July 13, 2025 • 19 mins
Hamzah Sheeraz completely destroyed Edgar Berlanga and Shakur Stevenson OUTCLASSED William Zepeda and a stacked Ring 3 card in Brooklyn.. Lets break it all down 🔥
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So we are here waycasept presented by The
(00:04):
Ring Magazine straight away after an incredible night of fights
here in New York City and Queens at the Louis
Armstrong Stadium. It was Ring three. 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
(00:27):
great comeback card for the ring, headlined by two main
events and two outstanding performances. Really a ton of outstanding performances.
We're gonna talk about it all. What just happened? Ring three?
Standout performances from Shakor Stevenson, A brutal, devastating demolition job
knockout from Hamsa Shiraz, the breakdown. Let's go all right.
(00:50):
So I was in the building tonight for Ring three,
and this card was stacked with talent from top to bottom.
Let's talk through the whole card. Number one reached Kosusumi,
the newest Ring Ambassador, and you know Japanese prodigy has
fought on the Times Square card. Funny enough, he fought
a guy named Lavell Whittington on the Times Square card.
(01:11):
I called Lavell Whittington Fights and Caaguas, Puerto Rico. I
called his first fight, and not his first fight, but
one of his fights there. I knew it was a
tough kid. Rito got through it. This one. 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
(01:32):
want to see more before they get to that point.
But solid win. 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
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the fight, kind of tapered off in the middle, came
back strong, but in mom Katya felt like he just
continued to keep the same pace and keep the same
damage and just over and over and over catch David
Morel with big time punches, dropped him in the middle
of the fight, a huge right hand that dropped morel
kind of shocked the whole New York crowd. I want
to say that David Morrel is like a minus eight
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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, mother 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 ped 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
(02:58):
was the controversy. The fight itself, though, the controversy was
David Morrell, in my opinion, didn't win the fight, and
Mom Katie have won the fight, and I thought won
it pretty clearly looked like it could even be like
seven three maybe six four, Katie. But nevertheless, David Morel
gets a win, and it was a It was a
tough fight. It was a close fight. Morel started to
come back toward the end of the fight, so it
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wasn't like some massive blood even at the rounds are
you know, like I said, seven three, six four, it
was a close fight, but I thought, clearly Kote have won. Yeah,
I just thought it was the wrong call. But we move.
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 a big
thing wins and losses matter of course. But these are
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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 Morel goes next, wherever ind
Mom Kote goes next, I think that they're you're going
to see them be better because of the experience they
gained it and we had Alberto Poyo and Supra al Mattias.
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This was kind of pinned his fight of the night
here in Louis Armstrong Stadium. Everybody looked at this fight.
It was gonna be the one fight that jumped off
the page, that both fighters were gonna 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 dogfight literally from the beginning.
Superra al Matias, I don't think took one backstep the
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entirety of this fight, and Alberto Poyo boxed very well
in my opinion, on the back foot and super al
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. Supra
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al Matias threw more punches, landed more punches throughout the fight,
and landed more power punches throughout the fight. Now, the
difference to me wasn't because Alberto Poeo outlanded Superral Mattias
in total subril one rounds with a wider margin. Alberto Poeo,
I thought, one more rounds, that's the difference to me,
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I thought he won more rounds. But the rounds that
Mattias won he won by a far bigger margin. Again,
we'll have to look at the copy box numbers and
all that, but it really was I thought Mattias starting
very well, Bertal Poyo 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
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maybe five to six, potentially seven, but seven being the
swing round where I thought Poeo as they got into
that seventh round, maybe eight, started to figure out Mattias
was just not going to take back steps, so he
was going to fall in behind a lot of shots,
and Poo I thought, started out boxing him on the
back foot, really touching him. 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
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that Worto Poyo won the fight. It was a close one,
so I'm not super upset. I'm not going to sit
here and call it a robbery or anything like that.
