event, he was a
tremendous amateur fighter, that did pretty much everything except you know,
go to the Olympics. But he fought a lot of
top amateurs. He has two victories against Arlen Lopez, who
was the Cuban gold medal winner in the twenty sixteen
and the delayed twenty twenty Olympic Games. He has fought
all kinds of outstanding competition in the amateurs, you know,
hundreds of amateur fights. And as he made the point,
I didn't need twenty or thirty fights before I can
fight a real top guy for a world title. So
he's been wanting to fight real guys from the beginning
of his career, turned prone to ten rounder, have fought
Vladimir Hernandez, who you know, if you're a diehardyamiliar with,
he has ones over Julian Williams, and has you know,
upset some other fighters, and has been a pretty good solid, no,
not not necessarily a championship level contender, but you know,
a guy who you not turn the pro against. Put
it like that, you know, you've never had a professional fighter,
and and consistently from his pro debut to the present time,
Majimov has fought real opponents, maybe not superstar champions, but
he's got the win over Michelle Soro was a good contender.
He then, of course had the big win that gat
him this WBA title where he fought Maga Man Kerbanoff,
who was undefeated from Russia. That took place back in
March on the undercard when when Francis Nagano and Anthony
Joshua had their fight, and in some respects, besides what
Joshua did to Nagano, I think that you can argue
that that that, other than that main event, that the
next best performance that kind of stole the undercard, so
to speak, was that performance from Majimov against Kerbanov. He
gets the title, and suddenly he's thrust into this position
because Turkey al Chic, who has a relationship with Terrence Crawford,
they were trying to figure out what to do with him.
He wasn't going to have the rematch with Arrol Spence
for various reasons including arrows, you know, not being ready physically,
and just a lot of different issues, and nobody really
wanted to see the rematch because it was such a
one sided fight the first time that I think that
the PBC people that would have been in charge of it,
you know, realize this was not going to do very
much business like the first fight did in any event.
He wanted to move up and wagit tow one hundred
and fifty four pounds and Turkey has done a lot
of business of course since they've started doing these reat
season events with Eddie Hearn from matchrom Boxing, who is
the promoter for Israel Majimov and Majmov was never one
to duck anybody and when they inquired about the fight,
they were ready to go. It was a fight that
Crawford was interested in to try to win a world
title in a fourth weight class. Madromov wants to fight
the best fighters, and so they made the match. And
again my point all along ever since the fight was made,
and it's not even just because I've heard them talking
and you know it kind of maybe you know, makes
you think a certain way that just because you may
not be that familiar with Magemov and you don't you
don't really look at him has like a lot of
top notch wins as a pro or big experience. He's
a real fighter, a great amateur and it's a real fight.
Now that said, it's hard to pick against Terrence Scrufford,
even though he may, of course, you know when who
was late to mid thirties or you know his midt
to a thirties. Rather, I have seen no evidence that
he's slipping. He's still every bit is but as he's
always been. I know, he's been off for a year,
you know, the anniversary actually the Spense fight, which is
a couple of days ago, and of course Magimov won
this belt back, you know, just earlier this year, so
he's been more active in that sense. But I think
he's gonna give Terrence Crawford a good fight. I think
Terrence Crawford probably wins the fight, but I think that
when it's over, it's the kind of fight where, if
it goes how I kind of think it will go,
the Magimov may lose, but gain quite a bit of
respect and notoriety and more fans because he's gonna give
the number one fighter in boxing, you know, a legitimate match.
Speaker 2: Do you believe we theorize this on the bet Us Show,
And I'm going over some of the same ground for
our new audience. The Crawford might be a little rusty
for the first couple of rounds. Who knows, he hasn't
fought in a year and he's thirty six years old.
It may take him a little bit to get warmed up.
You and I both believed were on the record. He
gets a stoppage or a knockout, but do you think
it might take him a little bit to get ramped
up in fight?
Speaker 3: Crawford Absolutely, I mean I do, but not because he's
not because he's rusty. You know, if you follow Terrence Crawford,
I've covered Terrence Crawford's entire career ever since he became,
you know, a notable fighter. He's not a guy that
starts super quick. I mean occasionally, I mean when he
won the undisputed title, for example in the junior welterweight division,
he demolished and Dongo I think it was two or
three rounds. But generally speaking, he's not a guy that
that that runs out of the out of the corner
and just looks to annihilate you in the first round.
He is, you know when they and I can't stand
this because it's so kind of dumb, but in this
particular case, you know, they talk about how he likes
to take around or to to download the information, and
that actually is what Crawford does. I don't like that phraseology.
It's kind of stupid, but it does fit the bill.
When it comes to Crawford, he does do that. He
he does check things out and make sure he understands
what's in front of him and gauges his speed, his distance,
the power, that sort of thing, and then he once
he's got that figured out, it takes him around or
two and then he goes to it's been very successful
because there's a reason he's forty to zero with a
whole bunch of knockouts. So I think Majiamov, he's in
with a guy that's been used to fighting bigger fighters,
a guy that does have decent punching power, a guy
that is experiencing against good amateurs, the guys that has
shown a good ability to take a punch. We'll see
what Terrence does with that. Will take a couple of rounds,
I believe, to just see what's in front of them
and then start digging in and we'll see what kind
of resistance mag Mov has. And in the end, you know,
I suspect the Crawford's going to win this fight, but
I don't think it's going to be an easy time
getting there.
Speaker 1: All right, So again that is the main event. And
by the way, I should have mentioned before.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to tell you more about how to
get it from our friends at PPV dot com. This
entire fight craw a card with Crawford's return against Madromov
and just repeat one more thing and then we're going
to move on to the rest of card I put
this question to you, do you believe as we sit
and talk on August the first heading into this weekend,
that we've seen the last of Terrence Crawford at welterweight
that he will now be a junior middleweight or maybe
even low you know, all things being equal, now at
a mega fight with Canelo Alvarez. But do you think
that we've seen the last of him at one forty seven?
What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I have no doubt. This is the last
thing that won forty seven. He's wanted to move up
since the since Suspence fight. Obviously, staying at welterweight for
the Spence fight was very important because of the undisputed
status that was at stake in the history that went
with that. But since that uh is over with. Even
if they were going to have had the rematch against
Harold Spence, it wasn't gonna be one hundred and fifty
four pounds anyway. So he's already been uh, you know,
he's already he's down to two belts now at welterweight.
It's just a matter of time until they're gone. Once
this fight's over with, he'll have fifteen days least. I
don't know what the timing is from the from a
from the WBO, because I talked to those guys last night.
He has fifteen days post this fight, win or lose
to determine which if he's going to stay in which
division or you know, if he certainly he has both belts,
will have to tell him. But he's not coming back
to walter right. There's no big money fight for him
in the division. If for some reason we think, or
they think, or the powers that be think that the
Boots Andnas fight's a big money fight, then that could
fight happened, but it would happen probably at jerim in
a weight. It's not going back down. There is no
reason for him. The challenge for the IBF title with
Jerdey won, and it's got just because Terrence Crawford, you know,
got stripped of the title. So he's looking up. He's
looking to fight this fight at one fifty four and
then he wants to Canelo fight, and that is that
gonna happen. That would be at super midweight. Canelo has
to win against Berlanga in his next fight in September. Obviously,
Crawford's got to do his thing on Saturday, and then
Turkey El Chik's got to come in a good Ganta
and check for Canelo. Then the mean they can have
it happen. But yeah, he's done it.
Speaker 1: Welter, All right, fair enough, okay, rest of this card.
Speaker 2: You did talk to Andy Ruiz as well in the
preview mode and we had that up on the podcast
feed earlier in the week. He fights Jerrell Miller twelve
round heavyweight fight. One are your thoughts here going in?
I know you've been around Ruiz and you've even seen
Jerrell Miller a little bit here as we go into
the preview mode, we don't know their weights until Friday. Obviously. Miller,
for the record, weighed three to three three three and
thirty three pounds back last December in the fight with
Daniel Dubois. Ruiz has been off for twenty three months,
so who knows what he comes in at. But what
are your thoughts here on this one where the winner
of this fight is obviously very viable among heavyweight contenders,
that's part of the point here, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. I mean one of the things that
the Riant season cards have exceled that is putting on
heavyweight fights. I mean, that's what they've done. Most of
their events have been geared around heavyweights. Obviously fury U
Sik Joshua and Nagano fights the Day of Reckoning the
while there are those types of matchups that they've been doing.
