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2024 Boxing Review! The Great, Good, Bad, & Ugly! BOXER OF THE YEAR? · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, what a boxing fans. I'm not sure if you
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: heard that. Actually, hold on, let me just run it
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: back real quick again, just in case he's taking a
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: long time. It's been a long time. I shouldn't have
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: left you. No, And for those who don't know who
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: that is, you better dig in those crates, dude. I
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: know they don't call it the crates anymore, but you
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: might as well start digging. Eric b Rockham, it's been
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: a long time. I shouldn't have left you. Okay, I
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have, but I did. No, I'm back. I am
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  Speaker 1: back first sure of twenty twenty five, and we're gonna
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: talk about twenty twenty four. The last show I did
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  Speaker 1: did very well. I'd like to thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest shows of the year. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was like top five, fourth or fifth. I kind
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: of it had legs, so I let it run a
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: little bit and then I got into an area where
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: you know, there was no recap from that Japanese weekend
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: because Puma had to pull out and pause, and you know,
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: I just it just it just kind of days went by.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Life got in the way, and I thought, you know what,
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: this is such a weird start to the year. Don't
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: get me wrong. The first couple of months tend to
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  Speaker 1: be just pretty good. We've been spoiled in recent years
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: with January, February, March popping off, and we kind of
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: got spoiled last January, I remember correctly. I think the
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: last two Januaries. Usually they target the last month in
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: January or last month. I said that. I said that
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: the last weekend in January, which you can tell. And
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: now it's like, what would be like February first, because
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: that's the break between the conference finals in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl. So usually you get one, a
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: good one, you know, you'd have Friday night fights and
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. But usually not long ago, literally like ten, twelve,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen years ago, it would start out real slow and
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: then it would pick back up. And then the second,
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: you know, second quarter, third quarter, it would start going
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  Speaker 1: really heavy. But the first couple of weeks you know,
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: are light. It does pick up, like I said, and
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  Speaker 1: then February is great. Actually, if you look at you know,
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  Speaker 1: somewhat recent Februaries or like I said, the last twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years of februaryes, we got a great fights
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  Speaker 1: and some of it has to do with the main events,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with the undercards
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  Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, we're we're We'll definitely talk about
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter kind of preview, you know, what's going on,
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: what's on paper, and then of course you know some
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  Speaker 1: current fight news and all that stuff. But today's episode
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: is the great, the good, the Bad, and the ugly
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Boxing Year in Review, and you know
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's been a long time. I shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: left you, right, So I'm not gonna go too in
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  Speaker 1: depth because we are literally, you know, thirteen days. I
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: can't believe it into January. So yeah, there was like,
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it was just I'm just I kind
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: of put this episode off for a little bit. I
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: figured I'd jump on and just get back in the
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: swing of it. I did get some messages saying, tell
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: me the show's not over. No, the show is not over. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's the longest running strictly boxing podcast in the sport
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  Speaker 1: of boxing. There is one mister Fernandez I believe his
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: last name is, does a combat sports show that's been
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: going much longer than mine, But the longest raining boxing
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: podcast in the sport ain't going anywhere, So don't you
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: worry about it into the haters. You know, two different
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: outlets platforms, No, I don't know, two different podcast podcasts
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: tried to steal the name. They basically copied each other's name.
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  Speaker 1: I have gotten some in the last maybe year. Every
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: couple of months someone sends me, uh, you know a
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  Speaker 1: rope adope or whatever the other shows and uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know the reason why I have the radio part in
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  Speaker 1: there because it was live radio. Usually podcast you're recording,
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  Speaker 1: you put them out right, but this is before any
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  Speaker 1: kind of Twitter space or anything like that. It was live,
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  Speaker 1: live radio and blog talk was one of the best,
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• 5:26
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  Speaker 1: understand the confusion. I understand that, you know, people think
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  Speaker 1: people stole names or whatever. But to be honest with you,
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: to be fair, Muhammad Ali came up with the name.
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  Speaker 1: You know, let's let's be honest. So we're all just
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  Speaker 1: living off him, right, So yeah, that's that the show
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: ain't going anywhere. You gotta take me out, gotta take
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: me out, you know. Okay, I'm gonna go until I
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: can't break anymore. That that's what we're gonna do. And
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: that sounds kind of depressing, but I swear it's not.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: I swear it's not. So Yeah, of course, upset of
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  Speaker 1: the year, Prospect of the year, which I always get
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  Speaker 1: shipped for because I have a different view of prospects.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: We'll go over that. I'm sure I'll get the messages
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  Speaker 1: around of the year, KO event, fight fighter, you know
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: that type of thing. And like I said, we do
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  Speaker 1: have a little fight news as well that I'll talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Opataia did his thing. It was a good fight though,
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  Speaker 1: you know, while it lasted, it was a pretty fun fight.
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  Speaker 1: And then, you know, like I said, we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: the first the first chunk of the year. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about too, Fema Lopez, this freaking guy man.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about another or pull out Sam Goodman, Garcia
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: and Haney. Have they arrived at a at a deal
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  Speaker 1: or is that just bullshit? I don't know, I really
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  Speaker 1: don't know anyway. If this is your first time listening
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• 7:37
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• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Callium Smith Simpson. I just said Callium Simpson, not Callium Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Did his thing against Woodhall. I think it's what Steve
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  Speaker 1: Woodall or something like that. If I remember correctly, he
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  Speaker 1: handled this business really really easy. Second round, big big,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was a right hand. Let me check
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  Speaker 1: my notes. Yeah, so there there ain't much there. Du bois.
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  Speaker 1: The little sister seemed to be handling business. She did.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a body shot body shot that
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  Speaker 1: uh dropped Jessica Camara, but then there was a cut
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  Speaker 1: and so it was one of those things where you
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: know it was a cut, they stopped it. So it's
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: a weird, you know, majority draw thing. So the other fight,
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  Speaker 1: I think that is very worth watching while it lasted anyway,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: and it's quick. Was that Hickey Howls Howls pulled the
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: upset you know, just body shots galore and had the
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: corner say no moss and yeah. So that that's that's
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: you know, that was that happened. Okay, that happened over
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: the weekend. Like I said, Opataia was in a fun
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: fight with the Naika. It was like a right hook
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: or right cross that knocked him down. It was a
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  Speaker 1: fun fight. Though. What was that the sixth round? I believe,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: I know that was almost a week ago now I
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: suppose because it was last Wednesday. But uh, that was
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  Speaker 1: a fun fight. That was a fun little fight. Dude
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  Speaker 1: had a prospect career. We'd heard a bunch of sparring
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: stories and you know, I wouldn't you know, completely ruled
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  Speaker 1: out his career like oh he's hot garbage or whatever.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: He just got beat, you know, But pretty early in
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: that fight it turned into exactly that. It turned in
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  Speaker 1: to a pretty good little bite. So that is worth
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  Speaker 1: watching for those who've you know, kind of whatever, kind
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: of haven't been in the flow. Like I said, it
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: is kind of a weird, a weird start to the year.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand folks that are a little like, eh,
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But it will tighten up.
