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EPISODE: Episode 9
Featuring 2-time heavyweight champion Tim Witherspoon, our group of panelists are always prepared for another weekly roundup of boxing headlines, including updates about boxers from the past and current event news to share with the many fans out there that enjoy the great sport of Boxing!Watch live on TalkinFight.com or YouTube.com/c/TalkinFight#TalkinFight #Witherspoon #FridayNightPanel
Transcribed:
Hello boxing fans around the world – thank you for joining us once again here on the friday night panel featuring yours truly and mike gore.
Actually, you know what i want to start this off by saying.
I just noticed this uh, you know, there’s a big.
I think it’s lightweight fight coming up with lomachenko and richard comey and i believe that’s a fight coming up in madison square gardens on december 11th, but they’ve just added a co-main event to that featuring guess who jared big baby anderson yeah.
So we get to see him fight one more time this year, uh and i’m excited about that ever since you pointed him out on uh knuckle up, i’ve been a big fan and uh.
We saw him last on the big fury wilder card and he he’s having a great year and although one of his friends recently passed away and he’s feeling a little down the dumps, he says he’s he’s well motivated for this next.
So i feel sorry for his opposition.
Me too me too man me too jared big, baby anderson, yeah man love this kid.
I’Ve been watching him now we started off really early in this guy’s career and uh.
You know this year, he’s he’s just you know, forced to be reckoned with in that ring, and you know what he definitely is is chef.
It up some knockouts man and it’s great to see and yo.
Honestly, i feel bad.
I feel bad for the guy who he’s getting in the ring with um, which is um, oleg alexander uh teslenko, just to be clean, yeah, just lingo and uh.
You know what honestly on that card right now: uh for the saturday december 11th uh.
The only thing that i’m seeing right now is the lomachengo versus kami and the anderson versus celeste and also uh keyshawn davis.
Oh keyshot, yes, another another, another bright prospect that we’ve talked numerous about: uh, keyshawn davis, another big name there uh.
You know coming fresh off that uh that olympic uh victory there.
So definitely definitely some uh, some big fights happening on the 11th.
I can’t wait.
I’M super excited um, but the big talks of the fights this weekend honestly um the haney card uh tomorrow, unbeaten superstar devin, haney, 26-0 15 knockouts puts his crown on the line for the fourth time and the second in a row in las vegas uh.
Having seen off the challenge of former three-way world cha ruler, george el nino del oro, vigneurs uh, in a thrilling clash in may at mandalay bay uh.
The dream now returns to the vegas strip for what promises to be um, an amazing fight, uh and his rivalry with diaz jr uh.
You know it hits its boiling point and diaz who’s 32-1 and one with 15 kos claimed the wbc interim world light title on his debut at 135 pounds beating former world champion javier fortuna uh in one of the best performances of his 34 fight career.
So you know what this is.
This is gearing up to be a really big match.
I can’t wait to see this one man this is.
This is definitely going to be be a a great match.
Man, a great match, definitely a good one to watch.
Also, we have arthur and yard two yep.
That’S that’s another big one.
Uh.
Definitely can’t wait to see this one man, frank warren uh.
You know uh today hosted a press conference to announce the british boxing’s big light heavyweight rematch between lyndon arthur and anthony yard.
Um.
King king arthur will make his third defense of his commonwealth championship against um.
You know yard this.
This awesome awesome, puncher, uh yard, who’s 21-2, 21-2 with 20 knockouts at cooper box arena in london.
Saturday guys remember this one.
This one is an early one uh.
It’S going to be 2 30 p.
m.
Eastern standard time.
I know that this card is uh is stacked with uh some some great matches on here.
Man there’s a lot of new and up-and-comers on this card.
There’S also um, you know, dennis mccann is up on this card, which i’m i’m excited to see him, that is, the menace dennis the menace mccann 124.
uh, he weighed in 124 and three ounces he’s taking on one year, though, and uh also on this card.
Man, big big name that we’ve talked about before and i profiled him on knucklehead many times.
Sam notes, yeah against sean cooper, is also on this card.
You you and ray from last bell talked about him a lot.
Yes, we did.
