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EPISODE: Episode 1
Our first story is about Adrian Broner, a former four-division world champion, now looking for someone else to fight after it was announced Michael Williams Jr has broken his jaw, meanwhile Eddie Hearn has some advice for Leigh Wood regarding his upcoming opponent, Mauricio Lara, not to mention a few thoughts with respect to the prospect of Anthony Joshua possibly facing Tyson Fury this summer, a subject that also warrants a few comments from Bob Arum, and we can’t avoid the mess Gervonta “Tank” Davis finds himself in – as in heading to jail – which is addressed by Bernard Hopkins, before concluding this episode with the possibility of Shakur Stevenson facing the winner of the Haney-Lomachenko fight in May.
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Foreign hello, there box of fans around the world.
Thank you for joining me once again here on talk and fight for another episode of boxing news headlines where we scoot around the world and have a look at what’s happening inside the sport of boxing, not only inside the ring but outside the ring, because there’s as Much Chit Chat going on outside the ring as there is inside the ring and we like to cover all the bases.
Let’S start off with uh Adrian Broner, the ongoing saga of Adrian Broner he’s an aging fighter without a doubt, uh former for uh for weight division.
Champ but uh, but he’s not as he’s aging, okay and he was scheduled to fight Michael Williams Jr, but now that fight’s in Jeopardy, because it’s scheduled for just a couple weeks.
February 25th, as uh Williams, Jr, has broken his jaw and it doesn’t look like he’s going to be able to fight uh on that night against Adrian Broner.
Now this happens to be the third fighter who happened to have been set up to fight against Broner.
If you might recall, the initial fight was supposed to take place against Ivan redcak, but he couldn’t take the fight.
I mean he was replaced by Hank Lundy and that lasted about a week before it was dropped as well.
So now, uh with Michael Williams, Jr dropping out Broner’s in a bit of trouble here, because we don’t really know who he’s gon na fight who he could possibly fight who he should fight.
You know um it’s up in the air and it’s not good for BLK.
Prime, by the way, uh they’re new to the game and this sort of thing they’re not really used to to facing this sort of adversity.
Um.
If you read the stories that are out there uh in theory, Broner’s management could easily find a contender from the 135 140 or 147 pound division to step in and face Broner on February 25th.
But the problem with that idea is Broner would likely lose to any legitimate top 15 contenders from 135 to 147.
, as he’s pretty well shot at this stage of his career and arguably not getting not capable of beating top 15 competition According to Jim calfa over at Boxing news, 24.
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So let’s move along leaving Broner aside here, uh to one of my favorite writers in boxing news 24, Charles Brun.
He has some comments with respect to the upcoming lee wood, marichiolara fight, it’s uh.
It’S going to be a Dandy for sure and I’m pretty sure the fans out Nottingham will be out in full force, cheering on Lee wood, who may have bitten off a bit more than he can possibly chew.
Let’S see what ediron has to say, Eddie Hearn wants Leawood to avoid trading with The Knockout artist Marie cholara, because he feels that put him in danger of getting flattened like Josh.
Warrington Hern wanted wood to fight the old-timer Kiko Martinez because he felt he was an easy option for him to recover from the Nottingham natives brutal war with Michael conlon last March.
As a author States, goodness knows you couldn’t blame wood one bit if he took a lifetime break after shots after she was pounding.
He took from Colin in that fight.
Instead of listening to hearn’s advice like a good one, wood has chosen to go on top food chain hand, picking Laura out of his mistaken belief that he sees him as identical to the 36 year old Kiko Martinez in talent, for the record.
Kiko is coming off a knockout loss to Josh Warrington and has been beaten in two of his last four fights.
One can only imagine what wood will say on Saturday night after he’s peeled off the canvas, WBA featherweight champ wood he’s now 26-2 by the way 60.
Knockouts and his analytical trainer Ben Davidson have been seen, have seen something in Lara 25 and 2-1 18 Knockouts that they’re convinced they can exploit, which is why they’re so insistent in picking the 24 year old Mexican Warrior out of all the other contenders in the 126 Pound division wood is drunk on the success from his last against conlon and still high from the positive replay Replay that keeps him floating around his head.
