Keyshawn's Horrible Weekend WTF! Recap Wardley KO! Canelo/Crawford on NETFLIX! Loma Retires!

This Episode Begins with Recap From The Weekend: Keyshawn Davis Misses Weight, Fight After with Brother's opponent WTF? Optics Are Bad Overall for Davis,Abdullah TKO, Albright Upset, Wardley vs. Huni & Undercard Bouts! Plus, Preview & Picks for Hitchins vs Kamabosos, Nonito Returns, & Andy Cruz! Other Topics -Teofimo Lopez Lame Excuse For Not Fighting Haney?? -PBC Link Up next?  -Canelo vs Crawford Netflix!!! -Lomachenko Retires.  -Along With Current Fight News & Boxing Twitter Segment! Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Spreakers, Amazon Music, Google Podcast & More! Follow on Twitter @RopeADopeRadio

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, what are boxing fans? This is the Rope of
Dope radio podcast. I am your host, Chris Carlson. We
are live on a Wednesday afternoon. I hope everybody's doing okay.
We do have a fair amount to talk about. Last
night got in the way. I wasn't able to do
the show, but I'm back either way, right Keith Sean

(00:23):
Davis drops the ball, not once, but twice. It's like
he had two touchdowns that would have won the game
and he dropped them both. Just ridiculous, Just fucking ridiculous.
He blows weight by a mile of country mile if

(00:44):
we're in the UK, and then there's some sort of
dispute that gets physical, some sort of altercation that I
can't sit there and say I know exactly how what
where it started. You know, you saw the footage and
you also saw the bruising. You know there's some sort

(01:06):
of headbot potentially whatever. Either way, it was just ridiculous.
So and that's all Bright obviously, the guy who upset,
which I did call, I want some money on that one.
It was like a plus one fifty eight or something
like that. It wasn't crazy, but you know I did

(01:26):
call it just putting that out there, so we'll go
over some of that. Obviously, Abdullah Mason got his got
his job done right. It looks like the w VO
I just saw is gonna call for you know, him
to have a title fight. But yeah, Keishan Davis, man,

(01:47):
it's just meanwhile, he's like pressing people during the fight
week like he's gonna make weight. It was just bad, dude.
It was a bad fumble. Fabio Warley pulls a wilder.
We'll get into some of that. We do have more
of a light week and we have Richardson Hitchin's return

(02:11):
against Cambosa's which is like a faded faded name. You know,
it is what it is. It's not a horrible fight
by any stretch of the imagination. There is a measuring
stick which is kind of a popular thing now, you know,
measuring how good he did compared to another fighter and

(02:31):
so on. Ernesto Mercado, I believe it's in the action,
although I think it's kind of up in the air.
I heard that he might not be fighting Andy Cruz.
Oh yeah, and no need don't there returns as well.
We did get some really good news though with Canelo
and Bud it is gonna be on Netflix, which you

(02:55):
know I said from the start, it's phenomenal, you know,
for that to be a Netflicks. You know, obviously they
got that big showing, even though there was a lot
of technical issues with Jake Paul and Tyson. Actually I'm
gonna say Tyson and Jake Paul. I can't even do
that to Mike. You know. The undercard fight obviously was

(03:19):
a rematch Taylor Serrano. Phenomenal fight. And I didn't watch
that live that night, so I didn't have all the
technical issues. It was just sitting there chilling, ready to
be archived. But either way, for that now to have
a trilogy, you know, on Netflix in July, and then

(03:41):
to come right back in September and have a monster fight.
And the closer you get to this date with Crawford
and Canelo, it's the more you're starting to think. You know,
John and I talked about it last week or the
week before. I think last week I talked about it
with brunch boxing in the early mornings or at least

(04:02):
early morning for me, you know, with Matt when he
did an emergency space Twitter space. You know, the closer
we get, the more, the more you kind of think
Bud might be able to pull this off. I mean,
the odds are much tighter then. Maybe we were talking
about it a year or two ago. Some of it

(04:25):
is recency biased with Canelo in that poor performance, and
you know he's not in his one prime anymore. Now.
You could also look and say, well, Crawford didn't look,
you know, look all that good at fifty four. You
know so, but I'm just happy it's on Netflix. I'll
give my my take there a little bit. Tayo Fema Lopez.

(04:48):
I don't know what the hell's going on with that guy. Man.
You know, you have his agents saying one thing, putting
out you know, basically a statement. Tail comes on and
talks more about why he didn't take the handy fight. Well,
you know, PBC is now in the full potentially all

(05:08):
sorts of weird stuff. And then Loma Schenko hangs up
the gloves. We'll talk a little bit about that. Someone
said it best that he got so highly rated to
the point where he was overrated, but then he was
overrated for so long and just so much hype in

(05:31):
general that he became a little underrated then. And that
is kind of a true. I thought that was well put.
So yeah, he hung them up. No big surprise there.
The writing had been on the wall, so we won't
get the number one and number two lineal when it
comes to him in Gervonte Davis, which is too bad.

(05:53):
But you know, if your heart's not into it, you
might as well not fight Gervonte, you know what I mean. Anyway.
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the first month. Okay, so you know, there is a
lot to talk about in general, and so you know,
per usual, I do like to start in the ring,

(07:22):
so we'll kind of work our way out to Keisha. Okay,
Key Sean had his chance to be in front of Norfolk.
I suppose he kind of still was, but like I said,
he fumbled the bag. And you know, the more time

(07:42):
goes by without Floyd in the game, it's it's really
it's really telling. How like there's stuff that you can
say about Floyd, whether it's something he said or you know,
turning in from pretty boy Floyd to Money Mayweather and
and and you know, outside the ring stuff, there's things

(08:04):
obviously you can be critical about, but overall as far
as professionalism as a boxer in his sport and just
staying you know, staying the course right, showing up, making weight, performing,
you know, over and over and over and over and
over and over and over again. Like it's it's it's

