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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, we are back with some breaking news
out of the UFC today, as Connor McGregor has been
suspended for eighteen months for a whereabouts violation not just one,
but three times from what's called the Combat Sports Anti
Doping Agency. No longer is the UFC with you, SADA,
It's the Combat Sports Anti Doping Agency. And this is
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major news, but not for the reasons you think, what
do I mean the breakdown? Let's go all right, So
this hit the airwaves about thirty minutes ago from Carlos
Contreras Legaspi, a writer for ESPN Deportes. He broke the
news that Connor McGregor has accepted an eighteen month period
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of ineligibility for a violation of the UFC anti doping policy.
Gregor failed to provide accurate whereabouts on June thirteenth, September nineteenth,
and September twentieth, twenty twenty four for test collection. He
will be able or excuse me, eligible to compete on
March twentieth, twenty twenty six. All right, so number one,
what does this mean? Well, Connor McGregor, secretly, over the
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last year and some change, has been serving Anti Doping
Agency suspension. I don't know if he knew about this,
and it wasn't public yet. This is only public for
the first time for our eyes. Is this something that
Connor has known for a while, because there's been a
lot of talk about his return. Potentially he kind of
pipes up and says he's training again and then he stops,
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or he's training behind the scenes, but hasn't given a
full answer. Also, he's been talking about the UFC White House.
Arieljwani reported yesterday on his show that Connor McGregor had
not come onto his show for reasons that they would
kind of leave open ended. He essentially he's like, I
didn't he didn't cancel on me. We just thought it
was best not to have him on the show yet.
And this was yesterday he addressed that, so it must
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have been on his show last week. Connor did go
on Fox News and say it's ready, Sewing sealed in
to live at the White House and I Macha's back,
which meant nothing because Dana then came out and was like, yeah, no,
we haven't negotiated with any fighters for the UFC White
House card. But with all that speculation, this tells me
that Connor probably knew already before we did and has
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been quietly serving his suspension now with about six months
until the UFC's White House card and being retroactively given
this suspension, Connor has been serving essentially since September twenty first.
I assumed twenty twenty four, which would make him eligible
in March twenty twenty twenty six. So Connor could still
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fight at the White House car and that's fine. But
there is some interesting parts of this that make me
a little bit skeptical as to what happened here. If
it was just a whereabouts missed Because Connor is all
over the world on his Lambaghini yont right flying here boat,
traveling there different islands every day every week, I got
some questions. So let's take a look at the article
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that was written here about this and see if there's
any details that I'm missing. The Combat Sports Anti Doping
announced today Connor McGregor of dueblenoile and except an eighteen
month period of ineligibility for a violation of the UFC
Anti Doping policy. McGregor missed three attempted biological sample collections
within a twelve month period in twenty twenty four, which
constitutes a violation of UFCADP. UFC athletes are required to
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provide accurate whereabouts information at all times so they can
get contacted and submit to biological sample collections without prior warning.
McGregor's miss tests occurred on June thirteenth, September nineteenth, and
September twentieth, twenty twenty four, and were each classified as
a whereabouts failures by SNAD or the Combat Sports Antidoping
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under the UFCADP. Although McGregor failed to make himself available
for testing on those dates, SNAD noted that he was
recovering from an injury and was not preparing for an
upcoming fight at the time of the three miss tests.
Really quick, want to make a point here, that's true,
but it's very interesting these dates, especially the June thirteenth date,
because that just happens to the day I think before but
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reported on the day that Connor McGregor pulled out of
the Michael Chandler fight at UFC three to three. Remember,
at that point we had heard about his toe injury,
a potential broken toe, but there were very odd circumstances
surrounding number one. You know, there was an announced press
conference that was supposed to take place in Dublin, and
then it just didn't happen and we didn't really have
any answers for it, and rumors started to swirl that
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potentially Connor was injured and was not going to be
able to compete, but he missed the test the day
they or the day before they called the fight off.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying that is a little
suspicious as to what potentially was a reason for that.
And then a couple of months later in September nineteenth,
September twentieth, not really sure what to make of that. Connor,
like they said, wasn't preparing for a fight. Could that
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have been something where he's on the mend and trying
to heal up and XYZ. Sure, but why wouldn't that
make him available for the test because he's injured, And
how is that an exception for anybody else who's injured,
either after a fight, before a fight, whatever else. I
think everybody you know understands how strict formerly you SADA
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and now combat sports anti doping is with keeping tabs
on everyone regardless of where you're at in the world,
and you having to keep tabs with them. This seems
like the same way that you Saigna operated under the
UFC as well. But it's interesting Connor, the first one
he misses was an in camp test because they were
in camp UFC three to zero three, right around the
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corner Connor and Michael Chandler about to go do their
press conference, and Connor pulls out and either misses the
test after he pulls out, or misses the test and
then pulls out. I would love to know the timeline
on that because I think that's super important, and we're
not getting any details on that, but we continue. McGregor
fully cooperated with Sea SADS investigation and accepted responsibility and
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provide detailed information that ce SID can determined contributed to
the mistest despite the mitigating factors. Se said emphasizes that
accurate whereabouts filings and the ability to get duct unannounced
testing are essential to the success of the UFC anti
doping policy. Taking McGregor's cooperation and circumstances into account, SEESAD
reduced the standard twenty four months sanction for three whereabouts
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missings by six months. This period of eligibility began on
September twentieth, twenty twenty four, the date of his third
whereabouts failure and will conclude on March twentieth, twenty twenty six.
This is also very interesting information because I think, as
everybody knows, there was a parting of the sea between
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the UFC and USADA when it was the United States
Anti Doping Agency running the drug testing policy for the UFC,
and that was because at least partly USADA operates on
its own. It is a testing program on its own
that was hired by the UFC to conduct testing. I
could be wrong about this, but the Combat Sports Anti
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Doping Agency or program doesn't. I don't know if that's
any different the UFC, if that's something that is controlled
in the UFC, or if that's something again that's hired out.
But I know, like we saw in certain circumstances even
with USADA, the timelines of when certain fighters get suspended
and then get lifted off suspension is we'll just say
a little bit skeptical, a little bit suspect, because a
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regular fighter would have served a twenty four month suspension,
and again they said he didn't because I guess his
cooperation in fully accepting the responsibility of it and taking circumstances,
which I'm not sure what the circumstances would be. They
said he was injured. I didn't know that was a
circumstance for not testing. But had he served the actual
twenty four months, that would have given him March April, May, June, July,
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August September of twenty twenty six, a full two years
after the twenty twenty four double miss in September, So
that wouldn't have allowed Connor McGregor to fight on a
potential White House Cardana has said they've made no actual
bouts yet for the car. He said that no one's
been scheduled. He said there's talks between certain people like
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a Connor McGregor, and there hasn't been anything concrete. But
that tells me if there is anything going on behind
the scenes, that this just so happens to make Connor
McGregor available for the White House car just so happens
that it perfectly lines up to where three months after
is March twentieth reinsertion, he is able to hit the
ground running with some training. Now again I'm not saying
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anything funky is happening here. I'm just saying it is
very interesting. Something else that's interesting to me is if
you guys remember back a couple of months ago, Connor
McGregor supposedly re entered the testing protocol or the testing
pool towards the comeback to the UFC White House event.
This was on I think July fifteenth, and that's starting
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to make me go, hold on a second, how is
this all working? Because if Connor McGregor re entered the
UFC's drug testing pool on July fifteenth of twenty twenty five,
but was already supposedly serving a eighteen month sanctioning from
that time while he was out of the testing pool,
is that what I meant to believe that those times
that they weren't coming and retesting him, because he's out
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of the pool from September twenty twenty four to July
twenty twenty five, that counts as a part of his
suspension time or his sanctioning time, even though they weren't
continuing to test him because he's out of the pool.
It's not like they chose to not test him during
that time period. It's just that he's out of the pool.
There's no point in testing him. He's not able to
be tested. So how does that really starting. Things are
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not adding up here. Again, I could be just tenfoil
hat on this thing, but it's just interesting. And even
from the CBS article where we see that the report
of Connor McGregor officially returning to the UFC drug testing pool,
that only made sense because we didn't think he was
already sanctioned. So how does it make sense now? There's
another part of this article where it says, however, the
official UFC anti doping website indicates that McGregor has completed
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his first test this year. Coregor tested eleven times last year,
mostly before a planned fight with Michael Chandler at UFC
three zero three. You're pulled out of the fight with
a broken peaky toe former UFC champ, the two time
excuse me two division UFC champion hasn't fought since dusn't
Porty beat him in July twenty twenty one. Very very
interesting stuff here. Number one, the fact that the day
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he pulls out of the Michael Chandler fight is the
first day he misses his test, or the day before
he pulls out he misses it. I can't remember the
timeline there. Number two, the fact that he gets six
months off his two year sanction for cooperation and circumstances.
Circumstances we don't really know. Number three, how he still
is serving in eighteen months sanctioning whilst not being in
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the pool for October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June,
nine months of that. I'm not really sure how that works.
He's not even in the pool. How can he be
serving a sanction. I know it's a competition sanction, but
still aren't isn't he supposed to remain in the pool
to serve that time? Anyway, this is some crazy stuff
and it's important for a lot of reasons. Number One,
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it probably does confirm to us that Connor McGregor is
going to fight on the White House card. Maybe not
in all certain terms, but the way this is lining up,
the reason this is being announced or being written about. Now,
how this news came out, where it came from, I
think it all makes a little bit more sense because
this feels like they had to get ahead of it,
they had to speak about it before Connor started to
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plan a return. And by the way, here's something else again,
tinfoil hat wade here. Connor McGregor yesterday hopped on Twitter
to say, hey folks online, I'm out of here for
a bit. See you again soon. My love, unwavering, thank
you all. A little convenient for anyone. The day before
this comes out, Connor's like, yeah, I'm off socials. Did
he know what was coming? Or is this all part
of the move to get Connor? Because we thought, okay,
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this is gonna be refocused Connor. That's why he's getting
off social Connor. Maybe he had an obligation with Fox News.
That's why he didn't go on Ariel Hawane pro. Maybe
Ariel had this story. I was gonna ask Connor about
it again. Does it matter in the long run, No,
Connor will probably be back in time for the White House.
But it does make you ask some questions as to
what was going on around that Mike Chandler fight. Because
I was the first guy say that Connor. You know,
if he had an injury, this would be the first
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fight he'd ever pulled out of, usually mister reliable, and
maybe he did the injury. Something's not making sense here
timeline wise. Things are off, but that's just my take.
Comment below what you guys think. Connor McGregor suspended retroactively
up until the point of March twenty twenty six, eighteen
month suspension for failing his whereabouts requirements three separate times,
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one of which was the day before he pulled out
of the Mike Chandler fight. And just so happens, it's
three months before the White House Card in which Connor
McGregor will be eligible, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
I think that means Connor McGregor will be fighting at
the White House. Don't have any answers on anything. I'm
just asking questions, what do you guys think. Let me know,
will Connor McGregor be on the White House card, will
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he be ready? And will he be adhering to the
UFC's anti doping policy and making sure he clarifies his
whereabouts for tests. I don't have those answers, but I
guess we'll find out. Folks. We're back on the way
concept presented by The Ring magazine, and today I have
an update on the Rajah Jackson situation. Apparently Raja jack
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has been charged with a couple of different battery charges,
one felony, one misdemeanor. But we're gonna talk about the
details and why he pled not guilty despite all video
evidence pointing to the contrary. It makes absolutely no sense
to us. Maybe for him either way, I don't see
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it going his way and he could be going to
prison for a very long time. What do I mean
the breakdown? Let's go. He is the star of WAG concept,
all right, So MMA fighting and Damon Martin has written
an article saying Roger Jackson pleads not guilty to battery
charges after assaulting pro wrestler, faces up to seven years
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in prison if convicted. Some of UFC legend could face
serious jail time. Okay, number one, kudos to the LAPD
in the prosecutor's office for actually filing not only you know,
misdemeanor battery charges, but felony battery charges. That's the only
thing I can think of that would get him seven years.
