June 18, 2025 • 67 mins
This Episode Begins with Recap From The Weekend: Hitchins TKO's Kamabosos, Andy Cruz KO, Nonito & Estrada Win in Return Fights! Preview and Picks for Norman vs Sasaki, Yafai vs Rodriguez, Vito Mielnick Jr Among Other Bouts Like Tucker vs Simpson! Other Topics: Oscar De La Hoya Clap Back Rant About Media Getting Paid Off? -Is Oscar Correct about Canelo vs Crawford Taking Place in the Afternoon WTF? -Benavidez vs Smith in Talk! -Follow Up on Lomachenko Retirement and Nakatani's KO Win! -Along With Current Fight News & Boxing Twitter Segment! Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Spreakers, Amazon Music, Google Podcast & More! Follow on Twitter @RopeADopeRadio
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, what are boxing fans? This is the Rope of
Dove Radio podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carlson. We are
live on a Wednesday afternoon. I hope everybody's doing okay.
We will talk about some action that happened last weekend. Obviously,
Richardson Hitchens leads the way with a very easy victory,
(00:26):
looking really good, especially that jab against cambosas Andy Cruz
will talk a little bit about briefly talk about some
guys that are past their prime, one Francisco Estrada and
especially no need to don'nare, So we won't spend a
(00:48):
whole lot of time with that. And also I got
a message from someone that brought up a good point
about I guess you could say an air I made
when not covering a certain fighter. So we will discuss
that as well this week and weekend, because you know tomorrow,
(01:11):
well I suppose it's gonna be pretty early in the morning.
Brian Norman Junior returns on ESPN plus Milanek on Saturday.
You Faia Rodriguez on Saturday. There is some more fights
as well. Nothing stands way out as far as a
big time fight, but I'm guessing that Norman fight will
(01:35):
be pretty entertaining. And then you know, we do have
some current fight news. You know, well, what will Hitchins
and do or Hitchins do next? What will Andy Kruz
do next? Is you know there's a potential title shot.
Would that happen? A little bit more news out of
(01:58):
the David Benevitez camp involving his potentially his next fight.
Oh yeah. And then in a clap back, Oscar de
la Hoya said something about Canelo and Crawford that I
hope he's just bullshitting or got you know, bad information,
(02:22):
or if it's true, that they change it. But if
it's true, it's like what are we doing here? But
I don't know it to be true because it is
coming from you know, Oscar de la Joya, who clearly
you know is mad at the media, mad in general
(02:45):
about them being paid off than in other things. So yeah,
we'll definitely jump into the recap first. If this is
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like I said, we will get into some of the
stuff going on this weekend, because there there is some action,
no doubt. But we'll start in the Ring on the
card from the Theater in Madison Square Garden. The main
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event Hitchens and Cambosa right off the bat, just a
stiff and steady jabs and a couple of nice right
hands from Hitchens. You know, Cambosa's had these little minor
stints of of success if you want to call it that,
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like a jab in some body work. But you could
even tell after the second or third round. You could
see camboss was getting touched up. I mean, you could
see the writing on the wall. By the third and
fourth round. He got the jab, you got the pot
shot with the right hand to the head. You know,
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Camboss in the third did land some good body shots
and a nice counter right hand to the head in exchange,
but it wasn't anything. I didn't give Cambos's one round,
you know, leg in the fourth round beyond a few
decent lands, Hitchins just landing the cleaner punches. I will
say this. In the fifth round Richardson Hitchins, you know,
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in the second half really started landing heavy punches. And
you know, give credit to Camboses for fighting back and whatnot.
But and even in the sixth he was showing life
in spots, but just a better overall shot. The seventh, Yeah,
there was some two way stuff. Like I said, I
want to give King Bosa's credit. He didn't just quit
(06:07):
in there, but you know, he was just getting beat
and then you come to the eighth round, a left
hand to the body drops cam Bosa's. He didn't have
much to say as far as you know it was
(06:29):
a bad stoppage or anything like that. You know, just
a really great performance by Richardson Hitchins. Like like I said,
his jab is one of the better jabs in boxing.
He just he is a very good fighter. You know,
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he's got a pretty good defense. Uh you know, once
it gets up close. He used the high guard. He
did kind of step around and just use minor barely
even pivoting, but just minor you know, movement, just to
stay a little bit out of range. But they're to
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still deliver a punch. So overall, the fight went pretty
much how I thought it would be. I was wondering
about the stoppage. I didn't think that he would get it,
per se. I was favoring the unanimous decision. Excuse me,
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obviously it was well on its way to the United decision.
But you know, beyond like I said, Cambosa is having
a little success here and there and showing some heart
and staying in there when he was taking a fair
amount of punishment, shouts out to him, where does he
go from now? Cambosa's are from here? I don't know,
(07:53):
you know, like he's he's done really well financially. It's
hard to tell a guy who's fought really good talent
and just lost to just hang him up. He still
has he probably still has some fight left in him,
but it's all about what levels he wants to fight at.
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I've even seen multiple fighters of late call him out
that were a little like a zine. They're they're they
were younger and that type of thing. And and I
don't know if he wants to be, you know, that
type of gatekeeper. You can make an argument he's already
in gatekeeper mode, but not really based off his competition.
(08:41):
I've seen people say he's a gatekeeper. Maybe he is now,
but I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't call him a
gatekeeper just yet as far as these last couple of fights,
because you know, he's just not he's not gatekeeping yet.
He's not fighting super young prospers that's trying to prove
himself to become a contender, you know, so and you know,
(09:10):
the further remove, like I said last week, the further
removed we'd get from that tale Femo fight. It just
it was a crazy upset. Clearly Lopez wasn't taking the
fight serious. That's not to take anyway any you know,
any credit away from you know, Gambosa's he did his thing.
(09:31):
It was actually a really fun fight to watch. Tao
just fought in a manner he normally doesn't fight, and
he caught him on a shitty night and not even
a bad night actually just a not a fully focused
tale obviously, but credit to him. He did get the
job done. He fought Hani back to back, fought Maxi Hughes,
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which I thought he lost that fight fout Lomachenko. I
guess you could say his last fight. If he were
to stay on that level, it would be a gate
keeper mode. And maybe, like I said, that's where he's
at now. I still think he could fight guys that
are contenders already, that are just trying to get to
(10:13):
that next level. But when you fight you know Teyo, Femo, Haini,
Loma Shanko and now Richard Richardson Hitchins and even Max Hughes,
I just don't say that that's you were a gatekeeper
for all those guys. You know, I just don't agree
with that, but maybe that's what he'll turn into. I mean,
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his response when called out by younger fighters was like, hey, man,
go fight somebody, you know where you can prove yourself.
So we'll see, you know, we'll see where he goes.
As far as Hitchens, you know, Teyo Femo and Hani
has been thrown out there. He made it known that
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he's a free agent, and Eddie Hern you know, to
take too kind of that, but he I'm not he
kind of I don't know. I'm not saying he backtrack
because he is a free agent, but he did kind
of backtrack. I got some quotes I think from I
think it was the boxing voice that, you know, some
(11:19):
of the things he said. All of a sudden, He's like, well, no,
it's not that I don't you know, it's not that
he doesn't want to stay with Mattroom, but I don't know,
like in the ring, I'm a free agent. You know,
some people were pretty down on that. Obviously Eddie was,
and I get it, like you know, but this is
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what he said in the boxing voice. He said Richardson
basically on Eddie hearn the free agency situation. I don't
really want to get into that with me and Eddie.
Eddie gave me opportunity when I needed it. He gave
me the structure when I needed most. Being in talks
now with Devin Haney and the Teo females starting to
now be become a boxing star. I don't think he's
(12:01):
a boxing star, but become one obviously. I want to
continue the relationship with Eddie. I love Eddie. I respect
him as a man. He's always been a gentleman to me.
So he's saying that, But clearly Eddie didn't think it
was too professional or gentleman like to say that he's
(12:25):
a free agent right in the ring. After you know
what Eddie had it helped him out, I had him
on a deal whatever. And I and I get it
from Eddie's perspective to an extent. But we'll see where
he goes. If he of those two fights you know
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are available, that'd be great, that would be phenomenal. But
we'll see, you know what I mean, We'll see if
we if we get there, we'll see if those fights
get done. And and like I said, Eddie was pretty
pissed to the point where he's like well, what was
(13:06):
this quote. He's basically like saying, well, he's not going
to do a fighting lessons with me, like Turkey said
he didn't want to do a fighting lessons with me,
which is still kind of like okay, well then you
don't really have any room for like, you know, professionalism
or being mad at that, because now you're going with that,
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like there is part of it is just like taking
it out of the chin. Oh well, you know, not
the end of the world type thing. But I don't know,
it just was uh but like I said, Lopez or
Hani would be great for oh, here we go. Oh
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he said, I feel disrespected because it's not I. Oh,
I did feel disrespected because it's not him. It's just
the dogs around him. Even though he did say it,
he said he headlined him in Orlando Vegas where we
lost a lot of money. Richardson's a good kid. He's
just got some snakes around him. So he was, like
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I said, he was not too happy about that, and
like I said, I get it. But here's a little
bit more Golden boy ceo Oscar de la Jollo. This
is for Ring magazine calls for Richardson Hitchens to discuss
working together. In response to Eddie's Hearn comments to the Ring,
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Hearn express disappointment but confirmed Turkey told him he'll only
work with Hitchens if Mattroom is involved. And see, now
I think that's weak too, you know. So if you
can say, oh, well, you know, it probably shouldn't be
this way, or you know, to me to turn right
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around and then do that is like, oh, well, fu too,
then you know, I don't know. I thought it was
a little weak. But either way, hopefully Hitchins, who look
damn good against a fighter by the way, he was
supposed to look damn good at but but he's look
really good lately. So the last two fights he's looked
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top like on the top level for him, that's for sure.
His jab is really really good. I'd love to see
him in a matchup like that against another skilled, high
level guy. I think it's you know, I'm really really
looking forward to that. If it were to I shouldn't
say looking forward to it, because we don't know exactly
what's gonna come up that so I don't want to
(15:42):
get too happy, you know what I mean. Oops, So
Andy Cruz was winning the fight third round, there was
he basically just started off on and like really you know,
(16:06):
doing his thing, big right hands. I think it was
I think that was that was that was it a
right Yeah, it was the right hands, because the right
hands were actually doing the most punishment. He was hitting
them with everything, but the right hand especially repeatedly dropped them.
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Then like hooks and uppercuts in a late right hand
dropped him. So he dropped them twice and then basically
two rounds later in the fifth round another It was
kind of an action packed moment. You know, old boy
wasn't really laying a lot back obviously, but big like
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like I said, cooks uppercuts in, a big right hand
finished the fight. So Cruise, you know, Crew's got it in,
did his thing. Those right hands, like I said, were
the We're the ones that were really having the effect.
