THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Jake Paul VS Tank CONFIRMED, Canelo Vs Crawford news and Rampage Jackson's son DRANA... - The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, It's real. I That's the only thing
I can think of to say right now. It is
real breaking news. Jake Paul is fighting Gervante Tank Davis
November fifteenth in Atlanta, Georgia. This is reported by The
Ring magazine, and we have to talk about it. What
just happened? The fight that I couldn't believe that was

(00:22):
too insane and honestly just baffling to think would be
a real fight in twenty twenty five. Remind you that
combat sports are the craziest sports on the planet, and
boxing is the entertainment business, or the circus, or however
you want to look at it. Slap a red nose
on this one, because this takes the k and it's
got me scratching my head and wondering why why do this?

(00:45):
But I think I have the answers. What do I mean?
The breakdown? Let's go okay, so real quick, I had
to cut in. I'm sorry. News is updating as this
video is being recorded and edited. I'm trying to get
it out as soon as possible for you guys. Jake
Paul has just confirmed that this is real. No if

(01:05):
ans or butts about it. Jake Paul will be fighting
Jervonte tek Davis on November fourteenth, twenty twenty five. That's
a Friday, not a Saturday. That's usually how the Jake
Paul Netflix partnerships work. They fight on Fridays because Netflix
has deals with college football in the fall and even
the NFL around the Thanksgiving timeframe. They did the Mike

(01:27):
Tyson fight on a Friday night. I'm pretty sure they
did the Katie Taylor in Manasano three fight on a
Friday night. This makes a lot more sense as to
the kind of cryptic tweet that Nikisa had earlier today
about sources coming out and saying they had it right
when they had it wrong. He meant the date. It
was the wrong date by one day. It'll be on
November fourteenth. But it's official now. There is no if

(01:50):
ans or butts about it. There is no reason to
speculate this fight is happening. Now let's get back to
the video where I break all the things down about it.
But just keep in mind every time I say no
or fifteenth, I actually meet November fourteenth. Because now it's
made official. Jake has posted it on his Twitter, on
its Instagram. There is no speculation left. It's going down,
Jake Tank, Let's continue talking about it, guys, real quick.

(02:13):
I need to stop the video to tell you one thing.
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let's get back into some breaking news again. November fifteenth,

(03:22):
Atlanta State Farm Arena. It's an exhibition, keep that in
mind on Netflix, sources confirmed to The Ring magazine. So again,
a couple more things to cover. One, this is an exhibition.
And when this was rumored to happen months ago and
I was saying that was a nonsensical fight for Jake
to do, I still think it's a nonsensical one from
a boxer perspective, from his goals in boxing perspective. But again,

(03:43):
if it makes dollars, it makes sense. And we've seen
that Jake will kind of bounce in between doing these
entertainment fights and then you know, trying to push toward
his goal of you know ingreening himself in the sport
of boxing, and kind of does both of them. So
it's kind of a it's kind of a weird place
to be because he wants the respect of the boxing
fan and the boxing hierarchy and hardcore boxing people, but

(04:04):
at the same time he'll gain some of that and
then lose some of it. It's like a seesaw of
his fights, like one fight like Okay, that's a real
that's a real fighter. That's a real fighter. He'll go
and he'll win the fight. You know, Julio sacher Chaibez,
real fighter, maybe past his prime, whatever, But Jake goes
and wins that fight pretty easily and then gets a
lot of respect. It's a lot of the boxing hardcore love.
And you have these talks about him fighting Anthony Joshua

(04:27):
that was gonna get even more respect. More people were like, Oh,
that's fucking crazy, what are you doing. Myself included that
seemed like a massive risk, but a lot of people
were like, okay, fair play Anthony Joshua. That's a real heavyweight.
Jake wants to fight him. He's a psycho, but fair play.
And then you announced this one and it's like, well,
that's the same thing people have been saying about Jake
for years. So it's a weird spot to be in

(04:47):
for him, for sure. But I talked about this not
being the first choice, and I don't think it was
because Coppinger reports next that talks for Jake Paul to
face Anthony Joshua collapsed over network issues. Now we had
all heard the talks and they were pretty public, from
Eddie Hearn, from Jake, Nikissa Baderi, and Jake's manager was
over in the UK on i think Sky Sports talking

(05:07):
about the fight and saying how it was a real
possibility and they were really starting to work on it.
And now Mike Chappinger says that the talks for Jake
and Joshua fell apart over broadcasting issues or network issues,
and that leads me to believe that Jake's team and
Anthony Joshua's team, Nikisa and Eddie couldn't agree on what
platform the fight would be. I assume that Nikisa and

(05:29):
Jake wanted Anthony Joshua to fight on Netflix, probably here
in the United States, which would have been massive, no
doubt about it. But correct me if I'm wrong comment section.
I'm pretty sure Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn are not
only both signed to his own but also own a
part of his own or have some sort of ownership
piece in the Zone, and would make more sense for

(05:50):
them to fight on to Zone. So that was probably
the big hang up, which is crazy, by the way,
that they were only a network broadcast away from actually
making that fight, And honestly, out of the two of these,
I'm going to be that honest I would have loved
to see Jakes as risky, as an insane as it was.
I don't think I would have ever advised Jake to
fight Anthony Joshua, but I definitely as a viewer would
have been like, okay, I'm watching that. I mean, I'm

(06:11):
watching this too. But the point, I think that the
Anthony Joshua fight would have done more for Jake from
a fan perspective, but also probably left him in far
worse shape. So it's again, it's another one of those
just it's a weird one. Jake fights are just weird
because I don't even know how to like describe them.
It was insane to think he was going to fight
Anthony Joshua, but as a fan kind of respected the
idea that he would do it. Carpinger went on to

(06:31):
add on to his first report, saying when Floyd Mayweather
faced Jake's brother Logan in an exhibition in twenty twenty one,
Mayweather couldn't weigh more than one hundred and sixty pounds,
while Logan was capped at one hundred and ninety. Would
expect some similar exhibition rules for way in here and
obviously much larger gloves. Now, I don't remember there being
a cap on how much Floyd could weigh. I don't

(06:52):
remember that, and I don't even think Floyd weighed one
hundred and sixty pounds and they came in at like
one hundred and fifty four. That would be an odd
thing to have for an exhibition, for Logan to be like,
he can't weigh more than one sixty. I'll have to
double check him on that one, because I truly don't
remember if that was a part of it, but I
do remember there was a weight clause on Logan because
that's it would be insane for Logan to weigh in at,

(07:13):
you know, some ridiculous number like I mean, one ninety
to one sixties already ridiculous, but two hundred and ten
pounds or something, right, And that that made sense because
of you know the nature of just trying to make
that fight, and it being an exhibition obviously makes things
more allowable. And we didn't talk about this yet, but yeah,
this being an exhibition for Jake and Gravonte is the
only thing and the only reason this is even possible.

(07:34):
Because I saw some people talking about, well, what weight's
it gonna be at? What weight's it gonna be at?
It's It's like Mike Coppinger said, it's probably gonna be
one of these, you know, contracts where Jake has to
be a certain weight out on weigh in day, maybe
even a rehydration clause in it, just to make sure
the fight can happen. But it being an exhibition means
there doesn't have to be a set weight. There doesn't
have to be a catch weight. You weren't getting Jake

(07:55):
to come down past one hundred and ninety pounds or
one hundred and eighty five at the very least. I
know he said hed do one hundred and eighty five
for Canelo. I don't know about doing that for Javonte Davis.
But there's just not a physically possible way. Jake is
getting like one seventy five or one seventy and tank
whatever he walks around at, whether it's one fifty, one
sixty whatever. He's not jumping up to like one hundred

(08:15):
and eighty pounds to fight Jake. So they had to
make it an exhibition. It's the only way this this
even takes place. So I saw some people online talking
about what weight's it gonna be at. It's gonna be
at whatever allowable weight. Tank will let Jake get to
and that'll pretty much be it. Like Jake gets to
weigh this much, Tank weigh whatever you want. That's pretty
much I think how this is gonna go. But again, exhibition,

(08:35):
so you probably yet I would say, you know, Tank
usually fights him what eight ouncers Jake usually fights and tens.
You're probably gonna get a twelve to fourteen ounce glove
in this fight. And again, I don't know how much
of a difference that'll make when a two hundred pound
person like Jake who does know how to throw punches,
if he's able to crack Dravonte with a shot, that's
gonna hurt. That's gonna fucking hurt, but it will definitely.

(08:56):
I wonder if it's one of those things if we're
doing exhibitions where like Tank gets to wear aids and
Jake gets to wear like fourteen's. I don't know that.
I mean, again, this is kind of the circus. So
if we're doing it, we're gonna offer each of them
whatever advantage they can have, or are you gonna give
Tank a bit more of an advantage or is his
advantage his boxing skill. I don't know, but I assume
they'll both be in like twelves or fourteen. Now, again,
this fight had already been in talks, and I think

(09:17):
was pretty much already a done deal right around the
Tank versus Lamont roach fight, and I'm pretty sure Jake
was in the crowd to do some sort of formal
announcement of the Jake versus Jermonte fight. Should Jervonte have won.
I think Tank even said it in the postfight presser.
He was like, yeah, I was supposed to fight Jake.
I was gonna announce it. He was being like kind
of coy about it. But the point is they already
had parameters set up for this thing. And Jake went

(09:39):
on the Area Hawane Show I think you know, a
couple weeks after, and he said this about kind of
how this fight's gonna look. If you do fight, what
weight would it be at one and ninety five? Oh wow?
So he would go all the way from forty to
ninety five? Yeah, I mean it would be an exhibition. Okay, Okay,
I was gonna say, Jake doesn't mean that they will

(10:00):
fight each other at one hundred ninety five pounds. This
is what I was saying a second ago. Jake will
be one hundred and ninety five pounds. And again, that's
another weird kind of wait for Jake to be because
he's shot up to two hundred, he's gone past two hundred,
he's come back down to two hundred. He can easily
make one ninety five. But the point is it's an
exhibition bout, so Tank's gonna weigh whatever he wants to weigh.
Jake just can't weigh in over one hundred and ninety

