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EPISODE: Episode 9
Cedric discusses his scorecard for the world light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev who knocked out American rival Joe Smith Jr inside two rounds on Saturday for the WBO title.
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Transcribed:
What up what up, what up good morning, welcome to the scorecard the boxing scorecard or ask people to bring your scorecard and an explanation? Not just simply your opinion.
Well, in the two uh two main events last night, there was no need for a scorecard um, as it was two two smashings starting off with the lightweight big light: light uh lightweight fight last night between arthur, better biev and joe smith, jr um.
I’Ve been saying for a while archer, better bf should be on most people’s.
You know when people make a pound for pound list of the 10 best boxers of uh, you know of any weight class.
A lot of people don’t put better bf in in there um, but i i really believe he should be i’ll.
Give my specific detail explanation why, after but uh um, coming into this fight this guy’s 1917, i know um 17 stoppages um.
Everyone gets stopped when you fight this guy.
So basically, according to the statistics, including the fight last night, if you’re fighting arthur better, be if there’s a 100 percent, you 100 chance you’re getting knocked out according to the numbers right now um.
So you got to think about that when you’re, when you’re in training camp but joe smith, jr, was a very good boxer himself.
Joe smith, jr came into this fight.
Uh 28 28 wins only four losses with 22 knockouts um and he’s had some good wins he’s.
He knocked out a leader alvarez, not canelo alvarez, but a leader alvarez uh.
He beat jesse hart um.
He went 12 rounds with uh with dimitri bibbal, the guy that beat canelo a couple weeks ago.
So he’s a good competitor.
His claim to fame was beating bernard hop, bernard hopkins um a while ago, um bernard hopkins was a little bit older too, but you know he still.
He still did it um.
So last night was uh and the way he fights not exactly it.
You know he’s a good boxer, but he’s a very hard puncher.
So that’s why last night, a lot of people were predicting um for it to be like a fight of the year um between these two hard punchers, better beef just showed, though you know his his uh.
His his strength is just that on a different level and the thing about him, a lot of people think that uh that all he is is just simply just a hard puncher, but it’s it’s not just simply that his fundamentals are, are so sound and that’s all He goes to that.
It seems like it’s that simple um, the best example i give if you guys, watch basketball, one of the great uh paraphores of all time tim duncan.
You know they call them the big fundamental, because you never know his highlight his highlights.
Would just be so boring because all he does is you know fundamental stuff? That’S what better bf is um.
You know he doesn’t he’s, not he’s not trying to catch and slip.
Well, he does catch and slip, but he doesn’t do anything.
Flashy just simply keeps his hands up, and you know, as i explained to the to the boxes, i train all the time you want to master the fundamentals before you um before you start to do the the you know the flashy stuff, a lot of people try To skip that and just try to get to the to the floyd defense because he makes it look so easy and he’s flashy with it, but um master the fundamentals, master, the fundamentals arthur beth, better bf – definitely has done that he’s.
A two-time olympian um had some big wins.
Obviously, if you’re a two-time olympian coming out of russia, you know you’ve had some uh, some good competition and that’s all he’s kept that through through um through through the professional ranks.
The reason why he’s as explained last week he slipped through the ranks because he’s kind of quiet he’s not on social media a lot.
He doesn’t really do nothing.
He doesn’t, you know, he’s not out partying and doing that like that he just stays in the gym.
Um yeah, all he does is the fundamentals, but he doesn’t so perfect.
It might seem like it’s boring, but it’s just you know.
It’S just perfect fundamentals: um.
My prediction for this fight was a stoppage in the 10th round.
I i predict you know, so i was right with my prediction of of how the fight would end but wrong in what round it would end um.
I thought joe smith would put up a little bit more um fight with his boxing skills because, like i said, he went 12 rounds with with dimitri bivall who’s, a very good boxer himself.
I guess he beat canelo convincingly a while ago and joe smith went the distance with him and he was competing.
He thought he did lose joe smith.
He did lose, it’s not like.
It was a close split decision, but he, you know he went 12 rounds with him and he did look good in certain parts.
So i thought he would have the boxing skills to at least uh keep better be off of him for uh.
For most of the fight, but uh better be was the monster man, this guy yeah, you know just to to show you his power, joe smith, has never been knocked down in his whole career.
In his whole, entire career he’s never been never hit.
The canvas in two rounds in two rounds he got dropped three times and visibly it wasn’t just like you know.