The boy was pretty tough though, I'll give him that.
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But Martia, now we'll see if Martya and Cruz, if
that fight can happen, because you know it's supposed to happen.
You know that that is something that you know, sanctioning
belt wise, it's it can happen now, So it's the
(17:36):
ibf ah, Well, it's it actually, I think it's wouldn't
it be for like, actually, let me check. I think
it's like, yeah, I think that he I think he'll
be the mando because wasn't that the well, the final eliminator,
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as we know, can be skewed clearly, but hopefully that
that didn't and let's see if they can make that fight.
Obviously it's two different promotional companies, but that would be
a very good fight, a huge step up really for
both of them. But yeah, sign me up for that fight.
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I think that would be very interesting to see it,
and it should be next you know. I think that
would be I think that would be dope. I would
like that a lot. You also had Tremona knocked it
out in the first round. That really really wasn't much
there as far as like, you know, I don't know that.
(18:47):
Some of the undercard fights were pretty shitty obviously, but
you know, he did his job, so shouts out to him.
You also had uh Nonino ton Air fight over the weekend.
He got a unanimous that like a technical unanimous decision
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basically donaire. I think it was his. I think it
was this right eye. It was a headbutt, and there
was a few of them. I'd say three or four
of them something like that, maybe maybe more. I think
it was above his right eye let me look at
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mid Yeah, above his right eye. And basically, you know,
Donaire said that like, hey, dude, that you know, I
can't see out of this ship. And they went obviously
to the cards and you know, did he look you know,
did he look great or anything like that? No, you
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know he didn't. He didn't look great. Moses uh knocked
out Carl Rogers too. On that undercard. I did forget
to mention that, not that it's you know, like I said,
that was just kind of like, eh, okay, that's happening,
you know it. It's It wasn't like I don't know it.
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The the undercard basically sucked pretty much, to be honest
with you, but you know, those who were supposed to
win did their thing. But yeah, you know it was uh,
it was like a let me see years like maybe
(20:39):
like two out of the nine rounds. I think it
was like, let me look at my story card. I
think it was like I gave Campos and don there
yeah to two rounds. So you know, it is what
it is. He's back. We'll see how long he lasts
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didn't didn't look all that great. Took him a little
while the motor well kind of to get the motor running,
but you know, it is what it is. Also one
Francisco Estrada, he actually well, as we know, you know,
he's getting up there in age now and you know,
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this is part of boxing. This is like on the
other side of the boxing where it's just shit happens,
you know, and he just he just came back. He's
probably looking for a big fight. He you know, handled
this dude ursay uh. I think he had like three knockdowns.
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I didn't score it, but it was pretty, you know,
pretty one sided. You know that that was a pretty uh,
pretty easy fight to score if you were gonna score it,
but I didn't. I did not. Also from the twenty
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three hundred Arena in Philly, there were some interesting fights.
Mercado beat Pizzarro. The scorecards read one was a draw
and then one with ninety seven ninety three, ninety six,
ninety four for Mercado. I did think Mercado won, and
I think a lot of it was his power punching.
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You know, you had Pizarro landing the jab. They both
went to the body. Well, I think it was pretty clear,
like the jabs were the biggest thing, like I said,
for U Pizzarro, and he definitely landed a fair amount
of those. It was sixty one to twenty four, but
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one fourteen of seventy seventy four by Mercado as power shots.
He really just kind of just kind of took over
the fight, you know, down the stretch. It was a
really good back and forth fight though. But yeah, I
would say like the big, the more, the most powerful shots,
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that that's you know, that's what that's what did it.
And also there was a woman's fight Leanna Cruz and
Regina and Javas, and Javas put Cruise on the canvas
in the first round and they were getting it in. Dude,
they were getting it in. Like if you look at it,
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it's a it's a ten round fight. Crew Chavaz through
six eighty nine to four point fifty eight. But Cruise
landed one ninety two to one ninety one, almost basically
forty two of her overall shots. You know, that's that's
tough to do. And and they were they were messing
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with the jab a little bit, but it was mostly
power shots. In eighty four to forty six from Cruise
to the Body. That was a fun fight to watch.
I did enjoy that fight. Those were some good fights,
you know. I I do appreciate that twenty three hundred building.
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I think what else there was a cruiserweight, undefeated cruiserweight
who got to win. I think it was a late
knockdown Leonardo Masque or something like that. Oh and I someone,
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like I mentioned earlier, someone pointed out to me that
last week I forgot to talk about not that Tani okay.
And it's funny because the second also Arislani Alvarez, who's
like he was a He was that guy who won
the Olympics in two thousand, the gold medal in the
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last Olympics he he won as well. I forgot to
mention that. So it's funny because right when I was
done with the show I had, I was reading from
a scorecard, like looking at a scorecard, right, and I
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thought that I was done with those notes, so I
just kind of put him to the side. And as
I was gathering to see which ones I wanted to
keep and throw away because sometimes in certain fights, I'll
keep the scorecard. And I looked and on the back
of it was was Nakatani and it's like, oh, I
wanted to talk about that fight, so yeah, thanks for
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reminding me. I did. I did forget to talk about
that last week against Nashida. Hey, Nashena showed some heart, dude,
Like he was landing in exchanges at times he was
I mean, he was still trying to fight with like
a closed eye, but Nakatsani was getting the better of
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him in the exchanges and those hooks and uppercuts KO win.
But it was competitive. Like I would say, I would say, like,
oops the hell. I would say, like the first I
think that. Let me look at that scorecard. I kept
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it round the third, I would say, the third and
the fourth are rounds that you could give to Nashido.
That's what I'm That's that was my thoughts. But yeah,
junto you know, I it was a unification. I really
wish that we could get you know, the anyway fight
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next or by the end of the year. But it
sounds like the way they talked about it, you know
early in the spring, that it's going to be next spring.
But he did look good, like I said, he.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Was just unloading these shots, dude, just basically landing anything
he wanted, but I mentioned Ishidah many he did show
some heart.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Gotta respect that because he was he was fighting all
the way to the end, and dude had a closed eye,
you know what I mean. So good call, though, much
appreciated when people give me, you know, a reminder criticism,
as long as this constructive criticism, I appreciate that. So
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definitely happy that you brought that up, because I did
forget to talk about Nakazzani, who you know, is a
top ten fighter and many people's eyes, and he said,
he's an explosive, young, you know, guy who's in his prime,
and that's why you really want to you know, you
don't want to see anyway get out of his prime.
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And I mean it's gonna happen at some point, but
before this fight, you know, and I think some of
us are kind of mad because last year they had
said that, you know, basically the fight would have already
happened by now, or it was gonna happen this summer
or whatever, because they were supposed to be on the
same card and that didn't work. But you know, it
(28:22):
is what it is. But Na Katsani, Yes, that was
that was really that's a good call I did forget
and also tension uh Thesakawasakawa. He looked good against Victor Santio,
that was uh. I mean he beat him up pretty
(28:44):
good obviously, and Sancio was a good pretty good fighter.
Doesn't have a lot of power. Was in a very
competitive fight with the Shida, and you know, he doesn't
have a lot of good names per se as far
as like who he beat, you know, but that was
a good performance too. I thought I might add to that.
(29:07):
So Brian Norman Junior is gonna fight like in the
wee hours of the morning, okay, Sasaki, It's on ESPN plus.
You know, I think that I think it's gonna be
(29:31):
like a spirited fight. While at lasts I think Brian
Norman Junior will knock him out, for like, I believe
in that. I do think he will do that, but
I I think it could be it could be really fun,
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you know, while we get there. You know, I do
think that it should be a pretty fun your fight
or just two dudes mixing it up. If you want
to go in against Norman. Vandel has it plus four
to ten. Right now, there is a Semmesry and Aronetta
(30:19):
is a really close fight going on too. That's like
a plus one oh six minus one forty, so that
that should be a really you know, competitive fight anyway
on paper. Let's see here, So you know, we we
have like Melanecki returning, there's some stuff on that undercard
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as well. You Faire Rodriguez. That should be a good fight.
Kind of looking forward to that. I also think Lorenzo
Simpson and John Tucker. I think Tucker is gonna win
the fight, but I bet she's Simpson, who is a
fairly live dog. I've been in him around like the
(31:01):
plus two fifty plus two sixty, plus two seventy I
think is the highest. Let me check right now on
pro boxing odds. Yeah, still right around that. FanDuel has
him plus two sixty. So if you like that, jump
on that. Personally, you know, I do like John Tucker
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in that fight, but you know, it's just something to
keep an eye on. What other fights do we have?
The Walker Taylor fight, Uh, that should be a good
fight on paper anyway. Taylor the highest I see him
as like a plus two hundred two ten something like that. So,
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like I said this week, and it doesn't like like uh,
David Stevens, who's a very slight favorite over Peter Kamukov Kmukov.
That's like a pick him fight. So it is one
of those weekends that, sure, you know, it may not
(32:10):
blow you away, right, but I bet you we just
get some good fights. Brandon Lee is fighting as well.
You know, he's fighting a guy who you know, who's
basically like fought guys like Cabarero and I know he
(32:31):
fought Martaya and uh who else did he fight some
unbeaten a war as I believe Omar Warres. So you know,
I think it's just getting Brandon Lee a fight, you know,
and it'd be nice to get him, get him going.
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Basically he fought in the summer last year, so you know,
he's just in a fight. I guess you could say,
I mean to be honest with you, just to be honest,
but yeah, the joh Tucker Lorenzo Smith Veto is taking
on an unbeaten guy that doesn't have a lot of
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power guard seelick or something like that. I've seen him
fight just like Actually, I think I watched some of
the Joelle Julio fight if I remember, it was a
few years back, and I've just seen like highlights of them.
But you know, Veto is he's probably gonna win this fight.
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He's coming off you know, a close fight. So yeah,
like I said, I'm not trying to like pump up
these fights and be like, dude, this weekend's gonna be crazy,
But there are just times when these these weekends just
pop off. Dude, it'll be interesting to see uh Peter
(34:02):
mcrel and uh Balluta. You know that's just like it's
just there. You know, it'll just probably be a good scrap.
You know. Once again, I'm not trying to say, man,
this weekend is gonna be awesome. But the the Galileafaya
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fight I am looking forward to. I think he's a
pretty good fighter. He's obviously coming up that Sonny Edwards
late last year, coming off you know, big ass win
for him and Francisco Rodriguez. You know, I think he'll
fight him competitive. He's a guy that actually, well he
made it ten rounds against Nakatani. Now did he win
(34:46):
a bunch of rounds? It was six to four. No,
he did fight a somewhat competitive fight even longer ago
against Kazuto Ioka, But so you know, I did I
like by decision. I think I think I'm gonna go
by a decision with you, Faya. But Francissler Rodrie is
(35:10):
a good fighter. You know. It's not like he's been
stopped a bunch, right, and when he did get stopped
and actually, Jesus, I forgot about the I remember the
I forgot about the Flint Days fight. I remember the Yeah,
(35:31):
I mean he got stopped like against roaming gets all
all over back in two thousand and thirteen. So you know,
I don't really look at that as like, oh dude,
you know, so that's why I have it. I have
if I uh, winning that fight, but I could see
like a little bit of competitives in there. But you know,
(35:52):
coming off that Sonny Edwards fight where he basically just
ran through him one every round, I believe in my scorecard.