Making him think he can rally against Lara, as he did against, Michael unfortunately, for wood.
There’S a massive difference in power between the feather fisted conlon and the devastating brute strength of Lara.
Those shots that Colin was hurting would, with all night long, will turn into knockout blows from Lara on Saturday holy crap uh.
Let’S have a quick quote here from Eddie Hearn we’ve been in here with some unbelievable fights.
Obviously, froka gains Butte calling against wood, and this one will be right up.
There said Hearn, it’s a very dangerous fight for Lee wood, but one that we’re excited about.
It’S going to be very dangerous when you’re fighting a guy Lara that is dynamite in both hands and also has a great work rate he’s very tough and Relentless as well.
He would also punches very hard and he can take the wood out to the head or to the body in this fight.
He doesn’t want to trade with him.
He wants to box smart and that’s very difficult to do against.
The guys were letting us, as Marie show Lara uh.
The red concludes.
Wood, isn’t much of a boxer.
So it’s going to be hard for him to follow the advice of wood.
I’M sorry Fern! Oh my God.
This guy cracks me up the closest thing.
Wood has to uh has come to going through.
The motions of boxing is when he used an illegal straight arm against kanju all night at matchroom headquarters in Brentwood, Essex in July of 2021.
wow we’ve got a wood hater here.
For those who don’t know what a straight arm is.
It’S when a fighter extends their lead arm far out in front of them and uses that as a stick to keep your opponents from getting close enough to throw punches when used repeatedly.
A straight arm is very effective, but so so illegal.
The referees are supposed to warn penalize and disqualify if a fighter uses a straight arm, but in which case he got away with the entire fight against you will would resort to using this trading arm against Lara on Saturday.
I wouldn’t be surprised again: if Fern once would the Box, the only thing we’ll see resembling boxing is likely a straight arm from him.
It’Ll be fun to see if the referee does his job by penalizing wood or if he let it get away with his tactic.
Don’T put that pressure on me said her when asked if he can guarantee this the city ground in Nottingham for wood versus Josh Warrington? If, if Lee comes out Victorious on Saturday night against Sarah, we’ll see said her and a lot depends on the date and the cost as well, we can do that fight City, ground or Ellen Road.
It doesn’t really feel right with Lee as a champion wherever we can make the most money, certainly for Lee wood.
He would love to do it at City ground for all of us fans around the world that fits into the wood video category all right.
Let’S move along then uh.
The undercut of that fight by the way features uh, Dalton Smith, he’s going to make a second offense of the British super lightweight title against Billy Allington um, we’re gon na see um Irish lightweight hope Gary Kelly, 15.
No, by the way, nine Knockouts uh, who also recently extend his promotional deal with matching boxing he’s going to return to the scene of his impressive Victory.
Stoppage triumph over formal Champion Miguel varquez in March of last year to take on USA’s Wilfredo Flores who’s 10 0-1.
By the way, and that’s for the vacant, WPA Intercontinental title, um Graves and Cruiserweight Chevron, Clark 4-0 for knockouts has ended all four of his fights inside the distance is turning pro last February, including a brutal second round.
Stoppage win over Jose Gregorio little Rick last time out, caused by a perfectly timed uppercut and the former team GB Olympian steps up uh an Eliminator of the English cruiserweight title against scrunt thorp’s deck Spellman uh.
We’Re also going to see uh gamala Phi returning um, sir, and I must be talking about upcoming fights here, sidetracked sidetracked, sorry about that sports fans all right, Tyson, Fury’s, co-promoter, Bob Aram says it’s possible that Fury could face auntie and Joshua later this year, if both Of them win their next fight in April now, as we know, we’ve talked about this before WBC heavyweight champion Fury, 330-1 24 Knockouts would need to defeat ibf WBA and WBO champ Alexander yusik, on April 29th in Saudi Arabia.
If that fight can happen, whereas Joshua 24-3 22 Knockouts will need to get past Jermaine Franklin on April 1st, despite theories saying this week, that Joshua is dead as far as he’s concerned.
Aramc’S AJ is a very real possibility for him as he’d like to make that fight happen.
