AIR DATE:
EPISODE: Episode 3
Our group of panelists preview the Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte fight and provide another weekly roundup of boxing headlines – including updates about boxers from the past – and share current events and news with the many fans out there that enjoy the great sport of Boxing!
https://talkinfight.com/friday-night-boxing-panel-74-weekly-episode-talkin-fight/
Watch live on TalkinFight.com or YouTube.com/c/TalkinFight
#TalkinFight #Witherspoon #FridayNightPanel
Transcribed:
[, Music ]: what up talking flight fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of the friday night panel? Usually i’ve got a whole bunch of people here with me, but tonight it looks like i’m going solo for a few minutes.
Hopefully i get joined by some of my colleagues so that we can talk to you about this big fight weekend.
That’S going on uh, let’s get underway with the fights that are happening this weekend, definitely uh some big ones going on.
I want to touch base on this excellent fight.
That’S going on tonight, uh this one starts late, guys, son of legends morrison versus rockman jr, the wbc usnbc heavyweight title uh.
This one is great man.
It’S kind of legends champion, marching them for draft weekend debut at virgin.
Hotels, las vegas on friday april 29th, main fight, the wbc usnbc heavyweight title uh.
This one’s gon na be great man, kenzie tcb morrison, against, has team gold-blooded, rockman junior, the senate former world heavyweight champion tommy, the duke morrison and asim rockman uh flight fans can rejoice over one of the most unique live boxing championship character date with the announcement of Son of london’s featuring an unparalleled lineup of the sons of legendary boxers duking it out during draft weekend, starting at 7 p.
m.
At the theater inside virgin hotels, las vegas, yes, tonight it’s gon na be great guys.
Um this one’s gon na be pretty awesome.
Man um, if you guys don’t know who these guys are man for the first time in boxing history, the sons of several former boxing champions will face off in the ring presented by roy jones junior promotions, in association with um heirs, entertainment, uh, the 10-round main event For the wbc heavyweight championship against morrison, who was 1902 with 17 kos son of legendary two-time world heavyweight champion tommy, the duke morrison guys might know him from rocky tommy gunn.
He will take on his team goldblutter rockman jr who’s 12 and over six ko’s son of famed two-time world heavyweight champion justine rockman, who knocked out lettuce, lewis uh in one of the other, most anticipated fights on this card.
The co-main event features two highly treated prospects: uh laying their futures on the line as keith hunter who’s 14 and one with nine ko’s kind of legendary heavyweight and cruiserweight contender mike the bounty hunter takes on the undefeated chucky yng pressure, uh driver who’s 12-0 with seven Kos in a battle to take a step towards title contention: additional sons of legends showcase on this freight card, robert duran jr, who’s 9-1-7 ko’s, the son of legendary four-division world champion manos di pedra uh, robert roberto duran and uh sharif.
Rachman who 5-0 mckellen jr who’s want to know with one payless and a former world middleweight champion gerald the g-man with ellen, also making his debut uh amateur standouts eve cunningham junior senate former world cruiserweight champions league uss cunningham on the card, so guys this one’s gearing Up to be uh, quite quite the event man, so you don’t want to tune into this one for sure uh, i’m checking it out.
Definitely gon na be watching this one.
It’S uh, it’s gon na, be it’s gon na, be fun for sure uh next, one that i wanted to talk about guys and uh get underway is gon na, be the vargas, and he is smith which uh this one.
This one is is.
I can’t wait to see this one.
I’M kind of excited for this guys, uh jesse verges and liam smith collide in a must-win super welterweight clash at madison square garden in new york tomorrow, uh leading the undercard for the historic clash.
That’S getting underway man katie taylor, amanda serrano, which is brought to you by matcher unboxing and most valuable promotions, uh vargas, who’s, 29, 3 and 2 with 11 ko is returns to rank for the first time since his narrow reversal at the hands of mikey garcia in Texas, in february 2020.
, the former two-way world champion is hungry to become a three-time ruler and the 32-year-old is training for the smith clash while running his political campaign to represent nevada’s.
Fourth congressional district.
So it looks like he’s, got a lot on his plate.
Man, this one is uh, this one’s gon na be a great one, man uh, and then we got smith man, who’s 33 and one with 17 kos will defend the wba international strap.
He won in his last outing, where he stopped local rival, anthony fowler.
In eight rounds in october, at the ms mns arena in liverpool, bouncing back in style from a slender loss in russia to uh mega med crebanov.
In may, the 33 year old held the wbo world title in 2015 to 2016 and now sits at number four in the wba rankings and eyeing two-time world champion status.
Uh, vargas and smith were due to meet this weekend in phoenix, but cove had ruled the former out of the clash and saturday’s bill will now be topped with carlos cudrez and jesse rodriguez battling for the vacant.
Wbc world super featherweight, title uh, vargas and smith will come to the big apple, all guns of blazing and both men believe they will end the career of the other tomorrow.
So this one’s going to be great man, i’m super excited to see this one.
If you guys uh, if you guys, you remember their last flights, they had both pretty epic, so these guys are both getting underway.
Definitely definitely want to see and come on we’re talking about katie taylor, amanda, serrano, historical fight on the same card man this.