So so yeah, he uh, he's kind of the biggest
fight I'm looking forward to. You know, when it comes
to the to the weekend, there's a just a mixed
(36:16):
bag of everything and we'll see, you know, hopefully we
get some bangers in there. There's also that WBC Boxing
Grand Prix on Friday night that uh com com u god,
I can't remember that's who's Stevens. How you say his
(36:38):
last name? That's on his own though. Friday night, Camukov
and Stevens, that should be a good fight. I do
like that fight. And that's that's about it for the weekend.
(37:00):
I think video win might knock him out, maybe not.
I think Tucker will win by decision. But let's just
hope that, you know, shit just pops off and it
turns out to be you know, like multiple fights that
are just great. You know what else you got here?
(37:24):
I think that's about it for the weekend, I believe. Yeah.
So let's talk about Canelo Crawford in Oscire de Joya
(37:45):
what he said just in general, he was saying that,
you know, all the ring magazine writers are off the
media or is paid off, I should say in the
media in general, the way he put it, is paid off,
and that people aren't going to talk about Eddie Renoso
or talk about because you know, they've had a lot
(38:07):
of people busted in his camp. And so he said
there should be an investigation, and and he also said,
you know, I'm gonna talk to Eddie, I'm gonna talk
to Al and we're not going anywhere. And you know,
he basically kind of looks like he's on the out
with Turkey. And when you say stuff like you know,
(38:31):
they're paid off and they're not going to say anything.
And you know, now, to be fair, if you go
back and listen to what Oscar said when he was
selling the Ring magazine to Turkey, you know, he talked
pretty well of him, right, So that part's pretty contradicting
(38:53):
because it's like, oh, really, okay, well, if you don't
like the scenario that's going on, what the hell did
you sell the Ring? Then you know it is what
it is, right. But so he said some other stuff, right,
But his clap back included Canelo Crawford is going to
be in the afternoon and they're going to do a
(39:16):
UFC event at night. Now, it may be completely bullshit,
it may be maybe it's true, but they're going to
change it. You know, I really don't know. But if
they because they're gonna you know, it just got announce
that it's going to be in uh, it's going to
be in a stadium, Allegiance Stadium where the Raiders play.
(39:38):
So if it were during the b during the afternoon,
and that would be college football really all the way
in by that time. That'd be ridiculous. It would just
be ridiculous. Now I don't know it to be true,
(40:00):
but if it's in the afternoon, and if that were
to be true, that'd be just silly, right. But also
like if it's in the afternoon and you say it's
big a fight, it is, but then it's gonna make
room it's in the afternoon for the UFC to have
a bed at night, that would be acid. However, I'm
(40:21):
not the type to just believe Oscar either. And I
could also see if if Turkey got some public criticism
for the time, I could see his ass somehow changing it.
You know, I don't know. So yeah, I've already gave
my thoughts on you know, it being on Netflix, which
(40:43):
is phenomenal. You know, the stadium vibe when you have
a guy like Canelo and Crawford, who's a perfect B
side for Canelo, that should do really well there as
far as attendance. But yeah, I just hope it's not
during the day. That would be ridiculous. Oh. Also, Benavidez
(41:09):
and Calliam Smith are in negotiations. I first heard this
from an interview where Eddie Hearn said as much right.
He said that you know, we do have an offer
and this is from Ring Magazine that it's it's in
(41:31):
play for October. Eddie Hearn did say that the PBC
gave Calliam Smith an offer, right, and they're targeting Vegas
or Dallas, and you know Benavid has said I also,
you know, if if there was a counter offer, I
would be willing to go to the UK if it's right.
(41:55):
But you know that they're targeting Dallas or Vegas and
they're negotiating it. You know there, I guess Samson said
that Anthony Yard, who stared to Frank Warren, would be
a consideration if that deal falls through. But if that
deal felt through, my guess is that's the fight you
(42:16):
know that would be made Kelly Smithy Yard. But maybe
that's just me. I thought that was the fight that
was going to happen, to be honest with you, but
basically said, you know, you know, Eddie Hearn, if they
want to make the deal, we're one phone call away.
(42:38):
And so you know, given the landscape, giving the actual fights,
we know the canal fight's not going to happen for now.
If it ever happens, which you know, I wouldn't get
helps up. That would be a good that would be
a good fight. That'd be a good fight in a
string of really good fights. So also I honesed on
(43:02):
Ring Magazine today that that the TKO Boxing plans the
stage twelve events per year for the next five years,
including four mega matchups per year. So maybe per season,
maybe there'll be two in the summer. Who knows, they
(43:23):
won't go as heavy during football or something. I have
no clue, but so basically once a month or it
says twelve events per year, So like I said, maybe
in the summer they double up or something like that.
So we'll see what kind of events these will be,
you know, and who's on the roster, and maybe they're
(43:47):
not looking to build up a big roster and they're
just gonna, you know, go little by little. And I
don't really know. I don't know. I really don't know
exactly how that's gonna go. So anyway, do do do do?
So let's get into some other fight news and you know,
(44:13):
boxing Twitter stuff and all that. Like I said, you know,
we now know a lot of a Legion stadium that's
where the fight's taking place. Oh, also, him Mungia's b
sample returned, and you know it, it was the same
as the A side or the A side, the A sample.
(44:35):
Here's a quote from Deontay Wilder Quitting was never an option.
Boxing isn't a game. It's survival. He's got a fight
coming out, not this weekend, but next weekend. I don't know.
There was a quote here on this zone that Edgar
Berlanga has himself beating, so this is what he thinks.
(44:58):
A prime Nigel Ben a prime jokel Zagi Canelo want
to rematch in a prime Felix Trinidad, that's who he thinks.
Uh he he would beat. So like we've seen you
in your prime? When are you gonna get good victories?
To say that you're gonna beat all these dudes, like
(45:20):
it's just it's just funny, not really, No, oh yeah.
Adamsins called out George campbos Is the fight September twenty fifth.
You know, I don't look too much into that. It
(45:41):
is what it is. Do I So someone messes me?
Do I think that Sasaki is a like a worthy
opponent for Norman? And you know, I do think he's
gonna you know, like land punches and all that, and
(46:04):
I think it will be fun. Like I mentioned, it'll
be entertaining. I just think like the the more accurate,
shorter punch, like the more the better, not just the
better puncher, but like I said, the more accurate, the shorter,
the I just that that's gonna be his undoing, you know,
(46:25):
whether he deserves We're gonna find out if he deserves
to be in there or not, you know, obviously, you know,
so we will see how that goes. So, yeah, with
which Hitchinson. Now you have Russell play you Lopez and Hitchins.
That's that's what the division looks like. This is Adrian
(46:51):
Delgatto talking about Richard Hitchins to exactly what he was
supposed to do. He was always had a great jab
that sets its tone by controlling range, shirtedness and well
placed sharp punches. Ended up closing the Shoy show. Excuse me,
poised patient dangerous when he walked down Cambosas. Yeah, I
did like how he he did that. He definitely like
(47:14):
he had these moments where he pushed them back. I
really hope he gets big fight. Oh yeah. There was
a little like box wreck scenario with Virgil Ortiz and
there was an apology basically like there was a fight
(47:34):
or two fights. Ye had two results. This is from
Bunch Bunch Boxing earlier today, two results of a boxing
record of Virginal Orties were erroneously changed in no contest.
The air has been since corrected. So they were saying
sorry about the confusion. Oh yeah. Edwin de los Santo's
(47:56):
parted ways with Samson. He said there was a quote
for Coppinger. Unfortunately. What bothered me was the most that
I was offered fifty thousand to continue to fight. My
coach asked for three hundred thousand because Keishaan was four
point three overweight, so he said that basically he thought
(48:19):
he should get more money out of it in that scenario.
But yeah, I guess it came as a pretty big surprise.
So you know, kind of surprise when it comes to that. Okay.
This is also from Brunch Boxing. The WBC will order
(48:42):
about between interim WBC Junior minaweight Virgil Ortase and Sir
Hey Boachuck. So there's gonna be a rematch there. I
don't know how I feel about that, but it's not
like it's not a good fight, you know what I mean, Boachuck.
I think it's basically Bocher came out of a really
shitty performance, and I'm sure he'll get up for this fight,
(49:06):
but he did come off a fight where he didn't
look good at all, So you know, it just seems
like kind of been there, done that. But you have
to admit that the fight probably warranted a rematch, So
I'm okay with that. This is Broadway, Joel. He said
(49:27):
that you know Edwin de los Santo's did not sign
with Jay Prince. It sounds like they were close to
a deal, but it actually hasn't happened just yet, so yeah,
I don't know. Oh here's Naji said, Damn Edwin, he
(49:50):
looked out for you talking about Sampson. You were drained
and more unlikely would have got your ass whooped. But
that could affect your career, he said, whole game. I
will say this de los Santo's no matter what would
happen in the week or whatever, or in that fight,
he did look drained. Though his face looked drained, I
(50:11):
will say that he definitely looked drained. I do have
to think that darn Ennis says two things I ain't
doing hate not nobody and waiting on nobody. Ooh, we
heard this from. I believe it was Cambosa's camp. I
(50:31):
think it was his father. He said the ring size
for the whole Berlanga Hira's card will be eighteen by
eighteen instead of twenty by twenty. Umm, here's a tweet.
I can't tell it's from because it's cut off. Turkey
used Oscar, but Oscar cash the checks. Then Turkey bought
the ring ring from him, And now Oscar is salty.
(50:56):
I'd be salty too, but let's be real. He played
his part and got paid. Can't cry now, Like I said,
I don't know tweeted that, but yeah, I agree. Dillion
White does sound like it's one hundred percent on with Moses.
And you have a Kakachi and Ford, nick Ball and Goodman.
