AIR DATE:
EPISODE: Episode 44
Mike and Cedric discuss Dominique “Trapp” Francis, a Pro Boxer out of Miami, Florida.
Watch Knuckle Up’s Mike Orr and Cedric Benn, who always discuss up-and-coming young, hungry, and (usually) undefeated boxers during his live daily show at 4pm EST (9pm UK) on TalkinFight.com or YouTube.com/c/TalkinFight
#TalkinFight #KnuckleUp #DominiqueFrancis
Transcribed:
[, Music ]: what up talking fight fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up with yours, truly mike orr, and my man, cedric ben, in the den, do what we do best people, and that is prospects.
And, yes, it is, i believe, it’s wednesday.
It’S hump day man, so we got a good one for you and he fought today folks so uh he improved his record.
So we’ll continue telling you all about this you’ll be a breakdown of the fight but uh.
It’S none other than the south florida floridian nominee.
Francis man um got the nickname little little mayweather back when he was in the amateurs man.
This kid is a force to be reckoned with in the ring.
We will be seeing this kid with a strap around his waist mark.
My words, you heard it right here.
The kid right now is 13-0, with nine knockouts he’s in the super bantam division.
He is now a ripe young age of 21.
.
He stands 5-8 and he is ranked 30th out of 106 in the united states, 307th out of 1265 in the world.
He debuted in 2019, after an impressive amateur career.
I believe that was something around 64 or 65 in eight uh.
This kid cedric, i don’t know if you’ve had a minute to uh.
You know check out his videos, but this kid: let’s talk about him, yeah yeah! You know a lot of times because we do prospects every single day.
Um what’s been happening is, is uh once in a while, we’ll see a few of the few of the prospects that we’ve done have already fought each other, which is the case here.
Uh dominic francis um, fought i’m watching a fight with dominic francis versus mark castro, who um is a a pro professional.
Now i believe he was on our knockout of the week.
Yes, he was yes, he was doing yeah very impressive, doing very well as a professional right now.
So when i saw his name, i want to see how dominic did against him and he’s doing very well um.
I can see how they how they they they kind of nicknamed them uh.
What did you say: junior mayweather, yeah, junior mayweather, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, because um well and again you know.
I say this all the time because you know floyd’s the most successful boxer of this generation.
It’S you know it’s natural for for the kids coming up to try to emulate what he would what he’s done, but i could definitely see see how he’s implementing these things.
Um into the fight and actually looking good doing it, all a lot of fighters try to try to fight like floyd, but it’s hard to do that exactly nick seems to adapt to that style.
Uh very well, especially, like i said, he’s fighting mark castro, who we both know, is a very good professional right now.
Yeah he’s a heavy hitter and he’s a heavy hitter in the game.
Right now – and you know you need to see this young cat uh, you know hold its own in the ring with them.
You know in the amateurs.
Uh speaks a lot for the tutelage that this kid has gotten, and let me tell you, you know: at age 15 francis had already kind of made a name for himself in the boxing ring each day.
He would make a one hour and fifteen minute tri-rail trek from his home, where he lived in opa-loka to train in boca raton with legendary trainer anthony hamm, who would pick him up from deerfield beach station and drive him to the boca bangers boxing gym uh off Blades road, which is no longer around uh, anthony ham.
You know uh, i believe, he’s passed away so um, you know the francis uh.
You know he possesses some some some great skill in that ring man as a young fighter uh.
You know he has been honestly.
He was sparring tiffo lopez, since he was 2014 when he was 13 years old.
So you know the kid is is definitely no slouch in the ring at all uh.
He came off a wonderful um victory today, man uh.
Let me just tell you a little bit about it.
You know uh, he defeated local favorite emmanuel felipe gonzalez.
He was 11 and three with 11 ko’s of colombia by central.
You said local favorite was this guy.
It was in the other guy’s hometown yeah.
