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Speaker 1: Well off of a weekend and has seen Eduardo Sugar

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Nuniez successfully defend his IBF one one hundred and thirty

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pound title. It has also seen Oscar Valdez return in victory.

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It has seen Michael Conlin in Ireland get a victory

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as well. We're ready to recap all of that. We've

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got fight news and much more coming off the weekend.

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I am merely somewhat capable. Host TJ. Reeves, he is

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our insider. Fight Freaks Unit is his substack, his newsletter.

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It is the Fight Freaks Unite Recap podcast. Full disclosure.

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The host had a happy conclusion to the Sunday Buccaneer

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Falcon game, a buccaneer win, a happy postgame show, a

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happy plane ride. We're doing this late night on Sunday night,

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after I have gotten back. No, Rayfield does not want

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to talk about his New York Giants. Terrible, terrible, however,

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as terrible as that might have been, Apparently the Sugar

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Nunias fight, which I have not seen in its entirety,

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but you're already scolding me. You're like, you gotta go

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watch the fight. You gotta go watch the fight. Apparently

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the Stunias fight was good, so we're about to talk

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about that in all the news of the week. And

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then Big Dan's got to leave himself because you're headed

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to Clark County. You're headed to Vegas for Canelo Crawford

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later on in the week.

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Speaker 2: You gotta be out there on Wednesday for Canello Crawford.

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I'm looking forward to it. A big fight and many

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of activities. They got two fight cards before the big show.

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They've got some prospect fights that will take place after

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the workouts on Wednesday. Which did the read season and

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Turkey events. They've done that. They've done it where they

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have some of the smaller fights but they give them

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And then got the premiere of their Underdog series on

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Thursday night with Oldascagua in the title fight. So there'll

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be plenty of boxing activity in Vegas. I promise TJ.

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I will not get arrested. You don't have to work

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the authority.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to when I.

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Speaker 2: Go to Clark County.

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Speaker 1: The authority is normally that is, if you and I

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are there together. What's happened A couple a couple of

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years since we have been out there together. Town ain't

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big enough for both of us. That's what it comes

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down to. All right, let's get into it. By the way,

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make sure you're following subscribing on the pod feeds. We

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are hustling Applespreaker, Spotify, wherever you get your pods, and

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go to the Big Fight Weekend YouTube page. You and

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Sir hey Boachuk on the on the YouTube page. If

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you didn't just hear the audio interview, go watch the

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video interview of him as he gets ready to fight

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on the Canelo Crawford undercard against Brandon Adams.

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Speaker 2: In the rematch.

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Speaker 1: All right, get get to it. Because I was tied

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up with college football getting ready for the NFL game.

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I am aware because I read my Dan Rayfield substack

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that Sugar Nunya has successfully defended his IBF, the junior

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lightweight Crown. Rayfield says, in big bold letters, tremendous fight.

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Are you over hyping this a little bit? Really? Say

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on a Saturday night, It's not.

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Speaker 2: Going to be the fight of the year. Okay, that's

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you know, let's be clear about that. But when people

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make their lists and they've got you know, a half

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a dozen or whatever eight fights on their top fights

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of twenty twenty five. Yeah, there's a really good chances

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fights on that list. This was a really good fight.

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And I think we've talked about this about other Mattriom

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box Stars events that have been done in Mexico, where

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Mattrium has been putting on a handful of shows every

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year with their partner in Mexico, the box Stars Outlet.

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And I said to you in the preview, I believe

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it was that that for me, I really enjoy these

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Mexican shows. They may not have huge names or big time,

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you know, superstar names on these cards, but these Mexican

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cards at Mattroom and box Stars put on rarely fell

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to deliver some type of entertainment or good fights. And

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in the case of this particular fight, you got Sugar

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road three fights in a row. You know, he got

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the eliminator that got in this championship opportunity. He went

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all the way to Tajikistan and put on a tremendous

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battle and got a late knockout against rock them Off.

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He then came to the United States and knocked out

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Miguel Mariaga, a veteran former title challenger, in his last fight,

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and then he went home to Losmochis me to go

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for this title defense. Well, I take the back. And

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earlier in the year after the Marriaga fight, he went

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to Japan and he won the vacant title that Kasachi

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had vacated against, and he did so against a Japanese fighter, Rakishi,

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and so Eddie hearn at that. Joe promised them, when

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which is a hometown fight. So we came home to

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bos Mochus. He's fought many times in Mexico. He hadn't

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actually fought though in his hometown for like the last

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few years. So not only does he get the fight

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in Mexico, he gets the fight in front of the

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hometown crowd. They bring in Christopher Diaz, a veteran contenders

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fought for the title. He's now zero and three in

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something to offer? Clearly he did.

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went down, but he didn't embarrass himself. And you know what,

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he may have lost the decision, but if he still

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has the desire, there's zero reason why Christopher Diaz cannot

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get another solid fight in this weight class and be

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matched with another good quality opponent. I'm not saying he's

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getting a title fight in his next opportunity or whatever,

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but he always comes to fight, so you know, he's

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lost his three title fights. Kind of a hard luck

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loser in that sense, always been a good guy, but

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this was the classic Mexico Puerto Rico. They came to fight,

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and it started off a little bit slow, and I

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was sort of like, oh, what are they going to

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just kind of dance around? Because that first round you're

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sort of expecting, with the crowd going crazy and Sugar

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doing is being such an explosive and aggressive kind of fighter,

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that they'd sort of have at least some early fireworks

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them to really get into it, because you know, and

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they were exactly right that that actually was good for

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Daz because you take the crowd right out of it immediately,

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and you sort of are able to box and move

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around and take away that early sort of like explosion

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type of fight. And that was the case for a

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few rounds, but then they started to mix it up.

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watched any of Nunya's fights, you know eventually there's gonna

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be some type of you know, explosion of offense. And

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that's what happened. And it was the kind of fight

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where he started off, like I said, a little slow

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pick up, pick up, and by the time they got

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to the end of the fight, I mean, the twelfth

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type round. It just a raging inferno and they were

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just blast on away, tremendous fucking battle. In the end,

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sixteen to one ten on the third I had at

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one fifteen to one eleven as I was watching live

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and scoring along. Uh the gap in those scoreses because

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in the seventh round you had Ununia's getting two knockdowns.

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tiny right hand that we didn't really hurt him at all,

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Nunya where DZ had to steady himself by putting one

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of his gloves down on the campus, so the referee

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properly called that the knocktown. But a few seconds later

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when they resumed, he landed just a clean overhand right

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right on the button, knocked them down on his rear end,

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and that was a second knockdown, and he got up

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and fought back, and actually he came back in the

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eighth round and had a good round. He won the

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eighth round, and it seems to me and then they

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were just blasting away, and when they got to the

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twelfth round, they're in an all out fucking war. And Diaz,

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the guy that'd been down twice, who was definitely behind

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on the cards, he has Nuno Is at one point

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looked like you might have him ready to go he's

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just blasting away also, and you know, there was just

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a tremendous fight, a very enjoyable classic Mexico Puerto Rico.

