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EPISODE: Episode 1
On the next episode of Talkin’ Fight, host Holly Donovan previews the upcoming boxing bout between Adam Azim and Santos Reyes. Join Holly to get an exclusive inside look at the matchup and the undercard. Hear the backgrounds and accounts of the grueling training regimens and stories about the fighters’ paths to the ring. Plus, get analysis and predictions for the big night. Don’t miss this episode of Talkin’ Fight with Holly Donovan for the latest news and insight into the upcoming Adam Azim vs Santos Reyes bout.
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[, Music, ] foreign welcome to talking fight with me, holly Donovan.
This is your preview show and I will be previewing the finite that is happening in London Wembley tomorrow night it is a boxer night and it will be featuring as the headliner Adam.
The Assassin azim who is taking on Santos raise um great fight night, I’m going to go through four of the cards for you, and so obviously we’ve got a zim at the top and then we’ve got Caroline Dubois.
She is back looking to make it 6-0 uh.
Zach Celly is going to be facing Anthony the magician Sims, uh, cousin or Floyd Mayweather, and then we’ve also got Vidar Riley he’s back um and he’ll be facing Annie’s Taj, who vows that he is not your average journeyman, and so these top four fights will go Through these ones, I’d say these are the top ones all gon na be entertaining so without further Ado, let’s start from the top and a let’s preview, Adam azim versus Santos freeze, so at Amazon, I would argue, is uh, probably the biggest prospect that boxer have signed Right now and him and Ben Whitaker probably are number ones um I mean he really does have a very bright future ahead of him.
I would say he’s another one that is promising to be the youngest ever world champion, there’s quite a few at it.
Right now and we’re gon na battle in the next few years, um, however uh he is 20 years old.
He campaigns out super lightweight um, he’s 7-0 at the moment, and six of those wins have come by weight of knockout he’s very, very powerful um everyone’s looking out for him.
He was bboc young fighter of the year.
He was also boxing news Prospect of the year.
Um, it’s quite interesting he’s like two different people.
He says that he fights to uh help him with his ADHD and and when you see him in interviews and outside of the Ring, he’s very sweet, very polite.
And then, when he’s in the ring, he just absolutely switches into this crazy wild beast.
And it says it is his way of counteracting all that energy that he’s got.
He focuses it all in there um, which is obviously very effective um.
So when he was younger, he was diagnosed with ADHD and they looked for a way to help him well help him with it and to help calm him down.
They started him with Cricket, didn’t work kickboxing.
That was much better, but it was actually boxing um that helped him, and that happened when he was only four years old.
Now his dad was a footballer, but he tried well he.
He then studied boxing to help his son and actually became his trainer, which is really nice and he’s now trained, obviously by Shane McQueen, who also thinks that he is well one of the best uh Prospect boxers out there right now very pleased to have him um.
So his brother, actually Hassan, is also a boxer younger brother and he’s also won this card.
So if you want to check him out it’s a lot earlier on, I think it would be like four or five o’clock so but check him out because, obviously good to see them growing.
I would say, and so here’s amateurs I mean he was compared to Floyd Mayweather – also I’m going to say his name – a lot in this previous show I never have before, but there you go um.
He won multiple full tournaments so like it’s really hard to count.
How many uh tournaments you actually won? He won every single year from 2015 to 2019 um and uh.
He went pro in 2020 and very quickly.
He won the youth, InterContinental super lightweight belt, and now his last fight was meant to be a test right so um.
They got Ray Charlton, he was pretty he’s.
A seasoned campaigner is decent amount of experience and, however, Adam is in managed to get a TKO in the second round um, and that was supposed to be a challenge um.
I don’t really want um all his fights.
So far have been in the UK he has a mentor as well in Amir Khan um.
So one of the goals that azim has is to be the youngest Asian British champion, which currently Amir Khan holds that record.
He wants to beat him, but it’s quite sweet.
He’S always at his fights, and you can see that they’ve got quite a nice relationship going on there and it’s nice for him to have an item as well, and now he has vowed to have a world Title by 2024.
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Shane McGregor has said that they’re not going to skip any steps, though so we’re looking at he’s going to go for English Champion British, then European oil um, but by 2024 over there um style wise.
I mean just look on YouTube, he’s a very, very quick work.
Really fast, very heavy hands, which is obviously what you want.
Um he’s also got this arrogance in the ring.
It’S like he just because it’s the confidence, you don’t see the confidence in interviews or when he speaks, but when he steps in that ring, it’s just that’s what he’s supposed to do.
It’S just meant to be there and I think that’s why everyone is really excited about him um, so he’s in the same stable as Caroline Dubai, who’s, obviously on this card as well, and they Spar each other, which I always think is quite interesting.