(08:27):
crazy right, compared to some of these young youngsters. And
you know, missing weight is missing weight, right. It seems
to happen a little bit more now in recent like
last ten to fifteen years. And you know, sometimes you
look at a little different when a guy or a

(08:48):
gal doesn't even try to make the weight. You know,
but let's let's stop, Okay, Let's start with Naire all
Bright and Kelvin Davis. Like I said, Albright was an underdog,
but not a major underdog. I like this pick. I
liked this fight. I thought it was a good development

(09:09):
fight for Calvin Davis as far as on paper, it
would definitely be a nice step up for him, and
you could see it was. I thought the first round
was pretty close. Davis had like a little combo late
in that first round. Wasn't enough to give it to him.
Probably the jabs in a light right hand though from Albright,

(09:32):
you could have gave him the round off of that maybe,
but I did give it to Davis. Excuse me. It
was a slow round in the second round. And then
Albright which something he did a lot the overhand right.
It was like under a minute he shook up Davis.
Whether he heard him buzz them whatever, It shook him up,

(09:54):
and then there was I think a left hook or
multiple left hooks to close that round. And then you
could see in the third round Davis did become a
little bit more defensively aware. I guess you could say

(10:15):
while he's landing his jab but a big right hand
in a left hook with like thirty seconds left shook
him up again. You know, huge right hands that would
land flush, and he was at least like off balance
a little stumbly after that big right hook from Davis.

(10:41):
Bus fourth round came really like fourth through let's say sixth.
I thought Davis was jabbing a little bit better now,
and he was. He was moving better, I thought too.
I thought, overall though, the meaningful shots, the better lands,
for the most part, we're all all bright. By the

(11:03):
seventh round, you started to see like Davis finally let
his hands go, And so I did give him the
seventh round. Like I said, the first and the seventh
so far, you know, I don't know if you could
give him the sixth. I don't think so, or any
of those rounds from four to six, but I did

(11:23):
give him the seventh. The eighth definitely had two way moments,
but overall better lands you know, came from Albright to me.
You know, I thought the ninth was pretty close. That's
another one that I could see given to Davis, and

(11:44):
then I gave the twelve or the ten, excuse me,
to Albright. So whether it's seven to three, maybe eight
to two, I had it right around seven to three.
You know, it was a pretty easy fight to score.
They threw up the power punches at the end, and
these are just power punches, non jabs. Ninety nine to

(12:08):
forty five. They both landed thirty five percent. But not
only did he double him all Bright in power punches,
but he doubled him in throwing landing in throwing. But
yet maintain that same percentage, which is, you know, pretty good.
Twenty to fifteen to the body. Remember that's just non

(12:29):
jab because I bring that up because he did jab
to the body Albright really well. But ninety five to
ninety five, I mean really did ninety five to ninety five,
I mean that is just give me a second here,

(12:50):
hold on, all right. Sorry, I don't know if you
could hear that, but something was going on back there.
I had to I think I shut a door that uh,
something was stuck there. Okay, we're good, We're good. But yeah,

(13:10):
the ninety five to ninety five was just like seriously, like,
how how could you get that out of that? So
and I guess it'll go down as a majority decision,
but even ninety six ninety four, I mean six to four,
that's really bending over backwards for Calvin Davis. And I know,

(13:31):
you know he's at home and all that, but yeah,
I don't know. I definitely did not see that. But
either way, seven to three, eight to two, all bright
with a very good performance. You know, he's a guy
that he lost to Jermaine o Ortez a while back,

(13:53):
probably like three years ago, give or take something like that.
He doesn't have a lot of power. I remember him
taking a very early actually I think it was his debut.
Don't quote me on that. I think it was his debut.
And then obviously, you know the Keyshawn Davis. You know,

(14:14):
he was, he was competitive. You know, it turned into
a no contest in that. You know, I don't know,
like I really thought this was probably too much of
a step up, and it ensure was you know, it
definitely was. So now you're alright, shots out to him.

(14:38):
He looked pretty damn good in my assessment. On to
the main event. Now, of course you had Isley winning.
You know, on the card you had Johnson, Delante Johnson
as well, Kean Davis won as well, Derek Davis won

(15:01):
as well. Johnson did beat Boca Chokachoka Coca. Now, so
I'm saying that because my drunken friend kept saying it
all sorts of weird ways. Uh, Boka Chika is obviously
the way he said it, but it just made me

(15:21):
laugh when he kept saying it every time. He kept
saying it because he remembers this one fight. But it
was a clean win. There wasn't many too many rounds.
It wasn't a great performance per se, right, but it's
not like it was a really really competitive type fight.
Onto Abdua Mason who took on Nakatia. You know, for

(15:48):
obvious reasons he had to move into the main event.
Mason came out with his jab in the first round,
mostly second round, bringing that jab and then lee left
hooks either lead or I should say lead straight or
left hooks actually, but that was definitely on display. Nakatilla

(16:11):
he landed a few good shots in the third round,
but the left hooks to the head just in general,
but especially some left hooks to the head late in
the third round. We're being in the third round, you know,
obviously for Mason, Sorry, I'm getting a little distracted. There's

(16:31):
this freaking cat. Okay, So eighty seconds or so into
the fourth round, multiple left hands hurt Nakatilla for sure,
and there was little spots, you know, where he had
minor success, but overall he was landing some big shots.

