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EPISODE: Episode 1
This week’s episode focuses on Benn VS Eubank at the o2 on Saturday and the incredible fighters who are also on the card. World champion Shannon Courtenay is back after a loss, injury, and a whole year out whilst Felix Cash looks to keep his unbeaten run-will it be another knockout? Ellie Scotney is back to continue her journey towards world titles and Olympic Gold, Galal Yafai is also facing his toughest pro opponent yet. All this and more!
#ChrisEubankJr vs #ConorBenn; #FelixCash, #ShannonCourtney, #EllieScotney, and #GalalYafai.
On Talkin’ Fight with Holly Donovan, you’ll hear everything you need to know about upcoming fights, whispers, and gossip from London. Join Holly every Friday while she previews the weekend’s boxing events.
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Transcribed:
Foreign welcome to the show now, normally I would be previewing for you, the flight ahead and, of course, that would have been Ben and Eubank tomorrow.
However, obviously it’s been canceled and I’m sure you’ve heard the news.
So we’re going to talk about the elephant in the room first and work out why this is canceled and what is going on at this moment in time.
So we all know that Connor band has been caught potentially taking a lethal substance.
A voluntary test showed that he’d been taking something called chromophene um and now the boxing border patrol, the British boxing border patrol have decided that they will no longer sanction the fight and therefore the fight is off.
Now one Earth is common thing, so this is a very strange drug.
This is something that actually women normally take for facility um.
However, when men take it, it can actually increase the rate of testosterone by 600.
Now that, of course, is going to make on a pen recover quicker, he will be able to gain muscles quicker um, and this, of course, is highly suspicious when he is trying to gain weight to have a fight against Eubank Jr.
Now this whole time all of the attention has been focused on me Bank Junior on him, cutting down taking off that weight.
Can he do it? Is it dangerous? Even his own father told everyone to boycott the fight.
However, meanwhile, we have the Golden Boy Connor brand, who the nation here loves failing one of these drugs tests, so this is interesting because actually both camps knew about it five weeks ago.
So why not? If we only find out what two days ago doesn’t make any sense to me so basically because it was a voluntary test, it wasn’t something that is recognized by the British Hospital board, so they have their own UK anti-toping agency and those tests have gone again have Come up negative so they decided to ignore this test, keep it under wraps, but, unfortunately, the Daily Mail leaked the story and once that story was leaked, everybody knew and that’s when action Society has been taken now.
Actually it was a really Brave move.
I think for the Boston board to take control to say that they wouldn’t mention the fight, and then there was a very strange 24 hours where everything went, pretty quiet and were different deals being made was Eddie Hearn trying to talk to bibra.
Instead, nothing is clear on that.
He maintains that he didn’t try and make the fight the consummation by any other body and that right thing all along now for us.
Obviously, that makes for a miserable night the Connor Bell as well.
He has laughed.
Is he going to be able to bring back that popularity that he had? I think it’s going to be difficult for him.
However, if you look back in history, massive Fighters like Canelo Tyson, Fury um, they have both had Vans and they have since come back.
They’Re still massively high on us and they are still super popular, so I really hope for myself, because I’m a fan of Honor Ben that he does finish up on that and he does manage to get the British audience back on his side.
However, it is going to be a long journey.
Um Eddie Hearn has very recently is about half an hour ago came online um and he said that they are going to be trying to reschedule the fight.
It is not canceled and those that are on the undercards.
Will be rescheduled and put into other fights now this makes you know the show difficult, because I wanted to talk about all those people on the undercard.
I wanted to introduce them to them and make sure that a light was shined on them as well, and unfortunately we cannot do that.
So what I’m going to do now, I’m still going to shine a light on one of the fighters that was on that card, and that is Shannon Paul today.
So if I could have a little picture, Shannon call it that would be great to remind you of who she is so who is Shannon coordinate? What is she known for now? You’Ll probably remember her from her epic fight with ebony Bridges where she became world champion and some ways, and now this was a couple of years ago, and it was an epic fight, um, really full of energy.
Both Fighters absolutely go about it.
They’Re both covered in blood by the end of it um, it was really spectacular.
Um at the end, Shannon came away with the win.
She got the Bell, however.
Maintaining that belt was really difficult for her.
She was last out pretty much exactly a year ago, um, and it was her first defense about and it was to Jamie Mitchell.
