Live from Canelo vs. Crawford | Boxing Preview + Noche UFC Breakdown

Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell are live in Las Vegas to preview the biggest boxing match of the year when Canelo Alvarez takes on Terence Crawford at Allegiant Stadium.

Shawn Porter joins the show to help preview the Canelo/Crawford card.

The guys then preview the intriguing featherweight matchup that headlines Noche UFC this weekend when Diego Lopes takes on Jean Silva in San Antonio, Texas.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Look at this now, Jesus, oh us, It's time.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
To beg.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh yeah. Live from Las Vegas. The fight is here.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's Canello Crawford Fight week, live at the Fontaine Blue.
Just one more sleep, as John Addack would say, from
Saturday nights Netflix Super Fight Canelo Alvarez versus Terrence Crawford.
This is Morning Combat. My name is Brian Campbell. Next
to me, of course, the Great Luke Thomas will be
here as part of this All the Smoke Live fest
for the next hour, getting your prime pump and ready

(01:06):
for Canelo Crawford noch UFC as well on Saturday. Luke Thomas.
Every time you step foot in the city, you lose
a little bit of your soul. Yes, and dignity, dignity
the end of your life.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
How are you feel in general about this Canelo Crawford
buzz this week?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
It's well, it's been an unusual week. More broadly, we'll
just leave it at that.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
When you say broadly, are you talking about the females
in the city this week?

Speaker 5 (01:29):
No, you are, okay, But Canelo Crawford imaging and signage
as all over the city.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I was at the other end of the strip.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
I was at Mandalay Bay and just from getting from
there to hear there's signs the cab has it, the magazines,
the key cards, the inside of the restaurants.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I mean, it's just packed wall to wall.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
What it will look like today at the Weighans, I
don't know what it will look like tomorrow at Allegiant.
I think it's part of the storyline. We're all kind
of curious, but it's definitely there's no secret. Canela Crawford
has arrived in Las.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Vegas about it.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
In this episode of Morning Combat is brought to you
by Draft Kings, and you already know what DraftKings.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
The crown is yours.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
It is Friday, September twelfth, The fight, Big Fight goes
down tomorrow, you know, And any memories from nine to
eleven yesterday.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Luke, we should have done MK yesterday and done an
all nine to eleven episode and then just let you
do your ten minutes to stand up.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
And then we can follow with a jan six specially.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yes, and then we'll get the emails from HR that
we've been.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
All right, We got the firings out of the way.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Fight week is, how was your fight week? It's been
wild weird wacky radio row here yesterday. I got a
shout out Netflix PR, UFCPR. We had a really random
mix of guests and it was awesome. I've got a
live I'm not a live a tape stream of interviews
you can check out on the Brian Campbell Experience right now.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
But we had ww stars in here. We're celebrities.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
There was a lot of crossover and it's fitting right, Like,
say what you will about this fight, we haven't had
one that film well this big outside of some of
those outliers like Jake Paul, Mike Tyson in like a
really long time.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Like that's an absolute fact.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
And I think the closer that we get to fight night,
you can correct me if I'm wrong, the idea that
Terrence Crawford might be able to do this is becoming.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
More and more apparent, regardless of who you're picking.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
At the end of the day, it certainly feels that way. Now.
Canello could throw some serious cold water on that tomorrow,
So I guess we'll see. But I feel like I
share your sentiment about the nature of the fight week itself.
About the fight, did you watch both of those Netflix
preview episodes?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I have to say they were really good.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
I went in there wanting to hate on them, and
I left being like, I can't freaking hate on them.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Like we all love Showtime All Access HBO twenty four
to seven. This felt like a prime version of that.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Right, like a yeah, there was I mean, there was
a couple of the ways in which you know, these
two have been on a collision course forever. I'm not
so sure that that's exactly true, but if you didn't
know Terrence or Conelo, you certainly got to know them.
And one thing we've been talking about, you've seen it
this week. You've seen it at the press conference, to
a lesser degree at the press conference. Dude, Terrence is edge,
and I gotta say, I don't. I'm not one of
these guys who can do like, oh, look at the

(04:04):
armchair psychology. Is he in Canello's head? Yes, But Canelo's
got an edge this week too. That we've covered many
Canelo fight weeks. And he does get a little bit short,
you would agree, And it gets a little bit short
when it comes time for wins and stuff. But he's
been unusually a little flexuses and we.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Could say this is the first fight that the public
truly believed Canello could lose since Dmitri beval in twenty
twenty two and over the totality of that stretch. Even
before that, we thought there could be challenges against Canelo.
But the idea of could he lose, that's in the
air this week.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
If I made one more point that I forgot.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
To make, but I can make as many points as
you'd like.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
I want to add on, which is I don't know
ultimately how big this fight will be. There's questions is
it going to be bigger or not than Jervonte and Tank,
which will also be on Netflix.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
I don't know the answer to that. We'll see that
it's an Allegiant tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
It's the third biggest gate, but of course the other
two biggest gates were at T Mobile, not at Allegiance,
So again we'll see how big it is in the end.
But to the point you raise, American boxing has missed this.
It has been a while in American boxing since there
was a fight like this taking place on US soil.
So when the dust settles will inventory everything. But I

(05:10):
have am I allowed to say I have missed this.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I have missed well, and I think you know American
poet Max Kellerman said it best yesterday at the press conference.
If Turkey Alischek was never born, we would never be
here right now.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I didn't know he was a religious prophet.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Understand your origin story.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Tomorrow, of course, Canello and Crawford and Netflix has a
chance to change boxing history, bringing you the fight of
one of the biggest fights of this century, certainly the
fight of the year.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Terrence Crawford, unbeaten.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Explosive, and one of only four fighters in history to
become undisputed in two weight divisions. You have a chance
to become the first mail to do it in three
weight divisions, tying of course claressa shield record.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Get ready for the fight.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
The boxing world has been waiting for Canela Alvis versus
Terrence Crawford in an epic battle for the undisputed super
middleweight Championship. You can watch it live on Netflix Saturday night,
nine pm Eastern six pm Pacific Main card start live
on Netflix. We had to We wanted to make this
such a great show that we need to bring in
some woryalty here.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
We need to bring in somebody to break it down
with us.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Who dresses better than us, who has a better reputation
than us though, share.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
The ring, possibly with Bud Crawford.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
It's true, and who.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Is one of my favorite Americans showtime, Sean.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
Port Bring him in here, Bring him in here. We'll
hand the mic off to you, and then Brian's just
gonna leave. Nice to see you.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
How are you, of course the host, the proprietor of
the port Away podcast.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
By the way, your co host making some waves on.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
There Sean's hotel. We saw pieces of him on the
on the sidewalk outside. But you know, he does does
have some brass ones that fell actually.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Believe that because I haven't heard from him since that movie.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Show It in all seriousness works.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
So we're every time you joined Morning Combat, the rent
goes up and people are like, why isn't he on
the show full time?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
And I'm like, do you know how much he charged it? Humpkin, Sean.
We love the sexiness of this matchup. You're an inside
boxing answer.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
You gave one of the most maybe the most credible
performance against against Terrence Crawford.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Madromv did as well last year in a different way.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
What stands out to you the most when you look
at this fight of like the one thing you just
want to see happen, Like what you know, the one question.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
You want answered? What is the element of this fight
that gets you the most?