This is a big one, all right guys, if, if you don’t, if you don’t watch this one you’re, not you’re not into boxing man, because this is historic – you’ve got to see this man katie, taylor, amanda, serrano, finally, getting underway uh.
Also on this card guys, uh austin williams has taken on uh uh cordell booker for the making wba continental america’s title, uh the middleweight division, and then we got french and cruz discern who’s taken on ellen siegnoth uh, and this one, this one’s a big one.
This is for the wbc wba, the ibf and the wbo world female super middle titles.
This is an undisputed match.
This one is going to be great.
This card is stacked, guys so make sure you drop what you’re doing and watch this card.
We also got yellow yaffi back in action against miguel cartenega for the wbc international flight title and who we just we’re talking about.
We had him on the show we uh interviewed him.
Rashad matty 11-0 super lightweight has taken on joe eli hernandez uh on this card.
As well and also skye nicholson, who’s 2-0 talked about her love watching this girl box, she’s back in action against uh paisley davis, who’s 3-1-0.
This one’s turning out to be a great card, guys you’re not going to want to miss this one um.
Definitely definitely a good time uh, i’m being joined by one of my uh, one of one of my friends, uh from one of the other shows uh miss sugar.
Miss too bad brown is gon na join us right now.
I’M gon na bring her right in.
So we can get right into this and talk about it.
Miss suga, hey mike we’re, live already we’re we’re live already.
I’Ve been talking for seven minutes already, yeah yeah.
You know how it is man you got ta do all this work, so they don’t have to.
You know what it is.
I’M just touching base right now on the katie taylor and amanda serrano, and i know that you got your ear to the ground when it comes to women’s boxing.
That’S what your show’s all about so um.
What are your thoughts on this one? Well, you know um they’re, talking about this being uh, the mega fight and it’s a big fight in uh.
I think the allure of this fight.
I mean it’s a great match.
Definitely, but the allure of this fight is that it’s just uh two uh.
It’S a history making match, meaning it is the first female headliner to be um to be hosted at madison square garden.
Yes, yes, and – and i was just telling all the fans out there that are watching that this is not the only female battle on this card.
That’S uh that we got to look out for no, which you know i i i really we have somebody that you touched on french on cruise dessert is taking on ellen sidros and that one’s for all the straps as well.
Man, wba, the ibf and the wbo.
So we got two undisputed championship matches for for the women this weekend tomorrow night i like it, i love it.
I love it.
I like it and but you know i i do you know i i i always got ta kind of reign on the parade.
A little bit of course: okay, first, oh yes, we have.
We have two matches for all the belts: okay, um and uh.
Yes, the katie taylor, amanda serrano.
I want to get.
I do want to get into the the details of that match a little bit, but you know we talk about the whole thing yeah.
You know um yeah, so that that’s a that’s a that’s a pretty decent match up and um.
You know it’s in that one.
It’S the it’s, the the boxer versus the box, the two boxers right, yeah uh, one is a runner yeah and you know uh.
One is a boxer that fights sometimes yes right.
So then we, you know, we figure that out.
We figure out.
You know, like.
I said styles make fights, so, of course you do.
Of course you know what what style may may come through on top.
You know, because in in fighting it’s really not at this point or even with this matchup – it’s not about who’s better! It’S who had the better night yeah, that’s it man who’s, bringing their a game, yeah and yeah yeah.
So you know the the the thing that that is uh.
That is the the conversation piece there with french on cruise now yeah um, i as a fighter.
I i do i i like french sean cruz, because france on cruise is um [, Music, ], she’s raw yeah she’s raw, even though she’s she has great amateur background, her style is still very raw, yeah and so um.
I i in this match up now with uh ellen serreros yeah um serenos has actually fought um a notable.
I would a notable fight that i know.
Uh of hers is her versus alicia napoleon, okay and alicia.
That was her last quote: alicia napoleon is a new york girl um.
She you know she she came in on the scene.
I think she’s out on maternity leave right now.
I think she she just had a baby a couple months ago, but uh that match up there, um ellen ellen she’s from sweden.
You know so she’s.
You know she’s she’s, a a big european girl, and so she doesn’t have as much finesse in the ring.
But what she does have is um she she has a physical size and she can because she has that physical size uh and she has very she her skills.
She has skill.
The skill is basic, though you know not basic in a you know, not really throwing shade, but she basic right.
So she has a basic skill and she has that durability that will present a problem for a fighter like fran sean, because fran sean now is just a raw fighter right and when you throw the kitchen sink the tub.
You know all you know to see everything at somebody and they’re still standing there yeah you got left yeah.
Thank you.
That’S it! That’S right.
You have left everything, that’s right, yeah and so that’s the type of fighter it uh fighter.
Franchon is right so uh.
I am curious to see you know um, because i know she’s gon na throw all the french on does not have knockout power.
No right, she doesn’t have knockout power, but and – and i don’t know of her – to have dropped anyone she has fought.
Um she’s hurt them, but she ain’t dropping nobody.
Okay, i don’t know she’s uh he’s only sporting, a seven and one record with two knockouts are the only people she’s dropped in her career uh.
She had a tko against uh leticia burton that was back 2017 march 25th and that was a tko in the first round and then uh uh kayla williams, um, which was june 20th 2019, and that was a kale in the fifth okay.
So, okay, all right! So someone stuck around and she wore them down that ko in the first um.
