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The Combat Sports Report with Hanson Crafton: UFC 318, Pacquiao's Return & a Heavyweight Championship Fight (Podcast No. 329.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: what you are listening to now is podcast number three hundred and twenty nine point one the combat sports report with handson crafting this week talking about UFC three eighteen many backyards return and an undisputed heavyweight championship fight man what a weekend for combat
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mangal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome fight fans to the central Indiana Sports Report and the combat sports report with Hanson Crafton and Hanson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got an incredible weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a good weekend, Hanson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That we have two big boxing matches yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to start with a little UFC-III-III team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tell us about that line up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you have C-III was kind of a card they put together for one desk to pour yake.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be his retirement fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pour yake's a guy who's been UFC for a while.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's at one of those fires that you kind of, if you've watched it for a long time, you've kind of grown up with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pour yake came in very young, a one forty-fiveer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's always been an exciting fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was an intern champ at one fifty-five that lightweight pretty much stayed there for his career.
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[SPEAKER_02]: guys fought everybody who's who's list of guys he's fought so he's it's his retirement fight they want to do this home counts they're doing it in Louisiana doorless Louisiana cards not spectacular it's a good card's got some fan favorites on there but like I said it's a card they kind of put together foot for dust and when he now said he was going to retire he came off of a title fight he lost the title fight and he said he would have one more in him so
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is what they're giving him a hometown fight against a guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's fought twice before.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he was fight max all the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another big name, another fan favorite, another former champion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now they have fought twice before.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dustin was actually Max's first fight when Max got to UFC.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was fighting there one forty five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was Dustin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was Max's first fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so Max is going to be Dustin's last fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the cool little story there, they did fight for the intern, one fifty five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: few years ago, that's when Dustin did win that title.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dustin also won the first fight when him and Max met in Max's first fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dustin submitted Max in the first fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Second fight was a lot closer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a slow fast back and forth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Really good fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think the weight difference made a difference for poor A and that fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This time around Max has been at fifty five for this is the second fight of the last three at fifty five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's probably filled out a little bit or I know last time they fought.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Max was the forty five champ.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was going to go back to forty five after the fight anyway.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't think he really felt out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, he probably would have wanted to go up a weight class.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This time he is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do expect this fight to be different.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a great fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Both these guys are our electric fighters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They go in there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They don't really try to win on points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They go in there fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're both well rounded.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're good standing up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're good on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's it's the making for really good fights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a really good fight to send us and off with the fans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like I said, it's going to be a fun one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't want to miss it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hanson UFC-III-III is on ESPN plus paper view.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The early prelim star at six followed by the prelims at eight on ESPN and ESPN plus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The main card begins at eight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anything else on the card worth mentioning?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, like I said, it's not the greatest car, but there are some fan favorites on there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Paulicasa, you know, thirteen ranked middleweight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably what you get throughout the car.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Kevin Hollins on there is another thirteen ranked the wealth or weight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: These are guys the fans like their guys and give good fights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's it's got some entertaining guys on there, but nothing really big, like fight, no title, limitators, no title fights.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing really
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing too crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, just a bunch of good fighters that are putting on there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think probably the other one to keep an eye on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Up and coming Daniel Zellhober.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's the undefeated prospect for Mexico.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's fighting Michael Johnson's a guy who's been around for a while as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be a fun fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel's coming off of a big knockout last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He followed the O.J.