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  Speaker 1: It will definitely tighten up. And so twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: right overall like a pretty good year. Right. It wasn't
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: you know, hot garbage or anything like did I already
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: use that word twice? So it was kind of like
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: a hurry up and wait, like it had its great moments,
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: and it was like then it had its great moments,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: then it was like, you know what I mean. So
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: it was kind of an up and down year. Obviously,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: as far as state side, the PBC not doing monthly
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: shows definitely hurt, not just stateside, you know, the boxing
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: world in general. That did hurt, and that could have
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: filled in a lot of the gap them in the
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: former showtime, you know, in twenty twenty three, like they
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: had it, they were the the network of the year,
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: right and the promoter of the year. Obviously, the sadis
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  Speaker 1: have done Turkey has done a lot of damage this year,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: and I guess to close last year technically, so it's
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: been a little bit over a year. It's got a
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: great card coming up in February. So yeah, it was
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, it had its its moments
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: for sure. I mean where it had a string and
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: just great fights and upsets and all that stuff. And
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: there were plenty of upsets, but it just I think
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: it had a lot to do with the last couple
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: of years and especially last year. Last year was just
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal year and so it was hard to beat that,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: and so if you don't do that, then it's a
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  Speaker 1: failure here. And I don't think it was like a
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: major step back. Boxing does have its you know, it
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: does kind of take two steps back, step forward, like
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: a giant step forward, step back, you know that type
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: of thing. So yeah, it was kind of like you're
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: on a movie set in a hurry up and wait.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, there's some great fights and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, as an overall year, it was a disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: Another year full of fighters but especially promoters talking. And
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I think the media has something to do to do
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: with this too, because at some point we have to
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: not have negotiations hit social media and all that. Now
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Obviously you can't control if a fighter manager or whatever
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: right or promoter are talking shit on on Twitter or whatever, right,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: But overall, like I have noticed, even though, like I guess,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you could say what people call the legacy media, now
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. Some of them have legacy, some of them whatever,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: some of them are very biased, you know, So let's
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: not I want to say, let's not act like the meat.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: It's so much better now because you know, we have
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: more outlets and platforms to do the media, because it's
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: actually gotten even worse. My point is, although you can
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: point fingers at the quote unquote YouTube media, right, not
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: all of them should. I remember when Dan Rafael, me
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and many other people when the boxing YouTube community he
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: was popping off. We were sending our videos to him
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, what do you think about this? It's
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: some dude talking on there. You know. He really downplayed
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: YouTube and a lot of media members did. And now
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: they're all doing YouTube shows, you know. So that's kind
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: of funny to watch. But you know, there are a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: lot of stupid questions asked, and not just stupid, but
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: just not a lot of context, a lot of clickbait,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you know, in clickbait, even before YouTubers were even allowed
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: to get a pass, a press pass, this already existed, right,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: clickbait and all that. It's just now there's social media
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: that it's just gone that route, and Twitter has gone
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: that route now so much that I think sometimes the
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: YouTube boxing media can actually get a worse rap then
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: it really should. There's plenty of criticism, you know, but
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: if the media had been doing their jobs properly, maybe
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have a variety of boxing fans get into
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the BDA and be like, what the fuck are they
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: talking about? This is bullshit? You So you can see
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the bias over the top, the ignorance, the racism, whatever
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: however you want to look at it. It was all there.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: And not to say that's gone, you know with the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: YouTubers either, Right, there's been plenty of you know, race
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: stuff going on between white and black channels, not as
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: much now but years ago. So my point is there's
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: just so many like empty questions that are asked and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: not follow it up on. And sometimes you'll have a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: YouTuber like fight of that. They'll they'll follow up when
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: they're talking to Espinoza or someone, but then they won't
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: follow up when it's Eddie Hearn or Oscar you know
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: what I mean. They kind of play dumb and so.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And it's not like when I say stuff about the media,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean oh, I can do their job better than
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: every one of them. And none of them have any
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: talent or anything like that. It's not a talent thing necessarily,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it's not. You know, I'm not a good writer. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: write previewing prediction articles. I was asked to do it
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a while ago, so I've just done it. It does
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: help the podcast, could you get to put your link
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: in there? But I'll never like act like I'm some
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: in depth I've actually written some in depth articles that
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: are pretty good, but overall I'm not a great writer
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: or even a very good writer. I'll just be honest
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: with you, you know what I mean. So it's not like
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the talent isn't there with plenty of them, it's just
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what they choose to do with that talent. And now
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: with Sadi here this shit, I mean some of this
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: stuff they've said. I and I bought the Saudi stuff,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you know out I have had the Zone since I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: could possibly have it in the US, So I have ESPN,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: plus I have Amazon. You know, like it is what
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it is, Like, I'm not I'm just saying like the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: things that they're saying on those Saudi cards, like you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Turkey's made more fights in one year than the last
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: ten years and just crazy over the top sh that's
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: just like, dude, what's in some of these people? You
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: know what they had to do to get you know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they had to kiss the ring. Many people that are
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in media had to kiss the ring and had to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: be a cheerleader for something. And that's just the bottom
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: line or to hold your position whatever. Not everyone. I've
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: had multiple media members on here, but as far as
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the independent media and all that, like, it is gonna
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: be tough. It was hard to say Ring was an
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: independent media. Now it's even tougher, you know, but there
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are some quality writers on there too. Boxing scene has
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: gone downhill. I mean, there's just no way around it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: There's no way around it. It's become way more even
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: more clickbait than it had been in some punchlines and stuff.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But now they just they ask like silly questions like well, whatever,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to go too long on it,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: but my point is I really wish we could get
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: good follow up questions and questions in general. And I
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: think it's a big issue in boxing today and it
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: has been, and every press conference or every interview I see,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, dude, follow up, you know. It's just
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: just rarely, rarely happens, and and sometimes it just comes
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: down to act access. Some people don't get a lot
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of access, so when they get it, they don't want
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to burn a bridge, which I which I could understand
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: as long as you're not running out there running with
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: this stupid narrative or something like that. That's different, you know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But yeah, to keep asking a fighter like what do