(16:53):
And then it was I don't know, like you could
tell his eye was effect I canna see you. But
right before the beginning of the fifth round, the doctor
came in and stopped the fight. Well, the doctor told
the ref. The ref was saying, hey, he can't see

(17:13):
can he see what's going on? And then it was
just like, oh, he can't see that well out of
the eye or he couldn't see, or it was partial
vision or whatever it was. It looked like the ref
was trying to talk the doctor in to stop in
the fight. So it was obviously very anti climatic, you know,
not that there was gonna be a big climax, you know,

(17:40):
in that fight, but so it just kind of abruptly
it was like, oh, Okay, it's over, you know, but
it did look like he was well on his way
well to win that fight. Obviously end up doing Mason,
you know, definitely doing his thing. Like he's a young,

(18:01):
very talented fighter. I like how he mixes up his shots.
I like how he uses his jab, you know, to
the to the stomach, to the chest, to the head.
You know, he sets up his shots really well. And
and now I'm hearing right before I got I saw
got on. I saw Queensberry promotion tweet about the w

(18:23):
b O ordering for the vacant w b O abdueam
Mason and Samkies. He said, nokies for noakes. I've seen
him fight a couple of times, so that that appears
to be, you know, the next fight. When will it
be made? I'm not totally sure, but you know, something

(18:46):
to you know, keep an eye on when it comes
to that. Uh, you know, he obviously didn't take much damage,
so he should be he should be good go. You know,
I don't see how he wouldn't be pretty much good

(19:07):
to go. I did see the ratings yesterday the fifth
top rank event. It averaged five hundred and thirty eight
thousand viewers, which puts it second so far this year.
Obviously there's only what two more one of them is
gonna be on ESPN, plus I think one's on ESPN,

(19:30):
So ultimately it really doesn't matter. But Keishawn and Brinshick
earlier five point fifty nine, that's the highest anyway, and
on Sunday was five thirty six. So you know, ultimately,
because they're moving on from ESPN, you know, doesn't mean

(19:54):
a whole lot, but you know, it is what it is.
It is what it is. And also we did have
Dillian White was supposed to be on that the fight
I'm gonna talk about next the wordly Honey. But Frank

(20:16):
warrenton Box Nation that white Hat is awaiting a big,
big fight in August, right, and I and I believe
we know that that will be. It's not announced yet,
but it's gonna be against Moses. So yeah, like I said,
more than likely, you assume that's what it's gonna be

(20:38):
based off you know what we're here and now because
we're starting to hear that card fill up a little bit.
Speaking of Dua Mason, Bob Aaron did say whether it's
two years or three years or one year, they're going
to eventually end up fighting each other meeting, you know,
Davis and Mason. I think Abdullah hasn't had the experience

(21:00):
that Kisha has, so he just need that experience before
he's ready to step up against Kisha. Now, obviously they're
no longer in the same weight class, but then again,
if it's a year from now or two years from now,
you know, they may be right in the same the
same weight class, you know, So we will see, we

(21:22):
will see. But yeah, I mean I like him do
a whole lot. I really do think he's a very
good fighter. I'm I'm looking forward to, you know, seeing
him progress, let's say. So, Yeah, you know, I I

(21:46):
do think that he's got a lot of talent. People
kind of freaked out pretty early when he got knocked down,
and you know, I mean, I don't know, like I
think that might be some of the reason why showing

(22:10):
this stuff you know early, like you know, as a prospect,
and when I mean showing, uh, you know, seeing these
fights that we probably would have only heard about before.
You know, it is what it is. It's like I
wouldn't look too far into it. It's my point, you know,

(22:34):
let's see all hold off on Keishan. With the recap,
we'll kind of talk about the Wardly Hooney fight, which
was very interesting. Michael Angeletta one over the weekend. It
was was it the idea? Was it some sort of

(22:55):
vacant idea? So that was that was a pretty easy fight.
Moreno took care of Aaron Boone as well, who's obviously
a veteran. Haz Martinez and Mario Hernandez. That was a
that was a pretty competitive fight there. You know, it

(23:18):
was what were the scorecards? It was kind of seventy
seven seventy five for Hernandez and then there was a draw,
I believe. So that was a really competitive fight. This
is the pro box card. We also had a draw
between Gonzalez and Morales. Uh Thigo Ramirez. Gonzalez was you know,

(23:42):
I think he's I think he was like eight o
or nine to o or something like that. It was competitive,
you know, once again, it was like both fighters got
fifty eight fifty six and then there was a draw.
I favor Gonzales in that one, but that it was close,
you know, it was definitely close. But yeah, onto that

(24:10):
heavyweight fight, and like I said, it did give you
vibes of Deontay Waller. I'm I said, Dante Deontay Wilder.
It definitely gave you those type of vibes because you
clearly see, you know, Wardley like as the rounds went on,

(24:32):
just loosen the rounds clearly right. You know, it was
a slow first round. Whone he looked like he was
winning that round, but he got he got hit late,
and it looked like he kind of got hurt. So
I would I gave Wardley that round, but it was

(24:56):
tough to give Wardly too many rounds after that. Whoney
had that high guard defense. He liked to throw the
left hooks. He was doing that very well Wardley, So
I gave the second round for sure to like I said,

(25:16):
I don't, I don't think you can give Wardley too
many rounds past that. There was some good he put
in some good bodywork, like in the third round, jabs
and bodywork. He was jabbing pretty well. But Whomy's right
handed left hook were really, you know, really effective. And

(25:38):
Wardley just had his hands down the whole time, and
even when he'd be on the ropes, he'd barely cover up,
if at all, and he was just so nonchalant about it,
just getting tagged and obviously Whoney may not have that
much power, but he was tagging him, and I thought
he was doing a good job of in a sense boxing,

(25:58):
like being very respond possible with that high guard. And
then Land is his you know, get the better of
any kind of exchange for the most part, like in
the fourth round there was two way action. Wardly did
jet pretty well, but I thought whom he was getting
the better of, you know, like I said, the right

(26:21):
hand and the left hooks, and you could see as
the seventh and the eighth and the ninth, you could
kind of see shit. Even in the fifth maybe that
he looked Wardley was looking tired, like I don't know
if he trained on this, I really don't. He didn't
look in tip top shape. He had some extras around,

(26:45):
you know, you know those extras that kind of lay
over the trunks on the hips. Is there a pause
in there that I need to take? I'm not sure,
but but you know, Wardly tenth round came around and
or the you know, huge right hand during an exchange.