Yes, we did definitely a great guy to watch out also another name that i have mentioned and you’ve heard me mention many many times to all the fans out there watching is uh.
Hamza shiraz is also on this card, taking on bradley skeet.
So we’ve got some big matches on this card.
Definitely you’re going to want to watch it uh.
It’S definitely one that i’m not going to miss.
I’M i’m already got my alarm clock set and ready to go to make sure that i remember what time that this one starts and uh yeah, i’m not going to be missing this one.
It’S supposed to be a big one.
Also, though, we have a card uh in canada in brampton in brampton uh this this card um, is also on the fourth and it’s an all-canadian event at the caa center in brampton and uh guys, there’s a lot of um young hungry canadian prospects on this card.
Uh it it’s it’s something.
You know that uh we stand proud of, because we are canadian.
This is a card that uh i i’ve been trying to get press passes for to get in uh, but without without any um any correspondence back.
I guess they’re really really busy.
I’M yes, i’m gon na have to try my luck at the door when we get there and hey.
If you don’t give us, no press passes man, we ain’t gon na, give you no nice things, i’m not saying anything nice about it by the way.
This is uh.
The company that just signed out of jamaica, a fellow by the name of ricardo brown uh.
So they’re moving in international waters they’re not just signing canadian fighters by the way.
Oh really, these guys have actually been around for a while and although boxing was stopped in ontario in in canada here for over a decade under the rulership of uh, idi boy hayashi.
But anyway, [ Laughter, ] boxing is coming back with a vengeance both on the amateur level under jennifer, huggins and uh on the professional level under tyler bucks and his boys, so good good for them and good for you for bringing it up.
I’Ve forgotten about that match, but i i i didn’t forget men, i’m canadian got to stick with my canadian guys.
Okay, also big big things um on the devin haney card, which which i do want to uh point out.
Uh, there’s a bunch of guys that i have profiled over the last year that are on this card guys.
I want you to make sure that you do not miss this one montana love 1601 takes on carlos diaz.
We also have jessica.
Mccaskill will be in the fight uh against candy watt uh and that’s great that’s, canadian yeah yeah, and this one here is for the wbc world: female uh, walter title, the wba world, female welter, title the ibf world, female welter, title the wbo world, female welter, title And the ibo world female welter title, so this is a big one.
This is a big one.
Big match can’t wait to see it also on the card.
Man super excited to see philip hergrovic, the big heavyweight 13-0 um.
I talked about this guy uh.
A month ago, he’s 13, you know, sit with 11 knockouts man, this croatian orthodox fighter, standing at six six uh name uh his nickname animal, yes uh and he’s he’s coming off.
Uh he’s coming off of a third round win uh back in uh october uh against marco rendon, redundant uh, who was 22-0 and uh.
You know what random jig was down four times in the second and once in the third to uh, to end that, and that was uh for the ibf uh international heavy title.
So you know what this is big man uh.
Who, who is he going against he’s going to be fighting emir uh? I i think it’s all right, there’s a reason you didn’t mention it.
Okay, i got it [ Laughter, ], hey man.
I tried it’s hard they’re.
All really hard names man, but uh yeah.
This guy that he’s facing is unbeaten.
He is 10-0, so it’s gon na, be you know it’s honestly.
It’S a battle of the undefeated uh, the guy that he’s fighting is from germany uh.
His nickname is atomic um and you know he’s uh he’s tending over seven knockouts man and uh.
This is gon na, be a good one.
It’S gon na be a good match these guys, both uh, both bang well and uh.
It’S it’s super exciting.
Also also, i’m super excited on this card man, our man amari jones, nice, is gon na, be fighting timothy lee who’s sitting at 5-1-0.
Amari jones is 4-0 right now and looking to improve to 5-0 and keeping that undefeated record also mark castro is on this card.
As well another another great undefeated who’s sitting at 4-0 right now in the super feather division and he will be taking on ronaldo solis, so guys lots and lots and lots of big big fights on that card.
I’M super super stoked to uh to watch it.