(10:21):
five pounds. I have no idea about what happens after
weigh ins. If Jake can get up to like two
ten or whatever he normally walks around at. I don't know.
But that's the first bar. Here's the second. Does that mean?
Is that? Is that three minute rounds? Yeah? Ten three
minute rounds? And when you say exhibition, like, are what
are the restrictions on that? No restrictions, just the fact that,

(10:42):
like we couldn't actually get it professionally sanctioned. So there
you hear at ten three minute rounds. I have no
reason to think it would be any different. This time
wouldn't be a title fight, so there's no reason to
go twelve. But ten threes? Is I mean? Is it's
an exhibition. But that's a normal fight time for a
high level boxing match that isn't a title fight. And
then Ariel asks about, you know, other restrictions. He doesn't

(11:03):
say anything about the gloves there, but i'd have to
assume because you're not getting a license, I don't know
about the ten ouncers, and especially with Tank being the
one hundred and thirty five pounder, I don't think he'll
want Jake in ten ounce gloves. So, like I said,
I'm gonna stick with the fourteen ouncers there. But let's
let's talk about what this means for Jake, for Tank,
for the sport, for everything. Because when this was going

(11:24):
to be happening the first time, I thought it was
nonsensical for what Jake wanted to do, for what he
was saying he wanted to do, which was eoboxing world champion, right.
And I say this for Jake because I'm not even
we're gonna get to Tank and how just he's done, right,
he's done at a high level. Tank is no longer
should be and even in the conversation of a pound

(11:45):
four pound best in the world, none of that not
because of his skills, but because of this choice. When
you do this even as an exhibition, you're saying and
signaling to the sport of boxing, I am done fighting
at the highest level. Not because he can't still fight
at the highest level, but that's what happens when you
forgo a rematch with Lamott Roach to do this. I
don't have a problem with it. If you're just saying

(12:06):
I'm done, I'm not worried about that anymore. I'm not
gonna be fighting for titles. I'm done at the highest level.
But if you're still trying to do that and you're
doing exhibitions with Jake on the side instead of fighting
at the highest level, that's where I have a problem
with it a little bit for Tank, like figure out
what it is you're doing. You said you were remotivated
to box after the LaMotte Roach fight. I know there
is the domestic abuse situation, and I'm not sure I

(12:26):
guess that got worked out. What you signal to the
world when you do this, not because it's Jake, not
because whatever, but because you are avoiding fighting the do
rematch with Lamont Roach and avoiding fighting the big names
and the title challengers. At one hundred and thirty five pounds,
you're just saying that you're done doing that. That's fine,
but everybody needs to understand that's what this is for Jake. Yeah,

(12:47):
it's a little confusing for what he says he wants
to do as a boxer, right because you know, in
a sense, fighting a world champion could get you ready
for a world championship fight. But when the size difference
is this big, I think it does take away a
little bit from what you're trying to do and how
you're trying to prepare yourself for the toughest challenges at
the weight class you want to be a world champion

(13:09):
in like there talks about Jake fighting Zorto Ramirez after
the Julio Caeser job as junior fight, talks to him
fighting Badu Jack for the WBC World Championship, And again,
I don't think Jake has near enough experience yet I
still want to see him get better, still want to
see him grow as a fight all that. My point
is that seemed like the direction they were trending. And
then the Anthony Joshua fight. Yeah, okay, entertainment fight, but
it still blends that amount of risk, that still blends

(13:32):
that amount of Okay, Jake's trying to do something better.
Jake's trying to work himself into a harder competition level space,
right that that kind of satisfied a little bit of
both entertainment aspect competition. My thing is, this is the
fight making any sense on a boxing ability standpoint, on
a sport boxing standpoint, absolutely not. This is insanity, it's

(13:53):
the circus, it's buffoonery, it's whatever you want to call
it in terms of like competition level and weight classes matter,
and world championship aspirations or just having a world championship.
If you're Javonte Davis, one that does need to be
settled in a rematch and you're clearly ducking out of
that's insane. It makes no sense. But when you take
it for what it is, and as long as you

(14:14):
call it what it is, which is Jervonte Tank Davis
foregoing any conversation of him being the best in the
world at his weight class or any other pound for pound,
any of that, and Jake not fighting the fights necessary
in my opinion, to get him to the promised land
of being a world champion, not taking the road he
needs to take and he should take for the sanctity

(14:34):
of boxing to become an actual world champion. If you
say that, and you accept this foreign exhibition as an
agreement of both fighters to step away from competition and
fight each other in an unsanctioned bout, then have to
kind of accept it. Whether people are going to have
a problem with it, which I know people are. Of course,
It's like a pros versus Joe's type of feel, for sure.
But at the same time, what else can you really
say about it? Is what it is. I think they

(14:55):
should be fighting other people, but they're not. And I'm
still gonna watch this. I'm still gonna be locked into it,
and I have an He even talked about the fight itself,
like how do I even start to break down a
Tank Davis versus Jake Paul fight. Tank, you know, a
massively powerful fighter at one hundred and thirty five pounds,
but his punch output is among the lowest in the sport.
Jake has a pretty decent punch output for a guy

(15:16):
that's two hundred pounds. He hits hard in his own right,
but doesn't have the skill and capabilities anywhere close or
the feet, or the hand speed, or the eyes anywhere
close to Tank Davis, but has a power that Tank
Davis has probably never felt. And that's not because Tank
hasn't been hit by hard punchers, but just because Jake
is naturally seventy pounds bigger than him. Right, So ten rounds,

(15:37):
three minutes, who starts to show the wear and tear first?
I know, if Tank touches him on the jow, its
probably not going to feel like Roses. Regardless if he's
one hundred and thirty five or one hundred and fifty
or whatever he steps in that night, He's still a
Tank and has still put guys down as he's gone
up in weight. But Jake is just so much bigger.
How much will the power that Tank has at the
lower weight classes affect him? How much will Jake's power

(15:58):
affect Tank if he can't touch him. Jake hasn't fought
anyone near the skill level of Tank Davis, at least
not in their prime. But there's just so many things
that are gonna come out of this, and we have
a lot of time. We'll report on anything that breaks,
But as of right now, I'm coming to you guys
with the news that Jake Paul will be fighting Tank
Davis again. No official announcement from Jake or Tank. There

(16:20):
was again a leaked announcement from Netflix and The Ring Magazine,
among others, reporting that this is going down and I
already know the comment section is going to be on fire.
So light it up down there. Let me know what
you think about this fight, about Tank's career, about Jake's career,
about this whole thing about the sport of boxing, what
happens next. I don't have those answers, but I guess

(16:41):
we'll find out, all right, folks. So we are back
on the way concept presented by The Ring Magazine, and
we are just weeks away from the fight of the
year Canelo Crawford. If it's not the biggest fight of
the year, which it probably is going to be, it
is definitely the most important fight of the year for
the sport of boxing. And today can Alvarez held a
media workout that gave a little bit of insight into

(17:04):
what he's working on for this fight and potentially exposed
either a massive weakness or a massive strength, depending on
how you look at this fight. I want to show
you what potentially could be the biggest difference maker for
or against Canelo and give you a little bit of
background as to why I'm leaning the way I am
with my pick for this fight. I'm not waiting until
fight week to give a little light prediction, so let's

(17:26):
do it here today. So let's take a look at
this leaked media workout footage that Canelo dropped today, just
a couple of weeks out, and I have a feeling,
knowing the veteran, that Canelo is no one the experience
level he's at. This footage doesn't get out or the
media doesn't get a hold of it unless he wanted
them too. So what's this media workout mean for Canelo Crawford? Well,
the breakdown let's go all right, So I'm gonna mute

(17:51):
a lot of this because there's like music blasting throughout,
But Canelo held an open media work out today and
some of this footage is from fight Hubs, So shout
out my guy Marcos for being on top of it,
one of the best in the game. He's getting some
of this and other media outlets were there. But as
we go into this footage, remember Canelo is the unispeeded

(18:12):
champ at one sixty eight. Terrence Crawford coming up from
really one forty seven, but he had to fight at
one fifty four to the madrim MOFs so sure two
weight classes more like three though, And the big narrative
going around this fight is how does Crawford handle Canelo's
power at one sixty eight? How does Canelo get back
to canelo old ways of moving his feed and utilizing
his jab and working on more of just his upper

(18:33):
body movement and his defense to offense transition and not
just throwing power punches. And can Crawford be able to
fight like the counterpuncher he is and still make Camelo
miss and make him pay like he has at the
lower weight classes. And also how does his body hold
up at one sixty eight? Those are the questions the
Canelo's open workout may provide some of the answers. Let's
take a look. First, we see him shadow boxing, circling

(18:57):
to his right, which in this case would be a
way from the southpaw stance of a Terrence Crawford, but
just basic stuff, and you see one of the big
things that Canelo does. And listen, I'm not a professional boxer,
I'm not a fighter, and I don't think in any way,
shape or form I should have any position to critique
and criticize Canelo, but one of the things that he's

(19:19):
gotten in trouble with in the last couple of fights.
I wouldn't say trouble more so just him working against himself.
Is him being able or I guess, not being able
to cut off the ring. You know, you go to
the Williams Skull fight and you watched him chase William
Skull around and around and around that ring. And yes,
William Skull is running from him. That was pretty clear
to see. He was on his bike utilizing his jab.
But you didn't see Canelo cut him off. You didn't

(19:40):
see him move laterally to be able to stop a
lot of that running or stop a lot of that
circling around the ropes, which is his responsibility if he's
going to take the front foot and look to establish
himself offensively. And when I watched Canelo here, he's gotten
away with this pretty much his entire career. But I
watch him cross step a lot, and you see it
right now there where he goes from circling, he rolls

