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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Folks, we're back on the Way concept presented by the Ring.
My name is Wade Pleming. Today I'm sitting down with
one half of the main event once again, your prolonga.
What's up? I messed so man, main event time in
your city. I know, it feels good to be home.
Just talk to me about the emotions right now, the
feeling fight week we're here.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm excited, you know. I love fight week, man, because
it's like you get closer to the fight now, you know,
and the training is done, you know, and now it
was trying to promote the fight talk shit and just
you know, just make weight, you know, and then I'm happy.
I'm more happy, like I'm gonna fuck this dude up,
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but like I'm I'm like so happy cause like Fridays
like the way in then I can eat. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You look good man. You're trimmed up obviously. You know.
Colorado is doing you well out there. Everybody's gonna ask
about the training, but you said you wanted to talk
some shit, so let's talk some shit. I don't know
if you saw I look good though, you do look
good man, yeah, Paus, I don't know if you saw
that Tomson was walking around in your city this week
asking people if they knew who you were, and you
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know people people, What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh, he's a fan, bro, he's a fan. After my
fight I'm having with pomp Poms, Okay, I'm addressing like
a fucking cheerleader. He's a fan. Bro, who does ship
like that? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Do you think if you walked around in London people
do not know who's homes? You know?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Up?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Fuck out here? Bro? As a fan? You know that
he don't even have the right fit on. He looked
like he looks weird, you know, fit just look corny? Okay,
the whole ship was it was cringe. It wasn't like
you know, I was looking at it. I was like,
fuck it. Last time that thank you, thank you for
promoting my name right.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Telling the people here's the main event. The last time
you guys were sat in front of each other, I
was there. There was one hundred thousand dollars bet on
the line. We still hold on to.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh yeah, he about that ship cash right there?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Cash cashwany I need that ship in my pocket. When
we talked about that I'm gonna go by another watch.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
One of those you get throw on my way. I
ain't rocking nothing today. I didn't want to style on.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You know, I'm probably get like an aps on something. Okay,
a pretty big one.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Just my entire mortgage on your wrist, No big deal.
When we were in front of each other last time,
you talked about how Hamza is the rings next big
prospect and you're here to spoil the party. Do you
still feel that way?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, I mean I see it too. Obviously there's a
lot of promotion behind both of you guys, but Hamsa
in a position to potentially take the next step you
as well. I do feel like this is your opportunity
to silence a lot of people as well, based on.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Of course, I always got my back against the walls,
so I'm not even tripping. You know, I got a
lot of haters, and definitely you know, they they got
a plan for him, you know, Turkey got a plan.
But uh, I'm here to spoiler plan. You know, that's
that's my job to come in and spoil the plan
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and give glory to God and you know, talk ship,
you know, and and and be entertaining and performing that
ring like a star and you know, show my white teeth,
you know what I'm saying, And you know, and uh
just look good, feel good and fight good.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You say they have a plan for him, what's Egarberlanga's
plan everything, not just for the fight, but going forward,
obviously you get this fight done, What's what's your plan?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
My plan? My plan is, uh, after the fight.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Just for your career when you obviously you think you're
gonna get this win and you know you're gonna get
this way, what's your plan? Because they got all his
stuff set up about you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Fuck his plan? You know. My plan is, you know,
just to take over the one six state division. You
know what I'm saying. Eventually, you know, hopefully, you know,
after this fight. Obviously we focus on Saturday, but uh,
you know I would to I would love to run
it back, you know with Canelo, and if not, I'm
looking for I'm really looking for to fighting one more
time this year, you know, November, December don't matter. I
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want to finish the year off with a bang. You know,
I'm gonna dust this dude, sweep him off. You know
what I'm saying, Send him back the fucking UK, you know,
and uh, and then focus on the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Let's talk about it. You're gonna dust him up. He's
with Andy Lee. Now you had some things to say
about that partnership the last time around.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You can't beat them, you join them, you know what
I'm saying. So, you know, and I gotta I feel
I got a thing with Irish people. You know, I
knocked out already like three of them, you know, so
I think you know, I know, I know he got
a little chip on his shoulder right now, Andy Lee?