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Like I Mentioneduna is the rightful winner. And then as

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good as the fight was, this was sort of like

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a surprise. We kind of knew this because they had

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shown in the crowd earlier TJ that Emmanuel Neaverrette, who's

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the WBO one hundred and thirty pound champion, was there

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the Mexican countryman watching the fight, and when the fight

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was over, he was asked about that particular matchup, but

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is it's something you'd want? And Eddie Hearn, you know,

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wearing his sugar Nonia's red bandana, got it, you know,

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was in the ring with him and invited Navarette get

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in the ring and they faced him off and talked

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about how they want to fight each other in a

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unification and how what a great fight this would be

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from Mexico and why that would be a tremendous fight.

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Who wouldn't want to see it? I don't see any

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reason why, you know, Mattrim and top Rank couldn't work

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it out. But the issue is, and you know, I

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don't know if this can be worked out or not.

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mention it, Eddie didn't mention it. Nobody mentioned it. You

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Charlie Suarez because of the craziness with you know, was

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it a punch and opened the cut? Was it a headbutt? Anyway,

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at the end of the day, the w B ordered

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an immediate rematch, and so he's on the he's on

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the he's on the on the hook for that. Now

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he can always vacate the title and they can't do

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anything about that, and you can go and challenge Nunez

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for the IBF title, I suppose. But part of the

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part of the magic and the sectionists of the fight. Besides,

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you know, what's going to be good action is you know,

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the carot of the unification. So we'll sham they can

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get something done, or maybe they're just talking shit, and

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maybe they'll wait. If Neverete fights Charlie Suarez in the

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next few months or whatever, and after that's over, they

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can go into that kind of fight. But Nunez is

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always going to give you bang for your buck, and

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Christy has to a lesser degree will do the same.

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Really good fight on a on a on a time TJ,

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where it's been a real slow period last few year. Yeah,

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this was a very good shining light. So if you

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didn't see, it's certainly on demand on his own En

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got well worth watching.

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta catch at least keep the.

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Speaker 2: First two or three rounds. If you want to dog, I.

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Speaker 1: Can scan ahead. I can scan ahead on that. All right,

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so good on that championship main event. Now, former two

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division world champ Oscar Valdez was fighting in a different

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part of Mexico and his hometown of Nogales, and he

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gets a ten round decision when and and was this

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an impressive showing from him? Just kind of an okay

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showing against someone named Ricky Medina. How would you assess it?

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Speaker 2: I think you could say lackluster is the proper way

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to put it. Uh, and Oscar Valdez it kind of

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acknowledged that in his comments after the fight. Uh. This

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was on ESPN Deportes in the United States, and it

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the main event started like in like the eleventh round

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or so of the Nunias fight because I had my

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the Zone on my phone, and I had the Deportes

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kind of monitoring both at the same time. But I

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was paying attention to the Nunyas fight, and so I

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didn't pick up the Valdez fight until about the I

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guess about the third round. I didn't miss anything. I'll

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tell you that. Look, Oscar is a little bit long

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rough knockout loss in the rematch against Navarette and is

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looking to make another run, and you know whether he

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can do that or not. I did mention, by the way,

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that the contract for this fight was slightly over the

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limit of one hundred and thirty, but in fact they

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both weighed under the one hundred and thirty pound limit,

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so it actually was technically a junior lightweight fight. But

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Oscar just look, he won. The scores were a little

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bit misleading. If you asked me, two judge one judge

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had a shot out one hundred and ninety. That's fucking fantasy,

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that's not reality. That did not happen because Ricky Medeena

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one hundred percent won at least a couple of rounds

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in that fight. The other one of the other judges

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had at ninety ninety two given him two rounds, and

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one judge had it ninety seven to ninety three. He

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gave him three rounds that semed appropriate ninety seven to

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ninety three. I mean, yeah, okay, I missed the first

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couple of rounds, so I can't say for sure, but

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the rounds I saw, which were like the final seven

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rounds of the fight, Ricky Medina won at least two

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of those rounds. In any event, it was just not

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a great performance from Valdez. Now, he did say in

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Oscar has never been the type of guy to make excuses.

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his left shoulder and that may have, you know, hampered

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him through mental danger of the fight. So take that

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for what it's worth. But he does get back in

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the win column. You know, there was a lot of

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people there cheered him on. It was his hometown. We

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talked about this in the pre fight guys. A two

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time Mexican Olympian, a popular fighter among his people, but

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it's only the third time he ever fought in his country.

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He hadn't been for a number of years, and he'd

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never fought a professional fight in Nogallas, which is where

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he's from. So that was sort of a big deal

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to do that going home. And I don't I don't.

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I mean, he still has the desire to be in

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another World Tide of fight, maybe to win a third

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World tuttle. He's been a champion at junior l We've

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been a champion featherweight, been involved in some tremendous fights

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over the years. Uh, that version that I saw on

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Saturday night, Uh, probably doesn't have a prayer against the

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top guy at junior lightweight. He is kind of lucky.

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He was in with a guy like Mendina who had

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a you know, good durability and uh and showed a

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good heart, but didn't have the type of skills that

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Oscar has. And uh, you know that's that's why Oscar

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was able to come out on top of that fight.

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You match him up with you know, a Sugar Nunias,

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it's game over that type of thing. You know, Neverete,

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he already lost the place. You know. It's so I'm

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not sure where Oscar goes from now. I mean he's

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not I don't he's not going to retire, but I'm

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just not sure what type of fight you can get him,

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what type of uh you know, fight or or money

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the top rank and offer him for for that type

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of whatever he wants to do next. But always good

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to see the guy go home and get that that

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uh that warm greeting from the hometown fans and and

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uh going there. And it wasn't like a bad fight,

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but it wasn't you know, we're not talking about that

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as the fight of the air. It was a little sloppy,

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a little bit a little bit of holding going on,

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but uh, but they threw their hands. It was it

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was solid, all right.

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Speaker 1: And then just to cover it. Michael Conlin, also victorious

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back on Friday Night in Ireland, got a TKO. I

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would love to say that I know anything about Jack

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Bates and the opponent Colin has taking a couple of

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rough knockout losses, previously contemplated retirement. Did he not retire

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for a little while like they all retire for six months?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he ever actually retired and.

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Speaker 1: Did never actually announce it. Okay, but whatever the case is,

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he's back at least for this fight and got a TKO.

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Speaker 2: Right, So, if you go back to twenty twenty three,

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he fought Louis albert O Lopez for the IBF featherweight title,

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and Albert Lewis Alberta Lopez just absolutely drilled him in

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the fifth round, a horrific knockout, really brutal, bad, rough and.

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Speaker 1: It hurt him earlier in the fight to knock him

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down earlier in the fight.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, a very very hard knockout. So that

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was in May of twenty three. He comes back in

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December of twenty three in a fight that he is

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a heavy favorite to win against Jordan Gill, and Jordan

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Gill drops him in the second round and then knocks

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in the fuck out in the seventh round. Another really rough,

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tough loss for Common, and at that point you're like, okay,

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maybe it's over. So he never I don't maybe I'm

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wrong about it. I don't think he ever announced his retirement,

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but he did not. That was December of twenty three.