Joseph Parker has been on those cards, but this is
another one of those types of matchups, a very good
matchup on paper. It does definitely look like if you're
familiar with the two fighters, that will be a fun
fight to watch. You know, we've calld like as a
slober knocker kind of fight. Both guys are are. The
thing about this fight that's interesting to me is that
for heavyweight standards, especially for guys as heavy as these
guys are, they're very quick handed. I mean they got
both quick feet, quick hands. Andy Reeves has always been
known for having the quick can speed, and you talk
about the conditioning these guys, now, they don't ever in
their previous fights. You're not gonna look at these guys
say they are the body beautiful, Andy Luiz in particular.
But Andy, you know, I've seen Andy here at the hotel.
He looks some pretty darn good shape. When I spoke
to him for the podcast, you know, he said he's
he's definitely trimmed down because I saw some pictures that
they post of him on social media. He says he's
going to be around two sixty five, two seventy five,
which for him is actually pretty good. We'll see how
good he looks. Jeral Miller, as you just mentioned, it
has been over three hundred pounds for probably around his
last seven or eight fights, including the three thirty three
that you mentioned for the Danube Duboat fight. Now, when
I saw Jeral Miller and was standing with him yesterday afternoon,
he's not going to weigh three in the thirty three pounds.
He and I saw a picture his promoter had sent
me a picture when he did a weight check a
couple of days before, and the weight on the scales
s TOID three oh three. So he may be right
at three hundred or maybe a little higher, little lower.
I'd be a surprised he's lower than that. That mightn't
you know. He actually is good at three hundred. It's
when he gets a three thirty and up there that
it's a little bit more problematic for him. He's coming
off the loss, but it was not that long ago,
and it was a courageous kind of lost. You know,
even though he lost on points, he was in the fight.
It was competitive and he was, you know, also doing
some damage. He just was, you know, kind of outgunned
by Daniel Duat. So I expect this to be a
really good fight. It's a highly important fight. Both guys
can put themselves in a great position. Ruiz can get
right back in the mix for some kind of big fight,
and Jeremuller can shake off that loss. And you know,
he's always entertained whatever his situation has been. But I
think they're taking it serious, especially Miller. He looks like
he is in just tremendous condition for where he's at
in his career.
Speaker 2: And we do have the irony angle that you talk
to Andy Ruiz about that the reason he got the
shot that he took advantage of with the humongous upset
of Anthony Joshua Is Jirell Miller imploded tested positive for peds,
weight loss drugs and other peds and couldn't fight Joshua himself.
And now here we come around five years later and
they're fighting each other.
Speaker 3: And the thing, the other thing about it is Andy
Ruiz and Jerrem Miller they're friends. They are friends. That's
not going to impact the fight. I don't think they
know it's business. But if they have a relationship, they
you know, Andy speaks very highly of Jerald and his family.
Gerald speaks highly of Andy Ruiz. They do have a friendship,
and not like they're best friends, but they definitely are
friendly with each other. Uh. And so you know, it's competition,
and you know what, it's a good, even up kind
of heavyweight fight. And that's that's an undercard fight, and
that's what you want. You want value for your money.
If you're buying a pay per view, it's wonderful if
you have a great main event, but to really get
the juices Floan for the real hardcore, diehard fan is
give them money value for their money, and also the
fans that may be interested in the main event, you
give them something else. That they may be other fighters,
they may become fans of this. I think has a
very good chance to be a pretty darn good fight
when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: And again, Ruiz is a Mexican American.
Speaker 2: He has fought before in Southern California several times, including
headlining with the Chris Ariola fight that he had after
he lost the rematch to Anthony Josh. Weall, we'll see
what kind of fans he brings and that, and that
kind of leads us into the other big baby, real
big baby Jared Anderson, unbeaten, top rank fighter. It clearly
is on a track if he continues to win to
be a heavyweight title.
Speaker 1: Contender and challenger.
Speaker 2: And now he fights a fight that I think you
and I I know we're in agreement, is a very
dangerous fight against a fighter from the Congo by way
of what did you tell me Scotland. I've always said
watch out in Los Angeles for the guys from the
Congo by way of Scotland. Martin Bokoley is his name,
and Bacoley has a couple of significant wins, and this
is a dangerous fight for Jared Anderson on this card
Saturday Night, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I think this might be the best fight on the
show in terms of just I mean, I think it's
fair to say that if you look at all the matchups,
even the Ruiz and Jeral Miller fight, I think there's
a general consensum like who's going to probably win the fight,
Like most people probably figure Ruiz is gonna win. Most
people figure Crawford's gonna win. Most people figure we'll get
to the next fight with Isaac Cruz, you know, and
so on. So far, it doesn't mean they're not gonna
match up, doesn't mean there's certainly not the possibility of
upsets or the other guy winning. This is the one
where I have absolutely no fucking clue what's happening in
this fight. I know that Jared Anderson is an excellent
heavyweight with good punching power, a pretty good amateur background.
He's been brought along, He's fought the right kind of guys.
He's won, you know, pretty handily. He got buzzed a
couple of times, so there's some questions about some vulnerabilities,
but he is considered by most people the number one
American heavyweight contender. And and Martin McCully, you have a
guy twenty wins, one losses, fifteen knockouts, who is a
mountain of a man, calls himself the machine. Hasn't had
a loss, just a one loss in his career. He
got stopped back in twenty eighteen by Michael Hunter, who
was an Olympian who was a good professional, been a
you know, a solid contender, if not Lampe how at
this point maybe a little bit of like a be contender.
But he's been a good fighter for a number of
years and that was a tenth round TKO in a
ten round fight, and it's it's a kind of fight.
Where Ever, since then he's been winning and he's been
performing on the saudy cards. He fought in October he
scored a nice knockout in the fourth round against Carlos
Takam who was a well known fighter who's always shown
a pretty durable chin, which challenged for the world title
on a couple occasions. He's got the upset victory by
decision over Tony Yoka back in twenty twenty two, who
was an Olympic gold medalist. This is no fucking joke.
His brother was the former cruiserweight champion, so this is
like who knows now. Bucoli's a little bit older. Jared's
still really young and he's in his early twenties. Beccole's
got a little bit more experience. He's into his thirties,
but he's a preserved thirty hasn't been in the big
bomb Wars or anything like that. So I listened to
what they had to say at the press commerce I've
seen some of the comments that they were making in
the rest of the build up. They both are looking
at a knockout, and You're like, why in the world
did did Jared Andrew take this fight? I mean, Jared
is bad.
Speaker 2: You and I have talked about that his last couple
of fights, where I'm saying, Okay, you got a step up.
This is a significant step up, and this is a
dangerous fight. This guy came clearly.
Speaker 3: They went to Top Rank and Jared has, like I guess,
shruck up, a little bit of a relationship with Turkey,
who has a taken a shine to him, likes him
as a fan of his, wanted to put him on
the card. They made a deal with Top Rank to
have him on the show. They're paying a lot of
money to have Jared perform in this fight. I mean
a lot of money, millions for him in an undercard fight.
And as Jared said, look, they came to me and
they wanted me on the card and they said, you
know who will you fight? Was I said, I'll fight anybody.
Tell me who you want me to fight, and they
gave him Martin mccully's name and he said fine, and
they It was that simple. Now. The other intriguing aspect
of this fight is that ob Jared's first it would
be his first fight since going to bring On to
go with it, to be involved in his training, and
that sugar Hill Stewart. He still has his original trainer,
but sugar Hill has taken a lead on the corner.
And sugar Hill obviously has huge experience training Tyson Fury
and others. And one of the things about their relationship
is because when he was a sparring with Tyson Fury,
when Fear was getting ready for previous defenses, sugar Hill
saw him and liked him and they could guests created
a relationship in the gym when he was one of
Tyson fury sparring partners, and Fury has always spoken very
highly of the work that Jared Anderson gave him, and
now sugar Hill takes over the corner and we'll see
if they can refine him and maybe shore up the
defense a little bit the way that you need to
do in uh when you're finding a big puncher like Bocoley.
So real fascinating fight. This is I think has a
chance to be a surprise. It could go either way
in my mind. Flip a coin. Bacoley is the technically
the betting underdog, but this is this is not uh.
