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Today Mike and Cedric discuss Chris Kongo, whose record currently stands at 13 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws. Of those 13 wins he has stopped 7 of his opponents.
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Transcribed:
All right, then, welcome back to knuckle up good afternoon uh talking about fans around the world thanks for joining us once again here on talk and fight and uh we’re gon na get right into it.
Here’S mike here’s cedric and here goes me yep.
You know what i’m talking about fans since you tuned in to this episode of knuckle up mike orr and cedric ben coming to you live from the den.
You know what it’s about you’re here, to see the new up-and-coming prospects that you know are new around the world, and this is the channel you’re coming to to get it man, and today we’re talking about chris congo, chris congo, man, 13 and one with seven kos.
In the welterweight division now ranked a fifth out of 133 in the uk, 37th out of 1944 in the world.
This 29 year old, known as two slick, stands at six feet tall and he’s from the munzee london united kingdom, coming off a points win against kelvin dotel back on the 26th of march this year.
Let’S talk about him cedric.
What? What sorry gremie’s record again? He is now 13 and one with seven kos 13 and one with seven kos yeah yeah yeah.
I could tell there’s only um one full fight that i can find of his on on youtube and uh other than that, and just watching that the highlights um doesn’t have a high ko percentage record but um.
He is a very good boxer and you can tell that’s that’s what he mainly focuses on using his uh he’s when you say he’s like six foot, one or two six foot yeah yeah exactly and he tries he.
He does his best to make sure to use every bit of his long reach to try to keep his opponent away from him, um so yeah man.
That shows why the low low knockout percentage, but but high boxing skills, definitely definitely uh he’s.
Definitely one of these fighters that can fight off the front and back foot uh definitely show skills on both sides.
Uh, you know in his younger days man when he was going to school.
He would often find himself counting down the hours until it was time to gather his belongings and head off to downside fishery youth club, where he first fell in love with the sport of boxing uh and at the age of eight.
He initially joined the club to take part in more harmless activities.
You know, table tennis, football, swimming, etc.
Uh soon, though, influenced by his two older brothers uh, the boy from south bromzy, would lace up his first pair of gloves climb through the ropes and never look back uh.
And you know it’s it’s true man, this kid definitely um.
You know former wbo global welterweight champion chris tusa congo kicks off 2022 with a bang.
You know at the beginning of the year announced that he had signed a multi-purpose multi-promotional deal with boxer along with jamie who were talking about yesterday.
You know he’s thrilled to be joining boxer, stable and now under the tutelage of trainer ben davidson, who also guides undisputed world lightweight champion josh taylor amongst many other talents uh, you know, and he plots a big year this year, man um he’s now 13 and one With seven kos uh he’s managed and guided by dillian white uh.
You know and joins boxer alongside a whole bunch of new guys, man, uh and definitely definitely this kid is gon na, be one to watch um.
You know just like the world rated cruiserweight richard rackapoor underrated, welterweight chris congo was stabbed as a teenager on the streets of england’s capital city before embracing the gym, as well as the dedicated and disciplined lifestyle of being a boxer and on the 26th, both these promising Attenders were fighting separate opponents at wembley arena.
Instead of fighting on the streets, cargo admitted to being lured into the gang culture of south london, but thankfully escape that life proceeding proceeded to achieve over 70 wins as an amateur and at one point he was part of the renowned and highly respected team gb squad.
Two slick was the mostly developed.
Uh was mostly developed through the british, a small hall scene after turning pro in 2016 and caught the eye of some boxing purists uh fights with the top domestic welterweights were hard to come by, as he appeared to be viewed as a high risk, but a low Reward by many within the sport uh the 29 year old, standout uh, when win came in the summer of 2020 on the white povetkin pay-per-view.
Sadly, in front of only a handful of the observers during the early stages of the covet 19 pandemic, he was matched with luther clay in a 50-50 clash with wbo’s global 147 pound strap uh, ninth round knockout uh to qualify left hooks forced.
Please wait.
What weight class is this again, sorry that was at the 147.
and that’s what he fights at one at welterweight, yeah he’s a walter, so a ninth round knockout via two quality left hooks forced clay’s corner to throw the towel in as their man was on the Verge of being counted out, congo had arrived and announced himself.
As you know, one of the ones to follow like in in his rise here.
Man uh in the next outing, the notoriously awkward undefeated southpaw michael mckinson, narrowly outpointed congo in a close bout uh with a wbo belt as a bargaining chip and the ranking that comes with it.
Uh he’s back in the who needs him club really.
Congo, understandably blamed the loss on lack of activity, having only fought once in two years preceding the mckinsen fight so now under the tutelage of ben davidson, uh trainer, who seems to know nothing but success, combo is looking uh.
You know for big fights and he’s ultra confident man who believes that he can be the very best in the world at 147 and has sparked the undisputed 140 pound world champion josh taylor.
So he knows what it takes.
Uh, you know to be in the ring and fight those guys here at the summit of the sport uh.
He has previously called out one of britain’s biggest names in the division, connor ben, and believes that he can beat him and uh decisively knock him out.
So you know this guy’s got big chip on his shoulder man and he definitely also i don’t know about calling out a knockout when uh when we got a 50 ko rating rating right.
Oh, is it 50 or 60, with 7 out of 13 fights was ended in the ko for um.
For mr congo? Yes, yes, so i’m not sure about predicting a knockout against conor ben.
I got especially in my heart for conor back and we have to.
We share the same last name, so i got a little extra love for you.
I know you do.
I know you do um, but anyway, back to my man, chris congo, very good boxer um.
I really like his skills.
You know i like these guys that use their their educated jab and keep their opponent um make their opponent have to work to get to them.
Um and yeah man looking forward to see his next match.
Oh me too, me too, you know congo racked up over 70 victories as an amateur, and then you know jetting across europe to sweep up trophies and championships and plenty, whilst learning the trade and sharpening his tools ahead of an early entrance into the pro ranks and At the age of 23 uh with an inkling that josh kelly would beat him to place uh to place at the 2016 olympic games.
As a team, gb welterweight hopeful, he decided to turn professional under tutelage of brixton trainer ted bami uh.
He opened up his account with two routine wins before the opportunity to spar with the ibo super middleweight world champion.
Chris eubank jr arose uh from that the chance to compete on eubanks undercard is just the third probe out and uh.
He hasn’t looked back since man and uh definitely coming off that uh.
That close points, loss to uh, michael mckinson, is definitely uh sitting in the back of his mind there and now he’s here to prove that uh he is the best in the world at 147 and um.
You know he’s called out florian marcu and believes that florian marcu needs to beat him before mark who will get the uh big name fights that he wants so marcu.
Marco has definitely believed that marco versus congo, that would be a good fight, definitely heals skills versus power, because mark who um he’s trying to he’s trying to stop you every time he fights um he’s trying to stop you every time he fights you and congo is Trying to out box you every time you fight so that’d be a very interesting clash of styles between those two.
Yes, and if it happens, if it happens, you heard it here.
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