(27:07):
It was kind of a weird. It was a bad
camera angle right away because he dropped him right and
you could see the punch. But you're like, it's like
then all of a sudden, you saw the back of
Wardley and you're like, what shot are we on right now? Dude?
I can't see the count. I can't see the fighter down.
Is he okay? Then they go to a side shot

(27:28):
like of the like people you know you saw, you know,
you saw Frank and Eddie. Like it was like, why
are we showing the promoters right now? Like I don't
know what the hell happened there, if there was like
a camera failure or what or that's the only angle
they had that they wanted to show. I don't know.
It was really weird, like right away because you're like, dude,

(27:50):
I want to see the guy who's on the crown,
like how's he doing? You know, like is he gonna?
And he didn't make the count and he, by the way,
he didn't beat the count. I know there was some
because of the bad camera angle I did actually see.
I searched it because I watched it later at night

(28:10):
on a Saturday, and so I did search it on
Twitter a little bit, and I saw some conspiracy stuff
coming out because they didn't want to show he you know,
he was up and all that they didn't want to
show it. You know, it's a big conspiracy. And like
I said, the angles we were shitty right away because

(28:32):
like I said, I was just size the back of Wardley,
so it was like what are we doing here? You know?
And then like I said, they panned that other shot
like the side of the ring, and you're like, dude,
I don't care about I want to see how you
know the fighter's doing. But he didn't beat the count,
or at least it was very close, right at least

(28:54):
it was really really close. So and he didn't make
a huge, huge, huge deal of it either. He clearly
was hurt. Could they have let him go a little
bit more? I mean, okay, if that's if they just
let him go a little bit longer and get potentially concussed, okay,

(29:15):
and then it wouldn't be a conspiracy theory. Is that
what you're saying? You know? So to me, he was
hurt and he didn't I don't think he got up
in time. He was really close to it. And when
you're close, you know, it is what it is like,
you gotta get up by eight. That's your best bet.

(29:36):
And no matter how you think the count went or
I know like Fabio. Uh, you know, like I think
he quote tweeted a a tweet that had the timing,
or maybe that was just his tweet that had the
clock right there when he got knocked down, and maybe
you don't agree with that exact timing, Right, you're still

(29:58):
not up by eight. If you're up by eight, it's
gonna be hard to teat you. You know. So now
if you're not walking right and you're looking really lackadaisical, like, oh,
I'm out of it. Yeah, I can't even I'm stopping it,
you know, if you get up by eight, but excuse me.

(30:19):
We we We've seen plenty of guys get up by
eight and then they just are so out of it
that they stopped to fight, you know. So I didn't
see a big wave of the conspiracy stuff, but just
off of the camera angles, they were like, dude, they're
not showing it. I was more frustrated that they weren't
showing it off of like a technical issue, Like I said,

(30:42):
I don't know if there's actually something wrong with the
other cameras or what. I don't know why they went
to the side shot. So I guess it was kind
of weird, but to me, it looked like they just
it was just shitty camera or whatever, you know what
I mean. So it's more like when I say technical issue,

(31:03):
I don't mean I don't know if there was a
technical issue, but I don't think they purposely were like,
all right, dude, let's show the back of the fighter
who just knocked that guy down, and they won't show
we can't show the guy because he's because when you
saw the replay and they showed it, clearly he was hurt,
like really badly. So dude fought really hard though he

(31:28):
put up I mean, like I said, he won most
of the rounds. Clearly, he doesn't have a lot of power,
but wardly got it done. And you know, his defense
is going to be an issue, so I think we're
starting to see his ceiling obviously, But I mean, he

(31:51):
was getting hit like he was getting hit clean his day,
like it was. Some of the shots are like, dude,
if this guy had some real power, he'd be out
or at least not down multiple times because he just
had no damn defense whatsoever. But that said, you know,

(32:11):
it still was a great shot, you know, and he
still got it done, and he was still like you know,
looking for it wasn't I don't know, he kind of
was hunting in a little bit. Also, Mike Perez won

(32:31):
a couple other you know, the he'res O'Leary and Dylan.
I think that was a close one on was that
a close odds odds going in? I can't remember. I
want to say it was or somewhat close. But either way,
you know, it'll be interesting to see, you know, who

(32:56):
they put Wordly in with next, you know, because like
I said that this dude had power. You know, it
wouldn't have went good for him, But that was that,
you know, I looked at Hooney like a very like
an upset potential. I remember talking to John about it,
and I was definitely eyeballing that, like, man, I don't know, dude,

(33:16):
like this might be an upset. But I heard multiple
people talk about, you know, does he have the chin
to hold up you know, and and and just can
he make it through the whole fight, you know, without
getting full on hurt. And so there was there was
some potential for that where you're like, eh, I don't know,

(33:40):
you know what I mean. But as far as Larry,
I don't know, Like I said, he did really good,
but I'm you know, it didn't really blow me away
by any stretch. Just to kind of talk a little
bit about that, Let's see, was there any other items

(34:06):
that I wanted to talk about besides the obvious one?
Oh to uh to saunt there was a pretty shitty card,

(34:26):
but you saw I can't remember who had the card,
but that he won. I thought he won cleanly. But
I remember there being a really shitty, shitty card in
that fight. I think that's about it. But onto the
guy who missed weight by a mile and I and

(34:49):
I kind of think that that's that type of stuff
bugs you more when somebody misses the weight by so far.
It's just like dude, like really and like you know,
he said he tried to lose it, and then it
was the same he got on the scale, same weight,

(35:10):
try it again, same weight, try again, same weight, and
so you know, if that's true, and you know, it
didn't seem like he was trying to make the weight
all the way up to the weigh in, I will
say that. And Samson did say that, you know that

(35:31):
he could kind of tell that was the case. But
I think it's a lot of this stuff is just optics, right,
Like when you're talking when you press abdul Mason and
know he's not exactly on your development level just yet,
like the fight could happen, but it's probably what happened,
you know, even what Bob said, right, I'm not saying

(35:54):
three years, but you're pressing him. You're talking about Davonte.
You're pressing dudes out of weight class that you can't
make anymore. Now, he says, you know, I thought I
was good. You know, you heard from you know, his
trainer Bomax saying he came into the camp in great shape,

(36:14):
you know, and they didn't think he was you know,
the way they put it that he was going to
make the weight. And then once you try to cut
off that last chunk of weight, that's when he said
that it you know, that there was an issue and
that he's like it was getting really hard all of

(36:36):
a sudden, He's like, man, this one kind of surprised me,
you know. And then obviously there was negotiations going on,
and in the end, De Los Santo's Sampson they decided,
you know, that they can't do it anymore. They're just done.