However, she didn’t make weight that day.
It was a really stressful situation for her.
It was all to do with hormones and she couldn’t get that last week I was off now I thought I felt for her.
I really really do um as any females out there watching you know what it’s like with a weight on any day.
You know you you wake up one day and be a kilogram heavier than you are the day before and Shannon maintains that she treated everything possible to come in and wait at home or hormones just didn’t.
Allow it to do so.
So, even before that fight with Jamie Mitchell, she was stripped with her belt.
She went into that fight, obviously feeling deflated and that’s when a second tragedy struck.
She got an injury, her knee uh.
She said in interviews afterwards that she pretty much did that fight with one leg, um really difficult for her.
Obviously the felt is gone and she needed to then take time out to recover.
Now, since then over here, we’ve had a show called um SAS.
Are you Tough Enough um with celebrities and Shannon has appeared on that, and it’s been amazing because we have seen a different side of her personality she’s? Actually a lot softer and she comes across so hard all these pre-week um.
You know when, when the fight’s coming up, she seems all Aggie but actually really kind, really sweet person who worked really hard and it’s so so tough.
However, during this show, they put them through hell and she didn’t tell the producers that she had this knee injury.
She just wore a secret, strap underneath her jeans, and so it got worse and worse and then, when she came out of the show she had to have surgery, so tomorrow, night was supposed to be so important for Shannon because it was her comeback fight.
She was supposed to be able to take to that ring once more to get her confidence back up again for wild titles, so Shannon I I feel so sorry for you.
I can’t wait to see you out.
I can’t wait to see you build up again.
I’Ve loved the interviews that you’ve done recently me where you’ve come across with your true personality, and I can’t wait to see more of you so I’m off to each other we’re going to get into it.
You’Re really even believe it.
Some other fights we’re going to talk about so last weekend, not sure if you missed it a couple of weekends ago.
It was the same night as uh Joe Joyce and uh Joseph Parker, and now because that was arguably the bigger fight most people might have been tuned into that one.
However, I had two screens going because I’m a massive fan of Terry Harper and she is on her way back as well.
You might remember her from uh dispute that she started against Gardner.
It was quite a brutal knockout and Terry Harper is a world champion and she is now a two-way block champion, because on that night she took on Hannah, ranking um and she managed to win the Super world to work.
Sorry she took the super welterweight belt from Hannah now this was a crazy thing because she had actually come up three weight categories.
Now this is mental, but I’ll speak a bit later on as well.
Other Fighters are doing this.
Female Fighters are going up in white categories and it seems to be working wonders so Terry Harper came out he’s a brutal fight.
She had most of the energy at the beginning.
She had this three jab combination.
She really took a chunk out of Hannah Rankin’s eye.
Pretty early on um, later on in Flight round five Hannah Rankin did come back, but Terry Harper really showed what a True Flight she is and she won by unanimous decision and she took that belt now.
Why is this important? Why? Because I love Terry Harper.
I never wanted um, but also because that now means that there is going to be a rematch between her and Natasha Jonas.
Now, the last time they fought.
They were both that super further away, so three-way categories down and it was a draw um.
The only draw that Terry Harper has ever had um and Natasha Jones has done exactly the same thing as Terry Harper.
She has also gone up through wake patterbridge.
She has also taken on the super welterweight group and she has smashed her way through it.
Her last few fights have been absolutely epic.
She won the first belt in round two um and only a couple of weeks ago in her hometown.
She managed to get that second belt she’s after her third um, which will be in November, and that obviously leaves it open for an Undisputed fight between Terry Harper and Natasha Jonas.
And that is something that I will be looking out for because they are so evenly matched.
This is a real 50 50 and the fact that they have both come from being much lighter to quite a bit.
Heavier is really interesting because it’s given them both some serious power and all right.
So next thing that’s going on uh in London, Town or I guess well globally, but it’s going to be a massive massive hit, the British boxing and are the issues with the Olympics.
So that’s very hard for you.
Um and we’ve got the picture authors as well.
There you go, there’s details: okay, like that’s emila, her daughter there as well.
I interviewed the session a couple weeks ago.
She does everything from the doorstep.
It’S absolutely gorgeous um.
So she is actually an Olympic star.
She was one of the first ever um British uh Olympics female boxers, um and obviously he’s the other picture.
