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EPISODE: Episode 1
On this show, we begin with news from Florida about not a fight per se, but likely several fights – with a repo man, a car dealership and the police – before Jarrell Miller landed himself in the slammer awaiting bail, and then we move on to preview fights and options in this new year, including the upcoming tilt between flyweights Gabriela Fundura and Marlen Esparza for a unification of all their belts, before discussing the heavyweight landscape, specifically the opponents wanting to face Anthony Joshua on one hand and Big Bang Zhang on the other, given Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are set for a pair of bouts against each other and thus are both off the table this year, before concluding with Jay Opetaia and his options, which apparently do not include Dmitry Bivol.
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Fight for another episode of boxing news today and let’s start off with the tragic story of Jerell Miller.
As you all know, I had high hopes for him before he went to Saudi Arabia to fight with Daniel Dubois a fight he ultimately lost.
But I’m on the record of saying somewhere uh that I had high hopes for him.
I thought he actually might beat Daniel dupa.
I assumed, of course he was going to be training for that fight and would be in good shape for that fight.
Having come off.
Uh such a movie worthy story uh where he was about to fight uh, Anthony Joshua, got pulled out of that fight because of drug rated issues could have fought him again but didn’t you know, Andy Ruiz took uh jell Miller’s spot picked up that $ 5 million Purse and as as far as general Miller’s concerned, his next option was to to fight courtesy, the Saudis uh Daniel dubo.
No more than a week later and having previously spoken to you guys about possibly being hacked uh by establishing a GoFundMe uh page in his honor.
Requiring I think 150,000 us um a few days after after that, uh he’s now been arrested and, as far as I know, is still sitting in jail because no one’s bailing him out anytime soon.
Why? Because apparently uh his car got repossessed and he obviously marched off down to the repo dealer and uh said I want my car back.
They obviously said.
No, so he uh put the young fell in a choke hole.
Threw him to the ground took the keys to the car and off.
He went now just like in the movies.
The car has a GPS locator, so it wasn’t too too hard for the police to track him down in Florida.
He didn’t get too far uh.
Where now this would be the movie scene, uh he’s 330 pounds, as you all know, uh your average policeman that I know isn’t quite that big uh and I’m sure they didn’t know who they were actually uh chasing uh, but nonetheless he got arrested and uh and Apparently peacefully, I assume there wasn’t any reports of uh assaulting a police officer, so he got he got uh nabbed and charged with that carjacking and, of course, the assault on the uh poor.
Fellow behind the desk at the uh dealership, slash uh, repo dealership.
I don’t know whether it’s take a take a scene out of a movie here called Repo Man and put two and two together and Jal Miller was not a happy camper.
Seeing his car go down the road in someone else’s hands, so he took matters into his own hands and uh went after that car took it back and ultimately ended up in jail awaiting bail.
There you have it: it’s got to be a movie.
Let’S move on to other boxing news: gabriellea fandura, great fighter, uh and she’s about to fight Marlin Esparza for the Undisputed flyweight Championship, it’s going to take place in Las Vegas um, as I said, Undisputed for all the belts January 6.
U promises to be a historic moment, because it will be the first time all four major flyweight titles are unified in the women’s division.
Brother, spars and fondor are undefeated Champions, making this a highly anticipated Showdown as far as as for and one with one knockout, an american professional from Houston, currently ESPN’s number one ranked flyweight.
She hosts the WBC WBA and Ring magazine female flyweight titles and made history as the first American woman to qualifi for the Olympics in women’s boxing and won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
Where Katie Taylor won Gold as sparza earned additional accolades as a bron medalist at the 2006 Women’s World boxing championship and a gold medal at the 2014 aiba Women’s World.
Boxing championships, certainly known for technical skills and high boxing IQ inside the ring.
Fandora 12 and0 five Knockouts from California is trained by her father, Freddy fandura, and is the younger sister of Sebastian fandora uh, the former Junior middleweight interim champ H.
She is ranked number two by ESPN and has fought three times in 2023, including a fifth round technical knockout victory over arly MSA in October.
Fondura may use her power and aggression over her opponent during the fight and fondura is very tall.
Okay said uh reporter Cynthia Con in media reports.
Fer is very tall bright and a shining star she put on one hell of a performance against the reigning Champion.
They made her quit and throw in the towel.
Fondura has power, reach ring acute throws from angles and she’s surrounding you said fondura.
We just stayed calm after her uh last win.
We’Re not going to go in rushing to the fight.
It’S not smart.
We just stay, calm, stay, focused and stay in attack and, honestly, at the end of the first round that we saw she was hurt, so I knew from there.
It was going to be a long night from they added.
So the fight will Crown the first ever Undisputed flyweight champion and the lightest fully Unified Queen among all women in boxing uh.