And Supril 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 that
they definitely want him in Riodd next h got in
the ring and was like, you're fighting next, So Latias
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was like, sure, but I'm not sure what they're gonna
do with Peyo next, regardless, sanger of a fight. Then
we moved to the first of two main events, and
the way this was built in the WBC Lightweight Championship,
Mattias and Pueo was a super lightweight. This was Schaquar
Stephenson Williams of PAYDA, and I had thought all week
that it was gonna be a pretty simple game plan
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for both guys. The Paida was gonna do what Zapeta does,
which is throw a shit ton of punches a barrage,
never take a back step 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
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was gonna be an opportunity for him to have a showcase,
to showcase his skills, showcase his punching ability off his
back foot, and to not have to do much work
to get it done right. It was gonna beze Beeta
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
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fight Tom and Jerry, Chakor's gonna run. He's a runner,
and eventually he's not gonna have the gas anymore. Eventually
is Abeida's gonna catch him. That wasn't what happened. Chaquur
Stevenson fought this fight like you know, he might compare
it 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 William Zpeta because I think they both
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needed each other. Tonight in Louis Armstrong Stadium. What I
mean is Sepeta brought the best out of Chakour's offense tonight.
I 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 Chakur sitting down
on his punches brought the best out of a paida
Debta had to come through with some adversity of his
own and ended up making for a pretty darn good fight.
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But with that being said, I thought we got one
of the best Shakour Stevenson performances I have ever seen
tonight because he was taking all of the a game
I would say of Williams of Paeda, 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
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of left him off balance, and he got tagged with
some punches that Shaquare Stevenson usually doesn't get tagged with,
and that's again a credit to Zapeta, but also Shakur
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. And in fact, there are moments
a couple of I would say more than a couple.
It was a bunch of times where Shakord was just
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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, backhand hook. And he was tagging Williams of
Payda tonight. This was not like pillowhands Chaquor or like
oh he's got brittle hands. He was tagging Williams Apeta
up this I said it on Twitter was just a
treat to see Chaquur in person. And I'm not trying
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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.
But when he was there tonight and he was in
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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 Chakor 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 Shakur, but you also have to credit
it to Williams Payta because it paida brought that out
of Chaquurt. As far as Shaquurse Stevenson's concerned, listen, one
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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 Uh.
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
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a terrible thing. But yeah, I mean, this should be
the fight. It could be one of the biggest fights
you can make right now in American boxing. Is Shaquur
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
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the Frank Martin fight, great performance that everything else has
been so wishy washy. Does he want to box? Does
he want to retire out of the ring 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
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would want that fight. So I hope that happens next
for shakor if not, I mean, I guess he can
move up to forty, but I think thirty five is
probably where he needs to be, So who knows. Let's
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 Hamsu Sharaz and Edgar Berlanga. And
this one was interesting because he had two guys that
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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 differently in the
same sentence. That's crazy. He obviously had lost the Canelo
fight and then come back with a win versus a
guy that looked like he was melting in real time.
But you know, Edgar is known as a big power puncher,
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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 that we've seen before that.
And then on the other side, Hams of Shiraz, who
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had looked like an absolute phenom at one hundred and
sixty pounds, had fifteen straight knockouts going into the Carlos
Saddamis 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,
goes to train with Andy Lee from LA to Ireland
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or back from the UK at Ireland, wherever he was,
and then he makes the move to one sixty eight,
because good lord, he is sixty three my height 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.
Even now at sixty eight, he looks massive, so it
looked like a more replenished Hamsa Shiraz. He had to
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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
it wasn't a particularly hard five rounds. It wasn't like
there was back and forth. Hamsa got maybe hit with
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one solid punch from Edgar Berlanga, but the fight started
and I the first thing I thought to myself was
I think the game plan for Hams 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
into the hook and then bang the right hand behind it.
And for Edgar, I was like, all right, well, you're
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at a reach disadvantage. You're not as skilled as Hamsa is.
You're 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, you know, vulnerable to the
left hook as well. It kind of throws the arms
out at a jab faint and then the hook behind
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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 hamsu Hiras was on the inside. For
a guy that's my height sixty three, he works like
a technician on the inside, and he was outworking Berlanga
and outlanding Berlanga on the inside, damaging him with big
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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. 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 not if. Now for hams the sharaz. If
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he's going to touch Egar on the chin, how is
Berlonga 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,
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,
Homsa really wants to be inside. He threw a leadhand uppercut,
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banged the hook around the side, hurt Egar with that,
and you could see Edgar's face kind of change a
little bit. You see him WinCE a little bit. And
then you saw Edgar do what I 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,
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Eggar would do sooner or later. But this was more
Egar feeling the power of hams, of Shiraz banging the
lead upper cup, 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,
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this kid has some punching power. It was devastating the
way he was landing. Bloga, Yes, got dropped against Canelo,
kind of popped back to his feet. I thought that
was a mistake. 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 Berloga got up again. Fair play.