Man fucking Aalito? Uh, what's up with with Hamas? Let's
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talk about has.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah. I was gonna say, well, how you get this
one done?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You've seen him. He's a big puncher. You're a big puncher.
How does this fight going?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You're a big.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know obviously we going in there, you know, to hurt.
But uh, I just tell everybody just get your popcorn ready.
You know what I'm saying. It's gonna be an explosive fight.
You know, I'm I'm way above his level. Man. You know,
I've been boxing since I was six years old. Seven
years old. I keep saying it, you know what I'm saying.
I've been in the ring with the best since an amateur.
You know what I'm saying, national tournaments, went pro. I
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just for the legend, you know last year, So you
know he he don't have nothing for me, Bro, It's nothing.
There's nothing he gonna do that that I've never seen before.
You know what I'm saying. I don't go a fuck
about his high his reach. He could be ten feet tall,
you know what I'm saying. You know, the the bigger
they are, the harder they fall, right, So you know
I'm I just gotta go in there. Just be Eggo Bolanga.
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Follow you know the game plan we have, We've been
working on for ten weeks and execute it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You give me a little tease anything that you see,
Like you visualize this fight over and over.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I know you have as it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
How does it go? In your opinion? How do you end?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Is a right fucking it's a It's a blood massacre,
that's all. That's all.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know what I'm saying, it's gonna be It's gonna
be a bad knife for them for sure, one hundred percent.
You know what I'm saying. We already got the one.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Just going in there now. Just putting that work. And
I said, shining, bro, having fun in there. That's literally
having fun, enjoying my work everything I worked hard for
for ten weeks. Now I was trying to play. I
already I already suffered. I already put myself through fucking
I put myself through that fire and hell I mean
and you know in camp. You know what I'm saying.
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I put myself through that fire already. So this is
the time now I to enjoy my work. You know
what I'm saying, enjoy every all, all the process I
did in camp in Colorado's now it's time to put
in for for the twelve.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Talk to me about what it means. Obviously, you know
you're fighting here in New York. This is your home.
Obviously a lot of Puerto Rican heritage here as well.
This has got to mean the world to you, being
in in the main event in your backyard with all
your people there.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh yeah, for sure. You know, coming from from New York.
You know, being the main event here in the city
is amazing, bro. You know, the city's definitely popping out.
You know, they love a blanga fight. They know it's
gonna be a fight. Everybody knows when I fight. They
know I'm gonna come to fight. I'm We're not playing around.
We're not gonna run around the ring, you know, and uh,
you know, you got people out there. They're gonna put
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their best fits on. You know, they're gonna look good,
and you know it's gonna be a star stunning performance
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Give me your final message. Talk to me like I'm Homsen, right,
what's your final message to him for what's gonna happen
on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm fucking him up. I'm fucking you up.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm fucking you up.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yes, sir, yes, sir. You know, ladies and gentlemen, the
main event Hegary Berlanga to catch him on The Zone
live this Saturday in the main event. Stay tuned, folks,
Welcome back to the Way concept presented by the Ring.
I am here with the WBC Lightweight Champion of the
World three division champion, former Olympian she of course Stevenson.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What's up, my man?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
How you doing, sir?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Doing very well, sir man. I feel so official now.
I appreciate it. It's fight week yoh man. I know
you're excited to be here. You're basically in your backyard,
your people here to watch you in the main event.
Talk to me how you're feeling.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
You said, like you're trying to put some pressure on me.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
No, man, I just I know it's your moment.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I'm playing.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I mean, I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
We put it in a lot of work this training camp,
so come fight night, we're coming in there to make
sure we come out Victorias and beat his ass.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, that's been the message. I feel like the entire
build up to this is beat his ass, knockout Belta ass.