Speaker 6 (07:25):
I think the probably the biggest element in this fighter
is can Crawford take the power? I think that's like
the the biggest element of this one. There's no question
that he might be able to add box Canelo. There's
no question that he might be faster than Canelo. There's
no question that that that Canelo can take a punch,
So he's gonna you know, we expect Canelo to take
Maybe those are the two biggest questions.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Can they take one another's punch?

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Why wouldn't you would agree? Canelo's chin legendary, right, legendary,
battle tested by.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Some of the biggest punchers. This is what I'm up against.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Do I believe that Crawford is has more ways to
win as a pure technical boxer.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I do.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
But the problem is you've got a guy with an
all time chin, so knocking him out not a simple proposition.
And then you got to beat a guy on the
cards that constantly wins on the cards when you least
expect it.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
So how do you beat that guy?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I don't know. Man, When you got Floyd Mayweather draw
in that fight. I think that one.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Draw and then and then one judge had Canela vas
beating did to meet your viva?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
If I'm not miss seven to five for Bevall and
all three score cards when I think most of us
thought one nine.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It was more like nine three. You do the map
from there? What is it?

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Even the Laura fight or the first six seven rounds
of the Who's the Who's the Guy? Austin trout As
even that one you're like, because that's when they did
the open score and you're like, how are the scores
this wide?

Speaker 7 (08:54):
Right?

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
How was it?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Eight? Nothing?

Speaker 6 (08:56):
I think the reputation is I maybe because you would
think that the reputation of Floyd Mayweather was enough for
him to win decisively, extremely decisively, the way he did
in the ring. Can Crawford win a decision? I think
that he can. I think that, you know, the funny
thing is, I think that there the subliminal messages have

(09:18):
been enough for judges to realize that if he's winning
this fight, he's gonna have to win it on the scorecard.
And so I think that there's subliminal messages that are
sent across the waves of boxing, and I think that
judges just can't ignore it. You can't not see it,
you can't not hear it, whether they talk amongst themselves
or not. And I think that for the first time

(09:39):
for Crawford or Canelo's career, he's probably getting in the
ring with someone that judges have been giving those subliminal
messages that he might lose this fight, and if he does,
it's going to be on the scorecard.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
And somebody who is giving him the death stare during
the face off? Can we show to that footage of
the face off at Thursday's press conference from tim Mobile Arena.
So my first evaluation here, Sean is the size difference
doesn't look different. But number two, are we overplaying the
fact that the death stare came in and the fact that,
as Roy Jones pointed out yesterday on the Ring post show,

(10:12):
Bud made sure Canello looked away first. You're a real one.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
You faced off with Terrence Crawford. Does that actually matter?
I love bodies for days.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
About looking away first? I just didn't care.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
Once I saw what I felt I needed to see,
I made you feel me. It was enough we're done
here that I had to see that and I really
wanted to see that I hadn't had an opportunity to.
And I think that the look we see today in
the way and that face off is gonna be. Guarantee you,
it's gonna be a little different than we saw right there.
What I saw right there was I'm trying to let

(10:48):
you know that I'm ready for you today. What we're
gonna get is just this look of just extreme, I'm
here to kill, I'm lethal, and I want you to
know it.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's just going to be a different look today, I
guarantee you.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean, he pushed him in the third press conference
and that seemed to send a message here, yeah, I'm
hijacking this. Let me get one more in our Sean
porter because because I have so much respect for the
game plan and the performance you had against Crawford, what.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
And the strategy like.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
What just stuck with it too long?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
And what are you doing Pops throwing in that tower?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Right?

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Another topic for another day.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
What does Canelo and any other opponent not know about
Crawford that even you found out the hard way, that
could be a difference maker.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
You know, for me the entire fight or not the
entire fight, But for a lot of the fight. It
was going the way I needed it to go, it
was going the way I hoped it would go, And
the list goes on. But I'm looking at this dude,
and he is not budging off of him knowing that
he's gonna win this fight, and that he just never
gave me a sense or a feeling that he was bothered.

(11:59):
And and I felt like I specialized in making people
uncomfortable in the ring. Never Canelos. He's used to guys
being uncomfortable in the ring. That's what Canelo's gonna see.
That's gonna probably since he fought Floyd Mayweather, He's this
will be the first time he's seeing he's staring at
someone and doesn't see discomfort.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
If Crawford were to win on the cards, what would
it look like? Not the scores, but the tactical strategic
path to get there? In other words, if Crawford had
you three months ago come up with a game plan,
what does he need to do from a boxing standpoint
to leverage what he does best against what Canelo does least.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I'm gonna just tell you, guys, what I think is
gonna happen.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
I think he's gonna box and out box and move
and be slick and fast from the outside early a
lot of turning. I think he's gonna start pushing Cannelo back,
or at least trying to push Cannelo back, And I think,
should he win a fight on the cards, I think
he has to push Cannelo back. I think that's one
of those telltale signs for a judge. If you're getting

(13:02):
pushed back and you know you're not being the aggressive
guy I'm used to you being, that means you're losing this.
I got a feeling he's gonna try to push Canelo back,
and if he's successful doing that in moments doesn't mean
he's gonna do it in entire a round or the
entire second half, or second or third of the fight.
Just means there's gonna be moments where he really pushes
Canelo back and he, as we've seen Crawford do before,

(13:24):
beats down his opponents.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
We're gonna see him try to beat down Canelo.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
We're gonna see him try to emulate a lot of
things we've seen him do in the past.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
What is your how do I ask this? What just Canelo?
He looks ready to me I saw the way in
photo or the video he looked to be in tremendous condition,
but it looked to me like the whole camp. And
you saw this in the Netflix specials Bud Scott. Bud
treats Canelo like the boxing establishment. In other words, he
feels like he never got the respect from the boxing establishment,