I don't I don't know why he wouldn't get attempt
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murder charges. I mean, there was a pre meditated I'm
going to go fuck him up. No, he didn't say
he might. I don't even remember what he said, but
it wasn't. I don't think he said I'm going to
murder him, but he essentially said I'm going to beat
him until they stopped me. It was livestream and for
those that don't remember, Rojah Jackson almost killed a man
as he beat a professional wrestler, Psycho Stu, into a
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concussed and bloody pulp whilst everyone else just watched him
do it, and then when people tried to intervene, he
threw them off, went back for some more until more
people tried to intervene. If you guys didn't catch this story,
I got multiple videos. We'll link to it at the
end here. But the point is Rojah Jackson showed little
to no self control, showed at least ability to cause
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battery and want to cause battery to Psycho Stu, and
at the very most I thought he attempted to murder
point blank period. He tried to punch him until he
was either tired or just felt like he was done,
which didn't look like was coming anytime soon, because he
hit Psycho Stu, the pro wrestler had he slammed on
the back of his head and then proceeded to hit
twenty three straight times while he was already knocked out.
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It's a miracle, in my opinion, that Psycho Stu even
breathes right now and not through a straw. But Roja
Jackson pleads not guilty. Hilarious, but let's see why. Rojah
Jackson pleaded not guilty in court on Thursday after he
was hit with a felony battery charge and a misdimeter
battery charge for assaulting a pro wrestler at an event
in Los Angeles this past August. After he was arrested
in September and released on fifty thousand dollars bail. Jackson,
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the son of former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Quintin Rampage. Jackson,
was back in court for his arraignment after the Los
Angeles District Attorney's office moved forward with the criminal complaint
against him to charges include sentencing enhancement for allegedly causing
great bodily harm, which could add an extra three years
to a prison sentence. Based on the charges, Jackson could
potentially face seven years in prison if convicted. The twenty
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five year old is due back in court on November
twenty fourth for a preliminary hearing in his case. Jackson,
a pro fighter, was arrested in September after he assaulted
Stuart Smith ak psycho STU during a Knox Pro event
in Los Angeles, where Jackson was scheduled to appear. The
entire altercation unfolded after Jackson was scheduled to interfere in
a match but ultimately went off script. He picked Smith
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up into the air and slammed him back to the ground.
Jackson proceeded to then unleash more than twenty punches, many
of which landed after peered. Smith was already unconscious before
other wrestlers were finally able to drag him off. Smith
was admitted to local hospital, where he spent several days
in intensive care with family members, and later revealed he
suffered trauma to both upper lower jaws, laceration to his
upper lip, and a fracture to his malicksa bone which
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resulted in the loss of several teeth from the assault.
Prior to the ring incident, Smith and Jackson were engaged
in a separate incident when Smith hit Jackson with a
beer canned prior might I add, lightly leaving Jackson was
another pro wrestler involved to help hype the show. Video
showed Smith later apologizing in the two shook hands. Jackson
was then seen on a livestream saying that he was
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going to get his revenge quote for real. After jumping
into the ring for the plant show down with Smith.
The visious assault was captured on livestream, which led to
an investigation by the LAPD before Jackson was eventually arrested.
Jackson has not publicly addressed the incident since it happened.
Now he faces potential prison sentence if convicted on all charges. Now,
there was I think an update here from TMZ Sports
as they caught Raza Jackson leaving his court appearance asking
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him some questions. He doesn't say anything here, It's just
him leaving the court and walking off. Do you feel
remorseful about what happened? Do you have anything to say
to your fans? Thank you? Raja? Yeah, Rajah don't feel
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remorseful for any of that stuff. And he had opportunities
to feel remorseful multiple times whilst he was punching a
man or trying to fight the people getting him off
of the guy he was punching into oblivion and after
the event where uh, I think the words he used
were my bad. I can't let people keep trying me,
and I gotta prove I'm not a bit no legal expert.
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But I think that usually means he's gonna be acquitted
of all charges right now, I listen. I don't know
how this case is going to go, but it's clear
as day that Raja deserves to serve jail time here,
deserves to serve time in prison seven years honestly for
what he attempted to do, which again I think was
caused great bodily harm to Psycho Stu. It wouldn't be
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out of the question for me. Honestly, it wouldn't be
because I will stick by this until the day I
end up passing. Raja was not going to stop hitting Stu.
He did not pull any punches. He was trying to
assault that man hurt him badly for his get back
over what he had gotten into an altercation with Stu
earlier in the parking lot an empty beer can that
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Stu placed his hand on Raja's head and then slapped
a beer can on Again, Stu shouldn't have done it,
didn't realize that Rajah wasn't a pro wrestler. Raja then
spoke with Stue. They shook it out, and then Raja
because he was on live streaming. Because again, twenty five
year old Raja is not a kid, but his acting
like one. And I hate the idea that oh, he's
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just a kid, so it's okay, or he's just a kid.
He didn't know any better. No, he's twenty five years old.
It was getting raged baited by probably a bunch of
twelve to seventeen year olds in his kick live stream
and whatever future he had in fighting, whatever or ideas
he had as far as what he wanted to do
up in flames like that all over his ego and
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the fact that he couldn't stand a little trolling from
his chat based on the interactions he was doing and
was happening to him on live stream. And we've talked about,
you know, how Rampage Jackson handled the situation with I
thought was really really bad. I thought it was was
just at first ignorant, second and different, and then third
you could see there was a reality that set in
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with Rampage. It was like, yeah, this is bad. My
son may need to go away for some time. And
I respected that the reality of this case is pretty simple.
Raja has no idea how to control himself. It seems
like in a setting where someone attacks his ego, and
I don't know if that's a behavior that has been
learned over the time he's been live streaming and having
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to interact with people that aren't in front of him
and be controlled by chat and actually his dad, or
just a lack of awareness in general as to what
happens when you assault someone, when you actually batter someone
into the point where they're days into the hospital. And
again I'm only covering this as an update, but it
really really frustrated me how the rest of the other
side of the internet or the other side of the
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opinions on this case went where people were saying that
Raja was working and that psychost Do wasn't really hurt
and they were worked punches and all of this nonsense.
Rajah wasn't going to get charged because it was a work. Yeah, really,
you sure? That's what I thought? Seven years potentially for
Raja And again that's the max. I don't think that
Rajah will probably end up even serving that long. But
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you do the crime, you got to do the time. Man. Like,
I don't know how any adult at and sat down
with Raja and either told him that the way he
was going was going to end up with him fighting
someone or potentially getting in jail. His own dad Rampage
had said that on I think a couple of podcasts
he was afraid his son was going to go to jail.
Turns out the fear was a warranted one because Raja
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got himself into a situation where he let external factors
affect his ego and potentially he's going to go away
for a long time for it. They said he has
another court date in November. We'll keep updated on this story.
But if you're asking me my opinion on if Rajah
Jackson deserves to be in prison, deserves to go to
jail for X amount of years, the answers, Yeah, he does.
Don't know him as a person, comment on his character
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outside of this incident. He wouldn't be going to jail
for his character outside of this incident. He'd be going
to jail for what he did to psychostud and what
he did to that man, in my opinion, was punch
him until Raja got tired, punch him until he felt
like he was done, which for me lines up with
try to hurt him to the point where he potentially
murders him. And before we get out of here, I
do want to talk about the plea. If not guilty.
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I have to assume that that is some way for
him to take a plea deal. I don't really know
a lot about like how you plea and what happens
when you plea a certain way, but usually you would
think if Raja wanted to take a deal and shorten
his sentence, he would plead guilty and then they would
work on a deal. If you plead not guilty, you're
trying to fight this. And I don't mean trying to
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fight in the way that he did Stu, where he
just stood over him and threw punches on a defenseless individual.
He's gonna have to try to fight livestream camera evidence,
his own admission of what he wanted to do on
camera as evident, the actual assault being captured, witness statements
that were there, everything, and none of it goes in
his favor. So to plead not guilty. I'm not a
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legal expert. I have no idea why someone would do
that if every bit of evidence was there and they
weren't looking at taking a plea deal. But we'll see,
we'll see. His lawyers probably no better than I do.
And I got two eyes and I saw what happened,
and so did everybody else in that jury, and that
judge will as well. So what happened? It's next Veraje.
He's got a court date in November. I don't have
those answers. Comment below what you think, and in November
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we'll revisit it, because then and only then, I guess
we'll find out. All right, folks, we are back on
the way concept presented by The Ring magazine, and today
we got some insight into the training camp for Davonte
Tank Davis and what he and potentially his team are
the most concerned about with Jake Paul and what Jake
Paul could be the most concerned about with Javonte Davis.
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As we know, big exhibition coming up November fourteenth. We
are going to do a live stream watch party for that.
I don't know in what way, but we got to
make it special. You guys know when I do these
watch parties, they are insane. We want to have some guests.
We may do a twenty four hour I'm not sure
leaving the comments what you want to see, but we
may be seeing the formulation of a game plan and
tactic from this training footage from Jervonte Davis, and I
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think I may understand the key of what they want
to do, how they want to go about it, and
why Jake Paul might be in more trouble than I
originally thought. What do I mean, breakdown? Let's go all right?
So Calvin Ford, coach for Davonte Davis, has been for
pretty much since Davonte started boxing, sat dow with Marcos
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over at Fight Hub. Shoutut to Marcos for the footage. Man,
He's always killing the game with interviews and everything else.
He sat down with Marcos and they talked about Tank
and potentially what he will do after the Jake fight,
why he's doing the Jake fight, and what their biggest
concerns are. Which your biggest concerns end up being what
you turn into your biggest weapons that things are most
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concerned about. You look to exploit because that's usually the
other person's greatest strength and behind is their greatest weakness.
So I'm gonna take a look at this interview and
show you guys why I think Jake might actually be
in a little more trouble than I originally thought with
this fight, and why I'm gonna be more excited to
see what Tank brings. If the mindset is where I
think it is.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So how are we with with everything?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Man? How's Tank been a good hairspace? Great hairspace, looking good,
you know, just trying to go through our stages. You know,
it's like pre camp in camp, you know, get him
from We ain't foot in a while, you know what
I'm saying. We was getting prepared for a roach and
then we got blessed with this fight.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's how I look at it. You know, interesting comment
there that they were getting ready for the Roach rematch
and then this fight was you know, he said they
got blessed with this fight, but this fight came through.
So the plan was actually to go in and rematch
Lamont Roach, which is something that I think he should
have done. I think they they you know, for Tanks legacy,
for you know, just the sanctity of pro boxing when
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it comes to a world champion and what they do
with that world championship belt. I think he should have
taken the Lamont roch rematch. It seems like they were
going to. But the obvious reason that everyone I think
knows why they didn't is because Netflix and a Jake
Paul fight come with a massive back, like there's probably
no comparison to what Tank will make to fight Lamont
Roach or anybody else compared to Jake Paul. Whether you
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like that or not, it's the truth. He is a
money fight and so his Tank, and that's why they're
going to do a shit ton of viewers on Netflix
and why they're gonna both make a shit ton of money.
So the point I want to take away from that
is that they were starting to get their minds and
body ready for Lamart Roach, which means that Tank was
in somewhat of a serious pre camp right, somewhat of
a serious, you know, workout regiment, getting himself in shape.
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Not the Tank is super out of shape out of camp,
I don't know that. But this means that he was
mentally preparing for a fight regardless. It's not hopping off
the couch Tank, which is not what you want to see,
even against Jake Paul, because the least serious you take Jake,
and I've said this about everybody that's fought him, ones
that don't take him serious, the ones that say he's
a YouTuber and everything else, they end up losing, or
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they end up looking like, oh wait a second, this
guy was a little better than I thought. They end
up either getting taken by surprise or actually sometimes losing
because they don't realize that Jake actually takes as serious.
