D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Mea Motu returning to the ring later in the year

A new weight division to conquer for boxer Mea Motu as she eyes a return to the ring later this year.

The former super bantamweight world champion will move up two weight classes, having lost her IBO title in January against IBF and WBO belt holder Ellie Scotney. 

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports talk hosters with me.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hello, Darcy, Hi, Heather bit Carmen now bit Karmen.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now you have calmed down someone now that the joy.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And excitement of having you back on the hot seat
again that I've moved through that.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I thought it was just because it was hump day.
This is Wednesday, sort of middle of the week. You
just your your energy levels just kind of dropping down
to kind of, you know, sort of g up again.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You do know I have a Saturday morning program, don't you.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
And I feel like you're starting that long approach.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now, long approach. Okay, not really on many two days
in I've still really got it. But that's okay. I
don't mind because this is a public holiday on Friday.
How good a public holiday that I actually get to take.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, you don't get a lot of them. Actually, Okay,
is Anzac Day? I can't remember? Is Anzac Day a
public holiday?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Like?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Is it a half holiday or just yeah? But is it?
Know it's a half day, but it's not a good
half day for me, is it? This is the morning half?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
We have the day we do, thank god.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Because Monday terrible because I don't work Monday, so I
don't get the day off that should be not a
public college should be called it's a day off for
people Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, you'll have a good run this year because you'll
have Anzac Day, but you also have Easter Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Plus also, yes, let's I got all the mondayised ones
that I'm going to shot up about this. I'm going
to get sacked. People are absolutely tired of Let's talk
some sports.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Most people don't feel sorry for you because.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
You had no.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I I know, I speaking of.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah coming back. Remember she got beaten by Alix Scottney
and she was looking like trying to take on the
world in her division, but owen to England just didn't work.
She got beaten up and she got beaten up badly,
and a lot of people predicted there because Bellie's a
very good pugil it's very good fighter. Didn't work well
for her. She came back, and she came back and

(01:47):
she was sick. She had pneumonia. She's got healthy, she's
a deep vein thrown by so she just got hammered.
Not only did she get beaten up externally, she got
beaten up in don't you have It by not wearing
the right socks on a plane.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
But I mean I would have thought that that's the
kind of thing that you get if you're like eighty
years old and fast.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, I think, can you still use that word?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Can you?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I try telling you it's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm not I'm just starting quick, do you know what
I mean? She's got outstanding health issues. That's probably not
going to help when it comes to long distance flights
after you've been involved in a scrap like that. But
just come back, come eet the end of the year.
So like, Okay, that's fine. Didn't work for me. I'm
moving up to weight divisions because weight cutting was no
good for me because the boxes all they fight, they've

(02:37):
got to drop a whole lot of kilograms and plainly
that has not been great for her. And they've gone
with Isaac Peach the trainer, and kind of, look, how
can we change this, Like, Okay, let's not try and
hit that low weight. Let's go slightly higher, two classes
up and we'll move from there. So don't call it
a comeback. I've been here for years. Yeah, I'm looking

(02:58):
forward to it. You're fantastic at all.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, So the mixed doubles golf is going to be
at the LA Olympics. How do you feel about this?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I think that lydia Co won't retire because that's just
another medal for her to win. Right, She's already got
the gold, the silver, and the bronze with the women.
She could just add the gold in the mix.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Like do you take turns? Hold per hole?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, it's I don't have it at my fingertips, but
it's a two day, two round competition, thirty six round competition,
and I think it's best ball instally alternate shot.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
So so you you both take it, you both tee off,
and then whoever gets the best ball you play that one.
And then whoever gets the best ball you play that one.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I believe that's what they're going to lose use. But
if you're out there listing and I've got it wrong,
I'm particularly sorry. I've been snowed in today. But well,
I know I like the idea.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
That's what you call it, right.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, there's a number of adjustments. I'm not quite sure
exactly what they're going to use. But away from that,
I have found one of the stories there is and sport.
Can I just share this one with you? I don't
know what you think about this tena stars Sorry after
calling for smelly opponent to wear deal?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Would you like to hear it? Here? It is can
you tell her to drid? It's Harriet Dart from the
UK talking about her opponent Lewis Busson, and she says,
can you please tell her to wear deodorant? She smells
really bad? But it's the worst sledge in the world, Darcy,
because she's not actually saying it to her opponent. She's

(04:29):
saying it to the umpire. So that's like me privately
sledging you to the producer and not telling you that's
not really a sledge, is it.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Na Evrae does that though don't as well.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
She's stink at sledge and she's also stink at tennis
because she lost six love sixty three.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
So all round stink. She used to work with a
French woman in a cafe and she didn't shave under
her arms, which is pervertly fine, but she didn't wear deodorant.
And in a restaurant it made it quite difficult when
you leaned over the tables to serve people there burgers
and the conversation had to you had with management. Ah,
could you do something.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I feel like you. I feel like there are grounds
for a Broadcasting Standards authority complaint about you being xenophobic
towards French women right now.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, you said it was a French woman. I'm just
I'm not. It was a it was an experiencing story.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Send it to me and I say fat. Darcy Walter Grave,
sports talk host.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
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