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He did not fight at all in twenty twenty four.

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Then he came back in March of this year in

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a very lower profile fight. He took an eight rounder.

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He was back, you know, closer to featherweight. He'd been

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fighting Jordan Gill was at junior lightweight. He fought like

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one hundred and twenty seven pounds. He won an eight

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round decision, nothing to speak of against just a run

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of the mill kind of opponent. And now they put

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him back into a little bit of a stepup fight.

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You know, Bateson came into the fight with only one

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defeat on his record, you know, similar in terms of

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his experience as a professional. You know, the age that

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they are. And they went to Dublin. Now Michael is

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from Belfast, but Dublin obviously home of the Irish. You know,

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he was pleased to fight in front of a very

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raucous Irish crowd. They had a really great crowd on hand,

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kind of going crazy for him.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Bateson, of course was not Irish. He's from England, so

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it's Irish versus English. And look, Michael Conlin looked at

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had as sharp as he's looked in a long time,

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if you ask. This fight. While it was on Channel

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five in the UK, free to air here in the

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United States, it was on the Triller TV plus which

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puts on a bunch of different things, and a lot

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of times they've picked up the America rights of these

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Wasserman boxing cards. So I watched it on there and look,

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Michael put on a like I said, probably the best

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performance he's had a long time. He scored a very

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heavy knockout. It was a good, well, I shouldn'tay heavy knockdown.

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What he did was he got a knockdown and then

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later in the fight he ended up stopping him. Uh,

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but it was it was a weird thing, like he

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knocked him down with a clean right hand, a beautiful knockdown.

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This is a hard knockdown in the fourth round. He

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had dropped him like a flash knockdown in the third round,

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but when he knocked him down so hard in the

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fourth round, they're like, okay, the fight's over. But actually

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Bates and got up. But when he got up, he

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was sort of limping and hobbling and leaping around and

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kind of fell into the ropes because he messed up

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his ankle. So he was hurt from the knockdown punch.

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But he did beat the count, but he couldn't continue

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because the ankle was messed up. In the after fight,

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so goes as a TKO, and of course Michael was

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very happy with the victory, and you know, he was

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talking aboutw he wants to step up and fight, you know,

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another a much better grade of opponent, maybe fight for

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some kind of title, if it's all, if it is

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all possible. And so he's got two wins in a row,

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and this was an exciting and good performance from Commin.

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I mean, you know, a lot of people like the

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count guys out. I understand why, especially when you take

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the kind of brutal knockouts he had against Lopez and Gil.

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But he's thirty three years old. Might still have the

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chance to maybe do something against a little bit of

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a better grade of opponent. He's kind of in the

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same boat as Valdez. You know, they they you know,

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he never won a world title, common he had an

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interim belt for a little while. But they've both been

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guys that have been willing to fight the best guys.

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They don't duck people. They come to fight. They've got

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their fans, They wear their emotions on their sleeve when

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they when they lose, it's dramatic. Sometimes when they win,

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it's dramatic, and to me, win or lose, like they're guys.

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I like to watch, you know what I mean. So

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I have nothing but good wristiness for Commin and for Valdez.

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Speaker 1: And and we had some act this weekend and he

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delivered to whatever extent that was. And we'll see if

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he fights on or not. Okay, so we covered things

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from Mexico to Ireland. Can I be honest with you?

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I mean, we do an honest show. I get the

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email update, I'm looking on social media and there's something

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about Floyd Mayweather and Mike Tyson, and I honestly thought

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it was one of these things about a video game

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or somebody saying who would win a fantasy matchup? And

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then I look a little closer and I have to

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confess I didn't read my Dan Rayphael substack for the

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update about it because it was like Friday, right, And you.

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Speaker 2: Can still go back and read that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I can't go back and read it.

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This is actually seriously, legitimately being talked about that they're

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going to do something together. It's not silliness in a

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video game. Do you want to say it or do

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you want me to say it? You can say at this.

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Speaker 2: Time I'm gonaive it.

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Speaker 1: I've been on an airplane coming back from Atlanta. What

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are we doing here? Ray Peel, thank you. Mike Tyson

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weighs like ninety pounds more than what Floyd May was.

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Speaker 2: It's only about eighty who's county.

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Speaker 1: Right, But what he typically fought at was like one seven.

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Speaker 2: If you if you look at Floyd as just a

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regular guy, he's about one hundred and fifty pounds, okay.

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Tyson was like two twenty something for the Jake Paul

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quote unquote fight.

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Speaker 1: What are we doing here?

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Speaker 2: Why I listen? I have no idea, And here's the

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reason why. This one's kind of fucked up to me.

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I mean, if they want to do it and they

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can make money, I mean, so be it. I'm not

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you know, live and let live. That's always sort of

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my motto about life. As long as you're not you know,

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hurting anybody, at least in boxing where it's legal. You know,

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you're not you know, robbing banks and uh and stealing

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from grandma's and hurting kids and things like that. You

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want to go in a ring and have your exhibition,

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you know, have that doesn't mean that I have to

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like it. I mean, I'll write about it because it's

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what I do. I'm a boxer writer. What else my

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people said? Why do people always saved me when there's

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an event like this? They that is displeasing to them,

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or it's like a really big mismatch or whatever. Well,

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why don't we don't have to? Why write about it?

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I'm like, I use the logic that. Do you think

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the correspondence who go cover wars enjoy it? No, it's

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their calling, it's what they do. So if Mike Tyson

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and Floyd Mayether, two of the most famous boxers in

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the history of when men have put padded gloves on

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their hands, are going to do a fight, regardless of

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whether it's a real or exhibition, Yeah, I'm gonna write

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about it, and I'm gonna you know, opine about it,

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and I'm gonna cauch.

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Speaker 1: He's eighty pounds bigger.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you about that. So the reason why, Okay,

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a couple things about this. Number One, they announced this

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thing with very little detail, as is typically what happens

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sometimes with these events. They didn't tell you how many

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rounds it is. They didn't tell you the date of

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the fight. They didn't tell you the location of the fight.

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They didn't tell you what is the platform on which

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that people could actually watch it is that they want

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to watch the fight. They didn't tell you if there

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is any kind of rules tweaked, such as they did

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with Tyson and J.

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Speaker 1: Paul.

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Speaker 2: Although I was tech delete official fight where they use

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two minute rounds for men instead of three. They used

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larger gloves compared to what they've typically done. There was

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nothing about any rules or anything. It was just Mike

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Tyson and Floyd maybether have signed. They used the word signed,

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so somewhere I guess there's contracts that stipulate certain things

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for a Spring twenty twenty six exhibitions, So this would

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happen sometime like next whatever, you know, March, April, May whatever. Now.