You know that i i have to say you know the what what’s happening with with female boxing is um.
They have perfected the art of bringing in the body bags, okay, so that first round, you know that opposition no disrespect, never disrespecting anyone that gets in there because you know it.
It takes a lot to get in there, but the quality now of opposition right.
If, if you’re getting, if you’re getting swept in the first round, that means you know that that means the quality of that oppo opposition isn’t really uh the standard of of where you know you can say.
Ah, that was a test, but now she was in there with someone who gave must have gave her problems for five rounds, yeah right and then she eventually now tko’d tko’d yeah, not kale, not killed.
So it may have been that the girl just ran out of gas yeah.
That’S a possibility well and she’s, taking on ellen cedros, who is yeah with four knockouts like she’s got she’s gon na, have that’s what i was going through, she’s she’s.
Actually, she dropped napoleon.
Now she dropped napoleon in the second round and that and napoleon’s fresh in that second round and napoleon is a tough girl.
That’S why i you know, i i’m i i i’m not a computer okay right.
What i am, though, is i’m a person, i’m a fighter, and i love fights yeah, so um.
The things that stand out to me are the things uh that are the are the real happenings in a fight where napoleon is a real.
She is real opposition.
She’S a real fighter, she has fought real opposition in tory nelson, okay, uh and and taurean dropper.
You know so.
Um did ellen got pop yeah and that’s what she’s also fought hannah rankin.
You know uh frumi, her uh, her men’s okay.
You know she’s she’s been in there with some some people so right and she has been in there with some people, but let’s not, let’s not take away that these people.
Why? Why are these people yeah answering me this question? Why why are these people they’re not they’re, not really they’re, not they’re, they’re blemishes on their blemishes on some and not blemishes on the other? That’S now that’s what i’m saying so these people became people because they fought who clarissa yeah yeah.
That’S the only reason why they’re people yeah we’re they’re all fighters, okay and and they are they’re all a problem.
Okay, but the the the truth that to me the the the truth of it all right with these people is, if you know, if somebody booty touched the ground yeah, she made some booties touch the ground yeah.
I know she remember.
I remember napoleon because, like i said napoleon what was a standout for a little bit and you know she took some time off to become a mommy yeah, so she dropped home girl fresh out the grease.
I think it was a left hook and you know the uh napoleon caught that she was like.
Okay, wait a minute now, i’m on my heels, okay and and dropped her.
So you know i i and she’s, and she just keeps she’s there right in front.
So i want to see i want to see right after the kitchen sink yeah right.
You know all the knives and forks and spoons and everything in the kitchen yeah.
What’S she going to do you know how? What does she? What will she have now for um ellen? After all of that, because then it becomes now um? What else can you pull out of wha? What else can you pull out this kitchen? What else can you make with this fight come up with something new? Maybe she’ll show us a new, a new thing.
She can throw well you’re gon na have to fight that.
You know and that’s the beauty of fighting.
You know you find that you find out what you got right and in the same thing with katie taylor versus amanda serrano.
You know, like i said: one’s a track star and and one’s uh, um, [, Laughter, ] and one’s a fighter.
You know and and so katie taylor uh, i noticed you know katie taylor, they they’re they’re, promoting it and they’re showing you know.
When katie uh does stand, there, she’ll run her shots and then she’ll go.
I don’t think um and then amanda serrano.
You know amanda wants to fight she.
She has the iq.
Her sister um is a great fighter sin uh, cynthia yeah cindy, serrano, yeah, so yeah so um.
You know she.
She has that type of pedigree um.
With this with this fight, it is the main event for this um for this yeah, along with, along with our our friend jake, not really our friend, it’s a jake paul eddie, hearn collaboration.
You know what as much as people hate him, he got.
He got the fight to happen and that’s what everybody wanted to see.
Okay, so listen, i’ma, say this right, because people as much as people dislike box, rack box, red box, wrecks the truth.
Okay and box rex say that this is a eddie hearn promotion.
So you know if, if jake paid for his girl to get on this card, who knows yeah? That’S what happened.
This is what happens right.
This is what happens in the promotion game.
Okay, eddie hearn decides to put some money in his his girl’s pocket.
Uh katie taylor, yeah, okay, he rented out madison square garden because he got the dough to do that.
Yeah.
He definitely does okay, he put her as the main event and jake said.
You know what i’ma pay for my girl to get on this.
With with with your girl and now it’s mega yeah now, because we’re certainly dinner, then we’re gon na then we’re gon na sprinkle another undisputed match on that card as well.
Okay! So now listen! We want, let’s call the thing a thing tonight mike me and you let’s do it.
Let’S do it um, because i didn’t ask for this.
One, no right and – and i don’t think i mean katie taylor – is a is a good fighter and and the thing about katie taylor is.
She has such a following.
Now that any fight that she fights is mega, okay, she’s a name all right, but ain’t.
Nobody asked for her to fight amanda serrano right, that’s what that’s really what it was about.
The fans wanted it.
The fans wanted it fans wanted it, that’s what they wanted.
Um i i haven’t ran into two people.
It got to be two people and it’s two people online right now, and i know i didn’t ask for it.
