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William Zepeda Defeats Lamont Roach Jr, Terence Crawford & Crew Reacts · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Now that honor belongs to Zupaida chaqueor Stephenson. Weighing in
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  Speaker 1: drafts to Zapaida. Hell of a performance, you deaf surprised me,
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  Speaker 1: Lamont keep your head up, family, It comes with the territory.
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  Speaker 1: It was the only loss in Spada's career. And those
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  Speaker 1: were the two winners tonight in my book, Zappaeida for
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  Speaker 1: lifting the belt and Chaquar Stephenson for realizing, Wow, what
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  Speaker 1: did he endure and handle so decisively? Welcome everybody into
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  Speaker 1: the fight. What a match we just saw. Adam Lefko,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Porter, Uh, Tim, the Hall of Famer, Desert Storm,
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  Speaker 1: and my guy Bud Terrence Crawford.
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  Speaker 2: Tim take it.
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  Speaker 1: Take it from here, man, like we're still processing what
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  Speaker 1: we just saw.
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  Speaker 3: I was about to ask, but that belts what it was, BTA,
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what that was right there.
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  Speaker 4: He got out boxed, Yes, he got out slugged. I
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  Speaker 4: mean you name it. He got our jabbed. I mean
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  Speaker 4: he got out positioned. I mean you name it.
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  Speaker 3: Subpeida like systematically him down little by little, round by round.
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  Speaker 4: He took his time.
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  Speaker 3: Usually he's throwing about what eight I say, ten for
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  Speaker 3: one thousand punches, you know throughout the fight at eight hundred,
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  Speaker 3: I mean in.
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  Speaker 4: Those early rounds.
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  Speaker 3: You know Roach, you know, he made them castious a bit.
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  Speaker 3: He had to respect the power. You heard him, and
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  Speaker 3: you can tell that he had a game plan.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I was like, look, he's looking for that.
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  Speaker 3: He's looking for the jab, but he's looking for that
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  Speaker 3: straight hand, left hand right down in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: He was layding it over and over and over.
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  Speaker 3: And I whispered to you when I said, hey, watch
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  Speaker 3: when he goes down to the body. Watch how Roach
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  Speaker 3: put those hands in them pockets. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: he did. He broke them down, man, And I thought
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna finish him.
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  Speaker 1: But Roach is tough. Sean Zapeta took a year off.
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  Speaker 1: He never does that. He says, he feels young again.
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  Speaker 1: He had done it in eleven years. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Now we're looking at the guy with one loss anna belt.
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  Speaker 2: What do we see in the future. What do you
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  Speaker 2: want to see in to pay this future?
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  Speaker 5: You know that rest is the thing that you guys,
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  Speaker 5: probably more than anything. You're telling all these young fighters
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  Speaker 5: you need your rest. And he got just that. We
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  Speaker 5: heard the rigorous years that he's had in this game,
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  Speaker 5: finally smartened up and took some time off. He came
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  Speaker 5: back to the game, to the ring not only refreshed,
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  Speaker 5: but with the game plan with multiple ways to attack. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: when Chakor says, I was surprised, Schakour didn't even know
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  Speaker 5: he knew those many Yeah, well, Sha Court didn't know
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  Speaker 5: that that that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I didn't even know that he had the paida
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  Speaker 4: had that.
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  Speaker 5: But it took him taking some time off, probably actually
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  Speaker 5: assessing himself and coming back to the ring really ready
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  Speaker 5: to win a green belt.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations to the young man.
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  Speaker 6: What you think, Bud, Like I said, he caught me off, barb.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't. I wasn't ready for that. You know.
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  Speaker 6: I was looking for the straight, come forward type fighter.
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  Speaker 6: You know, but from round one, I said, Tim, look
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  Speaker 6: at his movement. Look at this. Look at his footward,
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  Speaker 6: his distance, his range, his angles, you know, his faints,
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  Speaker 6: his jabbing, you know, his counter ability, his punch placement,
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  Speaker 6: just how he was controlling the fight. You know, I
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  Speaker 6: told him earlier, I said, Man, it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 6: bad night. You know. Then Tim, as he said, once
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  Speaker 6: he started going to the body, you're gonna see a
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  Speaker 6: different change. And then when he started going to the body,
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  Speaker 6: I looked that shot and I said, here he comes.