This is one of those fights where somebody is going
to take a big step forward and someone's taking a
big step backward.
Speaker 2: And clearly, uh, you know you would want ideally to
have Anderson get the win and be viable for either
the Miller or Louise winner or something bigger. But mcoley
may be about to screw that up. This is a
real risk and.
Speaker 3: So but he's viable for those guys too, That's right.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I mean, sooner or later, you got
to find out what Jared Anderson really is at the
highest level, and it begins with Saturday Night. This will
this will be an attention getting win if he gets it.
Now full disclosure again, we've done the bet us show
already it's out. We believe Bacoley. I believe Bacoli is
going to get this win in an upset. Let's see,
But I don't see. I don't believe Bacoley in the upset.
I picked Bacouli because the number was so appetizing.
Speaker 1: Hm, I'm just staying for me.
Speaker 2: I believe he beats him. I believe he wins a
decision in this fight.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Let's see what Jared Anderson shows on this card. Okay,
Like we often joke, this is not like the GINSU
Steak Knives infomercial. How much would you pay now for
the pay for your twenty ninety five thirty ninety five? Wait,
there's more. Each Pitbull cruise on this card defending his
WBA one hundred and forty pound title, and this Jose
Valenzuela now Valezuela in Los Angeles usually means the Dodgers
Fernando Valezuela from back in the day. You and I
are longtime baseball fans. This is Jose Valezuela, young up
and comer. I'm intrigued by this fight as well, with
Pitbull for a title on this card.
Speaker 1: All right, give me more in the preview ute I.
Speaker 3: Said it a thousand times is a stacked fucking card.
I'm not even joking. It is a stack card, end
of story. It's not kissing anybody's ass. Is that card.
And this is a fight that adds depth to that card.
It is absolutely an interesting fight. Isaac Cruz is the
just one the WBA title. In his last fight, he's
scored a very impressive knocket against Rolando Romero and now
he's making his first defense. He's experienced and now his
other wins. Of course, we're in the lightweight division where
he had a close competitive loss to Gervonta Davis, which
I think, frankly, if he wins his fight, there's a
possibility we may see him, you know, in the next
fighter to any rematch against Tank Davis. Uh And so
they wanted him on this card. He's a very popular fighter.
He's become much more popular with the Mexican fan base
since that fight against Tank Davis. You know, I've seen
him at some of these other events. He's like the
pied piper, you know. We saw him last year on
the Aero Spence Terence Crawford undercard when he when he
fought Giovanni Cabrera. You know, the fans were all over him.
It was just you know, like I said, they just
they scarmed to him. And he's such a likable guy,
smiling and lugs his embraces. The fans will stand there
and take all the pictures and everything. And in Jose
Valenzuela again he's, you know, like Isaac Cruz, who was
a lightweight that moved up to get the title opportunity.
Valan Zuella is likewise now doing the same thing for
this fight with Isaac Cruz, because his whole career has
been fought in the lightweight division. He's coming off the
back to back. He had the two fights with Chris Colbert.
In the first fight he lost a very controversial, highly
controversial decision. He got the immediate rematch, and then he
stopped Colbert in a very impressive fashion in the sixth round.
And that was back in December, and now here we
are eight months later.
Speaker 2: He's moved brutal, brutal knockout of cold lad him out
on the front on the bottom ropestran unconscious.
Speaker 1: When last we saw Valanzuela.
Speaker 3: And now when he lost that controversial decision to Colbert,
in the first fight, he was trying to shake off
his own knockout loss to Edwin Delos Santos in the
third round that took place in twenty twenty two. But
it feels like he's moved well beyond that because he
should have won the first Colbert fight. He annihilated Clobert
in the rematch, and now he's into a world champion
opportunity against against Isaac Cruz and this is a good fight.
Also again, you know, two lightweights basically fighting for the
junior walter weight tel because it's only their you know,
second fight in the weight class for Pitbull, first fighting
the weight class for Vealezuela, who is a southpaw who
might give Pitbull a little bit of trouble. You know,
he has had some issues in that a sense in
previous fights. But this should be a fun fight. Also,
it's you know, this is going to be a fight
that's going to definitely appeal to the Mexican crowd that
turns out well, you know, and it's like you said,
you know, in terms of the depth of the card,
this adds to that depth of that show that we've
been talking about, all right.
Speaker 2: And we're not done because we've got other big names.
David Morell Is is going to be on this card
as well, and he has moved up to light heavyweight
at this point one along with David Benavitez, of two
guys that is saying, I've got to look at something
else besides the Canelo Alvarez fight that's apparently not happening.
Tell me more about morell and the guy that he's
in with, Kaladizitch hot Rod. Tell me more about that, please.
Speaker 3: So morell was in a similar position as bet In
vEDS where he couldn't get a fight against Canelo Alvarez
in the super middleweight division. He held the WBA's regular title,
he was the mandatory and he just wasn't going to
get that fight. That WBA mandatory wasn't quite due yet,
but the point was he wasn't getting the fight, and
so what else was there to do with super midiweight?
So unless him and Navds were going to fight each other,
which their teams actually had agreed to, but ben Vide's
decided he wanted to do something else and win a
different direction. There was really no other real fight of
you know, significance for him in the weight division. So
he decided to move up to one hundred and seventy
five pounds to fight hot Rod Kaligi and the WBA
because they do WBA things that drive me absolutely fucking
crazy a moment when they told me a thousand times,
my boy, gil BERTA. Mendoza, they're getting rid of the
regular titles and the interim titles and they're not going
to do that shit anymore. They just out of the
blue decided let's make this for the re WBA tunnel,
which is not supposed to exist. So that irritates the
fuck out of me. That said, this is a good
test for Morrell. Hes still got a lot of a
ton of fights. He's a great amateur fighter, but similar
to Majumov, he's ten and zero nine knockouts. But he's
fought good quality competition since he turned professional. And you know,
now he's stepping up to a different weight division, so
we'll see. Because he's fought his whole career at a
super middleweight. I do think he's going to be just
fine in that weight class because he's a big guy
for that weight class. He's got a good reach, he's
got good power. He's still young, so this is against collegiate,
is not like it's a very reasonable fight for his
first chance in the weight class. Now his opponent is
twenty nine and two with twenty one knockdouts, so he's
got a good record. He's not an old guy's only
thirty three years old. But he take a look at
the guys he's lost to, they're what you would consider,
I guess forgiveab loss. He lost an eight round split
decision against Marcus Brown, who was the United States Olympian
who went on and fought in light heavyweight title fights
and his other that was back in twenty sixteen, and
then he went on that was so a long winning
streak after that, he got knocked out by Arthur Better
beef in a world title fight in twenty nineteen. And
by the way, who doesn't get knocked up by Arthur
Better vie world title fights art Because he's knocked out
every single opponent that he has faced, So that is
not a bad loss. And he's won several fights in
since that, including most recently Sullivan Morera, a very serviceable
fighter who had been a contender for a long time.
He stopped him in round ten back in March, So
you know, as a as a as a light heavyweight
debut for David Morrell. That is the second fight of
an absolutely loaded pay per view. This is a very
reasonable fight and actually kind of interesting because style wise
it probably should be a pretty entertaining fight.
Speaker 2: And Morrell again has had a big punch. Will it
translate at one to seventy five? That's part of the
intrigue again.
Speaker 3: I killed himself up by the way for the winner
as a mandatory in the WBA for the for the
undisputed fight between Better who will fight later in the year.
Speaker 1: And I joked with you earlier about Bakoli.
Speaker 2: I've always said, if you're gonna have a Cuban by
way of Minnesota on a fight card in Los Angeles,
it might as well be David Morrell.
Speaker 1: So that that we have that. Wait, there's more.
Speaker 2: There is another fight on this pay per view, and
that is speaking of Cubans, another Cuban and Andy Cruz.
We're in the Olympic timeframe, former Olympic gold medalist and
he's on this card. So give me more on that
in the preview modent.
Speaker 3: Well, Andy Ruiz, I mean Andrew is Andy Kruz is
one of the best up and coming fighters in boxing.