So i don’t know mike, and i mean let’s do, let’s talk about, let’s, let’s be real tonight: okay, you know it’s, it’s it’s getting underway, man! It’S! It’S gon na happen tomorrow right, it’s always gon na happen, but we want to let let’s call the thing a thing right.
I hate i don’t want us to have a show tonight, that’s going to be a a pandering type of show because everybody panders online here right.
Everybody wants to be somebody friend, i’ve been through the ringer.
I don’t know about you mike right.
I think you’re just cute enough, you don’t know nothing else.
Oh my gosh! Yes, okay, so i don’t think you need to be friends with nobody.
You don’t need to be extra nice to nobody.
So let’s talk it and sugar done been through it right.
Sugar.
Don’T care like if either you like sugar, exactly exactly you don’t so with this with this match up here, it’s a great match.
I i take nothing from it.
It’S a great match, but it’s not to me.
It ain’t uh.
It ain’t a mega match because you know um.
Yes, serrano has fans, as any other fighter may have fans yeah, but um the first to do madison square.
This ain’t, an ali frazier type of deal yeah! Oh uh, this ain’t! You know this is not they’re.
Not that that was the allure in all of the other historical um fighter, madison square, because fights always happen at madison square garden.
Always you know what i’m saying, but you know this uh.
I believe this is.
This is the first time it’s a it’s a it’s! A woman head like a woman’s bachelorette yeah because somebody because somebody’s promoter had the money, the the the pay for the gun right right.
So this is this is the thing about women’s boxing that i want to dispel: okay belts, ain’t belts belts, don’t mean that you’re, the best belts don’t mean that you’re, a champion belts mean that you had the money to pay belts, hold up pants bells hold up And i don’t really wear pants, [ Laughter ].
All right, never mattered to me right as a fighter, because i whooped ass either way and those who had the belts ran from me right.
So what i want to say is you know, and now this is madison square garden.
Yeah, some great fights have happened in some um and some hole in the walls.
You know what i’m saying, so it’s just that now we have to as me and you you know as the people with the ears to the ground.
We, you know that that we talk in this talk.
We really just have to know.
What’S out there now to me, i did low-key.
Now, let’s uh, you know we’re talking about this card.
This woman there is room for friend sean to steal the show on this card, because between katie taylor versus amanda, serrano guess what we already know about this fight.
What what do you already know? No, no! It’S going the distance.
It’S gon na go yeah! It’S gon na go no one! No one’s gon na drop! No, no one’s gon na get hurt no one’s gon na because they were never fight.
No, both of those fighters have not exhibited that in their fights and that’s what mega means mega means that somebody is going people somebody going dropping, get up or somebody going drop it and stay down exactly right, yeah, and that’s why it’s a mega now right.
Nobody is not nobody’s ex, i’m sorry ain’t.
Nobody excited about uh a point match a mega point match.
No man mega matches need to end in knockouts.
That’S the way it should be no well a mega match need to have some hurting yeah like i want to see.
I want to see blood bites.
I want to see.
I want to see mouth guards in the front row.
I want to see them getting punched out.
I want to see you guys dropping.
I want to say i want to see people i want to see them fall like trees, i’m a female, but you know i wanted i’m a girl, but still you know, there’s no.
Nothing more appealing than to see legs up in the air.
Yo [ Laughter, ] love, it love it.
Maybe maybe somebody falling through the road too.
I want to know he’s sleeping before he touches the mat, that’s what it is, or you know i want to see some hurting going on.
This is fighting yeah right so, but now fran sean.
Now, with this i, you know she could steal the show by performing yeah right.
She can really.
She can really, you know, go in there and and get real freaky with with it.
You know um ellen.
It is right – and you know um, but you know we don’t yeah.
We talk about the girls, but you know what the the the guy fight uh jesse vargas versus smith yeah, that’s pretty! That fight is pretty interesting.
I’M i’m loving that one.
I’M loving that what do you think about those two fighters? Honestly, i like them, both uh big fans, liam smith, uh.
You know, he’s he’s coming off that uh, that brilliant fight, uh back against anthony fowler uh, the tko in the eighth uh.
He did lose uh to what uh mega med kirbanov uh before that uh back uh.
Was it um? Let’S say it was may of 2021 around the first week or so and then uh.
You know he’s uh he’s just one of these guys that performs man and uh.
You know i just like watching.
Yes he’s a grinder and he gets it done.
He gets it done, but then you have uh, you know you have you.
Have our man vargas right? Vargas is also uh.
You know this kid can box man, jesse vargas, he’s he’s.
You know 29, 3 and 2 with 11 kos and he’s returning to the ring for the first time since uh his narrow reversal at the hands of mickey garcia in texas in february.
Uh, so you know, did you see that one yeah man did you? Did you check it out? Come on now, [ Laughter ] that one kind of stood out because i like um, i i like mikey, um, garcia.
I actually like him um this fight.
You know um jesse vargas.
This matchup is interesting and and i’ll tell you why right so we have two.
We have two bangers, yeah um, you know, jesse vargas is a banger and liam smith is sure enough, a banger.
He don’t want to do nothing but put that front foot down plant that foot and throw them punches and throw okay, um and so um.
I i was looking uh yeah.
I mean some some of uh just i i first looked at jesse vargas.
Why? Because you know he he fought my guy.