(20:02):
under the right hand and instead of moving laterally replacing
his back foot with his front foot, he l steps
and then crosses over, which instead of just moving laterally
and shifting like I said, shuffling to his right off
of the l step off of the reset, which would
allow him to be ready to go and ready to
fight again. It takes him that extra beat to get

(20:23):
back into fight. Stands a couple of reasons for this.
Maybe you know, listen, he can gain a lot more
ground by taking that lead leg and stepping it across
and resetting it. Just it feels to me like it
takes too much time. And when you are spending time
taking the lead leg crossing it over and there's a
guy in front of you that does want a CounterPunch,
like a Terrence Crawford, that does want to be a
bit more mobile here and not stand in the pocket

(20:44):
with Canelo because why would he do that? Exchange power
punches with Canelo Alvarez. Don't use your feet. Not to
say that Terrence is a runner, because he never has been,
but to try to reset and cut different angles. You
don't want to be stepping all over your stance and
having to reset and reset and reset instead of being
ready to fire Wayne Terrence Crawford eventually does change angles,
eventually does circle out, or eventually does go from south

(21:08):
pot at orthodox. If the Canelo is trying to l
step and step over himself, that's just wasted motion, and
a guy that's coming up in weight that does maintain
a bit of his speed could potentially take advantage of
I see it time and time again with him. It's
not a massive deal because that l step and walk
can absolutely reset you, as long as you come back
with a faint or come back with something to put
your opponent on the back foot. It's not the worst

(21:28):
thing in the world by any means. It's just it
feels like, for the things that Canelo has struggled with
in his last couple of fights, you may want to
see something a little different there, maybe a little bit
more of a shuffle. But we move on. Let's take
a look at Canelo on the bag. This is a
courtesy of Sports Illustrated. He's on the heavy bag at
some UFC gym here, and he's just doing a little
bit of work. Right hand left hook head movement, right

(21:53):
hand left hook bang bang. Now again, do I think
that Canelo is gonna throw this way necessarily in a fight. No.
Number one, his feet are very flat, and again, Canelo
hasn't made a living off of being able to stand
in front of guys and utilize big time power and
be a little flat footed right upper body movement, head

(22:14):
movement and then throwing shots behind it, being defensive and
then transitioning back to his offense has been a strength
of his, especially as he's gone up in weight where
he hasn't had to utilize as much energy right where
he's fighting bigger guys than he needs that power punch
to put away, even though he hasn't put anybody away
since Caleb Plant, but that's another topic for another day.
You see him very flat footed, throwing the right hand

(22:34):
lead bang left hook, behind it, head movement, jab, right
hand left hook, and then right hand bang left hook,
and you notice the way Canello throws his hooks. It's
almost like there'sn't a lot of winging to it. It's
almost like a shovel hook, or it's almost like an
up jab where you get over that lead leg and
bang the up jab, except he's kind of throwing it

(22:56):
as a hook. But it's I don't know, it's hard
to really describe, but it's not like a normal hook.
He's stabbing that in there. It's not like a come
across and slap hook. He's really trying to damage and
Canelo one of his best shots over the years has
been that lead hook into the backhand rear uppercut or
that lead hook into the big right hand over the top.
And he really starts to and I think he took

(23:17):
some of this from Triple G in there fight. He
really chops down with stuff as he sits down on
punches here. But again, one of the big question marks
around this fight is what would Canelo do a little
bit defensively, like what would he do a little different?
And he has, you know, per se in the Dmitri
Vivo fight because as much as people want to believe
that the only reason Dmitri BiVO beat Canelo al Res

(23:38):
was because he was bigger, I disagree. And I think
that if people do believe that they're in for a
root awakening, if Canelo continues to just stand more plotty
and flat footed and look to throw just you know,
pot shots and power punches without the jabs set up
and without the same level of output, because Terrence Crawford
will expose that. I think in a way that to

(24:00):
meet your buvol did when yes, Bivil's size allowed him
to take some of those power shots that we don't
know that Bud Crawford will. But look at the style
in which to mit your Buell fights, that Soviet Eastern
European bladed stance boxing style. It's not what Bud Crawford does,
but it allowed him to land a lot of volume
and a lot of in and out movement, and he

(24:21):
kind of walked Canelo down and put Canelo on the
ropes in that fight. And again, completely different fighter than
Bud Crawford. My point is, I don't think Canelo can
do what he's done to a lot of the one
hundred and sixty eight pounders and just stand there in
front of them or walk them down and be flat
footed and throw his combination big time power the entirety
of the fight. I think later in the fight, after
he's established a bit in the beginning and you start

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to do that and break a fighter down, I could
see a Caleb Plant style overwhelming. I could see a
little bit of the Billy Joe Saunders thing, but you're
gonna have to set things up. Terrence Crawford's too good
with his eyes, he's too good with his counterpunching, and
he doesn't have to run away from you to use
his feet and cut angles. I don't see Canelo just
standing there and looking to just throw power punches all night.

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I really think for him to be successful, that jab
has to be working. And I say all that because
when I look at him on the heavy bag there,
I don't see him putting a ton of effort into
the speed and power. I don't see him putting a
ton of effort into to moving around the bag. I
see him working specifically on a combination that he likes
off of some head movement and using that to maybe
set up something else that he has a little bit

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more powerful in the bag. Here's him working on the
mits with Eddy Renozo double jab, and then you see
that stick of a right hand double jab, touch, touch, bang,
right hand and again Canelo just decides, I'm gonna go
for a walk, ah right, and he just takes off.
Now again, Edy Renoso is standing southpaw here, and I

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don't know if that's a purpose when he's holding these mits,
because Terence Crawford will probably be in a more southpast stance,
and we know that in the past Canelo has, you know,
somewhat struggled with southpaw fighters. But that could just be
Renoso just holding the midst a certain way. But you
see even there Ernozo goes southpaw and he's simulating an
attack here from Terrence Crawfords. I'm trying not to take

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too much away from this, but it's the only footage
we've seen. It's wise or otherwise of Canelo in this
lead up. But when you do fight a southpaw as
an orthodox fighter, one of the first things that a
lot of the game plan is tailored around is getting
this lead foot on the outside of your opponent's lead
foot because it opens that lane for your right hand
in this case, for Canelo being the orthodox guy, for
his right hand to come straight down the pipe should

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he want to set it up with his lead hand.
And then look to this laser beam one down the
middle right here, Eddie Renoso has the outside track and
he's hold in the midst. But then as we go
back and watch, watch how Canelo manipulates the space touch
touch with the jab and then he steps on the
outside straight right hand down the pipe. That is a
good right hand versus a southpaw because it's very much
manipulating the speed and the distance and the angle all

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in a couple of punches. I like that because it's
it's layered. And again I could be making a mountain
out of a mole hill. But you watch Canelo go
from the inside track with his foot to just pepper
in that jab out touch, touch, step outside, then right hand,
so you don't give away the tactic of trying to
get that outside foot, but you set it up with
the lead hand. Look at what I'm doing here, step outside, bang.
I like that very interesting. And again you see Canelo

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getting under the lead hand after finishing his combination and
trying to protect himself by stepping to the outside, cutting
the angle. And then Ernoso wants him to go left
and then circle back with the right hand. So there's
a lot that you can take away there. Number one,
big time right hand from Canelo. Bah stuck in that there,
and then again that cross step, which I do not

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like him rolling under kind of a lazy left hook
to throw a right hand left hook over the top.
And again I'm trying to look at it as Renoso
playing the role of Crawford out of South Paul. And
there's a couple of things that I like, some that
I don't out of Canelo. But then again, it's just
a drill and I'm probably making way too much of it,
but again, it's all I have to go off of,
so I have to take it for what it is.

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And those are the only clips that came out today
in regards to canelo media workout. So what do we
see there? We see a little bit of what he
wants to do to take advantage of a right hand
south palm matchup. Get his lead foot on the outside,
bang the right hand down the pipe, set it up
with the jab, and maybe even fire that jab at
the lead hand of Crawford to just get it touched.
Touch step outside, right hand down the middle. We saw

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Canelo doing a lot of cross stepping, which is I
think a bad idea versus someone who has good angle
manipulation like Crawford does. Right, every wasted movement is going
to be a capitalization for Crawford to try to fire
back on it, and Canelo is gonna be there to
be hit with some counterpunches. Make no mistake about it.
Canelo will stand in the pocket. Yes, he'll try to

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make Crawford miss, but sometimes they'll even eat a couple
so that he can be there behind that high guard
taking punches to look for one of the big ones
on his own countershot. So that can be a little
bit of the gamesmanship too. That can be a little
bit of the chess game going on, is who's gonna
land the bigger CounterPunch and how many of those can
Crawford take. Moving up to one sixty eight versus Canelo,
who has been there and is fighting a guy that
has fought in a lot smaller way and that hasn't

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the power. Like we talked about, the narratives being built
that Canelo brings at one sixty eight, even now, all
those things will come into play. I think a big, big,
important part of this fight is just how much Canelo
utilizes his lead hand, because I'm telling you it's going
to be the most important thing in this fight. I
really think if Canelo is back on his jab and
is able to mask some of the stuff that he
loves to do, which is that lead hook to the body,

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smashing hook on the arms, on the body, on the shoulders,
if he's able to hide it just a little bit
and then hit you with that timing that Canelo Alvarez
timing that's been perfect, that put down a mere con
that put down Billie Joe Saunders that found the button
on covid lev Those punches, that timing, it's not just speed,
it's not just power, it's the throwing in between, it's
finding the right shot. Those things can make all the

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difference in the world, because I would almost bet everything
I own that if Canelo lands clean on Crawford, it's
going to have far more of an effect than Crawford
landing clean on Canelo. And that's not even because both
guys don't possess power. Crawford possesses power and he's put
a lot of guys down. The Canelo we've seen has
an iron chin, and I watched Crawford get rocked by
Gamboa in different time period. I get that, But I