I even hesitate to call him a prospect because he's
so outstanding, but with only three fights, he still kind
of got to call him a prospect. But similar to
some of the other guys we've been talking about, Majia Moov,
David Morrell another guy with a big amateur career who
turned pro against real guys fighting ten rounders. But he's
as great of amateur accolades as we've seen from Morell,
and also for majiamav Andy Kruz dwarfs them off. Andy
krus are one of the greatest amateurs that ever put
on gloves. Based on his amateur credentials, this is a
man who is a two time Olympic gold medal winner.
I take that back, a one time gold medal winner
in the twenty twenty Olympics when he defeated Keishon Davis,
and he defeated keish On Davis a bunch of times
in the amateurs. He also is a three time World
Amateur Champion twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one. They
do that every other year. He's a two time Pan
American Games champion and he is one of the most
decorated amateurs that there has been. And what I love
about Andy cu is Done is most Cuban fighters when
they come into the pros, they have that reputation as
the Cuban style, which is very effective in the amateurs,
but usually doesn't translate to fan followings and entertaining fights
in the professional ranks. What Andy CRUs did when he
came into the pros was he didn't go to Miami
to be comfortable with the Cuban culture and the Cuban
style of boxing in those gyms. He didn't go to
Vegas to sign up with the great Ishmael Salas, who
was a great coach, but each of that Cuban style.
He went to one of the roughest, toughest places you
can go to become a professional fighter, and that is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
to train in the gym of Bozy Ennis, who is
the father of Jron Ennis. And so Andy Cruz and
John Nis have done a lot of training together and
they have incredible sparring in that gym. They've actually sparred
with each other when maybe other guys haven't turned out,
even though they're separated by quite a bit of way.
Andy being a lightweight and NSPN a welterweight, So he's
developing a professional style that a lot of the Cuban
young fighters when they come over here haven't developed. Now
he's not young, he is twenty eight years old, but
he's on the fastest of fast tracks. He's going to
be in a world title fight in the very not
too distant future because I'm winning. When he made his
pro debut was against a former world title challenger who
fought a lot of top guys in Juan Carlos Bergos.
He fought other real guys in fights number two and
fight number three, and now for fight number four on
this pay per view that opens up the pay per view,
he's fighting Antonio Moran, who's a very experienced, very rugged
Mexican fighter who's thirty and six with a draw, who's
only been stopped one time, and that was actually a
very devastating knockout against Devin Hainey who just caught him
cold with a punch. I was five feet from the
ring when that fight knockout happened. It was actually scary
for a minute there. But other than that, Antonio Moran
has acquitted himself well. Even in losses, He's fought good
quality opposition. He's fought guys like Romero, do know who
he knocked out? He has a loss by a decision
to Jamaine Artist, who we've seen twenty of times. He's
got a loss to Arnold Barbosa, who's an undefeated contender.
He's fought real guys and so Cruz has taken him
on the fourth fight, and so we want to see
as he continued to develop the pro style, can he
get him out of there? Can he do what only
Devin Haney has done in the guy's losses. So to
me as an opening fight, you know, call me and
I'm actually really looking forward to seeing any CRUs because
I've yet to see him fight in person, so this
will be my first time to seemt ringside. I'm looking
forward to that.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: A busy pay per view three Pacific six Eastern time
it gets underway with these different fights. Uh so we've
got a lot more to get to here on the PABA.
Why don't we tell you more about how to be
able to see us. So Ray feels on scene on location,
he will be there at the venue. If you're looking
to watch this, let's tell you more about how you
can do that. Right now, Well, we have to have
to talk more about what's going on with Terrence Crawford's
twenty twenty four return Israel. Madream Off is the opponent.
Junior Middleweight is the new division, and our friends at
PPV dot com want to make sure that you know
and understand that you can check out the return of
Terrence Crawford and a tremendous undercard by the way too
through their service at.
Speaker 1: PPV dot com.
Speaker 2: And Mark Bocarti is back with us here from PPV
dot com and tell us more about it, my friend,
how are you as we're kicking August off with a
big time event headlined by Crawford and madreamof.
Speaker 4: Yeah we are, thanks for having me back. You know,
this is one of those rare boxing events TJ where
it's not just about the main event, it's about the
full card. So kudos to the promoters for putting this.
You know, the word stacked is thrown around too much
in the boxing world, in the fight sports world. This
card really is though, top to bottom, really really solid.
So we're looking forward to it should be a great
event and a great pay per view.
Speaker 2: And again Turkey Alashic and the read Season folks that
are behind this, they understand that, and they want to
put as many big time fights in and around the
main event. We've seen that with the Saudi Arabian cards.
This is their first venture into the United States, and
obviously everybody's curious. I was there a year ago, roughly
at this time when Terrence Crawford demolished Errol Spence, and
really that that probably vaulted him to number one pound
for pound. We haven't seen hi him since, and so
now we see him this week, and we're anxious to
see what's gonna happen with this fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we really are. You know.
Speaker 4: I think the knock on Crawford for how skilled he
is is the inactivity that you just referenced, and I
think finally we get him back in the ring, and
the question is how does he look. Of course, any
ring rusted any of that, probably not. He's so talented
he's number one in my book pound for pound. But
I think everyone's really excited about if he pulls this off,
what's next rumor mill being, of course, a potential showdown
with Canelo Alvarez, but he does have to get through
a dangerous opponent here to begin with.
Speaker 3: So we'll find out on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: And again Madreamov has the WBA title in this fight
is also for the AK and WBO title, so it's
it's a chance at a unified championship in Crawford. Again,
moving up and wait and again, we want to encourage
the fans that are hearing us to utilize PPV dot
com for a couple of different reasons. One no long
term commitment, I want you to elaborate on that, and
two the interactive part of the fan experience. Those are
always big when PPV dot com is involved.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very simply on ppv dot com, you come
to the site, you buy what you want one off
basis by a fight and that's it. No obligation, no
ongoing subscription, so easyps. With respect to the interactivity, we're
gonna have a good lineup. We have of course Jim Lampley,
boxing broadcast icon in our chat, Lance Pugmeyer, Award winning journalist,
Dan Kenobio super successful podcaster, boxing influencer guy. So we
got the three of them, So you got three really
cool perspectives, unique perspectives and they are great interacting with fans.
So anyone who's listening wants to buy on PPV dot Com,
Come in, participate in the chat. You can chat directly
with these guys, and it's going to be a really
fun night with this really big card.
Speaker 1: I know, I see the feedback.
Speaker 2: I'm in there frequently through PPV dot Com and I
see the feedback from fans going, hey, I love getting
to talk to Jim Lampley or to Lance or even
to Dan. But Lampley in particular is so well known
for decades of broadcasting in the sport, and you're getting
his takes in real time. And again we emphasize there's
not a six month commitment, much less.
Speaker 1: A year commitment.
Speaker 2: You buy what you want through PPV dot com. With
this and one more time, I mean, we got EATSA
Cruz on this card in the co feature fight, and
then we got a couple of heavyweight showdowns. Andrew Ruiz,
the former unified heavyweight champion in action with Jarell Miller
and Jared Anderson, the unbeaten heavyweight out of Toledo, Ohio
on this card and what could be a dangerous fight
for him. Martin Bucoli is no joke, an African fighter
that can really punch again there's a lot here. There's
a lot of meat on the bone, as we like
to say, on this card one more time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is.
Speaker 4: And the Ruiz Miller fight is you know, sneakily for
me kind of one I'm really looking forward to almost
as much as the headliner. Pitbull of course has had
some spectacular recent events, so a lot of action there.
And then you mentioned the other heavyweight fight. So like
we said, you know, at the top, top to bottom,
this is a terrific card and kudos to Turkey for
putting this together.
Speaker 2: I know we're excited for everything that's going to happen
this fall. Canelo's fight is now official, and we're looking
forward to rematch of Usik and Fury and again PPV
dot Com interlock. And by the way, we should make
mention it's not just boxing, their other events as well
that you guys have had just say something about that,
which is the same situation. You do not need a
long term subscription, You buy what you want, right.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have wrestling, We've had concerts, comedy shows, basketball,
We've had a lot a lot of different types of content.
But you just mentioned a few of the upcoming boxing
events TJ that are going to be happening this fall,
all of those available on PPV dot com, No subscription required,
zero commitment, Come in, buy what you want, enjoy it,
and then and then you're out of there.