What's what's been the mentality is I don't want to
say switch, but what's been the emphasis on that.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I mean, this is a guy who I know gonna
be very prepared and he's gonna come out there and
I think he's going to push me to a new level.
I think he's going to bring out the best of me,
and I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I'm ready. He's been he sat down on me earlier.
He's been saying that he doesn't think you're going to
engage in the way you're talking like you're going to.
He thinks that you're going to be, you know, on
the outside, looking maybe to disengage from the fight with him.
He's been saying that for a while. Now, what are
your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That's a method he wanted to use to try to
get me to fight his fight. But I don't fight
nobody else fight. I fight my own fight. So if
I do go out there and move and whatever, nigga,
stop it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Stop it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Make sure you come out there and win, and that's
what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Don't complain about what I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Doing, right, stop it from doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And no one's been able to do that, so that's
why they can't be. You talked about this being your moment.
You're ready, I gotta talk about it. You look jacked.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Man, it looks like you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I don't know if it's musty blond stuffing, but man,
you are in shape shape. Has this been just a
different lock in this time around?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Honestly, I think y'all just ain't seen you in a tain.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I'm like running the tank top today, so I kind of,
you know, let it all right, I gotta hear some
girls or something. Okay, So, like you said, the Paida's
got a great style for you, how do you see
him approaching this fight. Not to focus on him too much, because,
like you said, you worry about you and what you
gotta do. But what do you see him doing?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
The thing is right, and this is why he's not
gonna be able to beat me. He got one style
that he can do, so I know what he's bringing.
I know what he's coming with. He's coming straight in,
coming straight ahead at me, to throw NonStop punches the
entire night. There's nothing different that he's going to do.
I'm levels above him because I know that I can
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do whatever I want. So it depends on what I
decide to do that night and how I want to
go in there and fight. You know, sometimes I fight
in the pocket. Sometimes I move a little tiny bit,
but it depends on how I want.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
To fight that night.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How do you see yourself? Obviously you have to adjust
during the fight, but how do you see yourself fighting?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
I see him making me fight. Yeah, I see him
making me fight, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Think I like to smile though I like that bring it.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I think he don't realize that that's not what he
wants because it's like you back somebody up against a
corner and it's just gonna wake up a monster. That
he haven't yet to see yet, So tell him break it.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think you're excited to bring that monster out for sure?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Does this fight feel like, let me remind y'all who
I am? Type of fight because it feels like people
have forgotten that you are three times or three division champ,
you are an Olympian, you are the reigning WBC World champion.
Is this one of those fights you're like, just in
case y'all forgot I'm one of, if not the best,
in the world.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah, this one of them kind of fights where it's like,
I remember people watch me with Jamel Henry and they
felt as though I was the best fighter in the
world then. So I think that's gonna be what comes
Saturday night. I think I'm they're going to get that
version of me, but ten times better.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I've been seeing all this stuff online, man, and maybe
I shouldn't pay an attention to it. You probably don't either,
But this Tom and Jerry stuff?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Man? By the way, I saw your gift you quote sweet,
that was a nice little now like you having fun with.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It though, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah, you know, I try not to take it so personal.
Right at the end of the day, It just let
me know how great I am. You got somebody who's
so big as in Turkey and you never see him
troll any fighters. But for the first time it comes
down to me, is like, you want to sit there
and kind of troll me over and over and over.
So it just let me know he's thinking about me.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Of course, I think that him doing that does for
sure point out to say, like Turkey al Shake, the
man that is behind the ring three, the ring itself,
he's focused on you. Maybe he's focused on you so
much because he wants to bring whatever he thinks is
the best out of you.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, maybe badt the end of the day, Like I said,
it just let me know how great I am. I
gotta be great if somebody of that stature is sitting
there trolling me over and over.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So, and it's not just him that the entire world
of boxing is looking at you. This weekend, Yes, this
is my weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
This is my uh coming out party. This is where
I go out there and I show and tell, I
show and tell and I tell everybody that I'm the best.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
How does it feel, though, to do this in your backyard?