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  Speaker 6: I said, here he comes, because once his motor got
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  Speaker 6: the running. You know, Roach had hit him with a
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  Speaker 6: good shot, but it'd be one shot and then he
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  Speaker 6: eat and come right back.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see how big Subpated look versus Roach. Absolutely?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the size difference was crazy. That was something
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  Speaker 3: that I hadn't analyzed. In the lead up of this fight.
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  Speaker 3: I was saying, he's coming off two draws, but he's
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  Speaker 3: coming off two draws smaller guys.
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  Speaker 1: First time he's fought a fighter bigger than him three
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  Speaker 1: years exactly.
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  Speaker 3: With the guys that were bigger than him, they gave
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  Speaker 3: him problem. Remember Herring gave him issues and Herring out
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  Speaker 3: punched him, he outworked him to win that championship. So
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  Speaker 3: that's the reason why I changed my pig.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you know the week of this fight the sport,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: But the cool part about books, both of you guys
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  Speaker 5: you knew that Williams Depaida was gonna win this fight.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that you didn't know that he was going
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  Speaker 5: to win it like that, we just saw a young
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  Speaker 5: man grow. We always talk about sailing we always talk
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  Speaker 5: about being in your prime and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: This kid is approaching his prime, I think at thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: Old right now.
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  Speaker 1: So at the initial press conference a few months ago,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I looked at the shakhor Stevenson fight.
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  Speaker 2: And I realized I.
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  Speaker 1: Had to not be as emotional and I had to
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  Speaker 1: have a different strategy. At that same press conference, Roach said,
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  Speaker 1: he can say that, but he always fights the same way,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what I'm expecting. We should have taken it
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  Speaker 1: seriously because he went back into the lab, not just
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  Speaker 1: physically but mentally.
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  Speaker 2: I have some names. What's next for Zepeida?
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  Speaker 1: Could it be an Abdullah Mason in his own weight class?
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  Speaker 1: Could it be a Morotaia who we just heard once
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  Speaker 1: to go to one forty. And I'm gonna give another
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  Speaker 1: shout out to our statistician Mark Ortega, who said, what
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  Speaker 1: about Emmanuel Navaretti who is currently at one thirty and
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  Speaker 1: all of your eyebrows just raised. Why are you excited
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  Speaker 1: when I said that as apostle, because because he's another juggernaut.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah we won't great.
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  Speaker 3: Very awkward, yeah, very awkward style is just as busy
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  Speaker 3: as a paida forty in Mexico versus Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, I mean, come on now, have it in September. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: I agree. So you like that. I love that. I
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  Speaker 4: love that fight.
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  Speaker 1: You like it too, man, that's I still think we're finals.
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  Speaker 6: We'll talk about it a blove bath man, it's a
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  Speaker 6: blood bath waiting.
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  Speaker 1: That would be fun, all right? You like that idea too,
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  Speaker 1: to shout out, get our take a race. So we
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  Speaker 1: also no cte we were able to remember what you
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  Speaker 1: guys picked for your winners.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Terrence Crawford came into this week.
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  Speaker 1: Holding the belt and after the fights, we've done the
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  Speaker 1: math and the winner off today is.
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  Speaker 2: Tim Bradley Junior.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go for a tie up. Give me the animus decision.
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  Speaker 4: Now the loser over there, no, not me. Exactly what's
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Bust you upside your head so you're gonna hell you
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  Speaker 1: good about and immediately.
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  Speaker 2: And so what would you like to say about your
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  Speaker 2: big win today?
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  Speaker 3: I just want to just thank my mom out there.
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  Speaker 3: I want to thank my father, want to thank you know,
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  Speaker 3: my wife and my kids. A big shout out to
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  Speaker 3: my daughter was a birthday this past weekend.