(13:53):
and he feels like that guy did. And this is
the final piece of the career puzzle to prove that.
I was like, there's been there's like there's an extra
level of motivation, whereas Canelo, I'm not saying he's not
motivated again, he is in shape, but they don't appear
to be approaching this fight for the same reasons at all.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Well, listen, this is when I do this shameless plug
shout out to the Portaway podcast. I had an opportunity
to get in camp with Crawford and I asked that
question specifically, why when did it become Canelo? And I'm
assuming it was after you get and get the love
you're expected to get after you pumbled Spence and he
said that's exactly what it was. So taking on this

(14:31):
fight against Canelo really is I'm taking on the establishment.
I'm taking on every single boxing fan that has overlooked
me or felt like I'm not who I am. I'm
going to prove it against Canelo. So yeah, I think
the energy is different for Canelo. It is what it
has always been. Another fight, another guy for me to
put on my on my resume, and another chance for
me to shine in front of a big, a big

(14:53):
crowd here in Las Vegas. And so yeah, their mindsets
are different, and in a lot of ways, the mindset
of Crawford a little more dangerous.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
He's got a chip on his shoulder.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, for he's to be at this age to take
on this challenge and put your unbeaten record on the
line and to act like you've never been given flowers
in your entire career. And I understand the mindset that's
so dangerous, Like it's insane.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
In terms of the size difference though, but an inch taller,
almost four inches longer, and physically they looked the same.
We know Bud has an amateur wrestling background. Did you
get a feeling in the clinches with him that it's
like that he may be able with this larger frame
to push Canelo back in some of these moments.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
Listen i'ma I'm gonna crack the cold right here. I'm
gonna spill the beans. I'm gonna tell the truth. When
you see a welterweight in the ring, he's naturally a
middleweight some well to way, So naturally super middleweight's cutting
down to get to a weight class that they feel
they're gonna be the best, they're gonna be optimal. So

(15:55):
when we're talking about Tarres Crawford being a well To
Waight or a Jenior well well To where George Junior middleweight,
understand that he was already a middleweight coming down to
well To Wait, when he was fighting at one forty,
he was already a middleweight coming down to one forty.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Nothing new there except to y'all.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Do y'all, y'all understand him being a little guy, and
he's never been a little man.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yes, he was thinner.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
You get opportunity being able to hit the weights the
way that he needs to or needed to to put
on what I call healthy weight.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
He's going to carry the weight fine.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
His body's going to be acclimated to the weight because
guess what, why he's been out of the ring for
thirteen months. He's been working with that weight for thirteen months,
so he's he's good.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
He say he did the opposite of what Jamel Charlo
did when he fuckingello exactly, and he added exactly.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
He did everything that he needed to do. He took
what's called an intelligent and scientific approach to this. And
when you're getting in the ring with somebody that Canelo Avarez,
when you talk about bringing it all that includes the nutrition,
that those intellectual methods and all those he's ready.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
Let's talk about the Madramov fight. No, no, no, we like it, loud.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
I mean, the Undertaker's here at Triple H. You might
be auditioning.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
You looked over there, there's somebody behind me, Michael.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
I don't know who half these people are, all right,
Uh I do know Undertaker, all right. In terms of
the Madramov fight, let's have a critical eye. Yeah, most
not not to be like critical for sport, but just
imagine for the premise, the biggest concern you would have
about Crawford heading into this fight, based on what you
saw in the Madramon fight, which course was a fifty four,
it would be what.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
It would be that he's gonna eat some punches and
is he gonna be able to sustain the punches that
he's gonna take from Canelo. We saw him take clean
right hands from Israel Madramov, and like I always say,
and I feel like I'm just always defending this. This
kid tams Crawford. But at the end of the day, again,

(17:58):
I had a conversation with him about that fight. Those
moments specifically, he didn't care. He knew what was happening,
and he knew that he just needed to have a knockout,
and he started to just stand in there and take
those prices.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
So this is where the rubber meets the road for me.
They're gonna be at Allegiance Stadium.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
It's gonna be Candelo's crowd, Like we know it's gonna
be if he lands something that has a demonstrative effect,
and even if Crawford hits him harder, but Canelo no
sells it.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
What are the judges gonna do? This is a huge factor.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
I'm sorry, but I got to do this, and I'll
use myself as an example.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
No, please do.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I went into this as a tournament.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
I went into a fight and I thought Dimitri Andre nonetheless,
and I beat him on points, and I beat him
on points and he's also facing in the amateur somehow,
I don't happened A long story short, right, my dad
comes to my room. We're not staying in the same room,
and that was the semi finals that got the finals.
The next day, my dad said, why'd you fight like that?

(18:56):
I said, well, I felt like I had This is
what I had to do to get to win.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Dad.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
I said, all right, well you got that your system
because we need to beat us tomorrow night. And of
course the next night I was me. He wasn't the
hymn that were used to seeing. Majoramov played a major
role in that. But don't think because he didn't care
about Madamov that in his mind he just doesn't care.
He just didn't care in that moment. He knows how

(19:20):
to fix that moment so that it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Can you take that same mindset and apply it to
one of the biggest question slash narratives around and Canelo
coming in the idea that maybe he was coasting in
recent fights. Maybe when he knocks the guy down and
it becomes clear that that guy's going to stop fighting
back to win, maybe he can coast and go the difference.
Would you agree that Canelo ain't gonna coast in this one.
That's why he's coming in the shape he's in and.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
One hundred percent. And I've looked at that side of
it too as well.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
Like you look, you take a look at Goal, you look,
take a look at the fight that they had against Berlanga.
You even take a look at the fight with Mungia.
Those guys just weren't ready for Canelo Averreth. So here
it is Devil's advocate. You're talking about sixty seven fights
if I'm not mistaken, and there's a lot of knowledge.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
But guess what. Recently, I've just been cruising.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
I've been cruising until something like this that calls for
me to put my foot in the gas pedal. And
I can actually do that because I've done it time
and time again.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
So or couldn't it be rusty too that he hasn't
done it in a while. It might take him a
while to get in gear. No, don't do that to me.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
A great point, damn it, don't do that.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
You're right, my bad.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's a great point, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Like, I feel like you can get lost in the
groove a little bit, especially if you're always the a side,
and you're always calling the shots. You know.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
The funny thing with boxing, though, is we have the
ability to kind of turn it on and turn it off,
especially the elite guys. The elite guys can turn it
on and turn it off. And I really do believe that.
And I've been told by a lot of experts, guys
in boxing, that they feel Canelo was awake for this one,
and he hasn't been as awake in other fights, and
I believe that.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Do you think there is evidence to suggest in this
last chapter of the latest chapter of Canelo's career that
he has a strong performer rounds one to six and
fades seven to twelve. Sure.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
I think he starts to fight probably mid A, and
he finishes the fight at A minus. There have been
maybe a couple of fights where he finished the fight
B plus. Still a hell of a lot better than
everybody out there. So with this one, he's got to
maintain that a level. If he doesn't. Guess what, you