Your people are here, This has got to feel like
a pretty cool moment for you.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, it's so real, but it's gonna be more really
when we actually get there on Saturday night and get
to the stadium and Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's crazy right to the stadium like.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It's gonna be a real moment.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Definitely is. So let's let's do this. Let's let's have
a little visualization right now. Only gonna have to get
out game plany stuff like that. But you're in the
main event round one. You're looking across. You see Williams
of Peta. They ring the bell. What happens?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I ain't trying to give out too much, but you
see me coming out there, boxing them easy, making sure
that I win some early rounds, and I see him
just being tough. He's not going let up, so he's
going to kind of force me into a fighting. That's
when I'm gonna start fighting in, start whooping his ass.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Put that muscle on him, even popping out.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Come on now.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Last message to the fans that are watching, and also
to William himself, what do you have to say?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I'm the best fighter in the world and fans could
sit there and go against it. But the reason why
my fights look the way they look is because they
are so easy. And come Saturday night, there's gonna be
another night where I dominate and I show the world
how great I am.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I can't say it better than that belt to ass
bel to motherfucking ass there he is the WVC Lightweight
Champion of the World. In the main event this Saturday,
Ring three, Shakor Stevenson. All right, so we are here
way COPT presented by The Ring magazine straight away after
an incredible night of fights here in New York City
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and Queens at the Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It was Ring three.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And let me just say, for all of the flag
that has gone on around the Times Square card and
Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney and that whole thing, that
whole debacle, this was a great comeback card for the Ring,
headlined by two main events and two outstanding performance There's
really a ton of outstanding performances.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We're gonna talk about it all. What just happened Ring three.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Standout performances from Shakor Stevenson, a brutal, devastating demolition job
knockout from Hamsus Shiraz, the breakdown let's go all right.
So I was in the buildings tonight for Ring three
and this card was stacked with talent from top to bottom.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Let's talk through the whole card.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Number one, Rito Susumi, the newest ring ambassador, and you
know Japanese prodigy has fought on the Times Square card.
Funny enough, he fought a guy named Lavelle Whittington on
the Times Square card. I called Lavelle Whittington fights and
Kaguas Puerto Rico. I called his first fight, not his
first fight, but one of his fights there. I knew
it was a tough kid.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Rito got through it. This one.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
He ends it in like I think the second round,
the start of the second round, hit the guy with
the body shots a couple different times, came upstairs and
ended it there. Good performance, good good second win in
his pro career. They keep saying they're going to fast
track him. I want to see more before they get
to that point.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
But solid win.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Then we go to David Morell and in mom Kataev
and this was one of the fights that I had
a probably the fight I had the biggest problem with.
And no disrespect to anyone, nothing like that, but just
two fighters that are two dogs at one hundred and
seventy five pounds get in there and duke it out.
And David Morrell had a solid start to the fight,
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kind of tapered off in the middle, came back strong,
but in mom Kataev felt like he just continued to
keep the same pace and keep the same damage and
just over and over and over catch David Morrell with
big time punches, dropped him in the middle of the fight,
a huge right hand that dropped morel kind of shocked
the whole.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
New York crowd.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I want to say that David Morrel is like a
minus eight fifty favorite, and I think that's a lot
of people just not knowing who a mom Kataev is,
even though he is a excuse my language in there,
and you know Chechnian, that Eastern European style. And also
he's built like a brick shit house. Not only that,
but now he's training in Sydney, so he is well versed.