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you think of this fight? What do you think of that?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But who's and win that by? Who's gonna win that
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: f and that's all you fucking do for the It's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: just it gets old, you know, and then people will
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: start ship like a couple was it like a month
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: ago or whatever when they try to get tanked to
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: say ship about anyway, Well you know what he said
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: about you? You know that that that he said she said? Dude,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It just gets old. So that's something that I have
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to like rant about everyone every once in a while.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But overall though it still wasn't some kind of garbage here,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you know, Like I said, the PBC not being as
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: active as they normally were did put a dent in it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I think you did. See. You know, they didn't do
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: many events. Most of them are really good, but they
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: didn't do nearly enough. So that's that's the key there.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And we'll see, you know, if they hit their their
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: stride this year. So yeah, eight, the good, the bad,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the ugly, you know, I just said it. Network, the Zone, Promoter,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I would have to say Turkey slash Queensberry because if
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you remember Queensberry, like Eddie had to be on Queensberry's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: cards in you know, Sadi's cards first. Now he can
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: run his own, So I would have to say the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Zone of course is the network of the year. So
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that's two out of the last three years if you're
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: keeping track. And then and then either Queensberry slash you know, Turkey,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, that's who i'd say for the best, the best,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you know, network of the year, platform, whatever the fuck
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you want to call it. And then promoter And I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: know people say, oh mam, Matchroom, I don't know, dude,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying Matchroom didn't have you know anything
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to do with those Saudi cards because of course they did.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Of course they did. But it was Queensberry first, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Queensberry allowed other stuff to happen as well with Saudi.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So but first and foremost it's Saudi Arabia, Turkey running
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: running the ship there. So prospect of the year I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: did see. I think it was brunch Boxing shouts out
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to brunch Box and keep doing their thing. You know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about an independent media that's looking
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to get the story right that if they have opinions,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it's it's well thought out and it can change. See
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that's another thing too, like if you have more if
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: more information comes in at times evidence, well that can
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: make you change your mind, you know. And so they
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: have really good debates amongst them, amongst the host and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the people they bring on. And it can be very
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: serious topics, it can be you know, well rounded, it
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: can be funny. They give each other shit. So brunch
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Boxing once again really the had the best year, I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: would say, out of any boxing podcast. And they can
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: be cut every Saturday. I can't always get up that
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: early because I usually am up really late on Fridays.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: A combination of work in pleasure, and it's hard for
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: me to get to listen to their whole show, so
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I usually just listen back to it. But you can
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: get it anywhere. It's not just on the Twitter space,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: but if you want to join in support it, if
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you want, like independent media, legit media, that's one of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the few. There's not that many out there. There there
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: are the boxing source, there are plenty, there are, there
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: are some. I'm not saying they're not, but it seems
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: ms to be dwindling. I do want to say that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: So the we get the network of the prospect. Okay, so,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and I remember them with tension. I think their their
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: prospect was tension nasu comma comma. I think it is.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of a lot of Moses. I've
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: seen a Bill Mason. I've seen Iglesias. Was it Olass Glacias.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I've seen the Hernandez Kid, the Yo Nelly. I see
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Joel Broadway, Joel the voice of the Dominican boxers. John
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Santana shouts out to him. And there's others. Danny are Perow,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I've seen Moten. You know, I wouldn't give him Prospects
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of the Year because he missed Wait, by that much,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: but mine is and you know, I get it. Here's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: here's my thing. Okay, if you're just knocking dudes out right,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you're just knocking boxers out right. I keep saying dudes
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: here and there. You know, I'm not trying to be
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: about the women here, but I just need it to like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you can be a prospect and turn into a contender.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And that's my prospect of the year. Now, if you
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: begin the year as a prospect, you end as a champion.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Well that's just what happened, you know. And so I
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I think there's a strong case for Brian Norman Junior.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And I know I'm gonna get shot on this. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: get shipped on this every year. But I just think
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: when you're a prospect of the year, I don't see
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: why it's that strange to give someone that at the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year was at least close to a prospect.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I can understand why people had him in the contender
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: rage already, and that's fair, that's fair. I just think
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: it's better to go with these.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Type of picks then, uh, you know, than not facing
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: anyone and knocking them out like and I'm not and
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: you know, plenty of everyone gets moved as a prospect
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: at different levels, in different paces, and so I'm not
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: ripped someone six and oh and five knockouts, six and
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: oh six knockouts.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: That's cool if you you know, we're able to knock
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: someone out highlight, real fashion, that's cool, you know, And
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I get it. That's usually the prospect of the year,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: but I don't do it that way. I don't do
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: it that way. And in my opinion, if you look
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: at who he had beaten at the beginning of two
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: or I should say at the end of his last fight,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: was Quentin Randall campbos like he was a pro at
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the beginning of twenty twenty four, Brian Norman Junior was
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a prospect in my opinion, and I thought for a
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: prospect he got by far the best win. Now that
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Bokachika fight, obviously, you know, the cuts messed that up,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: but that was pro box. But his win over Giovanni,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I just think that's enough for me. You know, that's enough.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So Brian Norman Junior is my prospect of the year
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: because that that's just how I do it my opinion,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he wasn't a Now I understand Walter Waite is light
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: in the ass. Now, I get it, and I understand
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: how like, I'm sure there were some rankings out there
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that had him ninth or something, you know, in the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: top ten. But to me, he was still a prospect
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: because who had he beat to put him in full
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: on contender range. Just my point, he wasn't full on
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: contender range until he did that. You know, that's my opinion.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: You that's okay if you don't like it. And it
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: was for introm belt, So I get it. I do
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: get that. But that's just that's how I see it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That's how I see it. You may not see it
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that way, and that's fine with me, but that's just
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: how I do it. So I got Brian Norman Junior,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: who you know, let's hope that he can land a
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: big fight, and let's hope the financials don't don't like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you know, poke a hole in it, because we all
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: know the boots thing. And that's a debate, like shitt
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: he had just taken the one point seven or whatever
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: it was. Sure, that's very fair. It's considering how much
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: he makes on his minimum and considering who his next
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: fight was after that, and how many fights it would take,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you know, to get back to that now. Could have
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Eddie Hearn just went to two million. He's money bags, right,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Guccie uh, Gucci bag and all that. We all remember
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: that about five years ago. Yeah, he could have. He