(21:30):
got a guy who's actually gonna see little moments where
you start the waiver and little I'm telling y'all, I
saw it myself. He actually has the ability to see
when you waiver and when you take these little laws
and those little moments, and Canelo's notorious for having moments
where he's just gonna just coast and I'm gonna manage
this clock and get through this round, and those are

(21:51):
going to be the moments that Bud and his team
are prepared to find.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
How does Canelo back up Bud just behind the jab?
It feels like it's gonna be a little bit more ms.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
I think that I think that the jab for Canelo's key.
I think he's got a snapping, fast jab that we
haven't seen in a long time. I think that's a
jab that, like we always like we know in boxing,
the jab really establishes everything. It can get your opponent
off his rhythm, it can establish that range in that distance,
and the jab is key, I think for Canelo in

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terms of pushing but back, I think that it starts
with the jab for him, not necessarily the faints. The
fants are gonna do it for a little while, but
he's got to do something off of those fans.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Could you tell us how you ended up having an
amateur fight with Alexander Ussek off topic here, but I
need to get the.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Story because I've never asked you, and did you know
he was that guy?

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Seventy five kilos in the amateurs one hundred and sixty
five pounds is what I thought at known for being
a football player. I played football around one seventy five
and my dad was like, we're gonna get down on
one sixty five and you'll fight there.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I got to the weight with no problem.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Usually in the tournament, I would finish the tournament around
one sixty two one sixty three. Good healthy muscle weight
is what I carried. And so when you're looking at
a welter weight that got in the ring with a
now heavyweight back then, he was tall and thin and
I was short and thick, you know, and we made
it happen.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I won that thing.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
Listen, he shows up at the Olympic Games in twenty
twelve and my dad's like, you you recognize that that?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
So now who's that?

Speaker 6 (23:30):
He said you beat him in two thousand and seven.
Remember I was like, I don't remember him. And then
he's gone to be who he is now.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
I'm grateful for that, grateful for the Olympic Committee.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
They are allowing me to come in and take a
look at every single fight of film that they have
and I'm only going out for one fight. I'm only
going out for that one. We're gonna help them idemize
all of the fights and sparring sessions and all that
kind of stuff. But I'm like, all right, you guys,
I'm just looking for Usik. I'm just looking for Usik.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
So I've also noticed you've picked up one of your dad,
Kenny Porter's catchphrases. Don't think I haven't heard you say.
It's it's a long way from the littles to the cup.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
The hell does that mean?

Speaker 6 (24:06):
I mean, come on now, because as close as that
cup is to you, you're that far away from from
taking a drink?

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Did you not know that?

Speaker 1 (24:14):
I did not have that wisdom in at just.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Broke it down myself. I hope that's what it means.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
So amazing. What do you got going on with the
Portaway podcast?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
The Portway Podcast will be live.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Your friend has an amazing Philly shirt. That's an amazing
Philly shirt.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
That guy right there, man, I'm hanging out right there.
That's j y d.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
You guys following him on on on you on the
social media. He does terrible Jones And I don't know
how much you guys know about Philly, but the jone that's.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
The I like Philly.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
And made it something so But anyway, nice, Okay.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
The whole weekend and we take two hours to do it.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Turkey Alishika is an honorable member of the Nevada Boxting
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yes, I know that when.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
In a way Sunday Sunday in a way is Sundy
the top rank Facebook page?

Speaker 4 (25:11):
How did that happen?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Have you gone public with a prediction for Canelo?

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Would you mind sharing that?

Speaker 6 (25:20):
I don't mind. What I'm gonna say is watch my
social media. After two rounds, possibly with this one, I
might give it three and I'll make my finit if
this is how this fight is gonna go.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Because Tim Bradley says KO for Bud.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I'm not mad at him.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
The ko happens, that happens late, I have Bud winning
this fight. When put it past this guy to get
a knockout? Uh?

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Should he get a knockout? I don't know. If Tim
was specific, It's not gonna come the way.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
Everybody thinks it would come. Via It's not gonna come
the way everybody thinks. Everybody thinks that because but that
because Canelo took every single punch the Triple G through.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh my true, it's gonna come a little different from.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
So it's gonna come a punch as and sea coming there.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
It is there, it is because Triple g is is
straight ahead meat and potatoes.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
It's it's a leap some of the greatest we've ever seen.
By the way against Tim Bradley would have been a
barn burner.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Okay, I want to.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Close with this, and it's always great having Shan Porter.
Absolutely you got like a soup business now like a tailor.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yes, I do business. I have a Beastpoke tailors.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Because I want to sign I don't is it in
my tax bracket? I want to be outfitted and it is.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
No.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
I've seen you on TV enough now know that you
getting enough checks you.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Can afford as you can afford. And that's exactly what
our what our suit line is.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I wanted like my name in like the I wish.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
I had done it today. I didn't wear my my
stuff that has everything on it. But yeah, yeah, yes,
be mindful of your tax bracket. I will say that,
But we're not We're not punching anybody in the mouth. Yes,
but this is Sean Porter Suits and Services. So I'm
gonna Christian. Part of being a Christian is serving, and
so we come to you, we serve you. We we

(27:04):
we bring all of the uh, the the lining, and
all of the fabrics to you. We fit, We fit
you top to bottom and h we put a little
posassed on. There's something that you didn't know you could get,
so like normally I would have different buttons.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
And all this other kind of stuff. You got. Guys
called me sleeping the day.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Okay. Some of the Christian service level is washing a
man's feet. You don't want to see my bunions.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Okay, we gotta go that far.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
I got the kind of toenails that tell a story.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
You don't go that fun.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Okay, listen, this is crazy enough. You say that I'm
the best dressed man here, but your socks, like, really
go into your shoe, you know, I got I don't
see where the shoe ends and where the sock begins.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Sometimes sometimes I've got a little game. At one time
I had game and I got married. It's been a
pleasure to have you on.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
I want you to be rocking your your podcast, your
moving forward.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
You thanks very much. Appreciate you guys.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
There is nice to see you, always, always there is.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Well, I could go about two hours with that guy.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Of course we can do a whole show.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
We will have of course, look at him, look at him,
but put that put that camera on s feet, would
you please?