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  Speaker 4: We know, thank you so much. Man, This is wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: I feel good now and I finally, finally was able
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  Speaker 3: to beat Terrence at something by.
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  Speaker 4: Default, by default? What you mean by default?
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  Speaker 6: Because the fight that you won, that the only fight
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  Speaker 6: that I didn't win is because I want I went with.
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  Speaker 4: The guy, because you went with your heart and he
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  Speaker 4: could have won. Billy ain't doing nothing but coming down
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  Speaker 4: the line, know what, And you ain't gonna never see
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  Speaker 4: this next next month. I gotta sit there, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great boy.
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  Speaker 1: Seats two and oh, we saw your dance with the kids,
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  Speaker 1: saying you're now that you're a champing chance you want
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  Speaker 1: to bust out the moves as we say good night.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want none of this. Hey hey hey, hey
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  Speaker 4: hey hey hey hey hey man, Mexico is proud right now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm lett y'all know right now they are definitely proud.
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  Speaker 3: Show Williams put william Sapea put on a dam a
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  Speaker 3: hell of a show man. I didn't expect that. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was gonna be a little bit more competitive.
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  Speaker 3: What did I'm gonna ask you all this and I
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  Speaker 3: canna answer it later. What did roach do wrong in
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  Speaker 3: this fight?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 6: First of all, he was back then up. He wasn't
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  Speaker 6: using the angles properly that he was supposed to. He
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  Speaker 6: didn't go to the body, His jab wasn't consistent, and
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  Speaker 6: he wasn't moving his upper body.
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  Speaker 4: He was in that that shell. Yep, you know you
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  Speaker 4: you can't.
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  Speaker 6: You can't have your hands up in that pickaboo shell
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  Speaker 6: when you got a guy throwing a million punches at
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  Speaker 6: you and you're trying to counter. You gotta get your
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  Speaker 6: head moving and you gotta be a disc I mean,
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  Speaker 6: a moving target, and you gotta make him pay every
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  Speaker 6: tense that you can.
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  Speaker 4: And he never hit the body either, never hit But
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't fully invested in it to relax, not enough
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  Speaker 5: for a sense of urgency. He needed a higher punch off.
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  Speaker 5: But as we already knew, he wasn't firing fast enough,
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  Speaker 5: and he never was able to turn.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll take it even further in like eight weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It's so hard to turn into a volume puncher when
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  Speaker 3: you're not that right.
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  Speaker 4: That's not his nature.
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  Speaker 3: So when I looked at that, and I looked at
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  Speaker 3: the punchts, I said to myself and said, he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get out.
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  Speaker 4: Worked, you know, like you just can't adopt that type
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  Speaker 4: of style like overnight.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 4: That take years and years of practice to do what
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  Speaker 4: Sapada does. Man, so and he's doing it better.
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  Speaker 6: I was.
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  Speaker 4: I'm blessed enough he retired.
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  Speaker 6: I'm blessed enough to make the fighters fight my fight.
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  Speaker 6: So I would have brought his punch count down instead
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  Speaker 6: of just standing there.
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  Speaker 4: I would have made him work for it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, little steps over, make make them reach, make them miss,
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  Speaker 6: make them have to think about the distance. Yes, because
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  Speaker 6: once he was in the distance, he knew what to
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  Speaker 6: do from their own.
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  Speaker 3: Out because every step that you take you can create
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  Speaker 3: a different angle, right, And so when he's stepping in,
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  Speaker 3: if you get off line, he's.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna fall short every single time. So Bud is right after.
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  Speaker 1: There's one fighter and their father that I think can
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  Speaker 1: learn from this and grow it is the Roach family.
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  Speaker 2: Lamont Roach Senior, Lamont Roach Junior. They're gonna go into
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  Speaker 2: the lab because he hit.
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  Speaker 1: He got hit with more punches in nine rounds today
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  Speaker 1: than he has ever faced in any full fight in
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  Speaker 1: his entire life.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we saw for William Zapeta.
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  Speaker 1: Truly a stellar performance, one a performance here in Las Vegas,