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: could have and just gotten Boots a big fight. So
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I still think though that Norman Junior could have taken
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that fight. I don't see for that kind of money.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Upset of the year. You do have Kyron Davis over
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Elijah Garcia. You have Angelo Leo Leo over Lopez. That
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: was pretty shocking. You had martiseliev back Room over Tim
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Sue that was that was a thrashing, Dude, that was
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: a thrashing. You had that Dakota Linger Beaten Scobie. That
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: was another one. And there's more out there, obviously, especially
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Odds wise. But Bruno. I think Bruno Beaten Mungia via
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: knockout after you know, he was on the freaking mat, dude,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Let's not forget about that. He was on the mat. Like,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that's the up set of the year for me. Sue Ross,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Sue Ross is the upset of the year. It's up
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: there for knockout of the year, that's for sure. So yeah,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that I would probably have to say that does it
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: for me. I also think that, you know, I do
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: think that they're I think odds wise, it was the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: biggest one, but there are way more than what I thought.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I think it does have to be against a like
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a high level opponent for me, like when someone gets
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: beaten their four and zero, I'm sure the odds are crazy, right,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: And usually it's I don't pick the upset of the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: year like this where it's exactly like this, like hot
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the highest odds as an underdog, because I do like
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it to mean something, you know, beaten Elijah Garcia, Tims,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Sue Lopez, Moukia, those are that's that's you know, that's legit,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: legit upsets. So that is the upset of the year.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And knockout of the year. I just mentioned Leo that
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: could be in there. Sue Ross could be in there,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Bahadi could be in there, a
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: j uh against any way anyway, in Ghanu in Ghanu
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Tank knocking out Martin obviously you had you could Daniel
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Dubois knocking out a j and the fifth, you know,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So I mean there there's plenty more than that too, obviously,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: But for me, there was that Stram her and is knockout.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: But for me it was sang In Wilder. For me,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: it was sang It Wilder because, uh, the way he
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: caught him. He caught him just like Deontay would catch
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: someone like light him up and kind of freeze him
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and then dudes off balance and he just runs up
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: on him and puts the light out like that body
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: or by Day Day. That one was nasty because old
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: boy was out and sometimes like Mungia and technically, like
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you know, AJ kind of got like some of these guys.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: It's not like, oh cold, you know what I mean.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: But I also think there there's levels as well. So
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to me, I just think I know Wilder's not in
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: his prime anymore. You could definitely say zang isn't either,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: but I'd say just from sheer nastiness and timing and
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: just like oh gotcha, oh shit, your froze. Bam, you're done,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you know, in the fight's over. So to me, that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: was the knockout of the year. AJ going face first.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I could see it. AJ's knockout too, Tank, Like I
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: mentioned a bunch of them. So yeah, now round of
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the Year I mentioned Duboi AJ the fifth round Bam, Astrade.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I think that was the sixth round. Check my note. Yeah,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: sixth round, that was pretty crazy. You know what I
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: did hear like dubois aj the fifth Did I say
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: that one? I did hear a lot of like the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: ninth round for for Usik and Fury, But I I
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: don't know, man, I think that was a little one
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: sided to be the round of the year. You have
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: four ford uh clomatos the twelfth round. That was nasty
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: for me though, and then like I said, there there's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: there's more than this obviously, but Ortiz boat chuck the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: eighth round. To me, that that that took it for
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: round of the year personally, the event of the year. Now,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: this is the one that when I see Ring magazine.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You know, Ring Magazine's always kind of been biased a
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: little bit, right the Mikey Garcia thing, Uh how they
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: didn't wait to see what was up and not just
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: make e Garcia thing. But you know the one to
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: three matchup that they forced instead of you know, they
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: they hopped. They had the number one fighter taken on
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: number three in that number two the number three fight
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Anthony Crawla was just a better paycheck for Lenards. That's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: all it was. So it's not that they couldn't get
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the fight done or someone's heard or they're ducking them
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: or whatever. And one against three I'm not a big
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: fan of ever, but I do think you can make
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the case for it At times. I do think that's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: fair and go one against three to create lineal, but
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: it's it's rare, and that was not one of those cases.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I think it was just a or having Broner, like
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I think he got up to fifth in the pound
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: for pound at the time, and he wasn't the fifth
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: boxer fifth best boxer. ESPN's ratings can be really whacked too,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: for pound for pound and whatnot. So I just found
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: like when you basically the Ring magazine, for the most part,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: they're uh, it was basically like everything Sadi did almost
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you know, when they didn't well, you know, they didn't
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: mention Garcia Haini. The Fury Usk is an event because
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: of what it was. The five for five I thought
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: was a really good event. You know, if you're just
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: looking at a vent and traction and you know pay
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: per view numbers or viewership or the live gate because
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: that these are events, right, Tanks Fight did a big
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: number Canelos. Both fights did a big number. I would
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: favor muon Gia over Berlanga. But honestly, as much as
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I didn't like it, the event of the year is
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Tyson Paul. Like I'm not, I don't love saying that
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: as a boxing van. But if you look at the
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: viewership and then you look at the gate and I've
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: talked to people since then that have barely watched boxing, dude,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: you know, and they're like, yeah, I checked it out.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I really loved that fight. On the undercard, you know,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the ones that could see it obviously, well, the whole
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: under card was kind of choppy, obviously, but they they
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: definitely got that shit out because as far as like
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the messed up app because they did a lot better
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: job for the NFL. But yeah, you know, as much
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: as I hate to say it, because I don't, I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: don't like this fight, per se, I did like the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: undercard fights and so that was cool. But yeah, dude, Mike, Tyson,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Jake Paul, that was the event of the year. Man,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: you really can't deny it. We're just talking about events.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about what was the most meaningful event,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: right because you'd have to put in a Turbia evolven.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't see one person say that for an event
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: of the year. Furiousic, very meaningful, right, Garcia Haney drew
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of attention, But like I said, Canelo tank.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: But the bottom line is that that Sadi card in La.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: But the bottom line is the event of the year
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: in some ways unfortunate because it was basically like an exhibition, right,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: So that does suck. But it was Netflix, and I
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: can't give Netflix the fucking network of the year for
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: one fight or for one event. But fortunately it was
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Tyson Paul and I didn't see that really much anywhere.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: But that's just telling the truth. You know, I didn't.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: You guys know, if you listen to the show, I
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: did not like that matchup just in general. But I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: understood why it was happening, and it happened, And look
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: at the viewership, look at the goddamn tickets, Like, what
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: was it? Eighteen mil? Nineteen mil at the gate that's