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don't think that as you get older and even as
you go up and wait, that somehow makes you more
readily available to take flush punches, right That Usually those
two things, the combination of getting older and going up
to a weight that you didn't naturally fight at, tends
to not actually help out your chin. Tends to make
you a little bit more vulnerable to getting hit with
big punches, especially when you're not someone that cuts a

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ton of weight. To begin with. I don't think Crawford
was cutting a ton of weight when he was at
one forty, when he was at one forty seven, So
him now trying to bulk to get to one sixty eight,
it's definitely gonna have a factor in the fight. It's
definitely gonna mean something when he gets touched with a
shot from Canelo, who's not, by the way, a natural
one to sixty eight in his own right, but still
that power carries for him. We still don't know if
it will for Bud Crawford. But it's not just about

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the power and making this as simple as Canelo's power
versus Terrence Crawford's skill, we take out so many factors,
like Canelo Alvarez's skill, like Terrence Crawford's timing, like Canelo
Alvarez's manipulation of your guard and your defense, Terrence Crawford's
angle switch, and leaving you in bad positions with your
footwork to not be able to answer when he fires off,

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using your own momentum against you as you try to
walk him down, and then he steps in with his
lead foot pivots out and he's at a ninety degree
perpendicular and you're looking over your shoulder, like, what the
hell was that? These type of things I think are
going to be more interesting than just saying, well, if
Crawford can handle the power, or well, if Canelo can
find his chin, those things matter, but let's talk about

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the intricacies of it. Let's talk about the nuance that
those things both imply, which is that Canelo is going
to fight differently than he has as of recent of
one sixty eight, almost a style of like I'm gonna
big brow you, which it feels like he's done to
everybody at one sixty eight, but as of recently hasn't
been able to stop some of those guys. For Crawford,
it can't just be him sitting there and letting Canelo
walk him down and put him on the ropes and
land whatever he wants at will, just because he doesn't

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want to open up versus a one sixty eight pound
or he can't be someone that's uncharacteristic of himself. We
can't go out there and throw a ton of volume, right.
He can't be out there looking like Dmitri Bivold. That's
not how Crawf fights. He has to be able to
get some respect early on from Canelo, to be able
to draw Canelo in and make him pay when he
does get a little over confident, when the hands do
go up in that high guard and he just wants

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to walk through everything, or when he starts winging out
those shots and not sitting it up with the jab,
or when he cross steps and gets his feet tangled
up and gets himself out of position. Crawford, unlike William Skull,
unlike Edgar Berlanga, unlike Iimi Mungia who didn't make him
pay for those things, Crawford has to and he has
to do it with some authority, because, honestly, the way
I look at this fight is that it's very difficult

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for me to see Terrence Crawford winning by knockout. Not
to say it's not possible, because it definitely could be.
I think the path to victory for Crawford is to
be able to counter Canelo when he comes in with
lazy footwork or when he stands flat footed, when he
only throws one or two at a time, and Crawford
can throw three, four, five back. I don't see him
walking Canelo down, even though he said that at the
press conference out he walked Canelo down. He's gonna walk

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him down because Canelo is supposed to be the bigger man.
But we'll see about that. And trust me, I've seen
the pictures of Terrence Crawford. He looks like he's filling
into one sixty eight just fine. But that looks great
on camera. It does. It looks amazing and still shots.
It looks good when the muscles are glistening and he's
all flexed up and he's tired from his workout. But
what happens when you have to fight at that weight
And I'm not talking about Canelo's power, I'm talking about

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body physiology, a weight that Terrence Crawford's never fought at,
a weight that he's not used to going rounds at,
at least not outside of just the gym. We're talking
about a stadium full of people, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, whatever.
It's going to be an allegiance and your first time
at the weight class, and it potentially could go twelve rounds,
and oh, by the way, you need to win more
of those twelve rounds. And I'd argue that the only
path to victory for Terrence Crawford is a decision win

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That's just the way I see it, because I mean
it's true, whereas Canelo can get down on those cards
early and look to just beat Terrence Crawford up and
make him adjust to that weight class by going deep
into the fight and trying to maintain a style that
I don't know his body is ready for, and then
no one knows his body is ready for. So there's
a ton of things still to come. But I wanted
to make this video because finally we get some camp

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footage from seeing Canelo. Crawford's been pretty open, at least
in bits about his camp footage. Right. He has shown
some footwork, he's shown some shadow boxing, he's showed some mitwork,
He's not been super shy. It's all on Crawford's YouTube channel,
and when I get back home, we'll probably watch a
lot more of that because we'll have two weeks to
get ready for one of the biggest fights ever. But
as we sit here, I just wanted to get a
quick update on Canelo Crawford and what I think are

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some of the biggest shrinks that Canelo is working on
and some of his biggest weaknesses. Comment section, let me
know what you think down below. Who wins this fight.
What are you thinking from what you've seen in just
the small clips out of Canelo's training and some of
the stuff from Crawford's training. I don't have the answers
as of right now. You know. It's why I'm leaning
which right now. Logically, I think it just makes more
sense to lean Canelo. But maybe my opinion could switch,

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or maybe it won't. I don't know yet. But September thirteenth,
the fight goes down, presented by The Ring magazine His
excellency Turkey Alis, Shake Tko boxing Dana White. They just
announced the broadcast team. It's John and it gets Max Kellerman.
I'm pretty sure I saw andre Ward on there. It's
the who's who of fight commentary, broadcasters and reporters. Michael

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Buffer will be in attendance. It will be a night
none of us will ever forget. But the real question
is what happens in that main event when Canelo steps
in with Terrence Crawford. I don't have those answers, but
it's only a matter of time, less than a month away.
On September thirteenth, when they step in, what happens then,

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I guess we'll find out. Oh my goodness, folks, we
are back on the Way concept presented by The Ring
Magazine for one reason and one reason only. Yes, I
miss you guys. I know it's only been one day,
but have a little bit of separation anxiety, and two.
Nella Ralvarez just brought a pound for pound high level
fighter that just so happens to be someone that Terrence

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Bud Crawford wanted to fight and has a lot of
similarities in his fight style. His nickname is another word
for putting feet in protective wear and using them to
stamp out the competition. Canelo just brought Jeron boots Ennis
into his camp and this, ladies and gentlemen, could change everything.
What do I mean the breakdown? Let's go so Earlier

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today it was reported that Jeron boots Ennis has joined
the camp of Canelo Alvarez. I don't know if this
was for a day. I don't know if this was
for the rest of the week. I don't know if
he's been there for a bit. But this is a
big deal because not only did he come in and
train with Canelo, it looks like some sparring went down,
as you can see here posted by The Ring Magazine
Canelo and Boots Ennis standing there together. By the way,

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boots Ennis looks bigger than Canelo in this picture, and
we all know that Canelo is not a massive one
hundred and sixty eight pounder, but Boots Ennis at one
seven was having trouble making the weight still is going
to one fifty four. Just so happens to be the
two weight classes that Terrence Bud Crawford just came from
one forty seven to one fifty four. Boots has a
fight coming up soon for his debut at one fifty four.

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You have to think sooner or later he's gonna be
grabbing a belt because he's in a title eliminator coming
up in anyway, But again, it's very interesting because we
all know how good boots Nis is, and it's interesting
for a couple of reasons. Number One, you look at
this picture and boots Innis is a monster. I can
see him going to one hundred and sixty pounds and
still doing very well. I think he's gonna do great
at one fifty four. But the question you have to
ask yourself is why why would Canelo bring in drawn

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boots Innis. It's not just because Ennis is a great
Boxer's not just because Ennis fought at the highest level
of one forty seven and is going to be at
the highest level of one fifty four. So he's a
smaller guy that Canelo can use in camp to see
how a smaller guy of this era moves, as Canelo
has maybe not had as much experience with that since
moving to one sixty eight. Usually he's the smaller guy

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fighting some of the bigger guys. But that's not all
this is. This is a message that Canelo is looking
to replicate exactly what Terrence Crawford has in his arsenal
has in his tool set because everybody has wanted to
see the Boots in US versus Terrence Crawford fight because
it's a stylistic matchup that is very interesting. Both guys
fight out of both stances. That's right, Boots will fight

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out of southpaw and orthodox. Both guys are very good
using their defense to create offense. Boots, one of the
best at Philly schelling catch countering, being able to do
it out of both dances, has a beautiful check hook
out of southpaw. As orthodox fighters throw their left hook,
he comes over the top with his And why would
Canelo be looking for someone that could throw a beautiful

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lead hook and a backhand as a counter punch, rolling
with their defense back to their offense. Oh wait, because
that's what Terrence Budd Crawford does so well. Boots is explosive,
He's got great CounterPunch timing, he's got good awareness, his
feet are good. He can walk you onto punches, he
can lead the dance going first, not just looking for
his counter punches, but underrated I think in his aggression

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to lead the exchanges. This is a perfect get for Canelo.
And I'm not even trying to play the one side
or the other. Canelo fans, Crawford fans, You're gonna think
whatever you want to think. But the reality is getting
this kind of sparring is a massive deal for Canelo.
It's gonna give him probably the best look you could
get for Terrence Bud Crawford outside of sparring Terrence Bud Crawford.