Speaker 8 (28:09):
There is.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Sean Porter, Yes, all right, got no problem about it.
Luke Thomas, you're gonna get into UFC, O cha and
all that stuff. But we got to break down ourselves. Okay,
what we feel like this fight is going to look like.
Has anything that has transpired this fight week altered your
perception of how the fight might go.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
I was waiting to see if Canelo was slipping or
lacking in some kind of way. I didn't see any
evidence of that. I was waiting to see if he
lost his temper at some point or somebody got to him.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I didn't see much evidence of that.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
I don't I haven't seen everything he's done in media, obviously,
particularly in the Spanish language. I don't know what to
read from that. He looks to me ready to rock.
At the same time, no doubts about him, I really don't.
You have doubts about Crawford's readiness.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
It's not doubts.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's will Crawford to elevate to a level I'm not
prepared for, like he did in the Aerol Spence fight.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Yeah, I mean this is this is this is what
I'm stuck between. And I mean this quite genuinely, right,
I am stuck between what I asked Sean Porter, which was,
how do you beat a guy that never seems to
lose on the cards that we again at Allegiance Stadium.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
It's gonna be Canelo Country up in that bitch.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
And at the same time has one of the most
legendary chins of our lifetime.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Right, I can't. I can't.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's hard to know who has a better chin than
him who fought during our coverage TRIPLEG. But that's about it, right,
I mean, that's about We're talking like an all timer.
And then at the same time, you know, so do
you have that on on one side? At the same time,
I said after Bud Crawford beat ERL Spence that I
would never ever doubt him again. After what I witnessed

(29:44):
that night, I was so moved. I thought it was
so insane. It can't possibly be the case that this
guy could lose to anyone, But this is at sixty
eight and it's Canelo, and I don't know what to
do with this.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
I honestly don't know what to do with this.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
And that's the best part about the fight.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
That's why this fight worked so well, because I don't
think anybody else could be in Bud spot and we
could have this level of confidence that's possible that the
betting lines would be this close. What is Bud like
a plus what one seventy five or something.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
I mean, it's so close, I'd have to look it up.
It it's not what you think.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, in boxing, even when we are complicit in that
it's a close fight, you'll still see minus.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Four fifty as the favorite.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's just wild to me. History will change.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
I was on Ackenbrock's live stream yesterday and we're trying
to say, like, if Bud pulls this off, and if
you want to then say, he is inserting the blank
Mount Rushmore, top five, top ten, pound for pound all time,
the goat. Now, Am I gonna put him above you know,
Sugary Robinson and Ali No. But I don't think there's
a ceiling or cap per se on what you could
say about Bud Crafford if he goes in there against

(30:46):
a version of Canal that I'm telling you still has it.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
I know this about this man.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
This is the history like I made, shed tears like
you did after after Spence Crawford, because if I see
this happen on Saturday and playout, will be a humbled man.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
I can't. I just can't fathom him treating Canelo like
but it like, yeah, like busting him up, you know
what I mean? Because I've seen Canelo kind of pushed back.
I've seen Canelo bust it up, but it was Bival
doing it.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
So what is Porter saying that that Crawford has some
punch at the right moment that is going to rock Canelo.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
There's oscar Is Oscar Willis you know, on the phone
trying to ask his bookie not to break his.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Legs, where his boss Connor is like, you know, yeah,
secure for me please?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I mean do you do you think that's possible?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
About what Tim Bradley and now Sean Porter are saying
that it could be? I mean, who's the sharper puncher
than Bud, who combines speed and power better than Bud?

Speaker 5 (31:44):
Nobody?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Could you really rock can I mean, any human can
be rocked if you hit him on the chin and
the exact already.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
So I also saw Canelo rocked against Codo's brother, but
that was back on the Mayweather.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
And uh that was in twenty ten.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Who was it? Mayweather? And uh? Uh no?

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Mostly who are you?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Literally twenty ten and it was a three second rocking.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, you know, And basically since then, he's just been
marching people down for the most part. So I think
Bud's a better boxer. I really don't have much question
about that. I don't know, Bro, I really really don't.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
You're gonna have to put a prediction down.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I've switched a couple times, but the last month I've
been Canelo by unanimous decision.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
I'm going eight rounds to four.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I will believe that there will be an argument for
but at the end of the day, because he is
going to have moments, he is going to be everything
that he is, and it's an all time great right there.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Who is taking a big shot. I cannot count out the.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
IQ, the technique, the adaptability, the size, the everything of
Big Red, Like.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Have we lost our minds here?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
In terms of just assuming that he's gonna come out
and lay down and look old.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Come on, I think he'll look good the first six rounds,
but I do think it's a different ballgame after the seventh.
Do you think do you think Canelic can knock out Bud?

Speaker 1 (32:59):
I think he could.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I don't think he will. But do you think he
can discipline Bud with the power or will Bud at
thirty seven and nine tenths be more elusive than anyone
Canelo has thought since Floyd.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
I think he could make Bud have to resort to
parts of the game plan that are low percentage. In
other words, like he'll come in with some ideas about
what has to happen, and if it doesn't work, he's
gonna have to take riskier chances. You know, turn South Paul,
you know, like just do stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I hope he turns South Paul halfway through the first
round and just keeps making.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
He will.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
He will give Canelo as many different looks as.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
Possible, controlling the job. It helps them move to the outside,
obviously lends you up for the power hands.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Almost meaner from the southwall stands.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
I don't this is what I mean, like I and
the other part two that kills me is he goes
and like Bud demolishes Spence right, takes a year off,
which I didn't love, beats madrom Off. It was fine,
it wasn't an overwhelming win, and we just haven't seen
him since. It's like there's just not a lot of tape.
There's a lot of tape on Canelo recently, but against
subpar competition. There's almost no tape on Bud against good

(34:08):
competition in frankly irrelevant weight class.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
I actually think this two years of inactivity will help him.
It hasn't been extra damage. He put on the weight
the right way. Dude, We're gonna have a real fight.
I still go in eight for Canelo.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Where are you going? I'm gonna say what I think
I've always been saying, which.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Is you have diarrhea. You say that a lot, I
do say that a lot. I don't have it.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
In this particular case.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
I think Canelo's gonna win, but I hope he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
For the for Bud, for the sport.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Or because I think but Bud is trying is more
noble and I think he's a better boxer. And the
way that Canelo has so obviously ducked David Benavidez is
beyond disappointing and I really have hated the last five. However,
many fights that Canelos add.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
So you think boxing karma and that, and I don't
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
If boxing karma is real, but I hope that it is.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
But you know, Terrence Crawford's real.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
I know Terrence Crawford is absolutely for real.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Well, there's been a little side uh not side hustle,
side beef going on with Terrence Crawford this week and
another big star, your boy Totia.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
In fact, the back and forth it's gotten.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Saucy enough where I think we can bring in our
friends from Quervo for a little bit.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Of shots fired, bitch, And of course this is shots
Fired brought to you by Quervo.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Now's a good time to enjoy the tequila that invented tequila.
And we're not that far away from UFC three twenty
pregame preview. We're gonna we're gonna get on that Quervo. Okay,
let's uh so, let's recap the start of this. It
was Toporia coming out and saying I can knock out
Terrence Crawford with the first punch. So it's another MMA
star at the peak of their power trying to sell
themselves out to a boxer. Even Dana at the press

(35:55):
conference yesterday, when asked by Acopian like will you be
entertaining fights like this? Dana's like, I hope not Lea
does and want fights like this. But it got back
to Bud at media Day, here's Terrence Crawford's response from
the UFC World Idiot to Poria says that if you
guys ever boxed, he would knock you out basically the
first punch.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Dude drunk?

