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EPISODE: Episode 22
Mike and Cedric give the KO award to Ben Whittaker who made quick work of opponent Greg O’Neill with a knockout win 21 seconds into round two.
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Transcribed:
[, Music ]: what up talking fake fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of the knuckle up knockout of the week? And it is myself mike orr and cedric ben, who are gon na present this to you today, and it’s none other than our man on his pro debut we’ve talked about on this channel before ben whittaker is the winner of our knuckle up knockout of the week.
Wow and what a wonderful performance he put on shout out to carl uk in the house, yes and yo, a uk man has won this prestigious award man, our knockout of the week, it’s going to ben whitaker man yeah this one.
Let’S talk about it um! Well, let’s start talk about first of all, um about his skill level and um.
How i believe that ben whittaker um a couple years from now will be on the pound for poundless um.
As far as as his contenders uh, i’m i’m saying to see.
Speaking of watching him at the olympics and at the the top level of the at the at the amateur level, world championships and the olympics in the gold medal match, he went up against the mori like the two-time olympian cuban um.
He lost it, but it was a very close match, similar to how how like shakir stevenson lost to that lost in this gold medal match to the more experienced cuban um winner could do the same thing too, but you could see the skill level, the confidence and The skill level is there: carl is talking about his behavior.
Yes, i understand showboating yeah, the showboating um, but i mean uh uh um as long as you as long as you’re backing it up.
Whatever you know, that’s those are the little things that either people pay to to watch you lose or or will support you because of those things.
So you know that’s that’s for promotional reasons, i guess yeah yeah honestly.
I do think he should have been a little more humble in the ring, though oh i am watching you watching you.
Yes, honestly, i thought that he should have been a little bit more humble in the ring, considering it was his pro debut right and you know what it the competition definitely wasn’t up to uh.
You know to his standard and his uh his his level of boxing.
What number fight was this number one man for whitaker? Oh, that was his debut yeah, that was yeah yeah, that’s um and uh um, it’s funny because he ends up watching his highlights now.
He’S he’s literally dancing in the middle of the fight because he’s making the guy miss um yeah.
So you know you know, listen! Greg o’neill, though, had 13 fights going into this one.
Okay, he was six six and one going into that fight.
Um whittaker.
You know pro debut greg o’neill.
Obviously you know he’s uh he’s a showcase, a showcase for uh.
You know a showcase fighter for new talent, definitely um.
You know what i don’t think.
Carl is saying that sugar hill will knock that behavior out of him.
You know what i don’t.
I don’t think um look like mike after budweiser um.
I don’t think he’s gon na focus on getting that behavior out of him as long as he’s staying successful, because i think that confidence is part of it like, for example, in his olympic gold medal mess when he was walking like he was dancing walking to the Ring listening to the music that that was playing, they got to pick their own music and, like that’s, you know, that’s just the confidence that he has.
Yes, i understand when you’re, when you’re fighting in that way, you’re leading yourself more open to getting hit um.
You know to getting caught, but um.
I think his skill level is up there with his defense, not just the offense when i say skill level that um he’ll be able to, as he makes his opponent miss and almost fall out.
The ring uh yeah.
I think he’ll be able to keep it up yeah.
Well guys.
We have a special treat for you.
I’Ve uh made a slideshow of the actual knockout that we’re gon na watch.
Uh we’re gon na click through it uh frame by frame, and you guys are going to get to see uh this this wonderful setup and it’s great man.
He he starts it off with a nice little uh, step, jab, followed by that overhand right and wow.
Was it devastating? You know, ben whittaker, never doubted that the win would come in a grand style.
You know how his body would react to fighting for the first time in 360 days was an entirely separate matter guys you know he’s charismatic.
We know that it was a great fight uh.
You know the fight was his first chance, his first uh since claiming that silver medal uh for great britain during the delayed 2020 olympics right.
So i guess he had a lot of you know he had a lot of a lot of spunk and a lot of energy man going into this one.
Definitely because of the fact that you know it’s been almost a year, so i can kind of see where he was coming from with all this we’re gon na start to flip [ Laughter, ] girl, we’re inside go for you brother, all right, oh, where is it? Oh eric, thank you here.
We go guys so we’re gon na start off here, nice long, jab, full extension and notice how he’s keeping his right hand up by his uh by his by his cheekbone right there a lot of people when they throw their jab out.
They just that, that other hand is loose, but he kept it up there.
He is keeping maintaining that distance from there.
He is with the step it’s coming: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah extension.
His opponent is trying to use his right hand to try to catch that jab yeah.
Oh, he knew that right hand was coming too look at his face.
His opponent’s face yeah.
He knew that right hand was coming.
Don’T worry at the end of this there’s there’s more of the beginning, so just keep with the slides you’ll see it folks, it’s great we’re just going through them, one by one yeah.
We we even got.
We even got the the part where he knew the fight was over.
You’Ll see it.
It’S coming up guys right here when he’s he’s on his back.
Let’S get like man that express is like holy man yeah, it’s just looking yeah, i’m done yeah yeah! No! No! Here it is now he’s done right there right there honestly and then he sits back up the rest waving him off.
You know it was.
It was a great.
You know a great display of the of his skill man, but honestly i don’t think he needed the show about him really uh yo the ref had to warn these guys in the beginning.
You know they were.
They were getting pretty aggressive towards one another.
So here we go again, let’s see so he’s got that step coming with that jab and you’re gon na know, and you know what the showboating alone like exactly what people are saying, what what what you and carl are saying like um, that just that alone is Going to make like for the general public, they will.