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[SPEAKER_02]: card that they did during Mexican Independence Day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's going to be exciting to see kind of where he's at in his career.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is one of those fights for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like I said, Michael Johnson's a veteran been around for a while, but he's also a good fighter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's coming off of a knockout win of his own.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a good test for day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see where he's at moving forward and be good for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If he goes in there and beats Michael Johnson and press a fashion, I think you can see him begin to the top five of the division or top ten of the division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then he can be looking at fighting somebody closer to the top five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he probably be a couple fights away from maybe a title administrator.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the only other like, that's the only meaningful fight on the card.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, you got a lot of names that people like Danny Gay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like a couple of good matchups too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking now, Hanson at the odds for the fight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And first of all, the main event is pretty much even.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, how away is a slight favorite.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like I said, that one's going to be a good one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's for the BMF title.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's about they brought into the UFC a few years ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I let those at home look up a BMF means.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But it's a title they've had for a few years now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It just kind of goes to the guys that are like a center or guys who go in there and really fight, you know, you're not going to get guys laying on each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to get guys trying to stall these guys going there and they really fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's a good title for these two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be an excited fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I think our correct.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a it's a toss up that fight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are some bad mother.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Copeland is a slight favorite over Costa Holland a slight well significant favorite over Rodriguez and the Welterweight fight and the final fight Danny gay a favorite over Patricia Pipple, but it looks like all of those could go either way
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, the only one that I really feel strong about to the Kevin Holland fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rodriguez is a guy that's coming down from weight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He kind of bounces around from middleweight and welterweight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's a solid fighter, but he does have holes in his game and Holland's been kind of hot of lately.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's a guy that puts runs together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now he does have some losses on his record, but he's a guy that can run off four or five in a row at a time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's well rounded.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's good on the ground and he's got really good stand up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of like
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[SPEAKER_02]: Diante Wilder was power.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's a long skinny gap, but he hurts people when he connects.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, Paul and I think that they have that one correct.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I see him being, he's the one I feel the most confident about like winning.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But like you said, the rest of him are kind of toss ups.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think anybody, anybody get these wins.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do see Daniel Zellhover probably beat Michael Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really liked the way he's looked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I like where he's headed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a big opportunity for him because this is going to be a card that does draw a lot of eyes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The main event is a really big one because it's in Dustin's home town.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's got a lot of steam behind it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a big fight for, um, present over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I expect him to come away victorious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the rest of them are kind of just a coin for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, I really don't even know about the max.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I know it's tough to beat somebody three times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I do like to a style of verse max.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Where is it really good counter boxer?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's one of those self-pulse that's right handed to his, his jab and his lead hook is his very strong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Probably his best punch is probably his right hook.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that wouldn't
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could see Porya getting the victory there, but I wouldn't be surprised if Max got an eater.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is a busy, busy Saturday, handsome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Super busy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can wake up, watch some golf, take a break, get some meat, and then you got fights on the rest of the day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And someone who hasn't fought since twenty twenty one, of course, is the legend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Manipack, yeah, he will be fighting for the BBC welterweight title against Mario, Barrios in Vegas at the NGM Grand.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, first fight in almost four straight years, hands and sometimes things go surprisingly well on those situations, sometimes it goes very poorly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's one of those honestly, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Barry else is a good opponent for pack out of combat too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, he hasn't fought.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then last fight when he did fight against August, he didn't really look that great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you guys also somebody who burrows beat for the intern well through weight title back in twenty twenty three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it looks good for Pacquiao, but boxing's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's been a lot of rumors, rumble, it's going around about Pacquiao may weather, maybe doing it again for Turkey, Aleation, and Saudi Arabia.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you go to the judges, expect something crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know how boxing is?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not a boxing answer, no way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's that's one thing I'm going to keep on if it does go to the judges it could get crazy because you know the the big money fight to what they usually go for that's a pack down may weather would still probably do good numbers just because of the history they've had sure but I just