So this is good to hear. Just already right off
the rip, they were already doing something surprise.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So tell me, you know how when did you hear
about this?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I've been going back and forth for years. Tank and Jake,
they've been going at it for years, and uh, it
would have happened sooner, you know what I'm saying. But
we have hiccups in life, That's what I call it, hiccups,
but they lessons to learn from. But we're back on
track and keeping them moving.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
When you heard about the fight where you're like, wait what,
like we're doing what?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Actually?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
When I heard about the fight, they called me in
and said what you thought about the fight?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I say, the fight doable. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Because I watched Tanky for years, and I watched other
young men's and.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Gems.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You don't deal with big guys, you know what I'm saying. Yes,
he's big. To me, it's like Jake having his first
open fights. If anybody know about the ambags going open,
then you go pro. So you know he's a going
to fight a guy that does have skills.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Okay, so that's that's an honest, I think assessment from
Calvin Ford on where Jake is and why he thinks
his fight's doable. I mean, I think everybody is under
the same understanding that skill for skill, Jake Paul is
not the same level of boxer as Tank Davis. It's
not even remotely close when it comes to the skill
of the sport. Now, what makes up for the difference
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in skill is Jake's massive size and tanks lack thereof
Jake's power versus Tank's skill, experience, timing, spe all that.
But Jake still has some stuff right. He still can crack.
He's still for his size, is a little quicker than
people think, and he has a decent enough jab on him.
But they see something more than maybe something. They see
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a lot of things that they can take advantage of.
I'm sure Jake and their team says the same thing.
But you heard Calvin specifically say I've seen what smaller
guys can do with bigger guys in the gym. And
Calvin's been around not just boxing, Tank whoever, He's been
around the highest level of boxing for a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I'm sure, he's seeing countless hours of sparring footage for
fighters of completely different sizes, and how you have to
in those sessions, not necessarily in a real fight, but
in those sessions you have to problem solve in a
different way. And that's what they're gonna have to do
here to get Jake, to break Jake down, they're gonna
have to problem solve in a different way because they
can't get hit clean too many times, and they can't
stand in front of him in trade punches. I just
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can't happen. So you have to do something else differently.
But he's also a little concerned, which is good. Again.
I like a coach that shows, even in an exhibition
like this, who you know, whatever you want to call
the fight. I like a coach that every time you
lace gloves up, they take it serious. Whether it's sparring,
whether it's a fight, whether exit whatever, your reputation, legacy,
if you want to call it that. For Tank, all
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these things that you've already built professionally are on the line,
so you have to take it that seriously. So just
as much as he sees weaknesses and what they look
at for this fight for Jake, they see stuff that
concerns them. And it's not just powers, not just size
of something else. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
My only concern is, you know, the gloves. You understand
what I'm saying, because we don't fight in twelve ounce gloves.
We don't use twelve ounce gloves. That's training gloves. You
know what I'm saying. I'm like, that's two pounds away
from Uh. Jake, he fights in tens, tank fighting eights,
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so he's.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Meant to say two ounces, not two pounds.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
He losing four ounces.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So thing is I said, they said, put tank and eh,
put them in tense. That makes a fight more interesting.
Get what I'm saying and we'll go from there because
I understand and I bought that question up to one
of his hands. Dave, No, we don't want to do
it's supposed to be expedition.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
What you know, Nan, y'all want to win expedition. I'm dead.
Uh So, I don't actually disagree with Calvin Ford here.
I said this when they made the exhibition in the
first place. I was like, why doesn't Tank get to
wear the gloves that he normally wears If we're doing
an exhibition and the weight doesn't matter, then why does
the size of the glove have to match? Right? If
they don't have to weigh the same thing, why do
the glove sizes have to be the same. We're not
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None of this counts on a professional record anyway. So
let Tank fight in the gloves he normally fights in,
and let Jake fight in the gloves he normally fights in.
Jake already has a massive power advantage putting Tank in
twelve ounce gloves and Jake and twelve ounce gloves. It's
not the same thing, really, is it, right? Because Jake
trains in sixteen ounce gloves, eighteen ounce gloves twenty ounce gloves.
You're already on the on the size part of this.
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You're already giving up a massive disadvantcevantage. If your tank,
by being sixty pounds less than the guy, now granted
your skills, your ability, all that on your side, you
have that as an advantage for yourself. But why don't
we try to keep the things that we can at
least somewhat similar to how they normally fight, and that
would be the gloves. I think that it would be
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I agree with Calvin. I think it would be great
if Tank had to fight in eights and Jake had
to fight in tents because it's an exhibition and they
already fight in those same weight gloves. Anyway, to put
them in the same way is actually given Jake another
advantage if it makes sense, Like you put Tank, who's
already smaller and a glove that's already heavier than he
normally fights in to hit a guy that's sixty pounds bigger.
That's advantage Jake on every front. And the advantage for
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Tank is just experience, skill ability. But like when it
comes to the rule set of things, it all favors Jake.
There needs to be a little bit more given to
Tank in the rule set to make it, like Calvin said,
a little bit more fair for what they're normally doing.
If we're talking about ten ounce gloves for Jake and
eight for Tank, that's not a major difference, but it
is when we're talking talking about how Tank normally fights
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and eights and jumps to twelves to fight Jay. His
arms aren't used to that, his weight, his stature isn't
gonna be able to carry that. Gloves are gonna feel
a lot heavier. Again, I think that's just fully advantage Jake,
I don't like that. I said this in my first video.
They should have done it. I thought it was gonna
be like eights and fourteen's, but eights and tens. I
would even be like, yeah, that makes sense, all.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
These restrictions, But you want to be great. Being great
is really pushing the amazoge. You get what I'm saying.
You know, Tank don't really care, you know, So when
I bought this up, he said, dag facts. You know
what I'm saying. So again, you know he can wait
at tens and we weigh eights. Then we got to fight,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
The uh I agree with him. I think that's the
most fair way to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Weight how's that gonna work out? Like?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Got him at one one one ninety five. I thought
it was gonna be one ninety so in they game five.
So again they keep giving, giving, giving, you know, I
ain't want to.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Bum And the reason a guy like Tank keeps giving
and giving and giving is, again I circle back to
this because it's the only logical answer, is because this
is a major, major back. That's why he's giving up
so much. Did he give up that much for Ryan Garcia? Hell? No,
Ryan Garcia was weight drinking. Now again, I know it's
a completely different circumstance, but Ryan Garcia got weight drained
down to thirty five, had a weight rehydration put on him,
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and still Tank was able to go out there and
do what he did. But Ryan Garcia made all those
things happen because he knew Tank was a money fight.
So it's kind of Tank taking the Ryan Garcia role
in this fight where he is kind of the B side,
You're not even kind of he is, and so he's
having to make a lot of concessions to get this
and get this back.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
When you see this fight, do you see like Tank
just having his way with Jake, like giving like.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
No, no, no, I'm gonna tell you this. This is
what I tell Tank. Tank said it in an interview. Yeah,
I said, Tank, y'all going there doing y'all thing.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Woo.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I said, he ain't giving you nothing. Let's look at it.
Look at all the persons he fought. He ain't giving
him nothing, especially when he thought Tyson he took a lot.
He's stripped Tyson of a lot of things. And I said,
he ain't given you nothing. You mean to tell me
you start hitting Jake with some shit he ain't gonna
fight back, he said. So I say you gotta take
him seriously.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
See what I'm saying, Because he.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Talked about he had you on a hitless before this
fight even happened. So his mental is on you, and
he said it in an interview, how you think about
something to make it come out?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And look what we ad now he's not wrong man
that listen. As much as everybody has jumped on this
fight and talked about you know, exhibition circus whatever, this,
there is one reason and one reason only that Jake
does these type of fights. Yes, I mean well two reasons.
One is a major bag. Two is to take legacy
from these professional world champion, former world champion fighters, boxers,
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fighters and boxers. Really did it with Tyron woodleyh he
did it with Ben Askron. He did it with Mike Tyson,
well kind of, but that's the entire goal. He had
Javonte on this you know, quote unquote hit list for
four years because he wanted to take a shine the legacy.
I'm better than he is. I'm a better boxer than Jervonte.
I beat Mike Tyson. I'm on Mike Tyson's record. All
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that right, that's what he wants to do. So again,
I will say, if you come in and take him lightly,
he cannot only ruin your night, he can ruin your legacy.
And that's what you can't have happen if you're Davonte Davis.
And this is why I like the way Calvin Ford
is talking about this, not like, yeah, we're gonna go
and do our thing. Well, no, we have to lock
in here because yes it's a great bag, Yes they're
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treating us well, but on fight night, that guy's not
gonna treat you well. And he's not just gonna stand
in there. He's gonna try to hurt you. He's gonna
try to knock you out, and he's seventy pounds sixty
pounds bigger than you. So I like the attitude. I
guess I should say that they're taking with this now.
Tank has not necessarily displayed that same mindset, so I
hope that's what they're working on in camp. Tanks like, ah,
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you're a clown YouTuber La da dah. Can't do that.
You cannot do that with Jake. Underestimate him and it
will hurt you or hit you with something that you
weren't supposed to get hit with. There'll be a moment
in the fight that goes a little differently than it's
supposed to. That's what you can't have half, I think.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
You know, like the the boxing fan is looking at
this maybe and thinking, like Tank, there's levels of this.
Tank has been fighting his whole life, Like, yeah, the
way is a big difference. But like Tank's a mean
guy in there, Like once he sees ready, he's gonna
go after him, and like.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
What we want to see, we don't. We don't know
his performance of this fight. You know, Tank been talking
this way, and I understand now why he's talking that way.
He's been doing it for so long. You know, if
you work a regular job, you've been doing it so long,
and you see it's like you want to get bored.
So so this fight, Mike, wake him up.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
This fight might bring that that beast back. You always
talk about, I don't want to do certain things. I
need my beast to be in me, you know, and
being around me. He's at a good place fight now,
a great place.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
That's the thing that you worry about with Tank, and
not only as his career goes forward, but just for
this fight. How much motivation does he have outside of just,
you know, the money that's involved in it to get
into that mindset of a boxer again, He's talked about
it in World Championship fight, Frank Martin and Lamont Rose
talk about I don't I don't like fighting. I don't
want to do this anymore. I want to go to
therapy and get all this anger I got out so that,
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you know, I can go raise my kids. And that's
a great, super awesome thing. And fighting, you know, when
you're not doing it as a need anymore, And if
you're not motivated to be a fighter, and that's not
that killer instincts not in your head, it's probably not
for you because the other guy has it and he's hunger.
When you get to that point, you probably should exit
the sport. So we're gonna have to see again. We've
had questions about Tank in a lot of fights recently
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about his commitment to the sport and commitment to just
being able to go into that Tank mode right, go
into that killer mode. If he can't access it versus Jake,
that again, that would cause a ton a ton of
spiraling and all types of bad stuff that they don't
want to have happened. But anyway, the takeaway from this
interview I'm not going to show the whole thing, but
that small segment of an interview is that there are
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that's an honest response from coach Ford about what Tank's
doing in camp, how his mindset is, how coach Ford
is there to kind of reshape the way he thinks
about this and what their concerns are. Now, let's take
a look at our first footage from tanks camp versus
Shake and see what he's been working on. See, Bro,
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this is why Tank pisses me off. Man, This right
here is why Tank frustrates me to no end. Look
at the talent and the skill and the effortless power
and snap and rotation and change of direction and angle
cutting that Tank possesses. And I know I'm glazing a
little bit here, but just hear me out. This dude
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is nasty. Tank has been As a prospective viewer of boxing,
Tank has been one of the most entertaining styles of
fighters I have watched in my life. He is just
snapping effortless power. And again, Tank is about five foot nothing,
five foot one two whatever, But look at where all
these punches are aimed, everything to the body, everything to
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the body, chopping downstairs, chopping, chopping, brick can now this
even his shots upstairs here, that's still a body shot
on Jake Paul. Everything's a body shot he's thrown. Even
when he's changing the levels of the shot, that's a
body shot. That's a body shot. That's a body shot.
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That tells me what I kind of originally thought. And
this is just a clip. We don't have any insight
into into full game plans and sparring and things like that,
but this is a drill obviously on the heavy bag
where he's one changing the variation of shot right, the
speed and power of shot, changing the angle of the punch,
but going for time. So this is necessarily a ton
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of technique work. It may not even have anything to
do with what they're trying to bring to the Jake fight.