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He's had fights all over and you know, coming into
the fight week, there was a little bit of controversy
around the PD positive test. I think that it was
explained to me this is the way it was explained
to me. That that was done in twenty twenty three
out of the Olympics or something like that. But also
he was an Olympic bronze medalist, so this wasn't like
a recent test apparently. But neither here nor there. That
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was the controversy the fight itself, though, The controversy was
Daven Morrell, in my opinion, didn't win the fight, and
mom Kate won the fight, and I thought won.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
It pretty clearly.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He looked like it could even be like seven three,
maybe six four katae of But nevertheless Dave Morel gets
a win, and it was.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
It was a tough fight. It was a close fight.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Morel started to come back towards the end of the fight,
so it wasn't like some massive blood even at the
rounds are you know, like I said, seven three sixty four,
it was a close fight, but I thought, clearly Kotei
have won. Yeah, I just thought it was the wrong call,
but we moved. I mean, the good thing about it
is right, I'm a big proponent of not really you know,
focusing on the o in boxing and it'd being such
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a big thing wins and losses matter of course, but
these are two tough young fighters. I wouldn't say at
the beginning, but in the early stages of their careers
that you know can afford a loss if if it happens.
And also both of the guys get better from a
fight like that in my opinion, So wherever Morell goes next,
Whereverend mom Kotaev goes next, I think that they're you're
going to see them be better because of the experience.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
They gained tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And we had Alberto Pueo and Supra Al Mattias. This
was kind of pinned his fight of the night here
in Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Everybody looked at this fight.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It was going to be the one fight that jumped
off the page that both fighters were going to go
in there and dog it out and eventually whoever won,
it was going to be a close one. And honestly,
that's exactly what happened. This was a dog fight literally
from the beginning. Superra Ail Mattias I don't think took
one backstep the entirety of this fight, and Alberto Poyo
boxed very well in my opinion on the back foot
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and Subrail Mattias and Knew WBC super Lightweight Champion. I'm
gonna be honest, Yes, he wins the decision, but I
think the judges got this one wrong and this one
was a little closer. I'm not super upset about it
because how close the fight was. But I thought Alberto
Poyo won this. I thought that he won more rounds.
And here's why, Super al Matias threw more punches, landed
more punches throughout the fight, and landed more power punches
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throughout the fight. Now, the difference to me wasn't because
Alberto Poeo outlanded Super al Matias. In total, Subril won
rounds with a wider margin Alberto Poeo, I thought one
more rounds. That's the difference to me. I thought he
won more rounds. But the rounds that Mattias won he
won by a far bigger margin. Again, we'll have to
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look at the copy box numbers and all that, but
it really was I thought Mattias starting very well, Bertopoyo
started well. Is also, there was a maybe two to
two fight going into the fifth round. But from that
fifth round, Mattias I thought, racked up maybe five to six,
potentially seven, but seven being the swing round where I
thought poo. As they got into that seventh round maybe eight,
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started to figure out Mattias was just not gonna take
back steps, so he was gonna fall in behind a
lot of shots, and Poo, I thought, started out boxing
him on the back foot, really touching him. Uh when
he made Mattias miss, he would make him pay. We'll
get back to that saying in just a second, but yeah,
I thought that that Poyo won the fight. It was
a close one, so I'm not super upset. I'm not
gonna sit here and call it a robber or anything
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like that. And uh, superral Mattias is uh looking. I
think they lined him up. I'm not sure who it
was at Dalton Smith they lined him up with. I'm
not sure. They definitely want him in Riod next. H
got in the ring and was like, you're fighting next,
So Matias was like, sure, but I'm not sure what
they're gonna do with Poo next regardless, sanger of a fight.
Then we moved to the first of two main events,
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and the way this was built of the WBC Lightweight Championship,
Mattias and Poeo was a super lightweight. This was Chaque Stevenson,
williams Apeada and I had thought all week that it
was gonna be a pretty simple game plan for both guys.
The Peida was gonna do what Zepeta does, which is
throw a shit ton of punches, a barrage, never take
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a backstep, and look to just pressure Chakor to death
until the levee broke right, just fill the entire body
of water until something breaks and here comes the flood.