(51:20):
You got uh Adelai and Hergevic. So it's kind of
interesting there, kind of a little interesting card there. I
kind of kind of like that that. I think it's
a good step up. We'll see what Dillion White, you know,
has left, but I think it's a good step up
for Moses Bakrahan September thirteenth, eyeballs, the one fifty four
(51:46):
pounder who shocked the world beaten Tim Zu. We'll see
is he back now? Between June twenty eighth and July nineteenth,
the Zone Boxing has three pay per views in addition
to either the annual or Monkey subscription. What are we
doing here? Yeah? I mean you have Jake Paul Chabas,
(52:08):
you have Usik Dubois, and then you have the Berlanga,
Shiraz and Shakur zippot of it. The thing is, and
you know what those twenty five dollars you know, those
twenty five dollars pay views are out the window now,
just like that. You know, there was so much whole
home about it. There was so much well it wasn't
(52:29):
he home. The media was just like, oh dude, look
what he's doing for us. You know, first of all,
I knew that one stand and two it is true,
like the Usak Dubois. Should that be a pay per
view in the US? You know, it is what it is? Right,
it is what it is. You knew Jake Paul Chabas
(52:51):
was going to be a pay per view, But should
that be a pay per view? You know overseas probably not,
But I understand that. But I do wish they could
find a way not to have that. Chakorza Pata sharaz
Erlanga on pay per view. That would have been just
a good ring one, just straight up. And at some
(53:11):
point you can't do just pay per view. And I
know they're aren't they doing like a two for three,
Like if you buy two out of three, we'll give
you it's only ninety bucks or one hundred dollars. So okay,
it's still only forty five fifty bucks. But still it's
like it's the zone's already a paywall, and if you
(53:32):
want to go off of streaming like streaming competition, it's
the largest paywall, like considering what it offers, it's by
far the largest pay So you're already having to pay
for a sub. Okay, cool, But when do we get
some other stuff on there? It's just anything to do
(53:55):
with Turkey and Sadi. It's all pay per view for
the pretty much. It's only been one none pay per
view correct with the zero, right, I think that's true.
That's really bad. It's just how it goes back to
growing the sport. How do you grow the sport at
the side, you're gonna do it? Uh j Row brought
up a good point. It is ridiculous that top rank
(54:18):
the on Twitter have blocked media outlet brunch Boxing. It's
a shame that top rank is excluding a credible media outlet.
Why would you exclude a platform that speaks favorably on
so many of your fighters, like in you Way and
Mason and Carrington. Yeah, that's that's pretty ridiculous. That is
pretty ridiculous. What else have we got here? Now? Is
(54:48):
that Moses in August? Is that a pay per view? Here?
Is that going to be a pay per view here?
I could see why it'd be a PA review in
the UK? I get that, but is that going to
be a pay per view here? It does sound like
here's another one from brunch Boxing, rayvars Ray Vargas is
(55:10):
expected to make his return to the ring in August
against Carlos Castro. So we'll see, we will see. Yeah.
So here it is so if you buy two out
of three pay per views, they can be bundled for
basically ninety five dollars. So you're paying almost fifty dollars
(55:36):
for the pay per views. So between yeah, so I
mean between June twenty eighth and once again, three out
of four weekends in a row. Is that is that true?
Because that's so July okay. So the other of June,
(55:58):
so that's next weekend is that Paul fight, and then
you skip. Yeah, so three out of four weekends they
have pay per views, and if you buy two out
of the three and you bundle it, okay. So so
it's sixt they're sixty dollars each, twenty five dollars in
(56:20):
the UK. I believe that's what I'm looking at. So
so you're looking at sixty dollars if you don't if
you only want to rent one of them with sixty dollars,
if you want to rent two of them, it's ninety
or ninety five. It's just like I said, it's better
than seventy five. We get it. But and people will say, oh,
(56:47):
they're doing a huge favor. To an extent, they are,
but some of these fights they put on pay review
shouldn't be on pay per view. I mean there was
fights like in that Fox deal with PBC, they had
four pay per views the first year. I watched three
out of the four in the theaters. So I was
for those three, I was paying seventy five dollars total,
(57:08):
you know, But yet they weren't the same media members
weren't talking that up you know, they weren't saying, hey, dude,
this is how you say money. You know, I did
get some shtick last week for how I handled the
loma Chenko thing. Well, first of all, I forgot Nakatani right,
(57:31):
and that was because it was kind of a rush
show that I only had a certain amount of time
to fit in. So maybe that was part of the
Lomachenko stuff. But I thought that was pretty fair. I
thought it was pretty fair. But there were some messages
and I did notice some just boxing Twitter stuff, and
(57:53):
some of this stuff is just fanboyish, dude, like just
because he had a great he had a phenomenal amateur record.
But I thought I gave him a lot of respect.
You know. I thought the statement of he became so
overrated that he was underrated, I think that's pretty fitting.
(58:14):
Do I think he's gonna be a Hall of Famer? Yes,
I do. I do. When you look at his best wins,
they're just not all that impressive. I mean, the Rigo
is his best win, but is it that impressive considering
the weight jump? I mean, how much credit will Canelo
get if he beats Crawford off of the weight jump.
(58:36):
Let's say it's like ten to two. Let's just say, right,
ten to two, and Crawford just couldn't do anything whatever.
He was, you know, to hesitant. He got hit with
a punch early and it whatever. I don't know, but
how much credit would would he get, you know, Canelo
(58:58):
probably not a whole lot. So but here is some
boxing Twitter stuff that just this just gives me fanboy vibes.
I'm just being honest. In my book, Loma retired undefeated
and is the best fighter I ever saw. Now the
best fighter you ever saw. If you don't watch MUCKs
boxing and Loma's your favorite fighter, maybe, But to say
(59:22):
he retired undefeated, what Now, here's another one. He's definitely
one of the best to lace up the gloves come on.
His skill set was on another level from most fighters.
I wish he had added a cornerman that could have
helped him more than his dad could real time. His
(59:44):
three loss losses could have been avoided with a better
corner help. I don't know if I blame that to
be honesty, because it's up to you. It's up to
the fighter. Though you knew what was at stake down
the stretch of a fight or in the beginning of
a fight. If you look at how Lomachenko fought in
(01:00:07):
the beginning of that tale female fight, it was like,
what are you doing? You know, so I don't know.
And like I said, close fights aren't robberies. Dude. If
you thought Devin Haney lost to Loma, cool, but to
call it a robbery, it's just it's showing your fandom
Mark o'chaiga. He tweeted out, Lomachek was extremely talented fighter,
(01:00:32):
some of the best skills I've ever seen, but he
ended up with a B minus or a B plus
career when we were all promised much more than that.
Didn't quite live up to the insane expectations. Like I said,
the guy was popular. Man. You know this is rolled
partial on the feet or unified, and it partially unified.
(01:00:54):
At one thirty five one won the ring belt, but
it was never lineal. I agree with that. Best wins Lenares, Walters,
Rigo and Gary Russell Jr. And those are all good wins.
I mean the Walters one you could say was his
best performance. Maybe you know, you really could, you really could.
(01:01:15):
I thought all three losses were legit and who he
actually beat borderline Hall of Famer but yeah, to me,
I just, I just you know, is Gary Russell Jr.
Going into the Hall of Fame? Do you think Lenares
is going in the Hall of Fame. I did hear
people talking about, you know, Eddie Hern being mad at
(01:01:38):
at Richardson Hitchins feeling disrespected. Jay Row said Eddie invested
zero of his own money on Hitchins. He used his
own budget to pay Hitchins. Tired of these promoters with
network deals and budgets acting like they're losing their own
money to put up fights they're not. That's a good point.
Eddie gets paid five million a year for his own
(01:01:59):
no matter if the card makes money or not. Now
he's trying to blame a fighter for Eddie not able
to sell an event. Yeah, I mean, you know, he
did say he lost a bunch of They lost a
bunch of money. You know, it is what it is. Oh,
(01:02:20):
I saw a lot of people, so I can't see
who I remember. I remember seeing this on Twitter, but
someone sent this to me and they cut off the
person that posted it. I just can't remember who did it.
But British Best Ever Boxer list right he put Lennox
(01:02:42):
Lewis Kalzaggi, Hatton u Bank Senior, Ben Joshua Bu Cannon,
cont Con Frotzen Fury first of all, to put Tyson
Fury at ten and have Anthony Joshua Sex is ludicrous
(01:03:03):
to have a mirror con above Carl Frotz. I wouldn't
go there, but you know, we people do tend to
forget some of the things he did at a lower
weight class. I will say that. But you know, Prince Nazine,
I did hear this. Someone actually said Josh Taylor, Well
(01:03:24):
he's not British though he's not British, so there's a
difference between the UK and in British, you know. But
you know, Fitz Simmons, h Jimmy Wilde, Duke McKenzie. I
(01:03:48):
heard some other names too. Yeah, the list is pretty incomplete.
I will say that, and I think it's out of order.
But I just I think the aging thing is why umm,
here's Fred again having a promoter reach out to someone
to have them agree they won't pay a fighter unless
(01:04:09):
they're the promoters, and is involved as fucking illegal. Yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know man, uh well,
Gary and Gary Antoine Russell. How can a guy lose
to me four times in the amateurs. We both have
belts in the same division, yet don't even want to
(01:04:30):
fight me. Boxing is getting soft for real. I fight.
I'll fight anyone as long as it makes sense, money
or legacy. Thank you's talking about see you talk about Hitchins.
I think, yeah, I also got some top range stuff.
(01:04:52):
I don't know if they have deals in place or not.
I've heard that. I've heard a variety of things. I've
heard they're gonna have their own streaming service, and I
didn't just hear it from you know who. I've heard
(01:05:14):
that they're going to you know that they have a
deals in place and they're going to announce it. So
I don't know whether it's because we heard a while ago,
I did hear this, or I did see this this
dude's say. I just talked to Arab in Japan about
(01:05:34):
the broadcast situation. Obviously Netflix is the biggest, but there
are other streaming services that are looking to make a
deal with them, and also one big network that wants
to make a deal. Once we put that together within
the next two weeks, we'll have a big announcement. So
but we did hear that before. I will say that
(01:05:54):
we did hear that before, So that's not you know
what I mean, That's not like that's what he told
other people. So I don't know, man, I really don't know.
I think, yeah, what we're gonna find out. I want
(01:06:15):
the best for boxing. So oh, here's a good way
to end this is BBC News. I saw this on
the brunch Boxing Twitter handle. Boxing trainer Steffie Bull has
been has been found guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine.
He faces up to sixteen years in prison. Boltrain and
(01:06:35):
Harper McDonald hughes. The bb of C says the license
is under review. So oh, boy, was moving some real
weight anyway. I think I'm gonna get out of here.
Let's just hope for this weekend to be multiple fights
(01:06:55):
that are like, dude, this fight's not necessarily leading to
that many places. I mean, you FI in some others.
But but it was just a good scrap, you know.
I do think we're gonna have a few just goodass scraps. Ultimately,
like I said, they don't have a major value to them.