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: not easy to get to. So yeah, that is that
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: trainer of the year. You got Garcia, you got Don Charles,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: you got you know, Loma's father, you know, was somebody
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: that should have gotten it a while back. Just just
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: because I'm going with Bob Santos. I thought, I think
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: he's done a really good job and sometimes you just
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: don't get it at the time when you should get
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: it or whatever. So that's what I'm going there. Charles,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: that was cool, you know, for him to have a
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: good year like that, and and there's others obviously, but
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna go with. So Fighter of the
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Year for the women, you have Taylor, you have Serrano,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: you have some other shields and whatnot. But Funda at
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: her age to do what she did how she did it,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: because I think that her knockout was the knockout of
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the year on the women's side too. Funda, she's got that.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Taylor Serrano I thought was the fight of the year. Again.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: You can make an argument for other fights though, but
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: but Usik, BATERBEV and BAM are definitely like those are
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the three that I would say, those are like the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: top three this year. Usik Rodriguez in Perturbs and I
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: would have to go Husic. I would have to go
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Usik on that one comeback Fighter of the Year. It
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: could be Leo, it could be Dubois, it could be
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Joseph Parker. There are some other ones out there, but
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Leo Angel Leo. I know Dubois got
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: some good ass wins obviously, but I don't know. AJ's
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: not like I just think that I think that Leo
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: was right there on the cusp of being like a
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: legit fighter, like he was a I shouldn't say it
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: like that, but he was very close. You know, he
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: had gotten he had climbed the ladder and then got
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: knocked down right by a quality ass fighter, and he
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: worked his way back up and he beat Lopez, who's
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: been doing his thing lately. So that that's where I
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: got there on the comeback Fighter of the Year, Fight
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of the Year, I already said that for the women,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the Taylor Serrano. For me, that was I had Serrano winning.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: But whatever. That's also why one of the reasons I
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: can't give Katie Taylor the win for the year. You know,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: fight Fighter of the Year, plus Fundora got it. So
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: fighting the year, you have Ortiz Boa, Chuck Usik, Fury
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: won Ford Plomatov or Lee Clark a j was obviously
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: a blast bam Estrada. You had Taraji uh Gonzalez or
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: whatever his name is. You had Peril Mattias, you had
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Plant McCombe. That was a good, really good fight you had,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I thought. But Turba Bivel for Ball was a damn
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: good fights. That paid a Farmer was a really good fight.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: That rock Mob was a really good fight I saw
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: the other day to slick name that one. And then
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: uh not Tashiga Kurell too. That was a damn good fight.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Damn good fight like that could have been the fighting here.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: One of the fights he no doubt about it. That
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Wordy Clark Man that was really really close to being
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: there for It's both fights. Really, I don't know, man,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: this one's tough. I literally hadn't decided yet all the way.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go with the artis boat Jack
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: something like that, something like that. So oh, Cooper, someone
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: messaged me Cooper assume I seem, yeah, I saw that fight.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: That was a good fight. That was a good fight.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, like you know there are like the first
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: quarter is gonna pop. It just feels weird because it's
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: gonna take a while. You know, it is gonna take
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a while to get there. So that's this funky part
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: where you're like, all right, dude, I'm I'm pumped. Oh
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: another one, Ryan Mayer, Yeah, that that was another one
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: that I was. Someone messaged me that earlier. And as
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: we know, Sam Goodman is out of the Inuay fight.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: The replacement yeah, not so good, not so good. Obviously,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: you have the the rematch between Baterbev and Befal. That's
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: a that's a good like. I'm really looking forward to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: that and Dmitri Bivel Befall like he needs to fight
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: every single round. And I would say, when you're having
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: a good round, keep it up, and then when you're
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: feeling like you're doing good like it's easy for me
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: to say. Obviously he was hurt from the punches to
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the last three rounds. He kind of gave away the
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: fight to an extent, I would say, not to an
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: extent I think he did. But I'm looking forward to
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that fight like a lot. Benevitez Morale obviously really looking
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: forward to that fight. Put Checko and Nelson coming up
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: here soon. Excuse me. I'm definitely definitely looking forward to
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: that fight. That should be a good one, is there.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Let me look at that Okay? Oh yeah, Mercado and Peedraza,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: I think Mercado's gonna do his thing, and I had
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: him as a prospect of Year last year. I believe Oops, sorry,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I had to get some bog with her. I do
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: really like that. I think that's a really good fight
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: on you know, Benefitez Morale, like I the Figure Row
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: of Fulton fight, sign me the fuck up for that.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I think that Ista Cruz and Angel Fierra. I think
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a sleeper, to be honest
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: with you. There's some good fights on the that just
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: got announced as well, on the pre Limbs for just
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: normal you know normal Amazon on the pre Limbs, Oh yeah,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and then Keishan Davis against Denny's Baronshik. I like that fight.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: That's a really good step up fight, and he stepped
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: up last time and handled his business like majorly, so
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to that fight. I think that's
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: a damn good fight. And Joel Mason's on the undercard,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Delontae Johnson's on the under card. I heard those two
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: aren't gonna be on on the main card though. The
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Sanders Aiez against uh I think it's Spawmer or something
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: like that. Spoer. I know Jared Anderson's on that card,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: uh Polanco Polanco, and then Fido against Coyle Connor Coyle,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: that's right, you know, Barbosa and Catall. You know, I
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: think it's an interesting fight. I'm not. I don't know
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: how fun it will be even to watch per se,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: but I think it had has some interest in there.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: You know, I would have to say, yeah, I think
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: there's there's definitely some interest there for me. Anyway. I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: think it's a you know, a good skill fight. I
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: do want to see Dublanc Parker. I think that's interesting
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: because you know, Parker is not going to be facing
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: these faded guys, so let's see if that's same style
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: he's fought in in the strategy that he's used works
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: against the Bois Ortiz Modrunov. I mean, sign me the
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: fuck up for that fight. I love that fight. Speaking
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: of I love the fight Sang and Cabiel. I barely
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: like cabill in that fight, but I fucking love that fight.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Adam gets a step up fight. That's pretty cool. The
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Hernandez Jerome that's a good fight. You know. I think
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Roach is gonna do a little bit better than people
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: think against Davonte. I'm not gonna sit here and talk
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: up that fight like it's an awesome fight based off
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: some of the Underguard stuff. I want to see where
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: they go. You know, not all of it has been
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: announced obviously, but yeah, I mean there are some fights
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: man in literally within the next like two months, less
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: than two months, yeah, about two months that are are great,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: like really really great. So you know, you just gotta
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: be patient for this a little bit, uh, and you
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: know it'll come back around. It will come back around.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Trust me. I did get a bunch of messages saying
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: is boxing gonna be back at the armory? I believe,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: So I don't just based off dates they've had before.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I guess that, to be honest with you, I don't