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He did show hard, but then got saved by the
bell because ten more seconds and Berlonga would would have
been eating canvas, and honestly before long you would anyway,
Because the fifth round comes and just as the round starts,
Tomza just cracks him again with another combination and that's it,
and that's all. And the entire crowd was in a
freaking frenzy because Hamsa Shiraz put on a nasty, nasty performance.
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It was insane how good he was at close range,
how powerful his shots were. Could you attribute to Carlos
Adamas 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. But still
what I'm about to say, in no way, shape or
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form actually matters because fights are judged as individuals and
you can't really do boxing or mma math because it
just doesn't work. Right, this guy beat this guy, 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
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rounds with Canelo. Yes, Canelo dusted him, Yes it was
fairly easy. Yes, Canello dropped him, but Canelo didn't do
that to Eggar Berloga. And sure you could say, you
know what, Canelo hit him so many times that Egar
just wasn't the same after that fight. Or you can
say it doesn't really matter way what happened in the
Canelo fight, because this is completely different. And I'll agree
with both of those things potentially, Then you also have
to understand what I'm saying is Hums' Sharaz, at his
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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. That's at
least worth acknowledge. And he's young, he's with a great
trainer and Andy Lee, he's got a great frame for
one sixty eight. Good lord, he's just tall. Again I
keep saying it, but his reach his height. So let's see.
Let's see before we just immediately dismissed this as oh
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it's it's Berlonga, And okay, Edgar Berloga is not as
good as we thought, maybe, but that performance Verhams' Sharaz
at least acknowledges that he's a real threat at one
sixty eight. I don't know again, if we're talking Canelo level,
I don't know, but he is a damn good fighter,
and he showed that tonight. What a performance by him,
What a card here at Ring three. This thing was insane.
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from 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
All right, So we are here waycasept presented by The
(00:04):
Ring Magazine straight away after an incredible night of fights
here in New York City and Queens at the Louis
Armstrong Stadium. It was Ring three. 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
(00:27):
great comeback card for the ring, headlined by two main
events and two outstanding performances. Really a ton of outstanding performances.
We're gonna talk about it all. What just happened? Ring three?
Standout performances from Shakor Stevenson, A brutal, devastating demolition job
knockout from Hamsa Shiraz, the breakdown. Let's go all right.
(00:50):
So I was in the building tonight for Ring three,
and this card was stacked with talent from top to bottom.
Let's talk through the whole card. Number one reached Kosusumi,
the newest Ring Ambassador, and you know Japanese prodigy has
fought on the Times Square card. Funny enough, he fought
a guy named Lavell Whittington on the Times Square card.
(01:11):
I called Lavell Whittington Fights and Caaguas, Puerto Rico. I
called his first fight, and not his first fight, but
one of his fights there. I knew it was a
tough kid. Rito got through it. This one. 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
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want to see more before they get to that point.
But solid win. 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
(01:55):
the fight, kind of tapered off in the middle, came
back strong, but in mom Katya felt like he just
continued to keep the same pace and keep the same
damage and just over and over and over catch David
Morel with big time punches, dropped him in the middle
of the fight, a huge right hand that dropped morel
kind of shocked the whole New York crowd. I want
to say that David Morrel is like a minus eight
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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, mother 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 ped 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
David Morrell, in my opinion, didn't win the fight, and
Mom Katie have won the fight, and I thought won
it pretty clearly looked like it could even be like
seven three maybe six four, Katie. But nevertheless, David Morel
gets a win, and it was a It was a
tough fight. It was a close fight. Morel started to
come back toward the end of the fight, so it
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wasn't like some massive blood even at the rounds are
you know, like I said, seven three, six four, it
was a close fight, but I thought, clearly Kote have won. Yeah,
I just thought it was the wrong call. But we move.
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 a big
thing wins and losses matter of course. But these are
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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 Morel goes next, wherever ind
Mom Kote goes next, I think that they're you're going
to see them be better because of the experience they
gained it and we had Alberto Poyo and Supra al Mattias.