Speaker 7 (36:13):
You know, hey, you know a lot of MMA guys
they drink a lot, so he must have been on
alcohol that day.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Luke, what do you make of this? A little back
and forth? Much ado about stop talking about this.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Or what I hate?

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Uh, basically everything about it. I hate everything about kid.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Joe style or you know who sing that song?

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Which one?

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I hate everything who buys ugly kid Joe.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
I just can't stand this. I can't stand to port dude.
Someone asked to Poria. They were like, hey, you know
how Connor's running for president of Ireland? Would you ever
want to be? I don't know, Prime Minister of Spain.
He was like, you know, I've never thought about it. Yeah,
of course you haven't thought about it. Why would you
ever be thinking about it? And then he's like, but
if the you know, if the people need me, I
will you stop asking MMA fighters about things like this? Please?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Why is l l Indo copying every single move? Can
that not? Canelo that?

Speaker 8 (37:09):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
That Connor makes the tats?

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Once again, if you're going to copy a guy.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Who had a good run, yeah, you got to get
the part of the run that's been good and not
the other parts of the run that have been bad.
But if you cop if you copy the good parts,
there's all. I mean, it's just a normal playbook, right,
I mean, is does you.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Respect Dana being like, no more of these crossover fights.
I want to do real boxing.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Honestly, Like, how could you not? How could you not?
At this point?

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Like, listen, some there are could Can you think of
some crossover permutations that you might like going forward? I'm
sure there are gonna be some. Some you can tolerate.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Wade plemons against Jaul.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
To tolerate that, it would be sharing for Wade, you know, obviously.
But what I'm just gonna say is is like the
it's not what it used to be. It's not what
it used to be. Uh And there's a very there's
a small window for this kind of thing, and especially
the mma like in their prime guy crossing over like
dude that the results are not a mystery.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
They're not a mystery. There's no mystery.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Sara McLaughlin would not sing a song about that at
Little Fair.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
You're on fire today with the old bits, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
This is this is hey, hey in the house from
Rock and Brock. They are we know we love that
guy right there, dang right Okay, uh.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
So I guess you like my You like my socks?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Uh No, I don't. But are the two keys? Did
she pick those up?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Then?

Speaker 5 (38:23):
I very good eye?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, then I do like them?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Right?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
You are dad certified Dad?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
I am a certified dad. I got the jokes to.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
There's a lot of celebrities in this room right now,
like way more famous than anybody we know.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
You know who's here, Brian Daily, Okay, that's definitely important.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
You know, Steve steven sposa triple H H b K.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
The undertake stand Barrett, I mean, you know it's get
Marco's a Jos okay, all right, no, okay, back to
the regulation.

Speaker 5 (38:51):
I'm just looking around. I don't notice a lot of
famous people. I noticed some, Okay, A lot is a
strong work. We've got another event this weekend.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
It goes down in santon Tonio, six pm Eastern main
card start time for all things Noche UFC and of course.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Talk about the back burner.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Whoa redheaded stack?

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Isn't it crazy? I mean, I get it, right, I
get it.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
Like if you gotta you gotta focus your attention on something,
it's definitely got to be this.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Totally get it.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
But at the same time, it's like no Cha UFC
started out in the sphere and now it's just in
San Antonio, like gonna bene in Mexico.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Was supposed to supposed to be a Monterey.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
They did try, but they got an arena where apparently
the progress of construction has been too slow that they
just could not. I don't I don't think it's even
done now, by the way. Uh So they had to
move it to San Antonio and listen. Obviously, Rob font
versus Chewy Weis was gonna be a big fight Chewy,
but then that fell out, so they lost. They lost
a fight there's been Can we talk about Kelvin Gastolum.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Told it's Wada Lajara was where the fight was supposed
to be. Okay, okay?

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Uh so, I mean the main event is what we're
mostly here for, Lord featherweight against Diego Lopez coming off
of that vacant title loss.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
But you mentioned it. The Kelvin Gastolm heavyweight era could
be upon us.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
He missed weight for his middleweight contest against Dustin Stolefus
correct by five pounds.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
At middleweight, not at welterweight.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Is the fight still happening?

Speaker 5 (40:19):
So he was listen to this. This is the last
I saw before we got on air. I don't know
if something has happened since we got on air. He
was fined thirty five percent of his purse for the
weight miss. When you consider between the taxes, it's going
to be closer to forty to fifty percent of what
he loses plus the thirty five from this, plus the
five to ten percent or even more that he has
to pay out to coaches, trading partners, agents and managers.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
He's no average j art for creating his merch.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
And average Joe Art. He's going to be potentially making
nothing off this fight or even possibly in the red.
It is insane time, Lucas, Dude, I feel and I'm serious,
don't you feel bad about this? Like I would never
want someone to lose their check, But if you've been
missing weight in multiple weight classes for years?

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah, what are they supposed to do?

Speaker 5 (41:08):
What are they supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Because you know, I love Kelvin.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
I almost feel like, straight up he should go to
two or five or heavyweight and just finish out the career.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
And bangers. That's what he does anyway, right, Just go.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
To PFL or BKFC or something, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Mean you have CE two thirty six feels like a
long time ago.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
That was the is he fight? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:25):
That is a long says the fight is still scheduled
to move forward.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
He that is dude, that's bananas. That's bananas.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Damn damn. Oh you know what I met yesterday? A
quick aside? What are the nicest people ever?

Speaker 4 (41:37):
A prostitute?

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Wow? Wow?

Speaker 3 (41:39):
I mean they do have some I did see people
are some nice people that have elevated to that position.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Jason Annik twin, brother of John.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
How was he, dude, It's like the best. It's like
a big got a big head of hair.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Right, it's like hippi John Annix like talking to it.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
It was great.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Love that dude.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
You know that was here.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, he was because he was John's guy, you know,
so he was here.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Right.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
He is a burgeoning star on Dirty Boxing with with
with Mike Perry.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Mike Perry is a color comptentor for that.