(01:07:16):
But there's some good fighters fighting this weekend and it
might just be a competitive weekend that we kind of remember, like, hey, dude,
that was a good ass weekend. So I've said it before,
I'll say it again. You know, it's like a broken record,
but like a fair amount of times, these weekends, they
just they just tend to pop off. Man. They tend
(01:07:38):
to pop off with a fight like a fight of
the year. And it might, like I said, I not
have a ton of meaning to it, but it's just
a top ten fight of the year. Anyway, I'm gonna
get out of here, enjoy the fights this weekend. I'll
be back next week Piece
Hey, what are boxing fans? This is the Rope of
Dove Radio podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carlson. We are
live on a Wednesday afternoon. I hope everybody's doing okay.
We will talk about some action that happened last weekend. Obviously,
Richardson Hitchens leads the way with a very easy victory,
(00:26):
looking really good, especially that jab against cambosas Andy Cruz
will talk a little bit about briefly talk about some
guys that are past their prime, one Francisco Estrada and
especially no need to don'nare, So we won't spend a
(00:48):
whole lot of time with that. And also I got
a message from someone that brought up a good point
about I guess you could say an air I made
when not covering a certain fighter. So we will discuss
that as well this week and weekend, because you know tomorrow,
(01:11):
well I suppose it's gonna be pretty early in the morning.
Brian Norman Junior returns on ESPN plus Milanek on Saturday.
You Faia Rodriguez on Saturday. There is some more fights
as well. Nothing stands way out as far as a
big time fight, but I'm guessing that Norman fight will
(01:35):
be pretty entertaining. And then you know, we do have
some current fight news. You know, well, what will Hitchins
and do or Hitchins do next? What will Andy Kruz
do next? Is you know there's a potential title shot.
Would that happen? A little bit more news out of
(01:58):
the David Benevitez camp involving his potentially his next fight.
Oh yeah. And then in a clap back, Oscar de
la Hoya said something about Canelo and Crawford that I
hope he's just bullshitting or got you know, bad information,
(02:22):
or if it's true, that they change it. But if
it's true, it's like what are we doing here? But
I don't know it to be true because it is
coming from you know, Oscar de la Joya, who clearly
you know is mad at the media, mad in general
(02:45):
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stuff going on this weekend, because there there is some action,
no doubt. But we'll start in the Ring on the
card from the Theater in Madison Square Garden. The main
(04:38):
event Hitchens and Cambosa right off the bat, just a
stiff and steady jabs and a couple of nice right
hands from Hitchens. You know, Cambosa's had these little minor
stints of of success if you want to call it that,
(04:59):
like a jab in some body work. But you could
even tell after the second or third round. You could
see camboss was getting touched up. I mean, you could
see the writing on the wall. By the third and
fourth round. He got the jab, you got the pot
shot with the right hand to the head. You know,
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Camboss in the third did land some good body shots
and a nice counter right hand to the head in exchange,
but it wasn't anything. I didn't give Cambos's one round,
you know, leg in the fourth round beyond a few
decent lands, Hitchins just landing the cleaner punches. I will
say this. In the fifth round Richardson Hitchins, you know,
(05:46):
in the second half really started landing heavy punches. And
you know, give credit to Camboses for fighting back and whatnot.
But and even in the sixth he was showing life
in spots, but just a better overall shot. The seventh, Yeah,
there was some two way stuff. Like I said, I
want to give King Bosa's credit. He didn't just quit
(06:07):
in there, but you know, he was just getting beat
and then you come to the eighth round, a left
hand to the body drops cam Bosa's. He didn't have
much to say as far as you know it was
(06:29):
a bad stoppage or anything like that. You know, just
a really great performance by Richardson Hitchins. Like like I said,
his jab is one of the better jabs in boxing.
He just he is a very good fighter. You know,
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he's got a pretty good defense. Uh you know, once
it gets up close. He used the high guard. He
did kind of step around and just use minor barely
even pivoting, but just minor you know, movement, just to
stay a little bit out of range. But they're to
(07:12):
still deliver a punch. So overall, the fight went pretty
much how I thought it would be. I was wondering
about the stoppage. I didn't think that he would get it,
per se. I was favoring the unanimous decision. Excuse me,
(07:32):
obviously it was well on its way to the United decision.
But you know, beyond like I said, Cambosa is having
a little success here and there and showing some heart
and staying in there when he was taking a fair
amount of punishment, shouts out to him, where does he
go from now? Cambosa's are from here? I don't know,
(07:53):
you know, like he's he's done really well financially. It's
hard to tell a guy who's fought really good talent
and just lost to just hang him up. He still
has he probably still has some fight left in him,
but it's all about what levels he wants to fight at.
(08:18):
I've even seen multiple fighters of late call him out
that were a little like a zine. They're they're they
were younger and that type of thing. And and I
don't know if he wants to be, you know, that
type of gatekeeper. You can make an argument he's already
in gatekeeper mode, but not really based off his competition.
(08:41):
I've seen people say he's a gatekeeper. Maybe he is now,
but I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't call him a
gatekeeper just yet as far as these last couple of fights,
because you know, he's just not he's not gatekeeping yet.
He's not fighting super young prospers that's trying to prove
himself to become a contender, you know, so and you know,
(09:10):
the further remove, like I said last week, the further
removed we'd get from that tale Femo fight. It just
it was a crazy upset. Clearly Lopez wasn't taking the
fight serious. That's not to take anyway any you know,
any credit away from you know, Gambosa's he did his thing.
(09:31):
It was actually a really fun fight to watch. Tao
just fought in a manner he normally doesn't fight, and
he caught him on a shitty night and not even
a bad night actually just a not a fully focused
tale obviously, but credit to him. He did get the
job done. He fought Hani back to back, fought Maxi Hughes,
(09:53):
which I thought he lost that fight fout Lomachenko. I
guess you could say his last fight. If he were
to stay on that level, it would be a gate
keeper mode. And maybe, like I said, that's where he's
at now. I still think he could fight guys that
are contenders already, that are just trying to get to
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that next level. But when you fight you know Teyo, Femo, Haini,
Loma Shanko and now Richard Richardson Hitchins and even Max Hughes,
I just don't say that that's you were a gatekeeper
for all those guys. You know, I just don't agree
with that, but maybe that's what he'll turn into. I mean,
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his response when called out by younger fighters was like, hey, man,
go fight somebody, you know where you can prove yourself.
So we'll see, you know, we'll see where he goes.
As far as Hitchens, you know, Teyo Femo and Hani
has been thrown out there. He made it known that
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he's a free agent, and Eddie Hern you know, to
take too kind of that, but he I'm not he
kind of I don't know. I'm not saying he backtrack
because he is a free agent, but he did kind
of backtrack. I got some quotes I think from I
think it was the boxing voice that, you know, some
(11:19):
of the things he said. All of a sudden, He's like, well, no,
it's not that I don't you know, it's not that
he doesn't want to stay with Mattroom, but I don't know,
like in the ring, I'm a free agent. You know,
some people were pretty down on that. Obviously Eddie was,
and I get it, like you know, but this is
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what he said in the boxing voice. He said Richardson
basically on Eddie hearn the free agency situation. I don't
really want to get into that with me and Eddie.
Eddie gave me opportunity when I needed it. He gave
me the structure when I needed most. Being in talks
now with Devin Haney and the Teo females starting to
now be become a boxing star. I don't think he's
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a boxing star, but become one obviously. I want to
continue the relationship with Eddie. I love Eddie. I respect
him as a man. He's always been a gentleman to me.
So he's saying that, But clearly Eddie didn't think it
was too professional or gentleman like to say that he's
(12:25):
a free agent right in the ring. After you know
what Eddie had it helped him out, I had him
on a deal whatever. And I and I get it
from Eddie's perspective to an extent. But we'll see where
he goes. If he of those two fights you know
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are available, that'd be great, that would be phenomenal. But
we'll see, you know what I mean, We'll see if
we if we get there, we'll see if those fights
get done. And and like I said, Eddie was pretty
pissed to the point where he's like well, what was
(13:06):
this quote. He's basically like saying, well, he's not going
to do a fighting lessons with me, like Turkey said
he didn't want to do a fighting lessons with me,
which is still kind of like okay, well then you
don't really have any room for like, you know, professionalism
or being mad at that, because now you're going with that,
(13:28):
like there is part of it is just like taking
it out of the chin. Oh well, you know, not
the end of the world type thing. But I don't know,
it just was uh but like I said, Lopez or
Hani would be great for oh, here we go. Oh
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he said, I feel disrespected because it's not I. Oh,
I did feel disrespected because it's not him. It's just
the dogs around him. Even though he did say it,
he said he headlined him in Orlando Vegas where we
lost a lot of money. Richardson's a good kid. He's
just got some snakes around him. So he was, like
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I said, he was not too happy about that, and
like I said, I get it. But here's a little
bit more Golden boy ceo Oscar de la Jollo. This
is for Ring magazine calls for Richardson Hitchens to discuss
working together. In response to Eddie's Hearn comments to the Ring,
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Hearn express disappointment but confirmed Turkey told him he'll only
work with Hitchens if Mattroom is involved. And see, now
I think that's weak too, you know. So if you
can say, oh, well, you know, it probably shouldn't be
this way, or you know, to me to turn right
(14:56):
around and then do that is like, oh, well, fu too,
then you know, I don't know. I thought it was
a little weak. But either way, hopefully Hitchins, who look
damn good against a fighter by the way, he was
supposed to look damn good at but but he's look
really good lately. So the last two fights he's looked
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top like on the top level for him, that's for sure.
His jab is really really good. I'd love to see
him in a matchup like that against another skilled, high
level guy. I think it's you know, I'm really really
looking forward to that. If it were to I shouldn't
say looking forward to it, because we don't know exactly
what's gonna come up that so I don't want to
(15:42):
get too happy, you know what I mean. Oops, So
Andy Cruz was winning the fight third round, there was
he basically just started off on and like really you know,
(16:06):
doing his thing, big right hands. I think it was
I think that was that was that was it a
right Yeah, it was the right hands, because the right
hands were actually doing the most punishment. He was hitting
them with everything, but the right hand especially repeatedly dropped them.
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Then like hooks and uppercuts in a late right hand
dropped him. So he dropped them twice and then basically
two rounds later in the fifth round another It was
kind of an action packed moment. You know, old boy
wasn't really laying a lot back obviously, but big like
(16:52):
like I said, cooks uppercuts in, a big right hand
finished the fight. So Cruise, you know, Crew's got it in,
did his thing. Those right hands, like I said, were
the We're the ones that were really having the effect.
The boy was pretty tough though, I'll give him that.
(17:12):
But Martia, now we'll see if Martya and Cruz, if
that fight can happen, because you know it's supposed to happen.
You know that that is something that you know, sanctioning
belt wise, it's it can happen now, So it's the
(17:36):
ibf ah, Well, it's it actually, I think it's wouldn't
it be for like, actually, let me check. I think
it's like, yeah, I think that he I think he'll
be the mando because wasn't that the well, the final eliminator,
(17:57):
as we know, can be skewed clearly, but hopefully that
that didn't and let's see if they can make that fight.