Speaker 2: Crystal clear, tenn ADYI if you are tendyp whichever, whatever
you need four K as a matter of fact too
and interactive with PPV dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, we're getting excited Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It's been a little bit since we've had a big
time title fight card in Los Angeles. We're anxious for this,
and Mark, I know we're excited to see the return
of Terrence Crawford, one of the best fighters in the world,
going for a world title in yet another weight division.
This would be a fourth different weight division. If he
can get it, coming up here in this one one
more time, we tell him, go get it through PPV
dot com. We're excited, right, Mark McCarty for Crawford and
madream off very excited.
Speaker 4: I need to watch it on PPV dot com. Come
to the come to the come to fight night, ready
to watch, ready to interact with our guys, and you'll
have a great time on PPV dot com.
Speaker 2: Again, we enjoy our relationship with our friends at PPV
dot com. We can't emphasize it enough that you don't
need the long term subscription by what you want through
PPV dot com and this is a tremendous pay per
view card here for the you know, the value and
the number of fights that you're getting because the chances are,
I mean sometimes these are stinct bombs where maybe only
one fight's a good one, the chances are I'm just
saying this, we're gonna get three, four, maybe maybe more.
Speaker 1: Really good fights out of this.
Speaker 2: And again we encourage you to watch it on PPV
dot com. By the way, By the way, you rolled
into town, and again you couldn't get a meeting with
Tom Cruise because he's at the Olympics in France. I
know you're your people and his people were trying to
get together, but you actually were at the event at
the Santa Monic appear on Wednesday night. Let's go back
to Wednesday night as we release this podcast, where they
did the grand arrivals for the fighters, had them work
out of the ring a little bit, but they also
had fights at the Santa Monica Campeer and you love this.
Speaker 3: I loved it. So they had they had the arrivals
at the pier on Tuesday, which I was not at.
I got here on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, later in
the day, they had the all the fighters on the
main card do their public workout, press workout, and you know,
try to promote the fight in a very picturesque spot
on the Santa Monicampeer, which is about you know, thirty
thirty five minutes from the fight hotel. You know, depending
on the traffic here in crazy Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, thirty minutes at what time of day, Yes, exactly, likeues.
Speaker 3: It depends, right, So they already had the ring set up,
and they had the led boards and the whole thing
set up, and so what they were trying to do,
and I knew this was like a possibility back like
about a month month and a half ago, but it
seemed like a remote chance they get it done. So
they took three fights with it, with prospects that were
originally going to just be on the non like the
preliminary part of Saturday's stadium card that there'd have been like,
you know, barely anybody in the arena. I'd be early
in the afternoon it or maybe even the morning frankly,
and that's no fun. So what they decided to do
was to try to dress things up because the workouts,
you know, are kind of repetitive. Is let's also do
we'll clear the ring of the workouts, we'll put in
the real fights. And so it took a little bit,
you know, to get the permitting to do the real fight.
Obviously it costs money to rent that space on the
pier and uh and it was a very costly endeavor,
obviously the person and also on top of that, but
the Saudi's are trying to make a splash and they
have a lot of money to spend, and so they
did that. And so they took the after the workouts,
they put these three doubts in. They showed them on
his own, very picturesque. I was there right next to
the roller coaster. So if you watch them throw punches,
then you hear the people coming above us screaming their
brains out because they were scared shitless on the on
the coaster and they did the three fights.
Speaker 2: You want to confirm you have not written that roller coaster.
You did not write that roller coaster was all right,
could keep going on the fights keep going.
Speaker 3: I was, I was watching the fights. So in the
main event of the mini we'll call it a mini
car because there's only three doubts. One of my favorite
prospects to watch because I find them very entertaining is
the lightweight now well, actually Junior lie Wait, he's fluctuated
between the two, but he's now very been fighting regular
at one hundred and thirty pounds and that's Mark cash
show outstanding amateur from Fresno, and he took on another
like local southern California fighter named Georgia Costa, and you know,
for a one sided fight, it was a lot of fun.
I mean, they had a lot of punch of swapping,
and you know, Cashow was going after him pretty much
the whole fight. Unfortunately, in the seventh round they had
a headbutt and and you could just see Costa's eye
just blew up right away, and when the doctor checked
it out, they decided to stop the fight. It so
I went to the scorecards for a technical decision, which
Casho won by a shutout. But that was that was
the main event, if you will, of that part of
the cart and Casho is a good prospect, like I said,
coming along. You know, Matt trims Adams since day one,
and we'll see how he continues to develop. But he's
a fun fighter to watch, very likable guy. And the
second fight, the co feature of If You Will Have
This Mini Car, was the Olympic silver medal winner, the
welterweight chat crom gsof from was deck to stand. He
fought a tough dude Mexican fighter named Miguel Parr who
took everything. They called this a split decision, and the
cards were somewhat close, and the one scorecard that was
in favorite part this was a joke. I mean Giasov,
you know, you know he didn't he got touched a
little bit and he probably lost a couple of rounds,
but he certainly did not lose the fight, and it
certainly wasn't as close as two of the judges had it.
And the thing they really pissed me off, pissed off
all the crowd because you could hear them booing, and
pissed off Gisov and his manager Vaddin Korniloff, who also
is the manager for Israel Majumov Dmitri Biebel. There was
a punch in the sixth round that was clear as
day that was a body shot. It didn't even touch
the top of the the top of the of the
cup or the top of the belt. It was literally
a legitimate, non outline body punch, and the referee called
it a low blow and took a point away from
Giasof Now, when the round ended, you gotta picture this.
The ring is set up in front of a gigantic
led board where they were showing the so the crowd
saw it when it happened live. It was not even
like hard to see. And then when they showed the
replay like two or three times from the zone on
the board, the crowd was going crazy booing. And it
pissed me off that the fucking referee didn't even turn
around and look. And I know he couldn't have done
anything because they weren't using replay fight, but he didn't
even have the fucking courtesy to look at the replay
to understand how fucking bad his call was. Right, and
you know, Giasov is right in the position right now
where he's close to a mandatory fight for welterweight title,
and that's the kind of call that can almost could
cost him to fight because of how close the judges
had it. There was so much wrong with the way
that fight was officiated. They're judging stunk and the referee stunk,
and Giuso still got to win. He still beat the
shit out of Para, and Para was still tough as nails.
So he gets to win. He goes to sixteen and oh,
and he's gonna, you know, be in position probably to
fight for one of the titles. So that was the
second fight and.
Speaker 1: Then you remember that, so remember that name, and then
one more fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nathan Lugo was a kid that was one and
oh who had had a professional fight, and then after
his pro debut he signed with Frank Warren Queensberry Promotions.
When Frank was at the card last night, and he's
managed by David mcwater who's probably best known for the
being the manager of t Fimo Lopez. He's also the
manager for Brandon Lea. So when he signed Lugo with Queensberry,
he also was signing Brandon Lee with Queensberry. Brandon Lee
made his Queensberry debut on the Joe Joyce Destre card
in the UK. Nathan Lugo fought in this card and
you know, I'd never seen him other than like a
clip of his pro debut, but you know, at least
strong like a bull. It looks like to me he
needs to clean up the defense. But he took out
a four to one fighter from you know in the
second round name Ray Corona, just laid a lot of
punches on him. And whatever happens with Lugo, if he
tiens up the defense, he's going to be a fun
fighter to watch because he's very offensive minded. He's only
twenty years old. And that was your three fight card.
But that was fun. I enjoyed being there. It was
a cool atmosphere. I've been to a lot of interesting
places for fights in my day, but I never covered
a boxing match next to a roller coaster on a pier.
Speaker 2: And you do want to confirm that, even though you're
in Hollywood, that Cheryl Crow with the famous song was
not there to sing when the sun comes up over
Santa Monica Boulevard.
Speaker 1: She was not and I did not sing it. But
more Intenseltown, you're on location.
Speaker 3: I cannot confirm she wasn't there. I just didn't see her.
Speaker 1: She could have been there at the fights on the
roller coaster.
Speaker 3: She could have been the thing about it was I.
I have been in Santa Monica on a number of occasions,
and I've passed by the pier on a certain occasion,
but never actually gone down and bent on the pier.
So that was pretty cool for the first one I
was there.
Speaker 1: I was there longer ago than I want to admit
right now. With the twins.
Speaker 2: The twins were much smaller in twenty sixteen. We were
there eight years ago, and I kept saying to them,
this is the very famous with the Ferriss wheel and
the roller coaster, the very famous Santa Monica pier.