That adds to my story about the Adam weights going toe totoe upcoming as well anyway.
Let’S talk about anti Joshua okay following his recent stoppage, went against Otto Wallen AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn indicated AJ likely fight again in March, and he listed three possible opponents which we’ve all mentioned and talked about Philip perovic, Francis Nagano and gii Big Bang Jang, whichever opponent Is ultimately chosen is a very good sign for Joshua if it means he’s going to remain active as he promises and he’s done since suffering back fact, defeats at the hands of Alexander yusk and the expectation was that Day of Reckoning would finally lead to a long Awaited meab showdown between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder, but those bestla plans were ultimately derailed when Wilder lost his decision against Joseph Parker uh, with the Wilder fight now out for AJ’s March return, the three names mentioned all represent interesting potential foes for the former two-time heavyweight Champion, let’s have a quick look here, Philip perovic now this is interesting.
Philip perovic is the number one ibf heavyweight mandatory Contender and the ibf is theoretically up Max in rotation.
That means herovic should get a title shot sooner than later.
The expectation here is that, after Fury and Alexander yusk have had their first fight in February that the ibf will immediately strip the winner and that herovic will face someone for the vacant.
Ibf strap so theoretically, a mark showdown between Joshua and her goic could be for the vacant ibf belt, Francis Nano, who has only one professional boxing match, and that happened last year when he put up a strong effort against Tyson Fury, indeed, nagana even managed to score Knockout, not sorry knockdown against Fury, and there were some observers who believed n did enough to deserve the win against Fury.
And finally, we have big bang Jang one of my favorites a 40-year-old though Chinese Powerhouse, who had a career breakthrough last year, falling back-to-back victories against highly regarded Joe Joy Jiang is a highly respected, talented uh fighter, despite his Advanced age, and these have a history.
These two have a history from their amateur days in the Olympics, which add to an ADL potential interest, so will anti Joshua want to re-engage with Jiang? Let’S wait and see.
I would like to see it though, but who will AJ face next rovic, nanu or Jank lay down your comments.
Let’S see what you have to say about that um just uh.
Just just so, you know uh the the the winner uh, because Fury and yusk have signed on for a two-fight deal.
They would the winner of that first fight would have to lose their ibf title being unable to face mandatory challenge of herovic, and that is why herovic would in fact uh be a potential candidate for anti Joshua to fight now.
Why anti Joshua would want to fight? Herovic is beyond me uh, but I guess it well.
I was going to say it would be an easy win for Joshua, but we’ll wait and see um you know and and then a guy who’s expressed his interest remaining boxing with rematch against Fury and also touted uh a Joshua fight as his next.
So, let’s see what he he has to say in this whole mix, uh and as we know, Jang has consecutive stoppage wins over Joe Joyce.
So uh three potential: U opponents for Anon Joshua and it’s going to be uh y, a good decision and I’m sure a good fight, no matter which one is selected um.
My thought here is it’ll all boil down to money and recently uh.
The Saudis have have expressed great interest in continuing a heavyweight series or even establishing a heavyweight League uh to be to be held exclusively in Saudi Arabia, so we’ll see where it all goes.
Um speaking of xilai Jen.
Let’S talk about him for a sec, because Philip hovic did derail his plans a few years ago.
It was controversial and the heavyweight Contender was forced his stomach, the first defeat of his career, despite dropping his man in the first round, getting down on himself as an option for Jiang.
But he didn’t see the point.
He simply dusted himself off and went back to the drawing board instead of taking on tenuous no-name opponent Jiang, as we all know, jumped right back into deep end and had his two fights against Joe Joyce, who at the time, was on an incredible streak.
He held the WBO inm strap and was seemingly just a fight away from fighting for that full title Jiang was viewed as in innocuous speed, bump and a mere blimp on the radar.
However, after rocking and stopping Joyce on consecutive occasions, Jiang now finds himself in a position of power, so the 40-year-old has spent a ton of his recent times, sifting through the heavyweight landscape, of course, Jiang 2611 21 Knockouts has four names that he’d love to share the Ring with Tyson Fury, Alexander yusk, Anthony Joshua and Philip GOC, but unfortunately for jien, those four Fighters are offensively entertaining other matchups us conf Fury signed that two-fight deal at Joshua and herovic could get in over the next ibf strap, as I said so, with those names Presum off the table, Joseph Parker is now protruding toward towards The topa jang’s Hit List.
His interest in fighting Parker comes on his recent upset win over former champ Deontay Wilder, which derailed AJ’s uh big money fight night over in Saudi Arabia in March.
Parker may not be his preferred option, but for Jang he may very well be the next best available opponent.
He can get his hands on without a doubt said.
Jang Parker might be a good option right now, he’s hot right now, everybody’s looking at him he’s really good.
