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EPISODE: Episode 20
Jarrett Hurd is an American professional boxer. He is a former unified light middleweight world champion, having held the WBA, IBF and IBO titles between 2017 and 2019.
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Hello boxing fans around the world.
Thank you once again for joining us for another episode of neil a deal featuring neil the deal himself here on talk and fight all right.
Neil the floor is yours.
Who do you got hey good evening guys? How are you nice to see you again right on thanks for coming out checking out us checking us out on talk and fight, live how you doing graham i’m very well.
Thank you.
That’S awesome good to hear good to hear i like to hear that i’m pretty good myself so yeah tonight guys we’re going to talk about an american fighter.
His name is jarrett heard jarrett heard he has a nickname as they all do.
Everybody seems to have a nickname as a boxer right so um.
They call him swift, he’s swift.
This guy jared jared hurt so jared swift heard was born august 31st.
1990.
That makes him 30 years old.
He was born in akkokki, maryland or aso geek maryland united states interesting, never heard of the place, but it’s probably a beautiful place.
His uh his career started in 2012 and he is presently an active fighter and a heck of a good fighter at that.
He fights in the junior middleweight division junior middleweight and is ranked third best act of junior middleweight by ring magazine and number six ranked by box wreck.
So he’s right up there and he’s also a former unified junior middleweight champion of the world.
Having held the wba, ibf and ibo titles between 2017 and 2019.
, so he is a former champion.
Have you have you heard of uh jared hurd before, graham at all, nope? Never nope, never heard of him he’s a hell of a fighter.
Man he’s i’ve watched a bunch of his fights and uh man he’s a he’s, a real pressure pressure fighter.
That’S what i call him.
He really.
He really pushes the pace in the fights he puts a lot of pressure on his opponents.
He tries to he basically the fights that i’ve seen him in guys he likes to try to uh tire out his opponent.
Basically, you know what i mean so he’ll go full force at him and try to just hit him with everything.
He’S got he’s got he’s got a great job.
He’S got a he’s, got really good ring movement.
He moves around the ring really fluidly, but he puts a lot of pressure on these guys and uh and and tries to tire him out so uh he’s very active in the ring he’s a very active fighter in the ring.
I really liked him so he had an amateur career.
He had 40 bouts as an amateur of which he won 32 and he had eight losses.
So that’s pretty good 32 wins out of 40 as an amateur.
You know growing up, can’t win them all growing up.
You got to learn somewhere so uh, you know, that’s it.
You know he’s he’s learning here and he learned really well too.
His uh pro totals guys will go over.
His pro totals pretty pretty good pro totals today.
Uh 25 bouts he’s got 24, wins 16 knockouts and only one loss he’s only got one loss.
Graham, so you know that one loss, it was a fluke, that’s what i’d say, unfortunately, that but uh he’s got a knockout percentage of six and uh and yeah he’s uh he’s only had the one loss guys so we’ll talk about that in a minute he turned Pro in uh 2012.
and he won his first 20 boats right off the hop.
Then he got a title shot in uh february 2017 and he uh he won.
He won the ibf junior middleweight title against tony harrison in his first uh world title bout.
So uh.
Congratulations on that uh win and tony harrison is a heck of a fighter.
I was actually watching tony harrison, i believe, last weekend or the weekend before in a fight and uh.
He also fought jamal charlo and beat him a couple of years ago.
Maybe three two three years ago he was the the uh he took the he took the belts from charlotte, but then charlo came back and retook the belts off him.
So tony harrison is a heck of a fighter really good fighter.
Uh.
Then in april 2018 he won the wba and the ibo junior middleweight titles against esther landy lara, who was a fantastic fighter as well as orlando lara, is an amazing fighter, so he had the three belts and uh in may 2019.
He fought a guy named julian williams and uh.
Unfortunately, he lost the titles in that fight by unanimous decision and uh he’s he’s.
He said in a few interviews and a couple of things afterwards: he’d really like to get a rematch against williams, no matter what and uh you know funny enough.
Williams williams lost those titles in his first defense anyway, so that probably made jared feel a little better.
You know what i mean so uh his f.
His most recent fight was uh january 25th 2020 and he won by unanimous decision over uh francisco santana, and that was a pretty good fight.
He he basically he showed that he’s got.
He got a new trainer for that fight and uh he’s been he’s been getting a lot.
Better he’s been a little bit uh.
You know, nobody really knows where he is right now or what’s gon na happen with him right uh.
He he hasn’t come out and said a lot about.