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: know if that contract, if they're just gonna be like,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: all right, let's go right back to the contract. But
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: that contract called for four fights a year, So I
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: don't know though right now, if that is still there.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just being honest because I I you know, I've
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: asked around. It's been kind of hush hush keeping track.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Of the easiest way to do it is if they
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: get it scheduled right then he at least know. But
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: the fact is they had two different events, and especially
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: one in December scheduled and then it fell off. So well,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: when I say scheduled, they they had it booked. Let's say,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: so you know, take it for what it is. You know,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: we heard Mattias and Tao Feeble Lopez. That's obviously long gone.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Tayl's been on one lately. He has been just on one.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's like the best way to say it.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: It's like and well, you know, he first of all,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: he said some racists as shit, let's not forget about that.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, you know, his thing was
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: like I remember him saying something like, well, he's not
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: worthy of the lineal champions, so I didn't turn him
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: down or whatever, you know. And now we did hear
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: about the IBF creating you know, uh, basically an eliminator
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: to become a mandatory of Hitchins Richardson Hitchins and that
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: would be Elvis Rodriguez and Mattias. But there was a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: little funkiness around that too. We're still waiting to see
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: if Ennison Stanonius can get done get it over the line.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: And I haven't heard much in the way of like
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and by the way, Ring Magazine from my understanding, we're
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: laid on this story and it should have been Matt
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: at Bunch Boxing. That's Charlie portions from Ring Magazine on
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: that on that you know, boost thing. And by the way,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: you know, we don't get a lot of detail. We
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: get a lot of detail from Eddie, but then there's
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: certain times when you want more detail, you know. So
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: it's like we heard that the offers coming from Stanonius
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: were better than what they were offering, So what's up
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: with that? Then, you know, get the fucking fight done
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: and stop talking about it, you know, in the public.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's much to ask. So taya Fema
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Lopez down here, Like I said, he's been on one.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: I'm too expensive for Top Ring. But the truth is
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Todd de buff is the issue here. He hasn't like
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: me or my father since they started the takeover stat
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Less in twenty eighteen, like that's nineteen eighteen or something,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: and probably beforehand. Now he's the chairman of Top Rank,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: So people do the math. By law, I have a
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: freedom of speech. This motherfucker believes he knows the Constitution,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: and shit, dude, he legit thinks he knows the con
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: The top rank ESPN contract deal ends July twenty six,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and for contract your reasons cannot overlap
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: another network deal until then. If so, it becomes a
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: conflict of interest which can be binded there, which can
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: bind their current contract bind h they need to a
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: FEMO to get a more lucrative network deal, don't you know? Not?
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Oh here, here's another one, dude, not one, I mean,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: not one. No one fighter boxer has which is okay,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: has brought more to the table and interest than tayl
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Fema Lopez since the days of Mayweather and Canelo. That's
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: just so stupid. But what first of all, Canelos still
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: up in this bitch? So I don't know if you
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: know that. Bruce Trampler added Tao is truly a big
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: name on my personal faves and that's why his fight
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: should be well, it should well on pay per view.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean he's saying a lot. By the way,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: the Bronx Bomber sounds like he's gonna be back in
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: April on b ok Prime, which I will not give
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: my credit card to love me some wilder. Don't really
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: want to see him fight anymore per se, But it
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: won't be the first time, won't be the last time, right,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: that type of shit. There was rumors of Devinie Devin
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Haney going there too, but now it doesn't sound like
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: that's the point or that's gonna happen. Tao Fema Lopez.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I wonder if Top Rank is hitting their minimum benchmarks
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: with their ESPN deal out of the eighty nine million.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: I wonder if an audit would help ESPN. No wonder
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: why ESPN wants to leave Top Ranking to buff Oh.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I did hear or see? It's been out for a while,
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: so it's been I don't know who got it first.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was pug Meyer or what.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: But Oscar Duerte and Regi's progress plan for February fifteenth
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: and Anaheim interesting. Interesting now, Stephen Shaw, I forgot to
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: mention this. I see this in my message, Stephen Shaw.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: So the ring, you know, the Bok Prime pay per
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: view would be wilder, and they said Shaw but then
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Shah didn't know much about it. So I don't know
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: if that's someone put that out there to try to,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: you know, get there or what. But I don't know.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Here's boxing forecast. David Nayaka is six six foot six,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: looks like a specimen, has strong amateur background, but I
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: think Opataia makes him look like a big stiff and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: takes him out poorly inside six rounds. Well you know
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: he uh, he got that right, he got that right.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: I think I already mentioned this. Kermel Motein will be
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: on that better be this morele guard I believe so
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, the ben baby didn't He used
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: to work for ESPN in some form. Maybe he still does.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: But he said the sport isn't such just spare because
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: too many boxers hate boxing. Oh boy, So that's it.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: That's that's it. Huh that's the only okay. So the
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: this is Keith Idac who, speaking of being on one,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: has been on one. The lesson this one's more of
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a positive on one to an extent, though, The lesson
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: from Opataia Nayaika for the most talented, strongest young fighters
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: who enjoy some success sometimes insparring is that once you
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: lace them up ten ounces, take off the heg here
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: and those bright lights shine on you. There's level to this. Yeah,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: that is the thing. He did look the part, though.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I will say that Eddie Hearn also Adac said that
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: that he spoke to Oscar de la Joya and they
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: want to do the zerto in Opataia. Maybe it could
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: be part of a five for five in May or
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: a different card in late spring summer. That would be
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: a good fight. I kind of like it because they're
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: both at the same way class two and Keith Eadach
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: also said Tayo Fema Lopez turned down top ranks final
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: offer way above his contract minimum contracted minimum according to
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: what I was told before a deadline late last night,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: and this is a while ago now. For the WBO
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: one forty title fight versus Mattias Lopez and Matias would
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: have fought on ESPN main event pay per view March fifteenth,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: So in some ways, I'm glad that didn't happen. He said,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: I would like to see who Tayo Fema eventually agrees
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: to fight before he fully forms his opinion on that,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: which I think I think is pretty legit. You know
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: that that's a good way to look at stuff. Yeah,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: I think that that's pretty good. Jim carrass would would
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: like to see Opataia going to Speedy a cruiserweight before
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: jumping up the heavyweight sirtle and Badu Jack are holding
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: other titles. Shouldn't be too difficult to make those fights.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: That's true. I mean Badu Jack at this point would
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: be just the title. But you know, I don't know.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that now, Eddie Hearn said according
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: to Chris Mannix or not according to him, it was
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: on a show. He said the top ranks offered to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Boots for Tao Fema was less money than Ennis earned