(36:58):
And that the fact that you know, they were still
kind of I think they had worked out the money,
but I don't know if they had worked out the
next day weighing and all that. I did see a
quote I think it was from ring I've been making
this way. This is from Keishaan. Obviously, I've been making
this way for over four years now. I just outgrew it.
I just outgrew them, you know, he said, I tried,

(37:21):
and you know, when he's good on the scale, I
get it. It's fight week. You know, you get on
the scale and you're gonna to me, it's just like
you're still gonna have pictures of you, so I guess
you want to look like you know, I thought the
fight was gonna happen, you know, but he was just
so not. I think it's like I said, it's the

(37:41):
optics of how, you know, questioning how hard he tried
to make the weight, which I think is a valid
question that I don't think we know the exact answer to.
But it did appear that, let's say, the half hour
hour before the weigh in, that he wasn't trying to
make any And so in that sense, we've seen fighters go,

(38:04):
you know what, I'll just take it on the chin.
I'm not going to kill myself and hurt myself in
the ring, right, but when you blow up I over
like four when it's four pounds, dude, that's just like,
what are we doing? Did four pounds? Like that's really unprofessional?
And so it is what it is, like I said,

(38:24):
you know, I I remember the Marquez fight with with
Mayweather because I mentioned Mayweather earlier, and it seemed like
Golden Boy, Richard Schaefer and them that they had just
kind of we're kind of messing with with Marquez. And

(38:44):
I remember even at the presser, Floyd looked at the
like the poster behind him. He said, it's a welterweight fight,
you know, because he was real It's like, well, we're
gonna decide to catch weight closer to the fight, you know.
That's what it looked like. There was a there was
a weight that was out there, but it was really
fagged up, and you know, but he did get paid

(39:06):
and whatnot. And I don't think anybody thought after seeing
them fight or even before really that you know, Floyd
is just better than Marcus because you know, of the style,
no matter what, you know, it just wasn't going to
be ever a good style for Marcus anyway, I guess

(39:26):
it's the nonchalantanis. Like I said, during the week, you're
you're you're trying to be a bully and you're trying
to and I get doing that, but then you're then
you're not going to make weight, and then you you
you kind of blow it off and then and all
of a sudden, puff, it's it's done, and now you're
not even fighting in front of your home crowd. And

(39:46):
then the after math, which you know, I I haven't
seen a video and I'm not saying it doesn't exist,
send it to me if it does, but I haven't
seen a video where it first started, so I really
don't know exactly who, what where, you know what I mean.
We saw a video, We saw some stuff, no doubt.
Clearly he got you know, attacked in some form, you know,

(40:11):
and all Bright said in that interview that he was
about to swing back, but his you know, they broke
it up and whatever. It just the optics. You missed weight.
You're nonchalant, and then there's a there's a dispute, physical
altercation from your brother's fight. Like it's just it's just

(40:31):
a shitty look, you know, no matter how it actually started.
It's just not gonna look good on you Ki show.
So you I don't know he's going to one forty
obviously now, but I don't know. He just dropped the bag.
It was. It was really disappointing. And I don't blame

(40:51):
Delo Santo's you know, and he said the safety. You know,
he could tell that he hadn't really tried to make
the weight up until the way way in and maybe
what Keishan says is true about him trying to grind
it off and then it was just the same weight
every time. Well, as a wrestler, I do remember that feeling.

(41:13):
But when you look at his face, when you look
at his body, when you look at you know, like
it didn't look like he had tried to really do
it like as hard as you can. But like I said,
there is a strategy to that as well, because it's like, well, shit,
if I'm going to kill myself, there's no point in
doing it. I might as well just take the fines,

(41:34):
getting some money and we'll get this fight on. You know,
that's usually what you know assumingly that that's that's what
would happen. So, you know, like I said, it is
what it is. A lot of people misweight. You know
that that's not the craziest thing to ever happen, right,
we know that, But it just the whole optics of it.

(41:58):
He just dropped the ball, dude. It just a lot
of his stuff. He was saying midweek and just saying
overall at the way class it just comes across as like, oh,
really great, you know, like I don't mean shit to me,
you know, So that was disappointing. Obviously, I did forget
to mention Calliam Simpson won as well. Hemp Hill beat Jeffers.

(42:25):
I did see that fight that was That was a
I think it was on Sky over there. I saw
it on YouTube on Monday. Actually I think I watched that,
I remember if I remember correctly, But either way, yeah, Kishan,
you know up at one forty now you know, it

(42:46):
is what it is. It's not to say that he
can't keep doing his thing, but yeah, man, it was
just uh, it was just weird. Even the optics of like,
of course you're going to eat, right, but even the
optics of him just coming he just acted like nothing happened,

(43:06):
like like at the weigh in, like I said, the
way and I understand it was being videoed and all that,
and you got your thinking you're gonna fight, so you're
still gonna have that that attitude, you're still gonna have that.
But to me, it's just like he stepped on the
scale and it was just it's just nonchalant. It's like, dude,
aren't you kind of mad that you missed the weight?