What’S going on with himself coming up but uh, he has beaten some really good fighters in the past, graham, like really good fighters, guys like oscar molina as well as well as the guys that i just mentioned.
Austin trout, he beat austin trout, he also beat jason welborn.
These are all world-class pro uh pro guys that are are really good fighters, so jared hurd is is right in there he’s he’s, like i say, he’s at the top of the heap of the junior middleweight division and uh he’s gon na he’s gon na he’s gon Na show up real soon, they’re gon na find him a fight.
So he he’s been adamantly saying that he wants to fight jermel charlo right for the belts, but charlo’s been saying that he’s not really interested in having having a fight against uh heard.
He was saying: uh he’s got some other guys that kind of got to go before it might be um brian castano right to to for a unification of the division, um and or maybe he can you know – maybe he can get a rematch against williams.
That’S what i was thinking right like an in-between fight so um.
He also said that he might want to fight jetson rosario, the guy that beat uh julian williams, for the the guy that beat him uh.
You know so there’s there’s been some talk about.
They don’t have exactly uh fight for him.
As of yet he’s he’s, probably he’s gon na stay in the junior middleweight 154 pound division until i believe he gets a shot at charlo he’s just gon na wait it out.
That’S what i think and uh maybe he’ll have one fight in between and uh.
If he can, if he can get, if he doesn’t get that that shot, he might.
Apparently he might move up to uh middleweight, move up one weight, division and move up to 160 right, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens with jared heard.
There’S not a lot of uh a lot of talk about him right now.
I don’t know why, because he’s a fantastic fighter any of the fights i saw him in any any of those fights guys that i mentioned um definitely check him out and i was uh thoroughly impressed with him, like i say, he’s a he’s, a really really really Good boxer, all around boxer and he’s getting he’s getting better.
Every fight, even he’ll, even say that himself in his interviews, he says, he’s getting better and uh.
Let’S hope he gets a chance to fight charlo that that’s what he’s really pumping to do so, we’ll see what happens.
Maybe charlo fights uh somebody else first and then uh a couple of years ago.
That probably would have been the fight because he was the champion.
You know what i mean yeah, but now i guess maybe castano or uh.
Something of that sort might be more.
What charlo wants to do so so jared is just kind of hanging on the side waiting to see what happens and i’m sure they’ll find him a good fight coming up soon, right, graham i’m just kind of experiencing.
Why he’s not signed to like top rank or golden boy? You know.
Well, i’m just curious.
Why he’s uh not managed by anyone? What do you think? Well, i’m not 100, i’m not 100 sure on that one.
I know that he’s done some televised stuff with show box and and uh some on cbs.
He was, i remember, seeing him on a cbs boxing night um, but i don’t i don’t know who manages him.
I know that he he had a trainer for 12 years, but he recently uh.
He recently parted ways with him and has a new trainer um.
So i’m not 100 sure on that one.
Why why he uh, he hasn’t been picked up by top rank or golden boy, or maybe you know one of those one of those uh big promotional companies.
Well, maybe that’s something that will happen in the near future, because i’m looking at here’s, here’s a 24 in one light, maybe potentially, maybe, as you said, going welterweight potentially middleweight middleweight.
He’S he’s 24-1, though, like that’s a pretty good record as a pro.
So i’m just saying it was 24-0 until he lost that one fight for the titles, so he was he’s only lost the one fight which was two fights ago so yeah and he won his rebound.
So i’m i’m just kind of curious.
Why that guy’s dangling out there uh unrepresented uh, that’s kind of neat yeah.
Hey represents opportunity for you and me maybe he’s a nice guy or maybe there’s a reason not representing maybe he’s a pretty tough guy to manage.
I don’t know, maybe that’s it yeah.
I don’t know he seemed he seems like he’s a pretty nice guy, though he’s pretty uh, pretty sincere in his uh he’s uh he’s he’s a godly guy and he’s pretty sincere when he talks about his family and stuff, like that, so yeah, we’ll just we’ll just Have to see what happens with jared heard guys like keep your eyes out for him, because i will be we’ll uh.
You know this year, maybe next year he has said too that he going forward.
He wants to fight three times a year, so i don’t know why they can’t find him a fight right now.
That’S what i don’t understand, i think, there’s i think, there’s no one looking for a fight for him because he’s not managed by anybody.
That’S that’s what i think, like.
I think i think he’s got management problems.
You know what i mean maybe could could be.
I i’m not too sure, i’m not too sure exactly what that why that is but uh, i guess we’ll find out soon.