I like mikey, uh, garcia okay, so he fought mikey, garcia, uh and and mikey got got into got into that behind now, like he not knocked me down and really broke right um.
He he also uh jesse vargas has fought some notable guys, you know pacquiao, he fought pacquiao, yeah and uh.
He fought uh timothy bradley, which you know i i i mentioned these two too, because um it seems.
Like you know, i always i love to.
I love to mention styles, make fights right so um these guys, the style of these guys.
It looks like jesse vargas fights a lot of juggernuts yeah.
So pacquiao is a juggernaut, yeah bradley’s, a juggernut garcia is a juggernaut, meaning you know these guys.
They are ruffled rough and tumble.
They standing in front of you and they’re, giving and taken okay and um.
You know jessie vargas, he he he seems to be um a banger, slash, boxer right right, you make him have to box, he will yeah, but you know he has that right hand.
He has a good right hand he’s tough.
You know i love how he’s a fearless fighter, because instead you know he stood in front of these guys and never took a step back.
The only time he was stepping back was when uh um, goodness uh, mikey garcia, hurt him, and then you know you saw, but he he he’s determined.
You know he he’s standing there and – and i love that you know you watching a fight where whether the person is winning or losing they’re determined, that’s hard, that’s hard hard right! You can’t you can’t, and you can’t teach that you can’t do that.
Those are the things that are worth the money, that’s worth the ticket money right, because you can’t teach these things it’s hard, it’s perseverance, you know and that’s what that that’s, what i watch fights for.
That’S what i appreciate about these fights but the same thing with liam smith, okay, so liam liam’s, three losses are to magnum uh, jamie, mongia and alvarez.
So you know those are his only losses with alvarez alvarez.
He went 99 for 12 before he got knocked out.
Uh you’re against jimmy mongia.
He went the whole way and uh lost to an unanimous decision same with uh when he fought megaman karbanov.
He went unanimous decision loss, so you know he’s only been put down a few times in his career man uh.
His three losses.
He’S only been knocked out at once man, liam smith, liam smith, is a banger like i said, yeah, 33 years old.
He knows the game at this point and uh he’s been he’s been around for, while him and his brothers, you know um.
I think it’s a boxing family, they call them beasty.
I like beeping, i like it.
I do like it too and so um i he is the modern day rocky.
I think: okay, okay, yes, because he um liam, he he’s big for he.
Uh he’s big for um.
You know a big stature for that weight class.
You know what yeah you know.
Super welter uh, he weighed in he weighed in at uh 153 uh for this fight.
Uh, you know, he’s he’s five.
Nine and a half he’s he’s got, you know, he’s he’s a broad guy yeah.
He does.
He does look.
You know he’s he’s somewhat bigger than some of the guys.
He saw he’s solid right because you know some of these guys, you they he’s and he ain’t going nowhere, because he got those strong legs that he stands on.
Okay and then he got like you said, broad shoulders and back, and he holds that guard real, tight and and and and sturdy.
So it’s like how are you going he’s a wall he’s a tank walking at you right and you got to now.
You have a certain amount of rounds to find the weakness in that in in that tank, coming to you or or to make a weak spot, but he’s very he’s conditioned well and he’s durable.
Like you said, you know, after a while down in deep water around nine or something you know, as the fight goes on as fatigue sets in and frustration and all of those things you know you may see an opening and then, if you’re, a smart fighter, if You are a fighter, that’s ready, you can capitalize on that against liam and he you know he definitely, and you know he definitely has the ability to do the same himself.
When you watch him fight man, he can bang him out in the later rounds too uh.
It’S just whether or not i think this fight is going to be all about who’s got the gas tank.
I think in this fight.
It’S really um because between the two, but i i want to say that there was a baddie out there that he he rivaled with liam williams.
Are you familiar with liam williams? Yes, all right, so liam williams, um, you know i.
I have to say that williams back to back yeah, they had it, they did it.
It was so good.
They had to come back and do it.
Oh, i know the first one was back: uh 2017.
I believe it was um march no uh yeah.
I think it was march march, the uh march 8th, i think it was and uh you know.
Smith was cut over uh on the right eyebrow in the third round uh he scaled in at 11 stones, one pound, 15 ounces and then 11 stones, one pound 10 ounces after stripping naked and such could not work.
[ Applause ].
So he couldn’t win the title and then uh williams was deemed in no position to continue after suffering a double laceration to the right eyelid.
So then what happens? They were like months later, they’re back in the ring again and back at it again and right um.
It’S a good fight, it was really good, and so you know i i honorable mention to that cat, because you know he he he he was a contender right, so um and and and he you know he busted all dude up so um yeah.
That’S right! You know you got ta, you got ta, commend it, it’s a fight right.
So that’s what we’re here for we’re here.
It ain’t about it to me to me the judges and the it ain’t about the judges or the ref.
It’S about the two people going at it, it’s about those two.
It’S about the will! It’S about.
You know what happened.
You know this encounter between you and that other person, that’s the story and everybody’s just you know we’re just witnesses to that encounter.
So you know, there’s some people who you know: uh have different opinions of that encounter and the judges and the ref.
So i had to honorably mention that guy, because it it was a good it was.
It was a good fight.
Williams was a good liam.
Williams.
Is a good contender coming up um, and so now you know smith right so and then i i i think i remember smith, even fighting canelo.