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The reason why you can laugh at it, I get

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it because it is kind of preposterous. And my perspective

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is this, if this had been the first time this

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was happening, there woud people be going nuts. But the

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fact that Tyson J. Paul already happened right takes any

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luster away from this.

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00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,319
Speaker 1: Because Edgreid and Tyson looked from like the first round

474
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,160
on exhausted. He's chewing on his gloves. We talked about

475
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:47,680
all of.

476
00:20:47,559 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 2: This, and here's your thing. Also, Floyd, who is no

477
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,200
stranger to exit now. Mike has had two past exhibitions.

478
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,680
One in two thousand and six, like a year and

479
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,920
a half after he or first retired. That is very

480
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,480
forgettable against Coreys. We don't have to rehash that. And

481
00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:04,599
then the big popular one that was when everybody was

482
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,839
locked up with the pandemic that they did against Roy

483
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,960
Jones Junior and it did, like, you know, a million

484
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,400
and a half pay per views or a million eight

485
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,799
pay per views and everybody was home watching it because

486
00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:15,920
there was nothing else to do. And that was okay.

487
00:21:16,559 --> 00:21:19,599
But the thing is his fight with Jake Paul just

488
00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:22,519
simply was not entertaining, and that was mainly because Tyson

489
00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:25,160
couldn't do anything. And Jake even said afterwards, I didn't

490
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:26,559
want to knock out a guy that didn't need to

491
00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:28,799
be hurt. So you already saw.

492
00:21:28,599 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 1: That Tyson's going to be fifty nine. As we know,

493
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,960
he's had he's had health problems, yeah, continues to have

494
00:21:36,039 --> 00:21:36,920
health problems.

495
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 2: But also, and the thing with Mayweather is so he's

496
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,920
been retired from actual fights since he fought Connor McGregor,

497
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,839
which was sort of an exhibition that was in twenty seventeen.

498
00:21:47,599 --> 00:21:50,839
Floyd's actually had like eight exhibitions since then. And the

499
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,039
reason why you think that's probably a shocker because they

500
00:21:53,039 --> 00:21:55,559
all spunk. They'd been horrible.

501
00:21:55,599 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, he fought the one in the UK

502
00:21:57,519 --> 00:22:00,079
that I thought, I think we had more people on

503
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,599
the Buccaneer airplane than we're at the Floyd Mayweather. I

504
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:03,839
actually that ain't saying much.

505
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,079
Speaker 2: I actually, because I'm sick in the fucking head. I

506
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,000
have kept a list and I keep track of this.

507
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,519
He has fought Tension Nasaku in Japan. That was the

508
00:22:13,519 --> 00:22:15,079
one that was interesting because he drilled him in the

509
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,640
first round. He fought Logan Paul, which did well on

510
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,119
pay per view for showtime. He fought Aaron Chalmers, don

511
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,160
more your boy Degie. He fought another Japanese fighter, Assa Kura,

512
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,720
and then he fought the back to back exhibitions against

513
00:22:28,799 --> 00:22:32,160
John Gotti the third, who is known only because he

514
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,759
is the grandson of mafia.

515
00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 1: Again. Yeah right, so none of.

516
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 2: Them were rememberable. What are we doing other than splattering

517
00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:42,319
Tension around the ring in the first round, which by

518
00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:44,720
the way, was one hundred and forty something pound Floyd

519
00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:47,480
against one hundred and twenty two pounder moving up, and

520
00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:49,640
he smashed him in like the first round. Who was

521
00:22:49,759 --> 00:22:53,160
not even a boxer, was a kickboxer. So here's the point.

522
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,400
Had this been done before all these other kakamami exhibitions

523
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,279
and whatever, I think there'd be a lot of interest

524
00:22:59,319 --> 00:23:01,240
because of the magnet, the names. But when you look

525
00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:04,640
what they've all done in exhibitions and how non entertaining

526
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,039
they are, plus just the joke of the eighty pounds difference.

527
00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:08,920
Plus it all remains to be seen what kind of

528
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,359
commission will sanction this, or how the thing is gonna

529
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:12,880
work in terms of the weight or whatever the rules

530
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,960
are going to be. I get it. There'll be a

531
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,680
lot of people that will want to watch it because

532
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,519
they're not looking. This is the thing you have to remember.

533
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,000
They're not so much looking to appeal to you or

534
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,119
me or to the diehard boxing pan. It's the as

535
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,680
somebody involved said to me, the looky lou. I've heard

536
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,480
of Mike Tyson, I've heard of Floyd Nayweather. Yeah, they're

537
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:30,839
gonna fight each other. I got to check that out.

538
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,799
Now they're trying to do this on some kind of

539
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,599
a platform where it's not going to be a pay

540
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,200
per view, so kind of like Jake, Paul and Tyson

541
00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:39,400
was on Netflix and the streaming service put up a

542
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,960
good amount of money. They're involved with the folks from

543
00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,240
CSI or if you ever see on late night TV

544
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,160
maybe an old fight will top on your local sports channel.

545
00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:50,119
They own the library to a ton of HBO International fights.

546
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,079
They've owned a library of the old USA Tuesday night

547
00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:56,599
fights a series, and so though they they've made a

548
00:23:56,599 --> 00:23:58,079
lot of money doing that and they're trying to get

549
00:23:58,079 --> 00:23:59,440
into doing some live events.

550
00:23:59,480 --> 00:23:59,559
Speaker 1: Now.

551
00:23:59,599 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: The reason I'm getting to the reason why I am

552
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,720
taking this seriously because the people that they have hired,

553
00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:08,480
they announced these hires right before they announced this exhibition.

554
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,559
They have brought on TV executives and executives within boxing

555
00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:17,400
and within sports who I have deep, deep respect for,

556
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,359
who are extremely good at what they do. They hired

557
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,880
my old boss, John Skipper, who used to be the

558
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,759
executive president or whatever his title was at ESPN, and

559
00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:28,160
when he left the ESPN he became the executive chairman

560
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,319
at the Zone. He signed Canelo Alvarez to his original

561
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,279
the Zone contract. I have massive respect for John Skipper.

562
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,640
They signed my good friend for twenty five years, who

563
00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:42,319
was the senior vice president of HBO Sports for you know,

564
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,799
and basically invented modern pay per view, Mark Taffett, who

565
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,559
was a very very knowledgeable person about the boxing business.

566
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,160
Was right in the middle of every big pay per

567
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,359
view deal at HBO that you could think of ever

568
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,319
in the history of HBO pay per view. And now

569
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,680
he's the very successful manager of Claressa Shields as well

570
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,279
as among other talent out in boxing women. So they

571
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,279
hired him, and they brought on my boy Chris de Blasio,

572
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,839
who spent many many years the chief of communications for

573
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,839
Showtimes We Love. So these are real people that they

574
00:25:10,839 --> 00:25:12,880
have brought in. And then this other person I don't

575
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,519
know they brought I forget the guy's name. They brought

576
00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:17,119
in a production person that's that has been involved for

577
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,000
many years with American Idol, obviously a big time, top popular,

578
00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:25,039
top television program. So, and let me tell you, those

579
00:25:25,079 --> 00:25:28,119
are people that don't come cheap. Number One, they're very

580
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,640
very experienced in this space. They're very knowledgeable, and they've

581
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,960
been very successful. So you may laugh at at the

582
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,960
notion of a Mayweather versus Mike Tyson exhibition. But when

583
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,720
those are the types of people that are involved, I

584
00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:43,960
don't laugh now, I may not tea.