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I I can't understate how important even just a couple
of days working with Jerron Boots Ennis is gonna be
for Canelo, just to see a bit of the tempo,
a bit of that switching of stance, because let's be honest,
there's not many guys that Canelo has fought that have
fought out of both stances and done it as fluidly
as Boots Ennis or as Bud Crawford will do in
their fun So yeah, I can't understate how big of
a deal this is. And I even saw people online today. Again,

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I don't like to play the whole back and forth
fan thing, but you saw people, even Terrence Crawford fans,
admitting that this makes them a little nervous. And we
just came off the back of me breaking down some
of Canelo's training footage from a couple of days ago.
And now that I look back on that, you know
how many boxers are going to put out footage that
they don't want people to see. And as much as
Canelo is just gonna do whatever he wants like, he

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doesn't clearly doesn't care what goes out if it's something
that can be controlled. He's obviously not showing sparring, but
like mitwork and other stuff like that, he doesn't care.
But the Canelo sandbag me a little bit and everybody
in that media workout to show just what he wanted
us to see without really giving any big time details,
because off the back of that media workout where he

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showed a little bit of kind of some methodical movement
and kind of plotty flat feed and cross stepping in
his footwork, not really being super crisp, and the punch
is not being super fast. Off the back of that, right,
just sandbagging a little bit, he drops this freaking bomb
on us with Boots, Ennis and them training together. Like
I said, it can't be understated. And what we're going

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to do now is we're going to take a look
at this video to see what the work looked like. Again,
keep in mind, Canelo is going to show us what
he wants us to see, and the people around Canelo,
the boots in his camp which this video comes from,
are also going to do the same. They're not going
to disrespect him by putting out footage he doesn't want
people to see. So let's take a look at this
and we'll see how Canelo looks and if there's anything

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we can take away from it. Beautiful Canelo on the
cobra bag looking just fluid, looking a little more bouncy. There,
his steps looking a little bit more crisp, and then
they go to Boots out of the orthodox. I mean,
Boots is just he is huge. For one hundred and

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fifty four pounds. That dude has to be walking around
at one hundred and seventy to one hundred and eighty pounds.
He's massive. I understand now why he can't make forty seven.
I get it. So there you go, U Ennis Lima.
That's pretty much the only footage we got out of
the camp. And again this isn't an indicator as to
how this fight's going to go at all. It's all
still speculation and what type of Canelo shows up and

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what type of Bud Crawford, mainly on the Bud Crawford side,
like I again will stay by what I think Canelo
needs to do, which is get active with his lead
hand and obviously use his feet more in this fight
to play defense to offense versus just bending at the
waist and standing flat footed in front of Bud Crawford.
But really the questions are going to come from Bud
Crawford in that camp, what can you do to make

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the difference coming up to weight classes, fighting at a
weight you never have? I guess the best guy Bud
Crawford has ever fought and Canello has fought everybody. But
this is clearly the biggest test for Bud Crawford. And
obviously the size is a part of that. The weight
he's going to fight at the power at that weight.
We've talked about all that, but then you look at
it also who's being brought into Terrence Bud Crawford's camp,

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and also we're going to go back to a little
bit of a side beside here to kind of show
you the difference in size. Again, I don't want to
make too much of a big deal about it, but
it is important to talk about. But just a couple
of days ago you heard ch of Course Stevenson, who
is obviously very close with Bud Crawford. He was in
camp talking about what they were doing and basically saying, listen,
the power is carrying for Bud Crawford at one sixty

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eight and you can see them here training together. And
someone posed the question which was better to have in
camp for either guy? Was it better that Bud had
cha Course Stevenson in camp? How much work could he
get from a guy that's one hundred and thirty five
pounder to replicate Canelo or just to give him a
look and give him any sort of work compared to
having someone that isn't necessarily a one by one carbon

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cutout of Bud Crawford, but does do a lot of
the same things. Him and Boots have a similar style
of fighting, and I think Boots may even be a
little bit more well versed out of both stances than
but is Bud will I think switch stance, but mainly
wants to operate out of south paw, especially against Canelo.
I have to say it to me, as much as
I love Shaquar Stevenson for this fight, specifically, the best

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work that Canelo could get really out of anybody you
could bring in that I'm thinking of, is Boots. This
is probably the best work you could get to prepare
for Bud. And when you see the stem side by side,
you see two thick boys. I know, full pause, but
look at this man. Canelo jacked up, Boots even fucking
bigger jacked up. And then we go to the next
page and you see Terence Crawford, who again is building

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into the weight class but doesn't necessarily and maybe this
picture is not one that's representative of how much muscle
he's put on to get at one sixty eight, but
doesn't look like his frame is hold the same type
of weight as these two guys standing side by side.
He looks a little more slender, And again that's not
a bad thing. I don't want you guys to miss
read what I'm saying here, but it could give some

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answers as to what kind of Bud Crawford is coming
in at more mobile Bud Crawford one that's going to
look to outbox Canelo. And that's really the road to
victory for Bud Crawford. If he is able to get
a stoppage in this fight, that would be incredible, that
would be historic because of Canelo's chin and because of
the way Canelo fights. But I do see that the
clearest method of victory. Yes, you know, having to fill

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up and be able to take some of the power
of Canelo by adding some weight and obviously going to
one sixty eight, you're gonna have to keep some weight
on regardless, but being more agile than Canelo, being able
to use his feet more than Canelo is clearly the
way to go. So a more slender frame may help
with that. But man, this is getting interesting, and for
all the people that thought this was going to be
Bud Crawford's too skilled, too slick, and Canelo's somehow too old.

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To people, they're like a can He's too old. He's
passed it because he hasn't stopped anybody at one sixty eight.
Because yes, his performances have not looked as great over
the last two three four years as they had in
the previous years and throughout his career, but Terrence Crawford's
older than the Canelo Alvarez. Terrence's thirty eight, Canelos thirty five.
I think and listen, Bud Crawford has been dominant throughout
that stretch. It's it doesn't look like age is caught

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up to him much. Maybe the mager of my fight,
if you want to go there, but the narrative has
kind of been like, ah, Canello has not got enough
skill whatever. And then I watched as the online community today,
which maybe I shouldn't be reading too much of that,
but they flipped, or at least they went, wait a second,
he brought in boots innis. Okay, Now this may change
my mind a little bit because of course that's a

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massive bring to camp, but also it shows you that
Canelo isn't just going into this fight, saying I'm going
to be Canelo Alvarez that I've been over the last
two three four years. That's going to walk into this thing,
try to walk my opponent down, throw almost exclusive power shots,
try to tire you out and then knock you out late,
which hasn't happened. Right, He dropped Berlanga, couldn't stop him,
He dropped Mungia, couldn't stop him. He hurt Ryder, couldn't

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stop him. Like lost to bevol for trying to do
the same thing that hasn't worked as far as what
Canelo usually does, which is get him out of there. Sure,
he's continued to win fights, but fighters are starting to
get hit to it. Williams Skull just ran around. It
didn't stand still, so Canelo couldn't really get those power
punches off. So he thought Canelo was just stubborn and saying, Okay, well,
I'm just gonna keep doing it the way I've been
doing it because it's easy work. Blah blah blah. You're wrong.

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There's clearly a renewed motivation in both Terrence Crawford and
Canelo Alvarez, and this move for Canelo to bring boots
in us in and at least get a day's worth
of work just to get a look at someone switching stance,
just to get a look at someone being able to
protect themselves and counter and be just as good as
an orthodox fighter as they are as a South Park

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A guy that does represent one hundred and fifty four
pounds and he's gonna have agile feet, can walk you
onto shots, can get aggressive with you, can cut angles.
I mean, you can't ask for much more than that.
And that is why I am fired the fuck up
for this fight, because a remotivated Canelo Aalvarez, a guy
that has done everything in this sport. Like I don't

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question the motivation of Terence Crawford, and I really shouldn't
question the motivation of Canelo Alvarez, But when you started
to hear him wanting to fight Jake Paul and then
the Williams Skull fight was like, hmm, that didn't look
like the best version of Canelo, And then they announced this.
I needed to see a switch. I needed to see
him tune back in the Canelo that still was on
a mission, coming to one hundred and sixty pounds and

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even to one hundred and sixty eight pounds, trying to
become an all time great. Now he's already an all
time great, and you wonder what else motivates him to
keep going into sport. Hell, I asked him that question
right in front of his face. Why keep doing this?
You've done everything you need to And again, it may
be me overstating things, but when I see this, as
much as we don't know going into the fight, and
fighters are going to keep things as much of a

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mystery as possible, not just so the public can speculate
on it, not just so we have something to wonder
about and to tune in to see, but because they
don't want to give up more to their opponents, because
they don't want their opponents to know more than they're
supposed to. But again, how did I start this video?
Canelo Alvarez is going to show you what he wants
you to see. Terrence Crawford is going to do the

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same thing. But I don't question the Terrence Crawford motivation
because this is the biggest fight of his career, This
is the historic fight for him. Becoming three division undisputed
is the story for Canelo Alvarez. You fought everyone, you
beat most of them, you became world champion in so
many different divisions? What's the point? What is it still?
And today with this picture with jarn boots Ennis, if

(48:27):
you had any questions about his motivation, Netflix awesome, Allegian
Stadium great, Terrence Crawford pound for pound awesome. If you
needed just a little bit more of a boost to say, oh,
Canelo is taking this as serious as I've seen him
take a fight since maybe the Caleb Plant fight and
the way that fight got personal. That in a Billy
Joe Saunders fight, they got very personal, and Canelo took
it very personal. And those performances showed that. Today him

(48:50):
bringing in Jeron boots Ennis as a sparring partner, as
a training partner, as someone to replicate Terrence Crawford. Yes,
it shows that Canelo is taking Terrence seriously. It shows
that he's concerned for sure about the different qualities and
attributes that Terence Crawford has. It shows he's prepared himself
the best way possible. But more than anything else, it
shows me that Canelo Alvarez is taking this as serious

(49:12):
as he's taken any other fight in his career, and
that he's remotivated to prove something and that makes for
a very scary Canelo. And again, I'm not just trying
to beat the druma Canelo in this video, but this
is major news, so we had to cover it. Make
no mistake, I think Terrence Crawford is working his ass
off right now. I think Terrence Crawford will be in

(49:33):
the best shape of his career, the most prepared of
his career, having to fight against a ton of odds,
moving up in two different weight classes, doing so against
a guy younger than him, that has more accolades than him,
that has more experience in big fights than him, that
has fought everyone and done everything in this sport. All
things are against Terence Crawford here, So don't get it mistaken.
I do believe Terrence Crawford, if he's able to win