Yes again, we mean not again.
Yes, again, it’s just it’s just the shot, don’t worry it’s just the general public will be kind of split on it.
Some people will specifically not like him because of that and there’s going to be some people that do like him specifically for that.
That’S all mike, but he’s putting it all on you like [ Laughter, ] um, so so as far as the showing me personally, the way, the way i think about it, man as long as as long as you’re, successful and you’re not getting caught, keep doing it.
But if you get caught, then you’re gon na have to rethink, rethink things right.
So, as far as you know, that’s just bringing you know: flare flare to the game, putting more people in the seats that either are paying to watch.
You lose because they don’t like you showboating and will pay for your opponent to win, or they want you to keep doing it.
Yeah yeah definitely um shout out to our runner-up, which was uh mikhail law coming through with a vicious body shot.
That was our runner-up man.
Mikhail wall improves to 16-0 against javier and dino uh and dino was kayode by a left to the body guys it’s a vicious one, if you haven’t seen it um, but definitely ben whittaker’s was a little better man.
That’S why uh he’s our winner of the knockout of the week shout out to him man and uh.
You know shout out to the michael ball, who is our runner-up uh for that vicious body shot? If you guys haven’t seen that i wanted to wanted to touch a little bit on the uh, harlem eubank and eliot chavez, fight that uh ended with chavez being disqualified for twice punching eubank after a break had been called.
Big round was uh this.
This was in the ninth.
This is in the ninth in the ninth round last night.
I’M sorry yesterday afternoon, um pretty crazy.
Was you been to get a chance to watch the fight yet? Did you with eubanks winning the same same eubanks junior that uh well i’ll? Go to the scorecards and we’ll check the scorecards and see how how they had it.
Well, they don’t have an up.
So fans said it was uh 80 72 in favor of uh eubank, so definitely a frustrated chavez um.
Obviously you know what he did.
Man jake paul fight got cancelled.
Yes, i’m not hurt about that.
One carl, not at all, but yes, it got cancelled because apparently haseem rockman cannot make weight.
They uh had a deal to come in at no heavier than 205.
Uh has seen rockman being heavy at uh 225.
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Well, let’s see, let’s see what the official reports did, because i just seen: uh uh uh hazim rahman, just tweeted out himself that wait was not his issue, so i don’t know i don’t know well what’s what everybody’s been saying is that uh his his team had Called and said that he it’s not uh, he’s not gon na be able to make that 205 and that he wants to come in at 215 and that they should honor the weight of 215 and let him come in and uh paul’s people said that you know They’Re not gon na they’re, not gon na honor somebody who can’t you know who can’t be uh, you know true to themselves and and make this weight that they agreed upon and he’s he’s not about to reward it.
He said so the fight was called off.
I read all that last night: yes, as it came in but uh that’s.
What i’ve heard is that it’s all been because of weight, because haseem rockman cannot make the 205 agreed upon and that he planned to come into the fight at 215.
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That’S unfortunate! But who cares it’s like come on right? It’S it’s kind of funny.
I wonder if jake paul is buying all these people to quit these fights [ Laughter, ].
Well, i said i was talking about it this morning and i said like honestly, if you think about it like honestly, if you think about it, he actually has slowly stepped up his competition was your risk going up and down as he was reading, jake paul yeah Carl now now this is a kid’s show.
So if you think about you know in his first fight he fought a and i sometimes i get confused.
I think he fought a youtuber and the second is why he at least fought a professional athlete.
The basketball player in his third fight, he actually fought a real fighter.
Mma fighter and ben asked him, but not a striker.
In his fourth fight he actually fought another mma a fighter, but an mma guy, which was actually a champion.
So if you’re thinking about he actually has slow noise he’s slowly moving up in competition, hey listen! Eventually, he will get in there one day with a real boxer one day.
One day might not be this day.
It might not be this year might not be next year, but he will get in there.
Man eventually, one day we will see it and it will be somebody who is gon na knock his ass out.
Man like it’s got ta happen guys it’s gon na happen.
Um yeah big fights this weekend, guys uh lots of fun.
If you didn’t see it, there’s always repeats um.
You know shout out to gary anton russell uh with his win man improving to 16-0 against francis barthelemy uh.
That was a great fight.
If you guys did uh get a chance to watch it, i missed that one.
How did he look in that? Anybody in the chat make any comments on how uh gary was down in round six uh? You know it was.
It was scored.
Uh, 48.
47.
49.
46, 49 46.
uh yeah man.
It was uh great unanimous in the sixth.
It was the unanimous going up right into the six till that tko win man.
So you know he looked.
He looked really good, interesting interesting.
Yes, oh i hear the train it coming.
[ Laughter, ], oh, you can hear that.
That’S like a couple streets away: [, Laughter, ], that’s awesome! All right! Well, we had a great weekend of fights guys.
I hope you enjoyed them as much as we did thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of the knockout of the week award, and it goes out to our men ben whittaker, with his wonderful knockout of greg o’neill um showboating like it or hate it.
It was there, you know what it is: uh yeah jake paul hype, train good for you, carl’s part of the jake paul fan club.
I think he’s actually the uh the uk president.
So if uh, if you need, if you need any jake paul posters, just uh hit up uh carl at last spell box and he’ll mail them directly to you.
That’S hilarious, yeah shout out to all the fans tuned in today for this wonderful episode of the knockout of the week.
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