Speaker 1: They were the third grade. They didn't care about that crap.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to know what are we eating and
are we gonna go to Disneyland or not, which we did,
by the way.
Speaker 3: Important things important.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to some news and then some nostalgia.
Speaker 2: All right, we were talking about Haimi Mongia and a
fight with Top Rank. They now have announced the date,
the location, et cetera. Give me the latest details on
Mongia and what's going on.
Speaker 3: So Monkey is going to come back from his first loss,
which was of course just recently when he lost to
Cane Alvarez in a good fight, but he showed a
lot in that fight, and I don't think it hurt
his marketability or his popularity or his career in any way,
shape or form when you take a loss in a
good fight like that against one of the best fighters
in boxing. So he is going to have his first
fight with Top Rank. It'll be a twelve round fight.
He's fighting the fighter I was based out of Canada,
Armenian fighter named Eric Bazinian, who is a top contender,
also just has the one draw. They're fighting at the
Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. I had written about
this fight a couple of weeks ago, and when I
wrote about that, you know, based on what I was
told from different sources that were involved in this, that
this was going to be the first fight of a
multi fight contract between Mongia and Top Rank. They did
not announce the multi fight agreement. Oscar de LaHaye a
few days ago had gone on his social media made
a video saying, you know what, this is just a
one off blah blah blah. He's still with Golden Boy.
There's a lot of gray going on with this. Okay.
Top Rank believes and has been told that he is
free and clear of both Zandford Promotions and Golden Boy
that their agreements came to an end post the Alvarez loss,
and then it was the Mongia team that approached Top
Rank wanting to sign with them. But there may be
you know, I don't know the details, but the bottom
line is that's going to get worked on after this
is over. So for this one fight, they've got the deal.
No one's threatening lawsuits, so he's clearly free at least
for this fight. Zanfer and Golden Boy are in association
on this fight. If there wasn't something going on, Top
Rank would never give zan would never give Golden Boy
an in association if they wasn't a reason to do so.
So it's gonna be a thing that's going to play out.
But the main thing is Jimi McGee, who was one
of the most exciting fighters on boxing, a very enjoyable
fighter to watch and a very good fighter in the
super middle eight division. He's gonna get in the ring
and he's going to fight a real guy in Eric
Bazinian uh thirty two to zero to one, and hopefully
they'll put on a hell of a fight and we'll
see what happens with Himi's promotional situation after that. I
suspect that they'll work things out and he'll probably will
wind up under that long term contract that they did
with Top Rank. But for this one fight in September,
that's not the case. But for the fans perspective, they
just got to worry about tuning in and watching one
of the most exciting fighters in boxing take care of business.
Speaker 2: Well, and we know two things about Mangi, a great
offensive fighter and doesn't play a whole lot of defense
at all. Gets hit a bunch, he hits, and he
gets hit so well. I don't know that that's really
gonna change for September the twentieth. Okay, bad news on
later this month what was to have been a Jack
Catterall Regis Prograde contender fight. Catterall injured, all right.
Speaker 1: Tell me more.
Speaker 2: And I did see some stuff on social media that
not that this may not be fatal for the rest
of this year. They may try to get this back
on track here later in the year, at least, that's
what the fighters were saying on social media and the speculation.
Speaker 3: What do we know, No, I think they're gonna I mean,
I talked to some of the match from people when
I got out here and they're they're hoping to reschedule
the fight. I don't know if it's gonna still be
at that new arena at the co Op Live in Manchester,
but they're gonna they're gonna try to reschedule this fight.
I think what they're trying to do actually, and this
is what I would pull. The nothing is done to
my knowledge is that they had already announced some of
the undercard fights as well for this cart that some
of those fights may find homes on other Matroum events
that they've got coming up, and they'll reschedule the main
event probably sometime. They're looking again. It's, you know, part
of it's depending on how the injury yields. The injury,
by the way, was not reported in terms of publicly
acknowledge what the injury is. I'm told by multiple sources
that know what's going on that that Catterall suffered some
type of rib injury in training, which you know takes
a little time. You're tender and you got to make
sure you're good. It's hard to breathe, it's hard to
get hit there, it's hard to throw punches if your
ribs messed up. It really kind of is your core
in it. It's it's kind of dicey sometimes when those
injuries happen. So take them a little while to rest
that and hopefully get better and they'll get this fight
back on.
Speaker 2: I saw Protray on social media he was training in
Las Vegas, right, is what he said on social media.
He was not happy, and then you know, and he's
had some jilted fights and Catteralls had some fights that
got postponed or whatever. So now Progra has to wait
for Catterall to get healthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's unfortunate. You know, anytime that happens,
you know, it's it's it sucks, but it's nobody's fault.
I believe this is legit. I don't think anybody's ducking
each other trying to get out of a fight. They're
gonna try to reschedule for October, so it's you know,
it's annoying. It's a couple of months difference. And you know,
if you put up a training camp, you know it's
costing you money to do the camp, and you're not
getting paid because there's no fight. So you're getting sparring
partners and you're you know, you're you're paying the nutritionists
or the you know, for the gym that you're using
and those types of things. So there's a cost associated
with that. And if you're not a guy that's made
the premium premium money, you know, it eats into what
you've got. But uh, you know, hopefully the fight will
get put back together and they'll put on a good show,
but for the time being, it's postponed.
Speaker 2: All Right, a couple more things, and then the nostalgia here, Okay,
what's going on with Tank Davis and whether he's fighting
Shakur Stevens so or wait, is Shakur fighting William Zupaida.
Speaker 1: Or is there a door number three for Chakour? Okay,
so let's let's go through it.
Speaker 2: First off, it was being reported and you're gonna get
into who that it was Tank and Shakur for November.
That was dispelled and now with it was just well, no,
it was reported, not you, but it was reported I
guess by IFL TV.
Speaker 3: I'll explain that. Okay, we got to do this the
right way. So IFL TV friends of mine, by the way,
I've appeared on their YouTube channel numerous times in the past.
Nothing but respect for those guys, but they fucking blew
it on this one. They put up an unsubstantiated report
with they didn't even say sources said. They certainly didn't
have a source that they acknowledged, and they just literally
put up them. And they have a good social media following,
so when they put something out, it's going to penetrate
to the boxing fans. You know, their their thoughts and
what they're thinking about. And they just simply wrote like
Chakor Stephenson and Jervonta Tank Davis have agreed. I forget
how they phrased it, but the fight is set for
November twenty third in Las Vegas or something to that effect.
And I saw that, I was like what, So I
spent like five minutes. I texted a few people that
I know in those camps and people that would be
directly involved in the fight, and boom boom, boom boom
is getting back to me like in real short order.
You know, absolutely not totally nonsense, not happening, not true,
one person said, not at all. Schu Court later put
his own thing on his media that said no, I
actually confirmed it with Kank Davis himself. I messaged Hank
and I asked him and he said, no, not true.
And uh so if you got the two fighters saying it,
and you got the people involved in it, he got
the teams.
Speaker 2: You no, we've been done this a long time. We've
been doing this long time. If the two fighters are
telling you both that it's not happening Shakur on social
media and Gervonte Davis to you, that's the safest bet
it's not happening for November twenty.
Speaker 1: And that's not to say that it can't happen. Have
not done yet, right, but.
Speaker 3: They're not even in like a negotiation either. To my nots.
They may have had, like the teams may have had
a conversation.
Speaker 1: Although the fact that both fighters refuted it almost immediately
this report is spot on.
Speaker 3: That was just a terrible okay, terrible.
Speaker 1: But then but then that.
Speaker 2: Leads to your buddy who's out there with you, Lance Pugmeyer,
who's reporting on Boxing scene dot com. We'll name it
that it's October and it's Schakour, and we'll Giam's a
paida and Rayfield's going no, no, wait, wait, not so fast,
my friend, tell me a little more.
Speaker 1: What is it not that is it not, then what's
going on with No.