Um he’s also a nice guy as well he’s a campaigners for a charity called um.
The gloves up knives down.
I’Ve got the wrong way around Knife Down, gloves up um, but campaigning to try and get kids into boxing, and it’s getting lots of streets to try and lower that life crime.
Now he is facing Santos Reyes, who is supposed to be a step up and a challenge? I really hope he will be.
He is undefeated uh he’s from South America, Nicaragua and he’s known as Starboy stats, 12-0 uh and three of those have been Kos.
However, he’s 37 years old, so I’m 17 years older – that doesn’t show a lot of experience because obviously he’s only had 12 fights, but obviously there’s more experience there um now.
This is uh Santos, Ray’s, first fight outside of home um and looking at his kind of CV and previous fights of his it’s, he hasn’t had any like really tough opponents in the ring.
Apart from one, I would say, which was an undefeated Champion – uh Brian Jimenez, if you know him um now that fight was actually for the WBA uh feder Century championship, and that was in August 2022 and Santos Reyes did come out with a win.
So he has managed to upset an undefeated champion before and ruin their own take their own, so he has got it in him and now his last fight was also a unanimous decision.
It was very simple, easy win, really um and that was uh in December 2022 and that was against Ricardo Cortes now uh Santa stories he has been chosen for Adam, as in I would say, because of his style of fighting um.
He is very come forward uh.
He is a counter puncher.
He would never take a step backwards, he’s going to get involved um and I think that’s what Adam Zim needs.
He needs someone to go rounds with him, because it’s all very well.
You know flying through all these opponents, but if he’s going to go for that world title he needs the experience and – and I think Santos will probably give it to him.
So I do think this will be a good fight and, let’s hope it lasts longer than I don’t know, some of his other fights you’re like what 10 seconds 11 seconds.
Some of them are very, very quick, but if you want to see a real Prospect, um making his way up up first headliner as well, then check out Adam as in tomorrow, night um, okay.
So now, let’s move on to the second fight, I’m going to preview for You, Caroline Dubois.
She will be facing uh Farish, mishawri um.
Now, Caroline I’ve learned about her a lot.
I’M a big fan, uh she’s 5-0.
Looking to make it 6-0 four of her wins.
Have come by way of knockout, she is incredibly powerful.
She is flying up the ranks now.
Two opponents for this fight have already dropped out.
The last opponent dropped out four days ago.
So if you notice by the picture in the first poster, she had a different opponent, um and now with four days notice, uh we’ve got Ferris mushari.
Now this girl has got some gumptions and for coming in um.
Caroline has just said: it’s it’s hard to find opponents um and with the smaller pool for female Fighters, it is difficult you’re either looking at Journey women or you’re.
Looking at ex-world Champions, world champions um, and we don’t want to make Caroline go in too early.
It’S just as simple as that and she said that 2022 was an apprenticeship here.
She feels like she’s learned and she would like to start challenging for those bigger titles in 2023, hopefully towards the latter end of that and, however, she needs experience in the ring because she always enter early and it’s it’s proving tricky to find her back um.
So I’ve done a lot of research on her new opponent um and I’m thinking that it might be a good fight.
We might get some more rounds out of it.
So recap: Caroline Dubois she’s, Our Youth Olympic gold champ, and she was also the uh well well.
The world’s champion she was our phone first ever world’s youth Champion.
I will try and speak for you, sir, about that um and she is four times European Champion as well.
So her amateurs were just sparkling um.
Her older brother is Daniel Dubai, which you’ll know all about him.
She has a great story that she wanted to go and be a boxer like her brothers um.
However, she wasn’t allowed because she was a girl, so she pretended she was a boy.
She went by the name of Colin until she was 11 years old when they let her well, when it was clear that she was a female and then she was allowed to fight as a female and, however, it’s always kind of a cool story.
Now she was also a bboc young sports Personality of the year, so people are looking at her as a big Prospect as well.
I think she is sure she campaigns it lightweight at the moment.
Um.
It would be great, and can you imagine if Katie Taylor passes that bat on to Caroline Dubois? I think that would be amazing.
I think timing would work for that as well.
Um, okay, so she went pro uh this time last year, um and her last fight.
I don’t know if you saw it was on the at the end of December last year, 17th of December um and she stopped Sophia Rodriguez who had never been stopped before in round one um.
It’S always like really exciting when that happens, but also quite disappointing, because you get kind of cheated out of a fight, but it was very easy work for Caroline and her goal.
She wants to be fighting Michaela Mayer, she wants to be fighting Kate, Taylor, um, and she wants those titles by the end of this year.
Now practice.
