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Speaker 1: The countdown is on to fight time. This is Big

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Fight Weekend. Now here is your host, DJ Leaves.

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Speaker 2: Well, we have moved into a new month, and my goodness,

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do we kick it off with arguably the biggest the

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event in the United States in terms of fight cards

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for the remainder of the year. Subject to change, maybe

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something else will be bigger, but right now, Terrence Crawford's

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return in the main event, plus other world title fight

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with Pittbull Cruise, plus heavyweights, other big names on this card.

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We're ready to talk about it as it gets underway

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from Los Angeles. The Riodds Season DEZONEANPPV dot com pay

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per view that is upcoming. I am the somewhat competent

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Speaker 1: That's why he's our insider.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Dan Rayfield of Big Fight Weekend dot Com and

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Fight Freaks Night is Substack Tinseltown, Hollywood for you. As

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we get ready for this weekend. How are things out

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on the Left Coast? As we like to say, things

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are good. J.

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Speaker 3: It's a little hot, little sticky, but it's all good.

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I'm for the fights. I haven't been to Los Angeles

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in quite a while. It's good to be back.

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Speaker 2: You did roll into town, and again, as I joked,

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we've already We've already done our bet Us boxing show

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on Thursday, so find that on YouTube through the bet

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Us platforms. I joked, have you worked out your three

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picture deal yet with one of the big studios out there?

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You know, you're always under negotiation. So I didn't know

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if you were working on a big movie contract or

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what you're up to, or maybe you're going to be

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on the latest edition of American Idol trying to sing

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or America's Got Talent. I have no idea what you're

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Speaker 3: As they say, as they say out here in Hollywood,

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I got to talk to my people.

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Speaker 2: You get your people to talk to my people, and

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my people will talk to someone or they'll talk to themselves.

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In any event, Thank you for finding us on this

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two and a half years doing this Preview mode Thursday

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of Apple, Spotify, etc. Whenever you put boxing in for

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great and we're ready to go. Okay, So at the

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time you and I are taping this, the press conference

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afternoon has happened in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I got like more Rayfield than I know what to

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Speaker 2: On Thursday, We've done the bet Us show, Rayfield got

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himself some late brunch or early lunch. You then have

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the press conferences out there for this fight car and

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now we're doing the podcast. So since you and I

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have talked and for the audience, here give them an

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idea of what press conference Thursday was like. As we

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head to this fight card Terrence Crawford obviously headlining against

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Israel Madromof and the other fights below it, but just

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set the scene a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Well, First of all, I didn't have brunch. It would

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have been nice. I've been a little busy. But the

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press conference they had it, they had it. They've had

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the events for the you know, when you're at back up,

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when you're in a fight in Vegas, you're not like

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the MGM for an event. That's just an example. Pretty

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much everything is in the hotel. Maybe the really big

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fight at Timo, but they might have the way in

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in front of you know, the ceremony away in might

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be outdoors, and then that big giant plaza which is

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MGM grant. But here in Los Angeles for this fight,

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outdoors unfortunately, where it was you know, pushing that degrees.

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fight hotel is right at LA Live. So that's actually convenient. Gotcha,

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an outdoor facility where the La Galaxy play soccer in

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Major League Soccer. It's right next to the La Colisseum.

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Speaker 3: This is I believe the third boxing event that they

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will have in this building. They've previously had. I believe

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that Golden Boy promoted to my recollection a Zerdo Ramirez

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fight card there at one point, and Top Rank has

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think this is the third one. Obviously, in terms of

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the caliber of the show, not that those events were

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not decent shows, this obviously is a much more loaded

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card with a lot of bigger names and more significant fights.

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where they've had other they boxing events or Muhammad Ali

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fought there, but that was raised years ago, and on

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top of it was building you.

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Speaker 2: Know your Rocky Trivia. That's where Rocky fought Apollo Creed

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in the movies. That was the La Sports Arena that

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had very few people in it when they shot Rocky

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in Rocky it's the I'm telling you, I'm just giving

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Speaker 1: Trivia long torn down though you're right.

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Speaker 2: They demolished that thing like over a decade ago and

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built this massive soccer facility. So it's an outdoor facility.

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a second. On the pay per view you said something

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though interesting on the bet Us show that the buzz

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half or so. But in fairness, there's a ton always

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Speaker 3: Not in terms of sports. I don't think there's much

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going on. We're in the dog days of the baseball season, right,

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you know, the Angels, you know, I don't think the

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Angels are even really you know, making any kind of

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debt and things. The Dodgers obviously are popular and they're

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doing very well. But there's no college sports. There's no

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other real pro sports. But the big thing in the

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scheduled this. In my opinion, I mean, I don't get

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me wrong, I'm a diehard boxing plan, and I'm excited

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for the show. It's a tremendous part. No knock on

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the show, great fights, loaded, stacked. I don't use those

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words lightly. Anybody that is familiar with my work or

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my my punditary however you want to look at it.

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August in Los Angeles during the throes of the Olympic Games,

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with a non Mexican main event, with an opponent that's

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not well known, It's just there's a lot of things

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that are It's a great show, but I'm not sure

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it's meant for this market. That's just my opinion about it.

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I wish I'm nothing much success in it because I

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want to see the fight do while I want what you.

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Speaker 2: Can I interject, what's your speculation on why Turkey Ala

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Chic and read that season picked Los Angeles when, as

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you pointed out, Terrence Clawford doesn't have a real connection

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and he's the main event. You can argue that Pittbull Cruise,

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who has a Mexican following as a Mexican.

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Speaker 3: You can stop right there. You can stop right.

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Speaker 1: Why would they pick La what's your guess? What's your

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what do you know.

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Speaker 3: If you're selling a fight, particularly a paper you fight,

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it's wonderful if you can put on a great undercard,

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and that will help get attention to those fighters. The

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people that tune in that see them, they may become

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interested and become fans. But it's always, always, always, always, always, always,

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always always not the main event when you're selling a

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pay per view right period. So and again, it's not

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a bad main event at all. I like the main event.

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Mage Web's not that well known, but Crawford is best

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three at worst, and it's a signific fight. He's moving

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up in wait coming off of a spectacular victory a

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year ago against Errol Spence. So why they put it

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in Los Angeles? I think they liked if they were

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going to come and make their first event in the

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United States, they liked the idea of being in, you know,

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one of the most important cities in the country. If

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you're not going to be in New York, you're going

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to be in Los Angeles. And that was pretty much

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the deal. And it's their money and they can spend

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it how they want. That's the way I looked at

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it for the fights in Los Angeles. So I'm not

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unhappy about that aspect. I just would I just don't

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if you're not here in Los Angeles in put it

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like this, if you're enough of a box again there

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listening to our podcast, then chances are you're interested in

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the card and you're looking forward to the horse and

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you're gonna buy it, or you're gonna maybe watch with

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friends or whatever the case may be. Because you know, again,

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if you're listening to podcasts like ours, you know that

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this is a really fucking great show exactly for end

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, all right, So let's get into it.

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And I already know again we're a little off kilter.

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Dan and I are trying to keep it all straight

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because typically we do this podcast Thursday and Friday, and

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since we've already done because of a scheduling situation, since

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and you know, and we've been over this kind of

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what we think about these fights. But the podcast audience

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Speaker 3: But we haven't. We don't because we've only gone over

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Speaker 2: We went over the first four. We we'll go over

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Speaker 1: We will do that.

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Speaker 2: So Crawford in the main event with Israel madram Off,

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and you talk to madram Off building up to this

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fight within the last couple of weeks. We've played that

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on the podcast speed All right, here we are on

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the verb of this happening. Give me your thoughts, Give

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zero one and the one draw, by the way, was

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a technical job because of a headbutt, not because he

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was trailing on scorecards or anything like that. That was

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been a no contest. In any event, he was a

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tremendous amateur fighter, that did pretty much everything except you know,

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go to the Olympics. But he fought a lot of

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top amateurs. He has two victories against Arlen Lopez, who

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was the Cuban gold medal winner in the twenty sixteen

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and the delayed twenty twenty Olympic Games. He has fought

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all kinds of outstanding competition in the amateurs, you know,

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hundreds of amateur fights. And as he made the point,

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I didn't need twenty or thirty fights before I can

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fight a real top guy for a world title. So

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he's been wanting to fight real guys from the beginning

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of his career, turned prone to ten rounder, have fought

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Vladimir Hernandez, who you know, if you're a diehardyamiliar with,

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he has ones over Julian Williams, and has you know,

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upset some other fighters, and has been a pretty good solid, no,

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not not necessarily a championship level contender, but you know,

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a guy who you not turn the pro against. Put

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it like that, you know, you've never had a professional fighter,

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and and consistently from his pro debut to the present time,

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Majimov has fought real opponents, maybe not superstar champions, but

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he's got the win over Michelle Soro was a good contender.

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He then, of course had the big win that gat

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him this WBA title where he fought Maga Man Kerbanoff,

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who was undefeated from Russia. That took place back in

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March on the undercard when when Francis Nagano and Anthony

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Joshua had their fight, and in some respects, besides what

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Joshua did to Nagano, I think that you can argue

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that that that, other than that main event, that the

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next best performance that kind of stole the undercard, so

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to speak, was that performance from Majimov against Kerbanov. He

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gets the title, and suddenly he's thrust into this position

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because Turkey al Chic, who has a relationship with Terrence Crawford,

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they were trying to figure out what to do with him.

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He wasn't going to have the rematch with Arrol Spence

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for various reasons including arrows, you know, not being ready physically,

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and just a lot of different issues, and nobody really

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wanted to see the rematch because it was such a

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one sided fight the first time that I think that

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the PBC people that would have been in charge of it,

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you know, realize this was not going to do very

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much business like the first fight did in any event.

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He wanted to move up and wagit tow one hundred

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and fifty four pounds and Turkey has done a lot

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of business of course since they've started doing these reat

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season events with Eddie Hearn from matchrom Boxing, who is

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the promoter for Israel Majimov and Majmov was never one

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to duck anybody and when they inquired about the fight,

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they were ready to go. It was a fight that

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Crawford was interested in to try to win a world

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title in a fourth weight class. Madromov wants to fight

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the best fighters, and so they made the match. And

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again my point all along ever since the fight was made,

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and it's not even just because I've heard them talking

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and you know it kind of maybe you know, makes

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you think a certain way that just because you may

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not be that familiar with Magemov and you don't you

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don't really look at him has like a lot of

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top notch wins as a pro or big experience. He's

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a real fighter, a great amateur and it's a real fight.

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Now that said, it's hard to pick against Terrence Scrufford,

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even though he may, of course, you know when who

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was late to mid thirties or you know his midt

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to a thirties. Rather, I have seen no evidence that

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he's slipping. He's still every bit is but as he's

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always been. I know, he's been off for a year,

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you know, the anniversary actually the Spense fight, which is

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a couple of days ago, and of course Magimov won

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this belt back, you know, just earlier this year, so

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he's been more active in that sense. But I think

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he's gonna give Terrence Crawford a good fight. I think

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Terrence Crawford probably wins the fight, but I think that

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when it's over, it's the kind of fight where, if

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it goes how I kind of think it will go,

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the Magimov may lose, but gain quite a bit of

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respect and notoriety and more fans because he's gonna give

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the number one fighter in boxing, you know, a legitimate match.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe we theorize this on the bet Us Show,

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And I'm going over some of the same ground for

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our new audience. The Crawford might be a little rusty

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for the first couple of rounds. Who knows, he hasn't

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fought in a year and he's thirty six years old.

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It may take him a little bit to get warmed up.

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You and I both believed were on the record. He

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gets a stoppage or a knockout, but do you think

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it might take him a little bit to get ramped

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up in fight?

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Speaker 3: Crawford Absolutely, I mean I do, but not because he's

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not because he's rusty. You know, if you follow Terrence Crawford,

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I've covered Terrence Crawford's entire career ever since he became,

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you know, a notable fighter. He's not a guy that

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starts super quick. I mean occasionally, I mean when he

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won the undisputed title, for example in the junior welterweight division,

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he demolished and Dongo I think it was two or

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three rounds. But generally speaking, he's not a guy that

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that that runs out of the out of the corner

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and just looks to annihilate you in the first round.

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He is, you know when they and I can't stand

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this because it's so kind of dumb, but in this

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particular case, you know, they talk about how he likes

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to take around or to to download the information, and

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that actually is what Crawford does. I don't like that phraseology.

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It's kind of stupid, but it does fit the bill.

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When it comes to Crawford, he does do that. He

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he does check things out and make sure he understands

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what's in front of him and gauges his speed, his distance,

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the power, that sort of thing, and then he once

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he's got that figured out, it takes him around or

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two and then he goes to it's been very successful

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because there's a reason he's forty to zero with a

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whole bunch of knockouts. So I think Majiamov, he's in

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with a guy that's been used to fighting bigger fighters,

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a guy that does have decent punching power, a guy

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that is experiencing against good amateurs, the guys that has

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shown a good ability to take a punch. We'll see

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what Terrence does with that. Will take a couple of rounds,

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I believe, to just see what's in front of them

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and then start digging in and we'll see what kind

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of resistance mag Mov has. And in the end, you know,

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I suspect the Crawford's going to win this fight, but

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I don't think it's going to be an easy time

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getting there.

