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EPISODE: Episode 7
This week Holly discusses the massive fights happening this weekend. Katie Taylor vs Karen Elizabeth Carabajal, Kiko Martinez vs Jordan Gill, and Mary Romero vs. Ellie Scotney.
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Transcribed:
Hello, everyone and welcome to talk, invite with Holly Donovan.
That is me happy Friday, um good morning, oh good afternoon, depending on where you are um.
It is the afternoon here in the UK in London and today I will be previewing the fight that is happening tomorrow.
Um and that will be live at Wembley arena in London uh, it’s a big one and it’s uh.
I well yeah my favorite fighter, so I’m gon na begin with my favorite writer as she is headlining, which is Katie, Taylor, um and she’ll, be facing uh.
Karen Elizabeth carabael from Argentina um now, where do I begin with Kate Taylor um? Well, I can honestly tell you that I would not be a boxing presenter um.
Nor would I be doing this show uh.
Nor would I even be a fan of boxing, probably without Katie Taylor.
I really think that actually um.
I was first introduced to Katie Taylor um with a video clip on YouTube um, and I genuinely thought that someone had sped up the video um.
I thought it was like one of those amalgamations where you know they just go through all the fights really fast turns out that wasn’t true.
No one had hit fast forward.
No one had sped up her fights, and the boxer that I was seeing in front of me was genuinely that fast that skilled and that incredible, and it was also the first time I had watched a female fighter.
So for me, it just opened my eyes to this whole world that I didn’t really know about um and I absolutely fell in love with it.
And since then I haven’t missed a single one of Katie Taylor’s fights.
I even canceled my birthday um to watch a fight that she had.
It wasn’t even the man of serrano fight.
It was one in last December um because I’m such a big fan, I feel like.
I owe everything to her so tonight, uh sorry, tomorrow, night she’ll be making her seventh defense of her Undisputed lightweight titles um.
She has had 21 fights, obviously she’s undefeated, um and six of those are Kos.
So I’ll tell you a little bit about Katie Taylor.
I feel like a lot of people know about her now because of the massive fight that she had earlier this year, um with Amanda Serrano um, so that was at Madison Square Garden.
It was the first time women had headlined at all um at Madison Square Garden.
In their 140 year history, so it was a massive big deal and the fight itself was incred.
Incredible um I mean Amanda Serrano, another incredible box.
I hopefully I’ll have another opportunity to give you a preview about her as well um, but she came out all gums blazing she’s, so fast, a ridiculous amount of energy and really gave Katie.
I would say the toughest fight that she has ever had um.
In fact, in about round five um, Katie really was struggling, she’d been hit so much I’d, never seen her like it um, and it got to the point where I actually thought that Amanda was going to beat her um.
However, this miracle happened um and she managed to get it back, and this second wind came uh Katie Taylor managed to bring back her energy.
She got her her skills back, particularly the footwork for going in and out and and she managed to win.
She got it back and that I have to say was the one of the most incredible fights I have ever seen.
Um – and it really is, you know, fight of the year if there’s that one and there’s also Clarissa Shields and and Marshall from a couple of weeks ago, I don’t know I’d, say maybe case Taylor that fight would tip it, because just so there’s so much drama In that and okay, so how did she begin? So it’s been six years since her debut, which doesn’t seem very long actually um and her dad was a boxer um and her brothers were also boxers.
So she came from boxing family and she really wanted to get involved.
I think we might have a picture actually.
So, let’s put up the picture of the fight night, that is kind of like this is the one I’m banging on about right now: um um! Sorry it’s the Taylor and karabya, and actually, if we go to the next photo as well, we might have a little zoom in um of the two fighters uh tomorrow night, where she faces Carol: Elizabeth caraval.
There we go so Katie on the left there with her Brewster okay, so she was from a boxing family, um and uh when she was very little.
She desperately wanted to train.
However, um boxing was actually illegal for women in Ireland, and so she went to the boxing gym as Kay Taylor.
She pretended to be a boy.
You hear this story so often with female Fighters, but yeah she had to lie.
She had to pretend, and she also played football.
She was very athletic, but eventually all her skills, just everyone could see them and people knew it was Katie telling you who she was and in her amateur career she was determined to make a change for females.
In boxing and and she is actually the reason, one of the reasons why the Irish boxing authorities um first legally sanctioned female fights, and so she put on showcase fights for them to prove the entertainment and eventually they agreed and Katie.
Taylor was in the first ever legally sanctioned female fight in Ireland, so that was number one and after that she was part of the process of getting female boxing into the Olympics.
So again she went to uh USA.
She went to Russia and she put on exhibition.
Fights again showcase fights to prove how entertaining female boxing could be um and thank goodness the international Olympic Committee said yeah, let’s bring it on and 2012.