Speaker 3: It's not anything, it's not anything, okay, So that fight
has more legs to it than the Tank and Court
fight because Tank is I mean rather Shakur. He's the
WBC's lightweight champion, and Williams of Paida is the WBC's
mandatory challenger. He is the mandatory actually across the board
and all of organizations. But it was just last week
or so that the WBC sent the official letter informing
the Tank, the Court team and the Zapeta team to
begin negotiating the fight and if they can't reach a
deal by I believe it was August twentieth that they
would call for a perspit. So obviously, anytime a purspet
is ordered, whether it's this fight or any other fight,
typically the two sides, if they have any interest in
the fight, don't get in touch with each other. Somebody
will make the call and say, hey, you know, we
got the order, what do you think what? And just
feel each other out what what are the possibilities. So
that happened between the Golden White People that represents the
Paida and even Coorus free agent. In terms of a
promotional broadcast, he still has management James Prince is still
his manager, and their lawyer, Josh Dubin, who's done business
with everybody. They had a conversation between the two sides,
Golden Boy and and the management side, and they decided
that they wanted to talk about the fight and like
start to discuss what the parameters might be, when we
might want to do it, all those types of things.
But there was no deal made, no verbal commitment. They
never discussed money, at least as far as I'm know,
and I've heard that from both sides in the last
you know, two days. Let's say, I mean, I guess
it could have happened today. But the point is again
not a done fight, not a made fight, not an
agree to fight. It's going to go through the process. Now.
Could they make a deal before August twentieth, Yeah, it's possible.
And if they don't, go to a purse fit and
then it will be up to Zapeida and Shakorder decided
that they want to participate. Obviously, if Shakurt didn't, he
would be stripped to the title. Zapeida could lose his
position with the WBC, but in the end that wouldn't
make that big of a difference because he's still there
as a mandatory for the other three organizations, so he
would have other possible options. So I'm not sure what
they're thinking about. I'll tell you one thing. I wouldn't
mind seeing cha court against Tank or against the BETA
or is the paida against Tank for that matter. I mean,
they're all solid quality matters. But the mist that the
gist of this whole part of what we're talking about
on the show right now is that the misinformation that
gets presented to the public when people get their hair
on fire about this fight's happening. This fight's not a thing.
It's just that people just don't even have a clue about.
Speaker 2: How the race to be first and put it out
there as opposed to be right, I understand so. And
one other thing here the report, and again Lance pug
Meyer very respected, he's out there with you. Pug Meyer's
report was it would be part of the better b
of bevol card.
Speaker 1: But you have also heard that that.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Chakur's Apeida could be a standalone obviously
as its own main event. And that's another thing that's
curious about all of this.
Speaker 1: Would it go.
Speaker 3: I mean, if if there were to be on that card.
I mean, obviously, if Turkey wants to fight, like any
of the fights we talked about, if he decides to
pay for it, then people would probably go for it.
But you know, and I don't, I don't, I don't. Uh.
I'm not saying that a Lance is wrong on that
at all. I just I personally had not heard that,
and I've talked to people in Bob Basso, so that's
maybe a possibility, but it would seem a little surprising.
But even regardless of where the fight's gonna take place,
on what card it's gonna take place, the two sides
got to make a deal, you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 1: And it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't.
Speaker 3: I mean, if Turkey goes to them with the money,
it's possible. I mean, he was making videos with Oscar,
They're talking, He's talking to everybody, so any of these
things are possible. But so my quarrel is that when
you say something's done and it's not even fucking discussed,
that's the problem. Shakur Davis being the quiteest set for
November twenty third, so I don't want to hear if
in like a month from now it winds up happening.
You can't go back and say my report was right,
because your report was ship when you put it out there.
Speaker 1: It's not done until the fighters themselves.
Speaker 3: Go it's not it's not. Not only is it not done,
it's not even like a thing yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you, by the way, it is a
thing that Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga. You made mention
of this a little while ago. They will kick off
their two city media tour in New York on Monday
and then Tuesday on Beverly Hills. You would like to
confirm you are not gonna lay over in California until Tuesday.
Speaker 1: In Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2: Uh, Your your meetings with your people and other people's
people will be co concluded by then, and you'll be
headed back to the Rayfield estate before Tuesday in Beverly Hills.
But Canelo and Berlanga will be there Tuesday. No.
Speaker 3: I never even actually I wouldn't have laid over to
go to that on Tuesday anyway. But when I made
my flight arrangements back, you know, a month and a
half ago, I had no idea that that that was
a happy anyway. So I'll be out here, like you know,
cracking dawn on Sunday. I got an early flight going home. Uh.
But look, they're gonna they're gonna do the normal thing.
They're gonna meet face to face. We'll size them up
in those two press conferences and they'll we'll see if
they talk some shit with each other. Berlanga is a
guy that usually will talk some shit, uh, and Canelo
doesn't usually react well to that. He'll give it back.
You know. It's when when you have a love fest
like what happened between Canelo and Mangia, it's boring a
s And the fight was good, but the build up
and the press stuff was was boring. In terms of
Berlanga and Canelo, there's a chance for a much more
interesting build up because Edgar Berlanga is young, and he's nowthye,
and he's proud Puerto Rican and he's gonna beat his chest.
He's gonna talk about I'm gonna knock you out. I'm
sure he's gonna say that kind of stuff. He'll be respectful,
I think, because he does respect Canelo. But he's very
filled with pride about his heritage and his abilities, and
he thinks he can win the fight, I guess, and
we'll see if he if he confronts Canelo about that.
I'm actually very interested to see what his reaction is
in terms of being in Canelo's presence while he talked
the shit that he has maybe done a little bit
prior to getting the fight. So that's interesting U. And
so anyway, they'll and they'll go, they'll go do that
back and forth, and for what it's worth, they're also
taking on the press tour the co feature that they
also announced, which is the Arislandi Laura middleweight title defense
against Danny Garcia. We'll see what they can if they
can possibly find a way to make me more interested
in that fight. You know, even they're good names.
Speaker 1: But no, no, you mean make you interested at all
in that fight? Not more interested. You got to get
interested in the first place, right now, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm not, you know what it is. I'm not even
a post to the fight. It's not fair to characterize
like I'm not interested in the fight. But the fights,
I mean, it's okay, I mean I don't. I mean
Garcia is moving up another weight class, and I mean
I think they're kind of both, you know, in their
twilight of their careers. But I'm not mad at the fight,
I mean really not, because they are good names and
we'll see what they can do. I'm mad about it
being for the WBA title. That's what pissed me off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could get serious here with this, Okay, So
those press conferences coming Monday Tuesday will have more on
that in the coming days and couple of weeks building
up to that fight. What is that September fourteenth, Canelo
back with Edgar Berlanga. Okay, nostalgia time before Rayfield has
to go out with his Hollywood types here as Thursday
goes into Friday. It was thirty seven years ago on
the night that we're doing this podcast, and I remember
all of this, Mike Tyson became the undisputed heavyweight champ
with a twelve round decision went over Tony Tucker, adding
the IBF belt to the WBC and WBA belts. Obviously
the three belt era at that time. It ended what
the heavyweight world series that Don King had with HBO, etc.
Speaker 1: What else?
Speaker 2: On the nostalgia meter, it was not a memorable, phenomenal
fight historically historically significant, yes, but there's not anything really
memorable from that actual fight.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's why it's it's so weird to
me because so many of those Tyson fights were so explosive,
and you remember the big knockouts against Berwick when he
won the title, or later on against Michael Sphings or somebody.
Even the Pinkland Thomas fight that was right before this fight,
Mike looked absolutely like like a devastating, just a dominating,
you know, unbeatable heavyweight. Pinkland Thomas was a really good
fucking fighter. People forget that, and Mike Tyson just beat
the shit out of him. And so when he goes
the distance with Tony Tucker in a fight that was
you know, like you said, not the more was exciting.
Tony was a little bit taller, uh you know, never
really got hit with the big point bomb.
Speaker 1: A bunch made for a boring fight. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now when this fight concludes, the explosive Tyson in
this brief period though in a three fight in a row,
he had gone a distance in a bad fight against
Bone Crusher Smith when he when he unified the WBC
and the WBA titles, that was a bad fight. Then
he had the great performance against Pinklin Thomas that we
looked unbelievable, you know, just outstanding in it, and then
added yet another kind of stink bomb against Tony Tucker.
So at that time, now we look back and we're like, oh,
Tyson first title reign, devastating, legendary, you know, just rolling
through everybody. But if you're if you're in the moment,
in that brief three period, uh three fight period, there
was a lot of people questioning, like, is Tyson legit?