But when I watch it, I see a guy that's
targeting the body, and it's the best thing that Tank
could do for this fight. I mean, trying to go
headshot for headshot with Jake Paul when he's probably Jakes
seven inches taller than he is. I'm assuming he's gonna
have a bit of a reach, even though Tank has
a kind of freakis reach for his height. I don't
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think that's a great idea. And again, you're at eye
level with Jake's belly button damn near, so you're gonna
have to be able to land shots right there on
the waistline. And it's probably the best idea if you
actually want to knock Jake out in this fight, if
you actually want a game plan, because again it's an exhibition,
but if you want a game plan to get him
out of there, you have to attack the body. Not
that it's necessarily gonna hurt Jake to the body and
he's gonna cripple, but it's gonna slow him down, or
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at least that's the idea, is to slow him down,
to drop his hands, and that way that we're in
the whatever, six, seventh, eighth round of this fight and
those hands start to fall a little bit, and Jake's
gas tank is being tested, and then Tank when he
closes distance, and he will have to close distance damn
near the entirety of the fight. Unless Jake's just like
walking forward the whole time. I don't think that'll happen.
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Then you'll see Tank if he's heavier with his volume
because hands are gonna be heavy, but his volume usually lacks.
Then see him step in and go upstairs. But the
body work will be key Tanks already you know again
his natural level will be around the body shots too.
It's gonna be a little difficult, I think for Jake
to punch down and hit him cleanly, especially if he
doesn't do it early, especially if he can't get Tank
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to respect him early. He's gonna be tough unless, like
I said, Tank just stands there and brawls with him,
which I don't see happening at all. So if Tank
can make a miss, get inside, work the body, make
him pay there, head movement off center, pivot out, be slick,
and do it again and again and again. That is
when we could see a potential Tank Davis knockout. And
if that happened, if Tank Davis actually knocks Jake out,
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he won't get the credit for it, like, oh, that's
what you were supposed to do. You're, you know, a
world champion boxer. But that's fucking ridiculous. It would be
ridiculously hard for Tank to actually knock Jake out. I'm
just that's like seventy pound different, sixty pound different. That
means something. And Jake's not some guy that's never thrown punches.
He said, relative novice when it comes to you know,
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skill level that Tank has. But still he knows how
to protect himself. And again his body structure allows for
some mistakes to happen that he wouldn't have to pay
for like he would if he was one hundred and
thirty five pounds point being, I would be impressed very
if Tank knocked him out cold or dropped him with
you know, heard him badly because how much bigger Jake is,
and he knows how to operate in a boxing ring.
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It's not like me getting in there with Javonte, I
should be sparked out in thirty second. But Jake has
a decent amount of professional fights, has beat some guys
that had a decent record on his on his actual resume,
and understands what he's doing in there. This is all
Jake does is trained boxing. It has for the last
six seven years. So, like I said, if Tank knocks
him out, which if his head is in the right place,
not just literally but metaphorically, his mind is in the
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right place, he switched on and he's able to get
Jake vulnerable to the body like could change very very quickly.
But that's what I got. Folks. Let me know what
you think in the comments. Are you liking the mindset
of team Gervonte Davis? Are you liking where is coach
Calvin Ford's headspace is? And they're not taking Jake lightly,
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but they're also seeing weaknesses there they can take advantage of.
Maybe like we see in this training footage again big
shouts to Fight Hub for getting this footage courtesy of them.
Maybe it's the body shots that Tank needs to get to.
Maybe it's Jake potentially not understanding the power even at
one hundred and thirty five pounds that Tank has. Who knows.
I like this for Tank Davis. I like this. And
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the other thing is if Tank is talking about retirement,
lamont roach Jake and then we're done. What if this
training camp and maybe a knockout performance from Tank Davis
gets him back into the boxing mindset, scratch that itch
and gets him to want to take tough, big time
box office in his weight class fights. And never know
what can happen, But Deronte Davis is in training camp
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for Jake Paul Calvin Ford says they got a healthy
fear of something, but they're ready to go in and
take advantage of some weaknesses. What are they will they
do it? Don't have those answers, but I guess we'll
find out. All right, So we are back on the
way concept presented by the Ring Magazine. And I just
saw Jerom Boots Ennis introduce himself to the one hundred
and fifty four pound division in epic fashion. He has
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arrived at this division and he is going to be
a problem. What do I mean the breakdown? Let's go
all right? So Jerom Boots Ennis versus Usima Lima tonight
at one hundred and fifty four pounds. Boots in his
debut at one fifty four. Now he comes out and
stops Lima in about a minute, in thirty seconds. This
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was light work or Jeram Boots. Now, let's be honest.
This is not a number one contender fight of any sort.
But Usima Lima, you know, he's ranked at number eight
by the WBA, he's ranked number six by the IVF,
ten by the WBC, So he's not a high level
Guy's not a guy that's it's a world championship caliber
(45:03):
when you have the likes of you know, Sarah Boachuck
and Xander Ziaz and Sebastian Fondora and Virgil Ortiz and
a Boss Barrau and you know Keith or Like, there's
so many other Israel Madromov, There's so many other guys
that potentially we could be talking about at one fifty
four that are going to be high, high level opponents
(45:24):
for jern bout Tennis. And we're going to get into
that in just a second. But this was still a
big time performance. This is still exactly what Boots needed
to do. He needed to come in make a statement
not only with his fist, but then make a statement
on the microphone, and he and Eddie Hearn both did
that after the fight. This was this was light work,
honestly for Jernnis. Again, we wanted to see what the
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transition from one forty seven to one fifty four would
look like. Would he still have the explosiveness, would he
still have power, would his power be better? Would he
still be you know, light on his feet, be able
to fight out of both stances. And we're not going
to get every answer to that question tonight. What we
did get is a powerful, definitive puncher and drawn boots
(46:05):
In it's and a guy that can take a punch.
By the way, the exchange that spelt the beginning of
the end for Lima tonight was an exchange that both
fighters landed in. Boots got tagged with a shot. His
shot just landed more clean, more powerfully, with more intention
than Ussima Lima's did. So when we look at the exchange,
what happened in this fight, boots came out orthodox versus
a south pond Lima and both guys had talked about
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knockouts and you know, putting on show stopping performance to
sending messages with their performances. But what you saw was
Lima wanted to be very not cautious, but he wanted
to be smart. He wanted to fight smart. He didn't
want to fight reckless and potentially get stopped, potentially get
put out. You know, I potentially have one of those
nights where you over extend versus a sniper like boots
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In is a great counterpuncher off the back foot and
the front foot and out of both stances, and that
go bad for you. Found out though, even boxing smart
can still get you caught. Because Nis didn't respect any
of whatever Lima was trying to do, and it's just
walked straight forward. And again it wasn't even enough time
to really establish anything because while Boots started orthodox, it
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didn't really need to establish any of it. He just
flipped back southpaw and he said something interesting and I
don't know who said it in the actual commentary booth,
it was Todd Grisham, Sergil Moore and Chris Mannix, and
someone said that Boots was gonna switch southpaw at some point,
and he liked fighting southpaw against other south paws because
they don't usually fight south pause like he is, someone
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that's mastered both stances, much like a Terrence Crawford would
have loved to see that fight at one fifty four.
Probably never gonna happen, but it is an interesting thing
because southpaws do have a little bit of an inherent
advantage when fighting right handed guys because they only usually
spar right handed guys, and right handed guys usually only
spar right handed guys too, because there's not many southpaws
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out there in every gym that you go to, and
if there are some southpaws, they're not great southpaw that
you know what I'm saying, so now what ends up
happening is that both southpaw fighters. Lima wants to go
jab left hand, and something you don't necessarily see a
lot out of another southpaw is a counter to a
jab left hand by an outside step leaning to the
outside uppercut underneath the backhand, which is exactly what Jeram
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boots In is through, which is crazy, and he gets
clipped with the left hand, but I guess just better
chin wins here. It's like it, you know, boots didn't
defend this super well, but he just kind of rolled
with the shot, and whilst rolling with the shot, banged
the lead hand uppercut and it was a beautiful, beautiful shot.
And then from there he hurt Lima and swarmed him
left hand over the top. I think it dropped him
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actually with the backhand lead hook chopped him and then
dropped him right there with about a minute into the round.
And then when Lima got up, he teed off on
him again with three or four more solid punches I
think dropped him again, and then eventually the referee stepped
in and Lima's corner actually threw the towel as well.
This is a dominant performance, which, by the way, is
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exactly what it should have been. Nima is not a tough,
high level superstar opponent, but he wasn't meant to be
for this first fight at one fifty four. It was
meant to see how Jeron Boots in us gets into
this weight class, how he goes along, and honestly for
him to send a message, to make a statement that
he does exactly what he's supposed to do to lower
level competition, and that's essentially buried. Now everything opens up.
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Now we have the interesting matchups. We have a matchup
that Boots called for immediately after the fight was over,
which is the fight for I guess the WBC interim titled.
Even thoughdor has the bell, his fight called off for
supposedly a hand injury. I don't really know if there
was more detail on that, but him and Thurman their
fights off, so he's kind of sitting out for a
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bit here. The whole event had got postponed. So you
have Virgil Ortiz potentially he's got a fight coming up, obviously,
but he's frustrated with not getting his title shots at
one fifty four, seeing as hopefully Virgil or Ties gets
his business done with Ericson Luvin. You can come back
and have Virgil Ortiz versus Jeron Ennis, and that'd be
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a showdown because they wanted it at one forty seven,
both guys said that both guys didn't want to fight.
Now we can potentially get the fight. If you can't
do that, then Boots got on the mic and him
and Eddie Hern both said they want Virginal Ortiz, which
is probably one of, if not the biggest fights you
can make in American boxing right now. Let's be honest.
I know that neither of them hold a belt, but
these two guys are looked at as if they're going
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to stay at fifty four, which may not be the case.
I think both guys will end up going up to
one sixty maybe even one sixty eight, but for now,
kind of the boogeyman at this weight class. So of
course that would be an insane fight. But if you
can't make that, you have Xanders Aias who just won
the WBO belt, maybe something that Boots would look too.
I would favor him in that fight. You have a
Boss Barraw who won the WBA belt just recently, and
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that guy is a fucking monster, as well that would
be a fight. I mean, Boots is the interim with
the WBA, so that could be a fight to be
made as well. You have the IDF belt out there.
There's so much that Boots can do right now that
has him in a ton of different scenarios for big fights.
But the two things I think you can do right
away is say, okay, well he either is going to
take the Virgil fight depending on what happens with Virgil
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and Luman, or he's gonna go belt hunting. Those are
the two paths right now for Boots in US. And
again I don't want to overstate this this performance and
act like it was, you know, him walking in and
dropping Virgil Orties in round one and win in the fight.
It's that that's not what happened. Again, Lima is not
that level. He's just not. But it was a good, needed,
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solid stamp of approval performance for Boots, just to get
him in front of eyes, just to get him established
at this weight class. Now is where the real business starts.
Now is where you go and prove it where you going.
And again he's doing exactly what he needs to do.
Say names, call people out, say I'm better than a
boss Barral, I'm better than Fundor, I'm better than virgial Orties,
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better than Xander's eyes, better than all these guys, and
then go and get it done. So I love this
performance for Boots. I love the the trajectory he's on.
Him and virgual or Ties are the two most dangerous
men at one fifty four, and I think, man, even
without a belt, I don't really care to be honest,
if they have a belt. If they don't, that's a
world title fight and I need to see it. So
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hopefully that's what we get next. But yeah, short concise
breakdown here, quick to the point, because that's exactly how
the fight went between Jeron Boots and us and Usima Lima.
This was not even close to a competitive fight, complete
blowout as it should have been, and Boots did exactly
what he needed to do. No more of this, though,
by the way, I'm I'm I don't want to see
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any more of this at one fifty four. I don't
want to see you know, we need another warm up
or we need another No, We're getting straight to action
here and I want to see what Boots can do
at one fifty four. Can he go belt? Chasing. Can
he go hunt all the belts? Will he fight Virgil
or Tees? Is he one of the best in the world.
I think he is. I need to see it now
at this weight class. I need to see it against Virgil, Mendora,
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braw Zias Sermon. I need to see it against all
of them. Hopefully that's what's next, but I don't have
those answers. You guys, let me know what did you
think of this performance from drawn Boots NSC wins by
first round knockout, making it look easy because it was
in his debut at one hundred and fifty four pounds.