Will she get that with Farish mishawri, uh, she’s, 10 wins and seven losses, three Kos she’s 25 years old and she’s from Tanzania and obviously she’s had no uh notice yeah, it’s a very, very last minute opponent.
Now Farish is coming off three unanimous decision losses, um, which obviously doesn’t vote well uh, however, she’s been Pro since 2016, so she has got a lot more experience.
Um and she’s only been stopped twice and she’s done quite a few 10 round fights uh, so she’s able to go the distance um, hopefully more durable, we’ll see.
Now this is the interesting bit so I was trying to work out.
Okay, is this just going to be one of those opponents for Caroline that she just smashes out the way in about three seconds now, Farish have thought uh, farooza Sharapova, who you might have noticed in 2021, because she challenged Katie Taylor for all her lightweight titles.
Uh back in 2021 um now she lost that fight.
However, she went the distance and then, when she fought Farish mishawri, that also went the distance.
So I’m trying to think that the opponents that she has had have been in with other really brilliant opponents.
Therefore, making me think that Farish Mishary might be better than we are expecting uh.
I think she’ll be more durable, she’s, certainly a come forward Fighter um.
I think I think we might get some more rounds um, which would be great.
Let’S have some more rounds.
I mean I mean the odds are quite having Caroline’s gon na win.
If you want to make that but um, however, I think we’ll be able to see a more entertaining fight um when Caroline might have worked out a little bit harder to get her tikio um.
All right, let’s now move on to the next fight language preview, which is zachelli versus Anthony the magician Sims Junior um, quite interesting, because uh Anthony Sims is the second cousin or Floyd Mayweather.
So he’s got that boxing family he’s had many many brilliant teachers.
So I’ll talk about that a bit uh Zach Celly though he is 12 and one uh, six KO wins he’s 25 years old, he’s from London he’s from Fulham um now uh.
This is a super middleweight fight, sorry um! Now his last fight was against Jermaine Brown.
Uh, that was for the English super middleweight title.
He won it um.
It was a unanimous decision within 10 rounds and very convincing win uh.
Now, since then, though, he’s had eight months out of the ring um previous to that uh, he did have a really tough fight as well.
This is a good one.
If you want to watch this on YouTube.
Um against Jack killigan, um Zach Kelly actually did get hurt uh in that, but he had this great comeback.
He kept going and he knocked Jack down before he eventually brought that stoppage um.
So again you can see you can see his improvements in his fights.
That was a really good good show of his uh cardio and the way that he can come back and he only had one fight in 2021, and so he asked me, I would say, not inactive, but not.
You know not as as active as as the other fires on the card or or his opponent um now he’s from a fighting family.
His dad Zachariah was some sort of boxer um.
He had a good amateur career as well, so he was uh won Gold in the English uh youth championships he’s got quite a few medals and he went pro in 2017.
um yeah.
I like this uh this story, so he has a business degree from stud uh from Surrey University and he trained to be a teacher and in lockdown he needed to make money.
Obviously he wasn’t making money from boxing, so he became a supply teacher and he went into secondary schools and literally covered any lesson that we needed him to.
His pupils obviously knew that he was a boxer of the broken album of the teacher um and he’s often said that trying to control the classroom is actually very similar to trying to control a ring.
I do a lot of teaching as well and yeah.
I could agree with that, like you definitely need uh, some conviction um, so he had one loss that was back in 2019.
It was against Cody Davies.
It was a unanimous decision.
However, he did manage to show his power.
He did knock uh Davies down in the second round, um also Cody Davis with the South Force.
Obviously, that’s going to be a tricky fight to have um and and he’s now an active so that loss, I’m not really counting so he’s on a good run as actually um.
Now Anthony Sims known as the magician he has had 23 wins only one loss 20.
Ko so he’s had more Knockouts and Zach Shelley has had fights um and he is 27 years old.
Um now, like I said, he’s a second cousin or Floyd Mayweather and he’s come from the USA.
He had a good amateur career as well: 188 wins um he’s had, I think it’s 13 losses, 10 Knockouts, um, so loads of national titles, and he went pro in 2014.
uh.
So he’s got three years on Zach uh.
In that way, he’s known for his massive power for sure his own, the one loss that he had um was when he challenged the WBO Latino title, which was a split decision to Roamer Alexis Angulo.
So it was a split decision.
If you watch it, it was a very terrifying um.
Now now he’s coming off to stoppage wins, he said after his death, she he like went back home, grew his bed went fishing for ages and like reset himself, so he’s in a really good place.
Right now he’s absolutely ready for it, and it was four years ago since he last was in the UK fighting um and he loves the UK.
He wants to live in the UK, he’s not currently signed by anybody and he wants to be signed by boxer.
So he really is looking to make a show on Saturday night.