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's tough for me to see somebody, forty-six years old coming off of a more five-year layoff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I say, it looked too great in his last fight anyways.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be tough plus Barry Osis been active.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he just come off of a draw and his last fight and was in November of last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's been fairly active.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's a pretty good boxer as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now he has, I think he's lost two of his last four or five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been knocked out by tank.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he did be a rollie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's got some wins on his record.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a toss-up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would expect Barrios to win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say anything can happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: More than a toss-up, it's kind of a question mark.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have no idea really what to expect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't get a lot of laughs this long Hanson, but this is a sport where guys retire and come out of retirement all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes they just needed that break.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and many packet you say what you want about boxers forty six is old but it's not super old men continue to get man's strength up to about that age and who knows what it what it means for him yeah no it's just a mystery yeah it's going to be an interesting fight I really don't know how it's going to go like I said I expect very else to win but who knows
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if it goes to the distance, you can just count on even if he loses every round pack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was getting that decision.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think so if it goes to the judges, I think it's going to get crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Barrios, by the way, is a almost three to one favorite in that one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anything in that card that you're like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a loaded card.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's the Amazon Prime card.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it starts at eight p.m.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Amazon paper view actually, but it starts APM and then in that cards loaded, you have a huge rematch between Sebastian Fendor and Tim Zoo.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They first fought last two years ago, maybe last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But it was a really good fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tim Zoo was winning the early rounds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tim Zoo was winning the first few rounds and they didn't got a really bad cut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember what caused the cut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was a
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[SPEAKER_02]: unintentional elbow or unintentional head, but he had a nasty cut right on the top of his forehead and blood really bad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They couldn't get it to stop.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you can tell the fight changed after that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He got a little tired, I guess, from all the blood loss.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he still answered to take it to a split that says, and now he did lose.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The door did get that win over Zoo.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But like I said, it was a really good fight for the circumstances.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a really interesting rematch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And who is the favorite?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, like I said, he was winning the first fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now he is coming off for the fight he had right after that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now he did take on a tank and Bach Herm, Moocherselli, who was undefeated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he beat the Snot out until zero.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the first fight after the Fendor loss.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he knocked Tim zoo down three times in the second round and knocked him down and finished him in the third round.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty one side of fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was super surprised to see that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But Tim zoo bounced back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He just beat Joseph Spencer by TKO in April of this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he did rebound well after two losses.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the first two losses of his career.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's kind of coming in with a little momentum going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: same thing from Fendor Fendor has a fob but once since their first meeting he just knocked out court out booker who was twenty three and oh when they went to fight it was a good prospect so that was a good win for Fendor Fendor was one he was kind of holding out one a bigger fight at fifty four he was trying to see maybe their own spence fight but spence hasn't fought since he took that beaten from blood-croffered I think they scheduled maybe twice the fight and spenced it and to put out both times
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[SPEAKER_02]: So Fendor has been sitting a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's just got the one Friday, they fight March of this year, but he took a whole year off between that fight and the first Tim Zufait.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So he hasn't been as active, but I see this one is a good fight again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Fendor is super tall for the division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Six, five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's a hard matchup for anybody in the division.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But Tim Zuf's a good boxer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like I said, he was winning the first fight until he got that really bad cut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it makes this really interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Kim Zoo should win, but you never know, like you like to say, it's boxing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you think it happened when you throw the gloves on, you get a ring and it's just you versus another man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of which the division more, that's most the case is of course the heavyweight division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You throw two guys in there who knows what's going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've got a good one, Hanson, and I'm
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[SPEAKER_01]: of the three big events going on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the one I'm looking most forward to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing to me is better than a heavyweight boxing fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, and you got two really good woods on that card.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be the zone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to start a little earlier today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This one starts at five thirty p.m.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you got the undisputed heavyweight title, the most precious title in all combat sports.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know Tay Atlas once said that the back in the day the heavyweight champion of the world was
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[SPEAKER_02]: it's the title everybody looks to it is a rematch another rematch it's it's music undefeated former white heavyweight champion now the heavyweight champion
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know a lot of people don't like Lucy, but I think he's got one of the better resumes that you're going to see in boxing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's being anti-judged with twice, Tyson Fury twice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, he was a former life heavyweight champion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's already beat the Du Bois once.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a good really beat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did he beat Du Bois once or was it the circumstances?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The beat Du Bois once.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, you beat him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was boxing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was boxing and what pretty good.
15:43
[SPEAKER_02]: He made him, he made him quit in the ninth round.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he dropped him with just a jab.
15:48
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people complain about the low blow.
15:50
[SPEAKER_02]: If you watch and slow motion, it was uppercut to voice through.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It started low and it ended at the belly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But he definitely hit him low.
15:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Oosick is not a guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think that would try to pull some stuff like that.
16:03
[SPEAKER_02]: You can take advantage of the break.
16:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Usuk was winning that fight easy the first fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he was winning on all the judges score cards and like I said, he made him quit later in the fight and night round.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now that was two years ago, the voices looked great since then.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got some really good wins.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He just knocked out Anthony Joshua.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is a different fight for both this was supposed to be Usuk and Joshua.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Joshua, I think his time has come.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's a guy that's
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's always been fairly chitty and he got in there with a puncture like the voice and the voice was there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll take him out and pretty much put it in to any type of hope Joshua had.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But this is going to be a good fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's an interesting fight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, verse.
16:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I see, I don't know.
16:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was just so slick.
16:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I love the way he boxes it.
16:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the way he moves his feet.
16:52
[SPEAKER_02]: He gets to the side.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's never really in any danger.
16:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Even in the fury fight, I hit with a couple good shots, but he never really left fury to get anything big off on him because his footwork's so good.
17:03
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's a smaller heavyweight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't try to balloon up and get bendy stays with the sides.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's able to take the
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[SPEAKER_02]: the weight mismatched for his movement is speed.
17:14
[SPEAKER_02]: He's very good with his left hand.
17:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Usik wins this fight just based off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's just a better boxer.
17:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I think his skill levels better.
17:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's tougher.
17:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And I see Usik probably stopping to voice again in this fight.
17:30
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Usik at the end of his prime against the boys probably the beginning of his prime.
17:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Does that factor in?
17:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that would be the only factor if, you know, the only way I see Lucic losing is if he does show up and all of a sudden he's a different fire than what we've seen in the past.
17:49
[SPEAKER_02]: If he slows down, because like I said, he is a smaller guy from the division.
17:52
[SPEAKER_02]: So if he loses that speed and footwork, that could cause him a lot of trouble.
17:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's his biggest advantage and all of his heavyweight fights.
18:01
[SPEAKER_02]: So if he does lose that, then, you know, that'd be
18:06
[SPEAKER_02]: to his detriment and he's a guy that he has started talking about retirement and they always say in the fight game once you got one foot out the door, it's never really good.
18:16
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't want to hear a guy start talking about retirement now.
18:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I know I think he said he probably plan on doing one or two more after this, but I might say you never really want to hear people start talking about retirement while they're still fighting.
18:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's my only concern with the U.S.
18:31
[SPEAKER_02]: because maybe does he run out of gas a little bit, but
18:36
[SPEAKER_02]: If we're going off skills, I think the skill gets too large and I think we stick wins, but you know, we'll never know what box, especially with heavyweight.
18:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Especially with heavyweight, it's exactly.
18:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Especially with a punch like Du Bois.
18:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Like in the Joshua fight, got hurt by Joshua.
18:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Joshua went in for the kill and then he was able to connect with the right hand and he knocked Joshua on his face.
18:56
[SPEAKER_02]: So Du Bois is a puncher.
18:58
[SPEAKER_02]: He's got that puncher's chance.
18:59
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a good heavyweight.
19:01
[SPEAKER_02]: He's big.
19:02
[SPEAKER_02]: He's pretty filled out for for size two, so he's a solid guy.
19:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, the size advantage is his, but like I said, I think the skill goes to U six, so we'll see who's waiting for the winner.
19:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Joshua Parker.
19:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I would think you were Joseph Parker.
19:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you have to let Parker do it right.
19:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's got
19:23
[SPEAKER_02]: The best wins come in least one three in a row against three very dangerous guys.
19:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you have to let Parker have a shot at least.
19:30
[SPEAKER_02]: If not, I know they're talking about fury coming back.
19:33
[SPEAKER_02]: They'll probably want to do that just because of the draw.
19:36
[SPEAKER_02]: and the money, but I would think Parker deserves it, but we'll see, this box and anything happens, and especially when you have a name, they tend to go with the names.
19:46
[SPEAKER_02]: So we could see Fury versus Lucy, again, I know Fury, that's the fight he wants, but I think Parker's earned the fight to fight Lucy, or Dubo, if whoever wins, I think Parker's earned the fight.
19:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And especially since it's gonna be undisputed, the winner of this is gonna have all the heavyweight belts, so it should be Parker.
20:07
[SPEAKER_01]: big guys fighting on this card.
20:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the co-man is a very interesting fight.
20:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Lawrence, a co-woman is fighting Kevin Larina.
20:16
[SPEAKER_02]: A co-woman is a guy who's he's he's coming off of a first round KO over an undefeated has seen Muhammad and that was last year.
20:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Muhammad was a highly ranked prospect and a co-woman just kind of manhandled him and we took him out one round
20:32
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's a very interesting fight I think he's you know he's twenty one and one he's got sixteen knockouts he's he's a guy to keep an on there's a lot of good heavy weights coming up and then there's a lot fighting here soon so we'll kind of get
20:46
[SPEAKER_02]: an idea of who's next, but I don't know if Usek's gonna stick around and try to fight some of these young guys that's coming up, getting their crimes.
20:55
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of these guys coming for a big heavyweight, big punches for a guy who's been through the fight.
21:01
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been through with the names he's fought.
21:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's probably more likely to run into this sunset after one more fight against a big name as opposed to fight some of these young up and coming hungry guys.
21:13
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's interesting fight.
21:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Kevin Marine is going to be much of a match for a cold.
21:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is probably your old fashioned WWS gloss match, but it's going to be entertaining.
21:25
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I love watching head weights myself.
21:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I love watching the knockouts.
21:29
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think you're definitely going to get a knockout and that fight.
21:33
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm very interested in that fight.
21:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Loppin Ed Benson, of course, is a light heavyweight title fight.
21:43
[SPEAKER_02]: That's another interesting fight.
21:46
[SPEAKER_02]: They're both undefeated.
21:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's the intercontinental line heavyweight.
21:50
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what we're going to mean.
21:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it is.
21:53
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like the silver, you know, the co-main is a silver heavyweight title fight.
21:58
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's strange, but you got two undefeated fighters.
22:02
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's always good.
22:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's it.
22:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, like I said, who sick was a check in there?
22:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Normally a lot of times those guys went to build and they move up a weight class.
22:15
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a vendor hole field.
22:16
[SPEAKER_01]: The guys who
22:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Our big punchers, but also good athletes, typically.
22:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and Edmonton's have really good athlete.
22:24
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not your prototypical puncher.
22:27
[SPEAKER_02]: He's only got three knockouts of his eleven wins and Moses, like I think.
22:31
[SPEAKER_02]: His last four fights, four five fights.
22:33
[SPEAKER_02]: He's one by the decision.
22:34
[SPEAKER_02]: But he's a good boxer.
22:35
[SPEAKER_02]: He's one of them guys that moves very well.
22:38
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not very, he's not too big for the division.
22:41
[SPEAKER_02]: He's six one.
22:42
[SPEAKER_02]: So he does kind of have a little bit of size on him.
22:46
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a good boxer, laughing.
22:48
[SPEAKER_02]: He's saying that he's only got four knockouts of his Levin wins, but he's also a good boxer and he's got a couple good wins on the his belt.
22:57
[SPEAKER_02]: He's fought.
22:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see, he fought three times last year.
23:01
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's a guy that's, he's coming in.
23:04
[SPEAKER_02]: He's had a lot of momentum.
23:05
[SPEAKER_02]: He said three knockouts of his last four fights.
23:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he's going to grow an end to his power.
23:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, he's only got four under his belt.
23:14
[SPEAKER_02]: The three in his last four.
23:16
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe that's something to look for for him.
23:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he's going to be the puncture of the two.
23:23
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it's in maybe the the boxer, but he's getting the opportunity.
23:27
[SPEAKER_02]: He's another Ukrainian fighter.
23:29
[SPEAKER_02]: He's actually ranked number two out of Ukraine.
23:31
[SPEAKER_02]: He's in our number thirty three in the world of life heavyweight.
23:34
[SPEAKER_02]: So
23:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Young up in commerce, so that's a very interesting fight.
23:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Big fight for both these guys.
23:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't see either one up and being a lay down.
23:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really know what the odds are on that fight, but I can see it.
23:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe go in the distance.
23:51
[SPEAKER_02]: They could schedule for ten.
23:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I could see it going all ten with both these guys.
23:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, if anybody is going to get the knockout, I feel confident.
23:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel, I think it could be the one to get the knockout.
24:01
[SPEAKER_02]: So laughing is a big favorite
24:04
[SPEAKER_02]: which I think that probably count off of the roll he's been on lately.
24:08
[SPEAKER_02]: So if it doesn't go the distance, I could see him getting the stoppage.
24:13
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think it may go the distance with both these guys.
24:16
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like I said, they just need to one and really look like a huge puncher.
24:20
[SPEAKER_02]: But if anybody doesn't get the stoppage, it probably will be laughing.
24:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Loppens minus four hundred minus four fifty.
24:26
[SPEAKER_01]: So not a huge favorite, but significant favorite.
24:30
[SPEAKER_01]: The odds maker say really either one of these guys could win it.
24:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, in box in the four, minus four is not as big as it is that it been made.
24:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It been made, minus four would be huge.
24:40
[SPEAKER_02]: And boxed, I mean, you see guys minus eight hundred win fights.
24:45
[SPEAKER_01]: See the lot bigger than that.
24:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
24:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Take a mic, Tyson Buster Douglas.
24:50
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
24:51
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you do to one.
24:53
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, it was.
24:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, anything happened with the bigger guys.
24:57
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
24:58
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a really interesting fight though.
24:59
[SPEAKER_02]: One at once, I don't want double back to though on the Pacio.
25:04
[SPEAKER_02]: card is the Isaac Cruz verse on Hill Farrow.
25:08
[SPEAKER_02]: That is, it's a super light weight, five hundred forty pounds, but they just fought in February of this year in an absolute dogfight.
25:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Really good fight.
25:17
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's going to be a rematch.
25:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Isaac Cruz is a really good fighter.
25:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Ferres are good fighter too.
25:22
[SPEAKER_02]: They both have the style where they're just going to be in the middle.
25:25
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's an interesting keep round two on the other card of the packing out fight.
25:30
[SPEAKER_02]: That one's going to be excited fight.
25:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really looking forward to that fight on that card.
25:34
[SPEAKER_02]: That fight in the Fendor fight to me are going to be bigger than the pack out fight honestly.
25:39
[SPEAKER_02]: The U.S.
25:39
[SPEAKER_02]: fight with that card.
25:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, that's the biggest fight on that.
25:43
[SPEAKER_02]: But with the pack y'all card, that undercards really good.
25:45
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a really good undercard.
25:47
[SPEAKER_02]: We get a lot of odds on some of these guys.
25:49
[SPEAKER_02]: No brand and figurators also on there.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And now he is coming off of a loss to see him perform.
25:54
[SPEAKER_02]: But he's a guy that before the loss he had had three fights in a row, two chaos.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, he's a younger guy.
26:00
[SPEAKER_02]: So twenty five and two.
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Fair to wait.
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you don't like the light weights.
26:04
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, one twenty six.
26:06
[SPEAKER_02]: But he's an exciting fighter.
26:07
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's a really good undercard.
26:10
[SPEAKER_02]: So like I said, you got boxing all day.
26:12
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's going to be tough.
26:13
[SPEAKER_02]: You got pick and choose which ones you want to watch if you don't have multiple TVs on.
26:17
[SPEAKER_02]: We should fight the start first and then you'll be able to catch the packing out card and then go from that to the UFC.
26:26
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a long day for fights, but the guy like me, you know, I look forward to it.
26:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll wake up Saturday.
26:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get everything done.
26:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to do early that morning.
26:34
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'll be watching fights from the first bill to the last bill.
26:39
[SPEAKER_02]: No matter what time it is.
26:41
[SPEAKER_01]: And we will get your reaction on all of it early next week.
26:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for your time, Hanson.
26:46
[SPEAKER_02]: That no problem.
26:50
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26:52
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26:53
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