Don't know what's next, but I guess we'll find out
All right, folks, we are back with some breaking news
out of the UFC today, as Connor McGregor has been
suspended for eighteen months for a whereabouts violation not just one,
but three times from what's called the Combat Sports Anti
Doping Agency. No longer is the UFC with you, SADA,
It's the Combat Sports Anti Doping Agency. And this is
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major news, but not for the reasons you think, what
do I mean the breakdown? Let's go all right, So
this hit the airwaves about thirty minutes ago from Carlos
Contreras Legaspi, a writer for ESPN Deportes. He broke the
news that Connor McGregor has accepted an eighteen month period
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of ineligibility for a violation of the UFC anti doping policy.
Gregor failed to provide accurate whereabouts on June thirteenth, September nineteenth,
and September twentieth, twenty twenty four for test collection. He
will be able or excuse me, eligible to compete on
March twentieth, twenty twenty six. All right, so number one,
what does this mean? Well, Connor McGregor, secretly, over the
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last year and some change, has been serving Anti Doping
Agency suspension. I don't know if he knew about this,
and it wasn't public yet. This is only public for
the first time for our eyes. Is this something that
Connor has known for a while, because there's been a
lot of talk about his return. Potentially he kind of
pipes up and says he's training again and then he stops,
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or he's training behind the scenes, but hasn't given a
full answer. Also, he's been talking about the UFC White House.
Arieljwani reported yesterday on his show that Connor McGregor had
not come onto his show for reasons that they would
kind of leave open ended. He essentially he's like, I
didn't he didn't cancel on me. We just thought it
was best not to have him on the show yet.
And this was yesterday he addressed that, so it must
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have been on his show last week. Connor did go
on Fox News and say it's ready, Sewing sealed in
to live at the White House and I Macha's back,
which meant nothing because Dana then came out and was like, yeah, no,
we haven't negotiated with any fighters for the UFC White
House card. But with all that speculation, this tells me
that Connor probably knew already before we did and has
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been quietly serving his suspension now with about six months
until the UFC's White House card and being retroactively given
this suspension, Connor has been serving essentially since September twenty first.
I assumed twenty twenty four, which would make him eligible
in March twenty twenty twenty six. So Connor could still
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fight at the White House car and that's fine. But
there is some interesting parts of this that make me
a little bit skeptical as to what happened here. If
it was just a whereabouts missed Because Connor is all
over the world on his Lambaghini yont right flying here boat,
traveling there different islands every day every week, I got
some questions. So let's take a look at the article
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that was written here about this and see if there's
any details that I'm missing. The Combat Sports Anti Doping
announced today Connor McGregor of dueblenoile and except an eighteen
month period of ineligibility for a violation of the UFC
Anti Doping policy. McGregor missed three attempted biological sample collections
within a twelve month period in twenty twenty four, which
constitutes a violation of UFCADP. UFC athletes are required to
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provide accurate whereabouts information at all times so they can
get contacted and submit to biological sample collections without prior warning.
McGregor's miss tests occurred on June thirteenth, September nineteenth, and
September twentieth, twenty twenty four, and were each classified as
a whereabouts failures by SNAD or the Combat Sports Antidoping
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under the UFCADP. Although McGregor failed to make himself available
for testing on those dates, SNAD noted that he was
recovering from an injury and was not preparing for an
upcoming fight at the time of the three miss tests.
Really quick, want to make a point here, that's true,
but it's very interesting these dates, especially the June thirteenth date,
because that just happens to the day I think before but
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reported on the day that Connor McGregor pulled out of
the Michael Chandler fight at UFC three to three. Remember,
at that point we had heard about his toe injury,
a potential broken toe, but there were very odd circumstances
surrounding number one. You know, there was an announced press
conference that was supposed to take place in Dublin, and
then it just didn't happen and we didn't really have
any answers for it, and rumors started to swirl that
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potentially Connor was injured and was not going to be
able to compete, but he missed the test the day
they or the day before they called the fight off.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying that is a little
suspicious as to what potentially was a reason for that.
And then a couple of months later in September nineteenth,
September twentieth, not really sure what to make of that. Connor,
like they said, wasn't preparing for a fight. Could that
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have been something where he's on the mend and trying
to heal up and XYZ. Sure, but why wouldn't that
make him available for the test because he's injured, And
how is that an exception for anybody else who's injured,
either after a fight, before a fight, whatever else. I
think everybody you know understands how strict formerly you SADA
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and now combat sports anti doping is with keeping tabs
on everyone regardless of where you're at in the world,
and you having to keep tabs with them. This seems
like the same way that you Saigna operated under the
UFC as well. But it's interesting Connor, the first one
he misses was an in camp test because they were
in camp UFC three to zero three, right around the
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corner Connor and Michael Chandler about to go do their
press conference, and Connor pulls out and either misses the
test after he pulls out, or misses the test and
then pulls out. I would love to know the timeline
on that because I think that's super important, and we're
not getting any details on that, but we continue. McGregor
fully cooperated with Sea SADS investigation and accepted responsibility and
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provide detailed information that ce SID can determined contributed to
the mistest despite the mitigating factors. Se said emphasizes that
accurate whereabouts filings and the ability to get duct unannounced
testing are essential to the success of the UFC anti
doping policy. Taking McGregor's cooperation and circumstances into account, SEESAD
reduced the standard twenty four months sanction for three whereabouts
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missings by six months. This period of eligibility began on
September twentieth, twenty twenty four, the date of his third
whereabouts failure and will conclude on March twentieth, twenty twenty six.
This is also very interesting information because I think, as
everybody knows, there was a parting of the sea between
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the UFC and USADA when it was the United States
Anti Doping Agency running the drug testing policy for the UFC,
and that was because at least partly USADA operates on
its own. It is a testing program on its own
that was hired by the UFC to conduct testing. I
could be wrong about this, but the Combat Sports Anti
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Doping Agency or program doesn't. I don't know if that's
any different the UFC, if that's something that is controlled
in the UFC, or if that's something again that's hired out.
But I know, like we saw in certain circumstances even
with USADA, the timelines of when certain fighters get suspended
and then get lifted off suspension is we'll just say
a little bit skeptical, a little bit suspect, because a
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regular fighter would have served a twenty four month suspension,
and again they said he didn't because I guess his
cooperation in fully accepting the responsibility of it and taking circumstances,
which I'm not sure what the circumstances would be. They
said he was injured. I didn't know that was a
circumstance for not testing. But had he served the actual
twenty four months, that would have given him March April, May, June, July,
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August September of twenty twenty six, a full two years
after the twenty twenty four double miss in September, So
that wouldn't have allowed Connor McGregor to fight on a
potential White House Cardana has said they've made no actual
bouts yet for the car. He said that no one's
been scheduled. He said there's talks between certain people like
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a Connor McGregor, and there hasn't been anything concrete. But
that tells me if there is anything going on behind
the scenes, that this just so happens to make Connor
McGregor available for the White House car just so happens
that it perfectly lines up to where three months after
is March twentieth reinsertion, he is able to hit the
ground running with some training. Now again I'm not saying
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anything funky is happening here. I'm just saying it is
very interesting. Something else that's interesting to me is if
you guys remember back a couple of months ago, Connor
McGregor supposedly re entered the testing protocol or the testing
pool towards the comeback to the UFC White House event.
This was on I think July fifteenth, and that's starting
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to make me go, hold on a second, how is
this all working? Because if Connor McGregor re entered the
UFC's drug testing pool on July fifteenth of twenty twenty five,
but was already supposedly serving a eighteen month sanctioning from
that time while he was out of the testing pool,
is that what I meant to believe that those times
that they weren't coming and retesting him, because he's out
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of the pool from September twenty twenty four to July
twenty twenty five, that counts as a part of his
suspension time or his sanctioning time, even though they weren't
continuing to test him because he's out of the pool.
It's not like they chose to not test him during
that time period. It's just that he's out of the pool.
There's no point in testing him. He's not able to
be tested. So how does that really starting. Things are
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not adding up here. Again, I could be just tenfoil
hat on this thing, but it's just interesting. And even
from the CBS article where we see that the report
of Connor McGregor officially returning to the UFC drug testing pool,
that only made sense because we didn't think he was
already sanctioned. So how does it make sense now? There's
another part of this article where it says, however, the
official UFC anti doping website indicates that McGregor has completed
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his first test this year. Coregor tested eleven times last year,
mostly before a planned fight with Michael Chandler at UFC
three zero three. You're pulled out of the fight with
a broken peaky toe former UFC champ, the two time
excuse me two division UFC champion hasn't fought since dusn't
Porty beat him in July twenty twenty one. Very very
interesting stuff here. Number one, the fact that the day
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he pulls out of the Michael Chandler fight is the
first day he misses his test, or the day before
he pulls out he misses it. I can't remember the
timeline there. Number two, the fact that he gets six
months off his two year sanction for cooperation and circumstances.
Circumstances we don't really know. Number three, how he still
is serving in eighteen months sanctioning whilst not being in
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the pool for October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June,
nine months of that. I'm not really sure how that works.
He's not even in the pool. How can he be
serving a sanction. I know it's a competition sanction, but
still aren't isn't he supposed to remain in the pool
to serve that time? Anyway, this is some crazy stuff
and it's important for a lot of reasons. Number One,
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it probably does confirm to us that Connor McGregor is
going to fight on the White House card. Maybe not
in all certain terms, but the way this is lining up,
the reason this is being announced or being written about. Now,
how this news came out, where it came from, I
think it all makes a little bit more sense because
this feels like they had to get ahead of it,
they had to speak about it before Connor started to
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plan a return. And by the way, here's something else again,
tinfoil hat wade here. Connor McGregor yesterday hopped on Twitter
to say, hey folks online, I'm out of here for
a bit. See you again soon. My love, unwavering, thank
you all. A little convenient for anyone. The day before
this comes out, Connor's like, yeah, I'm off socials. Did
he know what was coming? Or is this all part
of the move to get Connor? Because we thought, okay,
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this is gonna be refocused Connor. That's why he's getting
off social Connor. Maybe he had an obligation with Fox News.
That's why he didn't go on Ariel Hawane pro. Maybe
Ariel had this story. I was gonna ask Connor about
it again. Does it matter in the long run, No,
Connor will probably be back in time for the White House.
But it does make you ask some questions as to
what was going on around that Mike Chandler fight. Because
I was the first guy say that Connor. You know,
if he had an injury, this would be the first
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fight he'd ever pulled out of, usually mister reliable, and
maybe he did the injury. Something's not making sense here
timeline wise. Things are off, but that's just my take.
Comment below what you guys think. Connor McGregor suspended retroactively
up until the point of March twenty twenty six, eighteen
month suspension for failing his whereabouts requirements three separate times,
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one of which was the day before he pulled out
of the Mike Chandler fight. And just so happens, it's
three months before the White House Card in which Connor
McGregor will be eligible, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
I think that means Connor McGregor will be fighting at
the White House. Don't have any answers on anything. I'm
just asking questions, what do you guys think. Let me know,
will Connor McGregor be on the White House card, will
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he be ready? And will he be adhering to the
UFC's anti doping policy and making sure he clarifies his
whereabouts for tests. I don't have those answers, but I
guess we'll find out. Folks. We're back on the way
concept presented by The Ring magazine, and today I have
an update on the Rajah Jackson situation. Apparently Raja jack
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has been charged with a couple of different battery charges,
one felony, one misdemeanor. But we're gonna talk about the
details and why he pled not guilty despite all video
evidence pointing to the contrary. It makes absolutely no sense
to us. Maybe for him either way, I don't see
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it going his way and he could be going to
prison for a very long time. What do I mean
the breakdown? Let's go. He is the star of WAG concept,
all right, So MMA fighting and Damon Martin has written
an article saying Roger Jackson pleads not guilty to battery
charges after assaulting pro wrestler, faces up to seven years
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in prison if convicted. Some of UFC legend could face
serious jail time. Okay, number one, kudos to the LAPD
in the prosecutor's office for actually filing not only you know,
misdemeanor battery charges, but felony battery charges. That's the only
thing I can think of that would get him seven years.