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: against Karen. Now he did say, or right around that.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: But it's like, okay, well maybe he's getting overpaid to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: fight Karen, and you know Karen's gonna complain because that's
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: what Karen's do. But have you ever met and this
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: is a question, this is a question that white people actually,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: have you ever met and talked to it an actual Karen?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Because I know Karen's attack you know minorities more especially
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: black man and black people. But as a white person
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: out there, have you ever really come across is your mom?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: A Karen is your girlfriend? Of Karen is your wife?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: M Karen is your side chicken can No, that probably
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't work anyway. I don't know, I got lost there.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not even gonna someone sent me
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: this from Tayo. I'm not even gonna do it. Okay,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: So I saw this Golden Boy. I saw someone post
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: this shit, right, This Golden Boy video is a throwback.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: It says Mayweather versus Guerrero, Floyd struggles with ghost boxing ability.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: That's where we're at, folks, because I remember, if there's
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: one fight, there's a couple, we're tough over his career,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: you know, several whatever, But that that was one of them. Dude,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: that Guerrero fight. Man, he didn't know what to do
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: with Bro. They should get another rematch for that gritty
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: from the underground shots out to Detroit. So Tao don't
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: want no smoke. But Brian Norman, Junior, Kenny Simms, Martaya
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez Davis and Mattias none of the offers were really good.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: The Turndown hashtag the Turndown Kid. And they brought in
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Hany on that too, and hopefully it just gets solved
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: this hany stuff in him and they actually get a fight.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: But them, we're here in the other way, and I
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: don't know. I have heard people say, Butterba's, you know,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: gonna want to go up to fight Opataiya if he
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: gets to win again. I'd like that fight better than USA.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Kavin had dropped twenty five pounds to go back to
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: cruiserweight and noinly that. But if but Turba did win,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: then he could be like, hey, bring your ass down. Now,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Here's another one from brunch Boxing talking
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: about that the ESPN. ESPN's not done with top rank
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: per se in that contrary to the media reports, sources
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: tell brunch Boxing that ESPN is opening aside and multi
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: your extension with top Rank. But it just you know,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: it's up to top rank, so financial stuff comes into play. Obviously,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: A key sticky point is negotiations. The annual budget sides
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: are eight figures apart. ESPN is looking for Top Rank
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: to deliver better fights and bigger events for the budget
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: they are given. Top Rank has been linked to various
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: streaming services, including his own Amazon Prime you know, all
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: that good stuff. Al Dawson broke a little news on
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Ryo in Russell that that fight is gonna happen in Minneapolis.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Now that'd be great, by the way, but I haven't
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: heard that, so don't quote me on that. But I
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: really like that fight. I really like that fight. Chief
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Funk Chief Funky. A huge problem in US boxing is
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: fighters demanding a fortune and they can't sell tickets or paper.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: That is true, but we know what's started. We don't
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: need to know that the chicken or the egg what
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: came first. We know the promoters and the managers in
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the platforms put out that money, and we know since
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: his own came in, they went crazy with it. Now
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: Sadi's going even crazier with it. So that does that
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: does now? According to lot Banita del Boxo on Ig,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: it looks like there might be a rematch of the
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: upset of the year Sue Ross it always it sounds
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: like a Navy seal things sorry. In Mungia April twelfth, Tijuana. Interesting,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Here's something I don't know if it's true, but Caesar's
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Caesar Sayda Elvis Rodriguez will not go forward with Sebral
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Mattias fight because he believes Mattias doesn't deserve it. Top
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: rank is looking to make the Rodriguez el ma yomar
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: oh okay? Is that true? I wonder if that's true?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Alamo fight huh man? Oh boy? All right? Oh? I
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: did see a double A from sn Boxing said he
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: spoke to Chris Glover on pro Box a pro Box.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: He said, two trends of pro Box in twenty twenty
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: five are they will still be doing cards around the country,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: with only a couple back in the Plant City. Also,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: they will be moving to weekend fights instead of Wednesdays.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm kind of like torn on that, although I
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: understand why they don't want to go on a Wednesday
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: because financial you know, the finances that does. You know,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: it is tough to sell a card on Wednesday night,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: you know, especially if you go into that same venue.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: But like from a spoiled point of view, like a boxer,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: I do love that midweek stuff. But I get it.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: I do get that part.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Um.
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  Speaker 1: Someone sent me about Bradley from a boxing scene article
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Don't go running away right from the fight now talking
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: about the Crawford fight and this kind of this quote,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: when the hell was the last time Caneli knock somebody out?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: That's fair, But once again, I don't know, like it's
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know the way he says. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes what he says sometimes is how he says it.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: This was just a quote, but I can almost hear
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: him saying it, and it's like all right, well, do
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  Speaker 1: you really want to say on knockouts did because he
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: weren't the knockout king. So Martin and De los Santo's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: are negotiations for a fight. Whether that's on the Spence
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: Fandora I couldn't tell you because the Fandora Spence thing
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: March twenty ninth, and they said, no, that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: And Spence even said that's that's not my date or
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: the location, you know, that type of thing. So whatever.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I also saw this on brunch Boxing.
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  Speaker 1: The IBF grant Slomachenko a medical excemptant exception. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that they ordered an interroim. There you go,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: interrum lightweight title between Martaya and Abu abdual Lef. I
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: do obviously, Oh, here we go. Not my date or location,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: that's what That's what Spence says. So it's it's just
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: the date. It's the fights on though. Here's one that
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: I did not know prior is Jamal Herring. You know,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: he was arrested on Thursday for an allegedmentsdemeanor domestic violent
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: domestic violence of assault. Right, I guess the next court
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  Speaker 1: date is coming up here kind of soon. The twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: But he was basically booked in the Warren County Jail
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio. The bail set and all that stuff. But
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: what I didn't know, but I had not I did
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  Speaker 1: not know that. And I'm reading off a tweet of
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: brunch boxing pictures provided by Jen from the alleged incident,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: depicting scratch marks on her neck. When police questioned Jamel
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: Herring about the photographs, he claimed they were from a
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: separate incident December twenty twenty three, an incident in which
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: he was also arrested for domestic violence. According to TMC,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: pictures were provided by Jen from the alleged incident. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know he got I did not know last year,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: a little over a year ago, twenty twenty thirty December,
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  Speaker 1: that he got that he got arrested for that. Wow,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: We'll wait and see. But obviously that's pretty fucked up.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Here's here's a perfect example of just a worthless tweet,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: but people doing it for this is fight up TV?
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: Could this be one of the biggest fights of the year?
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Berlanga in Rosato? I mean, really, dude, are we really? Dude? Seriously, like,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: come on, dog, what are we doing here that that's no.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: Then every like like a couple of times a year,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: people send me, what do I think of this boxing wreck?