Man, honestly, what uh? What about you, graham, are you excited for any of these um any of these matches this weekend? It’S really interesting to see how we, as a channel, have come along we’ve profiled, so many fighters uh we haven’t just focused on uh, shall we say the history or those historical names uh, but we’ve actually brought to light some really great names.
Some some of these fighters now are not only rising to the top of their divisions, but are actually becoming quite prominent on cards, so they’re drawing the public’s attention – and you know guys like you’ve been out there.
You know scratching the surface, digging deep and look what you found.
You found some guys who are really worthy of dimension and – and i got ta say like this – what that’s what’s making it exciting for for typical, normal, enthusiastic fans like you and me to see these guys a year later, uh in a post-covered world now battling for Titles and and going on to these cards as they should be as champions so this is.
This is what’s exciting me that uh, what we’re talking about is making sense uh.
You know because remember we had not just the rising stars, but also the women.
We really decided to focus on the women and it’s really good to see these women i mean ever since that ebony bridges battle i mean ever since that one.
I think that i think that was a turning point and and yes, we we’ve had great female fighters.
Uh, the katy taylors of the world, you know the amount of surroundings of the world um, you know, let alone the shields of the world, fine, well and good.
But now we have all these other women who are now that you’ve mentioned on female fridays, now bubbling up and fighting for titles and it’s great to see uh, including a lot of canadian women.
Quite frankly, yeah you know head and shoulders, quite frankly, above the men, if you ask me well, no we’ve got.
We’Ve got quite a few now good uh well-placed canadian men fighting for titles.
Cody crowley comes to mind um, but you know at the end of the day, you’ve done a fantastic job and i’m really excited to see these names pop up.
When we talk about them quite regularly.
On the panel, i was really hoping that tim witherspoon would be with us tonight, because i wanted to see if he was going to go down to madison square gardens to see big baby.
I know we turned him on to big baby and uh and i really think that tim could give him a point.
Hey speaking of that uh, you had a conversation with who the heck were you talking to yeah yeah mandy harris right? I didn’t hear yes matty harris uh.
We talked to him guys if you haven’t seen it check it out.
Man great interview with maddie harris last week or sorry monday, monday, well yeah.
He was unable to make it friday uh monday uh.
He came stopped by the studio we had a nice conversation with him.
Uh talked about his career and how it’s going and everything that’s working on, and we found out that uh one of his short-term goals is to uh hit up stateside and um.
You know, uh tim witherspoon said that he was going to try to sit in on that interview.
He wasn’t able to make it due to scheduling conflicts and um.
You know what yeah he wants to be put in touch with tim witherspoon and i know tim witherspoon.
I’Ve put him on to uh maddie harris as well and uh.
You know i’ve sent him his first video and i think they can really help each other.
So you know, i think you know tim is looking to give his his extensive book of knowledge and defense and defense.
Maybe maybe that’s why tim’s not with us tonight.
Uh we’ve got him so busy uh hooked up with all these guys who want to be trained by the great tim witherspoon right like you.
What want to learn defense by the great witherspoon is what it is yeah.
Remember it’s defense, defense defense! Don’T want to get hit, uh maddie harris man.
He already has great defense already uh.
You can see it in his first fight uh.
You know he avoids being hit uh and you know pro debut.
He looked great man and he moves and he moves for a big guy.
We’Re talking about a 68 guy who you know 250 to 270 pounds, and you know, he’s real young still he’s in his early 20s.
And you know what he’s he.
He looks good and you know what somebody like tim witherspoon, highly decorated champion.
You know you know, mr mr sparring partner, muhammad ali, of course, could give this kid some great tutelage and really drive this kid into the next echelon of being a pro boxer, and that’s super stardom, and somebody like tim, could definitely do that.
With this kid and uh honestly, i’m glad to put them both in touch and uh and help and help them both out yeah and, as a matter of fact, uh for those uh young boxers out there watching right now, uh we’ve put up some great tips from Cedric ben, when we were down in windsor, we had him, give us a few tips and tricks uh punching on on the heavy bag and all sorts of different uh.
He gave us a bunch of short clips that you can easily get you know.
So if you want some free advice, go go along to the talking talking fight.
com website and have a look there, because you know you can either hire someone like two or higher cedric band.