Sometimes a boxer might go down to one knee as a quick little flash knock down.
There was no flash knocked down.
He was visibly and clearly hurt.
Um so yeah yeah yeah shout out to the to the monster.
Let me know what his nickname is he’s.
Just that’s a lot of people try to claim the nickname as the monster, but better beef.
Doesn’T you know he’s the one that he does it justice and he just looks like a mean dude, like you know, look at him.
You know doesn’t even bother getting a haircut for his fight.
Just show up beat somebody up, collect his check and back to the gym on monday um.
What is next, what is next for for better bf, so anthony yardy who’s from yad from jamaica, but lives in uh lives in england.
Now um, it’s supposed to be next.
In october um, even though my heart, my heart, is with the jamaican, my brain is with better bf uh, because i i really don’t see anybody stopping this guy, there’s a reason why canelo fought bivall again not to put beval down, but vival is probably the second Best guy in at the light heavyweight division um dr biab is clearly the one i shouldn’t say clearly the first, because now with this fight, whether it’s going to set up, they were talking about anthony yardy.
I was just mentioning anthony from england they’re talking about him.
Fighting better be next in october um, but the next big one and that that’ll be a big fight too.
I shouldn’t say that i’m not trying to put down yardy, but the next big big one would be uh.
Dimitri bivall versus uh, dimitri bibbal versus better, be of the classic boxer boxer, puncher um, but more of a boxer against the the boxer crusher in better bf, so that one should be interesting, so uh um any comments or questions, no, no comments or questions right now.
Let’S move on um actually run this back one more time, because one one thing i want to want to touch on is uh how what the things that someone would try to do to to try to get to better be of all right because, again, there’s there’s! No, you know there’s, no, no one has successfully done it so far.
What you want to what i you know if i had a boxer facing this monster, what i would try to do is you have to stay on your toes the whole time you can sit down for a long straight one, two, a long straight one two, but There’S no standing and exchanging which guy your jab has to be in an fu jab.
I always mention mixing up the tempo of your jab between like making it a speed, a speed, jab or an fu jab, where you’re trying to push through the target.
It has to be a combination of both of those you can’t.
You can’t throw your punches at the same speed, because what what uh, what better beef will do is uh is time you with his hands up again, not timing, you with his hands down, looking making it obvious that he’s just trying to slip and come in he’s.
Just gon na keep his hands up, keep his hands up and just walk.
You down, seek and destroy style um.
So what you have to do is mix up your tempo.
Add some fakes in there, especially because he’s trying to he’s trying to trying to counter punch.
So add some fakes to see what he’s, what he’s trying to throw and then counter punch that um.
Of course it’s easier said than done, but uh, that’s that’s what training is for.
That’S what you know.
That’S what boxes are in the gym? For, hopefully you got, you know you need a good coach to teach you these fundamentals and then um and that’s the other thing too, because it’s one thing to work on them.
It’S one thing to work on things during in the gym and another thing to actually do it against the best competition in the world, like i’m sure, i’m sure joe smith had a good training camp.
He knew you know he knew about this fight for months.
So he you know it wasn’t like a couple weeks notice like like he like.
He just took the fight on a couple weeks notice.
He was prepared for months for this um, and that was that was still the result, um just to show you what type of what type of fighter that better peter is so shout out to him um all right, all right, all right! We will move on to the co-main event um between robisi ramirez and abraham supernova uh.
This was at this was at the we still got the reels.
The reels coming off from from the cove from there better be a fight actually i’ll i’ll, keep i’ll keep on on uh i’ll keep talking about this fight until until we get the the pictures up for uh for for the for the the other one, but just To show you and these pics right here, the reason like not all these picks are from the fight um.
There wasn’t, for some reason on google didn’t have a lot of picks from the fight, but this is just to show you the power that better beef has and all this punches.
This is from all of his opponents again, none of which have gone the distance, but just to show you again, you know he’s not doing nothing flashy keeping his hands up.
Of course he collects his belts at the end uh on the left.
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So that was the main event: the light lightweight uh light heavyweight in the light heavyweight division.
Next up, we got robisi ramirez versus abraham supernova, two little guys: 125 pound division.
Um rc ramirez is very interesting guy.
This guy right here, uh from cuba, two-time olympian this is the guy.
This is the last person to defeat to the defeat uh shakur stevenson, someone who i highly regard as one of the top boxers in the sport um this guy ruby ramirez.
