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EPISODE: Episode 1
Join hosts Mike Orr and Cedric Benn, along with special guest and boxing legend Tim Witherspoon, as they present the weekly KO Award to Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis on this episode of Knuckle Up on Talkin Fight. The trio breaks down the phenomenal liver punch that secured Davis his seventh-round knockout victory over Ryan Garcia, earning him the prestigious KO Award. Tune in for expert analysis, personal insights, and engaging conversation about this spectacular moment in boxing!
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[, Music, ] foreign [, Music, ] fight fans, thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of The Knuckle Up knockout of the week with yours, truly Mike Orr and my special guest today, Tim Witherspoon two-time, heavyweight champ, Terrible Tim thanks a couple of Jeremy today to talk About this vicious wonderful, knockout man uh, you know guys it was.
It was the fight that everybody wanted to watch.
It was the big fight of the year.
You know a couple years in the making, rather than underway it became The Knockout of the week.
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Let’S talk about a champ Ryan, Garcia tank Davis.
What what an event um! You know everything that I thought it was going to be.
To be honest, I figured it would be finished uh, you know in the sixth or seventh round I never counted dank out.
Man Tank’s got that big heavy power he’s got that great defense.
He’S very evasive.
He’S got great lineal movement, uh champ.
What did you think of this? What did you think of it? I think that it was definitely a a big fight during this time.
Um.
It kind of like hyped everybody up.
Everybody was looking forward to this fight uh for months um, you know, and even about you I was hyped whoa.
This is this.
Is this is a good fight to help boxing um? You know and but you know me, I’m gon na when the fight starts.
I’M always looking for certain things.
You know the hype is good and I’m hyped, but then every time the Bell Rings.
You see different things, but yesterday was a good yesterday.
Yesterday, exchanges punches at each other, really good, like they were aggressive and try to hurt each other.
I think that Ryan Garcia had the wrong plan.
Um, you know um, he had the wrong plan, but he started out.
Real good tank was backing up backing up in the beginning, because I didn’t know where I I don’t think he thought that he knew where Brian was coming from with the combos but Ryan.
I was telling everybody on another podcast that, since his left hope is so great, he need to try to drill that right hand all the time and keep his defense tight, Bend his knees a little bit see for me you’re going to get skills and stuff, but Some people they’ll talk about uh, older love or or certain other things that so I think that’s not really important, so um Ryan came out.
I don’t think his defense is not as good as tanks and tanks is not the best you know, but Brian’s wasn’t it also um and one one last thing when Ryan got hit with that body shot that stopped and went down that that kind of like questioned Me about him and his tribe to be champ to be uh like a Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson um.
I know he got hit, but he should have tried to fight a little bit more.
You know me if I got hit in that in that stomach and went down he went down, but when he came up he should have act like he really wanted to fight that.
That kind of like made me think, like wow and he didn’t care.
He just cared about the money, maybe and something like that, but I don’t want to say that right, but that’s what I got the opinions.
I think he wasn’t expecting.
That kind of power is what it was.
I think I think tanks, power kind of Cedric thanks for joining hey Cedric.
How are you doing we’re talking we’re talking about the uh, the uh, the decision to just knock it up off his knee uh after that, after that shot? I think you know, but he got up if it would.
If, if the shot was that hard, he wouldn’t have got up off the cameras he got up, he got up so it must.
You know, go ahead.
Go ahead.
I think I think he was a little disappointed in his performance and just decided to to save, face and and take that knee rather than you know, get punished any more than you know anymore.
That’S the worst.
She could have did that’s the worst.
She could have.
Did because he has a legacy to leave behind him, Nana’s like whoa, if people doubt that he like got scared and didn’t want to fight anymore, that’s gon na go go on his legacy, so he get get knocked down again or get up and get stopped with A body shot again um go ahead, that’s that’s the way, I’m saying it.
It didn’t end pretty good in terms of him being a full-blooded champion and all that and he should have.
I think he should have tried to continue one more time yeah.
I I honestly, I think, I think, once once he neutralized that left hook, that that power shot of Rangers, he is, I think, uh it showed the caliber skills.
Uh is a step below tank to be honest, Cedric.