Speaker 5 (42:04):
Yeah. But they got that big square belt. You know,
you seem to love Biggie boy loves that thing in
the lac. I like that.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
I like what's going on, although also what no one's
talking about, and we will talk note a second, yo,
all Romero making that BKFC debut.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Did you see how freaking Jackie look at the Wayne?

Speaker 5 (42:19):
How is that possible?

Speaker 3 (42:20):
He's fighting the guy at BUCkies who makes like the
roasted almonds behind the counter. Like, that's clearly who he's fighting.
It's not even like it's not even one of the
top three fighters. He's fighting Ann Evans. Actually, okay, I
saw him last night, dude.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Him and BKFC. Like, I'm into that. I'm into that.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
I gotta say I didn't think i'd be into it,
and I'm not into BKFC more broadly.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
But Joel is a He's an outlier.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
I mean he if he is nothing else in this world,
he is a freaking outlier, is he not?

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yes, he is.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
I don't know if you saw it the way? And
speaking of this main event, Uh, who wore that Luca mask?

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Was that Lord Silva.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Came j Silvia war?

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Yes, that's right, he's the betting favorite. Mustache Diego has
the pornstar mustache. We saw them kind of cross pass
in the hotel this way.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Why do young men want to look like nineteen seventies
midwestern high school football coaches?

Speaker 4 (43:09):
What's the reasoning behind that?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Think about it. Those guys' entire life was football in.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Spitting tobacco and yelling that teenagers like, that's a pretty
good life.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (43:17):
That is?

Speaker 4 (43:17):
A good Abusing teenagers is a great life.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Lord Silva is a solid favorite here against Diego Lopez.
I think we can agree, even with the fighting nerds
run in the wrong direction lately, that Silva is more
well rounded than Lopez.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Is it his fight to lose on Saturday?

Speaker 5 (43:36):
I don't consider it to be lopsided enough for me
to say it's his fight to lose. I still think
Diego is credentialed enough, tough enough, well rounded enough in
terms of like where he could provide threats and again
obviously the jiu jitsu where he could take the back
pull guard. There are ways in which he could manipulate
the situation just just clinching them up too, like ways

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which this could be uniquely beneficial to him. But at
the same time, I do favor jay On Silva to win.
I just feel like Diego has wrestling. I don't know
if it's good enough to make a difference. One thing
about Silva. Now we know more about Kyle, and we
knew a lot about them, but you know, now we
know more certainly about Hoofi. But Silva has passed more

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tests to this point than some of these other guys have,
And I think that is a dude Bryce. You know,
I don't want to go fishing with pre meth Hitler,
But if you're just assessing his grappling, it's not bad,
it's good. Is it elite? No, it's not elite. But
he couldn't do shit to Silva, So that tells me
Silva's got something going on. The One thing that is different, though,

(44:40):
is five rounds at a UFC level against a battle
tested guy who's not going to be playing games with you,
you know what I mean, He's not gonna be doing
He's not going to be doing all the robot and shit,
and Silva does that stuff when he I wonder, it's
not a liability against guys when you're way better than them,
but if you're a little bit better.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Than them, it can be a liability.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
And I just wonder what that pressure looks like if
it goes to the fourth, fifth round and he's still
out there doing you know, Tony Ferguson's robot or whatever you.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Know, or Cody Garbran's robot as well.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Gar's got to go.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Let's talk about Diego Lopez.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
I feel like the manner in which he lost to
Volkanovski in that vacant title bout maybe expose the limitations
of lack of full well roundedness in his game.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Is there enough time in this camp to turn that around?

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Are you expecting to see a Diego Lopez who has
heard the criticisms, has reacted and has raised his game
and maybe is being slept on entering this fight.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
I definitely think he looked to be in tremendous physical condition,
which is you know, to be true. He certainly, as
I mentioned, battle tested. But the issue in the Vulcan
fight was a it was a small one, but a
big one where he simply could not change cage positioning
and he could not cut off the cage and he
got eaten alive for it. On the one hand, he's

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got a good guard, and he's got good power, and
he's got good cardio. He's got a good double leg,
he's got good chokes from the back, he's got a
lot of different things he does well. But BC that
is a foundational kind of skill and Vulk just made
him look, you know, second tier. As a consequence, I
don't think Silva has the same kind of positional discipline

(46:21):
to do something like that. But can you take advantage
of a guy whose positioning is relatively predictable, dude, Yes,
you can. You can feast on guys like that, So
you know, I mean, Silva's got his limitations and Lopez
has his limitations too. It's just a question of who's
going to be better about, you know, implementing them.

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Definitely taking the over on that. Yeah, one hundred percent,
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(48:59):
event pick. Somebody's going to get a push here at featherweight.
There's been a little bit of a recycling of the
big names to Puria, Holloway, Gone, Vulk back on top.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
The winner of this could.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Be, especially if it's Silva right now, right with the streak,
with the momentum.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
For all we know, he could be getting ready for
a title shot.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Who gets their hand raised at their five rounds if
it goes that long in San Antonio on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
Give me the Well, they're both Brazilian, I suppose, but
give me the Brazilian Brazilian, not the Mexican Brazilian.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
I like jay On Silva in this one.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
And I think one factor that I've not seen a
lot of people talk about is a lot of times
guys will be in title fights and they'll lose and
then their rebound fight goes poorly. And I feel like
that's going to happen to Lopez here. At least there's
a good chance anyway that that could happen to Lopez here.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Now.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
Of course, the challenge to that BC is, well, the
fighting nerds are riding poor momentum at the same time,
which is also true. But I don't know how much
that extends exactly the Silva. But I just think when
you're missing foundational kinds of skills, and by the way,
out of that camp that Lopez comes from, it's not
just him, it's several fighters in that camp that all
have cage cutting problems. This is not a problem you

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can solve overnight. You can certainly make big strides, but
it's not a problem you can solve overnight. And laziness
not laziness, but your old habits will take over the
longer about goes.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
I like Silva to win this one, stoppach.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
I don't know. That seems a little harder to predict,
but I think three to two, four to one, it's
gonna be jay On Silva.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Shaq MAJORI, friend of the show, often texts you for things.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
He reached down to.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
It showed me this.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
UFC produced thing that's kind of under the radar, showing
Silva's backstory and sort of the.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Reason why he's here. And the trauma he's endured. Have
you heard this in Brazil?