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Speaker 1: All right, So again that is the main event. And

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by the way, I should have mentioned before.

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Speaker 2: Now we're going to tell you more about how to

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entire fight craw a card with Crawford's return against Madromov

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and just repeat one more thing and then we're going

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to move on to the rest of card I put

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this question to you, do you believe as we sit

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and talk on August the first heading into this weekend,

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that we've seen the last of Terrence Crawford at welterweight

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that he will now be a junior middleweight or maybe

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even low you know, all things being equal, now at

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a mega fight with Canelo Alvarez. But do you think

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that we've seen the last of him at one forty seven?

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What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I have no doubt. This is the last

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thing that won forty seven. He's wanted to move up

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since the since Suspence fight. Obviously, staying at welterweight for

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the Spence fight was very important because of the undisputed

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status that was at stake in the history that went

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with that. But since that uh is over with. Even

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if they were going to have had the rematch against

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Harold Spence, it wasn't gonna be one hundred and fifty

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four pounds anyway. So he's already been uh, you know,

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he's already he's down to two belts now at welterweight.

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It's just a matter of time until they're gone. Once

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this fight's over with, he'll have fifteen days least. I

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don't know what the timing is from the from a

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from the WBO, because I talked to those guys last night.

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He has fifteen days post this fight, win or lose

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to determine which if he's going to stay in which

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division or you know, if he certainly he has both belts,

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will have to tell him. But he's not coming back

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to walter right. There's no big money fight for him

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in the division. If for some reason we think, or

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they think, or the powers that be think that the

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Boots Andnas fight's a big money fight, then that could

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fight happened, but it would happen probably at jerim in

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a weight. It's not going back down. There is no

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reason for him. The challenge for the IBF title with

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Jerdey won, and it's got just because Terrence Crawford, you know,

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got stripped of the title. So he's looking up. He's

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looking to fight this fight at one fifty four and

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then he wants to Canelo fight, and that is that

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gonna happen. That would be at super midweight. Canelo has

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to win against Berlanga in his next fight in September. Obviously,

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Crawford's got to do his thing on Saturday, and then

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Turkey El Chik's got to come in a good Ganta

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and check for Canelo. Then the mean they can have

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it happen. But yeah, he's done it.

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Speaker 1: Welter, All right, fair enough, okay, rest of this card.

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Speaker 2: You did talk to Andy Ruiz as well in the

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preview mode and we had that up on the podcast

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feed earlier in the week. He fights Jerrell Miller twelve

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round heavyweight fight. One are your thoughts here going in?

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I know you've been around Ruiz and you've even seen

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Jerrell Miller a little bit here as we go into

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the preview mode, we don't know their weights until Friday. Obviously. Miller,

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for the record, weighed three to three three three and

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thirty three pounds back last December in the fight with

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Daniel Dubois. Ruiz has been off for twenty three months,

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so who knows what he comes in at. But what

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are your thoughts here on this one where the winner

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of this fight is obviously very viable among heavyweight contenders,

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that's part of the point here, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. I mean one of the things that

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the Riant season cards have exceled that is putting on

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heavyweight fights. I mean, that's what they've done. Most of

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their events have been geared around heavyweights. Obviously fury U

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Sik Joshua and Nagano fights the Day of Reckoning the

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while there are those types of matchups that they've been doing.

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Joseph Parker has been on those cards, but this is

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another one of those types of matchups, a very good

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matchup on paper. It does definitely look like if you're

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familiar with the two fighters, that will be a fun

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fight to watch. You know, we've calld like as a

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slober knocker kind of fight. Both guys are are. The

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thing about this fight that's interesting to me is that

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for heavyweight standards, especially for guys as heavy as these

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guys are, they're very quick handed. I mean they got

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both quick feet, quick hands. Andy Reeves has always been

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known for having the quick can speed, and you talk

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about the conditioning these guys, now, they don't ever in

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their previous fights. You're not gonna look at these guys

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say they are the body beautiful, Andy Luiz in particular.

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But Andy, you know, I've seen Andy here at the hotel.

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He looks some pretty darn good shape. When I spoke

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to him for the podcast, you know, he said he's

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he's definitely trimmed down because I saw some pictures that

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they post of him on social media. He says he's

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going to be around two sixty five, two seventy five,

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which for him is actually pretty good. We'll see how

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good he looks. Jeral Miller, as you just mentioned, it

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has been over three hundred pounds for probably around his

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last seven or eight fights, including the three thirty three

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that you mentioned for the Danube Duboat fight. Now, when

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I saw Jeral Miller and was standing with him yesterday afternoon,

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he's not going to weigh three in the thirty three pounds.

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He and I saw a picture his promoter had sent

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me a picture when he did a weight check a

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couple of days before, and the weight on the scales

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s TOID three oh three. So he may be right

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at three hundred or maybe a little higher, little lower.

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I'd be a surprised he's lower than that. That mightn't

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you know. He actually is good at three hundred. It's

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when he gets a three thirty and up there that

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it's a little bit more problematic for him. He's coming

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off the loss, but it was not that long ago,

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and it was a courageous kind of lost. You know,

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even though he lost on points, he was in the fight.

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It was competitive and he was, you know, also doing

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some damage. He just was, you know, kind of outgunned

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by Daniel Duat. So I expect this to be a

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really good fight. It's a highly important fight. Both guys

474
00:20:16,319 --> 00:20:18,279
can put themselves in a great position. Ruiz can get

475
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,599
right back in the mix for some kind of big fight,

476
00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,920
and Jeremuller can shake off that loss. And you know,

477
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,319
he's always entertained whatever his situation has been. But I

478
00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:29,640
think they're taking it serious, especially Miller. He looks like

479
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,920
he is in just tremendous condition for where he's at

480
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:32,559
in his career.

481
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,200
Speaker 2: And we do have the irony angle that you talk

482
00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:37,880
to Andy Ruiz about that the reason he got the

483
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,640
shot that he took advantage of with the humongous upset

484
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:45,400
of Anthony Joshua Is Jirell Miller imploded tested positive for peds,

485
00:20:45,519 --> 00:20:50,440
weight loss drugs and other peds and couldn't fight Joshua himself.

486
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,720
And now here we come around five years later and

487
00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:54,759
they're fighting each other.

488
00:20:55,039 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 3: And the thing, the other thing about it is Andy

489
00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,200
Ruiz and Jerrem Miller they're friends. They are friends. That's

490
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,200
not going to impact the fight. I don't think they

491
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,200
know it's business. But if they have a relationship, they

492
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,160
you know, Andy speaks very highly of Jerald and his family.

493
00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:10,160
Gerald speaks highly of Andy Ruiz. They do have a friendship,

494
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,400
and not like they're best friends, but they definitely are

495
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,640
friendly with each other. Uh. And so you know, it's competition,

496
00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:18,960
and you know what, it's a good, even up kind

497
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,640
of heavyweight fight. And that's that's an undercard fight, and

498
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,640
that's what you want. You want value for your money.

499
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,279
If you're buying a pay per view, it's wonderful if

500
00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:28,480
you have a great main event, but to really get

501
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,359
the juices Floan for the real hardcore, diehard fan is

502
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,039
give them money value for their money, and also the

503
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:37,759
fans that may be interested in the main event, you

504
00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:39,680
give them something else. That they may be other fighters,

505
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,400
they may become fans of this. I think has a

506
00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:45,160
very good chance to be a pretty darn good fight

507
00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:46,319
when it's all said and done.

508
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,559
Speaker 1: And again, Ruiz is a Mexican American.

509
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 2: He has fought before in Southern California several times, including

510
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,319
headlining with the Chris Ariola fight that he had after

511
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,279
he lost the rematch to Anthony Josh. Weall, we'll see

512
00:21:57,279 --> 00:22:00,359
what kind of fans he brings and that, and that

513
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,640
kind of leads us into the other big baby, real

514
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:09,759
big baby Jared Anderson, unbeaten, top rank fighter. It clearly

515
00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,400
is on a track if he continues to win to

516
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,240
be a heavyweight title.

517
00:22:14,039 --> 00:22:15,559
Speaker 1: Contender and challenger.

518
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 2: And now he fights a fight that I think you

519
00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:21,279
and I I know we're in agreement, is a very

520
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,880
dangerous fight against a fighter from the Congo by way

521
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,599
of what did you tell me Scotland. I've always said

522
00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:30,400
watch out in Los Angeles for the guys from the

523
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,279
Congo by way of Scotland. Martin Bokoley is his name,

524
00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:37,079
and Bacoley has a couple of significant wins, and this

525
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,079
is a dangerous fight for Jared Anderson on this card

526
00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:41,480
Saturday Night, go ahead.

527
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 3: I think this might be the best fight on the

528
00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:46,720
show in terms of just I mean, I think it's

529
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,720
fair to say that if you look at all the matchups,

530
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,079
even the Ruiz and Jeral Miller fight, I think there's

531
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,400
a general consensum like who's going to probably win the fight,

532
00:22:55,799 --> 00:22:58,119
Like most people probably figure Ruiz is gonna win. Most

533
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,079
people figure Crawford's gonna win. Most people figure we'll get

534
00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:03,079
to the next fight with Isaac Cruz, you know, and

535
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,640
so on. So far, it doesn't mean they're not gonna

536
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,000
match up, doesn't mean there's certainly not the possibility of

537
00:23:07,079 --> 00:23:09,640
upsets or the other guy winning. This is the one

538
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,880
where I have absolutely no fucking clue what's happening in

539
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,240
this fight. I know that Jared Anderson is an excellent

540
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,759
heavyweight with good punching power, a pretty good amateur background.

541
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,119
He's been brought along, He's fought the right kind of guys.

542
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,200
He's won, you know, pretty handily. He got buzzed a

543
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,920
couple of times, so there's some questions about some vulnerabilities,

544
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,880
but he is considered by most people the number one

545
00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:31,839
American heavyweight contender. And and Martin McCully, you have a

546
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,160
guy twenty wins, one losses, fifteen knockouts, who is a

547
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,920
mountain of a man, calls himself the machine. Hasn't had

548
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,440
a loss, just a one loss in his career. He

549
00:23:39,519 --> 00:23:42,839
got stopped back in twenty eighteen by Michael Hunter, who

550
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,920
was an Olympian who was a good professional, been a

551
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,480
you know, a solid contender, if not Lampe how at

552
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,599
this point maybe a little bit of like a be contender.

553
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,359
But he's been a good fighter for a number of

554
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,680
years and that was a tenth round TKO in a

555
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,519
ten round fight, and it's it's a kind of fight.

556
00:23:58,559 --> 00:24:00,920
Where Ever, since then he's been winning and he's been

557
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,400
performing on the saudy cards. He fought in October he

558
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,160
scored a nice knockout in the fourth round against Carlos

559
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,640
Takam who was a well known fighter who's always shown

560
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,079
a pretty durable chin, which challenged for the world title

561
00:24:12,319 --> 00:24:14,519
on a couple occasions. He's got the upset victory by

562
00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:17,799
decision over Tony Yoka back in twenty twenty two, who

563
00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:20,079
was an Olympic gold medalist. This is no fucking joke.

564
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:24,720
His brother was the former cruiserweight champion, so this is

565
00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:27,680
like who knows now. Bucoli's a little bit older. Jared's

566
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,079
still really young and he's in his early twenties. Beccole's

567
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,960
got a little bit more experience. He's into his thirties,

568
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,640
but he's a preserved thirty hasn't been in the big

569
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,559
bomb Wars or anything like that. So I listened to

570
00:24:38,559 --> 00:24:40,160
what they had to say at the press commerce I've

571
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,559
seen some of the comments that they were making in

572
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,880
the rest of the build up. They both are looking

573
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,480
at a knockout, and You're like, why in the world

574
00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:49,079
did did Jared Andrew take this fight? I mean, Jared

575
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:49,400
is bad.

576
00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 2: You and I have talked about that his last couple

577
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,000
of fights, where I'm saying, Okay, you got a step up.

578
00:24:54,039 --> 00:24:56,799
This is a significant step up, and this is a

579
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,720
dangerous fight. This guy came clearly.

580
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 3: They went to Top Rank and Jared has, like I guess,

581
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,480
shruck up, a little bit of a relationship with Turkey,

582
00:25:04,759 --> 00:25:06,920
who has a taken a shine to him, likes him

583
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,680
as a fan of his, wanted to put him on

584
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,359
the card. They made a deal with Top Rank to

585
00:25:10,599 --> 00:25:12,279
have him on the show. They're paying a lot of

586
00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:14,440
money to have Jared perform in this fight. I mean

587
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,720
a lot of money, millions for him in an undercard fight.