What are your thoughts yeah? I don’t know when he uh, we got got with that first shot after the second round yeah, and you know I think, Tank’s one one of the only boxes, not one of the only like a lot of all boxes have power when you use your legs properly, But there’s only certain boxes that have that that one punch power to like make you change your mind about what you’re doing right now, and so you know after that second round, when uh, when he caught Garcia, Garcia, felt it the first time it kind of changed Up his tool a little bit and then when he got caught the second time he was like man I have, I don’t have any answer for what this guy has to bring um, so it just you know just inside is that he knew it like.
He probably might have could have continued, but he knew what would have happened if he would have continued that, maybe like he didn’t believe he had a way to protect himself enough for us from preventing them of that happening.
I was going to say I was going to say I was going to say defense and I always do say it.
So what about a theory he had his defense good and when it got hit yeah.
So exactly exactly I’ve been talking about defense yesterday, the day before getting hit and all that now, what about? If he blocked that punch or kept blocking it, that would that would make uh um tank uh, say wow.
Damn I got ta keep on trying harder, but Ryan is blocking my my right hand or whatever um, and so that plays on your mind.
Also that plays on your mind.
Damn I ain’t.
I couldn’t hit him with that shot, but um he got hit with the shot and and his defense is.
He don’t have a defense yeah Dan Goosen was his trainer, Joe Goose, Joe Gucci yeah.
That’S my man, that’s my man Joe, but I knew he would have Garcia for ready.
I knew like when I knew when I heard Joe Goosen was training him I knew I knew Garcia would would be ready like as far as offensive wise could throw food Joe Goosen, all of his guys from Diego Corrales to Joe Molina.
All this guy is coming forward and know how to fight, but, like you said ever fight before I don’t know, I don’t know, has he I don’t know so the fighters made him, I’m not talking negative.
The fighters made him just like um, just like um um.
What’S the Italian brothers from from the Italian brothers that uh uh um, what’s that name uh that had Holyfield and all of them, blue, blue yeah Lou would beat me up.
If I talk about him, but his brother was a boxer, but he wasn’t, he wasn’t so.
My thing is: is that get it right, get the right guy in the corner and you’ll have a better percentage of winning, not a cheerleader.
A cheerleader is good that you trust and you love.
No, it’s good right right did Dan Goosen or what’s his name Dan.
I know him Joe Goosen: did he ever fight before I don’t know? I don’t know? No, I don’t think so.
I don’t think so.
So you know what um.
What I felt was is that um, you know tank really really.
You know worked on the consistent flaws that Garcia was showing.
You know.
I found that every time he came into those exchanges, you know he had his head up too high and uh.
You know he didn’t have.
He didn’t.
Have the linear footwork that uh, you know tank Davis had uh.
You know those side of sides really was all about defense to be honest, um yeah, but you know like he said, like you said yeah like you said earlier Cedric.
You know that that power that makes you rethink everything.
You know that that second, that second round shot kind of reminded me a lot of Rolly Romero fight.
You know I’m coming in with that constant pressure and then Davis, when you know he’s in those certain situations, he’s a small guy man he’s able to get in on that inside and pop up with the those the speed and the power that he has on those Inside shots man like just dropping them, you can see right there that that Garcia was really rethinking what what his whole game plan was.
You know it kind of threw him.
He really didn’t have one.
No, no once once once once Davis neutralized that that you know that lead that lead hand that left hook, you know what else the grace.
What else did Garcia really have not much, but I can’t I can’t take away from tanks.
Wonderful, you know skilled uh placement of that shot, man that that Liberty, whoa yeah, that was devastating yeah that was, and a lot of people don’t understand like people out there watching them telling you like, you will not understand the feeling until it happens to you, there’s No other feeling like it so the fact that you’re like oh he was delayed.
Oh it was a few seconds.
Listen.
It takes that kind of time for you to realize how much pain you’re in and then, when you realize you’re in that pain, you’re like I don’t want to be here yeah, but so you know and majority of times you don’t feel pain.
You just feel uncomfortable or you’ll, feel I got hit hard by Bone.
Crusher called the truth and lots of times you don’t feel no pain.