Did you see that one smith, yes versus canelo and and you know that was uh – that one went that one went distance man? No, he got he got started.
You know, and alvarez definitely is one of those guys that uh you know he could easily do a 15.
.
Did you hear what nacho just said about him? No, no! What what happened? What’S your nacho said something to the effect of um, you know canelo not being a standout type of fighter because of you know that the fact that and yeah, i’m after agreed nacho said it.
So if nacho said it, you know what i’m saying right.
You know nachos nacho was was canelo’s uh trainer, but canelo is like the remix of everybody yeah, you know canelo, there’s no can canelo, has the ability and has the talent and everything to be an authentic fighter, but he remixes so much of other people’s styles that He doesn’t stand out because when you see him, it’s like.
Oh i’ve already seen this same thing same thing over and you know what the best part is.
Is we finally get to see him get against bible next uh? I believe it’s next weekend.
May the second.
Let you know, let’s see, let’s hope you know something.
Let’S hope he changes the record uh a little bit and he he gives us something else, because you know and when nacho said it well, i you know you kind of kind of flip through you know.
You know what’s being going on out here.
I was like.
Oh okay, you know i i always i thought it, but nacho said it yeah: okay um! You know, but you know that with this match you know jesse vargas versus liam smith.
Um.
You know none of them are really explosive, so we’re gon na have to look for the magic to happen down in deep water yeah.
I think that’s, that’s! That’S! That’S what you’re looking for for this one right.
There ain’t nobody going finesse they coming in there and they go and bang each other out yeah and then each one is promising the other uh that i’m not gon na end it no they’re promising they’re ending the careers of each other.
Like you guys, these guys are going in there to do it right.
So yeah there’s like some feelings involved, yeah, there’s stuff going on uh, but i don’t wan na wan na take away from another big fight.
That’S going on this weekend is the uh stevenson valdez like this is a big one, wbc champ oscar valdez.
It all hopes to become a mexican boxing legend while w.
o king shakura stevenson is eyeing the mythical pound for pound rankings and uh.
You know valdez [, Music, ] valdez is 30-0 23 knockouts.
Now you know he’s the fighting pride of nogales.
Mexico is uh closing in on an undefeated decade and then we got and then who we got what’s your cure and then we got stevenson.
You know he’s 1709, with nine kos he’s the pound for pound talent from new york uh.
You know he won the vacant.
Wbo feather world title against uh gonzalez in 2019, uh valdez vacated the title to campaign at junior lightweight stevenson moved up in weight after dominating gonzalez winning three fights before challenging for the wbo junior lightweight world champion uh against herring last october in atlanta and stevenson stopped Herring in the 10th round to become the two-weight world, champ wow, you know, as as as opposed to the u.
s amateur boxing team stevenson was pegged for super stardom ever since making his pro debut back in april of 2017.
uh.
You know through 17 pro belts.
Now you know he’s flashed a defense riddle that has thus far been impossible for opponents to solve and uh in this battle of youth versus hardened experience, as valdez won his first world title in july of 2016, four weeks before stevenson earned a silver medal at the Rio olympics, so this one this one.
This is a big one.
Um, i’m super excited to see this card.
You know it’s it’s for the two titles man, the wbc world super feather and the wbo world super feather and uh.
You know the undercard.
I am really really stoked about this undercard.
I have profiled a bunch of these guys on here we got andreas cortez, who’s taken on alexis bosque uh.
We got raymond mertella who’s taken on jeremy hill, keyshawn davis is up back in uh against esteban sanchez.
In this one troy isley is taking on anthony hannah, you got nico ali walsh back in the ring against alejandro rivera, and then you got abdullah mason who’s taking on luciano ramos and and anton cobb is taking on jalen phillips.
This undercard is of all these up and coming prospects up and coming up and coming up and coming undefeated, young and hungry and some are undiscovered and that’s why i profiled them on my show four o’clock and i profiled every single one of these guys throughout the Beginning of my show and honestly this you guys want to see a great card you’re, definitely going to want to tune in and watch this one for sure this card is big and i don’t want.
I don’t want everybody to have the hype of the katie taylor.
Amanda sorano card taken away from this one too, because this is a this – is a big card.
I you know um regarding we’re going to talk about.
You know secured yeah.
I think they’re bringing him in they’re trying to make him the you know the the millennium uh sugar ray leonard and he’s trying to make trying to make him the new face, yeah right and um.
He did.
He did do well in the olympics and um.
You know, i see a lot of similarities in how they’re moving him.
You know yeah with with with with old sugar.
You know so um.
I do think this kid.
I i think he does have a uh a bright future, definitely in in in boxing um.
This matchup with him at 17-0 um versus um.
I’M sorry can you repeat this, this fighter’s name? Oh sorry, shakura stevenson, verse versus sorry, yeah, shakur stevenson and uh valdez right, so um valdes.
So now, at that 17 i know, as as they move a fighter and a fighter like this, that you know you’re just seeing you’re seeing the progression of um.
This is how they generally move a super who they’re trying to make a superstar right.
So when sugar ray was 17-0, i believe he fought my my my coach uh johnny gant, who was a huge, a top contender in the weight class.
So at that 17 and omar um uh and and then he went uh.