What go to our website? Some free advice.
Yes, go to the website for free advice.
Man trust me, the videos are great.
Uh was taken.
While we were out on our road trip out to uh to windsor when we filmed our um.
You know knuckle up knockout of the week show, which uh great great great numbers.
We got for that uh that wonderful event we’ll have to do that again soon make another trip out that way and and touch base with our friend and and co-host cedric ben uh.
You know what yeah guys we’ll have to take the helicopter next time.
That was a long drive yeah it was.
It was a long drive, uh good good five hours, but it was fun.
I i had a blast on the way back, though [ Laughter, ] yeah.
It was great uh, but yes, honestly, big fights um, there are some fights tonight.
I don’t know if anybody else will be able to get them unless you’re able to stream them somewhere.
If you can there’s uh there’s a cards uh going on in germany tonight, uh that you should be able to find at some point uh on your on your streaming platforms.
Also uh.
There are some events, always uh on the zone.
We got spain, there’s uh, there’s a big event in spain on the zone tonight.
Also, we have um some events in uh in the uk, there’s always stuff going on in the uk, though, we always know that pretty our our friends, our friends over in the uk, say the mecca of boxing, maybe maybe the mecca of boxing, because they’re always boxing.
They always have stuff going on, there’s always huge cards going on uh, but uh yeah.
There’S there’s not as many many big cards tonight as there was uh last weekend, but there are still a few cards if you can search them guys and find them uh.
I know that uh there’s isaac, lowe, will be fighting or did fight and lost again against uh lu, luis alberto lopez earlier today, uh, which was an unfortunate uh unfortunate event, but charlie edwards was victorious in his uh in his victory against uh jacob barreto.
So there are some cards they have been going on all day guys if you have a chance to go and check them out, find your streaming platforms, i’m not going to reveal mine, but um.
Yes, definitely check it out.
Man, you guys there are fights tonight.
There’S always fights guys um.
Also the triller fight went on last night.
Did it not? Is that that’s the michael hunter jerry forrest? Yes, yes, um! No, i didn’t get a chance.
I i tried i tried to uh.
I tried to watch it, but the alarm didn’t wake me up, who won, but michael hunter struggles to a draw really heavyweight contender with cassius cheney suffers first loss in new york, wow yeah, so guys that card was uh.
That card was yesterday.
I believe it was uh yep yesterday triller event um, you know it was.
It is what it is.
Hopefully, hopefully, the event wasn’t one of these trailer circuses that have been going on.
I know they’re trying to get away from that uh.
They did start off with that uh that new triad triad triangle, boxing thing that went on uh.
It did deliver us one of the greatest finishing knockouts that i’ve ever seen, yeah they’re being sued, are they being sued really they’re being sued by the bare knuckle people uh, because the bare knuckle people said that they’ve invented the triad ring really? Yes, i had no idea yeah so well.
I guess i guess that will be the end of that.
We’Ll see you as the deeper pockets, yeah you’re right, yeah uh.
They have filed the lawsuit lawsuit against trailer, alleging copyright, infringement pertaining to the ring design.
So um we’re gon na have to see we’re gon na have to see what goes on here.
Uh unfortunate.
It’S unfortunate that um trailer can’t seem to find their uh find their place is what it seems like.
It seems like trailer.
Just can’t can’t seem to find their uh their niche and and their spot in in professional boxing uh.
They started off with the sideshow circus bull crap matches.
First, it started off with what pillow boxing uh then and then ended up with more old guys, fighting each other, and then it turned into a hip-hop concert with intermissions of fighting uh.
I think in in one of those events, there might have been one actual highly decorated boxer on there uh after that, it’s it’s been a circus ever since uh they wanted to they, they were, they were going to have a legitimate boxing match and ended up dropping It which was the tio and cambosis but uh that never happened, and i got picked up by matchroom, because triller ended up dropping it, and i have no idea why they did that.
It’S unfortunate that they didn’t stick to uh traditional boxing and they ended up going.
The way they went uh and now look now they’re being sued by bare knuckle boxing, because you know they invented it first.
So it’s only time will tell what’s gon na happen with trailer uh.