So it’s actually Charlie, you know, watch out.
Um he’s had many teachers as well uh.
One of them was uh Floyd, Mayweather’s Uncle so um, Roger Roger Mayweather, so he’s very well schooled um and if he wants to make this impression – and he is known for his power – then I think this is going to be a really good fight.
Actually um I mean have a call, that’s that’s the one I would make a better one, so um, how long all right! So now, let’s move on to the last slide that I’m going to preview for you um, which is with our Riley um and he’ll, be facing Annie’s Taj.
Now this one’s got the makings, I think, for one of the best fights of tonight, just because they clearly don’t like each other and then these Taj is is coming, for.
He really wants to prove something.
He is so adamant that he is not a journeyman.
How dare anyone think that he is going to come and he to you know to take over to end with O’Reilly um and his undefeated run at the moment, so uh vid O’Reilly is 7-0, 4kos is 25 years old and he fights a cruiserweight and he’s one Of those unbeaten Rising threats, let’s get to talk about a lot.
He brings a different audience to boxing as well, because uh he has a YouTube channel, he’s got millions of subscribers.
Um he’s also a rapper.
He does all sorts of things in that as well.
He was actually spotted to become a boxer.
I’Ve said this on a previous Show when he was a PT in gymbox and he was training KSI, so he became ksi’s boxing trainer, which is how he got noticed as a boxer as well um.
Now he had three victories in 2022, including two stoppages in the first three rounds, so he is on a mission.
However, I have looked at CV.
I’Ve looked at the the fights and the opponents and they were all given very very little time for their camps like they came in at like two weeks.
One week’s notice – and I wouldn’t say he’s – had a challenge just yet.
Um Anisa said this as well, so Anisa said no, I’m absolutely your toughest and Vidal Riley says yeah.
No, he he is um so uh he began.
I did a Riley began boxing when he was just six years old um.
He won eight national titles.
He got a silver European uh junior title, um amateur career started at like 41 wins.
It was eight losses.
9Kos, so good amateur got some schooling in there and he went pro in 2018.
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I would say that he’s a good counter puncher he has power um.
Now, let’s look at Anita’s Taj, so he is seven wins: two losses: zero, Kos and he’s 26 years old.
So these I think, are very well matched now he’s coming to win.
It’S made it very, very clear, um.
Now he last year was in the boxer.
You know they do like tournaments and so the tournament series Fox autonomous series um at Cruiser way.
He actually did really well in it um.
So here he is uh.
This is going to be his first eight round fight um quite interesting.
He was a law graduate um and really doesn’t box for money at all um, and he does it because he loves it and because it’s fun um – and I think, there’s something quite dangerous about that – like he doesn’t need the money, he doesn’t need to be a Rising star, he just really wants to win for the love of it um.
Now he wanted to go to the 2020 Olympics um and he was there he could have done it.
However, there was a last minute covered rule change, because obviously it was 2020 when the whole world was in a mess um, so he was unable to go and that’s when he took the decision to go pro instead.
So here he is in Pros just a little thing about his amateur career, though um in the haringey cup.
He actually beat heavyweight, Rising Star David Adelaide.
Now I don’t know if you’ve seen him but he’s tough and very powerful much bigger um.
So I think that’s quite interesting and his Taj does have power.
I think that he he really will be turning up to win um.
His last fight was a points win against Eric nazaran, and that was over six rounds, and that was in November 2022.
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Now he has been super active as opposed to bit O’Reilly um.
Now he said that he’s going to go in wild and aggressive uh says he’s far more powerful and that’s true.
If you look at the footage of his fights, he does come in explosive energy.
A lot of aggressional power come for advisor, so I think that’ll be a fun fight as well.
I think that I think that O’Reilly will take the win um.
However, I think it will be a really good fight and it’s a potential banana skin.
I think that any stars could take away that over and better rightly all right guys, so I hope you enjoyed the preview of those four fights.
I hope that sets you up for tomorrow, night.
Remember that that’s going to be available on Sky Sports over here uh in the UK, it starts at about 7, 00 p.
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Um, and you know, I think, you’re up for a really good night.
Boxer nights are always fun um and join me in next week.
Same time, uh 2 p.
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Uk time I I will be previewing the massive partner.
That’S talked about a lot that Eddie Hearn is saying it’s going to be fight of the Year, even though it’s February and however, I think he might be right uh.
So we’ve got Leeward he’s coming back off injury and he’s going to be facing oh Mauricio Lara who wow he did damage to Josh Warrington um.
So I’m excited to preview that for you next week so please tune in 2PM and enjoy the boxer night.
Tomorrow night uh in London Wembley see you soon guys have a lovely weekend.
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