588
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,640
And as Jared said, look, they came to me and

589
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,160
they wanted me on the card and they said, you

590
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,279
know who will you fight? Was I said, I'll fight anybody.

591
00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:27,839
Tell me who you want me to fight, and they

592
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,960
gave him Martin mccully's name and he said fine, and

593
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,240
they It was that simple. Now. The other intriguing aspect

594
00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:37,319
of this fight is that ob Jared's first it would

595
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,079
be his first fight since going to bring On to

596
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:41,880
go with it, to be involved in his training, and

597
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,279
that sugar Hill Stewart. He still has his original trainer,

598
00:25:44,279 --> 00:25:46,519
but sugar Hill has taken a lead on the corner.

599
00:25:46,799 --> 00:25:49,640
And sugar Hill obviously has huge experience training Tyson Fury

600
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,559
and others. And one of the things about their relationship

601
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,599
is because when he was a sparring with Tyson Fury,

602
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,559
when Fear was getting ready for previous defenses, sugar Hill

603
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,039
saw him and liked him and they could guests created

604
00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:03,039
a relationship in the gym when he was one of

605
00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:05,920
Tyson fury sparring partners, and Fury has always spoken very

606
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,200
highly of the work that Jared Anderson gave him, and

607
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,640
now sugar Hill takes over the corner and we'll see

608
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,319
if they can refine him and maybe shore up the

609
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,400
defense a little bit the way that you need to

610
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,799
do in uh when you're finding a big puncher like Bocoley.

611
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,880
So real fascinating fight. This is I think has a

612
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,279
chance to be a surprise. It could go either way

613
00:26:23,279 --> 00:26:25,960
in my mind. Flip a coin. Bacoley is the technically

614
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,680
the betting underdog, but this is this is not uh.

615
00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:31,960
This is one of those fights where somebody is going

616
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,160
to take a big step forward and someone's taking a

617
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:34,960
big step backward.

618
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 2: And clearly, uh, you know you would want ideally to

619
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,559
have Anderson get the win and be viable for either

620
00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:44,440
the Miller or Louise winner or something bigger. But mcoley

621
00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:46,279
may be about to screw that up. This is a

622
00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:47,480
real risk and.

623
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 3: So but he's viable for those guys too, That's right.

624
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 2: But I mean, I mean, sooner or later, you got

625
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,720
to find out what Jared Anderson really is at the

626
00:26:54,759 --> 00:26:57,480
highest level, and it begins with Saturday Night. This will

627
00:26:57,519 --> 00:26:59,960
this will be an attention getting win if he gets it.

628
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,720
Now full disclosure again, we've done the bet us show

629
00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:06,519
already it's out. We believe Bacoley. I believe Bacoli is

630
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:08,799
going to get this win in an upset. Let's see,

631
00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:11,960
But I don't see. I don't believe Bacoley in the upset.

632
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,359
I picked Bacouli because the number was so appetizing.

633
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: Hm, I'm just staying for me.

634
00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: I believe he beats him. I believe he wins a

635
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,279
decision in this fight.

636
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: Let's see.

637
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: Let's see what Jared Anderson shows on this card. Okay,

638
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:27,759
Like we often joke, this is not like the GINSU

639
00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:30,559
Steak Knives infomercial. How much would you pay now for

640
00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,200
the pay for your twenty ninety five thirty ninety five? Wait,

641
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,720
there's more. Each Pitbull cruise on this card defending his

642
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,960
WBA one hundred and forty pound title, and this Jose

643
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,839
Valenzuela now Valezuela in Los Angeles usually means the Dodgers

644
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,079
Fernando Valezuela from back in the day. You and I

645
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,200
are longtime baseball fans. This is Jose Valezuela, young up

646
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,799
and comer. I'm intrigued by this fight as well, with

647
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,799
Pitbull for a title on this card.

648
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: All right, give me more in the preview ute I.

649
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,319
Speaker 3: Said it a thousand times is a stacked fucking card.

650
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,319
I'm not even joking. It is a stack card, end

651
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,200
of story. It's not kissing anybody's ass. Is that card.

652
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,000
And this is a fight that adds depth to that card.

653
00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:15,440
It is absolutely an interesting fight. Isaac Cruz is the

654
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,799
just one the WBA title. In his last fight, he's

655
00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:21,480
scored a very impressive knocket against Rolando Romero and now

656
00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:24,039
he's making his first defense. He's experienced and now his

657
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,200
other wins. Of course, we're in the lightweight division where

658
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,440
he had a close competitive loss to Gervonta Davis, which

659
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,880
I think, frankly, if he wins his fight, there's a

660
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,039
possibility we may see him, you know, in the next

661
00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:37,319
fighter to any rematch against Tank Davis. Uh And so

662
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,519
they wanted him on this card. He's a very popular fighter.

663
00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:41,960
He's become much more popular with the Mexican fan base

664
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,519
since that fight against Tank Davis. You know, I've seen

665
00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:46,960
him at some of these other events. He's like the

666
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,640
pied piper, you know. We saw him last year on

667
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,599
the Aero Spence Terence Crawford undercard when he when he

668
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,680
fought Giovanni Cabrera. You know, the fans were all over him.

669
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,599
It was just you know, like I said, they just

670
00:28:57,759 --> 00:28:59,759
they scarmed to him. And he's such a likable guy,

671
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:03,000
smiling and lugs his embraces. The fans will stand there

672
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,559
and take all the pictures and everything. And in Jose

673
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,680
Valenzuela again he's, you know, like Isaac Cruz, who was

674
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,880
a lightweight that moved up to get the title opportunity.

675
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,160
Valan Zuella is likewise now doing the same thing for

676
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,319
this fight with Isaac Cruz, because his whole career has

677
00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:18,680
been fought in the lightweight division. He's coming off the

678
00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:21,319
back to back. He had the two fights with Chris Colbert.

679
00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:24,160
In the first fight he lost a very controversial, highly

680
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,880
controversial decision. He got the immediate rematch, and then he

681
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,400
stopped Colbert in a very impressive fashion in the sixth round.

682
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,559
And that was back in December, and now here we

683
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,519
are eight months later.

684
00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:36,519
Speaker 2: He's moved brutal, brutal knockout of cold lad him out

685
00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:39,880
on the front on the bottom ropestran unconscious.

686
00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:42,319
Speaker 1: When last we saw Valanzuela.

687
00:29:42,559 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 3: And now when he lost that controversial decision to Colbert,

688
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,759
in the first fight, he was trying to shake off

689
00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:51,200
his own knockout loss to Edwin Delos Santos in the

690
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,039
third round that took place in twenty twenty two. But

691
00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:55,240
it feels like he's moved well beyond that because he

692
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,920
should have won the first Colbert fight. He annihilated Clobert

693
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,000
in the rematch, and now he's into a world champion

694
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,559
opportunity against against Isaac Cruz and this is a good fight.

695
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:06,319
Also again, you know, two lightweights basically fighting for the

696
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,519
junior walter weight tel because it's only their you know,

697
00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:10,759
second fight in the weight class for Pitbull, first fighting

698
00:30:10,759 --> 00:30:13,880
the weight class for Vealezuela, who is a southpaw who

699
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,559
might give Pitbull a little bit of trouble. You know,

700
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,519
he has had some issues in that a sense in

701
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:22,160
previous fights. But this should be a fun fight. Also,

702
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,559
it's you know, this is going to be a fight

703
00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:26,079
that's going to definitely appeal to the Mexican crowd that

704
00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:28,640
turns out well, you know, and it's like you said,

705
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,680
you know, in terms of the depth of the card,

706
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,519
this adds to that depth of that show that we've

707
00:30:32,559 --> 00:30:34,720
been talking about, all right.

708
00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 2: And we're not done because we've got other big names.

709
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:39,599
David Morell Is is going to be on this card

710
00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:41,920
as well, and he has moved up to light heavyweight

711
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,880
at this point one along with David Benavitez, of two

712
00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:47,880
guys that is saying, I've got to look at something

713
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,640
else besides the Canelo Alvarez fight that's apparently not happening.

714
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,920
Tell me more about morell and the guy that he's

715
00:30:53,079 --> 00:30:57,039
in with, Kaladizitch hot Rod. Tell me more about that, please.

716
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,039
Speaker 3: So morell was in a similar position as bet In

717
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:02,799
vEDS where he couldn't get a fight against Canelo Alvarez

718
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:06,200
in the super middleweight division. He held the WBA's regular title,

719
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,000
he was the mandatory and he just wasn't going to

720
00:31:09,079 --> 00:31:11,400
get that fight. That WBA mandatory wasn't quite due yet,

721
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,359
but the point was he wasn't getting the fight, and

722
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,920
so what else was there to do with super midiweight?

723
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,880
So unless him and Navds were going to fight each other,

724
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,440
which their teams actually had agreed to, but ben Vide's

725
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,480
decided he wanted to do something else and win a

726
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,880
different direction. There was really no other real fight of

727
00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:27,720
you know, significance for him in the weight division. So

728
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:29,799
he decided to move up to one hundred and seventy

729
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,960
five pounds to fight hot Rod Kaligi and the WBA

730
00:31:33,079 --> 00:31:35,279
because they do WBA things that drive me absolutely fucking

731
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,000
crazy a moment when they told me a thousand times,

732
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,640
my boy, gil BERTA. Mendoza, they're getting rid of the

733
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,480
regular titles and the interim titles and they're not going

734
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:44,519
to do that shit anymore. They just out of the

735
00:31:44,519 --> 00:31:47,960
blue decided let's make this for the re WBA tunnel,

736
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,000
which is not supposed to exist. So that irritates the

737
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,480
fuck out of me. That said, this is a good

738
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,240
test for Morrell. Hes still got a lot of a

739
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,440
ton of fights. He's a great amateur fighter, but similar

740
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,519
to Majumov, he's ten and zero nine knockouts. But he's

741
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:03,079
fought good quality competition since he turned professional. And you know,

742
00:32:03,119 --> 00:32:05,279
now he's stepping up to a different weight division, so

743
00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:06,720
we'll see. Because he's fought his whole career at a

744
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,759
super middleweight. I do think he's going to be just

745
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:10,920
fine in that weight class because he's a big guy

746
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:12,640
for that weight class. He's got a good reach, he's

747
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,519
got good power. He's still young, so this is against collegiate,

748
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,160
is not like it's a very reasonable fight for his

749
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,440
first chance in the weight class. Now his opponent is

750
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,319
twenty nine and two with twenty one knockdouts, so he's

751
00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:27,079
got a good record. He's not an old guy's only

752
00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:29,160
thirty three years old. But he take a look at

753
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,599
the guys he's lost to, they're what you would consider,

754
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,519
I guess forgiveab loss. He lost an eight round split

755
00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:37,599
decision against Marcus Brown, who was the United States Olympian

756
00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:40,200
who went on and fought in light heavyweight title fights

757
00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:42,599
and his other that was back in twenty sixteen, and

758
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,400
then he went on that was so a long winning

759
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,279
streak after that, he got knocked out by Arthur Better

760
00:32:47,319 --> 00:32:50,240
beef in a world title fight in twenty nineteen. And

761
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,240
by the way, who doesn't get knocked up by Arthur

762
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,519
Better vie world title fights art Because he's knocked out

763
00:32:54,759 --> 00:32:57,160
every single opponent that he has faced, So that is

764
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,920
not a bad loss. And he's won several fights in

765
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,599
since that, including most recently Sullivan Morera, a very serviceable

766
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,920
fighter who had been a contender for a long time.

767
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,720
He stopped him in round ten back in March, So

768
00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:12,000
you know, as a as a as a light heavyweight

769
00:33:12,039 --> 00:33:15,319
debut for David Morrell. That is the second fight of

770
00:33:15,319 --> 00:33:17,599
an absolutely loaded pay per view. This is a very

771
00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:20,519
reasonable fight and actually kind of interesting because style wise

772
00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:22,519
it probably should be a pretty entertaining fight.

773
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: And Morrell again has had a big punch. Will it

774
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:27,200
translate at one to seventy five? That's part of the

775
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,039
intrigue again.

776
00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: I killed himself up by the way for the winner

777
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,680
as a mandatory in the WBA for the for the

778
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,160
undisputed fight between Better who will fight later in the year.

779
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: And I joked with you earlier about Bakoli.

780
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 2: I've always said, if you're gonna have a Cuban by

781
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,160
way of Minnesota on a fight card in Los Angeles,

782
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,480
it might as well be David Morrell.

783
00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:48,799
Speaker 1: So that that we have that. Wait, there's more.

784
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,119
Speaker 2: There is another fight on this pay per view, and

785
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,279
that is speaking of Cubans, another Cuban and Andy Cruz.

786
00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:57,680
We're in the Olympic timeframe, former Olympic gold medalist and

787
00:33:57,759 --> 00:34:00,359
he's on this card. So give me more on that

788
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,480
in the preview modent.

789
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,519
Speaker 3: Well, Andy Ruiz, I mean Andrew is Andy Kruz is

790
00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:06,559
one of the best up and coming fighters in boxing.