585
00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: The only thing I keep coming back to is I

586
00:25:46,279 --> 00:25:49,839
don't know how reliable Mike Tyson is going to be

587
00:25:50,079 --> 00:25:53,799
health wise, mentally and otherwise to make it to next

588
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,200
spring and whatever this is going to be. That's the

589
00:25:56,319 --> 00:25:57,359
variable I keep coming back.

590
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 2: You can say that about anything, I guess. I mean,

591
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,519
you could probably say that about it. You know, any

592
00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:02,119
number of fighters are.

593
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: Out in this, but in this case at a fifty

594
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,519
nine age and with the health problems he previously had,

595
00:26:08,599 --> 00:26:12,839
remember he had ulcer problems. It's there's no question that

596
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,920
he is on medicinal or whatever constant use of cannabis.

597
00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:21,880
He's open about that. And the whole thing, uh.

598
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,079
Speaker 2: Whatever his issues are, it's the concept of this, the

599
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,160
weight disparity that Mike is his ages, Floyd is pushing fifty.

600
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,400
You've got the fact that they've been retired for years

601
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,119
and years and years. I don't count the Jake Paul

602
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,400
fight as a real fight, even though technically it was,

603
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:42,480
and there's did anybody wake up and say I need

604
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,079
to see Tyson and Jake Tyson and Floyd Mayweather. No,

605
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,640
and then we and again if it happened before, you know,

606
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,039
we didn't know the Emperor wasn't wearing any clothes. People

607
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,839
might be interested. But we saw what Tyson did when

608
00:26:54,839 --> 00:26:57,400
they put him back. There was going into the Jake

609
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,920
Paul fight. There was the fantasy or the imagination of, Wow,

610
00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:04,880
Mike Tyson is back after twenty years, maybe he can

611
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,519
still knock the guy out. Jake doesn't have a lot

612
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:09,359
of experience. Jake doesn't you know, has never fought around.

613
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,799
Speaker 1: It was comparable weight, and they shortened it to two

614
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:17,039
minute rounds and so it was a little more believable

615
00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:19,799
for those reasons. But we saw what we saw, all right.

616
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,000
We gave that a lot of time.

617
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 2: Oh, we would be giving a lot more time, you.

618
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: Know, if we actually get to next spring, because.

619
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 2: Before we go on, let me give her one more time.

620
00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:31,759
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?

621
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 2: I don't know.

622
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,279
Speaker 1: Can we move on to the other news? Yeah, because

623
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,960
at some point I have to collapse and we got

624
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,480
to start over with a Monday. Yes, all right, Queensberry

625
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,599
says Joseph Parker and Fabio Wardley is officially happening on

626
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,519
October twenty fifth, which you talked to us about the

627
00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:51,759
strong possibility that that would be the date it is

628
00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:54,799
going to be a pay per view, including in the

629
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,480
United States.

630
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 2: Rubally everywhere. It'll be a pay per view all over

631
00:27:58,680 --> 00:27:59,039
the world.

632
00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:01,039
Speaker 1: Do you want me to say it again?

633
00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 2: Go ahead?

634
00:28:02,039 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: Who in the what are we doing here? Who in

635
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:09,079
the United States really is going to pay even more

636
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,160
than a nominal amount for Joseph Parker and Fabia Warldly

637
00:28:12,319 --> 00:28:15,119
in this country? What are we doing here with that?

638
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,079
Speaker 2: I mean, that's their problem, not ours. I mean, if

639
00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:18,440
you know, I mean I always say this, you don't

640
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,960
have to watch. I mean, it would be nice if it

641
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,240
was part of your regular zone subscription. I think what

642
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,519
happened was and I don't know this for one hundred percent,

643
00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:26,759
but they did have times where there were fights that

644
00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:29,559
were available in different territories on a pay per view

645
00:28:29,559 --> 00:28:32,759
basis and that were on pay per view in other locations.

646
00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:36,119
So as an example to remember, back when Devin Hainey

647
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,000
fought Regis program mm hm, that was a pay per

648
00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:41,240
view in the United States, but all around the rest

649
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:43,039
of the world where the fight didn't have kind of meaning,

650
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,359
it was on regular de zone. So if you lived

651
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,720
in the UK, you lived in Australia, or you lived

652
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:51,000
in Germany or wherever you're watching the Zone, that was

653
00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:53,759
part of your regular subscription. But in the United States

654
00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:56,240
they charged pay per view fee for it. I think

655
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:57,880
what they found was that the people that really wanted

656
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,559
to steal it could steal it because once the signal

657
00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:01,839
is open and Germany or England right, it's a lot

658
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,799
easier to just go on and figure out how to buy.

659
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:04,039
Speaker 1: Now.

660
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 2: I'm old and I don't know the technology, so for

661
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,000
me I would have a hard time doing that, but

662
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,400
for a lot of people they can.

663
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,519
Speaker 1: But still from the appeal standpoint, this is a British

664
00:29:13,559 --> 00:29:16,960
fight fans, a European kind of angle. You understand the

665
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,279
pay per view. Why doesn't do a solid to the

666
00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:22,519
dezonne subscribers in the United States and not worry about

667
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:23,960
paid perview, That's all I'm saying.

668
00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 2: Like I said, I think it's because if they make

669
00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:29,920
it available to subscribers in America, it will be easily

670
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,319
to steal in a place like the UK. That's my impression,

671
00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:35,119
and I will say this in defense of Queensberry. First

672
00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:36,640
of all, is a good matchup. It is a very

673
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,240
interesting matchup. There's a lot of state they're both interim

674
00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:41,359
title holders, but regardless of that, the winner of the

675
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,440
fight is going to be in the Joseph Parker's already

676
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,920
the mandatory for Usik, but because Usik has got the

677
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,039
back injury and he's been given the medical exception to

678
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,920
delay the mandatory from the WBO, he's not going to

679
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,680
fight probably the rest of this year. And Joseph Parker

680
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,880
hasn't fought since two rounds in February. He doesn't want

681
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,960
to sit around, so to his credit, he's willing to

682
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,119
step up and fight a legit him an opponent, not

683
00:30:01,279 --> 00:30:03,799
just take on some nobody. And for Fabio Wardley who

684
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,880
had a struggle with Justice Hooney and knocked him that

685
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,200
with one shot, he's got the WB you know, interim,

686
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,599
but eventually it will probably wind up that says just

687
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,240
for the WBO. And so regardless the winner is going

688
00:30:14,279 --> 00:30:16,359
to be the mandatory because if it's Parker, he's going

689
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,599
to continue to be the mandatory. If it's Worthy, he's

690
00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:20,519
going to take over that spot and he's going to

691
00:30:20,599 --> 00:30:22,720
get a chance to fight either for the vacant title

692
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,039
or be elevated or fight Whosick for you know, all

693
00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:28,839
the marbles. So that's the reason why it's interesting. Now

694
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:32,400
it's a very expensive fight, so Frank Warren and again

695
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,119
I'm not I don't have to defend Frank Warren. And

696
00:30:34,119 --> 00:30:35,880
lord knows we've done plenty of times where I've ripped

697
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,680
Fank Warren. We can go back to what happened with

698
00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,319
Dania Dua in the supposed non low blow against Usick.