(49:54):
this fight, this is a more historic victory for him
then of course it is for Canelo. But it's also
why I don't question anything about what Terrence Crawford's doing.
It's also why I know he's getting prepared for what
Canelo brings. I just wonder if it'll be enough, Because
you guys know my prediction right now, I'm leaning Canelo
via a late stoppage and him training with Dron Boots

(50:14):
Ennis almost makes me more convinced sooner or later. In
between the switching of stand in between a little bit
of those angle changes and Canelo trying to track him down,
at some point, Canelo will find his target and if
Bud can't stay mobile and like I said, looking as
slender as he is, stay active and stay on his
feet and keep the respect of Canelo Alvarez. I do

(50:34):
think Canelo can stop him, and that would be a
first for Canelo in a very long time, since the
last time I thought he took a fight personally, all
the way back against Caleb Plan. I don't know, maybe
I'm wrong. I'm just feeling something watching all this stuff
play out, But you guys let me know in the
comments below. Am I am I crazy for thinking this
is a massive deal that Boots Ennis links up with Canelo,

(50:56):
and that Canelo gets a first hand look at probably
the best switch dance boxer in the sport right now,
a guy that could replicate what Boots wants to do,
maybe even do it better out of those stances and
a bigger body, yet still agile. I think it's a
big deal, so I want you guys to let me know.
Canelo fans, you gotta be hyped about this. Tell me
why in the comments and Bud fans, are you sweating
a little bit? If so? If not, tell me why

(51:17):
down below. But what happens on fight night? Well, this
link up with Boots this close to the fight mean
that much for Canelo. But he figure out Boots in
this spar will he be able to figure out the
puzzle that is Terrence Crawford on fight night? And can
Crawford defy the odds, move up and wait and secure
an historic victory. I don't have those answers yet, but folks,
I am pumped and it feels like day by day

(51:40):
by day, this fight gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
What happens on September thirteenth, live on Netflix from Allegian
Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. I don't have those answers,
but I guess we'll find out, all right. So we're
back on the way concept presented by the ring and
today I'm not here to talk to you about high
level fighters. I'm not here to talk to you about out,

(52:00):
you know, big time matchups or interviewing a fighter or
I'm going to show you any training that I did
with with a fighter or anything like that. Today, I'm
here to simply talk about one of the worst things
I think I've ever seen on a live camera involving
a combat sports athlete. And I don't even I don't
even want to call this individual that because the story
I'm about to lay out for you, guys, doesn't describe
an athlete. It doesn't describe someone that it is well

(52:23):
adjusted or has a responsibility to be a combat sports
athlete in all phases of life. What I'm about to
show you is someone looking to take advantage of the
fact that they're training in combat and their short temper,
terrible judgment skills, and decision making all wrapped into one
incident that damn near killed someone and had it gone
the way of the person perpetrating the attack, they probably

(52:45):
would have That may sound harsh, and you guys don't
have to believe me, but when we're done looking at
some of this footage, some of which I can't even
show you because we're on YouTube, I think you'll agree.
And what I'm talking about is Quentin Rampage Jackson, former
light heavyweight champion in the UFC former Pride Champion has
a son named Rajah Jackson, and they have been streaming
on kick and Raja is apparently trying to become a

(53:05):
professional MMA fighter as a wrestling background. I think he's
oh and one as an actual pro fighter, and they
have been interacting father and son and you know, training
and all this. And I didn't know much about Rajah
Jackson other than the fact that I can clearly see
now that he's not well adjusted and his critical thinking
skills do not apply almost in any case, and that

(53:26):
he's got more than one fucking screw loose because last
night he almost killed someone. And I don't even know
as I'm recording this where the health of the other
individual stands. But Rajer Jackson was at a pro wrestling
event somewhere in Los Angeles and what started as a
pretty innocent kind of misunderstanding, one that probably shouldn't have happened,

(53:47):
and I'm not going to excuse that, but also the
response to it was so out of control that I
can't even describe it without showing it. So let me
get into this entire story and we'll talk about it.
But Rajah Jackson attacks a pro wrestler live in an
event and almost killed him. And honestly, in my opinion,
Rajah Jackson needs to serve jail time. Like this is
not an innocent mistake of a young man. This was

(54:09):
a premeditated attack that almost murdered someone and there's no
excuse for it. But let's get into it. So, like
I said, I'm not even gonna be able to show
you all this attack, LEO, I guess I'm gonna I'm
gonna play the video, but we're gonna have to blur
what happens when we get to the attack portion. But
here is how everything started. Rajah Jackson rolls up to

(54:30):
a pro wrestling event, a small local pro wrestling event.
This isn't the WWE. This is a local city wide
wrestling event I think, put on by Rakishi. And we're
gonna get back to that in a second, because there's
gonna be some liabilities involved with how this thing actually
happened and how it was allowed to potentially happen. That's
not gonna just involve Rajah Jackson, but it's also gonna
involve the promoters of this event and Rakkeishi, whose event.

(54:53):
This is his pro wrestling company that puts on these events.
But here's how everything started. Yeah, I think that he's
not a worker, bro. Yeah, what the was that was?

Speaker 2 (55:11):
That's what.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
I don't no I was. I know, I know you
will I will him up. I don't play that ship. No,
I will fuck him up. I know you will. I
got you. I did not play that ship at all

(55:38):
that you know me. So as you can see here,
if you're not familiar with the pro wrestling business, you
see this individual with his shirt off and the beer belly,
and you see the guy behind him with the cowboy hat.
These are pro wrestlers, right. It's not amateur wrestling, which
is an actual live combat sport. Pro wrestling is a
bit of theater. It's what we call sports entertainment, meaning

(56:01):
there isn't an actual competition going on. People aren't actually
fighting each other. It's simulated combat for the fans to
see their favorite stars, especially in the WWE, like a
John Cena or Randy Orton or The Rock go out
there and put on a performance. Right at the local level,
it's a little bit sloppier, it's a little bit less kempt,
and obviously the people involved are not the smartest, brightest

(56:25):
and best of the pro wrestling business. This individual. In particular,
what I assume happened here was the guy on the
right who apparently is a former soldier and has PTSD
and wrestles to help him with his PTSD after going overseas.
He is I guess assuming that Raja is another pro

(56:45):
wrestler there, because he's backstage with the other pro wrestlers
right or in the parking lot with the other pro wrestlers,
like you can clearly see everybody around is a wrestler,
and he is. I guess assumes that either Raja understands
what pro wrestling is and he's there as a wrestler,
or that he's a fan that's back there trying to

(57:06):
mingle with the wrestlers, and this guy takes a liberty
which he should not have done, and the guy cracks
what's clearly a worked can that again the pro wrestler
should not have done. I'm not going to condone the
guy hitting him with the worked can, but it was
clearly an empty can where he was trying to go
to Raja and be like, oh, you don't know me,
well check this out right, like a little bit of

(57:26):
a fake punch like they do in pro wrestling. Oh yeah,
you want to see something, huh, and it's and he
expects Raja to react like a fan or react like
a pro wrestler would where they stumble and oh my goodness,
you hit me with something. Okay, we're working together. Brother.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Oh he's not a worker.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
So you hear his buddies around him, and again you
see more context for this kind of being the pro
wrestler area and the guy maybe thinking that he was
just Raja was a pro wrestler, maybe trying to make
a name, or just one that he didn't know and
they didn't know each other. So that's the way you
communicate with the other wrestlers. Brother, you gotta show me
that you know how to work. And the guy with
the shirt off says, oh, you're not gonna sell it.

(58:08):
So again it's clear he thinks that Raja knows what
that means. He thinks that Raja either is a pro
wrestler or knows what selling is, because he hits him
with the can and Raja just stands there like, what
the fuck are you doing? The guy clearly fucked up
not knowing that Raja didn't understand any of the pro
wrestling stuff, and he shouldn't have hit him with the
can to begin with, but the context of what's happening

(58:29):
is simple. The guy thought Raja was a pro wrestler,
and Raja obviously had no fucking clue what was happening.
Even there, you see him put his hands on Raja. Again,
not something that he should do, but it's a head
collar tie up that a lot of pro wrestlers will do,

(58:51):
is either a greeting or as a way to see
if you're about the business, see if you're a worker.
And again Raja has no idea what this guy's doing,
so he's like, gets you hands off. So at this
point that's all we know, and Raja hasn't done a
thing wrong yet. And the wrestler again made a mistake
thinking that Raja was a wrestler and went a little
too far with the can crushing and put in his hands.
He shouldn't have done that, But again, this is the

(59:13):
point we're at now. I'm giving you this for context
because what happens next is very important. So that video
cuts off, but where it picks up is this right here.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I got all work out.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
I didn't I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
We're working out. We're gonna come out on your matches.
I know you keep thinking we're working. We're always working.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Always get it out now, you know what I'm saying,
We're always working.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
So there are here at the guy with the beard,
the war vet s got PTSD. He said, listen, I
don't I didn't know you weren't a worker. I'm really sorry,
apologizes twice there to Raja apologizes twice as Hey, I
saw the camera, saw you, thought you are a worker again,
worker meaning thought you were another pro wrestler. Thought you
were like maybe doing a skit, and I was going to,
you know, with the camera there, I wanted to do

(01:00:07):
a skit too. And it's just one of those things
if you think someone's a pro wrestler and they come up.
It's that little line that gets blurred between reel and
fake all the time in the business. But the only
people that are supposed to be blurring the lines between
reel and fake are the people actually wrestling, because they
know that it's not real and they're trying to convince
other people that it is. That's what this guy, this
pro wrestler thought. And then you hear the guy in

(01:00:28):
the middle say something like, Hey, you know, we're going
to have him come out during your match because we're working.
You think we're working, We're always working. So that's the
first inclination that they were going to try to make
something out of this in the ring, which obviously in
retrospect was a terrible idea because you're dealing with someone
and this is why I will put a little bit
of this on the promotion. Rakishi's people or whoever decided