I don't I don't know why he wouldn't get attempt
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murder charges. I mean, there was a pre meditated I'm
going to go fuck him up. No, he didn't say
he might. I don't even remember what he said, but
it wasn't. I don't think he said I'm going to
murder him, but he essentially said I'm going to beat
him until they stopped me. It was livestream and for
those that don't remember, Rojah Jackson almost killed a man
as he beat a professional wrestler, Psycho Stu, into a
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concussed and bloody pulp whilst everyone else just watched him
do it, and then when people tried to intervene, he
threw them off, went back for some more until more
people tried to intervene. If you guys didn't catch this story,
I got multiple videos. We'll link to it at the
end here. But the point is Rojah Jackson showed little
to no self control, showed at least ability to cause
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battery and want to cause battery to Psycho Stu, and
at the very most I thought he attempted to murder
point blank period. He tried to punch him until he
was either tired or just felt like he was done,
which didn't look like was coming anytime soon, because he
hit Psycho Stu, the pro wrestler had he slammed on
the back of his head and then proceeded to hit
twenty three straight times while he was already knocked out.
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It's a miracle, in my opinion, that Psycho Stu even
breathes right now and not through a straw. But Roja
Jackson pleads not guilty. Hilarious, but let's see why. Rojah
Jackson pleaded not guilty in court on Thursday after he
was hit with a felony battery charge and a misdimeter
battery charge for assaulting a pro wrestler at an event
in Los Angeles this past August. After he was arrested
in September and released on fifty thousand dollars bail. Jackson,
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the son of former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Quintin Rampage. Jackson,
was back in court for his arraignment after the Los
Angeles District Attorney's office moved forward with the criminal complaint
against him to charges include sentencing enhancement for allegedly causing
great bodily harm, which could add an extra three years
to a prison sentence. Based on the charges, Jackson could
potentially face seven years in prison if convicted. The twenty
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five year old is due back in court on November
twenty fourth for a preliminary hearing in his case. Jackson,
a pro fighter, was arrested in September after he assaulted
Stuart Smith ak psycho STU during a Knox Pro event
in Los Angeles, where Jackson was scheduled to appear. The
entire altercation unfolded after Jackson was scheduled to interfere in
a match but ultimately went off script. He picked Smith
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up into the air and slammed him back to the ground.
Jackson proceeded to then unleash more than twenty punches, many
of which landed after peered. Smith was already unconscious before
other wrestlers were finally able to drag him off. Smith
was admitted to local hospital, where he spent several days
in intensive care with family members, and later revealed he
suffered trauma to both upper lower jaws, laceration to his
upper lip, and a fracture to his malicksa bone which
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resulted in the loss of several teeth from the assault.
Prior to the ring incident, Smith and Jackson were engaged
in a separate incident when Smith hit Jackson with a
beer canned prior might I add, lightly leaving Jackson was
another pro wrestler involved to help hype the show. Video
showed Smith later apologizing in the two shook hands. Jackson
was then seen on a livestream saying that he was
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going to get his revenge quote for real. After jumping
into the ring for the plant show down with Smith.
The visious assault was captured on livestream, which led to
an investigation by the LAPD before Jackson was eventually arrested.
Jackson has not publicly addressed the incident since it happened.
Now he faces potential prison sentence if convicted on all charges. Now,
there was I think an update here from TMZ Sports
as they caught Raza Jackson leaving his court appearance asking
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him some questions. He doesn't say anything here, It's just
him leaving the court and walking off. Do you feel
remorseful about what happened? Do you have anything to say
to your fans? Thank you? Raja? Yeah, Rajah don't feel
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remorseful for any of that stuff. And he had opportunities
to feel remorseful multiple times whilst he was punching a
man or trying to fight the people getting him off
of the guy he was punching into oblivion and after
the event where uh, I think the words he used
were my bad. I can't let people keep trying me,
and I gotta prove I'm not a bit no legal expert.
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But I think that usually means he's gonna be acquitted
of all charges right now, I listen. I don't know
how this case is going to go, but it's clear
as day that Raja deserves to serve jail time here,
deserves to serve time in prison seven years honestly for
what he attempted to do, which again I think was
caused great bodily harm to Psycho Stu. It wouldn't be
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out of the question for me. Honestly, it wouldn't be
because I will stick by this until the day I
end up passing. Raja was not going to stop hitting Stu.
He did not pull any punches. He was trying to
assault that man hurt him badly for his get back
over what he had gotten into an altercation with Stu
earlier in the parking lot an empty beer can that
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Stu placed his hand on Raja's head and then slapped
a beer can on Again, Stu shouldn't have done it,
didn't realize that Rajah wasn't a pro wrestler. Raja then
spoke with Stue. They shook it out, and then Raja
because he was on live streaming. Because again, twenty five
year old Raja is not a kid, but his acting
like one. And I hate the idea that oh, he's
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just a kid, so it's okay, or he's just a kid.
He didn't know any better. No, he's twenty five years old.
It was getting raged baited by probably a bunch of
twelve to seventeen year olds in his kick live stream
and whatever future he had in fighting, whatever or ideas
he had as far as what he wanted to do
up in flames like that all over his ego and
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the fact that he couldn't stand a little trolling from
his chat based on the interactions he was doing and
was happening to him on live stream. And we've talked about,
you know, how Rampage Jackson handled the situation with I
thought was really really bad. I thought it was was
just at first ignorant, second and different, and then third
you could see there was a reality that set in
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with Rampage. It was like, yeah, this is bad. My
son may need to go away for some time. And
I respected that the reality of this case is pretty simple.
Raja has no idea how to control himself. It seems
like in a setting where someone attacks his ego, and
I don't know if that's a behavior that has been
learned over the time he's been live streaming and having
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to interact with people that aren't in front of him
and be controlled by chat and actually his dad, or
just a lack of awareness in general as to what
happens when you assault someone, when you actually batter someone
into the point where they're days into the hospital. And
again I'm only covering this as an update, but it
really really frustrated me how the rest of the other
side of the internet or the other side of the
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opinions on this case went where people were saying that
Raja was working and that psychost Do wasn't really hurt
and they were worked punches and all of this nonsense.
Rajah wasn't going to get charged because it was a work. Yeah, really,
you sure? That's what I thought? Seven years potentially for
Raja And again that's the max. I don't think that
Rajah will probably end up even serving that long. But
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you do the crime, you got to do the time. Man. Like,
I don't know how any adult at and sat down
with Raja and either told him that the way he
was going was going to end up with him fighting
someone or potentially getting in jail. His own dad Rampage
had said that on I think a couple of podcasts
he was afraid his son was going to go to jail.
Turns out the fear was a warranted one because Raja
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got himself into a situation where he let external factors
affect his ego and potentially he's going to go away
for a long time for it. They said he has
another court date in November. We'll keep updated on this story.
But if you're asking me my opinion on if Rajah
Jackson deserves to be in prison, deserves to go to
jail for X amount of years, the answers, Yeah, he does.
Don't know him as a person, comment on his character
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outside of this incident. He wouldn't be going to jail
for his character outside of this incident. He'd be going
to jail for what he did to psychostud and what
he did to that man, in my opinion, was punch
him until Raja got tired, punch him until he felt
like he was done, which for me lines up with
try to hurt him to the point where he potentially
murders him. And before we get out of here, I
do want to talk about the plea. If not guilty.
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I have to assume that that is some way for
him to take a plea deal. I don't really know
a lot about like how you plea and what happens
when you plea a certain way, but usually you would
think if Raja wanted to take a deal and shorten
his sentence, he would plead guilty and then they would
work on a deal. If you plead not guilty, you're
trying to fight this. And I don't mean trying to
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fight in the way that he did Stu, where he
just stood over him and threw punches on a defenseless individual.
He's gonna have to try to fight livestream camera evidence,
his own admission of what he wanted to do on
camera as evident, the actual assault being captured, witness statements
that were there, everything, and none of it goes in
his favor. So to plead not guilty. I'm not a
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legal expert. I have no idea why someone would do
that if every bit of evidence was there and they
weren't looking at taking a plea deal. But we'll see,
we'll see. His lawyers probably no better than I do.
And I got two eyes and I saw what happened,
and so did everybody else in that jury, and that
judge will as well. So what happened? It's next Veraje.
He's got a court date in November. I don't have
those answers. Comment below what you think, and in November
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we'll revisit it, because then and only then, I guess
we'll find out. All right, folks, we are back on
the way concept presented by The Ring magazine, and today
we got some insight into the training camp for Davonte
Tank Davis and what he and potentially his team are
the most concerned about with Jake Paul and what Jake
Paul could be the most concerned about with Javonte Davis.
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As we know, big exhibition coming up November fourteenth. We
are going to do a live stream watch party for that.
I don't know in what way, but we got to
make it special. You guys know when I do these
watch parties, they are insane. We want to have some guests.
We may do a twenty four hour I'm not sure
leaving the comments what you want to see, but we
may be seeing the formulation of a game plan and
tactic from this training footage from Jervonte Davis, and I
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think I may understand the key of what they want
to do, how they want to go about it, and
why Jake Paul might be in more trouble than I
originally thought. What do I mean, breakdown? Let's go all right?
So Calvin Ford, coach for Davonte Davis, has been for
pretty much since Davonte started boxing, sat dow with Marcos
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over at Fight Hub. Shoutut to Marcos for the footage. Man,
He's always killing the game with interviews and everything else.
He sat down with Marcos and they talked about Tank
and potentially what he will do after the Jake fight,
why he's doing the Jake fight, and what their biggest
concerns are. Which your biggest concerns end up being what
you turn into your biggest weapons that things are most
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concerned about. You look to exploit because that's usually the
other person's greatest strength and behind is their greatest weakness.
So I'm gonna take a look at this interview and
show you guys why I think Jake might actually be
in a little more trouble than I originally thought with
this fight, and why I'm gonna be more excited to
see what Tank brings. If the mindset is where I
think it is.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So how are we with with everything?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Man? How's Tank been a good hairspace? Great hairspace, looking good,
you know, just trying to go through our stages. You know,
it's like pre camp in camp, you know, get him
from We ain't foot in a while, you know what
I'm saying. We was getting prepared for a roach and
then we got blessed with this fight.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's how I look at it. You know, interesting comment
there that they were getting ready for the Roach rematch
and then this fight was you know, he said they
got blessed with this fight, but this fight came through.
So the plan was actually to go in and rematch
Lamont Roach, which is something that I think he should
have done. I think they they you know, for Tanks legacy,
for you know, just the sanctity of pro boxing when
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it comes to a world champion and what they do
with that world championship belt. I think he should have
taken the Lamont roch rematch. It seems like they were
going to. But the obvious reason that everyone I think
knows why they didn't is because Netflix and a Jake
Paul fight come with a massive back, like there's probably
no comparison to what Tank will make to fight Lamont
Roach or anybody else compared to Jake Paul. Whether you
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like that or not, it's the truth. He is a
money fight and so his Tank, and that's why they're
going to do a shit ton of viewers on Netflix
and why they're gonna both make a shit ton of money.
So the point I want to take away from that
is that they were starting to get their minds and
body ready for Lamart Roach, which means that Tank was
in somewhat of a serious pre camp right, somewhat of
a serious, you know, workout regiment, getting himself in shape.
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Not the Tank is super out of shape out of camp,
I don't know that. But this means that he was
mentally preparing for a fight regardless. It's not hopping off
the couch Tank, which is not what you want to see,
even against Jake Paul, because the least serious you take Jake,
and I've said this about everybody that's fought him, ones
that don't take him serious, the ones that say he's
a YouTuber and everything else, they end up losing, or
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they end up looking like, oh wait a second, this
guy was a little better than I thought. They end
up either getting taken by surprise or actually sometimes losing
because they don't realize that Jake actually takes as serious.
So this is good to hear. Just already right off
the rip, they were already doing something surprise.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So tell me, you know how when did you hear
about this?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I've been going back and forth for years. Tank and Jake,
they've been going at it for years, and uh, it
would have happened sooner, you know what I'm saying. But
we have hiccups in life, That's what I call it, hiccups,
but they lessons to learn from. But we're back on
track and keeping them moving.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
When you heard about the fight where you're like, wait what,
like we're doing what?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Actually?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
When I heard about the fight, they called me in
and said what you thought about the fight?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I say, the fight doable. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Because I watched Tanky for years, and I watched other
young men's and.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Gems.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You don't deal with big guys, you know what I'm saying. Yes,
he's big. To me, it's like Jake having his first
open fights. If anybody know about the ambags going open,
then you go pro. So you know he's a going
to fight a guy that does have skills.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Okay, so that's that's an honest, I think assessment from
Calvin Ford on where Jake is and why he thinks
his fight's doable. I mean, I think everybody is under
the same understanding that skill for skill, Jake Paul is
not the same level of boxer as Tank Davis. It's
not even remotely close when it comes to the skill
of the sport. Now, what makes up for the difference
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in skill is Jake's massive size and tanks lack thereof
Jake's power versus Tank's skill, experience, timing, spe all that.