London 2012 then happened.
So you could argue that without Katie Taylor and what she did then um we wouldn’t have uh the the caliber of boxes that we have today.
People like Clarissa Shields, Savannah Marshall, Katie, Taylor they’re those they are the Pioneers at the top and Katie really did lead.
That way, so she’s an incredible person as it is, and then you know she won golds in pretty much everything you could possibly imagine in the amateurs and then went straight into a professional career where she is undefeated and, like I said unbelievably skilled.
So she is up against uh Karen Elizabeth carabayal.
She is 32 and she is from Argentina.
Now she has had 19 fights and 19 wins, so she is totally undefeated.
However, she has never fought outside of Argentina, so it’s really difficult to to get a gauge on how good she really is and what kind of fight this is going to be.
I mean she’s, the mandatory Challenger, so she’s worked her way up, but this is the first time she’s coming outside of her country and she’s gon na face Katie Taylor for that very first time, so pretty gutsy um, now she’s promoted actually by Marcos, Maidana um, who Is a two-way world champion? I’M sure you know about him, and Karen herself is the former South American and Argentinian super featherweight Champion um, so she’s got accolades under about she’s got fantastic promoters and they are calling her a warrior so tune in tomorrow.
Night live on the zone to see if Karen Elizabeth caraval can give Katie Taylor a really good fight the ring, I hope so because we all love a good fight, um, okay.
So, let’s move on to I’m going to talk a little bit about the undercard, to give you a preview of those guys too just so that you can enjoy the whole night rather than just the headliner.
And so let’s have a little chat about Jordan, girl and Kiko Martinez.
So if we go to the next photo um here we go okay, so um.
Let’S start with Jordan Gill he’s 28 um and he is nicknamed The Thrill and actually his last fight proves that and I’ll tell you about that.
Um he’s had 29 fights, 27 wins, um he’s had one loss and one draw now the loss he claimed that he had food poisoning the day before.
So that was why he was in uh well why he didn’t perform as well as he did.
Um.
However, he’s also had quite a lot of bad luck in his career, so he went pro in 2012, so we’ve had 10 years of him being a pro um, and this fight that he’s having tomorrow night will actually be The Eliminator to go for the world title.
Currently held by Josh, Warrington um, so he’s finally there, but it’s taken in 10 years to get to this potential World title shot.
Uh he’s currently the European featherweight Champion um, and he won that in his last fight, which I I urge you to watch go on YouTube um.
He was facing a good fee and I have to say it was so dramatic.
It was oh.
I don’t want to tell you I don’t well, as I said, I don’t want to ruin it for you, but I will um.
So it’s a really really tight fight um and he was actually knocked down in uh the seventh round really brutally.
He was even being counted down and he also perforated both of his eardrums in that fight.
So uh he was really outsourced.
You could see that he was really struggling.
He was really wobbly, however, in the ninth round out of nowhere he managed to get some energy back and he delivered a massive knockout um in the ninth round, and that was to claim his European uh champion title so really quite incredible and he’s also coming back From a broken hand, he had a hand injury as well, so he’s had an operation there um, but this is finally time and the interviews that you see with him he’s like.
Oh finally, this is it I’m here nothing’s wrong with me.
I can’t complain about anything.
He has had so many niggles and injuries and and finally, he gets a chance to be able to really step up and try and take himself into the world rankings.
Now he has a tough opponent, I’m sure you know about Kiko Martinez, um he’s 36 and he has had 56 fights.
Um 43 of those were wins and they are 30 30 Kos um.
Here’S a former uh super Phantom weight and featherweight uh world champion, and he is returning after a loss to the champion, Josh Warrington, and that was his last fight.
However, in that last fight he did actually break Josh warrington’s jaw um.
So this these two fighters – Jordan, Gill and Kiko Martinez – are lethal.
This could be a really dramatic fight, um out of all of them.
I really feel like this one has the potential to be really exciting, um previous to his loss to Josh Warrington.
He was actually the champion um and he got that from uh beating kid galahat um last year, so he managed to knock him out in the sixth round.
So again, we’ve got a really brutal fighter here: um lovely uh, when I watched interviews, obviously they’re translated because he’s from Spain um, but he says in his spare time he likes to chill out in his garden in his little village in Spain, really really quiet life With loads of chickens um, I just thinking it’s very sweet um, so uh he’s ready for this he’s saying that uh he hasn’t had any time off recently.
He hasn’t had any holidays, he has been completely focused and he wants a third shot at a world title.
This is it if he beats uh Jordan, Gill, then he’ll be able to face Josh Warrington, which will actually be for the third time to become world champion for us.
So all to fight for here um is going to be a really really close.
One I’d say and also really exciting, so she never that okay, next fight that I’m going to preview for you is Ellie scottney uh, Ellie scottney in the blue uh.