He went after that and fought benitez out of puerto rico right, so you know they’re moving they’re moving uh shakur, but to me um, i i think um, i’m i’m just looking for a bit.
He i’m looking for more from him because, like i said after so many after people after a story has been read or told so many times right and you change the character and then the story there needs to be more to the story right.
There needs to be more to the story.
Why, as a fighter, i don’t he’s a darling, you know he he he did well at the olympics and did all of that.
You know but um.
It is entertainment as well right and so until he’s not standing as much as you know, it looks good on paper as a fighter.
I i need more for him to stand out right.
Oh well, everybody wins now oscar valdez.
You know he he had that standout standout finish against miguel berchelet.
You know that that that was that was up for knockout of the year that one that’s uh.
That was a big one.
That was definitely a big one.
You know oscar valdez, you know he’s 31.
He’S no joke, you know the kid’s five five and a half he’s got a 66 inch reach.
You know and uh he’s sitting in a cool 130.
You know when he took on burchellet.
That was that that was a good one man that was a great ko.
Okay, so this guy he got some.
This guy’s got some um yeah.
So out of his 30, you know out of yo out of his 30-0 he’s finished 23 opponents put him to sleep so 23, kos and uh that won that birch.
Let you know when he fought him, that was, that was a huge one.
That was definitely so.
This is the thing about these o’s right um.
I i i want to raise this point now in the game of boxing yeah, even though boxing is not a game.
No um [ Music ], it’s more now before it was about um because we didn’t have as many um we didn’t have technology and we didn’t have as many ways to do research back in the back.
In the day, oh, you mean when you had to go out and buy the magazine to learn who fought who, because it wasn’t my gosh or right or or borrow the the vhs tape off your friend, to see the fight that he taped like yeah.
I remember that i remember that that was the old way to do this.
That was the old way to do it.
You know now what a time to be a fighter, what a time to do this right and so um.
I i said that to say this: now, it’s more so like the matchmakers, and you know the people behind the scenes now are the ones who are really who are playing the game harder right because yeah, like i mean i’ve mentioned this in another, show um in My own show you know now now you know at 30 a 30 no has it has to be looked at because um, you know these people are carefully putting bodies in front of their prospects, yeah right so that 30-0.
I i have not looked at that on this fighter’s opposition.
It’S just like he’s, he’s apparently he’s getting them out there, but you know the these this office, this type of opposition.
What is the quality of opposition? I know mexico’s got a ton mexico’s got a ton of boxers, as we know, i believe, there’s what uh something like 3 400 registered pro boxers, both male and female, that come out of mexico.
You know so when you see when i see these high numbers on these mexican fighters.
It’S you know it’s because that’s what they do.
That’S that’s it all they do is fight, they eat, breathe, sleep and fight, and that’s it.
I don’t know about mexico yeah.
So so do i, but not that way, yeah! Well! So when you see these guys with these huge numbers, it’s it’s.
You know it’s just because they’re staying busy – and so i do understand – i i i do understand what you’re saying, yeah and then fight uh down in mexico.
I’M i mean people are fighting uh, sometimes on sanctions, uh two times in a weekend yeah.
You know what i’m saying, but at the same time you know when they’re, putting together prospects yeah, you will have you know somebody just because somebody, you know have been around the block a couple times: yeah they.
They know enough to to be a problem to somebody who hasn’t right, but those numbers is he a killer? You know, is he knocking out killers right? Why would they put shakira who’s had half as many fights with this with with this fighter, who has knocked out so many fighters, and this is the reason why these guys are both fighting is because the only shakira out there? No, what i’m saying so.
You know.
That’S why i’ve when records don’t records? Don’T phase me right because i know the game enough to know that um, okay, uh uh, he might have a couple 4 and 40 fighters on there and i call them for you know we call them 4 and 40, meaning you know they’re fighters out there.
That may have four wins: 40 losses.
Six wins 20 losses, things like that, and you know they they have the amount of fights but they’re.
You know their ratio is they’re on the losing end, the journeyman of the game.
The day morning, journeyed gatekeepers they more than the gatekeeper right.
You listen.
If would you hire somebody that keep your gate then that um lost sixty one four.
You can’t keep my gate.
Sorry, no! No! No! No! I’M using i’m using i’m using that, i’m using that! Guy to test my new guys to see where they are and i’ll i’ll just say this, you know after after a fighter is lost a couple times: yeah losing becomes so easy, losing becomes learning as long as you’re learning from your losses and losses.
Don’T really matter right, but in boxing yeah right you get opponents and i want to explain this to the viewer to people.
That’S in on this conversation that, after when there are calibers of fighters right, they’re, different calibers of opposition right, you have.
You have the opposition that they’ve lost, but you know either they’ve.
You know, they’ve had some messed up decisions or you know, there’s they’re they’re dangerous, yeah right, then you have the ones below that that they have they’ll.
They have loss because they can be a problem.
If you are not at a certain level right, they are the gatekeepers, because if you are not at a certain level, they will give you a problem, and you can’t get past them.
Then you have those below them right who are journeymen and journey women, meaning that they’ve been around this.
They know it and if you know what you’re doing uh they’ll take you they’ll take you through the fight you you’ll be able to win against them.
If you ain’t got what it takes, then they’ll beat you they’ll mess around and beat you or it’ll be close.