This is definitely a huge blow to them after the huge financial blow that they took, dropping that tia fomo lopez and uh campbell’s junior fight because they had already dealt they built a lot of money for that man.
They, you know spent spent three months in promotions.
Uh, you know, then, the purse, the battle for the purse.
You know they spent 10 million bucks over three months and uh.
That money went where nowhere and now any money that they made off.
This triad triangle ring new thing: yeah.
Now, look all that money you’re getting sued for so it’s unfortunate that it’s happened.
Charlie’S got to find their way.
It’S only a matter of time before we actually see what they’re gon na try and do to try and recoup, or it’s gon na, be the end of trailer man and honestly and truthfully there’s so many smaller promotion companies today that are are starting to you know, Make their names known, you know we got the selena promotions, we got split team management, we’ve got, you know, toscano boxing promotions, all these young cats and all these smaller boxing clubs, uh spalding boxing promotions, are starting to you know, gain gain some movement in this business And it’s great and uh, you know if, if a big conglomerate like trailer ends up falling out, i’m sure there is somebody sitting in the you know in in the green room, waiting to just make their grand entrance and pick up right where trailer left off.
And that’s uh trying to start a great boxing promotion company.
So that means here are my two thoughts on that one one.
I think triller uh has a huge uh box of money that they’re sitting on and i’m pretty sure they can just pay out the boys.
Uh, i think they’re they’re out of florida um the bare knuckle boys um.
You know, they’ll take a few million quid uh, you know to give up the triad and create something else.
Um – and the other thing too is you’ve, got a company like pro bellum, which was formed by the former guys out of uh golden boy, so they’ve been uniting a lot of these uh smaller management or independent management companies and small promoters or independent promoters.
All around the world going into the nooks and crannies, if you will, where there’s huge boxing audiences and a lot of great stables of unknown fighters, and that probalm is doing a great job of if you will corralling and and putting under one umbrella, uh and and So you will see these all bubbling to the surface uh in in 2022 and will create a very competitive environment.
It will be very interesting to see what will happen uh to like how important now will these belts become um.
You know, because, like look at some of the fights that we’re watching, there’s no belts involved and yet we’re we’re really excited to see these fights go on, take place because they’re, two great fighters going toe to toe and that’s what we want to see uh whether It’S for a belt or not um, but so it’ll be interesting to see whether they, the the various organizing bodies and believe me, there’s other organizing bodies now out there as well ubo being one of them right um.
You know so that makes five that i can think of off the top of my head and i’m sure there’s another one.
I’M missing, but you know, they’ve really watered down the value of the belt uh, not by having so many different weight divisions, but by having so many intercontinental type belts and at the end of the day, who cares? We just want to see great fighters, go toe-to-toe and put up put up not just great entertainment but great skills against each other.
So that’s what that’s what i think we’re going to see and i think that’s the the goal.
Mindset of companies like pro bellum who are going out there securing contracts to to create strategic alliances to put these fighters toe-to-toe against great fighters.
Forget the belts – let’s, let’s just see great fights, yeah, that’s it man, great fights, great fights, fill seats, man, it’s not always the belt.
That’S gon na you know, put the people in the stand, it’s the fighter and that’s right, and especially because what’s been happening now you will see a fighter obtain a belt, no matter from who yep and sit on that belt.
Yep because his manager and or promoter says well he’s the belt holder and he can remain at that level continuing to fight tomato cans, but that’s no good for the fans.
The fans know it.
So that’s what i’m saying i think they’re watered down and they’ve now watered down to the point where you know.
Yes, we like to see the great fighters.
We know the great fighters are out there, but you know i pointed this out a few weeks ago.
The top five heavyweights are they truly the top five heavyweights that the fans enjoy, seeing they may be the top five and according to eddie hearn.
But when you start, you know when you start digging deep, as you have done mike on the club, there are tons of great other heavyweights out there waiting to claim those same titles, yes, and especially, and especially in a in a division.
That’S um was so lackluster for some time um, you know not too many huge fights went on.
You know we had to tie up with the belts for so long with the fury and wilder, and then you know the usek and joshua and all this kind of stuff.