She will be facing Mary Romero um, and this is going to be.
Uh is for a title, but she Mary Romero, is the current European super fancy white Champion.
So it’s for that title.
However, this is pretty much an Eliminator that whoever wins this can then go on for a world title um now, Ellie scottney has had five fights and she’s undefeated.
So when you think about that, actually has you know her sixth, seventh fight right up there you’re going for a world Title by your seventh fight? That’S very, very impressive! Um tell you a bit about Ellie, so she was a Tokyo Prospect um as an amateur and she is originally from catford in London.
But when she joined team GB she says she couldn’t really settle in Sheffield because it was up north uh.
She didn’t feel right, and so she actually left the amateurs early, even though she was a big Prospect um and she decided to go professional and since then, obviously she is completely undefeated and she’s, showing real skill with uh, her trainer Shane mcguigan, and she said when She was younger, she started boxing because um her brother’s boxed and she wanted to do everything that her brothers did um, but he kept saying no.
He was like no I’m not taking I’m not taking you, but eventually her cousin took her boxing um from then.
She just loved it straight away, just completely fell head over heels um and she had a great amateur career where she actually won the senior abas um.
With a broken hand.
She actually won three fights in that um yeah with a broken hand, so it just gives you an idea of the grit and determination that Ellie scottney has um.
Obviously, we know that sometimes it’s tougher for female Fighters and when she was progressing in her career, she lacked sponsorship, and so she also had a job being Q.
So we’ve got another fighter here: who’s juggling different things and to work even harder to get to the top, and she is very religious, um she’s, really healthy.
Tea total takes her fighting really seriously.
The last fight she had was against Cecilia Roman, who is the former world champion.
We’Ve seen quite a lot of her lately um, but Ellie Scott Lee was great.
She just it was like a day at the office.
It was very clinical got it done one um.
So uh she’s definitely one to watch.
I said this quite a while ago, and I was talking about her – that she’s really progressing every time.
You see her fight and Mary Romero, she has had 10 fights and eight of them are wins.
This is the toughest opponent for Ellie scottney.
By far without a doubt, um Mary’s also had five wins in a row, so she’s coming in with a lot of confidence.
Um Mary says that she’s fighting for her children, her kids, come in to Camp with her and watch her.
Do it and she’s saying you know this is for her kids.
This is so she can get her world title shots, so this is going to be a tough fight.
They are both going to be absolutely going for it here.
Um, I’d probably say that Ellie scottney or naked um, but see don’t hold much, never hold me to my predictions.
Okay, all right! So let’s have a look at the next five, I’m gon na preview um.
So this is wait’s a little picture.
We’Ve got Gary Carly on the left is one of the tattoos um and then we’ve got um Jared uh Bell Medi.
I really hope I said his name right.
There he’s a french guy um, okay, so Gary cuddly, he is from Ireland um and he has had 14 fights, uh no losses, so he’s undefeated and eight of those have been KO.
So this is a decent fighter.
Um.
Now because he’s Irish, he loves Katie Taylor.
In all of the uh previews I’ve seen of him and all the interviews he’s always saying how much he looks up to Katie and how excited he is to be on an undercard.
You know with the title: fight with Katie Taylor um, so very very sweet seems like a very nice guy and totally on a mission um his brother box, when he was younger um, but apparently their mum kept it secret, because Gary was too young to go boxing.
Um, but he found out, he really wanted to go, and eventually they let him into this club where he was supposed to be 10 years old, but he was only eight, but they let him in anyway um and ever since then he completely fell in love with It now he is a brand new matchroom signing with Eddie Han, and actually his story to how he got there is is quite sweet as well.
So in his second ever Pro fight, it was on a match room card about 4pm and he messaged Eddie her, and I think it was on Instagram and was like oh I’m on at 4pm.
Please come and watch me um and he did and then the last fight that he had um was also on a match room card and he did it again.
He sent Eddie another message like oh, please, come and watch me and this time Eddie was ringside um and Gary Carly put on a massive show, um and uh.
Then he managed to get signed, which is absolutely fantastic, and he is the only Irish fighter that match room we’ve signed since Katie Taylor um.
This is definitely a 50 50 fight on paper, um.
He dreams of being on the card that is spoken about with uh Katie Taylor.
So if Katie Taylor retires at some point or is coming to the close to the end of her career, she is 36.
Now there might be a massive Homecoming in Croke Park in Ireland, and this would be a massive deal if this happens, because there actually hasn’t been a fight in the Republic of Ireland since the 2016 shooting um.
So it would be almost coming full circle for Katie Taylor and it’s something that I think Irish writers and Gary Kelly would definitely want to have them um tomorrow he will be facing um Bellamy, who has had 19 fights um he’s.