But Jake still has some stuff right. He still can crack.
He's still for his size, is a little quicker than
people think, and he has a decent enough jab on him.
But they see something more than maybe something. They see
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a lot of things that they can take advantage of.
I'm sure Jake and their team says the same thing.
But you heard Calvin specifically say I've seen what smaller
guys can do with bigger guys in the gym. And
Calvin's been around not just boxing, Tank whoever, He's been
around the highest level of boxing for a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I'm sure, he's seeing countless hours of sparring footage for
fighters of completely different sizes, and how you have to
in those sessions, not necessarily in a real fight, but
in those sessions you have to problem solve in a
different way. And that's what they're gonna have to do
here to get Jake, to break Jake down, they're gonna
have to problem solve in a different way because they
can't get hit clean too many times, and they can't
stand in front of him in trade punches. I just
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can't happen. So you have to do something else differently.
But he's also a little concerned, which is good. Again.
I like a coach that shows, even in an exhibition
like this, who you know, whatever you want to call
the fight. I like a coach that every time you
lace gloves up, they take it serious. Whether it's sparring,
whether it's a fight, whether exit whatever, your reputation, legacy,
if you want to call it that. For Tank, all
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these things that you've already built professionally are on the line,
so you have to take it that seriously. So just
as much as he sees weaknesses and what they look
at for this fight for Jake, they see stuff that
concerns them. And it's not just powers, not just size
of something else. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
My only concern is, you know, the gloves. You understand
what I'm saying, because we don't fight in twelve ounce gloves.
We don't use twelve ounce gloves. That's training gloves. You
know what I'm saying. I'm like, that's two pounds away
from Uh. Jake, he fights in tens, tank fighting eights,
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so he's.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Meant to say two ounces, not two pounds.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
He losing four ounces.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So thing is I said, they said, put tank and eh,
put them in tense. That makes a fight more interesting.
Get what I'm saying and we'll go from there because
I understand and I bought that question up to one
of his hands. Dave, No, we don't want to do
it's supposed to be expedition.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
What you know, Nan, y'all want to win expedition. I'm dead.
Uh So, I don't actually disagree with Calvin Ford here.
I said this when they made the exhibition in the
first place. I was like, why doesn't Tank get to
wear the gloves that he normally wears If we're doing
an exhibition and the weight doesn't matter, then why does
the size of the glove have to match? Right? If
they don't have to weigh the same thing, why do
the glove sizes have to be the same. We're not
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None of this counts on a professional record anyway. So
let Tank fight in the gloves he normally fights in,
and let Jake fight in the gloves he normally fights in.
Jake already has a massive power advantage putting Tank in
twelve ounce gloves and Jake and twelve ounce gloves. It's
not the same thing, really, is it, right? Because Jake
trains in sixteen ounce gloves, eighteen ounce gloves twenty ounce gloves.
You're already on the on the size part of this.
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You're already giving up a massive disadvantcevantage. If your tank,
by being sixty pounds less than the guy, now granted
your skills, your ability, all that on your side, you
have that as an advantage for yourself. But why don't
we try to keep the things that we can at
least somewhat similar to how they normally fight, and that
would be the gloves. I think that it would be
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I agree with Calvin. I think it would be great
if Tank had to fight in eights and Jake had
to fight in tents because it's an exhibition and they
already fight in those same weight gloves. Anyway, to put
them in the same way is actually given Jake another
advantage if it makes sense, Like you put Tank, who's
already smaller and a glove that's already heavier than he
normally fights in to hit a guy that's sixty pounds bigger.
That's advantage Jake on every front. And the advantage for
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Tank is just experience, skill ability. But like when it
comes to the rule set of things, it all favors Jake.
There needs to be a little bit more given to
Tank in the rule set to make it, like Calvin said,
a little bit more fair for what they're normally doing.
If we're talking about ten ounce gloves for Jake and
eight for Tank, that's not a major difference, but it
is when we're talking talking about how Tank normally fights
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and eights and jumps to twelves to fight Jay. His
arms aren't used to that, his weight, his stature isn't
gonna be able to carry that. Gloves are gonna feel
a lot heavier. Again, I think that's just fully advantage Jake,
I don't like that. I said this in my first video.
They should have done it. I thought it was gonna
be like eights and fourteen's, but eights and tens. I
would even be like, yeah, that makes sense, all.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
These restrictions, But you want to be great. Being great
is really pushing the amazoge. You get what I'm saying.
You know, Tank don't really care, you know, So when
I bought this up, he said, dag facts. You know
what I'm saying. So again, you know he can wait
at tens and we weigh eights. Then we got to fight,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
The uh I agree with him. I think that's the
most fair way to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Weight how's that gonna work out? Like?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Got him at one one one ninety five. I thought
it was gonna be one ninety so in they game five.
So again they keep giving, giving, giving, you know, I
ain't want to.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Bum And the reason a guy like Tank keeps giving
and giving and giving is, again I circle back to
this because it's the only logical answer, is because this
is a major, major back. That's why he's giving up
so much. Did he give up that much for Ryan Garcia? Hell? No,
Ryan Garcia was weight drinking. Now again, I know it's
a completely different circumstance, but Ryan Garcia got weight drained
down to thirty five, had a weight rehydration put on him,
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and still Tank was able to go out there and
do what he did. But Ryan Garcia made all those
things happen because he knew Tank was a money fight.
So it's kind of Tank taking the Ryan Garcia role
in this fight where he is kind of the B side,
You're not even kind of he is, and so he's
having to make a lot of concessions to get this
and get this back.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
When you see this fight, do you see like Tank
just having his way with Jake, like giving like.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
No, no, no, I'm gonna tell you this. This is
what I tell Tank. Tank said it in an interview. Yeah,
I said, Tank, y'all going there doing y'all thing.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Woo.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
I said, he ain't giving you nothing. Let's look at it.
Look at all the persons he fought. He ain't giving
him nothing, especially when he thought Tyson he took a lot.
He's stripped Tyson of a lot of things. And I said,
he ain't given you nothing. You mean to tell me
you start hitting Jake with some shit he ain't gonna
fight back, he said. So I say you gotta take
him seriously.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
See what I'm saying, Because he.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Talked about he had you on a hitless before this
fight even happened. So his mental is on you, and
he said it in an interview, how you think about
something to make it come out?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And look what we ad now he's not wrong man
that listen. As much as everybody has jumped on this
fight and talked about you know, exhibition circus whatever, this,
there is one reason and one reason only that Jake
does these type of fights. Yes, I mean well two reasons.
One is a major bag. Two is to take legacy
from these professional world champion, former world champion fighters, boxers,
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fighters and boxers. Really did it with Tyron woodleyh he
did it with Ben Askron. He did it with Mike Tyson,
well kind of, but that's the entire goal. He had
Javonte on this you know, quote unquote hit list for
four years because he wanted to take a shine the legacy.
I'm better than he is. I'm a better boxer than Jervonte.
I beat Mike Tyson. I'm on Mike Tyson's record. All
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that right, that's what he wants to do. So again,
I will say, if you come in and take him lightly,
he cannot only ruin your night, he can ruin your legacy.
And that's what you can't have happen if you're Davonte Davis.
And this is why I like the way Calvin Ford
is talking about this, not like, yeah, we're gonna go
and do our thing. Well, no, we have to lock
in here because yes it's a great bag, Yes they're
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treating us well, but on fight night, that guy's not
gonna treat you well. And he's not just gonna stand
in there. He's gonna try to hurt you. He's gonna
try to knock you out, and he's seventy pounds sixty
pounds bigger than you. So I like the attitude. I
guess I should say that they're taking with this now.
Tank has not necessarily displayed that same mindset, so I
hope that's what they're working on in camp. Tanks like, ah,
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you're a clown YouTuber La da dah. Can't do that.
You cannot do that with Jake. Underestimate him and it
will hurt you or hit you with something that you
weren't supposed to get hit with. There'll be a moment
in the fight that goes a little differently than it's
supposed to. That's what you can't have half, I think.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
You know, like the the boxing fan is looking at
this maybe and thinking, like Tank, there's levels of this.
Tank has been fighting his whole life, Like, yeah, the
way is a big difference. But like Tank's a mean
guy in there, Like once he sees ready, he's gonna
go after him, and like.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
What we want to see, we don't. We don't know
his performance of this fight. You know, Tank been talking
this way, and I understand now why he's talking that way.
He's been doing it for so long. You know, if
you work a regular job, you've been doing it so long,
and you see it's like you want to get bored.
So so this fight, Mike, wake him up.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
This fight might bring that that beast back. You always
talk about, I don't want to do certain things. I
need my beast to be in me, you know, and
being around me. He's at a good place fight now,
a great place.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
That's the thing that you worry about with Tank, and
not only as his career goes forward, but just for
this fight. How much motivation does he have outside of just,
you know, the money that's involved in it to get
into that mindset of a boxer again, He's talked about
it in World Championship fight, Frank Martin and Lamont Rose
talk about I don't I don't like fighting. I don't
want to do this anymore. I want to go to
therapy and get all this anger I got out so that,
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you know, I can go raise my kids. And that's
a great, super awesome thing. And fighting, you know, when
you're not doing it as a need anymore, And if
you're not motivated to be a fighter, and that's not
that killer instincts not in your head, it's probably not
for you because the other guy has it and he's hunger.
When you get to that point, you probably should exit
the sport. So we're gonna have to see again. We've
had questions about Tank in a lot of fights recently
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about his commitment to the sport and commitment to just
being able to go into that Tank mode right, go
into that killer mode. If he can't access it versus Jake,
that again, that would cause a ton a ton of
spiraling and all types of bad stuff that they don't
want to have happened. But anyway, the takeaway from this
interview I'm not going to show the whole thing, but
that small segment of an interview is that there are
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that's an honest response from coach Ford about what Tank's
doing in camp, how his mindset is, how coach Ford
is there to kind of reshape the way he thinks
about this and what their concerns are. Now, let's take
a look at our first footage from tanks camp versus
Shake and see what he's been working on. See, Bro,
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this is why Tank pisses me off. Man, This right
here is why Tank frustrates me to no end. Look
at the talent and the skill and the effortless power
and snap and rotation and change of direction and angle
cutting that Tank possesses. And I know I'm glazing a
little bit here, but just hear me out. This dude
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is nasty. Tank has been As a prospective viewer of boxing,
Tank has been one of the most entertaining styles of
fighters I have watched in my life. He is just
snapping effortless power. And again, Tank is about five foot nothing,
five foot one two whatever, But look at where all
these punches are aimed, everything to the body, everything to
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the body, chopping downstairs, chopping, chopping, brick can now this
even his shots upstairs here, that's still a body shot
on Jake Paul. Everything's a body shot he's thrown. Even
when he's changing the levels of the shot, that's a
body shot. That's a body shot. That's a body shot.
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That tells me what I kind of originally thought. And
this is just a clip. We don't have any insight
into into full game plans and sparring and things like that,
but this is a drill obviously on the heavy bag
where he's one changing the variation of shot right, the
speed and power of shot, changing the angle of the punch,
but going for time. So this is necessarily a ton
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of technique work. It may not even have anything to
do with what they're trying to bring to the Jake fight.
