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EPISODE: Episode 1
Mike And Cedric Discuss Justis Huni, one of the hottest prospects in heavyweight boxing, has signed a deal with Matchroom Boxing, one the sport’s biggest promoters.
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Foreign [ Music ] fans, thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up with yours, truly Mike Orr and my man Cedric Ben.
Yes, we are back we’re here.
It is Wednesday it is hump day.
You know what it is man.
We got a great Prospect for you, guys: Justice huni, you guys may have heard of him, but he is now just Inked a big money promotional deal with matchroom boxing.
Let me spit some stats for you guys heavyweight rank two out of 74 in Australia right now, and he is ranked 36 out of 1365 in the world he’s only 23 years old.
This six foot four monster went in at 245.
Pounds is now 7-0 with 4kos Cedric.
Let’S talk about them.
Yeah man he’s a great uh, great Insight fighter man and with that inside fighting he has good defense.
You know, usually, when people talk about inside fighting they’re, just talking about how good someone is on offense, but he actually has good defense on the inside too um and we got to study too much of his full fights.
But seeing highlights of of all of his wins um, you know he shows that you know he’s he’s really excelled on the inside once he gets on the inside definitely well.
He is now just Inked a promotional deal with Eddie Hearns matchroom uh.
You know big things on the rise for this kid uh.
You know he split.
He was originally signed to boxer uh, but they have parted ways and he’s during Eddie Hearns Master, unboxing uh after parting ways with them huni the number 14 ranked heavyweight for the WBO uh chose to move in another Direction.
After um uh lunar Grands, DNL events lost its TV rates deal with Fox Sports in December.
Uh sources have told Wild Sports um the TV, the the pay TV channel, trimmed down its uh commitments with its boxing broadcast, choosing to do business with just one promoter.
No Limit who handles business for Tim, Zoo, uh, Liam Wilson and Michael zerva, but in his contract um he had a stipulation where, if they lost their TV rights uh, he was able to walk away from the contract.
Let him FOID out and then it’s now been confirmed that he has joined uh Hearns International, stable.
That includes British heavyweight star Joshua.
You know: Alvarez uh, Golovkin and now Ebony Bridges and now has Justin Rooney uh.
This kid.
We profiled him a while back about a year ago.
We were talking about him and and his moves, and you know watching him come up through the Australian ranks uh.
You know he is now impressed enough uh.
You know in the eyes of Eddie Hearn after his uh, you know his last win there and uh he’s now Inked into this great great uh promotional deal, so we will be seeing tons tons of this kid man his last fight.
You know I got a chance to look at the highlights from his last couple of fights and you can see the Improvement um as he as as he was getting along.
So I think that’s what the promoter saw.
That’S what uh and decided to to sign his kid early.
You know.
Good thing is, though um he has avoided the need for more hand, surgery and designed the return to the ring, possibly again so he gets ground in March uh.
You know he’s 7-0 right now.
Has World title Ambitions uh, but facing the prospect of a quite 2023 after injuring his knuckles in a bruising defeat of Kiki uh luetto in November, it was feared.
Huni had suffered the same injury that ruled him out of the Tokyo Olympics uh with surgery, and you know disruptions keeping him out of the ring for 12 months, because you know this kid.
He was signed up for the Tokyo 2020 me, but unfortunately had to withdraw due to having to have hand surgery, so they were worried about this.
He has avoided having to have surgery.
His hand is healing, upright he’s now into this.
You know promotional deal with Eddie Hearn, so we’re going to be seeing this kid in the ring soon guys.
If you have not watched any of his fights, please go back check him out.
Uh, you know he’s coming off a unanimous decision when over Kiki TOA, that was back uh November 4th uh before that was another unanimous decision win over Joseph Goodall uh and that one was back in June 15th of last year.
So we have yet to see him down the ring this year, but honestly, this 23 year old, we got lots of time to see him.
He still went by in the years.
He still do um.
You know he was.
He was this kid grew up lit.
You know what I like about this: he is Tongan Swedish Samoan and Dutch descent, so obviously his first sporting love was rugby, where he began playing uh for the South, sunnybank magpies as a child, but gave away the sport at the age of eight to pursue boxing.
So this kid you know, he’s he’s no slouch when it comes to uh, you know being bashed around and uh, you know being being that big dude man.
He knows what to do.
He made his professional debut um back on October 22nd, 2020 and uh yeah.
He dominated throughout the boat and in the seventh round he secured the Victory and after his opponent’s Corner, threw in the towel.
So you know the guy’s got the power he’s got a great anal he’s got great power in those hands, he’s still really really young.
You know inside fighter, yes, very talented, definitely uh his skills.
The skill set is getting better with every every time that he’s in there uh he’s been introduced to Freddie Roach uh.
He is, he is trained by his father, but uh yeah.
There’S lots of big things.
Now this new stable opens up for him.
He keeps his uh, the defense, Freddie Rhodes, who’s uh, you know, will help his offense, but hopefully he’ll be able to maintain the good defense that I’m seeing far from him um.
So as he as he moves up in the ranks, I hope he hasn’t forget about that and then just focus on making exciting fights for making sure you’re doing them in a proper smart way.
Right, definitely um anything else that you’d like to see from this kid.
This year, um, maybe just adjust a little bit better when someone is taller and longer than him catching and slipping uh, like I said once he gets on your inside.
He he looks like he’s getting the you know the best out of the exchanges when they fight on the inside, what the few times that someone was able to keep them at the full extension of their jab.
He had a little bit of trouble getting in.
So if he can practice, I mean his coach could practice handling a little bit better like catching and slipping the jab to work your way on the inside a little bit faster, because once he fights that you know the better guys that know how to use their Job properly, that might be an issue for him, so he’s gon na have to learn how to deal with that now.
Definitely well! You know what it is guys.
You heard it here: justice, huni, inc’s, big money, promotional deal with Master rooms, Eddie Hearn.
You know we broke it down for you guys it’s Wednesday, it’s hump day Mike and Cedric back at it again, man bringing you prospects.
You know what it is only Channel out here doing this.
We will see you Friday for female Friday.
We got a good one, we’re gon na bring it on uh one.
That’S actually.
Sugar has asked us to uh to profile, so we will definitely be touching base on that one.
This Friday, guys so make sure you tune in same time same channel new female Prospect, guys you know what it is we’ll see you next time knuckle up.
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