Obviously it's two different promotional companies, but that would be
a very good fight, a huge step up really for
both of them. But yeah, sign me up for that fight.
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I think that would be very interesting to see it,
and it should be next you know. I think that
would be I think that would be dope. I would
like that a lot. You also had Tremona knocked it
out in the first round. That really really wasn't much
there as far as like, you know, I don't know that.
(18:47):
Some of the undercard fights were pretty shitty obviously, but
you know, he did his job, so shouts out to him.
You also had uh Nonino ton Air fight over the weekend.
He got a unanimous that like a technical unanimous decision
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basically donaire. I think it was his. I think it
was this right eye. It was a headbutt, and there
was a few of them. I'd say three or four
of them something like that, maybe maybe more. I think
it was above his right eye let me look at
(19:30):
mid Yeah, above his right eye. And basically, you know,
Donaire said that like, hey, dude, that you know, I
can't see out of this ship. And they went obviously
to the cards and you know, did he look you know,
did he look great or anything like that? No, you
(19:51):
know he didn't. He didn't look great. Moses uh knocked
out Carl Rogers too. On that undercard. I did forget
to mention that, not that it's you know, like I said,
that was just kind of like, eh, okay, that's happening,
you know it. It's It wasn't like I don't know it.
(20:16):
The the undercard basically sucked pretty much, to be honest
with you, but you know, those who were supposed to
win did their thing. But yeah, you know it was uh,
it was like a let me see years like maybe
(20:39):
like two out of the nine rounds. I think it
was like, let me look at my story card. I
think it was like I gave Campos and don there
yeah to two rounds. So you know, it is what
it is. He's back. We'll see how long he lasts
(21:01):
didn't didn't look all that great. Took him a little
while the motor well kind of to get the motor running,
but you know, it is what it is. Also one
Francisco Estrada, he actually well, as we know, you know,
he's getting up there in age now and you know,
(21:27):
this is part of boxing. This is like on the
other side of the boxing where it's just shit happens,
you know, and he just he just came back. He's
probably looking for a big fight. He you know, handled
this dude ursay uh. I think he had like three knockdowns.
(21:49):
I didn't score it, but it was pretty, you know,
pretty one sided. You know that that was a pretty uh,
pretty easy fight to score if you were gonna score it,
but I didn't. I did not. Also from the twenty
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three hundred Arena in Philly, there were some interesting fights.
Mercado beat Pizzarro. The scorecards read one was a draw
and then one with ninety seven ninety three, ninety six,
ninety four for Mercado. I did think Mercado won, and
I think a lot of it was his power punching.
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You know, you had Pizarro landing the jab. They both
went to the body. Well, I think it was pretty clear,
like the jabs were the biggest thing, like I said,
for U Pizzarro, and he definitely landed a fair amount
of those. It was sixty one to twenty four, but
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one fourteen of seventy seventy four by Mercado as power shots.
He really just kind of just kind of took over
the fight, you know, down the stretch. It was a
really good back and forth fight though. But yeah, I
would say like the big, the more, the most powerful shots,
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that that's you know, that's what that's what did it.
And also there was a woman's fight Leanna Cruz and
Regina and Javas, and Javas put Cruise on the canvas
in the first round and they were getting it in. Dude,
they were getting it in. Like if you look at it,
(23:37):
it's a it's a ten round fight. Crew Chavaz through
six eighty nine to four point fifty eight. But Cruise
landed one ninety two to one ninety one, almost basically
forty two of her overall shots. You know, that's that's
tough to do. And and they were they were messing
(23:58):
with the jab a little bit, but it was mostly
power shots. In eighty four to forty six from Cruise
to the Body. That was a fun fight to watch.
I did enjoy that fight. Those were some good fights,
you know. I I do appreciate that twenty three hundred building.
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I think what else there was a cruiserweight, undefeated cruiserweight
who got to win. I think it was a late
knockdown Leonardo Masque or something like that. Oh and I someone,
(24:42):
like I mentioned earlier, someone pointed out to me that
last week I forgot to talk about not that Tani okay.
And it's funny because the second also Arislani Alvarez, who's
like he was a He was that guy who won
the Olympics in two thousand, the gold medal in the
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last Olympics he he won as well. I forgot to
mention that. So it's funny because right when I was
done with the show I had, I was reading from
a scorecard, like looking at a scorecard, right, and I
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thought that I was done with those notes, so I
just kind of put him to the side. And as
I was gathering to see which ones I wanted to
keep and throw away because sometimes in certain fights, I'll
keep the scorecard. And I looked and on the back
of it was was Nakatani and it's like, oh, I
wanted to talk about that fight, so yeah, thanks for
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reminding me. I did. I did forget to talk about
that last week against Nashida. Hey, Nashena showed some heart, dude,
Like he was landing in exchanges at times he was
I mean, he was still trying to fight with like
a closed eye, but Nakatsani was getting the better of
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him in the exchanges and those hooks and uppercuts KO win.
But it was competitive. Like I would say, I would say, like,
oops the hell. I would say, like the first I
think that. Let me look at that scorecard. I kept
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it round the third, I would say, the third and
the fourth are rounds that you could give to Nashido.
That's what I'm That's that was my thoughts. But yeah,
junto you know, I it was a unification. I really
wish that we could get you know, the anyway fight
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next or by the end of the year. But it
sounds like the way they talked about it, you know
early in the spring, that it's going to be next spring.
But he did look good, like I said, he.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Was just unloading these shots, dude, just basically landing anything
he wanted, but I mentioned Ishidah many he did show
some heart.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Gotta respect that because he was he was fighting all
the way to the end, and dude had a closed eye,
you know what I mean. So good call, though, much
appreciated when people give me, you know, a reminder criticism,
as long as this constructive criticism, I appreciate that. So
(27:39):
definitely happy that you brought that up, because I did
forget to talk about Nakazzani, who you know, is a
top ten fighter and many people's eyes, and he said,
he's an explosive, young, you know, guy who's in his prime,
and that's why you really want to you know, you
don't want to see anyway get out of his prime.
(28:01):
And I mean it's gonna happen at some point, but
before this fight, you know, and I think some of
us are kind of mad because last year they had
said that, you know, basically the fight would have already
happened by now, or it was gonna happen this summer
or whatever, because they were supposed to be on the
same card and that didn't work. But you know, it
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is what it is. But Na Katsani, Yes, that was
that was really that's a good call I did forget
and also tension uh Thesakawasakawa. He looked good against Victor Santio,
that was uh. I mean he beat him up pretty
(28:44):
good obviously, and Sancio was a good pretty good fighter.
Doesn't have a lot of power. Was in a very
competitive fight with the Shida, and you know, he doesn't
have a lot of good names per se as far
as like who he beat, you know, but that was
a good performance too. I thought I might add to that.
(29:07):
So Brian Norman Junior is gonna fight like in the
wee hours of the morning, okay, Sasaki, It's on ESPN plus.
You know, I think that I think it's gonna be
(29:31):
like a spirited fight. While at lasts I think Brian
Norman Junior will knock him out, for like, I believe
in that. I do think he will do that, but
I I think it could be it could be really fun,
(29:53):
you know, while we get there. You know, I do
think that it should be a pretty fun your fight
or just two dudes mixing it up. If you want
to go in against Norman. Vandel has it plus four
to ten. Right now, there is a Semmesry and Aronetta
(30:19):
is a really close fight going on too. That's like
a plus one oh six minus one forty, so that
that should be a really you know, competitive fight anyway
on paper. Let's see here, So you know, we we
have like Melanecki returning, there's some stuff on that undercard
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as well. You Faire Rodriguez. That should be a good fight.
Kind of looking forward to that. I also think Lorenzo
Simpson and John Tucker. I think Tucker is gonna win
the fight, but I bet she's Simpson, who is a
fairly live dog. I've been in him around like the
(31:01):
plus two fifty plus two sixty, plus two seventy I
think is the highest. Let me check right now on
pro boxing odds. Yeah, still right around that. FanDuel has
him plus two sixty. So if you like that, jump
on that. Personally, you know, I do like John Tucker
(31:22):
in that fight, but you know, it's just something to
keep an eye on. What other fights do we have?
The Walker Taylor fight, Uh, that should be a good
fight on paper anyway. Taylor the highest I see him
as like a plus two hundred two ten something like that. So,
(31:46):
like I said this week, and it doesn't like like uh,
David Stevens, who's a very slight favorite over Peter Kamukov Kmukov.
That's like a pick him fight. So it is one
of those weekends that, sure, you know, it may not
(32:10):
blow you away, right, but I bet you we just
get some good fights. Brandon Lee is fighting as well.
You know, he's fighting a guy who you know, who's
basically like fought guys like Cabarero and I know he
(32:31):
fought Martaya and uh who else did he fight some
unbeaten a war as I believe Omar Warres. So you know,
I think it's just getting Brandon Lee a fight, you know,
and it'd be nice to get him, get him going.
(32:55):
Basically he fought in the summer last year, so you know,
he's just in a fight. I guess you could say,
I mean to be honest with you, just to be honest,
but yeah, the joh Tucker Lorenzo Smith Veto is taking
on an unbeaten guy that doesn't have a lot of
(33:17):
power guard seelick or something like that. I've seen him
fight just like Actually, I think I watched some of
the Joelle Julio fight if I remember, it was a
few years back, and I've just seen like highlights of them.
But you know, Veto is he's probably gonna win this fight.
(33:40):
He's coming off you know, a close fight. So yeah,
like I said, I'm not trying to like pump up
these fights and be like, dude, this weekend's gonna be crazy,
But there are just times when these these weekends just
pop off. Dude, it'll be interesting to see uh Peter
(34:02):
mcrel and uh Balluta. You know that's just like it's
just there. You know, it'll just probably be a good scrap.
You know. Once again, I'm not trying to say, man,
this weekend is gonna be awesome. But the the Galileafaya
(34:24):
fight I am looking forward to. I think he's a
pretty good fighter. He's obviously coming up that Sonny Edwards
late last year, coming off you know, big ass win
for him and Francisco Rodriguez. You know, I think he'll
fight him competitive. He's a guy that actually, well he
made it ten rounds against Nakatani. Now did he win
(34:46):
a bunch of rounds? It was six to four. No,
he did fight a somewhat competitive fight even longer ago
against Kazuto Ioka, But so you know, I did I
like by decision. I think I think I'm gonna go
by a decision with you, Faya. But Francissler Rodrie is
(35:10):
a good fighter. You know. It's not like he's been
stopped a bunch, right, and when he did get stopped
and actually, Jesus, I forgot about the I remember the
I forgot about the Flint Days fight. I remember the Yeah,
(35:31):
I mean he got stopped like against roaming gets all
all over back in two thousand and thirteen. So you know,
I don't really look at that as like, oh dude,
you know, so that's why I have it. I have
if I uh, winning that fight, but I could see
like a little bit of competitives in there. But you know,
(35:52):
coming off that Sonny Edwards fight where he basically just
ran through him one every round, I believe in my scorecard.