One of them he’s won 16 of them and then had three draws so technically undefeated um and this will without a doubt again be the toughest fight that Gary has had.
But he wants World titles he wants to impress Eddie.
This is the first time he’s been a matchstream card and he is on a mission um so again tune in okay.
Then we have the next fight, which is I’ll talk about this one.
So these are set heavyweight Prospect.
Sorry, the pictures look small um, so we’ve got Johnny Fisher who’s on the left, um and he’ll be facing Alfonso Domani on the right he’s from Italy, okay, so uh.
Why am I talking about Johnny Fisher because he’s definitely a prospect so he’s had six uh fights and five of them have been Kos and I always think that’s a great ratio, so you’re gon na have um an exciting fight and definitely someone with some real Park.
Like power and his training for this has been fabulous, so he was actually sparring Joe Joyce, when uh Joe Joyce Was preparing for the Joseph Parker fight.
We all know that Joe Joyce is really powerful.
He demonstrated that against Parker, so Johnny Fisher has definitely had a few tests uh when he’s been in training when he’s been inspiring, so um really exciting to see what he comes out with actually and he had a really short amateur career, he had 10 fights um.
He won all of them and nine of them were Kos again.
What I think he’s going to be exciting uh.
He comes from a boxing family uh.
You can see by the way he looks he used to be a rugby player as well.
He turned Pro in February 2021, so right at the beginning of his career and just a fun fact for you um.
He studied history at Exeter University um.
I just saw a little facts: throw in there, you don’t normally get them um.
Let’S talk about uh Alfonso darmani, so he is coming off a loss.
He has had seven fights in his career.
Five of those have been wins.
Only two Kos so probably doesn’t match the power, depending on obviously his opponents and, however, when our fight is coming off, a loss um he’s going to be coming for war.
So again, I think you this one.
You might actually get a knockout as well I’d, say: um, okay, so I’m going to give you one more little preview of another fighter who I just want to do a shout out to on this card, and it is next picture.
Please uh.
Maisie Rose Courtney um.
Now this is her Pro debut, so she’s brand new professional fighter and I’m always really excited when this happens and she was uh.
The GB youth boxing champion um and she is exciting because she is the first female to come out of Tony sims’s gym, which is the elite matron gym, so she’s the first female to ever be trained in there.
Um they’re very excited about her, and obviously this wouldn’t happen unless they saw something special, which is why I’m pointing her out and saying hmm, she could be someone to watch um.
She has a nice little story as well, so uh she wanted to get fit because she, when she was much younger, she was in a football team and guess what it’s that same story as well um.
It was a boys football team.
She pretended to be a boy and she called herself Mason.
So as Mason she was playing football and she wanted to get a fitter for that team.
So she thought she’d try out boxing and when she got in there she realized she was way better at punching than kicking and completely changed her plans.
So then she trained as a boxer and had her amateur career and obviously now she’s she’s here to show him out from what she’s got um a little info about Tony sims’s gym so uh, some really great boxes of fall out of there.
We’Ve got people like AJ.
He was there for a couple of years caught on a Ben, although we probably shouldn’t say much about him um.
Why? Just now and then Joe Cordina, so she’s in with the best um and I’m excited to see what she can do in her debut all right.
So I hope that has given you a nice little preview for uh.
What’S that six fights um coming up tomorrow, night at Wembley, it’s live on design so tune in.
If you can it’s not a pay-per-view um, and if you like this show, I will be previewing The Fight Night on the following week.
If we switch to another one um, just like oh yeah, go go forward, so it’s another Zone card um, that’s the bivo Ramirez um.
Obviously we saw bevel uh earlier this year.
Have that really exciting uh fight with uh Canelo Alvarez and actually wins so see? How that goes, and we’ve got fantastic fighters, who I love, Chantelle Cameron um, who will be facing uh, Jessica, mccaskill and that’s on disputed belts as well, so I’ll give a nice preview of the undercard, and so you can be ready for that night as well.
So if you enjoyed it, please hit like please subscribe to talk and fight with me, holly Donovan, and hopefully it means that you can go and enjoy your boxing night tomorrow, just a little bit more because then you’ll be like oh yeah.
I remember him.
He’S got a degree from Exeter University and things like that.
Just makes it a bit more exciting, so watch out for the Knockouts May well get one with Jordan, Gill and Kiko Martinez might get one with Johnny Fisher and Alfonso Germany as well.
Um and you’re going to have really exciting fights elsewhere, cannot wait to see Katie Taylor in action if you’ve not seen her before go on YouTube, see her go as fast as she does um and watch her tomorrow night and hopefully you’ll see why she is the Goddess of boxing, I hope you enjoyed the show guys.
Thank you so much for joining me I’ll See You Again same time next week, 2 p.
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