(01:00:50):
to set this up. These pro wrestlers are like, oh, yeah,
we'll just do something as a part of the match
to make it up to you, right as as an
act of good faith. Raja is not a worker. He
has no idea that this is supposed to be worked,
or at least he doesn't want it to be worked.
He's still clearly pissed about the whole thing, so to
include him in the match is a terrible idea. I
got it. Doesn't have any pro wrestling experience, I don't

(01:01:12):
care what his dad did at TNA or wherever else,
and is clearly not well adjusted, doesn't care about this
fake shit, and is looking to hurt someone. So again,
I just wanted to give you broader context this wrestler
apologizes multiple times to Rojer. It's like, hey, I didn't
mean anything by it. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry.
I apologize. I thought you were a pro wrestler. You're
clearly not. I thought the camera was like you doing

(01:01:33):
your thing. That's not the case. I'm sorry. So that's
what we call ending it right. It should end right there.
Raja Shaid have no other reason to do what he's
about to do. There is no excuse for it at all. Now,
at that being said, this show decides to put Raja
in a match, or at least in a spot of
a match. He is going to be in the match
with the guy at least in some fashion, which again

(01:01:55):
is a terrible idea. But here's him at least explaining
what was told to him, and I'm gonna have some
pushback on him.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Is not scripting, bro, I don't know when his matches.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
No, they didn't tell me to fake listen. I can
hit him for real. Yeah, they allowed me to hit
him for real. If he hits me back for real,
I don't give a fuck I want him to. So
Rajah is saying that the promotion said you can go
in there and hit the guy during his match. Show

(01:02:34):
you guys did they told me to hit him and
just lead somebody who pulled me off of him and
will lead. I'm telling you I'm gonna hit him as
many times as you can't watch. And then you hear
Roger say, I don't give a fuck if he hits
me back. I want him to this. This is where
I have some pushback. There is no fucking way as
a pro wrestling fan, as someone who is trained in

(01:02:55):
the business right here in Orlando, Florida, down at Team
three D Gym with some of the bad dudes in
the industry, at least the guys that understood the line
between reel and fake that pushed that line. I'm talking
Team three D, Bubba Devon, Billy Gunn. There is no
shot in hell that these people told a trained professional
MMA fighter that he could walk into their ring and

(01:03:18):
punch one of their wrestlers for real until someone pulled
them up. Rakishi, someone that worked in the business at
the highest level, would not allow his guys to get
hit their shit kicked in by an MMA fighter for
absolutely no reason, all because of whatever incident happened outside
and was very quickly resolved and apologized for Here's where

(01:03:39):
I think one of two things is happening. Either Raja
heard him say that we're gonna work with you in
this match. We're going to have you do a little
work thing in the match, and he took that to
mean I get to do whatever I want and punch
this guy for real. Or he heard we're gonna allow
you to work in the match, and Rajah heard enough
there and went, oh, they think it's gonna be a work.
They think it's supposed to be fake. I'm gonna funck

(01:04:00):
this guy up for real because people got to quit
disrespect to me and people got to quit playing with me.
This is where things turn very badly because he did
what's called in the business, taken the liberty. A guy
that is a trained him, a fighter, a guy that
understands he is a danger to everyone around him if
he so chooses to utilize the skills he's learned and
to use the aggression of his chosen sport in a
simulated combat zone. And again, while this entire thing is stupid,

(01:04:24):
to even include him in a match, that's absolutely ridiculous,
and the promotion should be ill liable for thinking that
was a thing They should do. I don't know about
waivers or anything else that was signed. That's completely asinine
to think, Oh, yeah, this guy just had a little
bit of an issue with our guy outside, so we
need to work it into a match. Brother, he's that's
Rampage Jackson's son. He's gonna bring the eyeballs. No, that's

(01:04:46):
fucking stupid. You're talking about someone that doesn't understand pro wrestling,
and he's going to get in there and you can't
control him. What honestly really was probably said to Rajah was, hey,
get in the ring, take our guy down, and you know,
really throw some warped punches at him and make it
look like it something, but don't actually fucking kill him,
and we'll let you stand up, get your hand raised
and look like the big tough guy that you clearly

(01:05:07):
fucking want to be. Now again, I'm getting a little
fired up because of what happens next. Here is the
actual video of Raja doing what he did getting into
the ring, which again apparently was told to him he
was allowed to do by the promotion. Absolutely fucking stupid.
But then he takes it a step further, takes liberties
with everybody in there that is not looking for a fight,

(01:05:27):
that is not looking to defend themselves from a fight,
because it's been agreed upon apparently that he's gonna come
in and do some works, even though Raja is trying
to explain it, like, no, I can really go in
there and assault this guy, because when's that ever been
the case? Raja is twenty five years old. I don't
want to hear stupid kid making mistakes. This is not
acceptable in any walk of life where you just get
to go. Yeah, I know, the company said I can
go in there and beat his ass. Bullshit. There's clearly

(01:05:50):
a fuck up from the company allowing him to even
get into the ring, but it was obvious that he
was not supposed to fucking murder the guy, throw a
couple of work punches, stand up and look like the
tough guy he clearly wanted to fucking be. But that's
not what happened. Instead, Rajah took things into his own
hands and acted like a complete fucking psycho. And I'm
gonna play this video but we can't even show most

(01:06:11):
of it Leo, so like we're gonna have to blur
a out of this, but just know that he jumps
into this ring and damn near kills someone so right away,
single leg. This guy's knocked out cold, he's out told

(01:06:31):
just from the takedown. Now again, just look at everybody
around you. This guy standing up at the commentary boot
he realizes that that takedown was not a worked takedown.
He realizes this is already gonna go out of control
because Rajah slammed this dude on his fucking head and
he proceeds to throw twenty one t unanswered Haymakers at

(01:06:52):
this fool while he's already unconscious. And the severity of
violence and the lack of understanding to stop and get
off of this guy. And by the way, again the referee,
the other wrestler's probably being a little shell shocked that
this is real. No one's stepping in, no security stepping
is another complete fuck up by this company. Was it knockouts? Knocks?

(01:07:12):
What's this company? Knocks? Pro wrestling? A complete fuck up
all the way around from them. But a lack of
fundamental understanding to say I'm going to kill this person
if I don't stop, or to have the want to
continue beating on an unconscious man until he is dead
is what you see here from Raja. No thought to stop,

(01:07:37):
no thought to hold up. This guy's gonna try to
stop him. Which makes this even worse because even in
Raj's own words, he said, I'm gonna throw punches and
someone's gonna pull me off. Well, here comes the guy
to pull Rajah off. And what's he do if he
knows that this is supposed to be how it's gonna
go and guys are there to pull him off, what's
he do? Nope, just keeps throwing, Just keeps throwing. Go

(01:08:00):
try to begain again. Look, he tries to shove the
guy off again and keep throwing. This guy comes to
get him. He tries to let go of him and
get back to it. Then obviously all chaos breaks loose

(01:08:27):
and they try to hold on for dear life while
their buddy is laying there, completely and utterly unconscious after
being attacked, mercilessly attacked. Now that video as much as
you guys could have seen of it, and I don't
think I can show it all to you, just know
that he slammed this guy out his head. He was
out cold immediately there He landed twenty maybe twenty one

(01:08:47):
unanswered punches where the guy's body is convulsing on the
floor whilst again Raja said, Oh, I'm gonna throw some
punches and there guys are gonna pull me off, and
that's what we're doing. Who in their right mind would
think that means throwing actual punches. I don't even know
if that was the actual agreement as to what was
supposed to have happened. This is all just from Raja himself,
which clearly his decision making isn't the greatest in the world.

(01:09:08):
He's clearly not well adjusted upstairs, so I have a
little problem trusting what he's saying at all. But if
that was the case, and they tried to pull him
off him and he throws them off and goes back
for more, you're an absolute fucking scumbag that has no
ability to fucking think or whose ego is so fragile
from what happened hours beforehand, where he had an empty
can kind of swung on the side of his head

(01:09:30):
very lightly, I might ask. And again it was immediately
apologized to when the situation was revealed that he was
not a part of the show or the festivities or
pro wrestling at all, and apparently was squashed in that moment.
So then go and do that shit on live camera.
What the fuck was he thinking? He wasn't thinking. I mean,
I don't even know why I'm asking that question. I
know what he was thinking. He was thinking, I'm gonna

(01:09:51):
fucking murder this guy. I'm gonna hurt this guy to
where no one can play me anymore, no one can
make me look like a bitch anymore. And that's not
me exact faggerating. This is what Roger said right after
he committed full on assault and probably attempted murder.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Hotherfucker's playing with me, bro real ship one of them
bits from fucking Ben me trying.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
To everybody fucking playing with me and ship and I'm
always playing and ship. Call me bits and ship. Not
a fucking bitch. Bro. At the end of the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Day, I'm standing off for my fucking self because I'm
tired of everybody fucking playing with me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Bro real ships that come on, Man, we're leaving, Man,
we're walking away. Bro, Let's not tell this shit. Let's go.
Come on, Roger, let's go. Let's go, Roger. Let's go, Roger.
Let's go, Rogie. I'm telling you, let's go. You listen
to me. Listen to me, Roger, You need to listen
to me right now, Roger, let's go. I don't give

(01:10:45):
full ship. Let's go. You are gonna do shit to me,
brot to me. He can't fuck with me, brother, let's
he can't fuck with me. I'm I'm shot. How genuinely
fragile Rajah Jackson's ego is. I mean this is Here's
a real life looking to someone who legitimately thought that
beating a helpless man senseless, being a guy who thought,

(01:11:08):
at the very most, you guys were gonna do a
little work to kind of situation. Beating the shit out
of him until you almost kill him was a way
of saying, I'm standing up for myself. I'm not a bitch.
What and then he yells out, well, y'all jump me,
y'all jump me. No one is fighting but you, you moron.