He went down, he went down there and put on the show man, so you know what i mean: uh the boat took place, um a highly popular beach tourist city of santa maria uh, santa marta in colombia uh.
The official sports were all in favor of francis who scored 190 99.
91 98.
92.
It was a brilliant performance uh by francis who took on the hard punching gonzalez in the in his native colombia man, francis dominated the fight over gonzalez by outboxing him, and also winning uh.
Also, winning each mix-up uh, you know credit to the very you know credit to the game of gonzalez who took a lot of heavy shots to the head and body delivered by francis throughout this fight.
It was the first 10 round fight on the extremely well conditioned francis’s career, but he seemed very fresh at the end of it uh you know, francis’s coroner was manned by his father now smith, francis and trainer, derek santos, who is another um.
You know out of south florida um, you know they were very pleased with his performance man and honestly, you guys uh.
Definitely you’ll want to check this kid out.
Man he’s no sludge in the ring.
You know he’s sparring with tia fomo lopez.
You know the kids trained by derek santos.
You know legendary boxing trainer anthony ham.
This is what this kid grew up on.
This is.
Why he’s the way he is man, we are gon na see this kid in the future wearing a strap around his waist.
You can’t you know, you can’t say no, this is this is definitely it man uh.
You know he hails from miami.
His home is d s boxing and um, and daryu strong performance center in boca rator in florida, now under the guidance of derek santos.
So that’s what you guys need to know him he’s uh he’s he’s he’s the real deal.
Man – and you heard it here – man guys, if you haven’t seen any of his clips, go out and check it out.
The kid definitely has some power def.
You know what i’ll tell you this uh back in the day when he was a young kid uh, he would get picked up, okay by anthony m taken in the gym and for the first like year.
All they did was work on his footwork.
That’S all he did because he was clumsy he spent a year with him just working on his legs.
Man and you know, ham had been a positive influence for him, both in and out of the ring uh.
You know he would train there uh.
You know he would get help with his schoolwork his attitude and being a better person, and you know, because of all that, because of the dedication that this kid had man, francis captured the bronze medal at the junior olympics in charleston uh, followed that uh with the Summer of winning the uh 119 pound division title for the 14 to 16 age group, world ringside tournament in kansas uh, then he added the crowns, the paul murphy tournament in atlanta and the powell tournament in florida in uh in fort pierce man – and you know francis Who dropped six of his first ten fights before hooking? Up with him, you know, went on for a great amateur career, something like i believe in 68 or 70, or something like that and eight um.
You know, and it was honored he was honored to be.
You know part of that gym and be ranked uh.
You know high early on in his career man, and this is how he gets picked up.
You know being being picked up and spurring somebody like tia, fomo lopez from 2014 uh, even sparring tia fomo.
You know back uh before his fight back in 2001, so getting all that sparring with that high level uh.
You know those high level guys that you know definitely set sets them up for the pro he just turned professional in um in uh 2019 yeah 2019.
, and he was he was tf almost by aspiring partner for when t.
o was getting ready for cambodia’s junior.
So back you know we’re talking in may last year, uh when that went on, and you know dominique trapp francis is his name.
He is one of the best-kept secrets uh, but let the secret be out man he’s been brought in.
He was brought into camp the you know, spar, tia, former lopez, to help him get ready for george kenmouse’s junior guys.
If you don’t know this kid’s name yet you are going to know this kid’s name soon, so be on the lookout for dominique trap, francis florida’s best kept secret man.
Trust me the secret’s out of the bag.
He’S here just came through the wonderful unanimous victory today.
So you heard it here, man, it’s your man mike or at four and cedric ben, in the den doing what we do best man and that’s prospects, we’ll see you tomorrow same time same channel new prospect.
You know what it is if you haven’t yet whatever, whatever you’re listening to us on or watching us on hit up that subscribe, man help us hit the 3 000.
You know what it is.
It’S your man mike sand, we’ll see you tomorrow.
There are no reviews yet.