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: The poundful pound list right, and it has anyway Alvarez, Davis, Crawford,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: p Turbia, Na Katzani, Bivel, Benevete, Schkor and Ennis and
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't be there at Usik's thirteen. Dude, the ship
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: is a on average when you just looked at the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: rankings on average, the box wreck shit, the ranking shit sucks, dude,
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  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't even I wouldn't even mess with it,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Roll Boxing says, I think
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: there's a case and I'd make it that Usik was
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: the fighter of the year, won the fight of the year,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: and was in the round of the year. I did
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: you know, the Round of the year. I just disagree
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: with here's Luki Boxing Sunday conversation. This is actually at
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: the end of last year. If if Usik isn't a
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: top five heboight of all time, who is and why?
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think the wins he has makes them
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: top five. The Fury win is phenomenal, the AJ win
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: is very solid, you know, to blot very solid wins.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: I just want to put them in the top five.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: I just wouldn't do it. I gotta be honest with you.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: I just wouldn't do it. I just would not do it.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Go through my messages a little bit more. Here we
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: do have I think I think that's let's see. Yeah,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: something else here. Oh the SADI, the new boxing Saudi
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: League with t k O. Yeah, we'll see, you know,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: whether they're going to prospect for route or whatever. We'll see.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: We'll see what's going on with that. I've talked about
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: that a little bit. Oh here, so Turkey, these are
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: the fights Turkey wants to see Alvarez Crawford, which we
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: have heard reportedly is done for September by miss Conte
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: or missus. I'm not sure, but yeah, I don't know
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: if that's true or not. Busick du Bois to Fury Joshua.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: By the way, Tyson Fury said he retired. It is
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: what it is, Ryan Garcia Haini and then you banged
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: Junior and Ben. That shit is getting so old, dude,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Like those are okay fights. I wish it would be
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Canelo Benevetez. But you know, the Crawford won if done
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: right and advertised, well, shit, it will be September possibly advertised,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: you know, for through football and whatnot. I think I
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: think it would have a chance to do something. I
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: think it would have to have a chance to do something.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Williams Zipata and zip Patta and Tevin Farmer and talks
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: for a rematch. According to Tevin Farmer, I don't see
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: a problem with that. Actually, Drabante, oh Grabante said, tell
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: him to send the bag and I'm coming. He said,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty. Sounds like he's doing his Canelo impression,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: which should be obviously silly. One hundred and fifty upfront
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: to do that. I do not think. So. I think
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: that's about it. Oh yeah, Chakor says he's gonna take
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: over the sport of boxing one fight at that time,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: sir okay. So I literally every ten days I get
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: something with that from that fake Michael Bentson account. Dude,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: oh dude, oh man. This is our society now. They
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: don't understand. This is bullshit and it's a fake account.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Because you can just buy the check mark, because remember
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: the check mark. If you buy the check mark it
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: was supposed to you could show that you were you.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: I'm me, you know, I'm him, right, It's me. Look
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: I got a blue check. But that's not what it's about.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: It never was about that, obviously, and we all know
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: the misinformation. Disinformation is just outright lies. Have been fucked
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: up on this after a while now. But he said
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Devin Hany is poorly in the hospital after being assaulted.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Like this is not this is intrud, dude, it's not
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: a real account. Okay, it's fake. Hey, you know, I
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: mean the other one was bullshit anyway, But okay, someone
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: dug up a tweet from twenty nineteen from hearing calm that.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Calm that down, Chief, I don't promote or agree with
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: anything related to domestic violence. Don't time my name to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: that shit or come over here with it. Well, I
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: guess we're gonna have to see about that. That that
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: uh oh yeah, here's here's Tayo Fema Lopez not just
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: boxing and I g I didn't turn no damn fight down.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: We always fight the best. But we don't believe Mattias
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: is worthy opponent for the ring title. Do you think
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: a guy would that has no fan base, that lost
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: in his home country serves that type of Jesus Christ,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: because you know, you have such a huge fan base.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Ryan Garcia, that was the big sticking point. I guess
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: Garcia is like, I'll do the fight, but it can't
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: have VADA. But if I sign up for it, then
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: you know I'll do drug testing. But oh okay. So
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Julius Juliannis says that Canel Crawford is actually in Vegas September.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: That was what that was. So there's a there's a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: rumor going around that's gonna be Williams Skull and then
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: that if he fights Skull next time, it's like, uh,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? Two time undisputed dude, it's gonna
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: be a two time undefeated because he lost one of
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: his belts and now it's back to being a oh boy.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, So I guess Turkey sent Devin Haney and
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Garcia offer to fight in April or May to do it.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: Says three sixty five twenty four to seven drive. It
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: can't be three sixty five with the ships in April
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: or May. But that was the rumor that you know
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: they're waiting on it. They're waiting on him. So if
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: you do that, Cynthia conte A very reliable source told
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: me that Devin Haney has officially dropped his lawsuit against
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Garcia if he agrees to VADA. Garcia has agreed to
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: do VADA and the rematches on that. That's that's what
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: has been said. I don't know what that's gonna be
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: a fact or not. I don't know that to be
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: a true. Now that Dennis McCann's he was all that
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: the DUDEO test to pause for drugs lately, that doctor usman.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: Just just follow him and you'll know what I mean.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Follow the boxers that are with him. Lohannah Shot came
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: up with a great tweet. Tyson Fury has announced his
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: retirement from boxing. I'm going to give it a give
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: it three to five business days. Yeah, no shit, that's
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: that's so well said two times undisputed. Bro. All right,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: I'm out of here, man. I think I'm gonna get
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: out of here. I hope everybody's been doing all right.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: The show's not done. I do appreciate those who reached
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: out and asked me if I'm doing okay. I did
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: have kind of a rough last chunk of the year.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: Multiple deaths kind of close to me or very close
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: to me. One of them. So yeah, man, you know,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: it is what it is. But honestly, there's so much
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: hardship and so much stuff going on that you know,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: in California just in general, the life that I'm not
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: on some whate is me, but I do appreciate the sentiment.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: And yeah, not going anywhere. Like I said, you're gonna
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: have to come up to me and like slit my
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: throat or something. You think I'm gonna be done with
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: this podcast? Okay, Like I said, the last one I
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: did was just popping, and so I didn't want to
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: cut its legs off. I didn't have recap from the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: New Year's and it was just kind of a dead moment.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: So I just kind of let it ride for a
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: little bit, and I figure I'd come back and kind
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: of just pop up on you guys. All right, So
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: I had to do my pop out like Kendrick. All Right,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: I'll shut up anyway. We'll be back on a weekly basis. Okay,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: we ain't going anywhere, but yeah, have a fun week
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: and weekend. Enjoy your life, Enjoy any fights that will
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: pop off. If something's from overseas or something I don't
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: know about, send me a video per usual. I'll watch it,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about it anyway. I may get out face