He he started after he started his pro career after shakur did so that’s why shakur has a little bit of a head start on him um, but this guy he’s he’s looked good now he did have a little bit of a hiccup in his first first match And we’ll talk about that after here’s, his opponent, abraham supernova, um, very good boxer, he claims he dies his beard blonde because he says it helps him take punches better um, but it did not help him last night um the fight it was.
It was competitive for the for the first little bit um the first round i actually gave to supernova and he looked like the bigger guy um and he actually landed a one.
Two like a straight one-two rant right down the middle that i that i really believe.
Um caught ramirez um, but then, after that, ramirez just slowly took over, took over the ring generalship um with his accuracy, with accurate counter punching and just you know.
I talked before in the in the previous fight about to better be of and his fundamentals.
Well, uh.
Ramirez is the complete opposite this guy? He wants to show you that all of his skills that he has in his footwork and how light he is on his feet with his hands down, making you miss and making you pay hard um.
You see him smiling here.
This was right in the middle of the match here, um yeah he was, he was styling on him.
He was styling on him, dropping low, dropping his head low with his hands down and counter punching hard.
This was the end result right here.
Um – and this was the k – this is going to be the ko of the week – so pay attention to that later on today, at four o’clock, but yeah robisi, ramirez, uh, uh um, and this this the left that he landed too yeah.
I can’t just keep keep rolling through them, um the way that he set that up because he’s a cell phone he set it up.
He didn’t really throw his jab.
He just kind of toyed with it out there came across and made it look like he was going to come with with the jab and just straight left right down the middle um, so it was beautiful.
Nova laid right on his back here is mirrors with his two belts right here and it’s going to be interesting because, hopefully i’m not sure if we’ll get um, if we’ll get the rematch with with uh with stevenson, because stevenson is at 120 130 pounds pounds right Now, i believe, actually i have to double check that either 126 or 130.
It’S i think there he’s one division up, he might be at 1, 30.
ramirez is still probably going to stay at 126.
, because even at that even he did look small against nova and um.
So i can’t see ramirez moving up in divisions if we can, if you can run through those uh, those slides one more time with ro about ramirez and nova um, so ramirez’s record he’s ten wins with six kos and one loss his one loss coming in his First, in his first professional fight um, which was a big surprise to everyone, you know just keep it on keep keeping on this pick for a second here um.
It was a big surprise to to everyone.
You know this.
Guy was a two-time olympian.
Two-Time olympians are supposed to lose their first match, but then again and people were kind of putting him down and saying that he wasn’t as good as hyped up to be.
But you know i said, wait.
You know pump the brakes a bit because i had to remind everyone when lomachenko lost his second match um, you know everyone.
Everyone made an excuse for him, saying that he was still young and not said.
You know that he still needed to get used to the program, so people need to slow down and not just put him down because he lost his first pro fight and um, because i you know with the lomachenko thing people will say: well, you know the guy.
It was for a championship.
Well, no, it was you know: homeboy had 10 losses and was in his late, 30s and retired after that fight.
So it was.
He didn’t fight anybody else, like a young, a young champion that the guy that lomachenko lost to in the second fight had 10 losses and was in his late 30s.
So you know everyone gives lomachenko a pass for that.
So you know you got to keep that same energy and and give ramirez a pass for for losing his first pro fight when he shouldn’t have um, because ever since then all of his matches they either end in a knockout or a unanimous decision.
And you know, and he fights and he is he’s actually adapted to the professional style um.
The one complaint about uh about the cuban boxes over the years is that you know they stayed amateur so long that uh, the ones that do defect and and come to the states and turn professional they’ve been amateur so long that they they don’t really adapt to.
The professional style, which is more sitting down on your punches and and you know, making them count a little bit more as opposed to just moving um, but ramirez has definitely adapted.
You can keep the slides going now.
Um ramirez has definitely adapted and and looking good.
So it’s going to be very interesting uh.
What is he aliens 10 fights he’s only at 10 fights right now, i’m not sure again.
I was just talking about the you know about if him and shakur stevenson ever going to have that rematch, it’s going to be very interesting because i think shakur shakur is already talking about moving up to 135.
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You know he’s already talking about one of moving up to 135 and as of right now, ramirez is he’s 126, but he looks small for that division.
So i can’t i can’t really see um.
I can’t really see that that that fight happening in the near future at least um, so yeah there you have it um.
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