791
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,840
I even hesitate to call him a prospect because he's

792
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,719
so outstanding, but with only three fights, he still kind

793
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,400
of got to call him a prospect. But similar to

794
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,320
some of the other guys we've been talking about, Majia Moov,

795
00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:19,559
David Morrell another guy with a big amateur career who

796
00:34:19,559 --> 00:34:23,480
turned pro against real guys fighting ten rounders. But he's

797
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,400
as great of amateur accolades as we've seen from Morell,

798
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,079
and also for majiamav Andy Kruz dwarfs them off. Andy

799
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:31,880
krus are one of the greatest amateurs that ever put

800
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,559
on gloves. Based on his amateur credentials, this is a

801
00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:36,920
man who is a two time Olympic gold medal winner.

802
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,280
I take that back, a one time gold medal winner

803
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,599
in the twenty twenty Olympics when he defeated Keishon Davis,

804
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:44,360
and he defeated keish On Davis a bunch of times

805
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,719
in the amateurs. He also is a three time World

806
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,800
Amateur Champion twenty seventeen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one. They

807
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,039
do that every other year. He's a two time Pan

808
00:34:53,039 --> 00:34:55,880
American Games champion and he is one of the most

809
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,119
decorated amateurs that there has been. And what I love

810
00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:03,239
about Andy cu is Done is most Cuban fighters when

811
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,199
they come into the pros, they have that reputation as

812
00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:10,800
the Cuban style, which is very effective in the amateurs,

813
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,119
but usually doesn't translate to fan followings and entertaining fights

814
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:17,559
in the professional ranks. What Andy CRUs did when he

815
00:35:17,559 --> 00:35:19,639
came into the pros was he didn't go to Miami

816
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,760
to be comfortable with the Cuban culture and the Cuban

817
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,559
style of boxing in those gyms. He didn't go to

818
00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:28,519
Vegas to sign up with the great Ishmael Salas, who

819
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:30,880
was a great coach, but each of that Cuban style.

820
00:35:31,559 --> 00:35:33,719
He went to one of the roughest, toughest places you

821
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,599
can go to become a professional fighter, and that is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

822
00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:40,320
to train in the gym of Bozy Ennis, who is

823
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,880
the father of Jron Ennis. And so Andy Cruz and

824
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,840
John Nis have done a lot of training together and

825
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,320
they have incredible sparring in that gym. They've actually sparred

826
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,599
with each other when maybe other guys haven't turned out,

827
00:35:50,639 --> 00:35:52,639
even though they're separated by quite a bit of way.

828
00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:57,480
Andy being a lightweight and NSPN a welterweight, So he's

829
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,400
developing a professional style that a lot of the Cuban

830
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,400
young fighters when they come over here haven't developed. Now

831
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,960
he's not young, he is twenty eight years old, but

832
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,199
he's on the fastest of fast tracks. He's going to

833
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,039
be in a world title fight in the very not

834
00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:12,320
too distant future because I'm winning. When he made his

835
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,559
pro debut was against a former world title challenger who

836
00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:17,239
fought a lot of top guys in Juan Carlos Bergos.

837
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,400
He fought other real guys in fights number two and

838
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,159
fight number three, and now for fight number four on

839
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:24,039
this pay per view that opens up the pay per view,

840
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,760
he's fighting Antonio Moran, who's a very experienced, very rugged

841
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,400
Mexican fighter who's thirty and six with a draw, who's

842
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,760
only been stopped one time, and that was actually a

843
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,239
very devastating knockout against Devin Hainey who just caught him

844
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,159
cold with a punch. I was five feet from the

845
00:36:38,199 --> 00:36:40,960
ring when that fight knockout happened. It was actually scary

846
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,400
for a minute there. But other than that, Antonio Moran

847
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,119
has acquitted himself well. Even in losses, He's fought good

848
00:36:46,199 --> 00:36:48,559
quality opposition. He's fought guys like Romero, do know who

849
00:36:48,599 --> 00:36:51,679
he knocked out? He has a loss by a decision

850
00:36:51,679 --> 00:36:54,079
to Jamaine Artist, who we've seen twenty of times. He's

851
00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:56,920
got a loss to Arnold Barbosa, who's an undefeated contender.

852
00:36:57,079 --> 00:36:59,599
He's fought real guys and so Cruz has taken him

853
00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:02,400
on the fourth fight, and so we want to see

854
00:37:02,559 --> 00:37:04,920
as he continued to develop the pro style, can he

855
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,480
get him out of there? Can he do what only

856
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,639
Devin Haney has done in the guy's losses. So to

857
00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:12,679
me as an opening fight, you know, call me and

858
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,639
I'm actually really looking forward to seeing any CRUs because

859
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:16,760
I've yet to see him fight in person, so this

860
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,599
will be my first time to seemt ringside. I'm looking

861
00:37:18,599 --> 00:37:19,039
forward to that.

862
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,119
Speaker 1: Again.

863
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,199
Speaker 2: A busy pay per view three Pacific six Eastern time

864
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:26,400
it gets underway with these different fights. Uh so we've

865
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,199
got a lot more to get to here on the PABA.

866
00:37:28,199 --> 00:37:29,639
Why don't we tell you more about how to be

867
00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,239
able to see us. So Ray feels on scene on location,

868
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,559
he will be there at the venue. If you're looking

869
00:37:35,639 --> 00:37:38,239
to watch this, let's tell you more about how you

870
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:43,000
can do that. Right now, Well, we have to have

871
00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:46,440
to talk more about what's going on with Terrence Crawford's

872
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,840
twenty twenty four return Israel. Madream Off is the opponent.

873
00:37:51,119 --> 00:37:54,360
Junior Middleweight is the new division, and our friends at

874
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PPV dot com want to make sure that you know

875
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and understand that you can check out the return of

876
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Terrence Crawford and a tremendous undercard by the way too

877
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878
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Speaker 1: PPV dot com.

879
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 2: And Mark Bocarti is back with us here from PPV

880
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,239
dot com and tell us more about it, my friend,

881
00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:14,519
how are you as we're kicking August off with a

882
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,920
big time event headlined by Crawford and madreamof.

883
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 4: Yeah we are, thanks for having me back. You know,

884
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,519
this is one of those rare boxing events TJ where

885
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,800
it's not just about the main event, it's about the

886
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,880
full card. So kudos to the promoters for putting this.

887
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,719
You know, the word stacked is thrown around too much

888
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,519
in the boxing world, in the fight sports world. This

889
00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:40,559
card really is though, top to bottom, really really solid.

890
00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:43,000
So we're looking forward to it should be a great

891
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,320
event and a great pay per view.

892
00:38:44,519 --> 00:38:48,079
Speaker 2: And again Turkey Alashic and the read Season folks that

893
00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:50,400
are behind this, they understand that, and they want to

894
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,280
put as many big time fights in and around the

895
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,239
main event. We've seen that with the Saudi Arabian cards.

896
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,840
This is their first venture into the United States, and

897
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,760
obviously everybody's curious. I was there a year ago, roughly

898
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,480
at this time when Terrence Crawford demolished Errol Spence, and

899
00:39:06,599 --> 00:39:10,199
really that that probably vaulted him to number one pound

900
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,559
for pound. We haven't seen hi him since, and so

901
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:15,639
now we see him this week, and we're anxious to

902
00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:17,159
see what's gonna happen with this fight.

903
00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we really are. You know.

904
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:22,199
Speaker 4: I think the knock on Crawford for how skilled he

905
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:26,360
is is the inactivity that you just referenced, and I

906
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,880
think finally we get him back in the ring, and

907
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,159
the question is how does he look. Of course, any

908
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,719
ring rusted any of that, probably not. He's so talented

909
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,639
he's number one in my book pound for pound. But

910
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,360
I think everyone's really excited about if he pulls this off,

911
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,960
what's next rumor mill being, of course, a potential showdown

912
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,719
with Canelo Alvarez, but he does have to get through

913
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,199
a dangerous opponent here to begin with.

914
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 3: So we'll find out on Saturday night.

915
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 2: And again Madreamov has the WBA title in this fight

916
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,280
is also for the AK and WBO title, so it's

917
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,360
it's a chance at a unified championship in Crawford. Again,

918
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,360
moving up and wait and again, we want to encourage

919
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the fans that are hearing us to utilize PPV dot

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921
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923
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very simply on ppv dot com, you come

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928
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gonna have a good lineup. We have of course Jim Lampley,

929
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:46,840
boxing broadcast icon in our chat, Lance Pugmeyer, Award winning journalist,

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Dan Kenobio super successful podcaster, boxing influencer guy. So we

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Speaker 1: I know, I see the feedback.

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Speaker 2: I'm in there frequently through PPV dot Com and I

939
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to talk to Jim Lampley or to Lance or even

941
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for decades of broadcasting in the sport, and you're getting

943
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,679
his takes in real time. And again we emphasize there's

944
00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:30,519
not a six month commitment, much less.

945
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:31,119
Speaker 1: A year commitment.

946
00:41:31,199 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 2: You buy what you want through PPV dot com. With

947
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,239
this and one more time, I mean, we got EATSA

948
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,760
Cruz on this card in the co feature fight, and

949
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,760
then we got a couple of heavyweight showdowns. Andrew Ruiz,

950
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,519
the former unified heavyweight champion in action with Jarell Miller

951
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,159
and Jared Anderson, the unbeaten heavyweight out of Toledo, Ohio

952
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,760
on this card and what could be a dangerous fight

953
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:58,880
for him. Martin Bucoli is no joke, an African fighter

954
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,280
that can really punch again there's a lot here. There's

955
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,679
a lot of meat on the bone, as we like

956
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:05,679
to say, on this card one more time.

957
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is.

958
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 4: And the Ruiz Miller fight is you know, sneakily for

959
00:42:10,519 --> 00:42:13,719
me kind of one I'm really looking forward to almost

960
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,239
as much as the headliner. Pitbull of course has had

961
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,400
some spectacular recent events, so a lot of action there.

962
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,440
And then you mentioned the other heavyweight fight. So like

963
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,679
we said, you know, at the top, top to bottom,

964
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,719
this is a terrific card and kudos to Turkey for

965
00:42:30,079 --> 00:42:30,840
putting this together.

966
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 2: I know we're excited for everything that's going to happen

967
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,039
this fall. Canelo's fight is now official, and we're looking

968
00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:40,119
forward to rematch of Usik and Fury and again PPV

969
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,960
dot Com interlock. And by the way, we should make

970
00:42:43,079 --> 00:42:46,519
mention it's not just boxing, their other events as well

971
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:48,880
that you guys have had just say something about that,

972
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:52,039
which is the same situation. You do not need a

973
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:55,119
long term subscription, You buy what you want, right.

974
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,559
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Yep.

975
00:42:56,639 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have wrestling, We've had concerts, comedy shows, basketball,

976
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,880
We've had a lot a lot of different types of content.

977
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,800
But you just mentioned a few of the upcoming boxing

978
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,000
events TJ that are going to be happening this fall,

979
00:43:11,159 --> 00:43:15,039
all of those available on PPV dot com, No subscription required,

980
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:18,400
zero commitment, Come in, buy what you want, enjoy it,

981
00:43:18,559 --> 00:43:20,280
and then and then you're out of there.

982
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 2: Crystal clear, tenn ADYI if you are tendyp whichever, whatever

983
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,440
you need four K as a matter of fact too

984
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,400
and interactive with PPV dot com.

985
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,639
Speaker 1: All right, we're getting excited Los Angeles.

986
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,639
Speaker 2: It's been a little bit since we've had a big

987
00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:38,039
time title fight card in Los Angeles. We're anxious for this,

988
00:43:39,079 --> 00:43:40,960
and Mark, I know we're excited to see the return

989
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:43,760
of Terrence Crawford, one of the best fighters in the world,

990
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,440
going for a world title in yet another weight division.

991
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,199
This would be a fourth different weight division. If he

992
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,639
can get it, coming up here in this one one

993
00:43:52,639 --> 00:43:54,360
more time, we tell him, go get it through PPV

994
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,840
dot com. We're excited, right, Mark McCarty for Crawford and

995
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,760
madream off very excited.

996
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:02,519
Speaker 4: I need to watch it on PPV dot com. Come

997
00:44:02,559 --> 00:44:05,639
to the come to the come to fight night, ready

998
00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:08,000
to watch, ready to interact with our guys, and you'll

999
00:44:08,039 --> 00:44:15,920
have a great time on PPV dot com.

1000
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: Again, we enjoy our relationship with our friends at PPV

1001
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,039
dot com. We can't emphasize it enough that you don't

1002
00:44:18,079 --> 00:44:21,400
need the long term subscription by what you want through

1003
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,440
PPV dot com and this is a tremendous pay per

1004
00:44:24,519 --> 00:44:26,760
view card here for the you know, the value and

1005
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,079
the number of fights that you're getting because the chances are,

1006
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,320
I mean sometimes these are stinct bombs where maybe only

1007
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,679
one fight's a good one, the chances are I'm just

1008
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,400
saying this, we're gonna get three, four, maybe maybe more.