(43:27):
Like aren't you like a little bothered by this at all?
You know? So, like I said, I don't really know
exactly how hard he tried to make the weight. It's
tough to say, you know, but yeah, just shitty, just

(43:48):
really shitty way to to go about the whole fucking week.
And really it was really I was really disappointed, very disappointed,
because you know, like he's an upcoming young fighter and
a lot of you know, there's a lot of positivity
with the guy man, and he's really starting to like
turn the corner as far as a pro and taking

(44:11):
care of business, knocking people out, drawing a really good gait.
You know, like the potential was there and it doesn't
mean it's gone. But yeah, anyway, let's see here. That's
about it. Yeah, we'll see where Fabio goes. Like I said,
if a guy has power. He better brush up on

(44:34):
some defense because and maybe he just he was tired
and he you know, he had he didn't even want
to put his hands up. I don't know. But anyway,
this weekend, like I said, no, Nito Donare returns in
a fight he should win. Andy Kruz is in a
pretty interesting fight for his uh you know where he's

(44:55):
at in his career obviously. Richard to the Hitchens takes
on George cambosas you know, I think that you know,
I mean, Paro did give him a good fight last
time out. I will say that, uh like a like
a pretty good fight. I'm not saying that it was

(45:18):
you know, like could have went either way. I'm definitely
not saying that, but you know, I thought it was
a pretty good fight for me anyway. And that Lamos
as it pata, So yeah, he's been on a nice,
nice little run anyway. Cambosa's, like I said, what does

(45:41):
he really add beyond a measuring stick? And look how
weasy I beat him and that type of thing. And
he's a faded name. You know, it is what it is.
I'm not, as you can tell, I'm not not all
that excited about the fight. But I will be kind

(46:04):
of tuned in on Richardson see where he's at. You know,
he is a very good fighter, you know. The power
stuff is that is that gonna be an issue? You know,
I don't know, but I don't think. I don't think
he's gonna stop him. But I think Richardson Hitchins is
just too skilled for him and he'll win, you know,

(46:27):
by the decision. Andy Cruz is an action What is
this his like sixth or seventh fight he's taken on
Miss Shiro. Dude doesn't really have much power, you know,
He's I I think Cruise will win this fight. That's

(46:49):
not going out on the limb. But you know, I
do want to kind of you know, I I do
like Cruise. I do want to kind of where he
goes in general, you know, when it comes to being
a professional all that, because he's got he's definitely got
some potential Andy Cruz, but it's not something that you know, like,

(47:15):
I don't know how much of a guy threat this
guy really is for being honest, you know, but we'll
see now. Is because I actually heard from a decent
source that Ernesto Mercado is no longer fighting this weekend.

(47:36):
Is that true, I'm looking, I'm looking Israel Mercado in
Brandon Pizarro. That's probably that is the closest fight of
the Actually, let me see the odds real quick. That's
that's got to be the closest odds of the whole weekend.

(47:56):
And that's the thirteenth. Yes, it is is actually minus
one sixteen, both of them minus one fifteen minus one ten.
Tabati is back to that action, O'Har Davies is back
in action. Gorsh and Aloti elote that actually is I'm

(48:18):
looking at the odds now, that actually could be a
really good fight on the on her card. John Fernandez
and Ricardo Nunez man there that might be okay, that
might be okay there there could be a competitiveness in there.
Donare is a favorite? You see Andres Campos plus two

(48:40):
thirty plus two fifty Campos, you know, he doesn't have
a lot of power, He's not it's a fight that
nol Nido should win. But you know, will he win it? That?
I don't know, you know, based off of it's tough
to say, you know, not that this guy, you know,

(49:03):
has a bunch of victories where you're like, ooh man,
this you know, he he's lost. I mean he lost
his Sny Sonny Edwards a few years back. You know
that's probably the you know it was cleanly, you know,
not that the guy looked like a nothing in there, right,
But he also just lost Jose Alito last year, Jos

(49:25):
Alito Venezuela, a nineteen one to one fighter in Edison Martinez.
So he just doesn't like it's there for him to
win the fight. No, Nito, right, it's definitely there. But
and I remember when this guy announced, it's like boom

(49:48):
and here we are, you know, but it's almost been
let me look, I think it's almost been about two years. Actually,
let's see here. Yeah, yeah, almost almost he lost he
lost it well anyway, really quick, but that was three
years ago. But twenty twenty three, Alexandro Santiago beat him.

(50:10):
So it's really tough to like. Maybe Nonito is just
you know, so rusty, and he hasn't looked great in general.
I just don't believe in this guy's power. You know,
it's Andre's compost, but maybe he could pull the upset.
I think it based it would be based off Nonino

(50:32):
just being so washed and so Rusty, but I am
going to pick no Nito for the record, I am
picking Nonito. So yeah, kind of a light not a
kind of a light weekend, you know, very light weekend.
Obviously we did have you know, the internet obviously June, right,

(50:55):
So that's that's the induction for the Hall of Fame
International Boxing Hall of Fame. And you know we had
Manny and Vinnie Paz and Michael Nunn, my guy, Michael
Nunn from Iowa. That was my guy. When James Tony
did that to him, I wasn't happy. I was not
a happy man. But that was my guy, dude, that
was my Midwest, upper Midwest guy right there. Man Michael

(51:19):
man Mary, Joe Sanders, Yessica Chavez, uh my fist. It's
like and Kenny Bayless, Ross Greenberg and Randy Gordon as well.
So yeah, you know, pretty like Manny and Michael obviously

(51:41):
are really good. You know, Paz, I'll pass on that.
Let's say that I'm just gonna pass on that, you know,
should he be in the Hall of Fame, I mean,
God blessed the guy. Man right, you can tell some
stories about the guy, and he's got That's why there
was a movie you know, but to be fair, like,

(52:01):
there's no fucking way it should be in the Hall
of Fame anyway. Canelo bud on Netflix? Hell yeah, thank goodness, gracious, Okay,
I'm so happy. I was getting a little worried, but
thank goodness. All right. So that that's big man. And

(52:25):
like I mentioned earlier, you know, the co feature popped
off again as we know, with Tyson and Paul, and
it got it popped off so much now it's gonna
be all by itself as the main event coming up
in July. July is about to pop off, as we

(52:45):
I mentioned, as we get into June, it does start
to fall off. It doesn't mean there's not good fights,
like any good fights, because there is there is, but
some of them, like I mentioned an undercard fighter, a
co feature. I'm like, oh, I'm actually looking forward to
that more. But like, I'm really happy so to hit
them with July and then to come back in September.