But now now it’s like almost almost there’s an influx of all these new heavyweights and now that this, this division, that was so boring at one point now just has an abundance of new fighters, a bunch of new guys that have now clogged up this uh.
This way again so now, we’re gon na have to start seeing a lot of these heavyweight matches on these cards.
You know, there’s a lot of heavyweights that are out there that want to fight each other and, honestly, it’s it’s about time.
It’S about time.
We start getting to see this uh this division, that’s been, you know the the star division of boxing for as long as i can remember, because you know growing up as a kid.
What you want to do you want to sit up.
You want to watch that pay-per-view right to the end to watch that super heavyweight battle versus this uh.
This awesome champion – and this awesome champion and now uh we’re at that point now, where um this clogged up division is starting to make movements and uh we’re gon na start, seeing an influx of all these new heavyweights that have just you know, been lying in the Woodworks waiting for their time biding their time are now going to start coming into this division and we’re going to start seeing these guys run amok man and there are a lot of highly decorated heavyweights out there first and in another division.
Uh, take a look at how george combos has now shook up that entire shook up the boxing world.
Quite frankly, yes, no one was picking him well, okay, you might have picked him to win, but i’m just saying honestly he was he was not.
He was heavily not favored.
Let’S put it that way.
Right right, look at a 20, a 20 bet, a 20 bet would have got you.
2 000 return uh for him to take it in whatever round, and that was that was that was a betting odds man.
He was plus 20 000 at one point in some in some of those odds so um, you know what that was a great fight.
That was a great fight.
Uh, honestly, i believe there was just too much hype leading up to that fight and that mentally plays on boxers and uh.
I just think there was just too much time and and too much going on between between the between the match for that to actually, you know not affect their mental, their mental game.
Man because you could tell tfomo, was frustrated.
He he came out saying you know, i’m going to end this in the first round.
He came out in that first round and campbell says: what do you do? He just kept moving and uh that keeping movement uh just didn’t allow fomo to set up anything that uh was able to just come through and kill it and uh cambodia’s.
Just you know he had that uh.
He had that combination that had no answer that uh.
That jab, that stiff power jab, followed by that overhand right and it kept catching tia fomo right over that left eye and what happened he got dropped in the first round with it uh you know and then battled through the entire match.
Uh.
You know taking that same shot over and over again that eventually split the eyebrow wide open uh.
You know which almost which, which they had to call the doctors to the side uh to the side of the ring and check it out.
You know it could have ended there, but um.
You know it just it.
For me.
It showed that um fomo, i think, was a little distracted mentally.
He wasn’t there uh.
Also.
You know what he was a bit of a sore loser at the end of it.
You know the man beat you fair and square uh.
You know what humble yourself bud.
You know what i mean: you’re you’re, not the chosen one you’re, not the you’re, not the you know you’re, not the movement you’re, not even where the hell.
Your name is man.
Honestly, you’re, a boxer that came up won.
Those belts won those belts on a on a on a technicality.
I think it is.
I don’t know people believe he didn’t even win the belts to begin with when he fought the first time.
Right so is, is he the real deal, we’ll see? We know neil’s the real deal, [ Laughter, ]? No, but i i just like i just like the way that the boxing world can get shaken up.
Yes and and george campos has proved it to all of us uh, you know this.
Is this how it’s done you know he put his.
You know he put he let his fists do the talking.
That’S right and uh.
He didn’t leave it in well, he didn’t leave in the hands of judges, but uh.
You know at the end of the day, it was a great fight and uh.
You know that.
That’S what i think we’re going to see more of in 2022 uh, more great fights and a lot of these.
You know big mouth brash talkers are going to get knocked off their thrones yeah yeah, and you know what uh we we’ve seen it this year.
It’S happened quite a bit already yeah this year.
This year it’s happened already quite a bit like um.
You know we got alexander usyk um, you know just stripped uh stripped joshua his belts, yeah um.
You know and uh i’ve heard talks at um that that tyson fury wants you sickness.
So so i guess wait we’ll have to see what happens.
Man there’s there’s a lot a lot in that division.
That’S now going to go on uh.