1009
00:44:38,159 --> 00:44:39,679
Speaker 1: Really good fights out of this.

1010
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,159
Speaker 2: And again we encourage you to watch it on PPV

1011
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,920
dot com. By the way, By the way, you rolled

1012
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,360
into town, and again you couldn't get a meeting with

1013
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,599
Tom Cruise because he's at the Olympics in France. I

1014
00:44:50,639 --> 00:44:52,320
know you're your people and his people were trying to

1015
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,960
get together, but you actually were at the event at

1016
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,519
the Santa Monic appear on Wednesday night. Let's go back

1017
00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:00,440
to Wednesday night as we release this podcast, where they

1018
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,960
did the grand arrivals for the fighters, had them work

1019
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,960
out of the ring a little bit, but they also

1020
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,599
had fights at the Santa Monica Campeer and you love this.

1021
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 3: I loved it. So they had they had the arrivals

1022
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,400
at the pier on Tuesday, which I was not at.

1023
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,440
I got here on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, later in

1024
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,880
the day, they had the all the fighters on the

1025
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,880
main card do their public workout, press workout, and you know,

1026
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,320
try to promote the fight in a very picturesque spot

1027
00:45:24,519 --> 00:45:27,079
on the Santa Monicampeer, which is about you know, thirty

1028
00:45:27,119 --> 00:45:29,280
thirty five minutes from the fight hotel. You know, depending

1029
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,360
on the traffic here in crazy Los Angeles.

1030
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, thirty minutes at what time of day, Yes, exactly, likeues.

1031
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 3: It depends, right, So they already had the ring set up,

1032
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:38,840
and they had the led boards and the whole thing

1033
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,320
set up, and so what they were trying to do,

1034
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,960
and I knew this was like a possibility back like

1035
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,840
about a month month and a half ago, but it

1036
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,760
seemed like a remote chance they get it done. So

1037
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,039
they took three fights with it, with prospects that were

1038
00:45:51,079 --> 00:45:53,519
originally going to just be on the non like the

1039
00:45:53,519 --> 00:45:57,639
preliminary part of Saturday's stadium card that there'd have been like,

1040
00:45:57,679 --> 00:45:59,400
you know, barely anybody in the arena. I'd be early

1041
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,599
in the afternoon it or maybe even the morning frankly,

1042
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,039
and that's no fun. So what they decided to do

1043
00:46:04,159 --> 00:46:06,199
was to try to dress things up because the workouts,

1044
00:46:06,199 --> 00:46:08,559
you know, are kind of repetitive. Is let's also do

1045
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,079
we'll clear the ring of the workouts, we'll put in

1046
00:46:11,079 --> 00:46:13,800
the real fights. And so it took a little bit,

1047
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,719
you know, to get the permitting to do the real fight.

1048
00:46:16,159 --> 00:46:18,119
Obviously it costs money to rent that space on the

1049
00:46:18,119 --> 00:46:21,039
pier and uh and it was a very costly endeavor,

1050
00:46:21,079 --> 00:46:23,800
obviously the person and also on top of that, but

1051
00:46:24,039 --> 00:46:25,840
the Saudi's are trying to make a splash and they

1052
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,199
have a lot of money to spend, and so they

1053
00:46:27,199 --> 00:46:29,360
did that. And so they took the after the workouts,

1054
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,480
they put these three doubts in. They showed them on

1055
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:33,679
his own, very picturesque. I was there right next to

1056
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,920
the roller coaster. So if you watch them throw punches,

1057
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,039
then you hear the people coming above us screaming their

1058
00:46:38,039 --> 00:46:40,159
brains out because they were scared shitless on the on

1059
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,480
the coaster and they did the three fights.

1060
00:46:42,559 --> 00:46:45,079
Speaker 2: You want to confirm you have not written that roller coaster.

1061
00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:46,960
You did not write that roller coaster was all right,

1062
00:46:47,119 --> 00:46:48,719
could keep going on the fights keep going.

1063
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 3: I was, I was watching the fights. So in the

1064
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,519
main event of the mini we'll call it a mini

1065
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:55,800
car because there's only three doubts. One of my favorite

1066
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,519
prospects to watch because I find them very entertaining is

1067
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,719
the lightweight now well, actually Junior lie Wait, he's fluctuated

1068
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,840
between the two, but he's now very been fighting regular

1069
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,039
at one hundred and thirty pounds and that's Mark cash

1070
00:47:07,079 --> 00:47:10,159
show outstanding amateur from Fresno, and he took on another

1071
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,719
like local southern California fighter named Georgia Costa, and you know,

1072
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,480
for a one sided fight, it was a lot of fun.

1073
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,000
I mean, they had a lot of punch of swapping,

1074
00:47:17,039 --> 00:47:19,119
and you know, Cashow was going after him pretty much

1075
00:47:19,159 --> 00:47:22,559
the whole fight. Unfortunately, in the seventh round they had

1076
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,880
a headbutt and and you could just see Costa's eye

1077
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,280
just blew up right away, and when the doctor checked

1078
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:28,719
it out, they decided to stop the fight. It so

1079
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,079
I went to the scorecards for a technical decision, which

1080
00:47:31,119 --> 00:47:33,760
Casho won by a shutout. But that was that was

1081
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:35,440
the main event, if you will, of that part of

1082
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,719
the cart and Casho is a good prospect, like I said,

1083
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,320
coming along. You know, Matt trims Adams since day one,

1084
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,280
and we'll see how he continues to develop. But he's

1085
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,280
a fun fighter to watch, very likable guy. And the

1086
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,760
second fight, the co feature of If You Will Have

1087
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,440
This Mini Car, was the Olympic silver medal winner, the

1088
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,440
welterweight chat crom gsof from was deck to stand. He

1089
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,920
fought a tough dude Mexican fighter named Miguel Parr who

1090
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,960
took everything. They called this a split decision, and the

1091
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,079
cards were somewhat close, and the one scorecard that was

1092
00:48:01,079 --> 00:48:04,119
in favorite part this was a joke. I mean Giasov,

1093
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,639
you know, you know he didn't he got touched a

1094
00:48:06,679 --> 00:48:08,639
little bit and he probably lost a couple of rounds,

1095
00:48:08,639 --> 00:48:10,519
but he certainly did not lose the fight, and it

1096
00:48:10,559 --> 00:48:12,519
certainly wasn't as close as two of the judges had it.

1097
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,880
And the thing they really pissed me off, pissed off

1098
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,800
all the crowd because you could hear them booing, and

1099
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,239
pissed off Gisov and his manager Vaddin Korniloff, who also

1100
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,639
is the manager for Israel Majumov Dmitri Biebel. There was

1101
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,559
a punch in the sixth round that was clear as

1102
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:29,800
day that was a body shot. It didn't even touch

1103
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,039
the top of the the top of the of the

1104
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:35,519
cup or the top of the belt. It was literally

1105
00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:39,559
a legitimate, non outline body punch, and the referee called

1106
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:42,039
it a low blow and took a point away from

1107
00:48:42,119 --> 00:48:45,480
Giasof Now, when the round ended, you gotta picture this.

1108
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:47,559
The ring is set up in front of a gigantic

1109
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,760
led board where they were showing the so the crowd

1110
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:52,719
saw it when it happened live. It was not even

1111
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,760
like hard to see. And then when they showed the

1112
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,079
replay like two or three times from the zone on

1113
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,639
the board, the crowd was going crazy booing. And it

1114
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,320
pissed me off that the fucking referee didn't even turn

1115
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,079
around and look. And I know he couldn't have done

1116
00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:06,800
anything because they weren't using replay fight, but he didn't

1117
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,880
even have the fucking courtesy to look at the replay

1118
00:49:09,159 --> 00:49:12,000
to understand how fucking bad his call was. Right, and

1119
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,440
you know, Giasov is right in the position right now

1120
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,159
where he's close to a mandatory fight for welterweight title,

1121
00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:19,360
and that's the kind of call that can almost could

1122
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,639
cost him to fight because of how close the judges

1123
00:49:21,639 --> 00:49:23,320
had it. There was so much wrong with the way

1124
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,599
that fight was officiated. They're judging stunk and the referee stunk,

1125
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,119
and Giuso still got to win. He still beat the

1126
00:49:29,119 --> 00:49:31,199
shit out of Para, and Para was still tough as nails.

1127
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,760
So he gets to win. He goes to sixteen and oh,

1128
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,039
and he's gonna, you know, be in position probably to

1129
00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:37,360
fight for one of the titles. So that was the

1130
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:38,400
second fight and.

1131
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: Then you remember that, so remember that name, and then

1132
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:40,880
one more fight.

1133
00:49:41,639 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nathan Lugo was a kid that was one and

1134
00:49:43,519 --> 00:49:46,639
oh who had had a professional fight, and then after

1135
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,079
his pro debut he signed with Frank Warren Queensberry Promotions.

1136
00:49:50,119 --> 00:49:52,800
When Frank was at the card last night, and he's

1137
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,039
managed by David mcwater who's probably best known for the

1138
00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:57,639
being the manager of t Fimo Lopez. He's also the

1139
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,519
manager for Brandon Lea. So when he signed Lugo with Queensberry,

1140
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,480
he also was signing Brandon Lee with Queensberry. Brandon Lee

1141
00:50:03,519 --> 00:50:06,800
made his Queensberry debut on the Joe Joyce Destre card

1142
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,199
in the UK. Nathan Lugo fought in this card and

1143
00:50:09,519 --> 00:50:11,760
you know, I'd never seen him other than like a

1144
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,199
clip of his pro debut, but you know, at least

1145
00:50:14,199 --> 00:50:16,079
strong like a bull. It looks like to me he

1146
00:50:16,159 --> 00:50:18,039
needs to clean up the defense. But he took out

1147
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,719
a four to one fighter from you know in the

1148
00:50:21,039 --> 00:50:23,519
second round name Ray Corona, just laid a lot of

1149
00:50:23,559 --> 00:50:26,119
punches on him. And whatever happens with Lugo, if he

1150
00:50:26,159 --> 00:50:27,599
tiens up the defense, he's going to be a fun

1151
00:50:27,639 --> 00:50:30,159
fighter to watch because he's very offensive minded. He's only

1152
00:50:30,199 --> 00:50:32,519
twenty years old. And that was your three fight card.

1153
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:34,320
But that was fun. I enjoyed being there. It was

1154
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,400
a cool atmosphere. I've been to a lot of interesting

1155
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,920
places for fights in my day, but I never covered

1156
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,400
a boxing match next to a roller coaster on a pier.

1157
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,079
Speaker 2: And you do want to confirm that, even though you're

1158
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:47,119
in Hollywood, that Cheryl Crow with the famous song was

1159
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,159
not there to sing when the sun comes up over

1160
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:51,440
Santa Monica Boulevard.

1161
00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: She was not and I did not sing it. But

1162
00:50:54,199 --> 00:50:55,760
more Intenseltown, you're on location.

1163
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 3: I cannot confirm she wasn't there. I just didn't see her.

1164
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,199
Speaker 1: She could have been there at the fights on the

1165
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:01,840
roller coaster.

1166
00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 3: She could have been the thing about it was I.

1167
00:51:03,639 --> 00:51:05,760
I have been in Santa Monica on a number of occasions,

1168
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,000
and I've passed by the pier on a certain occasion,

1169
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,719
but never actually gone down and bent on the pier.

1170
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,280
So that was pretty cool for the first one I

1171
00:51:12,519 --> 00:51:12,920
was there.

1172
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,119
Speaker 1: I was there longer ago than I want to admit

1173
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,119
right now. With the twins.

1174
00:51:16,199 --> 00:51:20,039
Speaker 2: The twins were much smaller in twenty sixteen. We were

1175
00:51:20,119 --> 00:51:23,039
there eight years ago, and I kept saying to them,

1176
00:51:23,119 --> 00:51:25,400
this is the very famous with the Ferriss wheel and

1177
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,599
the roller coaster, the very famous Santa Monica pier.

1178
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: They were the third grade. They didn't care about that crap.

1179
00:51:30,519 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 2: I just wanted to know what are we eating and

1180
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,679
are we gonna go to Disneyland or not, which we did,

1181
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:35,519
by the way.

1182
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 3: Important things important.

1183
00:51:36,639 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 1: Let's move on to some news and then some nostalgia.

1184
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,079
Speaker 2: All right, we were talking about Haimi Mongia and a

1185
00:51:43,599 --> 00:51:47,960
fight with Top Rank. They now have announced the date,

1186
00:51:48,159 --> 00:51:51,000
the location, et cetera. Give me the latest details on

1187
00:51:51,199 --> 00:51:53,239
Mongia and what's going on.