You just feel discomfort and you lose your balance.
I never felt no pain later on.
You feel pain, maybe in the sore like where you got hit at but right there and then that adrenaline and everything causes a lot of that.
So I just felt I just felt like uncomfortable uh feeling when I got hit hard, so I don’t the pain.
I don’t know the pain.
If I don’t know it’s just yeah, I don’t know um, because it’s been a long time.
It’S been a long time since I’ve been punching the liver, so yeah that may get some pain down there.
Definitely something that I don’t.
You know like I, don’t miss it.
I only had 30 amateur fights, I don’t remember, taking out like some super hard body shots but inspiring some of the top guys that I that I uh at The Spar.
I felt some some good body shots so yeah.
Maybe what because remember he got caught while he was throwing so I mean, while you’re throwing and getting caught at the same time you don’t really have a chance to brace yourself exactly.
I mean I think, that’s how um you got the wrong.
You got the wrong muscles flexed out, or he should be in the right position when he delivers his punches.
You know your knees should be bent.
Your hands should be close to your body and you should be twisting your body with punches and even when you got a defensive move, you slip, you bend your knees, so you can slip punches right and deliver punches.
That way too, when you bend your knees, get your shoulders involved, get everything involved a lot of boxers, that they don’t get all the mechanisms like the shoulders and the elbows and everything got ta like you got ta put oil on each one, so they can all Work together, you know stuff like that and when you keep practicing you’ll see what I’m talking about and that you can get power from that too.
Twisting bending your knees when, when a guy lift weights, he has to bend his knees, you can’t have him straight he’s.
Bend his knees and then get him up, so you got to put grease on them knees sometimes, but lifting away.
You know, I’m just saying you know um.
You have to do things like that.
That, from my experience you know makes perfect sense.
Well so our winner today Javonte tank Davis, I kind of figured it was going to be.
I was hoping for you know a six seventh round, knockout like he does usually um, but I got ta give a shout out to our runner-ups.
Today, man uh David Morrell, Jr, big fight, uh, big knockout Matt, you know Falco beat the count in the first, you know when he first got dropped, but uh Lenny was being pounded by heavy punches huge of sent Falco down uh.
You know on his on his face first in the bat so wow and – and he was it was – it was quickly – waved off uh.
You know Morel Jr, you know he’s one of these unkept little secrets like.
I think, a lot of people sleep on this guy.
A little bit, but you know he he put Yamaguchi uh Falco like oh, quick um.
You know he came out pressing in the first round.
He looked at push morale back uh.
You know it didn’t take long before Morel began to unload, with accurate, punches to the head body and then uh.
You know that uppercut rocked him uh with a follow-up combination, dropping him and then he beats the count and then gets just drilled with this shot and uh yeah.
Just you know, face first into the mat it was out and uh.
I don’t know if you guys saw that one I did send it over to you um.
Actually I I’ve seen I was watching it, but I didn’t know um you sent it.
I thought that was part of the show for us to analyze, right, yeah, okay, yeah I’ve seen I’ve seen, and I can’t remember them, though it’s not because of my no I watched the fight I watched it was the yeah.
I watched the man honestly and uh.
I got ta give a shout out to uh to our Boy Floyd Scofield, another Victory, another big knockout.
For this kid.
You know he went from.
He went from homeless.
To you know Oscar De La Hoya promotions, man like oh what a story right.
What a great story? Man, this kid is, you know dedicated to the sport um.
You know he’s he’s in that gym every day.
Man he’s.
You know he busts his ass to get where he is and he deserves everything that he’s getting right now and uh yeah.
He came through with another wonderful knockout victory that was a runner-up for today’s award.
Unfortunately, I think Davis took it and uh shout out to Beck timir malacusive, who uh Avenged Avengers his only loss uh against Gabriel Rosado, oh yeah, yeah.
I saw that everybody remembers that one that was the case yesterday and we didn’t hear from the bully for a long time after that, one uh, you know what I mean.
I used to train the same gym with Gabriel in Philly at certain times he’s a nice guy and he could punch pretty good.
He got some heavy hands too.
Yes, you can punch yeah.
