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EPISODE: Episode 18
Salita Promotions has announced the signing of Grand Rapids, Michigan-based amateur star and future professional middleweight Joseph “Sug” Hicks Jr., to a promotional contract.
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Transcribed:
What up talking fight fans, thanks for tuning into today’s episode of knuckle up at four with mike orr and cedric ben in the den bringing you the youngest hottest undefeated undiscovered prospects from around the world and we’re the only people out here doing this and we got Another good one for you, uh under salida promotions, uh going to be fighting on the card.
Detroit brawl may 26th at the end of the month.
Guys mark that day on your calendar, we are profiling today, the youngest new prospects coming out of detroit michigan.
So they can get back on top, and definitely we got some great great guys for you this week and we’re continuing on today with joseph hicks jr.
Yes, joseph hicks jr turned pro now he’s on his going on to his third fight.
Coming may uh he’s now 2-0 with a two knockout record man, so uh this guy’s got power in his hands, man from grand rapids michigan correct.
Yes, yes, yes, i actually remember joe hicks a couple of years ago, uh with um, we made a trip with team ontario to uh to the michigan state uh tournament.
I forget the name of it um, because it was a turn.
It wasn’t an annual tournament.
It was just a tournament that they put on, i think michigan state games, michigan state games um, so that all types of sports unboxing was a like a three-day tournament.
So we took some of the best fighters from the province that took him over there.
Joe hicks won the gold medal in the 165 division um, so i knew he had skills from back then um and uh yeah he’s he’s definitely displaying his skills at the pro level 2-0, with two very good knockouts and um.
You know i can see why, because he definitely has that uh.
He has that power, but sets it up with with his boxing skills.
He’S got a he’s, got a great story too man.
A lot of people probably won’t know about it, but this this super middleweight he’s ranked 133 out of 241 right now in the us he’s 28 uh stands six foot, one he’s ranked 652 out of 13 26 in the world.
Um this kid got a late start in boxing man didn’t start boxing until he was 19.
.
That’S right.
19.
um lost his father at the age of two to gang violence.
He joined a gang growing up.
He goes by the name should which is uh.
You know honoring his father, his late father uh.
He wasn’t allowed to really box his mom didn’t like it because it was a violent sport uh, but yeah man um.
He used it um as a motivation to get out of that gang life uh.
You know and he wants to help kids along the same path.
So uh, you know, he’s very involved in the community uh.
He is amateur.
He was trained by uh amateurs, uh wayne wayne easley, ambassador coach and uh larry nicholson, um and right now, he’s um being trained by steve, uh, manonucci and uh, and his uncle man his uncle’s, his coach uh he’s this kid.
Man he’s got lots of power likes to sit down on his punches and he’s very selective man uh.
You know he’s from glasshouse boxing lansing michigan um.
You know he was team captain for uh team usa for the 2020 olympics, but uh.
You know missed that due to kovid and decided to turn pro and uh.
You know what guys um i want to uh this five-time national champ or sorry five-time golden gloves, um and he’s uh.
You know first-time national championship.
We actually have video clip of that uh national championship win and we’re gon na play that for you right now, we’re gon na break it down for you and just show you a little bit of this guy uh in the amateurs uh just before you turn pro.
So if we can roll that video, let’s uh, let’s check it out – yeah man, he um, like i said man – he displayed these skills since the amateur level.
Look at him right here, um and he’s fighting a good, a good opponent too.
This was, i believe, the gold medal match in um in uh the state tournament.
Was it yeah the nationals yeah national state tournament, so yeah? This is the gold medal match.
This is where he did win the championship.
Um.
You know this kid uh.
He did a lot of street fighting, so he was very experienced in fighting before he actually got into boxing uh.
He was undefeated in the streets and decided to uh turn that into a positive uh, joined, uh boxing and never looked back man once he put on those gloves and uh.
You know what i’m glad that this guy picked it up and left that gang violence, man, but this kid definitely likes to sit down on those sponges, very methodical, um.
You know he’s not overzealous, he got when he smells danger man he he times it.
He definitely has huge power.
In that right hand, man, yeah man, he’s uh, he’s a he’s, a very good boxer.
He likes to stand the outside and uh, and he he has some extra.
Oh actually before i forget shout out to sheila stafford in the in the chat here he did say, failure is the greatest.
Is the greatest teacher? Yes, learn, learn from your mistakes, my coach always said: l stands for learning and all the loss right exactly exactly um.
Definitely and mentioning his uh, his defense and distance.
That’S exactly what was what i was about to say and those are the little things that help you at the amateur level, a lot of people.