But when I watch it, I see a guy that's
targeting the body, and it's the best thing that Tank
could do for this fight. I mean, trying to go
headshot for headshot with Jake Paul when he's probably Jakes
seven inches taller than he is. I'm assuming he's gonna
have a bit of a reach, even though Tank has
a kind of freakis reach for his height. I don't
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think that's a great idea. And again, you're at eye
level with Jake's belly button damn near, so you're gonna
have to be able to land shots right there on
the waistline. And it's probably the best idea if you
actually want to knock Jake out in this fight, if
you actually want a game plan, because again it's an exhibition,
but if you want a game plan to get him
out of there, you have to attack the body. Not
that it's necessarily gonna hurt Jake to the body and
he's gonna cripple, but it's gonna slow him down, or
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at least that's the idea, is to slow him down,
to drop his hands, and that way that we're in
the whatever, six, seventh, eighth round of this fight and
those hands start to fall a little bit, and Jake's
gas tank is being tested, and then Tank when he
closes distance, and he will have to close distance damn
near the entirety of the fight. Unless Jake's just like
walking forward the whole time. I don't think that'll happen.
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Then you'll see Tank if he's heavier with his volume
because hands are gonna be heavy, but his volume usually lacks.
Then see him step in and go upstairs. But the
body work will be key Tanks already you know again
his natural level will be around the body shots too.
It's gonna be a little difficult, I think for Jake
to punch down and hit him cleanly, especially if he
doesn't do it early, especially if he can't get Tank
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to respect him early. He's gonna be tough unless, like
I said, Tank just stands there and brawls with him,
which I don't see happening at all. So if Tank
can make a miss, get inside, work the body, make
him pay there, head movement off center, pivot out, be slick,
and do it again and again and again. That is
when we could see a potential Tank Davis knockout. And
if that happened, if Tank Davis actually knocks Jake out,
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he won't get the credit for it, like, oh, that's
what you were supposed to do. You're, you know, a
world champion boxer. But that's fucking ridiculous. It would be
ridiculously hard for Tank to actually knock Jake out. I'm
just that's like seventy pound different, sixty pound different. That
means something. And Jake's not some guy that's never thrown punches.
He said, relative novice when it comes to you know,
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skill level that Tank has. But still he knows how
to protect himself. And again his body structure allows for
some mistakes to happen that he wouldn't have to pay
for like he would if he was one hundred and
thirty five pounds point being, I would be impressed very
if Tank knocked him out cold or dropped him with
you know, heard him badly because how much bigger Jake is,
and he knows how to operate in a boxing ring.
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It's not like me getting in there with Javonte, I
should be sparked out in thirty second. But Jake has
a decent amount of professional fights, has beat some guys
that had a decent record on his on his actual resume,
and understands what he's doing in there. This is all
Jake does is trained boxing. It has for the last
six seven years. So, like I said, if Tank knocks
him out, which if his head is in the right place,
not just literally but metaphorically, his mind is in the
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right place, he switched on and he's able to get
Jake vulnerable to the body like could change very very quickly.
But that's what I got. Folks. Let me know what
you think in the comments. Are you liking the mindset
of team Gervonte Davis? Are you liking where is coach
Calvin Ford's headspace is? And they're not taking Jake lightly,
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but they're also seeing weaknesses there they can take advantage of.
Maybe like we see in this training footage again big
shouts to Fight Hub for getting this footage courtesy of them.
Maybe it's the body shots that Tank needs to get to.
Maybe it's Jake potentially not understanding the power even at
one hundred and thirty five pounds that Tank has. Who knows.
I like this for Tank Davis. I like this. And
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the other thing is if Tank is talking about retirement,
lamont roach Jake and then we're done. What if this
training camp and maybe a knockout performance from Tank Davis
gets him back into the boxing mindset, scratch that itch
and gets him to want to take tough, big time
box office in his weight class fights. And never know
what can happen, But Deronte Davis is in training camp
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for Jake Paul Calvin Ford says they got a healthy
fear of something, but they're ready to go in and
take advantage of some weaknesses. What are they will they
do it? Don't have those answers, but I guess we'll
find out. All right, So we are back on the
way concept presented by the Ring Magazine. And I just
saw Jerom Boots Ennis introduce himself to the one hundred
and fifty four pound division in epic fashion. He has
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arrived at this division and he is going to be
a problem. What do I mean the breakdown? Let's go
all right? So Jerom Boots Ennis versus Usima Lima tonight
at one hundred and fifty four pounds. Boots in his
debut at one fifty four. Now he comes out and
stops Lima in about a minute, in thirty seconds. This
(44:42):
was light work or Jeram Boots. Now, let's be honest.
This is not a number one contender fight of any sort.
But Usima Lima, you know, he's ranked at number eight
by the WBA, he's ranked number six by the IVF,
ten by the WBC, So he's not a high level
Guy's not a guy that's it's a world championship caliber
(45:03):
when you have the likes of you know, Sarah Boachuck
and Xander Ziaz and Sebastian Fondora and Virgil Ortiz and
a Boss Barrau and you know Keith or Like, there's
so many other Israel Madromov, There's so many other guys
that potentially we could be talking about at one fifty
four that are going to be high, high level opponents
(45:24):
for jern bout Tennis. And we're going to get into
that in just a second. But this was still a
big time performance. This is still exactly what Boots needed
to do. He needed to come in make a statement
not only with his fist, but then make a statement
on the microphone, and he and Eddie Hearn both did
that after the fight. This was this was light work,
honestly for Jernnis. Again, we wanted to see what the
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transition from one forty seven to one fifty four would
look like. Would he still have the explosiveness, would he
still have power, would his power be better? Would he
still be you know, light on his feet, be able
to fight out of both stances. And we're not going
to get every answer to that question tonight. What we
did get is a powerful, definitive puncher and drawn boots
(46:05):
In it's and a guy that can take a punch.
By the way, the exchange that spelt the beginning of
the end for Lima tonight was an exchange that both
fighters landed in. Boots got tagged with a shot. His
shot just landed more clean, more powerfully, with more intention
than Ussima Lima's did. So when we look at the exchange,
what happened in this fight, boots came out orthodox versus
a south pond Lima and both guys had talked about
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knockouts and you know, putting on show stopping performance to
sending messages with their performances. But what you saw was
Lima wanted to be very not cautious, but he wanted
to be smart. He wanted to fight smart. He didn't
want to fight reckless and potentially get stopped, potentially get
put out. You know, I potentially have one of those
nights where you over extend versus a sniper like boots
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In is a great counterpuncher off the back foot and
the front foot and out of both stances, and that
go bad for you. Found out though, even boxing smart
can still get you caught. Because Nis didn't respect any
of whatever Lima was trying to do, and it's just
walked straight forward. And again it wasn't even enough time
to really establish anything because while Boots started orthodox, it
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didn't really need to establish any of it. He just
flipped back southpaw and he said something interesting and I
don't know who said it in the actual commentary booth,
it was Todd Grisham, Sergil Moore and Chris Mannix, and
someone said that Boots was gonna switch southpaw at some point,
and he liked fighting southpaw against other south paws because
they don't usually fight south pause like he is, someone
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that's mastered both stances, much like a Terrence Crawford would
have loved to see that fight at one fifty four.
Probably never gonna happen, but it is an interesting thing
because southpaws do have a little bit of an inherent
advantage when fighting right handed guys because they only usually
spar right handed guys, and right handed guys usually only
spar right handed guys too, because there's not many southpaws
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out there in every gym that you go to, and
if there are some southpaws, they're not great southpaw that
you know what I'm saying, so now what ends up
happening is that both southpaw fighters. Lima wants to go
jab left hand, and something you don't necessarily see a
lot out of another southpaw is a counter to a
jab left hand by an outside step leaning to the
outside uppercut underneath the backhand, which is exactly what Jeram
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boots In is through, which is crazy, and he gets
clipped with the left hand, but I guess just better
chin wins here. It's like it, you know, boots didn't
defend this super well, but he just kind of rolled
with the shot, and whilst rolling with the shot, banged
the lead hand uppercut and it was a beautiful, beautiful shot.
And then from there he hurt Lima and swarmed him
left hand over the top. I think it dropped him
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actually with the backhand lead hook chopped him and then
dropped him right there with about a minute into the round.
And then when Lima got up, he teed off on
him again with three or four more solid punches I
think dropped him again, and then eventually the referee stepped
in and Lima's corner actually threw the towel as well.
This is a dominant performance, which, by the way, is
(49:02):
exactly what it should have been. Nima is not a tough,
high level superstar opponent, but he wasn't meant to be
for this first fight at one fifty four. It was
meant to see how Jeron Boots in us gets into
this weight class, how he goes along, and honestly for
him to send a message, to make a statement that
he does exactly what he's supposed to do to lower
level competition, and that's essentially buried. Now everything opens up.
(49:25):
Now we have the interesting matchups. We have a matchup
that Boots called for immediately after the fight was over,
which is the fight for I guess the WBC interim titled.
Even thoughdor has the bell, his fight called off for
supposedly a hand injury. I don't really know if there
was more detail on that, but him and Thurman their
fights off, so he's kind of sitting out for a
(49:46):
bit here. The whole event had got postponed. So you
have Virgil Ortiz potentially he's got a fight coming up, obviously,
but he's frustrated with not getting his title shots at
one fifty four, seeing as hopefully Virgil or Ties gets
his business done with Ericson Luvin. You can come back
and have Virgil Ortiz versus Jeron Ennis, and that'd be
(50:07):
a showdown because they wanted it at one forty seven,
both guys said that both guys didn't want to fight.
Now we can potentially get the fight. If you can't
do that, then Boots got on the mic and him
and Eddie Hern both said they want Virginal Ortiz, which
is probably one of, if not the biggest fights you
can make in American boxing right now. Let's be honest.
I know that neither of them hold a belt, but
these two guys are looked at as if they're going
(50:29):
to stay at fifty four, which may not be the case.
I think both guys will end up going up to
one sixty maybe even one sixty eight, but for now,
kind of the boogeyman at this weight class. So of
course that would be an insane fight. But if you
can't make that, you have Xanders Aias who just won
the WBO belt, maybe something that Boots would look too.
I would favor him in that fight. You have a
Boss Barraw who won the WBA belt just recently, and
(50:51):
that guy is a fucking monster, as well that would
be a fight. I mean, Boots is the interim with
the WBA, so that could be a fight to be
made as well. You have the IDF belt out there.
There's so much that Boots can do right now that
has him in a ton of different scenarios for big fights.
But the two things I think you can do right
away is say, okay, well he either is going to
take the Virgil fight depending on what happens with Virgil
(51:13):
and Luman, or he's gonna go belt hunting. Those are
the two paths right now for Boots in US. And
again I don't want to overstate this this performance and
act like it was, you know, him walking in and
dropping Virgil Orties in round one and win in the fight.
It's that that's not what happened. Again, Lima is not
that level. He's just not. But it was a good, needed,
(51:35):
solid stamp of approval performance for Boots, just to get
him in front of eyes, just to get him established
at this weight class. Now is where the real business starts.
Now is where you go and prove it where you going.
And again he's doing exactly what he needs to do.
Say names, call people out, say I'm better than a
boss Barral, I'm better than Fundor, I'm better than virgial Orties,
(51:57):
better than Xander's eyes, better than all these guys, and
then go and get it done. So I love this
performance for Boots. I love the the trajectory he's on.
Him and virgual or Ties are the two most dangerous
men at one fifty four, and I think, man, even
without a belt, I don't really care to be honest,
if they have a belt. If they don't, that's a
world title fight and I need to see it. So
(52:20):
hopefully that's what we get next. But yeah, short concise
breakdown here, quick to the point, because that's exactly how
the fight went between Jeron Boots and us and Usima Lima.
This was not even close to a competitive fight, complete
blowout as it should have been, and Boots did exactly
what he needed to do. No more of this, though,
by the way, I'm I'm I don't want to see
(52:42):
any more of this at one fifty four. I don't
want to see you know, we need another warm up
or we need another No, We're getting straight to action
here and I want to see what Boots can do
at one fifty four. Can he go belt? Chasing. Can
he go hunt all the belts? Will he fight Virgil
or Tees? Is he one of the best in the world.
I think he is. I need to see it now
at this weight class. I need to see it against Virgil, Mendora,
(53:06):
braw Zias Sermon. I need to see it against all
of them. Hopefully that's what's next, but I don't have
those answers. You guys, let me know what did you
think of this performance from drawn Boots NSC wins by
first round knockout, making it look easy because it was
in his debut at one hundred and fifty four pounds.
Don't know what's next, but I guess we'll find out
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