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This was kind of pinned his fight of the night
here in Louis Armstrong Stadium. Everybody looked at this fight.
It was gonna be the one fight that jumped off
the page, that both fighters were gonna 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 dogfight literally from the beginning.
Superra al Matias, I don't think took one backstep the
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entirety of this fight, and Alberto Poyo boxed very well
in my opinion, on the back foot and super al
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. Supra
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al Matias threw more punches, landed more punches throughout the fight,
and landed more power punches throughout the fight. Now, the
difference to me wasn't because Alberto Poeo outlanded Superral Mattias
in total subril one rounds with a wider margin. Alberto Poeo,
I thought, one more rounds, that's the difference to me,
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I thought he won more rounds. But the rounds that
Mattias won he won by a far bigger margin. Again,
we'll have to look at the copy box numbers and
all that, but it really was I thought Mattias starting
very well, Bertal Poyo 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
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maybe five to six, potentially seven, but seven being the
swing round where I thought Poeo as they got into
that seventh round, maybe eight, started to figure out Mattias
was just not going to take back steps, so he
was going to fall in behind a lot of shots,
and Poo I thought, started out boxing him on the
back foot, really touching him. 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
(05:50):
that Worto Poyo won the fight. It was a close one,
so I'm not super upset. I'm not going to sit
here and call it a robbery or anything like that.
And Supril 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 that
they definitely want him in Riodd next h got in
the ring and was like, you're fighting next, So Latias
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was like, sure, but I'm not sure what they're gonna
do with Peyo next, regardless, sanger of a fight. Then
we moved to the first of two main events, and
the way this was built in the WBC Lightweight Championship,
Mattias and Pueo was a super lightweight. This was Schaquar
Stephenson Williams of PAYDA, and I had thought all week
that it was gonna be a pretty simple game plan
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for both guys. The Paida was gonna do what Zapeta does,
which is throw a shit ton of punches a barrage,
never take a back step 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
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was gonna be an opportunity for him to have a showcase,
to showcase his skills, showcase his punching ability off his
back foot, and to not have to do much work
to get it done right. It was gonna beze Beeta
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
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fight Tom and Jerry, Chakor's gonna run. He's a runner,
and eventually he's not gonna have the gas anymore. Eventually
is Abeida's gonna catch him. That wasn't what happened. Chaquur
Stevenson fought this fight like you know, he might compare
it 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 William Zpeta because I think they both
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needed each other. Tonight in Louis Armstrong Stadium. What I
mean is Sepeta brought the best out of Chakour's offense tonight.
I 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 Chakur sitting down
on his punches brought the best out of a paida
Debta had to come through with some adversity of his
own and ended up making for a pretty darn good fight.
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But with that being said, I thought we got one
of the best Shakour Stevenson performances I have ever seen
tonight because he was taking all of the a game
I would say of Williams of Paeda, 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
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of left him off balance, and he got tagged with
some punches that Shaquare Stevenson usually doesn't get tagged with,
and that's again a credit to Zapeta, but also Shakur
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. And in fact, there are moments
a couple of I would say more than a couple.
It was a bunch of times where Shakord was just
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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, backhand hook. And he was tagging Williams of
Payda tonight. This was not like pillowhands Chaquor or like
oh he's got brittle hands. He was tagging Williams Apeta
up this I said it on Twitter was just a
treat to see Chaquur in person. And I'm not trying
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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.
But when he was there tonight and he was in
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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 Chakor 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 Shakur, but you also have to credit
it to Williams Payta because it paida brought that out
of Chaquurt. As far as Shaquurse Stevenson's concerned, listen, one
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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 Uh.
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
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a terrible thing. But yeah, I mean, this should be
the fight. It could be one of the biggest fights
you can make right now in American boxing. Is Shaquur
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
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the Frank Martin fight, great performance that everything else has
been so wishy washy. Does he want to box? Does
he want to retire out of the ring 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
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would want that fight. So I hope that happens next
for shakor if not, I mean, I guess he can
move up to forty, but I think thirty five is
probably where he needs to be, So who knows. Let's
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 Hamsu Sharaz and Edgar Berlanga. And
this one was interesting because he had two guys that
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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 differently in the
same sentence. That's crazy. He obviously had lost the Canelo
fight and then come back with a win versus a
guy that looked like he was melting in real time.