So so yeah, he uh, he's kind of the biggest
fight I'm looking forward to. You know, when it comes
to the to the weekend, there's a just a mixed
(36:16):
bag of everything and we'll see, you know, hopefully we
get some bangers in there. There's also that WBC Boxing
Grand Prix on Friday night that uh com com u god,
I can't remember that's who's Stevens. How you say his
(36:38):
last name? That's on his own though. Friday night, Camukov
and Stevens, that should be a good fight. I do
like that fight. And that's that's about it for the weekend.
(37:00):
I think video win might knock him out, maybe not.
I think Tucker will win by decision. But let's just
hope that, you know, shit just pops off and it
turns out to be you know, like multiple fights that
are just great. You know what else you got here?
(37:24):
I think that's about it for the weekend, I believe. Yeah.
So let's talk about Canelo Crawford in Oscire de Joya
(37:45):
what he said just in general, he was saying that,
you know, all the ring magazine writers are off the
media or is paid off, I should say in the
media in general, the way he put it, is paid off,
and that people aren't going to talk about Eddie Renoso
or talk about because you know, they've had a lot
(38:07):
of people busted in his camp. And so he said
there should be an investigation, and and he also said,
you know, I'm gonna talk to Eddie, I'm gonna talk
to Al and we're not going anywhere. And you know,
he basically kind of looks like he's on the out
with Turkey. And when you say stuff like you know,
(38:31):
they're paid off and they're not going to say anything.
And you know, now, to be fair, if you go
back and listen to what Oscar said when he was
selling the Ring magazine to Turkey, you know, he talked
pretty well of him, right, So that part's pretty contradicting
(38:53):
because it's like, oh, really, okay, well, if you don't
like the scenario that's going on, what the hell did
you sell the Ring? Then you know it is what
it is, right. But so he said some other stuff, right,
But his clap back included Canelo Crawford is going to
be in the afternoon and they're going to do a
(39:16):
UFC event at night. Now, it may be completely bullshit,
it may be maybe it's true, but they're going to
change it. You know, I really don't know. But if
they because they're gonna you know, it just got announce
that it's going to be in uh, it's going to
be in a stadium, Allegiance Stadium where the Raiders play.
(39:38):
So if it were during the b during the afternoon,
and that would be college football really all the way
in by that time. That'd be ridiculous. It would just
be ridiculous. Now I don't know it to be true,
(40:00):
but if it's in the afternoon, and if that were
to be true, that'd be just silly, right. But also
like if it's in the afternoon and you say it's
big a fight, it is, but then it's gonna make
room it's in the afternoon for the UFC to have
a bed at night, that would be acid. However, I'm
(40:21):
not the type to just believe Oscar either. And I
could also see if if Turkey got some public criticism
for the time, I could see his ass somehow changing it.
You know, I don't know. So yeah, I've already gave
my thoughts on you know, it being on Netflix, which
(40:43):
is phenomenal. You know, the stadium vibe when you have
a guy like Canelo and Crawford, who's a perfect B
side for Canelo, that should do really well there as
far as attendance. But yeah, I just hope it's not
during the day. That would be ridiculous. Oh. Also, Benavidez
(41:09):
and Calliam Smith are in negotiations. I first heard this
from an interview where Eddie Hearn said as much right.
He said that you know, we do have an offer
and this is from Ring Magazine that it's it's in
(41:31):
play for October. Eddie Hearn did say that the PBC
gave Calliam Smith an offer, right, and they're targeting Vegas
or Dallas, and you know Benavid has said I also,
you know, if if there was a counter offer, I
would be willing to go to the UK if it's right.
(41:55):
But you know that they're targeting Dallas or Vegas and
they're negotiating it. You know there, I guess Samson said
that Anthony Yard, who stared to Frank Warren, would be
a consideration if that deal falls through. But if that
deal felt through, my guess is that's the fight you
(42:16):
know that would be made Kelly Smithy Yard. But maybe
that's just me. I thought that was the fight that
was going to happen, to be honest with you, but
basically said, you know, you know, Eddie Hearn, if they
want to make the deal, we're one phone call away.
(42:38):
And so you know, given the landscape, giving the actual fights,
we know the canal fight's not going to happen for now.
If it ever happens, which you know, I wouldn't get
helps up. That would be a good that would be
a good fight. That'd be a good fight in a
string of really good fights. So also I honesed on
(43:02):
Ring Magazine today that that the TKO Boxing plans the
stage twelve events per year for the next five years,
including four mega matchups per year. So maybe per season,
maybe there'll be two in the summer. Who knows, they
(43:23):
won't go as heavy during football or something. I have
no clue, but so basically once a month or it
says twelve events per year, So like I said, maybe
in the summer they double up or something like that.
So we'll see what kind of events these will be,
you know, and who's on the roster, and maybe they're
(43:47):
not looking to build up a big roster and they're
just gonna, you know, go little by little. And I
don't really know. I don't know. I really don't know
exactly how that's gonna go. So anyway, do do do do?
So let's get into some other fight news and you know,
(44:13):
boxing Twitter stuff and all that. Like I said, you know,
we now know a lot of a Legion stadium that's
where the fight's taking place. Oh, also, him Mungia's b
sample returned, and you know it, it was the same
as the A side or the A side, the A sample.
(44:35):
Here's a quote from Deontay Wilder Quitting was never an option.
Boxing isn't a game. It's survival. He's got a fight
coming out, not this weekend, but next weekend. I don't know.
There was a quote here on this zone that Edgar
Berlanga has himself beating, so this is what he thinks.
(44:58):
A prime Nigel Ben a prime jokel Zagi Canelo want
to rematch in a prime Felix Trinidad, that's who he thinks.
Uh he he would beat. So like we've seen you
in your prime? When are you gonna get good victories?
To say that you're gonna beat all these dudes, like
(45:20):
it's just it's just funny, not really, No, oh yeah.
Adamsins called out George campbos Is the fight September twenty fifth.
You know, I don't look too much into that. It
(45:41):
is what it is. Do I So someone messes me?
Do I think that Sasaki is a like a worthy
opponent for Norman? And you know, I do think he's
gonna you know, like land punches and all that, and
(46:04):
I think it will be fun. Like I mentioned, it'll
be entertaining. I just think like the the more accurate,
shorter punch, like the more the better, not just the
better puncher, but like I said, the more accurate, the shorter,
the I just that that's gonna be his undoing, you know,
(46:25):
whether he deserves We're gonna find out if he deserves
to be in there or not, you know, obviously, you know,
so we will see how that goes. So, yeah, with
which Hitchinson. Now you have Russell play you Lopez and Hitchins.
That's that's what the division looks like. This is Adrian
(46:51):
Delgatto talking about Richard Hitchins to exactly what he was
supposed to do. He was always had a great jab
that sets its tone by controlling range, shirtedness and well
placed sharp punches. Ended up closing the Shoy show. Excuse me,
poised patient dangerous when he walked down Cambosas. Yeah, I
did like how he he did that. He definitely like
(47:14):
he had these moments where he pushed them back. I
really hope he gets big fight. Oh yeah. There was
a little like box wreck scenario with Virgil Ortiz and
there was an apology basically like there was a fight
(47:34):
or two fights. Ye had two results. This is from
Bunch Bunch Boxing earlier today, two results of a boxing
record of Virginal Orties were erroneously changed in no contest.
The air has been since corrected. So they were saying
sorry about the confusion. Oh yeah. Edwin de los Santo's
(47:56):
parted ways with Samson. He said there was a quote
for Coppinger. Unfortunately. What bothered me was the most that
I was offered fifty thousand to continue to fight. My
coach asked for three hundred thousand because Keishaan was four
point three overweight, so he said that basically he thought
(48:19):
he should get more money out of it in that scenario.
But yeah, I guess it came as a pretty big surprise.
So you know, kind of surprise when it comes to that. Okay.
This is also from Brunch Boxing. The WBC will order
(48:42):
about between interim WBC Junior minaweight Virgil Ortase and Sir
Hey Boachuck. So there's gonna be a rematch there. I
don't know how I feel about that, but it's not
like it's not a good fight, you know what I mean, Boachuck.
I think it's basically Bocher came out of a really
shitty performance, and I'm sure he'll get up for this fight,
(49:06):
but he did come off a fight where he didn't
look good at all, So you know, it just seems
like kind of been there, done that. But you have
to admit that the fight probably warranted a rematch, So
I'm okay with that. This is Broadway, Joel. He said
(49:27):
that you know Edwin de los Santo's did not sign
with Jay Prince. It sounds like they were close to
a deal, but it actually hasn't happened just yet, so yeah,
I don't know. Oh here's Naji said, Damn Edwin, he
(49:50):
looked out for you talking about Sampson. You were drained
and more unlikely would have got your ass whooped. But
that could affect your career, he said, whole game. I
will say this de los Santo's no matter what would
happen in the week or whatever, or in that fight,
he did look drained. Though his face looked drained, I
(50:11):
will say that he definitely looked drained. I do have
to think that darn Ennis says two things I ain't
doing hate not nobody and waiting on nobody. Ooh, we
heard this from. I believe it was Cambosa's camp. I
(50:31):
think it was his father. He said the ring size
for the whole Berlanga Hira's card will be eighteen by
eighteen instead of twenty by twenty. Umm, here's a tweet.
I can't tell it's from because it's cut off. Turkey
used Oscar, but Oscar cash the checks. Then Turkey bought
the ring ring from him, And now Oscar is salty.
(50:56):
I'd be salty too, but let's be real. He played
his part and got paid. Can't cry now, Like I said,
I don't know tweeted that, but yeah, I agree. Dillion
White does sound like it's one hundred percent on with Moses.
And you have a Kakachi and Ford, nick Ball and Goodman.