Looking for this rematch, you know back to mirrors no no 11, 11 and 1 or 12-1.
You know he was eight no going into that fight the first time, pretty tough, pretty tough kid! I’M out, man put him out, but uh.
He looks like he fixed the holes in his game that uh Rosado capitalized on the last fight and uh yeah man.
He came through with that Victory, Senator any thoughts on those uh, those fights this uh morale void.
No, I just got a chance.
I got uh.
I got uh, I just got back in time to watch the main event.
Oh you talking about the uh, the uh uh, Garcia, fight, yeah yeah.
I just got got there in time to watch the main event, so I saw the quick highlights from the other punches.
I mean for the other boxers, but David Morrell.
He sees someone who’s um is not not well known yet, but he’s a very good boxer and um right now he’s at that that weird place where he’s uh um a high risk, but a lower a low reward because he’s a very good boxer, but not too Many know him yet so, not not the top guys.
Don’T really have a reason to take that risk against him.
Yet um so yeah, it’s gon na be uh.
Give him a couple more a couple: more fights to make a name for himself and uh he’ll be right up there.
I think I think that Garcia, real quick, I think that Garcia have had.
He had a little bit more help a little bit more people around him, but now I don’t know who was around him: I’ve seen the guy holding the pads and stuff and in the pads um for that particular big fight.
I think he needed more support.
I don’t know if it’s like 20 people with him – it probably was, but I only seen like the trainer and maybe a couple other people with him um.
Maybe he lacks support, but he definitely lacked skills for a big fight for the fight somebody like like tank.
So it’s a lot of things he could have did before this fight.
That could have helped him he’s probably still could have got stopped or lost the decisions, but I think he should have been way more prepared than what he was because he didn’t look like he uh.
He didn’t look like he um.
He looked sharp Big Bang, but then you know when he went down.
Why? Why didn’t he get back up and show everybody I’m a champ, I potentially could be a champion.
That’S what I mean by the knockdown.
I would have got up and I wouldn’t want the rep to stop, even though it was hurting right.
This is what I was thinking.
He got up, he got up and he was fine with them ending the fight.
I, if I had hurt out hurting down there, I’d have been like no man.
I want to steal.
You know that’s that Championship feeling.
That’S that thing you want to get up.
No, if I’m hurting no I’m gon na.
I want to try to see if I can do it, and I didn’t see that I was kind of disappointed in that you know.
Yeah, honestly, I thought I thought once uh you know once he took away the possibility for that that shot, that he has that left hook right like that’s all that Garcia really has.
What’S you know once that was neutralized, and that was out of play and and tank knew what to what to expect really.
There wasn’t really too many skills on the same level as tank Davis.
You know, like I said before everybody everybody was counting Davis out Ryan.
Garcia, he’s faster he’s this, but listen Davis is a free Division.
World Champion he’s been facing nothing but number one contenders for the last couple of years.
What do you think’s gon na happen? You can’t count this kid out man.
This kid has been in boxing for 10 years.
His ring IQ is high, he’s got great, lateral movement, he’s evasive and then he’s got that crazy, knockout power like Cedric.
I know you were talking today on on the scorecard about.
You know those guys that have that one punch power.
You know we mentioned some names and stuff like that when you, when you, Google, something like one punch power boxers, one of the names that is in everybody’s list is Tang diggers, because he’s got that finishing power and he’s shown it time and time again finishing power.
He generates all that from the legs and the torque that he puts on those shots is in incredible he’s.
Like he’s like the perfect package, you know what I mean for power short stocky, quick and Powerful yeah.
You have that power to make you change.
Plans hey.
If I’m gon na have to go back into the dress room – change – underwear – oh, do you know to me in the beginning, it looked like tank, wasn’t a little hesitant in the beginning, um yeah.
He looked like a little hesitant too, and you can see uh uh Brian, with the height he had their height.
Oh, it was a big gap between they was tall.
They didn’t prepare for the fight properly.
They didn’t prepare for the fight.
I would have had him throwing right hands hard, because I know my left hook is devastating: make keep throwing them right, hands, keep throwing them and let Tank think about uh wow this right hand coming, and then you can get him with the left hook.