If Joshua’s team doesn’t mess around like they did last November, when they attempted to put a fight together, it would be crazy for the 34 year old Fury to turn his back on a fight against Joshua out of a petty grudge over failed negotiations.
Last time around there’s too much money that can be made between the two for Fury childless.
She hold the grudge and refuse to revisit talks with Joshua.
Now we’ve previously explained the difficulties that usick has with respect to taking the fight out of Saudi Arabia and now over to Wembley so anyways.
Let’S see what promoter Eddie, Hearn, adamant room says about all this promoter.
Eddie Hearn again encourage my friends over boxing news.
24 says followed by name Brian Weber, promoter, Eddie, Hearn, says auntie and Joshua will step in and fight Tyson Fury in the summer.
If his Undisputed clash with Alexander usick fall fails to happen on April 29th, Hearn says Fury will make much more money fighting Joshua in a megabout than he will facing ibf wbaw champion usick uh, like many Hearn, has his doubts um that the Furious fight will take Place because she was asking for a ton of money and the Saudis don’t want to pay his asking price, apparently uh, oh yeah, apparently, all of a sudden, the assadis don’t have money.
At the same time, Fury feels he’s a much bigger name than you sick and he doesn’t view him as a worthy 50, 50 split as a result, with the money being far less.
If the fight is staged in the UK, it’s not going to be a great deal for yousic, because he’s already made his deal with the Saudis and he knows what he can make.
If the fight is staged there.
The problem is Fury.
He wants more than the Saudis are willing to pay.
So unless he comes down to earth in his asking price, he’ll not only make less money fighting in the UK, but he’ll likely wind up with no yusic fight.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Fury Is His Own Worst Enemy at this point in his career he sees himself as a huge star and he’s wrecking negotiations for all his biggest potential fights.
Greed is hurting Fury’s chances to make Legacy building fights so Eddie Hearn said he Dyson Fury has been very quiet, don’t forget, he’s in Auntie, Joshua had 24 48 hours to sign and the reason Fury couldn’t fight AJ on December 17th was he’s fighting music in February.
So it had to be December 3rd.
I don’t know, what’s going to happen with this music thing, he may fight Fury next we’re open to that fight.
If music doesn’t fight, Fury, AJ will fight for you next in the summer.
If he gets through Franklin.
How about that stick that in your pipe and smoke it said her he will.
I have no idea if you’re using is going to happen.
I can give you my opinion.
I’M telling you that fight.
If that fight doesn’t happen, we will take the fury fight.
I’M telling you he and to Josh up will take that fight.
He’Ll, take the Wilder fight he’ll, take them all! That’S something I’ve been thinking about recently.
It might get a little tinkle to George Warren, but we’ll see don’t be surprised to see that fight in the summer.
If the other one doesn’t happen, that’s much bigger than the music fight.
Much much bigger my opinions had heard is this: Tyson Fury has asked for a fortune for the fight, okay, um and rightfully so the Middle East has said: no we’re not paying that.
If he’s asked for that much money, there’s no way you can do the fighter.
Wembley without taking a quarter of what you think you’d get in the Middle East, I don’t know how much Fury fancies the fight he’s a great fighter, one of the best power pound Fighters.
He can make more money fighting AJ Nagano.
The other problem is in his opinion.
He has much more value in the fight than Alexander yusik.
When you talk about belts, when you talk about Undisputed fights, it’s a 50 50 split, but if I’m Tyson Fury predicting what he’s going to say, he ain’t getting the same as me, I’m Tyson Fury, I’m a mega.
He ain’t a mega without me, who is Alexander Yusuf going to fight, and that is a very valid point, because without Tyson Fury, Alexander yusik is a is in a really isn’t a really position.
Okay, I know what I pay alexand for the second fight and it was huge compared to the first fight.
If music doesn’t fight Tyson Fury, he’ll have to make voluntary defense close to probably a tenth of what he’d make in the Tyson Fury fight.
Tyson Fury is a good manipulator and he’ll be looking at this middleweight.
You really need me.
You sick, as a man in principle, he’s not going to be bullied at the negotiation table, he’s not going to be taken advantage of he’s not going to be manipulated.