(51:20):
You got uh Adelai and Hergevic. So it's kind of
interesting there, kind of a little interesting card there. I
kind of kind of like that that. I think it's
a good step up. We'll see what Dillion White, you know,
has left, but I think it's a good step up
for Moses Bakrahan September thirteenth, eyeballs, the one fifty four
(51:46):
pounder who shocked the world beaten Tim Zu. We'll see
is he back now? Between June twenty eighth and July nineteenth,
the Zone Boxing has three pay per views in addition
to either the annual or Monkey subscription. What are we
doing here? Yeah? I mean you have Jake Paul Chabas,
(52:08):
you have Usik Dubois, and then you have the Berlanga,
Shiraz and Shakur zippot of it. The thing is, and
you know what those twenty five dollars you know, those
twenty five dollars pay views are out the window now,
just like that. You know, there was so much whole
home about it. There was so much well it wasn't
(52:29):
he home. The media was just like, oh dude, look
what he's doing for us. You know, first of all,
I knew that one stand and two it is true,
like the Usak Dubois. Should that be a pay per
view in the US? You know, it is what it is? Right,
it is what it is. You knew Jake Paul Chabas
(52:51):
was going to be a pay per view, But should
that be a pay per view? You know overseas probably not,
But I understand that. But I do wish they could
find a way not to have that. Chakorza Pata sharaz
Erlanga on pay per view. That would have been just
a good ring one, just straight up. And at some
(53:11):
point you can't do just pay per view. And I
know they're aren't they doing like a two for three,
Like if you buy two out of three, we'll give
you it's only ninety bucks or one hundred dollars. So okay,
it's still only forty five fifty bucks. But still it's
like it's the zone's already a paywall, and if you
(53:32):
want to go off of streaming like streaming competition, it's
the largest paywall, like considering what it offers, it's by
far the largest pay So you're already having to pay
for a sub. Okay, cool, But when do we get
some other stuff on there? It's just anything to do
(53:55):
with Turkey and Sadi. It's all pay per view for
the pretty much. It's only been one none pay per
view correct with the zero, right, I think that's true.
That's really bad. It's just how it goes back to
growing the sport. How do you grow the sport at
the side, you're gonna do it? Uh j Row brought
up a good point. It is ridiculous that top rank
(54:18):
the on Twitter have blocked media outlet brunch Boxing. It's
a shame that top rank is excluding a credible media outlet.
Why would you exclude a platform that speaks favorably on
so many of your fighters, like in you Way and
Mason and Carrington. Yeah, that's that's pretty ridiculous. That is
pretty ridiculous. What else have we got here? Now? Is
(54:48):
that Moses in August? Is that a pay per view? Here?
Is that going to be a pay per view here?
I could see why it'd be a PA review in
the UK? I get that, but is that going to
be a pay per view here? It does sound like
here's another one from brunch Boxing, rayvars Ray Vargas is
(55:10):
expected to make his return to the ring in August
against Carlos Castro. So we'll see, we will see. Yeah.
So here it is so if you buy two out
of three pay per views, they can be bundled for
basically ninety five dollars. So you're paying almost fifty dollars
(55:36):
for the pay per views. So between yeah, so I
mean between June twenty eighth and once again, three out
of four weekends in a row. Is that is that true?
Because that's so July okay. So the other of June,
(55:58):
so that's next weekend is that Paul fight, and then
you skip. Yeah, so three out of four weekends they
have pay per views, and if you buy two out
of the three and you bundle it, okay. So so
it's sixt they're sixty dollars each, twenty five dollars in
(56:20):
the UK. I believe that's what I'm looking at. So
so you're looking at sixty dollars if you don't if
you only want to rent one of them with sixty dollars,
if you want to rent two of them, it's ninety
or ninety five. It's just like I said, it's better
than seventy five. We get it. But and people will say, oh,
(56:47):
they're doing a huge favor. To an extent, they are,
but some of these fights they put on pay review
shouldn't be on pay per view. I mean there was
fights like in that Fox deal with PBC, they had
four pay per views the first year. I watched three
out of the four in the theaters. So I was
for those three, I was paying seventy five dollars total,
(57:08):
you know, But yet they weren't the same media members
weren't talking that up you know, they weren't saying, hey, dude,
this is how you say money. You know, I did
get some shtick last week for how I handled the
loma Chenko thing. Well, first of all, I forgot Nakatani right,
(57:31):
and that was because it was kind of a rush
show that I only had a certain amount of time
to fit in. So maybe that was part of the
Lomachenko stuff. But I thought that was pretty fair. I
thought it was pretty fair. But there were some messages
and I did notice some just boxing Twitter stuff, and
(57:53):
some of this stuff is just fanboyish, dude, like just
because he had a great he had a phenomenal amateur record.
But I thought I gave him a lot of respect.
You know. I thought the statement of he became so
overrated that he was underrated, I think that's pretty fitting.
(58:14):
Do I think he's gonna be a Hall of Famer? Yes,
I do. I do. When you look at his best wins,
they're just not all that impressive. I mean, the Rigo
is his best win, but is it that impressive considering
the weight jump? I mean, how much credit will Canelo
get if he beats Crawford off of the weight jump.
(58:36):
Let's say it's like ten to two. Let's just say, right,
ten to two, and Crawford just couldn't do anything whatever.
He was, you know, to hesitant. He got hit with
a punch early and it whatever. I don't know, but
how much credit would would he get, you know, Canelo
(58:58):
probably not a whole lot. So but here is some
boxing Twitter stuff that just this just gives me fanboy vibes.
I'm just being honest. In my book, Loma retired undefeated
and is the best fighter I ever saw. Now the
best fighter you ever saw. If you don't watch MUCKs
boxing and Loma's your favorite fighter, maybe, But to say
(59:22):
he retired undefeated, what Now, here's another one. He's definitely
one of the best to lace up the gloves come on.
His skill set was on another level from most fighters.
I wish he had added a cornerman that could have
helped him more than his dad could real time. His
(59:44):
three loss losses could have been avoided with a better
corner help. I don't know if I blame that to
be honesty, because it's up to you. It's up to
the fighter. Though you knew what was at stake down
the stretch of a fight or in the beginning of
a fight. If you look at how Lomachenko fought in
(01:00:07):
the beginning of that tale female fight, it was like,
what are you doing? You know, so I don't know.
And like I said, close fights aren't robberies. Dude. If
you thought Devin Haney lost to Loma, cool, but to
call it a robbery, it's just it's showing your fandom
Mark o'chaiga. He tweeted out, Lomachek was extremely talented fighter,
(01:00:32):
some of the best skills I've ever seen, but he
ended up with a B minus or a B plus
career when we were all promised much more than that.
Didn't quite live up to the insane expectations. Like I said,
the guy was popular. Man. You know this is rolled
partial on the feet or unified, and it partially unified.
(01:00:54):
At one thirty five one won the ring belt, but
it was never lineal. I agree with that. Best wins Lenares, Walters,
Rigo and Gary Russell Jr. And those are all good wins.
I mean the Walters one you could say was his
best performance. Maybe you know, you really could, you really could.
(01:01:15):
I thought all three losses were legit and who he
actually beat borderline Hall of Famer but yeah, to me,
I just, I just you know, is Gary Russell Jr.
Going into the Hall of Fame? Do you think Lenares
is going in the Hall of Fame. I did hear
people talking about, you know, Eddie Hern being mad at
(01:01:38):
at Richardson Hitchins feeling disrespected. Jay Row said Eddie invested
zero of his own money on Hitchins. He used his
own budget to pay Hitchins. Tired of these promoters with
network deals and budgets acting like they're losing their own
money to put up fights they're not. That's a good point.
Eddie gets paid five million a year for his own
(01:01:59):
no matter if the card makes money or not. Now
he's trying to blame a fighter for Eddie not able
to sell an event. Yeah, I mean, you know, he
did say he lost a bunch of They lost a
bunch of money. You know, it is what it is. Oh,
(01:02:20):
I saw a lot of people, so I can't see
who I remember. I remember seeing this on Twitter, but
someone sent this to me and they cut off the
person that posted it. I just can't remember who did it.
But British Best Ever Boxer list right he put Lennox
(01:02:42):
Lewis Kalzaggi, Hatton u Bank Senior, Ben Joshua Bu Cannon,
cont Con Frotzen Fury first of all, to put Tyson
Fury at ten and have Anthony Joshua Sex is ludicrous
(01:03:03):
to have a mirror con above Carl Frotz. I wouldn't
go there, but you know, we people do tend to
forget some of the things he did at a lower
weight class. I will say that. But you know, Prince Nazine,
I did hear this. Someone actually said Josh Taylor, Well
(01:03:24):
he's not British though he's not British, so there's a
difference between the UK and in British, you know. But
you know, Fitz Simmons, h Jimmy Wilde, Duke McKenzie. I
(01:03:48):
heard some other names too. Yeah, the list is pretty incomplete.
I will say that, and I think it's out of order.
But I just I think the aging thing is why umm,
here's Fred again having a promoter reach out to someone
to have them agree they won't pay a fighter unless
(01:04:09):
they're the promoters, and is involved as fucking illegal. Yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know man, uh well,
Gary and Gary Antoine Russell. How can a guy lose
to me four times in the amateurs. We both have
belts in the same division, yet don't even want to
(01:04:30):
fight me. Boxing is getting soft for real. I fight.
I'll fight anyone as long as it makes sense, money
or legacy. Thank you's talking about see you talk about Hitchins.
I think, yeah, I also got some top range stuff.
(01:04:52):
I don't know if they have deals in place or not.
I've heard that. I've heard a variety of things. I've
heard they're gonna have their own streaming service, and I
didn't just hear it from you know who. I've heard
(01:05:14):
that they're going to you know that they have a
deals in place and they're going to announce it. So
I don't know whether it's because we heard a while ago,
I did hear this, or I did see this this
dude's say. I just talked to Arab in Japan about
(01:05:34):
the broadcast situation. Obviously Netflix is the biggest, but there
are other streaming services that are looking to make a
deal with them, and also one big network that wants
to make a deal. Once we put that together within
the next two weeks, we'll have a big announcement. So
but we did hear that before. I will say that
(01:05:54):
we did hear that before, So that's not you know
what I mean, That's not like that's what he told
other people. So I don't know, man, I really don't know.
I think, yeah, what we're gonna find out. I want
(01:06:15):
the best for boxing. So oh, here's a good way
to end this is BBC News. I saw this on
the brunch Boxing Twitter handle. Boxing trainer Steffie Bull has
been has been found guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine.
He faces up to sixteen years in prison. Boltrain and
(01:06:35):
Harper McDonald hughes. The bb of C says the license
is under review. So oh, boy, was moving some real
weight anyway. I think I'm gonna get out of here.
Let's just hope for this weekend to be multiple fights
(01:06:55):
that are like, dude, this fight's not necessarily leading to
that many places. I mean, you FI in some others.
But but it was just a good scrap, you know.
I do think we're gonna have a few just goodass scraps. Ultimately,
like I said, they don't have a major value to them.
(01:07:16):
But there's some good fighters fighting this weekend and it
might just be a competitive weekend that we kind of remember, like, hey, dude,
that was a good ass weekend. So I've said it before,
I'll say it again. You know, it's like a broken record,
but like a fair amount of times, these weekends, they
just they just tend to pop off. Man. They tend
(01:07:38):
to pop off with a fight like a fight of
the year. And it might, like I said, I not
have a ton of meaning to it, but it's just
a top ten fight of the year. Anyway, I'm gonna
get out of here, enjoy the fights this weekend. I'll
be back next week Piece
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