Then we’ve got AJ he’s got the lights from Mr Adams.
You’Ve got tons of Fighters this year that have been signed and argued over by boxer.
People like Adam was in, and we’ve got Clarissa Shields next week.
You know massive Olympic Stars.
However, there is a very strong possibility that the Olympics boxing is going to be taken away, um in 2028, so we’re probably gon na have it for 2020 in Paris or 20 shooting it in L.
A.
It’S very likely that it won’t be an event anymore um.
This is going to be terrible for British boxing um.
This means that the funding is going to be taken away for those young stars that come into the official system and they’re trained up brilliantly and really skilled.
They stay in it for ages as well.
They do the Commonwealth, you know they do the Europeans and when they go to the Olympics and then that’s when they turn pro so without the Olympics.
Without that funding we’re looking at the likes of Anthony Joshua, who has searched himself that boxing saved his life that took him away and stopped from going to prison, and instead he became the star that he is today.
Unfortunately, we might see a decline in that people probably won’t stay in the amateur system.
Very long, um and they’ll be turning around a lot quicker, so we are going to see a drop in standard.
If this is what happens um.
This has been going on for a while.
The reason why they are thinking about getting rid of it is because there is a lot of Library involved.
A lot of Judges have come out and said: yes, I was arrived and there’s also a lot of Reliance on a Russian gas company and and they the iOS.
We have asked them to stop having such a Reliance on this, and apparently it hasn’t happened.
So there are lots of things that are, they could change and we could have a positive outcome and – and at the moment it seems like boxing itself and some band together and needs to show what the Olympics does, the the young guys out there who need those Things come along the table and, however, as we know, professional boxing is very fragmented, um.
It’S rare that they will come together and work together, and so I guess um in all the news.
I’M going to talk very briefly about the never-ending Saga of theory.
Aj or is it Fury aging like Sherry, Fury, Char? It might be Fury, we don’t know.
We have absolutely no idea, um history what’s next now this is insane.
I was following this, and essentially Titan theory was attempting to make negotiations for multi-million fights via social media, and now that’s not really going to work.
We obviously know that there are huge things involved in making these massive fights.
Solicitors need to be there.
We’Ve got different broadcasters, but there’s so much money involved.
Uh.
However, Tyson was testing crazy deadlines for AJ to meet I’ll, only fight you if you sign by this date, this date uh.
He gave him two deadlines in the end and Eddie hand from match room kept.
Coming out and saying look, we’ve agreed to everything, we’re doing everything we can, but we can’t make a deal in a day and and AJ.
You know he’s kept himself quiet.
He apparently has been agreeing from the terms and at the same time, apparently chisora received a contract as well um and because AJ manages to draw up, after speaking, news that this contract to come, and so as far as my dream are concerned.
If that is off, they’re still open to conversation and talks, but it’s very unlikely and that this will go ahead and instead we could have other fights with anyone who Tyson decides to pick, but do what let us know who do you want to see Tyson right? You know if he goes for manual chart.
Are we talking about? You know, is that a part you’d want to see um, I don’t know chisora that’ll, be probably a final Payday for him.
Do you want to see that again um, it’s interesting to find out who it’s going to be um so next week we will be talking about probably the best and most exciting fight that I will ever attend and it will be the all-female card and I’ve written The O2 on 15th, so we’re gon na, have next slide.
Please Marshall, okay, so I’m dead excited about this.
We’Ve got the Maya bam Gardener as well.
Now, obviously, this was supposed to happen.
A month ago I was already a month ago.
Um.
However, obviously it had to be postponed, and now here we are again um – I’m really interested to see how this world goes, because, obviously, everyone’s had to retrain, go back into Camp, make weight again, and so it’s going to be really interesting to see how these prices Perform this is a what decade-long rivalry between Shields and Marshall, and on Saturday, we finally see that settled now on that bill as well.
We are going to see so many people from the Olympics actually as well, so that just proves to the point earlier that these these guys that have trained become so skilled they’ve gone through the Olympics they’re now Pro they are now shining on some of these cars.
But we’re going to see loads of those in action if you like, Carousel we’re going to see Lauren price, we’re going to see Caroline DuBois and next week, I’m going to chat you through all of the girls in that advice, so that you are ready to enjoy All of that, and not just our massive headliners, so please come again next week, 2 p.
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