You know there’s a lot of mandatories that got to happen.
There’S a lot of these uh.
These fights are gon na start start happening man and i’m excited to see them all.
Yep, i’m looking forward to 2022 as well.
It’S gon na be yeah.
It’S gon na.
It’S gon na be a great year.
It’S gon na be a great year for boxing uh, we’ll be fully hopefully fully rid of this covid crap and and and really have it put in the past and like behind us, so that we could all start moving forward and have the boxing.
You know category nation move themselves and uh start start just fighting that just start fighting guys get these fights underway, get these fans in the stands and in the seats man and just start boxing like let’s, let’s get it going man! No more of this! No more of this crap we’re not hand puppets man, we ain’t talking, we don’t need talk, we need action and you know what, when you get fighters that don’t do this and use this, we see, we see belts, change, hands and it’s wonderful, because you know what It’S happened.
It’S happened quite a few times this year and i think next year is going to be a hell of a lot more yeah and and as a lot of our friends who own gyms have pointed out to us.
There are an awful lot more people going into the boxing gyms to learn that the skills of boxing pure and simple, and are even taking up the challenge of entering the ring competitively and you.
You know whether that’s tyson fury, whether it’s jake paul.
I think the the popularity of boxing is coming back among the younger generation they’re liking to see these these fights and they’re liking to see that sweet science.
These aren’t the grappling sweaty men rolling around on the floor kind of fights any you know you know it’s.
It’S good good stuff and i think, there’s a lot of great fighters.
We’Ve pointed out a lot of them.
I think this is what’s truly exciting.
Me uh.
I think we’ve hit our mark and what’s happening as we lead up to the end of 2021.
All these great fighters – these are well-known names to us.
They should be well-known names to our fans.
Listening to us and 2022 is only going to be better.
Oh yeah, oh yeah um, also in in in the headlines, um fraser clark got signed yeah.
He had that’s boxer, uh sky sports in hills, promoter and it’s promising a destructive route to the top of the heavyweight division.
Clark now 30 uh, who won a super heavyweight bronze medal at the olympics in tokyo in august, is the first of great britain’s six boxing medalists to sign a professional deal uh.
He looks likely to make his professional debut on the amir khan kell brook undercard in manchester february 19th and has agreed to a three-year deal so wow there’s another there’s another big heavyweight that uh guys we’re gon na have to be on the lookout for um.
If you don’t know who he is wait till next week, i’ll be profiling, him you’ll be checking him out i’ll i’ll.
Let you know all about him and uh where he’s come from and what he’s got to uh we’ll definitely be profiling.
Him.
That’S big news! That’S uh! That’S going on there uh! Congratulations to him! Man, frank frazier, clark, signing with boxer multi-multi-deal, it’s great, definitely yeah and that’s another of those uh young aggressive companies.
That’S really making moves boxer.
I mean yes, obviously, they’re well funded uh and well positioned with their uh alliance with sky sports.
What that’s that’s huge, that’s huge everybody thought uh.
You know everybody thought matchroom leaving sky sports was gon na, be yeah.
It was gon na be detrimental to their success and and them staying alive.
But uh like i said, one one promotion company out, there’s another promotional company.
That’S right in there uh ready to ready to take over and uh.
You know it’s full steam ahead, and this is what boxer has done and guys who are watching check it out on knuckle up man, i’ve featured tons of these fighters that boxer has now signed.
New and old they’ve got tons of people on their roster and honestly they are taking over and they’re doing well and and sky sports.
You know what i thought they were going to be.
You know i thought they were going to be tits up.
I thought it was going to suck but um.
You know what they had plans in the words man and uh.
You know what matron leaving them hasn’t done them any any hurt at all: yep yep, all good stuff yeah.
So mike.
Does that wrap us up yeah that about wraps us up for the uh friday night panel, uh to all the fans that have tuned in? Thank you again for the love and support uh.
You know we’re always here friday night and let you know what’s going on on the weekend and uh.
You know let you know all the headlines around the world in boxing uh thanks for tuning in it’s your man, mike from knuckle up before with my core and graham voice, your host for the friday night panel.
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