You know, but you didn’t see nothing like that.
No, I thought he got the money and he left that’s what it looked like cedra did you give, did you give Garcia any rounds yeah the first round first round? Definitely, okay and and – and I would have probably maybe even the second round before he got – dropped, um and then in round uh round three I gave it to Davis, but I marked it as a close round and also around okay round six.
I still gave it to Davis, but I also I marked it as a close round which it could have went either way right.
Okay, you still put up a fight, he did what he did.
Yeah you got caught and uh.
You know what Davis is one of those guys that you you can’t get caught, slipping because he’s gon na capitalize on it every time, uh guys anything else.
You want to add before we get out of here for today, um shout out to Evan my son who’s watching and dropping comments.
He wants to know how many free punches.
You think you would be able to take without uh.
I want to fight the winner.
I want to fight the winner of uh Roy Jones and that big muscle guy for celebrity boxing did you see that man, I’m I’m still the celebrity heavyweight box and they this no more, I’m officially.
Still, I’m I’m hey.
You know what I’ve been doing.
I’Ve been I’ve been hitting the Hammer with a big hammer, uh three rounds, and I was going to ropes three rounds.
I’Ve been running on a treadmill uh.
My weight is down to 240, something I’ma, definitely be 235 and 15 days for the first time in like 40 years um.
I’M just doing this just in case an exhibition come off.
I could take it, but I hey, I put it on in the day.
I said: hey I fight the winner of them.
I start putting it on there yeah, but I need an exhibition, I’m ready if they say next week.
I’M ready excellent if they say next Friday, I’m ready because I’ve been in shape and everything you’ve been seeing.
My face a little bit thinner again: oh okay, get the girls.
I need the girl get me a girlfriend afterwards.
So that’s what I’m I’m um! You know that big muscle guy right yeah when is that? What’S the group, I don’t know what the date is, but I’ma call them out cause they.
Never.
They never said that it wasn’t the champ, I’m I’m the celebrity heavyweight champion of the world um and then um.
We had a little disagreement.
I’M cool with Damon Feldman.
We cool, but then he just got.
He just went on and got Roy Jones and Roy Jones turned me down.
They said we don’t either economically.
He didn’t want to fight me because you know maybe not think there was money or maybe you think that I got okay skills.
If I get in shape, you know I’ll be all right, but they offered it and he said he didn’t want to do it.
It’S Anthony pettises, no, no he’s fighting that muscle black guy with all the muscles you’re the guy to go around slapping everybody’s stuff off of them.
Yes, you know right right, you know yeah, he slap this stuff down and say: Don’t eat bad food that guy yeah.
I remember that yeah, so so I’ve been post, I’ve been going posting saying: hey, hey um, I fight the winner of Roy Jones and um, and I don’t know his name.
I don’t know his name, but he muscular.
He got big muscles and everything.
So it all depends on who’s, throwing the punches and how many like you, how and how would you do that as a contest, your career would be like two two two tournaments just line everybody up: [, __ ].
You know the brain damage, competition, [, Laughter, ], yeah, that’s getting hit right, yeah! Well guys.
I think we’re gon na get out of here today: um yeah man, Shadow turn, man, javonti tank Davis, The Knuckle Up knockout of the week winner, man, yo.
Sorry sorry, King Ryan, you’ve been demoted to Prince so yeah, oh, no, I’m not gon na laugh cause.
I’M a boxer, I’m not laughing.
Okay, it’s a good fight.
You know what it’s just he just he tank was a better man and we’ll leave it at that.
Uh shout out to all the talking okay, we’re watching thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of The Knuckle Up knockout of the week shout out to Tim Cedric.
Thank you for coming.
Join in Cedric.
Welcome back all right! We’Ve missed you Cedric! I know you’ve been busy with unboxing over cheese and you know dealing with drugs outside your hotel and Allah I’ll, see you next Friday and next, what Sunday yeah Sunday next Friday and Sunday.
Okay, guys, you know what it is man, it’s the little I’m knocking on the week.
We’Ll see you next time same channel new knockout.
You know what it is peace all right.
Thank you.
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