While on the other side, Shakur, I thought this would
work perfectly for him. I thought this was gonna be
an opportunity for him to have a showcase, to showcase
his skills, showcase his punching ability off his back foot,
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and to not have to do much work to to
get it done right. It was gonna be Zebeta just
walking forward, walking into range. That was gonna allow Chakor
to do what he does best with his CounterPunch. And
I was kind of right, but at the same time
kind of wrong because the whole narrative around this fight
Tom and Jerry, Chakur's gonna run. He's a runner, and
eventually he's not gonna have the gas anymore. Eventually Zepeida's
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gonna catch him. That wasn't what happened. Chakour Stevenson font
this fight like you know, you might compare to the
to the Valdez fight, but I don't even think you
can really do that. He fought this like no other
fight I've really seen from him, and that is a
credit to him. And I think it's a credit to
Williams of Peyta, because I think they both needed each
other tonight in Louis Armstrong Stateum, what I mean is
Zepeida brought the best out of Chakhour's offense tonight. I
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think a lot of the things that were said about
Shakor and the runner and all that made him fight
in a slightly different way, and Chakor sitting down on
his punches brought the best out of a paytas Abta
had to come through with some adversity of his own
and ended up making for a pretty darn good fight.
But with that being said, I thought we got one
of the best Shakur Stevenson performances I have ever seen
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tonight because he was taking all of the A game
I would say of Williams of Peta, which was again
all the pressure you expected, all the volume of punches
you expected. At one point it was more of a slip,
but Shakur did get touched with a punch that kind
of left him off balance, and he got tagged with
some punches that Shaquar Stevenson usually doesn't get tagged with.
And that's again a credit to Zapeta, but also Shaqur
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decided to fight this a little different. He decided to
sit in there with some of the punching and counter
off and throw more combinations and not look to use
his moving as much. In fact, there are moments a
couple of I would say more than a couple. It
was a bunch of times where Shakor was just on
the ropes, parallel back flat against the ropes and looking
to shoulder roll, catch things on the lead shoulder, bump
them up, backhand behind it, or catch with the backhand hook,
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backhand hook. And he was tagging Williams of pay to Tonight.
This was not like pillowhands Chakur or like oh he's
got brittle hands. He was tagging Williams of Payda Up. This.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I said it on Twitter. This was just a treat
to see Schakour in person.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And I'm not trying to glaze or nothing like that,
but when you see a guy with that kind of
skill in person, and you get to see the sweet science,
the actual sweet science, which is make your opponent miss
and make them pay. Chakur wasn't just using his feet.
Maybe he could have done more with that and it
would have been a safer fight for him. I think
he's even said as much.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
But when he was there.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Tonight and he was in the pocket and he was
making to pay to miss and then touching him with
the jab, then the backhand, it was a treat to
watch tonight, truly, like I'd never seen a Chakort fight
in person. Very glad that this was the one I
got to see because it was probably one of his
best performances. And again you credit that to Shakor, but
you also have to credit it to Williams of Payda
because Paida brought that out of Chaqueurta. As far as
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shaquarse Stevenson's concerned listen, one of his best performances. But
in the post fight presser he calls out Tank Davis,
and you know we've all seen the Tank Davis arrests
and subsequent release after. I mean, it's unfortunate, but we
have to tell it like it is, at least from
what we know right now, another domestic abuse allegation and
arrest for Tank Davis. It's it's a terrible thing. But yeah,
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I mean, this should be the fight. It could be
one of the biggest fights you can make right now
in American boxing. Is Chaquee Stevenson and Gervonte Tank Davis.