699
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,279
So I call it like I see it, just a

700
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,000
super expensive fight. I honestly don't believe there'd be a

701
00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:46,319
way for him to make the match of it. They

702
00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:48,039
didn't do it as a pay per view. Now if

703
00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:51,200
it doesn't do business, again not our problem, but as

704
00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:53,359
a fight, putting the pay per view element of it aside.

705
00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:54,920
But it'll be in intro.

706
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,599
Speaker 1: Probably do it'll do some business. We're just saying this

707
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,759
because we know it in the UK this is a

708
00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:04,880
bigger deal. Yeah, especially because awardly it's not a big

709
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,480
it's a.

710
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: Non entity in a mess. It's only for the Diet's going.

711
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: To be in the afternoon on a football a huge

712
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,119
college football Saturday in late October, and they will be

713
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,079
lucky to get I said this before they'll be lucky

714
00:31:16,079 --> 00:31:19,400
to get ten thousand people, fifteen thousand people to care

715
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,839
pay attention. Maybe they don't even get five.

716
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 2: I actually think it would in the United State. Again,

717
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,559
I'm not knocking the fight, but in terms of the

718
00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:26,559
by rate in America.

719
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: In the middle of the afternoon, I would says.

720
00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:31,119
Speaker 2: I just said, well, that's that's But the bottom line

721
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,240
is the fight is happening, right and to their credit,

722
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,440
they're willing to It's Frank Like Frank, it's a risk.

723
00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: We said it before. It's a real risk for Joseph Parker,

724
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,359
who is in line to be the full WBO champion

725
00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:42,119
if Busick.

726
00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: Won't find it is also with the right, right.

727
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: Right, But in Parker's case, he's already there. He's taking

728
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:47,680
the risk.

729
00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: So so, as Frank said in his announcement when he

730
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,400
when he announced that the deal was done, that we

731
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,559
had spoken about probably being done a few days ago,

732
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,359
he basically said that Joe Parker and Fabio Warley neither

733
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,039
one of them to sit runing, to wait and protect

734
00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:04,400
their positions. They wanted to fight in a real fight again,

735
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,119
you know, and obviously they're going to be well compensated

736
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,960
to do so. They're putting it on in a you know,

737
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:10,640
excellent place, and they're not. They don't need to put

738
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,559
in a big stadium. But the O two Arena in

739
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:15,039
London is a first class venue hosted plenty of big

740
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:18,279
fights over the years, and I for one, I'm looking

741
00:32:18,319 --> 00:32:20,480
forward to this fight. I mean, you know, it is

742
00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:21,599
what it is. I'm buying the pay per.

743
00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:25,079
Speaker 1: View intriguing it'll be next month. Now let's stick with

744
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:28,319
this because Frank Warren says Moses E. Tama is going

745
00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:30,880
to be back and again he took only a couple

746
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,880
of minutes to dispatch Dillian White back a few weeks ago.

747
00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:39,640
To me, I mean again, I'm a little punchy here

748
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,480
at this point. Put him on the undercard of the

749
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,119
Parker fight and helps sell the pay per view, but

750
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:45,960
you have here on the rundown. He's looking to have

751
00:32:46,039 --> 00:32:48,160
him fight much later in the year. What have we learned?

752
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:48,680
What do we know?

753
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: No, he's he said that, and I've confirmed this with

754
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,759
with their people that Moses and Tomi will headline his

755
00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:57,680
own card. You know, he's at the point that when

756
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,359
you beat Dylan White the way he did, they're not

757
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,119
going to put him on undercard I mean, I think

758
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,799
he unless it was like Tyson Furry, Anthony Josh or

759
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,400
something like that, I think we've seen the last of

760
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,759
a Tama in an undercard position, unless it's later later,

761
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,720
later in his career, when you know, maybe he's been

762
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:14,400
defeated or whatever and he's trying to make a comeback

763
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:15,880
or something like that. But that's a long way for now,

764
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,920
it seems to me anyway. So he'll be back to

765
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,720
headline a Queensberry card will be December thirteenth. It'll take

766
00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:24,119
place at the co Op Live in Manchester, England. I

767
00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:26,400
know they have designs on eventually bringing Moses to fight

768
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,000
here in the United States. Obviously won't be in the

769
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,640
next fight, but I think in twenty twenty six there's

770
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,599
a reasonable chance that we might get a chance to

771
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,599
see him fight here in America. But in any event,

772
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,160
it'll take place December thirteenth. They don't have an opponent yet,

773
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,519
but Frank's comment was it'll be you know, a quote

774
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:41,960
unquote a top ten fighter. There's lots of ways to

775
00:33:42,039 --> 00:33:44,279
read top ten. Is it a real top ten? Is

776
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,200
it you know the WBA top ten or you know

777
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:49,240
some some you know you can go through any of

778
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,160
the four. I'm not just picking on the WBA, but

779
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,440
you can go through any of the four organizations in

780
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,319
heavyweight rankings and find a couple of guys that you

781
00:33:56,319 --> 00:33:59,000
wouldn't want to really think should belong there. And by

782
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,799
the way, you're probably gonna have the cow because I

783
00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:03,759
I would imagine that when it comes time to actually

784
00:34:03,839 --> 00:34:07,279
put this together, an ounsaid, unfortunately, they'll probably make it

785
00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:09,599
his own pay per view all so unfortunately.

786
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,519
Speaker 1: At least have it be a decent name.

787
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: Yeape. You know they've talked about guys like Kergovic. Now

788
00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:18,039
I don't know if that will happen.

789
00:34:18,039 --> 00:34:19,039
Speaker 1: I would love to see that.

790
00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:21,079
Speaker 2: He's coming off he's got an injury from the last fight,

791
00:34:21,119 --> 00:34:24,840
but somebody that's a reasonable fight, that's good.

792
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: But we don't know for a time. And again that's

793
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,400
December exactly, sticking with the heavyweights and now who we're

794
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,119
not gonna see. Eddie Hearn has confirmed on the record

795
00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:38,400
that Anthony Joshua post elbow surgery, not fighting the rest

796
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,199
of this year, but looks to return at the beginning

797
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:44,159
of next year. Tell me more about this.

798
00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 2: Is this is like we're doing like a British boxing

799
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:47,880
heavyweight show right now.