You know there’s some some people kind of say things like uh, the amateur doesn’t doesn’t matter when you go to the pros.
The way it helps is that you know fighting high level.
Amateurs helps you with that experience for fighting high level pros.
Just just this.
The experience of of uh, you know well, the number one thing is defense, because everyone likes the cool part of throwing punches um, but the defense is what uh we need to be careful of, and joe hicks has.
Uh has a high level of both of those things he has extra long reach.
I don’t know what exactly his his numbers are for his reach, but he looks like he.
He always looked like he had long long arms it does.
I’Ve looked to see what his reach is uh.
You know what we’re gon na we’re gon na get this guy in here and ask him because i’d like to know too, because he does look like he has that extra long reach and he knows how to use it.
He knows how to use it, because not all not all uh um people that have that reach know how to use it, but you know you can tell he has a like a an educated amateur background with the way he uses his punches.
Specifically.
Definitely he got signed to uh david waters, split team management, so he’s managed by david mayweather, who you know we all know is doing doing really good with his uh staple of fighters.
Right now and uh.
You know he signed a long-term promotional deal with selena promotions, and this is why he’s on this uh detroit brawl and uh? Definitely man we’re gon na get to see him in action.
Coming may 26th, guys so mark that day down on your calendar, you’re not gon.
Na want to miss this kid in the ring.
Uh.
Definitely you know yeah start unboxing.
The agent 19 use the street fighting ability to uh.
You know harness that that that ability and that undefeating record and uh decided to put that into uh.
You know the amateurs uh his amateur record, i believe, was like 42 and 14 with uh five golden gloves and one championship um.
You know he qualified uh, 165 team qualifier for the olympics.
Uh was named team.
Captain pandemic happened uh, he missed his shot, but uh he’s he’s not too upset about it because he believes that um missing the shot at the olympics to to represent this country was uh.
It was a blessing in disguise, uh he’s now inked, this promotional deal with salina promotions and uh he’s managed by david maywater, and they both see a lot of potential in this kid and uh.
Definitely he’s he’s one of those that uh can can go all the way man uh he’s got a young family at home.
His wife was actually ranked number three in the country at 119 before she got pregnant um, and you know this guy also went 5-0 in the eastern qualifier for the olympics too.
He went undefeated so and and he he opted to go with a six-round, debut fight for his pro really yeah, which uh, which you know, doesn’t really happen too much but uh.
He believes that his experience uh has allowed him to be able to fast-track like that and uh.
It shows you know, he’s 2-0 now with two knockouts in his pro career and uh he’s going for number three and guys you heard it here, [ Laughter, ], definitely you’re going to want to check us the rest of the week.
That’S kid man, joseph hicks, jr taco fights behind you for sure we’re going to be watching.
You come may 26 detroit brawl.
We’Ve marked it on our calendars, guys we’re profiling all these detroit kids on this card on may 26 for the rest of the week, but tomorrow we have a little uh surprise in store for you.
We got bruce shushu carrington joining us for an interview at 3 p.
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Eastern time mark that down that’s 3 p.
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Eastern bruce shushu carrington winner of two past knockout of the week awards two two and we’re gon na get him in here and we’re gon na.
Let him know that he has won the second one, because he doesn’t know about that one yet and uh we’re excited to get him in here.
We’Re gon na talk to him.
It’S gon na be a great interview, guys so mark it down on your calendar, set that reminder at tacofight.
com and don’t miss that and for the rest of you guys join us tomorrow at the same time, same channel for another prospect out of detroit.
Who will be fighting on this may 26 card uh? Do you want to say anything else, cedric before we get out of here uh, not my shout out to joe hicks again we got to get him on the show too um so uh.
Hopefully this gets to him um yeah man shout out to everybody watching thanks for liking, sharing and subscribing the show, if you have any boxers in your area that you know of that, need a little bit of promotion need a little bit of push out there.
This is what we’re here for so send them our way.
We’Ll get them on, definitely send them our way, and if you have video any any personal video of fighters that you’ve seen that you believe should be pushed out there to the world, send them to us.
Allow us to see it and we will do our best to get that fighter recognized and help push his career.
The way we do here at talk and fight make sure guys that you join us tomorrow.
3 p.
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Eastern for our bruce shoeshoe carrington interview and come back again at 4 and join us for the continuation of this salida promotions, detroit brawl card and uh who to be watching out for come, may 26th to all the talking fight fans.
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Sheila, thank you for joining us again with some respect.
Yes, yes, haven’t yet guys, you know what to do.
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