Then you got those on the bottom rung the tomato candy, the tomato cans right that have made a career out of losing so much so that um, their numbers are off that you just like how a winner is a winner, and you can see they have more Wins than losses, a loser is a loser.
I’Ve uh, i did.
I did a whole weekly special.
I did a weekly special on this.
I did a weekly special on the worst, the record unboxing.
Yes, yes, oh my god, i did.
I did it a couple months ago, it’s featured on knuckle up to all the fans out there.
If you want to check it out, yeah okay check it out we’re talking we’re talking some serious records, guys who have over 300 fights or 200 losses like some big stuff back in when i was coming up, it was really bad and they were looking to ban People like that, you know after you get a certain because boxing, like i always say boxing ain’t patty cake right, so you go in there.
There are people that are skilled at losing.
Now you ain’t going, you know, they’re going to deflect and they’re going to play.
The game right to the end of the bell and they know they’re, going to lose and then there’s some people who are getting their asses, whipped, yeah and getting beat up so bad that they need to stop.
Because it’s now a detrimental health risk.
Later on in life right – and you know, i’ve seen great fighters that now can’t even speak a full sentence.
Uh, i know – and this – and this is why tim tim witherspoon is – is proactive about this whole starting a boxing union to take care of these guys who have paved the way for the young kids of today to do what they do now yeah, you know, that’s Been we’ve and i’ve been on board with with these type of um.
You know these type of fights too right, because you know we dedicate we.
We do dedicate our lives to doing this, and this is a this is a career and it is an industry and we do need protection fighters do need protection and fighters do need to be taken.
Care of you know at the end of the career which there’s none.
You know if you’re not smart, if you’re not smart during your career, and you know you set yourself up a lot of fighters, end up broke on the real sad end of life, yeah, um and and no one.
No one finds them and no one talks about those stories right which i think those stories also need to be told.
You know exactly 100, oh wow.
Thank you sugar for joining the panel tonight, pure knowledge.
Thank you, seth yeah, incredibly, definitely for appreciating what i what i have to say about this honestly [ Laughter ].
What i want you to do is tell the viewers where they can find you and your show, and what time? Okay, y’all so every wednesday night at 7, 00 pm uh come talk to your sugar, about women’s boxing right and uh.
Anything you want to know anything.
You want to talk about anything you want to ask about women and women in boxing women who box women’s boxing.
Definitely a very interactive show to all the viewers out.
There drop those comments and sugar will answer and talk to you throughout the entire show, and there ain’t no time limit so just keep it coming.
Oh goodness, right had me on all night, the other night yeah i did i did.
I had you working hard, [, Laughter, ] and thanks everyone for chiming in on this one.
I really appreciate the chat mike thanks for having me on the show today.
Definitely thank you.
Thank you for joining me because, i’m pretty sure the viewers didn’t want to listen to me ramp for an hour by myself, which i have no problem doing because well so before we leave, who you got, who you got um for for the fight tomorrow, amanda or Katie [ Laughter, ], you know what katie’s my girl, but i think it’s gon na be amanda.
You think so yeah i i like them both.
I i do.
I do it’s really hard, but i think katie i think katie is too crafty to lose everything or lose what she got to amanda um.
I think it i mean if she didn’t, if, if she didn’t, let her soon take it from her she ain’t gon na.
Let amanda take it out, but we’ll see tomorrow.
I love that uh-oh serrano and we’ll stop taylor’s yo see cedric’s on board with me on this one.
I think we’ll have to see.
I i really you know what let’s see, because i i don’t even see i i really don’t see where serrano has done damage to a fighter of katie taylor’s caliber y’all have any.
I mean y’all need to tell me what who she fought.
Who did serrano fight? That would lead you to believe that she would dispatch katie taylor in that way.
Right right, i mean, because you know that’s what we got to do exactly i’ve been in there katie taylor called fought delphine for soon has amanda fought anybody.
The caliber of delphine pursued, you know what yeah i’m talking.
That’S you know this one off the strength of that all right.
All right, i love it.
I love it tell them all right.
Thank you guys today, good night.
Thank you for tuning in to this week’s episode of the friday night panel, with myself and my special guest.
Miss sugar.
Don’T forget to catch her wednesday on the sugar.
Show 7 30 sharp be there, be there yeah, be there be there and comment.
She will definitely answer all your questions.
She loves.
She loves the interaction man so guys join.
The show definitely drop her a line thanks for tuning in for this week.
Guys remember to join us sunday, 4 p.
m.
Eastern standard time for the knockout of the week award to find oh, i’m gon na, be there’s a lot of big fights this weekend.
So there’s going to be a lot of knockouts that i got to pick through so make sure you join me and cedric at 4 p.
m.
Eastern standard time to find out who we pick as our winner for the knockout of the week and don’t forget to join him on the scorecard at 11 a.
m on sunday, so you can jump, compare scorecards with cedric to see how you scored this.
Definitely, oh so said, he’s uh scoring and scoring the the ladies too.
I believe he’s scoring the ladies.
I believe he’s scoring the ladies.
So definitely definitely don’t want to miss it.
So it’s all the talking fight fans thanks for tuning in tonight’s episode of the friday night panel, and we will see you next week same time same channel.
You know what it is: peace,
There are no reviews yet.