But you know, Edgar is known as a big power puncher,
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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 that we've seen before that.
And then on the other side, Hams of Shiraz, who
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had looked like an absolute phenom at one hundred and
sixty pounds, had fifteen straight knockouts going into the Carlos
Saddamis 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,
goes to train with Andy Lee from LA to Ireland
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or back from the UK at Ireland, wherever he was,
and then he makes the move to one sixty eight,
because good lord, he is sixty three my height 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.
Even now at sixty eight, he looks massive, so it
looked like a more replenished Hamsa Shiraz. He had to
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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
it wasn't a particularly hard five rounds. It wasn't like
there was back and forth. Hamsa got maybe hit with
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one solid punch from Edgar Berlanga, but the fight started
and I the first thing I thought to myself was
I think the game plan for Hams 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
into the hook and then bang the right hand behind it.
And for Edgar, I was like, all right, well, you're
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at a reach disadvantage. You're not as skilled as Hamsa is.
You're 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, you know, vulnerable to the
left hook as well. It kind of throws the arms
out at a jab faint and then the hook behind
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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 hamsu Hiras was on the inside. For
a guy that's my height sixty three, he works like
a technician on the inside, and he was outworking Berlanga
and outlanding Berlanga on the inside, damaging him with big
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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. 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 not if. Now for hams the sharaz. If
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he's going to touch Egar on the chin, how is
Berlonga 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,
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,
Homsa really wants to be inside. He threw a leadhand uppercut,
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banged the hook around the side, hurt Egar with that,
and you could see Edgar's face kind of change a
little bit. You see him WinCE a little bit. And
then you saw Edgar do what I 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,
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Eggar would do sooner or later. But this was more
Egar feeling the power of hams, of Shiraz banging the
lead upper cup, 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,
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this kid has some punching power. It was devastating the
way he was landing. Bloga, Yes, got dropped against Canelo,
kind of popped back to his feet. I thought that
was a mistake. 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 Berloga got up again. Fair play.
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He did show hard, but then got saved by the
bell because ten more seconds and Berlonga would would have
been eating canvas, and honestly before long you would anyway,
Because the fifth round comes and just as the round starts,
Tomza just cracks him again with another combination and that's it,
and that's all. And the entire crowd was in a
freaking frenzy because Hamsa Shiraz put on a nasty, nasty performance.
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It was insane how good he was at close range,
how powerful his shots were. Could you attribute to Carlos
Adamas 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. But still
what I'm about to say, in no way, shape or
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form actually matters because fights are judged as individuals and
you can't really do boxing or mma math because it
just doesn't work. Right, this guy beat this guy, 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
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rounds with Canelo. Yes, Canelo dusted him, Yes it was
fairly easy. Yes, Canello dropped him, but Canelo didn't do
that to Eggar Berloga. And sure you could say, you
know what, Canelo hit him so many times that Egar
just wasn't the same after that fight. Or you can
say it doesn't really matter way what happened in the
Canelo fight, because this is completely different. And I'll agree
with both of those things potentially, Then you also have
to understand what I'm saying is Hums' Sharaz, at his
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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. That's at
least worth acknowledge. And he's young, he's with a great
trainer and Andy Lee, he's got a great frame for
one sixty eight. Good lord, he's just tall. Again I
keep saying it, but his reach his height. So let's see.
Let's see before we just immediately dismissed this as oh
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it's it's Berlonga, And okay, Edgar Berloga is not as
good as we thought, maybe, but that performance Verhams' Sharaz
at least acknowledges that he's a real threat at one
sixty eight. I don't know again, if we're talking Canelo level,
I don't know, but he is a damn good fighter,
and he showed that tonight. What a performance by him,
What a card here at Ring three. This thing was insane.
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I hope you guys watched and enjoyed because I had
a blast covering it all week. This week we've been
in New York. I finally go back home tomorrow. 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
(18:28):
have imagined this just even four years ago. So appreciate
you guys rocking with me. But this week we do
have some news to get back to him. 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 going to
talk about that as well. Make sure you guys are
locked in here at the way concept and well in
(18:49):
this video, how we always do? What do you guys
think about the ring, three card, the performances, the decisions
from 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
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