I don't know if they'll do it. I don't even
know if Tank is gonna fight on August sixteenth, let
alone anything after that. It seems like he has been
on a train wreck of a trajectory since the Frank
Martin fight. Honestly, right after the Frank Martin fight, great
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performance that everything else has been so wishy washy.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Does he want to box? Does he wanted to retire
out of the ring?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Stuff that's been going on for a very long time
with Tank, the Roach rematch, what happens there potentially Jake
Paul and now this, So we'll see. But I mean,
i'd be lying to you if I didn't if I
didn't say I wanted that fight. Of course I want
that fight. Everybody that's even somewhat of a boxing fan
in America would want that fight. So I hope that
happens next For Shakur if not, I mean, I guess
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he can move up to forty, but I think thirty
five is probably where he needs to be.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So who knows.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Uh, we'll have to see kind of what shakes out
at thirty five. So then we get to the main
event or the second main event, right hamsus Yeriz and
Edgar Berlanga. And this one was interesting because you had
two guys that were going through a lot of change. No,
justin Bieber voice, they were going through some changes. On
Edgar Berlanga's side. He I just pronounced Berlanga and Berlanga
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differently in the same sentence.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
He obviously had lost the Canelo fight and then come
back with a win versus a guy that looked like
he was.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Melting in real time.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
But you know, Edgar is known as a big power puncher,
very prideful New Yorker, sixteen knockouts in his first sixteen fights,
but not a guy you ever looked at as the
super skillful, highest level boxer at one sixty eight, and
you know, had a lot to prove, especially after that
performance versus Canelo, which was pretty much nonexistent when talking
about his actual offensive prowess.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
That we've seen before that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And then on the other side, Hamsa Shiraz, who had
looked like an absolute pheno. I'm at one hundred and
sixty pounds, had fifteen straight knockouts going into the Carlos
Sadamis fight. And listen, the Adamas fight was called a tie,
but in my opinion, I love Hamsa but he lost
to me regardless, it was definitely something that showed him
he needed to make changes. He stops training where he's training,
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goes to train with Andy Lee from la to Ireland
or back from the UK to Ireland, wherever he was,
and then he makes the move to one sixty eight,
because good lord, he is sixty three my high fighting
at one sixty Just for reference, I walk around at
two ten. I know he's not far off from me.
Used to fight at one fifty four before that. I
don't know how he ever made either of those weights.
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Even now at sixty eight he looks massive, so it
looked like a more replenished Hamsa Hiraz. He had to
answer a lot of questions though, and tonight was the
night to do it, because damn did he absolutely destroy
edgar Berlanga. I mean, obliterate, make him look like an amateur.
Done and dusted in what was it five rounds And
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it wasn't a particularly hard five rounds. It wasn't like
there was a back and forth. Hamsa got maybe hit
with one solid punch from Edgar Berlanga, but the fight
started and the first thing I thought to myself was,
I think the game plan for homs this should be
to stay long behind his jab, have that longer guard,
be able to catch things with the rear hand, and
then poke with the jab and then turn that jab
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into the hook and then bang the right hand behind it.
And for Edgar, I was like, all right, well, you're
at a reach disadvantage. You're not a skilled as Hamsa is.
He's gonna have to find your way to pham booth
range inside range, throws those nasty hooks, maybe head movement
off center, catch Homsa with a long jab he overthrows,
bang the right hand the left hook, something like that.
And yeah, we'd seen that Edgar is vulnerable to the
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left hook as well. It kind of throws the arms
out at a jab faint and then the hook behind
it can catch him. So I thought maybe there were
some opportunities at range again for Hamsa, but this fighting
turned out to be almost completely different. I did not
understand how good Hamsa Hiraz.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Was on the inside.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
For a guy that's my height six y three, he
works like a technician on the inside, and he was
outworking Berlanga and outlanding Berlanga on the inside, damaging him
with big time punches. Touched him on the chin in
the first round with a hook from inside. The jabs
were going back and forth. Berlanga had some great success
with his jab to the kind of start of the fight,
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but then it was Homsa just building and building, getting
closer and closer again on the inside with combination punching,
and you were starting to think, okay, it's just a
matter of when if now for Hams the Sharaz, if
he's gonna touch Eggar on the chin, how is for
longer gonna take it? That's a different thing. But then
we got to the I think that was the fourth round,
where again things were starting to heat up there, ramping up,
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and Hamsa got to the inside. It was almost, you know,
pushing to get to the inside and pushing to get
inside close range, and I saw one combination that went, oh, oh,
Hamsa really wants to be inside. He threw a lead
hand uppercut, bang the hook around the side, hurt Egar
with that, and you could see Edgar's face kind of
change a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
You see him WinCE a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And then you saw Edgar do what I thought maybe
only he could do, which was get desperate and start
lunging a little more, start getting a little more reckless,
which I thought, if Hamsa kept things long and at range,
Edgar would do sooner or later. But this was more
Egar feeling the power of Hams the sharaz, banging the
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lead uppercut, banging the hook around the outside to the body.