1188
00:51:54,519 --> 00:51:56,519
Speaker 3: So Monkey is going to come back from his first loss,

1189
00:51:56,559 --> 00:51:59,280
which was of course just recently when he lost to

1190
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,639
Cane Alvarez in a good fight, but he showed a

1191
00:52:02,639 --> 00:52:03,840
lot in that fight, and I don't think it hurt

1192
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,079
his marketability or his popularity or his career in any way,

1193
00:52:06,119 --> 00:52:08,400
shape or form when you take a loss in a

1194
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,239
good fight like that against one of the best fighters

1195
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,280
in boxing. So he is going to have his first

1196
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:13,960
fight with Top Rank. It'll be a twelve round fight.

1197
00:52:14,039 --> 00:52:16,559
He's fighting the fighter I was based out of Canada,

1198
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,320
Armenian fighter named Eric Bazinian, who is a top contender,

1199
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,920
also just has the one draw. They're fighting at the

1200
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:27,119
Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. I had written about

1201
00:52:27,119 --> 00:52:29,519
this fight a couple of weeks ago, and when I

1202
00:52:29,559 --> 00:52:31,280
wrote about that, you know, based on what I was

1203
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,079
told from different sources that were involved in this, that

1204
00:52:33,159 --> 00:52:34,760
this was going to be the first fight of a

1205
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,800
multi fight contract between Mongia and Top Rank. They did

1206
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,639
not announce the multi fight agreement. Oscar de LaHaye a

1207
00:52:41,639 --> 00:52:43,239
few days ago had gone on his social media made

1208
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:44,639
a video saying, you know what, this is just a

1209
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:46,920
one off blah blah blah. He's still with Golden Boy.

1210
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,880
There's a lot of gray going on with this. Okay.

1211
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,280
Top Rank believes and has been told that he is

1212
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,800
free and clear of both Zandford Promotions and Golden Boy

1213
00:52:55,920 --> 00:53:01,039
that their agreements came to an end post the Alvarez loss,

1214
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,480
and then it was the Mongia team that approached Top

1215
00:53:03,599 --> 00:53:07,079
Rank wanting to sign with them. But there may be

1216
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,039
you know, I don't know the details, but the bottom

1217
00:53:10,079 --> 00:53:12,880
line is that's going to get worked on after this

1218
00:53:13,039 --> 00:53:15,199
is over. So for this one fight, they've got the deal.

1219
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:18,480
No one's threatening lawsuits, so he's clearly free at least

1220
00:53:18,519 --> 00:53:22,159
for this fight. Zanfer and Golden Boy are in association

1221
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,880
on this fight. If there wasn't something going on, Top

1222
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,000
Rank would never give zan would never give Golden Boy

1223
00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:30,639
an in association if they wasn't a reason to do so.

1224
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,840
So it's gonna be a thing that's going to play out.

1225
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,719
But the main thing is Jimi McGee, who was one

1226
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,719
of the most exciting fighters on boxing, a very enjoyable

1227
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,320
fighter to watch and a very good fighter in the

1228
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,639
super middle eight division. He's gonna get in the ring

1229
00:53:42,679 --> 00:53:44,119
and he's going to fight a real guy in Eric

1230
00:53:44,119 --> 00:53:47,639
Bazinian uh thirty two to zero to one, and hopefully

1231
00:53:47,679 --> 00:53:48,840
they'll put on a hell of a fight and we'll

1232
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,559
see what happens with Himi's promotional situation after that. I

1233
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,400
suspect that they'll work things out and he'll probably will

1234
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,239
wind up under that long term contract that they did

1235
00:53:57,599 --> 00:54:01,039
with Top Rank. But for this one fight in September,

1236
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:03,719
that's not the case. But for the fans perspective, they

1237
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,400
just got to worry about tuning in and watching one

1238
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,400
of the most exciting fighters in boxing take care of business.

1239
00:54:08,079 --> 00:54:10,639
Speaker 2: Well, and we know two things about Mangi, a great

1240
00:54:10,639 --> 00:54:13,440
offensive fighter and doesn't play a whole lot of defense

1241
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,599
at all. Gets hit a bunch, he hits, and he

1242
00:54:15,679 --> 00:54:17,880
gets hit so well. I don't know that that's really

1243
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:22,119
gonna change for September the twentieth. Okay, bad news on

1244
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,320
later this month what was to have been a Jack

1245
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:30,719
Catterall Regis Prograde contender fight. Catterall injured, all right.

1246
00:54:30,679 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: Tell me more.

1247
00:54:31,519 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 2: And I did see some stuff on social media that

1248
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,039
not that this may not be fatal for the rest

1249
00:54:38,119 --> 00:54:40,280
of this year. They may try to get this back

1250
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,639
on track here later in the year, at least, that's

1251
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:44,920
what the fighters were saying on social media and the speculation.

1252
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 3: What do we know, No, I think they're gonna I mean,

1253
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,159
I talked to some of the match from people when

1254
00:54:48,199 --> 00:54:50,119
I got out here and they're they're hoping to reschedule

1255
00:54:50,199 --> 00:54:51,559
the fight. I don't know if it's gonna still be

1256
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,800
at that new arena at the co Op Live in Manchester,

1257
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,599
but they're gonna they're gonna try to reschedule this fight.

1258
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:58,880
I think what they're trying to do actually, and this

1259
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,320
is what I would pull. The nothing is done to

1260
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,400
my knowledge is that they had already announced some of

1261
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,519
the undercard fights as well for this cart that some

1262
00:55:04,639 --> 00:55:07,239
of those fights may find homes on other Matroum events

1263
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:10,559
that they've got coming up, and they'll reschedule the main

1264
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:13,280
event probably sometime. They're looking again. It's, you know, part

1265
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,599
of it's depending on how the injury yields. The injury,

1266
00:55:15,679 --> 00:55:17,760
by the way, was not reported in terms of publicly

1267
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,599
acknowledge what the injury is. I'm told by multiple sources

1268
00:55:20,639 --> 00:55:23,320
that know what's going on that that Catterall suffered some

1269
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,480
type of rib injury in training, which you know takes

1270
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,599
a little time. You're tender and you got to make

1271
00:55:28,599 --> 00:55:30,199
sure you're good. It's hard to breathe, it's hard to

1272
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:32,119
get hit there, it's hard to throw punches if your

1273
00:55:32,199 --> 00:55:33,880
ribs messed up. It really kind of is your core

1274
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,320
in it. It's it's kind of dicey sometimes when those

1275
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,960
injuries happen. So take them a little while to rest

1276
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,440
that and hopefully get better and they'll get this fight

1277
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:41,679
back on.

1278
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 2: I saw Protray on social media he was training in

1279
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,079
Las Vegas, right, is what he said on social media.

1280
00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:49,639
He was not happy, and then you know, and he's

1281
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:52,519
had some jilted fights and Catteralls had some fights that

1282
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,199
got postponed or whatever. So now Progra has to wait

1283
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:57,280
for Catterall to get healthy.

1284
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's unfortunate. You know, anytime that happens,

1285
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,280
you know, it's it's it sucks, but it's nobody's fault.

1286
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,639
I believe this is legit. I don't think anybody's ducking

1287
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,880
each other trying to get out of a fight. They're

1288
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:08,679
gonna try to reschedule for October, so it's you know,

1289
00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:10,800
it's annoying. It's a couple of months difference. And you know,

1290
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:12,719
if you put up a training camp, you know it's

1291
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,159
costing you money to do the camp, and you're not

1292
00:56:14,199 --> 00:56:16,400
getting paid because there's no fight. So you're getting sparring

1293
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,360
partners and you're you know, you're you're paying the nutritionists

1294
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,159
or the you know, for the gym that you're using

1295
00:56:21,199 --> 00:56:23,400
and those types of things. So there's a cost associated

1296
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:24,880
with that. And if you're not a guy that's made

1297
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,320
the premium premium money, you know, it eats into what

1298
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,519
you've got. But uh, you know, hopefully the fight will

1299
00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:31,199
get put back together and they'll put on a good show,

1300
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:32,519
but for the time being, it's postponed.

1301
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,519
Speaker 2: All Right, a couple more things, and then the nostalgia here, Okay,

1302
00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:40,000
what's going on with Tank Davis and whether he's fighting

1303
00:56:40,039 --> 00:56:45,000
Shakur Stevens so or wait, is Shakur fighting William Zupaida.

1304
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: Or is there a door number three for Chakour? Okay,

1305
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,039
so let's let's go through it.

1306
00:56:50,119 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 2: First off, it was being reported and you're gonna get

1307
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,599
into who that it was Tank and Shakur for November.

1308
00:56:56,119 --> 00:57:01,039
That was dispelled and now with it was just well, no,

1309
00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:03,400
it was reported, not you, but it was reported I

1310
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:04,519
guess by IFL TV.

1311
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,519
Speaker 3: I'll explain that. Okay, we got to do this the

1312
00:57:07,639 --> 00:57:10,760
right way. So IFL TV friends of mine, by the way,

1313
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,440
I've appeared on their YouTube channel numerous times in the past.

1314
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,199
Nothing but respect for those guys, but they fucking blew

1315
00:57:16,239 --> 00:57:18,719
it on this one. They put up an unsubstantiated report

1316
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,360
with they didn't even say sources said. They certainly didn't

1317
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,000
have a source that they acknowledged, and they just literally

1318
00:57:24,039 --> 00:57:25,960
put up them. And they have a good social media following,

1319
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,280
so when they put something out, it's going to penetrate

1320
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,239
to the boxing fans. You know, their their thoughts and

1321
00:57:31,519 --> 00:57:34,559
what they're thinking about. And they just simply wrote like

1322
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:38,800
Chakor Stephenson and Jervonta Tank Davis have agreed. I forget

1323
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,880
how they phrased it, but the fight is set for

1324
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,000
November twenty third in Las Vegas or something to that effect.

1325
00:57:44,559 --> 00:57:47,280
And I saw that, I was like what, So I

1326
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,880
spent like five minutes. I texted a few people that

1327
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:51,800
I know in those camps and people that would be

1328
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,239
directly involved in the fight, and boom boom, boom boom

1329
00:57:55,679 --> 00:57:57,480
is getting back to me like in real short order.

1330
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,119
You know, absolutely not totally nonsense, not happening, not true,

1331
00:58:01,519 --> 00:58:03,960
one person said, not at all. Schu Court later put

1332
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,880
his own thing on his media that said no, I

1333
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,639
actually confirmed it with Kank Davis himself. I messaged Hank

1334
00:58:10,679 --> 00:58:12,840
and I asked him and he said, no, not true.

1335
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,960
And uh so if you got the two fighters saying it,

1336
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:17,559
and you got the people involved in it, he got

1337
00:58:17,599 --> 00:58:17,960
the teams.

1338
00:58:18,039 --> 00:58:20,559
Speaker 2: You no, we've been done this a long time. We've

1339
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:23,239
been doing this long time. If the two fighters are

1340
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,039
telling you both that it's not happening Shakur on social

1341
00:58:26,119 --> 00:58:29,480
media and Gervonte Davis to you, that's the safest bet

1342
00:58:29,679 --> 00:58:31,480
it's not happening for November twenty.

1343
00:58:31,519 --> 00:58:34,039
Speaker 1: And that's not to say that it can't happen. Have

1344
00:58:34,159 --> 00:58:35,280
not done yet, right, but.

1345
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,239
Speaker 3: They're not even in like a negotiation either. To my nots.

1346
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,440
They may have had, like the teams may have had

1347
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:41,639
a conversation.

1348
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,639
Speaker 1: Although the fact that both fighters refuted it almost immediately

1349
00:58:44,719 --> 00:58:45,960
this report is spot on.

1350
00:58:46,719 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 3: That was just a terrible okay, terrible.

1351
00:58:49,519 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: But then but then that.

1352
00:58:51,159 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 2: Leads to your buddy who's out there with you, Lance Pugmeyer,

1353
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,599
who's reporting on Boxing scene dot com. We'll name it

1354
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,320
that it's October and it's Schakour, and we'll Giam's a

1355
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,639
paida and Rayfield's going no, no, wait, wait, not so fast,

1356
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:04,559
my friend, tell me a little more.

1357
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: What is it not that is it not, then what's

1358
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:08,119
going on with No.