If I can’t get any of those other guys, then Joseph Parker would be a good option.
Now, speaking of options, uh Jay opaya from Down Under certainly made a name for himself over in Saudi Arabia, by uh, getting rid of his ibf belt and uh, taking care of business uh on that night of redemption or whatever it’s called day of redemption um anyway.
So up comes the name: Demitri bivel lightweight champion, Dimitri bivel and former ibf cruiserweight champ Jay opaya likely will never fight fans had hoped they would.
According to boxing news24.
com, we saw in B’s last fight against Lynden, Arthur that he doesn’t possess the punching power or the mentality to deal with an aggressive fighter, who’s attacking him with hard shots.
Bivel was backing off when Arthur was taking the fight to him and he didn’t look comfortable dealing with the pressure.
If bivel fought optia, he would be under constant duress.
Opas 24-0 19 Knockouts is too big and too strong for bivel says this author 22-0.
By the way, 11 Knockouts, who is small enough to compete at 168, if he wants to the 32-year old bivel, doesn’t possess a side or pack enough power to go up 25 pounds and take on optia at cruiserweight.
Optia will likely move up to heavyweight in three or four more fights after he exhausts his best at cruiserweight.
The fights that fans would like to see the 28-year-old Australian involved in that cruiserweight are against a few of these fighters.
Let’S mention a few before he moves up to uh, see some of those heavyweights uh Chris, William Smith, Richard Rick, pork M Bri.
I that be a rematch jilberto Ramirez same a few he’s simply too powerful for Dimitri bivel says this author.
I know the Saudi Arabians are trying to push Jay Atia and Dimitri bivel together.
Yeah up is too big and too powerful of him said: Gareth a Davies about the former ibf Cruiserweight champ um, the punches that opo was hitting his opponent eloro during that day of wrecking event last December would have been too difficult for bivel to take without folding Quickly, Joe Smith, Jr had bivel hurt during their fight in 2019 and he’s not nearly the puncher as the Southpaw optia uh.
They looked similar when they were standing next to each other.
There’S a picture out there that the Saudis put out we’re already talking about in the industry Jas stepping up to heavyweight because he carries a huge amount of power.
Gareth said uh he’s rated by most people as the number one Cruiserweight in the world.
We probably need to see that in over two or three fights, let’s see him wreck a few people said Gareth he’s got to get in with Rick pork and Chris bam, Smith or maybe arur gulaman, maybe just prove something.
It’S fair to say that none of those Cruiser weights will want anything to do with optia, due to the risk that he presents, which means the only way of those Fighters going to be tempted to face him is if the Saudis offer big money to them without Them making it financially worthwhile to take on optia he’s likely Gon na Leave the division soon and head towards heavyweight where he’ll have a better chance of getting interesting fights, certainly gain some of those upand cominging Americans uh.
Having said that, if he suddenly invited up as a wild card in the heavyweight Super League in Saudi Arabia, he’ll take take, it said: Gareth, there’s, probably three or four times more money than what he’s earning at Cruiserweight uh.
This is a business as much as it a sport money talks, and it always tells so that’s the dollar chain that he’s going to be on it’s just too outlandish for bivel to go up and face Opa, especially when there’s that Legacy fight up there at 175.
With better BF and better BF is promoted by Bob arum, who obviously has a relationship with the Saudis as well initially through Tyson Fury.
So if only there’s one fight between B and better bef, then Dimitri could be tempted to face optia unless he moves down to 168 to go after the big names in that division again says Gareth.
If you look at the money chain and you look at the business routs and for me, that’s the fight better beia versus bivel, and that happens next.
One quick little story, uh.
To conclude: Today’s Show um Cuban former highly decorated, amateur Yan, Liss, Hernandez 2 and 0.
Two Knockouts out of Cuba uh will make his highly anticipated us debut on January 20th in a 10 round middleweight Main Event: bout that will take place in seol Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
In Hollywood Florida, his opponent will be former World title Challenger, Vincente Rodriguez 424 and one fighting out of Argentina, Hernandez uh by the way has a manager.
His name is Robert daliy and he is promoted by Chris Lawrence, heavyweight Factory promotions and Leon, margules, uh and Lis.
The cubas Senor out of a Warriors boxing, so he’s got a good team behind him.
H Rodriguez has much more professional experience, as I just noticed than Hernandez, but Lawrence believes in the talent level of Hernandez when asked just how good he thinks Hernandez.
Is he replied? I honestly believe he’s a professional World level Talent right now, so there you go all the news fit to print here on talk and fight thanks very much for joining me appreciate it very much remember to like share subscribe hit that notification Bell we’ll see you 11, Am eastern time tomorrow uh, please join me for more fight news from around the world more headlines from around the world more.
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