And then when the hands fell and there was a
little bit of time to trade, Hamsa dug in big
left hook, right hand left hook hurts Egar Berlanga sends
him to the canvas, and ladies and gentlemen, This kid
has some punching power. It was devastating the way he
was landing Bologa, Yes, got dropped against canelo, kind of popped.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Back to his feet. I thought that was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Here he pops up a little quick, you know, hits
the gloves together. Referee says, all right, go again, and
Sharaz dropped him again with another big right hand and
uh Verloanga got up again. Fair play, he did show
hard it then got saved by the bell because ten
more seconds and Berloga would would have been eating canvas,
and honestly before long he would anyway, because the fifth
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round comes and just as the round starts, Tomsa just
cracks him again with another combination and that's it.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And that's all, and the entire crowd was in.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
A freaking frenzy because hams of Sharaz put on a nasty,
nasty performance. It was insane how good he was at
close range, how powerful his shots were. Could you attribute
the car Carlos Saddamas fight to the hurt hand, is
what was said around that time, Maybe the weight cut.
I don't know, but this looked like a completely different guy.
And yes, Egar Berlanga clearly now is no Carlos Adamas.
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But still what I'm about to say, in no way,
shape or form actually matters because fights are judged as
individuals and you can't really do boxing or mma.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Math because it just doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
This guy beat this guy.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So this guy will have to beat that dude, right,
it doesn't work. But we did see Edgar Berlanga take
a bit of a bump popularity and in people's minds
as a boxer based on the fact that he went
twelve rounds with Canelo. Yes, Canelo dusted him, Yes it
was it was fairly easy. Yes, Canello dropped him. But
Canelo didn't do that to Egar Berlanga. And sure, you
could say, you know what, Canelo hit him so many
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times that Egar just wasn't the same after that fight,
or you can say it doesn't really matter way to
what happened in the Canelo fight because this is completely different.
And I'll agree with both of those things potentially, But
then you also have to understand what I'm saying is
Humsus Shariza, his first fight at one hundred and sixty
eight pounds, did what no one else could do to
Edgar Belong and that is absolutely obliterate him inside five rounds.
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That's at least worth acknowledge. And he's young, he's with
a great trainer in Andy Lee, he's got a great
frame for one sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Good lord, he's just tall. Again. I keep saying it,
but his reach, his height.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
So let's see. Let's see before we just immediately dismissed
this as oh it's it's Berlanga And okay, Edgar Berloin
is not as good as we thought. Maybe, but that
performance verhams Ariz at least acknowledges that he's a real
threat at one sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Again, if we're talking Canelo level, I don't know, but
he is a damn good fighter, and he showed that tonight.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What a performance by him, What a card here at
ring three. This thing was insane.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I hope you guys watched and enjoyed because I had
a blast covering it all week.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
This week we've been in New York. I finally go
back home tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And for those that have watched the channel for years, yes,
I know that this is professional boxing, and I haven't
covered it as much in my rise as I am now,
and I know it's a bit of a switch. But
I hope you guys are enjoying some of this because
I'm having a blast covering it, getting to travel the
world and all that. I don't think I ever would
have imagined this just even four years ago, So appreciate
you guys rocking with me, But this week we do
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have some news to get back to and hearing some
rumors about the influencer boxing scene and Misfits twenty two.
We'll talk about that when I land in California. Also
hearing some rumors on the MMA side. We're gonna talk
about that as well. Make sure you guys are locked
in here at the way concept and well in this
video how we always do. What do you guys think
about the ring three card, the performances, the decisions from
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the judges, the totality of what happened and what happens
next for your winners for your losers. I don't have
those answers, but I guess we'll find out,