1359
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 3: It's not anything, it's not anything, okay, So that fight

1360
00:59:12,119 --> 00:59:14,480
has more legs to it than the Tank and Court

1361
00:59:14,559 --> 00:59:18,320
fight because Tank is I mean rather Shakur. He's the

1362
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:22,199
WBC's lightweight champion, and Williams of Paida is the WBC's

1363
00:59:22,239 --> 00:59:24,880
mandatory challenger. He is the mandatory actually across the board

1364
00:59:25,199 --> 00:59:27,199
and all of organizations. But it was just last week

1365
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:31,039
or so that the WBC sent the official letter informing

1366
00:59:31,199 --> 00:59:34,199
the Tank, the Court team and the Zapeta team to

1367
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,400
begin negotiating the fight and if they can't reach a

1368
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,400
deal by I believe it was August twentieth that they

1369
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,599
would call for a perspit. So obviously, anytime a purspet

1370
00:59:41,639 --> 00:59:43,199
is ordered, whether it's this fight or any other fight,

1371
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,159
typically the two sides, if they have any interest in

1372
00:59:46,239 --> 00:59:48,239
the fight, don't get in touch with each other. Somebody

1373
00:59:48,239 --> 00:59:49,639
will make the call and say, hey, you know, we

1374
00:59:49,719 --> 00:59:51,559
got the order, what do you think what? And just

1375
00:59:51,599 --> 00:59:54,960
feel each other out what what are the possibilities. So

1376
00:59:55,159 --> 00:59:59,039
that happened between the Golden White People that represents the

1377
00:59:59,119 --> 01:00:01,519
Paida and even Coorus free agent. In terms of a

1378
01:00:01,559 --> 01:00:04,679
promotional broadcast, he still has management James Prince is still

1379
01:00:04,719 --> 01:00:07,159
his manager, and their lawyer, Josh Dubin, who's done business

1380
01:00:07,199 --> 01:00:10,199
with everybody. They had a conversation between the two sides,

1381
01:00:10,239 --> 01:00:13,199
Golden Boy and and the management side, and they decided

1382
01:00:13,239 --> 01:00:14,719
that they wanted to talk about the fight and like

1383
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,400
start to discuss what the parameters might be, when we

1384
01:00:17,519 --> 01:00:19,239
might want to do it, all those types of things.

1385
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,400
But there was no deal made, no verbal commitment. They

1386
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,800
never discussed money, at least as far as I'm know,

1387
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,119
and I've heard that from both sides in the last

1388
01:00:27,159 --> 01:00:28,639
you know, two days. Let's say, I mean, I guess

1389
01:00:28,679 --> 01:00:31,079
it could have happened today. But the point is again

1390
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,280
not a done fight, not a made fight, not an

1391
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,320
agree to fight. It's going to go through the process. Now.

1392
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,960
Could they make a deal before August twentieth, Yeah, it's possible.

1393
01:00:38,159 --> 01:00:39,599
And if they don't, go to a purse fit and

1394
01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:42,239
then it will be up to Zapeida and Shakorder decided

1395
01:00:42,239 --> 01:00:44,400
that they want to participate. Obviously, if Shakurt didn't, he

1396
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,719
would be stripped to the title. Zapeida could lose his

1397
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,119
position with the WBC, but in the end that wouldn't

1398
01:00:49,119 --> 01:00:50,800
make that big of a difference because he's still there

1399
01:00:51,079 --> 01:00:53,280
as a mandatory for the other three organizations, so he

1400
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,559
would have other possible options. So I'm not sure what

1401
01:00:55,639 --> 01:00:58,159
they're thinking about. I'll tell you one thing. I wouldn't

1402
01:00:58,199 --> 01:01:01,719
mind seeing cha court against Tank or against the BETA

1403
01:01:02,079 --> 01:01:04,400
or is the paida against Tank for that matter. I mean,

1404
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:07,880
they're all solid quality matters. But the mist that the

1405
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:10,320
gist of this whole part of what we're talking about

1406
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,119
on the show right now is that the misinformation that

1407
01:01:13,239 --> 01:01:16,039
gets presented to the public when people get their hair

1408
01:01:16,119 --> 01:01:18,239
on fire about this fight's happening. This fight's not a thing.

1409
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,599
It's just that people just don't even have a clue about.

1410
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 2: How the race to be first and put it out

1411
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:31,119
there as opposed to be right, I understand so. And

1412
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,960
one other thing here the report, and again Lance pug

1413
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,239
Meyer very respected, he's out there with you. Pug Meyer's

1414
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,760
report was it would be part of the better b

1415
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:41,440
of bevol card.

1416
01:01:42,039 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: But you have also heard that that.

1417
01:01:44,599 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 2: I mean, the Chakur's Apeida could be a standalone obviously

1418
01:01:48,039 --> 01:01:50,599
as its own main event. And that's another thing that's

1419
01:01:50,639 --> 01:01:51,519
curious about all of this.

1420
01:01:51,599 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: Would it go.

1421
01:01:52,119 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 3: I mean, if if there were to be on that card.

1422
01:01:55,519 --> 01:01:57,639
I mean, obviously, if Turkey wants to fight, like any

1423
01:01:57,679 --> 01:01:59,159
of the fights we talked about, if he decides to

1424
01:01:59,199 --> 01:02:01,039
pay for it, then people would probably go for it.

1425
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,400
But you know, and I don't, I don't, I don't. Uh.

1426
01:02:04,159 --> 01:02:05,760
I'm not saying that a Lance is wrong on that

1427
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,320
at all. I just I personally had not heard that,

1428
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,440
and I've talked to people in Bob Basso, so that's

1429
01:02:10,559 --> 01:02:13,239
maybe a possibility, but it would seem a little surprising.

1430
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,760
But even regardless of where the fight's gonna take place,

1431
01:02:16,079 --> 01:02:18,280
on what card it's gonna take place, the two sides

1432
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,320
got to make a deal, you know what I'm saying, Like.

1433
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: And it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't.

1434
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,079
Speaker 3: I mean, if Turkey goes to them with the money,

1435
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,559
it's possible. I mean, he was making videos with Oscar,

1436
01:02:26,599 --> 01:02:29,480
They're talking, He's talking to everybody, so any of these

1437
01:02:29,559 --> 01:02:32,119
things are possible. But so my quarrel is that when

1438
01:02:32,159 --> 01:02:35,599
you say something's done and it's not even fucking discussed,

1439
01:02:35,719 --> 01:02:39,039
that's the problem. Shakur Davis being the quiteest set for

1440
01:02:39,119 --> 01:02:42,079
November twenty third, so I don't want to hear if

1441
01:02:42,119 --> 01:02:44,719
in like a month from now it winds up happening.

1442
01:02:45,159 --> 01:02:46,800
You can't go back and say my report was right,

1443
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:48,599
because your report was ship when you put it out there.

1444
01:02:49,199 --> 01:02:52,639
Speaker 1: It's not done until the fighters themselves.

1445
01:02:52,199 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 3: Go it's not it's not. Not only is it not done,

1446
01:02:54,519 --> 01:02:55,760
it's not even like a thing yet.

1447
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you, by the way, it is a

1448
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,920
thing that Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga. You made mention

1449
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,400
of this a little while ago. They will kick off

1450
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:07,119
their two city media tour in New York on Monday

1451
01:03:07,159 --> 01:03:08,960
and then Tuesday on Beverly Hills. You would like to

1452
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:13,480
confirm you are not gonna lay over in California until Tuesday.

1453
01:03:13,119 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: In Beverly Hills.

1454
01:03:14,519 --> 01:03:16,719
Speaker 2: Uh, Your your meetings with your people and other people's

1455
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,639
people will be co concluded by then, and you'll be

1456
01:03:18,639 --> 01:03:21,440
headed back to the Rayfield estate before Tuesday in Beverly Hills.

1457
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:25,679
But Canelo and Berlanga will be there Tuesday. No.

1458
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,079
Speaker 3: I never even actually I wouldn't have laid over to

1459
01:03:29,239 --> 01:03:31,159
go to that on Tuesday anyway. But when I made

1460
01:03:31,199 --> 01:03:33,320
my flight arrangements back, you know, a month and a

1461
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:35,320
half ago, I had no idea that that that was

1462
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,599
a happy anyway. So I'll be out here, like you know,

1463
01:03:38,679 --> 01:03:41,679
cracking dawn on Sunday. I got an early flight going home. Uh.

1464
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:43,639
But look, they're gonna they're gonna do the normal thing.

1465
01:03:43,679 --> 01:03:45,559
They're gonna meet face to face. We'll size them up

1466
01:03:46,199 --> 01:03:48,239
in those two press conferences and they'll we'll see if

1467
01:03:48,239 --> 01:03:50,320
they talk some shit with each other. Berlanga is a

1468
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,400
guy that usually will talk some shit, uh, and Canelo

1469
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:55,239
doesn't usually react well to that. He'll give it back.

1470
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,039
You know. It's when when you have a love fest

1471
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,840
like what happened between Canelo and Mangia, it's boring a

1472
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:03,039
s And the fight was good, but the build up

1473
01:04:03,079 --> 01:04:05,679
and the press stuff was was boring. In terms of

1474
01:04:05,719 --> 01:04:08,440
Berlanga and Canelo, there's a chance for a much more

1475
01:04:08,519 --> 01:04:12,039
interesting build up because Edgar Berlanga is young, and he's nowthye,

1476
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:14,679
and he's proud Puerto Rican and he's gonna beat his chest.

1477
01:04:14,679 --> 01:04:16,320
He's gonna talk about I'm gonna knock you out. I'm

1478
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,880
sure he's gonna say that kind of stuff. He'll be respectful,

1479
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,119
I think, because he does respect Canelo. But he's very

1480
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:26,199
filled with pride about his heritage and his abilities, and

1481
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:27,880
he thinks he can win the fight, I guess, and

1482
01:04:28,199 --> 01:04:30,280
we'll see if he if he confronts Canelo about that.

1483
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,880
I'm actually very interested to see what his reaction is

1484
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,119
in terms of being in Canelo's presence while he talked

1485
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:39,519
the shit that he has maybe done a little bit

1486
01:04:39,559 --> 01:04:42,079
prior to getting the fight. So that's interesting U. And

1487
01:04:42,159 --> 01:04:44,039
so anyway, they'll and they'll go, they'll go do that

1488
01:04:44,199 --> 01:04:46,360
back and forth, and for what it's worth, they're also

1489
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,440
taking on the press tour the co feature that they

1490
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,400
also announced, which is the Arislandi Laura middleweight title defense

1491
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,639
against Danny Garcia. We'll see what they can if they

1492
01:04:55,679 --> 01:04:58,039
can possibly find a way to make me more interested

1493
01:04:58,079 --> 01:05:01,920
in that fight. You know, even they're good names.

1494
01:05:01,679 --> 01:05:04,159
Speaker 1: But no, no, you mean make you interested at all

1495
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,199
in that fight? Not more interested. You got to get

1496
01:05:06,239 --> 01:05:08,599
interested in the first place, right now, exactly exactly.

1497
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,119
Speaker 3: I'm not, you know what it is. I'm not even

1498
01:05:11,159 --> 01:05:13,280
a post to the fight. It's not fair to characterize

1499
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,760
like I'm not interested in the fight. But the fights,

1500
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:17,239
I mean, it's okay, I mean I don't. I mean

1501
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:19,239
Garcia is moving up another weight class, and I mean

1502
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:20,679
I think they're kind of both, you know, in their

1503
01:05:20,719 --> 01:05:22,960
twilight of their careers. But I'm not mad at the fight,

1504
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,199
I mean really not, because they are good names and

1505
01:05:25,239 --> 01:05:27,119
we'll see what they can do. I'm mad about it

1506
01:05:27,199 --> 01:05:28,960
being for the WBA title. That's what pissed me off.

1507
01:05:29,079 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could get serious here with this, Okay, So

1508
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:37,280
those press conferences coming Monday Tuesday will have more on

1509
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,760
that in the coming days and couple of weeks building

1510
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,559
up to that fight. What is that September fourteenth, Canelo

1511
01:05:44,719 --> 01:05:48,960
back with Edgar Berlanga. Okay, nostalgia time before Rayfield has

1512
01:05:49,039 --> 01:05:52,119
to go out with his Hollywood types here as Thursday

1513
01:05:52,199 --> 01:05:56,960
goes into Friday. It was thirty seven years ago on

1514
01:05:57,039 --> 01:05:59,000
the night that we're doing this podcast, and I remember

1515
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:04,199
all of this, Mike Tyson became the undisputed heavyweight champ

1516
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,719
with a twelve round decision went over Tony Tucker, adding

1517
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:10,519
the IBF belt to the WBC and WBA belts. Obviously

1518
01:06:10,559 --> 01:06:13,400
the three belt era at that time. It ended what

1519
01:06:13,519 --> 01:06:17,800
the heavyweight world series that Don King had with HBO, etc.

1520
01:06:18,119 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: What else?

1521
01:06:18,519 --> 01:06:22,119
Speaker 2: On the nostalgia meter, it was not a memorable, phenomenal

1522
01:06:22,199 --> 01:06:28,159
fight historically historically significant, yes, but there's not anything really

1523
01:06:28,239 --> 01:06:30,159
memorable from that actual fight.

1524
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 3: I don't think that's why it's it's so weird to

1525
01:06:32,039 --> 01:06:34,840
me because so many of those Tyson fights were so explosive,

1526
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:38,159
and you remember the big knockouts against Berwick when he

1527
01:06:38,199 --> 01:06:40,440
won the title, or later on against Michael Sphings or somebody.

1528
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:43,360
Even the Pinkland Thomas fight that was right before this fight,

1529
01:06:43,679 --> 01:06:47,639
Mike looked absolutely like like a devastating, just a dominating,

1530
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:50,320
you know, unbeatable heavyweight. Pinkland Thomas was a really good

1531
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,840
fucking fighter. People forget that, and Mike Tyson just beat

1532
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:55,079
the shit out of him. And so when he goes

1533
01:06:55,159 --> 01:06:58,239
the distance with Tony Tucker in a fight that was

1534
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:00,480
you know, like you said, not the more was exciting.