800
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: The other thing is we're talking more about theoretical stuff

801
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,840
here again on do we even know if he has

802
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,480
an opponent down the road.

803
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 2: Here, well, I mean, it's gonna be somebody significant, I

804
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,519
would think, But it's not about the opponent. This is

805
00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:01,360
a matter of the fact that a lot of people

806
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,440
speculated and thought that AJ would be back before the

807
00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:05,320
end of this year to try to shake off that

808
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,039
horrendous knockout that he took against Daniel Dubois. But he

809
00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:11,400
had the elbow surgery, and Eddie has been pretty clear

810
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,199
about this that they were thinking we can maybe get

811
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,360
him out in December or so. But now he's saying,

812
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,239
you know what, that's just not going to happen. At

813
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,280
the earliest. We're looking at January February, which is not unreasonable.

814
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,320
I mean, so AJ basically will go not basically, he

815
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,159
will go the entire calendar year of twenty twenty five

816
00:35:26,199 --> 00:35:28,360
without a fight, which you know, not a surprise when

817
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,239
guys get to the latter part of their careers. That's

818
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,519
not a total shocker. If he ends up taking off

819
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:34,559
fourteen or fifteen months, which I guess if he were

820
00:35:34,559 --> 00:35:37,039
to fight in January, he would have fought in September

821
00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:39,320
of twenty twenty four, so you know, do the math

822
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:39,800
am I am.

823
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: I remember it's the left elbow because he was talking

824
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,840
about the jab hand when they were discussing that. So

825
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,880
and the other thing is they were rumored to be

826
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,079
talking to Jake Paul about maybe fighting him in the fall.

827
00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:54,079
That didn't happen.

828
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 2: Well that that was not accurate the Jake Paul fight.

829
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,480
According to the Jake Paul peoples. Yes, they were talking

830
00:35:59,639 --> 00:36:01,480
and it did happen. It was going to be post

831
00:36:02,039 --> 00:36:05,199
Tank Davis. Interesting, but that's another we didn't even when

832
00:36:05,199 --> 00:36:08,039
we were talking about the Tyson and Maywethering, we'd even

833
00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:13,280
bring up the backlatch on Paul against Paul, and that's

834
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,599
another one with crazy weight disparity, all right.

835
00:36:15,559 --> 00:36:19,079
Speaker 1: But also theoretically a Tyson Fury fight would still be

836
00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:21,639
hanging out there. If Fury's not gonna fight. It was

837
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:23,960
sick a game, even a Wilder fight. But all you're

838
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,760
saying is not happening the rest of this calendar year.

839
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:27,800
Eddie Hearn is saying that.

840
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 2: Edie Earn says he's back in January February. The other

841
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,000
part about it was and he made this point too,

842
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:34,599
that there are groups in other parts of the world

843
00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:36,440
that would like to have be in the Anthony Joshua

844
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,280
business and bring him to their place to do a fight.

845
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,840
So he specifically mentioned a group from Ghana that has

846
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,480
been talking about doing a fight, and obviously January February

847
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,320
is what they would like. But if the people in

848
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,440
Ghana say we're going to give you a shitload of money,

849
00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:52,039
but we're not going to do the fight till April,

850
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:55,280
they'll probably wait till April. Now, Joshua has said for

851
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,000
years that one of his dreams would be to fight

852
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,159
in Africa. He is British, of course, but his heritage,

853
00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:03,960
his family is from Nigeria. He spent a lot of

854
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,320
time there through the years. He's visited there. I guess

855
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,519
he has family and friends there. So Nigeria is a

856
00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:11,519
place that he has gone. Obviously gone is not Nigeria,

857
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:14,159
but it's still on the African continent. And so I

858
00:37:14,159 --> 00:37:16,559
would think that if the deal was right, and the

859
00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:19,559
opponent was right, and the circumstances were right, Anthony Joshua

860
00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:21,880
probably would embrace the idea of having a fight. If

861
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,079
it was a real deal to fight in Africa.

862
00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: The only thing I keep coming back to is he's

863
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,039
not getting any younger. He's off an injury. We saw

864
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:30,480
Dubois destroy him. I don't know what's left here, and

865
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,719
we're waiting another four or five six months before we

866
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,159
see it.

867
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,119
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you can only go if if your

868
00:37:36,159 --> 00:37:37,840
elbow is not ready to go, and there's you know,

869
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:38,639
you can't rush it.

870
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: Oh, now, wait a minute, that's a different thing. And

871
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,000
I may be punch you here. If you're telling me

872
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:45,079
the elbows not ready to go, that's different.

873
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 2: Well, they did testify. The reason seems to me like.

874
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: They don't have a lucrative opponent in plan right now.

875
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,039
That the elbow he was saying back in like April May,

876
00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:57,639
this was a six week thing, six to eight week thing. Now,

877
00:37:57,679 --> 00:38:00,239
if he's more seriously hurt than that, then.

878
00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:01,199
Speaker 2: You got get me wrong.

879
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're not reporting that. I'm just saying hypothetically,

880
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,840
if he is more hurt than that, then I think

881
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,519
it really calls into question the end of his career here.

882
00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:12,039
And this is a I mean, I'm not saying I.

883
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 2: Think, but I think this is not about that. I

884
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:15,880
think this is more.

885
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: About opponent money and where.

886
00:38:18,159 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 2: And also Anthony Joshua fights like certain like a handful

887
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,559
of fighters. It's a it's a very complicated thing to

888
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,800
put on one of these events. I'm talking about guys

889
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,199
like Joshua, guys like Fury, you know these mega shows

890
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,000
they do in Saudi Arabia, uh A, Canelo Alvarez, those

891
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:38,400
types of names where it becomes a lot more complicated.

892
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,199
There's a lot of things that have to fall into place,

893
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,760
that have to get done. And it's now we're already

894
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,280
in September. And it may sound crazy, but to plan

895
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,119
a fight for Joshua in December when he's not even

896
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:49,880
been in camp yet, you're not's pushing it. January February

897
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,000
you get an electra time, we'll see hopefully you'll be back,

898
00:38:52,039 --> 00:38:55,320
I mean, and we'll see what he's got left, all.

899
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: Right, and then there is one more note and uh

900
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,480
and you love this kind of stuff. Uh, when when

901
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,280
rare occurrences happen?

902
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: This is crazy.

903
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: So the WBC had a purse bid on Friday for

904
00:39:10,679 --> 00:39:15,719
the Cruiserweight Championship fight with Badu Jack and former Cruise

905
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:21,559
aweight champ Noel McLean. Yes, there were two bids, and

906
00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:24,920
the WBC says the bids that they opened up were

907
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:26,960
identical amounts.

908
00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 2: This is wild.

909
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,039
Speaker 1: So have you heard of this before or is this

910
00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:32,400
the first time you've heard of this?

911
00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 2: So I was going back and forth with Mauricio Suliman,

912
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,719
who was the president of the WBC, because I knew

913
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,440
that the person was taking place on Friday. So I

914
00:39:43,639 --> 00:39:45,199
texted him and I asked him, you know, if he

915
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,920
had the results, and he's you know, and he said

916
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,440
that they tied. I was like, they tied. Now you

917
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:52,440
can bid any of this?