He would walk away out of honor and out of principle, and that is the truth of what I see happening right now.
I can’t see how the fight takes place in England unless both are prepared to take much uh more than they hope they would get for this fight, and maybe they do.
It could still be the biggest fight for Fury outside of AJ Nagano.
But like I’m saying, if that fight doesn’t happen, we’ll jump in and AJ will fight, Fury he’ll make much more money than what he’d be getting fighting you sick and he might think it’s an easier fight.
Whoo well on.
It goes now speaking of another guy who’s.
Uh facing a bit of a quandary, uh javonta tank Davis, as you may have heard, uh pled guilty earlier uh this week to four counts, resulting from his hit and run car crash three years ago, back in 2020 and Bernard Hopkins out of Golden Boy promotion insists That Javon to tank Davis will take on Ryan Garcia on April 15th.
Quite frankly, it’s unknown how much jail time tank is going to get in sentencing if any, but it’s got to worry him and it’ll potentially hurt his career.
If he’s given a year, that’s a long time and tank would need a couple of tune-ups after that to try and regain what he’s lost now, keeping in mind over history, we’ve had many many great Fighters come out of prison well tuned up and gone to be.
Quite Victorious and earn a lot of titles putting that aside for a second, luckily for fans, Ryan, Garcia, PCB and Golden Boy, gervantes sentencing won’t take place until May 5th, which means the massive money tank Garcia fight can still go ahead for April 15th.
It may work tank having potential jail time time hanging over his head, while he prepares for his fight with Ryan.
But even if he’s not able to fully compartmentalize this, he should be able to train well enough to do the job against the inexperienced 24 year old Ryan in April.
If This Were Shakir, Stevenson or Frank Martin, that tank Davis Was preparing to fight having a sentencing looming over him, could throw him off enough for him to lose, but probably not against Golden Boy from mother Ryan, Garcia because he’s green as they come due to the Soft matchmaking he’s had during his seven year professional career Zinger, all right.
Let’S move along then too Shakir Stevenson, uh Bob arum has this to say about Stevenson.
He would like to see uh the winner of Devin Haney and the vasel uh lomachenko fight.
Take on Chris Stevenson: okay, Stevenson 19-0 needs to successfully defeat um shui Shiro yashino who’s 16-0 in their fight scheduled for Newark, okay, and if Shakura wins that fight he wants to face uh, Haney or lomachenko uh, either.
Those who wins, however, Aram says Haney, may choose to vacate his four lightweight titles.
If he successfully beats Loma on May 20th and if Haney vacates to go up to 140 Aaron says lo, machenko unsecure will fight for one of the vacated 135 pound belts.
It looked bad on Haney’s part if he vacates without fighting the Stevenson lomachenko winner, but he’s outgrown the division and needs to move up to 140.
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This is all courtesy of Sean Jones, another writer at boxing news 24, and you can argue the only reason Haiti is staying at 135 for the lomachenko fight.
Is that he’s so much bigger than him and a lot younger, so Bob em, the Japanese boy, has a tremendous puncher he’s undefeated and the guy that we work with in Japan thinks he’s extraordinarily talented.
You know what we think about Shakur and that he’s on the pound for pound list is one of the greatest Fighters today.
So if Shakira beats the Japanese and it’s going to be a tough fight, then the plan would be a match occur against the winner of The Haney lomachenko fight.
That’S another massive fight, he says yeah.
The plan is to have him Fight The Haney Loma winner, Aram, said against Stephen Stevenson.
If Haney wins he’s talking about going to 140.
, so that makes a vacant title fish occur.
But if Loma wins, that’s a fight between Loma and Shakur that I would pay all kinds of money to watch.
That’S really an unbelievable fight, two really great students and artists of the game.
Boxing said Aaron about lomachenko and Stevenson.
The date is May 20th.
The question is where we put it and hopefully we’ll decide that by the end of the week – and I have an announcement next week, Aaron said of the haynie lomachenko fight.
That fight is on it’s going to happen.
The question is the venue win or lose Haney’s a terrific fighter, and we can continue to give him maximum exposure on the ESPN platform, all right, boxed fans – that’s it for today.
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