(53:08):
And I've already talked to a couple of casual fans
and they're like, dude, I'm out, dude, that that that
Tyson stream sucked, you know, And remember they did the NFL.
They weren't going to lead with the NFL. Right, they
did NFL games, dude, So they tightened that up. They
tightened that up. They weren't ready for it. If you

(53:30):
look at it, that that happens with anyone trying to
stream a big, big event that you don't know exactly
how big is big it is, but it is going
to be big. Every company, no matter how big, usually
has an issue. Now, I guess you could say Amazon
was pretty slick with their shit. But other than I mean,
look at their company though, But other than that, it's

(53:51):
like we've seen it, it happens, you know, So hopefully
there's no issues coming up, right, But Canelo and Bud
that's that's phenomenal. I'm so happy they got that done.
So on Netflix, man, hopefully it's a good under card.

(54:12):
And Turkey came out and I guess Dana's back in
the fold now. Turkey came out and was like, from
this point on, I don't want to see any more
Tom and Jerry type boxing matches where one fighter is
running around the ring and the others chasing him, which
there is a thing of boxing on the outside right

(54:33):
and making your opponent reset and never get to set
right and then just boxing his head off and then
just straight up running. Right. But and there are some
times where some fighters are so defensive and so on
the move, and it is tough to even cut the

(54:53):
ring off them because they're not trying to win, They're
just trying to survive. I get that, but there's plenty
of boxers that can't cut the ring off too, so
it can't be just the outside fight or his fault
every single time. Anyway, he says that, right, you don't
want to, they don't want the optics of that. It's
over with that. So yeah, he was really big on

(55:18):
that we can no longer support these kind of fights
in reat season in the ring. We want a sport
fighters who leave it in the ring and fight with
their heart and pride. So there you go. So yeah,
I'm I'm just I'm just happy it's on Netflix, man
Tale femo. Right, So he ended up, you know, trying

(55:42):
to say I'm sorry and shit like that, like that
dude in court, you know, trying to say he's sorry,
singing and stuff. After he made those comments to Turkey,
seemed like he was just like, hey, actually I do
want that fight. I'm sorry, my bad, you know, that's
what it seemed like to me, but then you know,

(56:04):
it just all of a sudden, it didn't happen, and
they weren't fighting back. They weren't saying no, that's bullshit, dude.
They changed a contract, and so you're wondering, like, what
the fuck is going on? So, and you know his
Keith Connley, co manager of Tale Female Tale Femo. Unfortunately

(56:25):
Tayo won't be fighting in August for personal reasons that
I will keep confidential. We want to thank his excellently,
blah blah blah. We planned on fighting, but with what
was going on, he wanted to make sure he was
one hundred percent right mentally and physically. In August was
a little too quick turnaround. He said, I expect Tao

(56:46):
to be back later this year, bigger and better than ever.
So that's that's that. But then Tale came on and said,
the reason why I didn't take that fight is because
Haini's religion that he's gonna favor the Muslim and I'm
not gonna be able to get the call, so I'm

(57:08):
not fighting there. Well, you know, I mean, clearly Turkey
was big on Chirass. We know that they showed it
right he's like getting up, you know, during the fight
and going over the top, and they were talking about

(57:28):
this guy like he was the shit. So yeah, clearly
there's something there, like, yeah, if you're into a religion
and that person's into religion, yeah, you're gonna probably be like,
hey man, this is my guy. But like you knew
that going in, you know, So why are you singing?
I'm sorry, I just think to blame the religion only.

(57:53):
And then look what he just put out as a
message tale He said, we don't want to runners? You know, well,
is that what he was taught? Was hany involved in that?
You know? So I don't know. I just don't think
it's a good enough reason if you don't want to
fight inside he just say it, but it's just too
much of like, I don't know, it just doesn't ring true.

(58:20):
So he's not it's too quick of a turnaround, but
it's actually tail comes out and say the reason why
I didn't do it is because I wouldn't get a
fair shake over there. Now, if you ask Carlos Odamas,
did he get a fair shake over there? But that's fair,
that is fair. But the whole point with signing with

(58:40):
him is you kind of you didn't know some of this.
So when that hany stuff was coming up, you knew,
you knew that you know those that that is a fact.
So I don't know it just it didn't ring true.
But then we hear some speculation about PBC, right, so

(59:02):
I don't know. By the way, if Cruz wins, there's
a there's a possibility that Martaya, who now because Lomachenko retired,
is going to be the full champ. He had the
interim champ, so Cruise and Martaya sign me up for that.
Now he's got to obviously get by which leads me
he's got to get by his opponent this weekend. Momachenko

(59:24):
hangs him up at thirty seven years old. I did
like how it was put that, you know, he he
was overrated for a while, but to the point where
I think they overrated him so much that he became
underrated right right away. Like to fight Solito that early,

(59:53):
and I'll always say he came to like he that
was a fight he needed. He definite needed that fight.
And because if you look at the first six rounds,
the last six rounds and how much he learned in
that fight. It was a you could see the transition happening.
So and then you know, like Gary Russell Junior, you

(01:00:17):
know that was that was a damn good win. What's
Gary Russell Junior's best win? Does Gary? Just beating Gary
Russell Junior get you into the Hall of Fame, you
know what I mean? And of course he's gonna be
in the Hall of Fame, right, it's not even I mean,