1535
01:07:00,519 --> 01:07:02,679
Tony was a little bit taller, uh you know, never

1536
01:07:02,719 --> 01:07:04,320
really got hit with the big point bomb.

1537
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,079
Speaker 1: A bunch made for a boring fight. Yeah.

1538
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 3: So now when this fight concludes, the explosive Tyson in

1539
01:07:11,559 --> 01:07:15,079
this brief period though in a three fight in a row,

1540
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,760
he had gone a distance in a bad fight against

1541
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:21,039
Bone Crusher Smith when he when he unified the WBC

1542
01:07:21,119 --> 01:07:23,480
and the WBA titles, that was a bad fight. Then

1543
01:07:23,519 --> 01:07:25,519
he had the great performance against Pinklin Thomas that we

1544
01:07:25,599 --> 01:07:28,239
looked unbelievable, you know, just outstanding in it, and then

1545
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,199
added yet another kind of stink bomb against Tony Tucker.

1546
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,960
So at that time, now we look back and we're like, oh,

1547
01:07:34,079 --> 01:07:38,400
Tyson first title reign, devastating, legendary, you know, just rolling

1548
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,800
through everybody. But if you're if you're in the moment,

1549
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,559
in that brief three period, uh three fight period, there

1550
01:07:44,679 --> 01:07:46,840
was a lot of people questioning, like, is Tyson legit?

1551
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,400
Is he real? Because he had a distance fight, in

1552
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:51,840
a kind of a bad fight against a bone crusher,

1553
01:07:52,159 --> 01:07:54,360
and then the same thing happened against Tony Tucker. So

1554
01:07:54,519 --> 01:07:56,440
that's why I always preached that people, you can't get

1555
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,400
too caught up in the moment. Do you have to

1556
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:00,400
kind of take the longer picture, that you can't make

1557
01:08:00,679 --> 01:08:04,000
a career assessment of a short group of fights. So,

1558
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:05,840
you know, I don't like to rank a guy when

1559
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,559
he's still in his primer, in his active times, because

1560
01:08:08,559 --> 01:08:09,920
it's not fair. And it was the same thing if

1561
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,719
you were saying that people after the Tucker fight, even

1562
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:16,199
though Mike had become undisputed that he was going to be,

1563
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,680
you know, one of the most famous iconic fighters ever

1564
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:20,479
and he was gonna with the most exciting fighters ever.

1565
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:22,079
People would have said, yeah, I don't know about that.

1566
01:08:22,119 --> 01:08:23,520
He just had to look look bad in those last

1567
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:25,520
two fights. But that's why you got to let it

1568
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,039
play out. Because in the next fight, by the way,

1569
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,439
he fucking absolutely pummeled the Tyro Biggs. That was the

1570
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:32,319
fight where you know, he talked about driving his nose

1571
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:34,840
and his nose bing into his brain. Oh then, you know,

1572
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:36,640
and then he beat Larry Holmes after that, and then

1573
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,600
came Tony Tubbs a big knockout, and then came Michael Spinks,

1574
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:41,880
you know, the apex of his career with the ninety

1575
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,920
one seconds. So Tucker, you know, was the last guy

1576
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:46,520
to go the distance with Mike for quite a while.

1577
01:08:47,319 --> 01:08:50,119
But it was a very historic victory, is the point.

1578
01:08:50,399 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 2: The interesting subplot is that Tucker had beaten Buster Douglas

1579
01:08:54,039 --> 01:08:56,920
in the air quote semi finals of the Heavyweight World Series,

1580
01:08:57,039 --> 01:08:59,920
the wave Buster the Buster Douglas to win the vacant title.

1581
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,520
Else we might have seen Buster Douglas and Mike Tyson

1582
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:09,840
in nineteen eighty seven and oh probably yes, But interesting

1583
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,960
that Tucker won that fight and then got the big

1584
01:09:13,039 --> 01:09:14,600
Payday with with Mike Tyson.

1585
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 3: But here here's the interesting thing. Interesting TJ also so

1586
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:21,840
he beats Douglas on an undercart of the Tyson fight, correct,

1587
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,760
and he wins the IVF title. That was in May

1588
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:27,039
of eighty seven. He only held the title for less

1589
01:09:27,119 --> 01:09:29,520
than three months because the fight with Tucker and Tyson

1590
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,159
was on August first. So he was IVF champion from

1591
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:36,039
May thirtieth, ninety eighty seven till August first of eighty seven,

1592
01:09:36,239 --> 01:09:38,479
like one of the shortest heavyweight title reigns in the

1593
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,359
history of the sangsungbadi titles in heavyweight history. And that

1594
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,199
was his claimed to fame. And so he immediately went

1595
01:09:44,239 --> 01:09:46,920
into the title fight with Mike and you know and lost,

1596
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:48,159
you know, even though it was a boring fight and

1597
01:09:48,199 --> 01:09:50,319
didn't get knocked out, it wasn't like anybody could sit there.

1598
01:09:50,319 --> 01:09:52,760
And how you fucking Tony Tucker won the fight. I

1599
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:55,640
mean he lost, you know, pretty uh lopsided on the cards,

1600
01:09:56,039 --> 01:09:57,119
just that Mike didn't look so good.

1601
01:09:57,319 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 2: And then later did we not know Buster Douglas would

1602
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:02,800
get in front of Mike Tyson in February of nineteen

1603
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:04,880
ninety but he did not for that August fight. Okay,

1604
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,640
one more bit of nostalgia, and this was actually from Wednesday,

1605
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:12,920
July thirty first of twenty ten, so now fourteen years ago.

1606
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:17,359
Juan Manuel Marquez a twelve round decision over Juan Diaz

1607
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:22,319
in a rematch as Marquees retains his lightweight titles. You

1608
01:10:22,399 --> 01:10:24,680
were there at the Mandalay Bay. What do you remember

1609
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:27,520
now a decade and a half almost later.

1610
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,600
Speaker 3: What I remember most of all is the disappointment of

1611
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,279
this second fight because their first fight, which had taken

1612
01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:39,199
place two fights. I'm sorry, the rematch was in August

1613
01:10:39,239 --> 01:10:41,439
of two thousand or July of twenty ten. The first

1614
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:43,560
fight had taken place in two thousand and nine and

1615
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,439
was by I think universally everybody picked it as the

1616
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,199
fight of the year. I was at that fight also.

1617
01:10:48,279 --> 01:10:51,199
That was in Houston, in Wan Diez's hometown where he

1618
01:10:51,319 --> 01:10:54,239
had all the fans, and Marquez, because he's Mexican, had

1619
01:10:54,279 --> 01:10:58,520
a ton of fans. Also, spectacular fight for two of

1620
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:01,600
the belts and the lineal title. Just as tremendous battle

1621
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,319
and people were so pumped up. Now in the aftermath

1622
01:11:04,359 --> 01:11:06,439
of that, it was one Diaz who had gone on

1623
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,239
and had two fights in a row against Pauli Malanaji.

1624
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:11,960
He won the first one, then he lost the second one.

1625
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,119
You know, there was some controversy associated with those types

1626
01:11:15,159 --> 01:11:18,399
of fights. But he then had the rematch against Marquez,

1627
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:20,079
and there was a lot of people that were amped

1628
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:22,920
up for this fight that it's going to somehow bring

1629
01:11:23,039 --> 01:11:25,439
back the memories of what we saw in that very

1630
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:27,840
very special first fight, and it it turned out to

1631
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,600
be a bit of a dud. Unfortunately. It was not

1632
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a great fight. I mean, there were two great names,

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and Marquez of course went on to become a Hall

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of Famer and do great things, but he just kind

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of trudged to it in the unanimous decision. No real

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drama that I can remember anyway, I never being a

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very much anticipated fight, and just a lot of like

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disappointment in the aftermath, even though both fighters both fighters

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bought pretty well, even though Diaz didn't win, but it

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just didn't have like the zip of that first fight. Now,

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what was interesting, and this is one of the things

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I think that was certainly more memorable then what we know.

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The lack of entertainment and drama or any kind of

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real action that we expected in the main event was

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what happened on the undercard, and this is when a

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young Daniel Jacobs, who was undefeated, was fighting for the

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vacant WBO middleway title. He was a very revered prospect.

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I had picked him as the prospect of the year.

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Everybody thought Danny Jacobs is the next big thing in

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the middleweight division, which he eventually did become. But he

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got in the ring that night just days after his

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grandmother had died, a woman who had raised him. He

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was really broken on about it, going through a lot

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in his life at that moment in time. Should not

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have thought. He's talked about that in the past. Was

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not prepared mentally at all for this boxing match, and

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he went with a very very tough Dmitrip Rogue and

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01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:44,560
undefeated fighter from Russia, and he got absolutely knocked the

1659
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,199
fuck out in that fight in the fifth round and

1660
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did not win the title. Was he able to come

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back and then obviously went on and had a tremendous career,

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But that was the big shocker of this undercard. This

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was an HBO pay per view event and they had

1664
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a lot of good names on the card. He had

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Robert Guerrero fight and Joel Castlemayor on this card that

1666
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was pretty good names. You had Rocky Warris against Fortilinaris, again,

1667
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two good names he had at the time. At the

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time he was revered as the number one up and

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coming American heavyweight. Where we've heard that term before. That

1670
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was Seth Mitchell, who was a football player that turned

1671
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,159
the boxing. George Groves was on that card from England. Wow,

1672
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come over to fight on that show. So it was

1673
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a very heavily loaded show from that standpoint. You had

1674
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an IVF title eliminated between Saki Obika and John Paul

1675
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:29,399
Mendy that would turn out to be a first round

1676
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:32,680
disqualification in that fight that that Mandy ended up winning.

1677
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But the main event was unfortunately a disappointment, and it

1678
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will always be disappointing that it was just so just

1679
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:41,359
never came close to I mean.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes how many times, how many time I was just

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gonna go there?

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Speaker 2: How many times did we talk about where the second

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fight doesn't live up to the first fight, and sometimes

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it's not even close to the first.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes it does. And everybody sort of figured this

1686
01:13:53,359 --> 01:13:54,960
would would there would be no way this would be

1687
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one of those fights just because of their first fight,

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and just the style that these guys fought it. He

1689
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has ultra aggressive, you know, Marquez also aggressive, but a

1690
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great counterpuncher, and both had you know, good hearts and

1691
01:14:06,119 --> 01:14:08,399
good chins and and you know, so it was a

1692
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it was a great event, and it was a good card,

1693
01:14:11,079 --> 01:14:12,960
and it was just a little bit of a disappointing

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main event.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the nostalgia is done, and that means the pod

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is done. Rayfield is ready.

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Speaker 2: You're out there in Los Angeles Friday way ends and

1698
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then get ready for a long afternoon and evening Pacific

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01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,680
time of fights. We've gone over them, six of them

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in all on the pay per view and again we

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With that, Dan Rayfield, get ready for all the action.

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I'm looking forward to whatever happens with Crawford's return, these

1708
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:55,960
heavyweight battles, all the fights on the card, and what

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01:14:56,039 --> 01:14:58,159
do you say we recap it after you get back

1710
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:02,439
from the West coast to the Rayfield Compound in Northern Virginia,

1711
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:05,479
we'll recap the entire weekend. We want them to stay

1712
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:09,600
locked in on your substack because you've got on scene coverage,

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01:15:10,359 --> 01:15:13,920
notebook going, all kinds of different thing photos, all of

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01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,760
it on your social media and your substack. And now

1715
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we're ready for Saturday night coming up right and the

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return of Terrence Crawford one more time.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm looking forward to it. Like I said, I mean,

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Terrence Crawford is one of the most entertaining fighters around.

1719
01:15:26,680 --> 01:15:29,439
He can do everything. I think bag Mov is being

1720
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,720
overlooked in this fight. He's a very quality fighter. Also

1721
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:34,399
tremendous undercard like we talked about. So, you know, no

1722
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:36,920
place I'd rather be on Saturday. Although again I said

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this before, don't love that it's outside and like the

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01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:45,840
ninety degrees in LA. But you know hi, first rule

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of problem, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, start drinking the water, start drinking the electrolytes. Be

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01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:50,920
ready to go outside.

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Speaker 2: The LA Galaxy Soccer Stadium right by the LA Coliseum

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is where they will have this ray feel unseen Dan,

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01:15:57,199 --> 01:15:59,680
Thank you, look forward to chopping it up on a

1731
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:03,399
recap with whatever happens off the weekend. Thank you, my friend, Yes, sir,

1732
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there is Dan Rayphiel. I'm merely TJ Reeves follow Subscribe

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the weekend, fight Preach Unit recap coming.

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Speaker 1: Off the weekend.

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Speaker 2: We thank you for being with us, enjoy the fights,

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and thank you for being with us on the Big

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Fight weekend preview