Is he real? Because he had a distance fight, in
a kind of a bad fight against a bone crusher,
and then the same thing happened against Tony Tucker. So
that's why I always preached that people, you can't get
too caught up in the moment. Do you have to
kind of take the longer picture, that you can't make
a career assessment of a short group of fights. So,
you know, I don't like to rank a guy when
he's still in his primer, in his active times, because
it's not fair. And it was the same thing if
you were saying that people after the Tucker fight, even
though Mike had become undisputed that he was going to be,
you know, one of the most famous iconic fighters ever
and he was gonna with the most exciting fighters ever.
People would have said, yeah, I don't know about that.
He just had to look look bad in those last
two fights. But that's why you got to let it
play out. Because in the next fight, by the way,
he fucking absolutely pummeled the Tyro Biggs. That was the
fight where you know, he talked about driving his nose
and his nose bing into his brain. Oh then, you know,
and then he beat Larry Holmes after that, and then
came Tony Tubbs a big knockout, and then came Michael Spinks,
you know, the apex of his career with the ninety
one seconds. So Tucker, you know, was the last guy
to go the distance with Mike for quite a while.
But it was a very historic victory, is the point.
Speaker 2: The interesting subplot is that Tucker had beaten Buster Douglas
in the air quote semi finals of the Heavyweight World Series,
the wave Buster the Buster Douglas to win the vacant title.
Else we might have seen Buster Douglas and Mike Tyson
in nineteen eighty seven and oh probably yes, But interesting
that Tucker won that fight and then got the big
Payday with with Mike Tyson.
Speaker 3: But here here's the interesting thing. Interesting TJ also so
he beats Douglas on an undercart of the Tyson fight, correct,
and he wins the IVF title. That was in May
of eighty seven. He only held the title for less
than three months because the fight with Tucker and Tyson
was on August first. So he was IVF champion from
May thirtieth, ninety eighty seven till August first of eighty seven,
like one of the shortest heavyweight title reigns in the
history of the sangsungbadi titles in heavyweight history. And that
was his claimed to fame. And so he immediately went
into the title fight with Mike and you know and lost,
you know, even though it was a boring fight and
didn't get knocked out, it wasn't like anybody could sit there.
And how you fucking Tony Tucker won the fight. I
mean he lost, you know, pretty uh lopsided on the cards,
just that Mike didn't look so good.
Speaker 2: And then later did we not know Buster Douglas would
get in front of Mike Tyson in February of nineteen
ninety but he did not for that August fight. Okay,
one more bit of nostalgia, and this was actually from Wednesday,
July thirty first of twenty ten, so now fourteen years ago.
Juan Manuel Marquez a twelve round decision over Juan Diaz
in a rematch as Marquees retains his lightweight titles. You
were there at the Mandalay Bay. What do you remember
now a decade and a half almost later.
Speaker 3: What I remember most of all is the disappointment of
this second fight because their first fight, which had taken
place two fights. I'm sorry, the rematch was in August
of two thousand or July of twenty ten. The first
fight had taken place in two thousand and nine and
was by I think universally everybody picked it as the
fight of the year. I was at that fight also.
That was in Houston, in Wan Diez's hometown where he
had all the fans, and Marquez, because he's Mexican, had
a ton of fans. Also, spectacular fight for two of
the belts and the lineal title. Just as tremendous battle
and people were so pumped up. Now in the aftermath
of that, it was one Diaz who had gone on
and had two fights in a row against Pauli Malanaji.
He won the first one, then he lost the second one.
You know, there was some controversy associated with those types
of fights. But he then had the rematch against Marquez,
and there was a lot of people that were amped
up for this fight that it's going to somehow bring
back the memories of what we saw in that very
very special first fight, and it it turned out to
be a bit of a dud. Unfortunately. It was not
a great fight. I mean, there were two great names,
and Marquez of course went on to become a Hall
of Famer and do great things, but he just kind
of trudged to it in the unanimous decision. No real
drama that I can remember anyway, I never being a
very much anticipated fight, and just a lot of like
disappointment in the aftermath, even though both fighters both fighters
bought pretty well, even though Diaz didn't win, but it
just didn't have like the zip of that first fight. Now,
what was interesting, and this is one of the things
I think that was certainly more memorable then what we know.
The lack of entertainment and drama or any kind of
real action that we expected in the main event was
what happened on the undercard, and this is when a
young Daniel Jacobs, who was undefeated, was fighting for the
vacant WBO middleway title. He was a very revered prospect.
I had picked him as the prospect of the year.
Everybody thought Danny Jacobs is the next big thing in
the middleweight division, which he eventually did become. But he
got in the ring that night just days after his
grandmother had died, a woman who had raised him. He
was really broken on about it, going through a lot
in his life at that moment in time. Should not
have thought. He's talked about that in the past. Was
not prepared mentally at all for this boxing match, and
he went with a very very tough Dmitrip Rogue and
undefeated fighter from Russia, and he got absolutely knocked the
fuck out in that fight in the fifth round and
did not win the title. Was he able to come
back and then obviously went on and had a tremendous career,
But that was the big shocker of this undercard. This
was an HBO pay per view event and they had
a lot of good names on the card. He had
Robert Guerrero fight and Joel Castlemayor on this card that
was pretty good names. You had Rocky Warris against Fortilinaris, again,
two good names he had at the time. At the
time he was revered as the number one up and
coming American heavyweight. Where we've heard that term before. That
was Seth Mitchell, who was a football player that turned
the boxing. George Groves was on that card from England. Wow,
come over to fight on that show. So it was
a very heavily loaded show from that standpoint. You had
an IVF title eliminated between Saki Obika and John Paul
Mendy that would turn out to be a first round
disqualification in that fight that that Mandy ended up winning.
But the main event was unfortunately a disappointment, and it
will always be disappointing that it was just so just
never came close to I mean.
Speaker 1: Sometimes how many times, how many time I was just
gonna go there?
Speaker 2: How many times did we talk about where the second
fight doesn't live up to the first fight, and sometimes
it's not even close to the first.
Speaker 3: But sometimes it does. And everybody sort of figured this
would would there would be no way this would be
one of those fights just because of their first fight,
and just the style that these guys fought it. He
has ultra aggressive, you know, Marquez also aggressive, but a
great counterpuncher, and both had you know, good hearts and
good chins and and you know, so it was a
it was a great event, and it was a good card,
and it was just a little bit of a disappointing
main event.
Speaker 1: Hey, the nostalgia is done, and that means the pod
is done. Rayfield is ready.
Speaker 2: You're out there in Los Angeles Friday way ends and
then get ready for a long afternoon and evening Pacific
time of fights. We've gone over them, six of them
in all on the pay per view and again we
reiterate PPV dot com no long term subscription from our
sponsor here on the Big Fight Weekend podcast and website.
You do not have to make a six month, much
less one year commitment. Just buy what you want Crawford,
Madromoff and the entire pay perview card through PPV dot Com.
With that, Dan Rayfield, get ready for all the action.
I'm looking forward to whatever happens with Crawford's return, these
heavyweight battles, all the fights on the card, and what
do you say we recap it after you get back
from the West coast to the Rayfield Compound in Northern Virginia,
we'll recap the entire weekend. We want them to stay
locked in on your substack because you've got on scene coverage,
notebook going, all kinds of different thing photos, all of
it on your social media and your substack. And now
we're ready for Saturday night coming up right and the
return of Terrence Crawford one more time.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm looking forward to it. Like I said, I mean,
Terrence Crawford is one of the most entertaining fighters around.
He can do everything. I think bag Mov is being
overlooked in this fight. He's a very quality fighter. Also
tremendous undercard like we talked about. So, you know, no
place I'd rather be on Saturday. Although again I said
this before, don't love that it's outside and like the
ninety degrees in LA. But you know hi, first rule
of problem, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, start drinking the water, start drinking the electrolytes. Be
ready to go outside.
Speaker 2: The LA Galaxy Soccer Stadium right by the LA Coliseum
is where they will have this ray feel unseen Dan,
Thank you, look forward to chopping it up on a
recap with whatever happens off the weekend. Thank you, my friend, Yes, sir,
there is Dan Rayphiel. I'm merely TJ Reeves follow Subscribe
to this podcast feed you get the preview going into
the weekend, fight Preach Unit recap coming.
Speaker 1: Off the weekend.
Speaker 2: We thank you for being with us, enjoy the fights,
and thank you for being with us on the Big
Fight weekend preview