Speaker 3 (50:39):
How he grew up like witnessing his mom being assaulted
and and and then his mom had a fight off
an attacker and went to jailing. All this like insanity
that he's seen witnessing his mom getting raped, all this stuff,
and essentially that he was on the verge of taking
his own life until Mauricio Hoofi in the recent years
talked him out of it.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
That's haveavy stuff.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Right, That's a journey man that does something to you,
you know. And I hate to say this, but we
know it to be true. We've just seen it in
the fight game. Certain people go through what could often
be not always, but what can often be unspeakable trauma,
and they can use that trauma to really give them
a purpose and a fire inside. And I hate to
say that, I don't want them to experience it, but

(51:21):
we've just seen it too many times. These guys who
come from rough backgrounds, they are motivated to leave those
rough backgrounds and they've got a certain excuse me, they
got a certain fire in their belly that can really
propel them at times.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
It's unfortunate that those things are connected but they just are.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
That guy shows so much joy in the big moments,
the bright moments. He also shows intensity leading up to
these fights.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
I was gonna ask you, do you feel like Silva
is intimidated by the scope and size of the event
UFC Main Event. I do not feel that way.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
He wants I wants it all.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
He's wired for this, like I think he gets his
hand RASI, So I think it'll be a tougher fight
than people are starting to jump on the bandwagon here
against Diego Lopez, who's.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Ready and and all that.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
But I'd like to see if Silva can do this
and what he might mean in the title picture, the
kind of damage that he gives.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
And we should say, if Lopez gets his hand raised, dude,
that's a credible bounce back, you know, because he got
kind of got undressed a little bit against Vulcan. To
come back against a surgeon contender who had a dominant
win in his last fight, who's got crazy striking the
whole time, that's a big deal on a big stage.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
That's a big deal to be able to do that.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
So you know, whoever wins here is getting a real
scalp into their collection.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Is there anybody who's who's who's next in line for
the title. I'm trying to think of where we're at.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
So Laron Murphy, you would imagine vult guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you would imagine. But like someone was also asking me
this week, is there is there a way? Is there
a way for Silva if he wins, not not for Lopez,
but if Silva wins, is there can he Can he
win in such a way.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
As to leapfrog Laren Murphy?

Speaker 1 (52:50):
And I would.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
He's dude, If he goes up there and let's say he.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
Knocks out Lopez in round three, for sure, he's leap
frogging Mosar for sure.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
The question is, you know what Murphy did against Pico.
I don't know. I don't know about that. That's a
little harder to say, but possible, possible.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
All right?

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Chew we Wei's out of that co main event.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Rob font looking for three straight wins in what we
thought might be the twilight of his run here taking
on the last minute replacement David Martinez. A lot of
the scouting reports I've seen is Martinez might not be
ready for this kind of smoke.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
How do you look at it. I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
I mean, Rob Font is older and therefore he's gonna
have a degree of vulnerability. But you know, while I
don't think Rob Font is in his prime, and I
don't think him and his coaches will tell you that
they are another battle tested, very credentialed, very experienced, well
rounded opponent. That was why the fight with Chiwi Wei's
was interesting, because, like dude, Rob Font is older, and
Rob Font is a little bit, a little bit you know, shopworn,

(53:43):
but still viable, highly experienced against very good fighters, super
well rounded. That's a good test for Chewie Wei's. But
we lost it, and so you know, we're just gonna
call him Chewe.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
I think Mike co Ohens media of Liverpool fame is
like an adopted member of Team Font.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
The New England Cartel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he might be
all right.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
I love that guy.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
All right, I gotta get out to Liverpool. I want
to see that.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I'd like to do that too. We'll retrack the Beatles'
history all right together.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
You know what I'm I feel like that's the I
feel like that's the right of every cracker who loves
ult school music.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
We don't have the technology to bring in Long Island
Luke to get his undercard bangers here. But the lightweight
Raffa Garcia Jared Gordon fight, The odds are close on
this one. I see a lot of people spotlighting it
as a potential good fight.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
Gordon hasn't had a few fights where you're like, I
think this guy should have won, or he did way
better than I thought. He was going to a tough
fight against Rafa.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
But yeah, I think Gordon's got a real shot there.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Alex Sander Hernandez at lightweight also against Carlos Diego Fijeda,
who's that is a could be toward the end of
his run as well, But.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
So Carlos Dicojita, a very technical guy, got limits we've
seen him, but a good black belt and kind of
that Rob Font. Older but highly experienced and pretty pretty
credential for the most part. Alex Hernandez had a great
win over Chase Cooper in his life last contest, coming
right back in it. So is he staying hot with
this or is he coming back too soon? That's a
fun ass fight between two guys who have you know,

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they got a lot to There's still a little bit
of gold left to mind for them.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
You know any Sugar Skuy.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Claudio Poisius is also back there at lightweight against Joaquim Silva.
The last thing I wanted you to say about this
was do you think Tatiana Suarez bounces back in her
women's starweight bout against Amanda Limos. She was asked she
should whether her and Patty have been ut Sorry.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Patty Mix right with Patti Mix. I want to say
Patty about Mix.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
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Speaker 1 (55:38):
I'd like to see her dump back.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
I would like to see her this I would say stylistically,
if someone is getting finished via standing head and arm
triangle by Jessica Androge. Yes, Androge has an incredible squeeze,
but that just seems like someone who might be vulnerable
in the grappling department to a you know, a Ford
pressure wrestler.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Well, she should win, That's what I would say. She
should win, all right?

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They may have like one hundred and ten seconds left
before they kick us off. Yeah, because it's gonna be
all day, all the smoke fight here.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
Yeah, you gotta stick around.

Speaker 5 (57:31):
So they're getting Jackson se and Jackson, Matt Barnes are
gonna have oct Rock coming back here, Roy Jones, andre Ward,
your phone flying everywhere. It's gonna be a busy, busy
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Speaker 4 (57:42):
Jodrich Rose in the house, all right, Yeah, he's there
as well.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
You know what I'm saying. Is there anything you'd like
to close to talk about?

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Speaker 5 (57:52):
I've got two broadcasts tomorrow. I'm gonna do one for
not ja UFC and I'm gonna do one for Canelo
from home from home. I'm gonna We're done here. I'm
off to the airport. I'm out of here. So we'll
have that tomorrow from home. So check that out? And
then what are you doing for the fights tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (58:06):
I will be uh, are you gonna do?

Speaker 5 (58:08):
Are you interviewing Dana today?

Speaker 1 (58:10):
I'm supposed to be interviewing Dana today after.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Doesn't also going live on CBS Sports HQ shortly after
the way in pre and post coverage tomorrow on CBS
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the cart as well. So on the wedding, flying home
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