(01:11:29):
There was not supposed to be any fighting going on,
talking about jumping this and jumping that. Y'all gotta quit
playing me like I'm a bitch. Who the only person
that made themselves look like a bitch here, the only
person that made themselves look like an absolute moron, who
made themselves look completely unhinged and like they need to
be ridiculed and honestly put behind bars for aggravated assault

(01:11:50):
and potentially more. Is Rajah Jackson like he's living in
a different reality than what is actually happening. No one
jumped him and no one created him like a There
was a situation that shouldn't have happened earlier on in
the day. It was a misunderstanding and one that was
quickly resolved apologized for profusely that I think, in my
own opinion, Rajah Jackson used when he heard they were

(01:12:12):
going to allow him to be a part of the
pro wrestling match. He took advantage of that situation to
be like, Oh, you punked me on my stream. You
hit me with that can on my stream. Fuck that apology.
I'm going to hit you back, and I'm going to
try to hit you until you stop fucking move scumbag shit.
And again, I don't see how he's not charged here.
I really don't see how he's not charged. And I'm
not even trying to make this like how could you

(01:12:33):
do this to this former veteran with PTSD. But this
is the guy that Raja attacked bro in two thousand
and nine.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
I had just got out of the military. Probably about
six months earlier I got out of the military. I
joined knoxbro you know, because I needed something to focus on.
I needed something to help me adjust back into civilian life.
You know a lot of veterans, it's hard for them
to readjust in this civilian life coming from the life
of the military. I'm an American soldier that suffers from PTSD.

(01:13:01):
Being in front of a crowd, it doesn't give me
as much anxiety and aggression as I thought it would.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Like, this guy clearly does pro wrestling as his way
of coping with what he's gone through overseas. But the
way that Rajah Jackson treated this guy, this whole situation
is just unbelievable. Now, the last thing that I want
to talk about is Rampage Jackson's response to his son
doing this on live stream. Number one, I want to
say this Rampage had nothing to do with this, and

(01:13:27):
for me to act like I know the situation of
Rampage his family life at home, I'm not going to
do that. I don't know. Rampage was on stream as
well with Sneako and found out about it live. They
ended the stream and this is what Rampage had to
say about the entire incident after he said I wanted
to clear up the misinformation about my son Rajah. First off, again,
we'll get into what he actually says, but probably the

(01:13:49):
worst fucking way you could start a tweet about your
son maliciously and viciously assaulting someone to the point where
they were out cold and did not wake up for
a very long time. Apparently, according to the to the
pro wrestlers that were trying to get Psycho Stu is
the name of the wrestler trying to get him to
wake up. Apparently it took a very long time and
maybe even til he got to the hospital for him

(01:14:10):
to wake up. And I don't even know what his
status is currently, but starting off on a terrible foot
here rampage talking about the misinformation about your son. We
saw him on camera beat a man senseless. Anyway, I've
been confirmed that the wrestler Stuart Smith aka Psycho Stu,
is awake and stable Raja was unexpectedly hit in the
side of the head by him moments before Smith's match,

(01:14:32):
and Raja was told that he could get his payback
in the ring. I thought it was a part of
the show. Now again we have the footage to show that, yes,
Raja was hit unexpectedly with an empty can on the
side of the head in a very worked way. It
wasn't a full swing of that can. There was nothing
in that can to hurt him, and it was clearly

(01:14:54):
done as a way to be a part of whatever
skit Stu the wrestler psycho Stu thought Raja was doing
with the camera and the live stream and him thinking
that Raja was a pro wrestler. What Rampage is not
saying here, and it's a bit disingenuous for Rampage to do,
and we have all the footage, is that not only
was this not just before the match, this was immediately

(01:15:14):
followed by a profuse apology from Stu and the other
pro wrestlers around that did not know that Raja was
a worker, that did not know Raja wasn't a pro wrestler,
and the whole situation was resolved right there. He then
goes on and says Raja was told he could get
his payback in the ring, and then there's a comment,
I thought it was a part of the show. So
if Raja was told he could get his payback in

(01:15:35):
the ring, which again I assume he is getting from
his son telling him that that's what the pro wrestling
company told him and them meaning Rampage, and Raja legitimately
thinking that that meant Rajah could go into that ring,
pick up this wrestler, slam him on his head, and
throw punches at him continuously until the guy died. That's
what they thought the payback in the ring was. Rampage

(01:15:57):
knows better. He's been on movie sets, he is worked,
worked in pro wrestling before. He knows what a work is,
and that's not it bullshit. Now again, Rakishi's company, this
Knocks Wrestling company, They're gonna have some fault in vault
here as well for even proposing the fact that Raja
should get in the ring with their pro wrestlers because
he's not trained. He clearly doesn't understand the business. And

(01:16:20):
even if you tell him it's supposed to be fake,
even if you tell him to go in there and
not throw real punches, you can't control what he does.
As a guy that's not well adjusted, as a guy
that's still clearly pissed off, has a temper issue, has
a fragile ego, and is looking to hurt people. That's
on them too. It was bad judgment and a work
that went wrong. Yeah, no, that's bullshit. Raja was not

(01:16:40):
working at all. Raja was not faking any of that.
He was looking to go in there and hurt that
guy again, Rampage, this is all shit, dude, This is
all bad, terrible, terrible, terrible response. Raja is an MMA fighter,
not a pro wrestler, and had no business being involved
in the event like this. True. I don't condone my
son's actions at all. He suffered a concussion sparring only
days ago and had no business doing anything remotely close

(01:17:03):
to physical contact. Okay, yeah, I mean sure, him suffering
a concussion and sparring up days ago, Okay, yeah, he
shouldn't be involved with any physical activity because concussions are
a real thing. But trying to use that as the
way to say, oh, my son was suffering concussion symptoms
and that's how this potentially could happen, like using that
as as a defense in some ways, again, just a

(01:17:24):
terrible look for Rampage. If that's what he's trying to do,
then and he goes As a father, I'm deeply concerned
with his health and the well being of mister Smith
that being said, I'm very upset that any of this happened.
But my main concern now is that mister Smith make
a speedy recovery. I apologize on his behalf and to
kick for the situation. I mean, yeah, Rampage is trying
to protect his son, but you just can't. You can't

(01:17:45):
say some of this stuff. You can't come out right away.
And I'm sure whatever legal representation they're going to try
to get, because there is going to have to be
some legal representation, like the lawsuit if they're if not
for criminal chargers that are gonna get pressed, the lawsuit
itself is going to fucking hit Rampage in his wallet.
To start this tweet off by saying, I want to
clear up the misinformation. It was a work that went wrong.

(01:18:07):
He was told he could get his payback in the ring,
and he puts payback in quotes. They better have that
in writing or in voice form somewhere. That's just a bad,
bad response from Rampage for what potentially can happen legally
in this situation, and this entire entire situation is the
fault of his son. No infans or butts about it.
His son chose to go into that ring and make

(01:18:30):
a statement to everybody else out there that he was
the tough guy by intentionally trying to hurt that pro wrestler.
And I only have to assume it was because of
that incident earlier on that Roger clearly didn't get over
that it stung his ego that it was on live
and his chat was probably clowning in for it, and
he was probably looking at his kick Chat and going, oh,
I'm a bitch. Uh, I'm a bitch, And there's a
bunch of fucking twelve and thirteen year olds in his

(01:18:51):
livestream chat going yeah, go in there and fuck him up.
And a twenty five year old man can't make the
adult decision to say, you know what, whatever is going
on in this little fucking internet chat on my phone
is not worth me potentially going to jail for a
very long time, or worth me losing my screws and
murdering someone or attempting to assault them in a way
that leaves them permanently damaged. Rajah Jackson didn't do that.

(01:19:14):
He fed into He allowed himself and his ego to
go in there and take advantage of the situation and
put a fucking beating on this guy's psychos. To Roger
Jackson's not an example of a kid making a mistake.
He's an example of a scumbag using an opportunity to
assault someone as a way to say I'm not a
bitch and y'all are going to stop playing with me.
That's an absolutely egregious, egregious use of combat sports and

(01:19:37):
martial art experience. This is the thing that you get
into martial arts for to stop guys like Rajah Jackson
from doing it to people that can't protect themselves. You
get into martial arts to be able to defend yourself
from psychos like that. And the first thing you learn
when a part of martial arts and training different disciplines
is that you are a walking weapon. You are someone

(01:19:57):
that has the means to inflict violence, but through the
martial arts, learn the control to not do so, learn
the discipline and the humility to not use your physical
actions but instead to de escalat in all situations. And yeah, man,
this is just fucking stupid. And listen, I offer a
lot of opinions here on combat sports, but this may
be the first time where I offer the opinion that

(01:20:17):
Roger Jackson should be in jail for what he did here.
This is inexcusable and this is no offense to Rampage
or anybody else. I know that's his father, but there
is no excuse. There is none. And it's not some
sixteen year old kid, seventeen year old ID, eighteen year
old kid. That's a twenty five year old man that
made a choice to damn near in someone's life over
his ego. I'll even go as far as say a

(01:20:38):
little bit of clout and standing on business. I told
you guys, the Internet has fried people's brains, and it
really has. And if you're defending this, you're one of
those people, completely awful. But yeah, that's the situation. I
don't know what's going to happen next year. Pray for
the safety of Psycho Stoop that was on the other
side of this. Just complete and utter vicious assault. I
hope this is a signal to ice streaming entities like kick,

(01:21:02):
like Twitch and anybody that's on those platforms that you
are always you are developing a digital footprint of your actions.
And hopefully this is a signal to everybody looking to
do the next biggest thing for cloud, Everybody looking to
press people and get in fights and everything ego driven
and nobody being able to take a step back and
take a breath and say this is not the right place,

(01:21:24):
the right time. This is going to turn out badly.
Hopefully this is an example of what not to do
and what combat sports and MMA and true martial arts
are not meant for. Complete scumbag move from Rajah Jackson,
and I'd have to think charges are at least going
to be pressed and filed and what happens next. I
don't have those answers, but I guess we'll find out. Yeah,

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