(01:00:39):
whether you think he should be in there or not,
it doesn't matter. Like then, he pez just got in
the Hall of Fame. So he's going in there like
it or not. And we're gonna say that about a
lot of fighters. But if you look at like a
guy like Spence, you know, who grabbed a bunch of

(01:01:00):
belts against a bunch of solid fighters, and the one
loss he has is against an elite fighter, one of
the best fighters of the generation. Right now, Obviously the
Rigado you know that fight was his best win, but
we know that it's not. You know, the weight played

(01:01:24):
a big, big part in that one, you could see, right,
But that was a great performance by him regardless, right,
But like the lineal champion, he never really was lineal.
The Jorge Lenares fight, you know, it was a good fight.
But when that's one of your best wins is Garry

(01:01:46):
Russell Junior hoy Lenares. I saw some people saying Prime Lenaries, bro,
and it's like, well, Prime Lenaris doesn't, like I mean,
you can an argument. You know, he was already he
had already showed him what he was before that fight, obviously,

(01:02:06):
because he's a guy that had a lot of talent
on ours but never really lived up to it ever,
like all the way up, because he just keep getting
knocked the fuck out, you know, so it is what
it is, like, of course he's going to roll put
it the best. Loma's a little like Jason Williams in
the NBA. Watched his highlight reel with the Kings, and

(01:02:29):
you could assume he's among the best point guards ever.
Could do mind blowing stuff. The actual outcomes were a
little different. There was substance, but the style made it such,
you know, so impressive basically, and you know in his
like if you look at Haney and the tail fight, right,

(01:02:51):
and if you look at how he closed, especially the
tail fight, but like Lopez beat him. But if you
look at the first part where he was downloading information,
he wasn't doing a damn thing. But then he came
on and fought really well, but in that last round

(01:03:11):
he just fell off. You know, the Haini fight was
the very skilled, high level fun fight. But if anybody
says that's a robbery, you're clearly in or up however
you want to put it your You're clearly have your
head up Lomachenko's ass. And some of this stuff has

(01:03:35):
to do with race, as we know. You know, glove
can got all this credit before he beat anybody of real, real,
real substance. And what I mean by that is he
was getting Hagler and and all this stuff before he
had beaten, before he had beaten like a guy like
Danny Jacobs, which that warranted a rematch in that fight.

(01:03:56):
So some of this stuff is just ignorant, racist stuff
where they overvalue people, whereas they could have been talking
about covid leb at that time. Hey dude, look what
cold like glovekin man? Hell yeah, fun fire to watch
body puncher, all this stuff, and he proved himself against
Canelo in that first fight. I'm not I'm not dogging

(01:04:18):
him at all, but they were adding introm you know,
titles to his reign of titles right to his in
the row defenses, you know, so they were they were
stretching the rules and over just breaking the rules whatever
those rules are, right. So but he was damn good, right,

(01:04:43):
he was damn good. But in the most even fight Rigo,
that wasn't even fight going in. As we know, you
got Russell and you got Lenares. That's your best two wins.
Like I don't know, I just that's that's it's not
a top ten talent. And even looking at the talent,

(01:05:05):
I don't look at him as a top ten talent
fighter of all time. Like I see you know, people saying,
so Lumachenka was a damn good fighter. He was in
a lot of entertaining fights. If he would have fought
a little better in one of the really in both
of those fights, maybe he goes one and one with

(01:05:26):
Tailor and Hani. But yeah, like I said, if you
think the Hani fight was a robbery, you're just not
you're either just a fanboy of him and you only
watch a handful of fighters and now you're into boxing
and you came late or whatever, or like I said,
it just has to do with race, and you're just
gonna overvalue anybody, right, That's the thing. You could have

(01:05:46):
been looking at covid Lev and then all this time
we could have been saying Usik, like Usik had to
grind his way to respect. Meanwhile, this dude had a
ton of skills too. I'm not saying nobody was talking
about him, but they were just putting on Loma on
this pedestal of like I don't know, and listen, Gervonte's

(01:06:08):
team Mayweather clearly didn't want to fight Lomo when when
Germonte was more green, right, and that was evident the
Mikey Garcia then Noel style wise, and I always say,
just look at that photo with them too. That's why
that fight never happened. Mikey Garcia, you know what a
beat Loacheko? What could should have? Who knows? Right? But

(01:06:31):
I don't think that's really up for debate anyway. You know,
like in his short span of fights, because he started
when you fight Solito that early in your career, dude,
you got to respect that. And like I said, clearly,
the footwork, you know, really good punch variation, right, pretty

(01:06:58):
damn good defender. Just a really skilled guy, very high
level skill. But he's not like you couldn't even put
him in the top fifty. In fact, I saw many
historians not even put him in the top run hundred.
But who cares. That's the thing. If you overdo it
with some of this shit, it's like then people start

(01:07:20):
to not like the fighter after a while because it's like, dude,
what are we doing here? You know. So he's a
damn good fighter. I would have loved to see you know,
one and two at lightweight right now. I would have
loved to see it. But you know, his heart wasn't
it anymore. He had a damn good career, like I said,
to start out, even in a loss to Solito, like

(01:07:44):
and there's things you can say, the weight, in the roughness,
but it is what it is. That that's part of
going through fights like that, you know, especially when you're
young like that. So a damn good fighter. Hell of
an amateur, and he definitely will be remembered, very high
level guy, elite level. No, because like I said, his

(01:08:04):
most even fights Russell, Lenares, Tao and Haney, Like, you know,
he did really good against Russell, but Russell he was
over valued a little bit too. Russell's a damn good fighter.
But what's his best win. He was just so inactive,

(01:08:25):
you know, so I think winning those belts at different
weight classes, taking on a hot you know, he took
on some really good fighters, whether he won or lost.
But anyway, I'm gonna get out of here, enjoy the fights.
Gonna try to be back normal time next Tuesday. But
either way, have a great weekend. Peace,