You know i’m hoping because the 24-1 he sounds like a pretty good fighter and he looks like a kind of guy as you’re saying, if he’s gon na tackle uh charlo, that that sounds to me like a really good fight.
Oh big time he’s! That’S! That’S! That’S all he talks about is getting that fight against charlo.
That’S what he really really really wants.
You know what i mean, but again being the champ charlo is he makes the decisions and his camp makes those decisions and they don’t uh.
They don’t have, they don’t have them at the top of the list right now like it doesn’t.
I don’t think it makes much sense for him to start fighting guys that are below his uh his ability.
If you know what i mean right, yeah jeremel charlo, i’m just gon na – have a quick little look here, see if he’s managed uh, so maybe wow jamal charlo is 34-1 holy.
Oh yeah! You know what his nickname is.
Oh, i can oh yeah yeah yeah iron man, iron man.
Yes, the iron man actually actually he’s in the super welter division um orthodox fighter.
But you know what yeah super welter and junior middleweight are the same.
So so, apparently, he’s not managed either, but no, i think he manages himself actually charlo, that’s kind of weird, okay, all right.
So two two unmanaged guys.
I don’t know, let’s put on a fight, you and me, come on.
Let’S get these guys in the ring.
Yeah! That’S it eh.
Well, like i say it’s gon na be interesting.
Uh charlo’s got three belts right now, so he’s uh he’s he’s he’s, making all the decisions, i’m sure on who he’s gon na fight next, but uh jared hurt is definitely he he.
He i’m sure he’d even like to get back the belts that uh that he lost in that one fight to williams.
Right right, you know so um anyway, you slice it he’s.
Looking for title fights, that’s what he’s! That’S.
I guess that’s.
Why he’s a little bit inactive right now because they can’t find him a title fight so we’ll just have to wait and see hey.
There is no that’s what i’m saying: there’s no one! Looking for him.
I think, in my humble opinion, yeah.
I think you need to be managed by someone in order for they to start looking for fights for you yeah, it’s kind of like if you’re a band and no one’s managing you, you could be the best band in the world, but no one’s managing you you’re, Not going to get on the stage, because there’s so much competition for that stage, someone else will beat you to it.
So i’m just simply, i’m sure it’s the same thing, if you’re not managed in boxing no one’s out there.
Looking for a fight for you well especially title fights right, those are the big ones and all the big promoters are are promoting those fights so well, it’s all based on percentages right.
So you know, if there’s a purse of a million bucks, your manager’s getting so much your agents getting so much your promoter’s getting so much uh your command’s getting so much your.
Could you know what i mean like everyone’s getting the cut of that purse.
You fight end up with x amount, you know yeah, so so so maybe maybe uh heard charles those kinds of guys don’t know how the games really played at that level.
Maybe they’ve never been exposed to real management yeah, i’m not 100 sure on that.
One, like i say, i’m pretty surprised to think that jamal charlo is not uh managed by somebody big, i’m sure he’s got to be he’s got to be somewhere.
Hopefully, one of our viewers will chime in on this one, because i’m i’m kind of confused yeah i’ll look into it.
I’Ll, look into it and see what i can find out for sure.
Both americans both not represented by management and i’m just kind of curious with those kinds of records.
Why they’re not fighting each other? Well, that’s it! I i would.
I would think that well a couple of years ago, that would have been a fight for sure.
You know when he was uh when uh hurd was the the champion as well.
That would have been a unification boat, so they were talking about that.
That was already in the talks back then, but uh now it seems to have fizzled out and charles got other things on his mind.
So yeah down the road you never know they might, they might clash heads again, i’m sure and uh figure it out and and maybe we will see that charlo herd fight later on this year early next year right.
But it’s a good one, like i said flying under my radar, i’ve never heard of the fella yeah, so i’m glad he’s a great fighter.
We brought him up so uh.
It simulated a kind of a good conversation between us.
Here it’s uh, i mean i was because nine times out of ten, the guys who were talking about whether historically or in the present day are represented.
They’Ve got management, they’re fighting, you know constantly yeah as well as can be during this covet, but at the end of the day, they’re fighting and here we here – we’ve just come across a few guys who both aren’t managed who seem to be well.
I wouldn’t say that we just have, we just don’t know who it is they they could be.
Okay, all right all right.
You know what i’m saying they could be, i’m sure they are.
We just don’t know who they are yet honestly so you’re going to do some research you’re going to find out well we’ll we’ll do a little poking around and see if we can find out what the deal is for sure sounds good.
So you know what i mean all right: all right guys thanks a lot for coming out thanks a lot for having me tonight, graeme appreciate it and uh the likes.
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