918
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,519
Speaker 1: Is this World Cup Soccer? What do you mean time, Maurice?

919
00:39:55,599 --> 00:39:58,159
Speaker 2: In purse bids, Now, some organizations have like a minimum

920
00:39:58,199 --> 00:40:02,599
bid for certain divisions and others don't. But basically you

921
00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:04,239
can bid whatever you want. I could bid, you know,

922
00:40:05,559 --> 00:40:09,199
a million dollars, two hundred thousand, you know, sixteen dollars

923
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,639
and forty three cents. I mean there's been bids. Would

924
00:40:11,679 --> 00:40:14,599
like change at the end of them, the fact that

925
00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:16,760
you would. I mean when a purse bid finished, and

926
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,199
I've seen this happen where there'll be like a solid

927
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,960
fight and the purse bid happens and they're separated by

928
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:24,400
like a few thousand dollars. I think I don't remember

929
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:25,840
what fight it was, but there was a fight where

930
00:40:26,079 --> 00:40:29,039
they were literally separated by like three grand like and

931
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:30,400
that was like, wow, that's.

932
00:40:30,199 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 1: A championship A championship fight right right was.

933
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 2: An eliminator fight, but it was something that they would

934
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,000
go to a person on. So this fight for Badu

935
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:39,719
Jack and mckelliyan, now, if you remember back in Saudi Arabia,

936
00:40:40,039 --> 00:40:43,280
they fought in May on the Canelo Williams Skull undercard,

937
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:45,519
was a very close fight and they gave the decision

938
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,840
really closely, a majority decision to a bad Due Jack,

939
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,320
and of course mckellian was very upset by that. He

940
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,119
protested an appeal to the WBC and they ordered an

941
00:40:54,159 --> 00:40:55,960
immediate rematch, and so that was what this was for.

942
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,599
They had made a deal where Badue Jack's promotional company

943
00:40:59,599 --> 00:41:01,480
is supposed handle the fight, and they canceled the Perspin

944
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,239
and they were not able to come through with all

945
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,280
the logistics things that had to get done, and so

946
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the WBC re ordered the Perspit and that's what took

947
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place on Friday. Now, there's a company run by Steve Bash,

948
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,199
a California promoter who's been around for many many years

949
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,960
to my knowledge, is not involved with either of these fighters,

950
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but maybe he was bidding for somebody else. I don't

951
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know the answered that in any event, he ends up

952
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,679
winning the person. But but before that, you had him

953
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,440
bidding two hundred and fifty grand, you had mckellion's promoter,

954
00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:30,480
Don King bidding two hundred fifty grand. Even a tie.

955
00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:32,760
Mauricio said to me that, at least in terms of

956
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,239
the WBC, and they've been doing purse bids for decades,

957
00:41:35,519 --> 00:41:38,000
never happened that there's been a tie person. Now, I

958
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,920
can't tell you for a fact that that never happened

959
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in the other three organizations, but if it has, I'm

960
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,920
unaware of that. As a matter of fact, I'm actually

961
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going to I'm gonna check with my friends at the

962
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other organizations and just see if they've ever heard of

963
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,719
something like this happened, because I'm like, I'm crazed by

964
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,400
this minutia. So what happened was, after the two hundred

965
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,599
fifty thousand dollars per spis were unsealed, the WBC gave

966
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them fifteen minutes to resubmit a new bid, And I

967
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,079
don't know what Don King resubmitted at now.

968
00:42:04,079 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, and I think a lot of people

969
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:10,000
will be curious. In the process. They open these envelopes,

970
00:42:10,119 --> 00:42:13,800
virtually are in person, and they announced the amount of

971
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,800
the first one, and then they announced the amount of

972
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,000
a of a second one.

973
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Speaker 2: That would be and now and now there are it

974
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,920
could be four or five bids whatever the understood.

975
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Speaker 1: So there was two in this case. So they announced

976
00:42:25,159 --> 00:42:30,159
the amounts. So now it's interesting because now both sides

977
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,360
know we tied with this amount, and so now they

978
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,079
reseal another bid.

979
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 2: They gave them fifteen minutes to resubmit a new bin.

980
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: And so while I up another envelope.

981
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 2: I don't know what King bid, but Bashed Promotions bid

982
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,000
three hundred ten thousand dollars three hundred ten eighteen dollars.

983
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,280
They win the bid, And like I said, the reason

984
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,840
why the tie person is so cockamania is because you

985
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,960
can bid those weird numbers most of the time. If

986
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,360
you're gonna be fifty, you'll be two fifty one fifty two.

987
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,639
Speaker 1: It's like the prices that's right, including one dollar in

988
00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:04,960
case somebody goes over with Doc Barker back in the day.

989
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 2: So this is not the type of subject we would

990
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,119
typically spend a lot of time. Okay, I'm just so

991
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,039
like enamored with this kind of minutia that I thought

992
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:16,280
it was worth having a convers.

993
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:20,119
Speaker 1: More interesting, I asked, just it rhetorically than the rematch

994
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,079
with Jack and Michleean. We'll find out.

995
00:43:22,159 --> 00:43:24,639
Speaker 2: I mean, the first fight was okay, nothing spectacular, but

996
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:25,719
you know it was a close fight.

997
00:43:26,159 --> 00:43:28,039
Speaker 1: We even give you purse bid stuff. We gave you

998
00:43:28,119 --> 00:43:31,800
fight recaps, We talked some Mayweather Tyson, what are we

999
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,320
doing here? Some heavyweight fight news besides that, and now

1000
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,000
perse bid stuff. Are you ready to go to Vegas

1001
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,079
for Canelo Crawford?

1002
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 2: Not really, I got a lot of shit to do. Actually, well,

1003
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:41,880
you still got.

1004
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: A couple of days before all that happens. We encourage

1005
00:43:45,519 --> 00:43:48,400
them to be locked in on the YouTube page. We

1006
00:43:48,559 --> 00:43:54,880
intend to do our preview live on Thursday from Vegas

1007
00:43:55,039 --> 00:43:57,760
on the YouTube page. You will see it on the

1008
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,960
YouTube page before you hear it on the pod feet.

1009
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So that is our intent. And obviously fight we're gonna

1010
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:08,039
ramp up Allegiant Stadium, the whole bit. We're anxious for

1011
00:44:08,039 --> 00:44:09,760
all of it. All right, we got through it. It's

1012
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been a wild day for me, a wild night, but

1013
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we're good. To the audience. We gave you some good recaps,

1014
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some nostalgia and all of the Big Dan have a

1015
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,079
good week and we will talk to you next from

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Las Vegas for Canelo Crawford deal Deal. We love it.

1017
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There's Big Dan Rafael. Fight Preaching Night is a substack.

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well on the Big Fight Weekend YouTube. For now, we

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are good off the weekend. Canello Crawford fight week upcoming,

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