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EPISODE: Episode 1
A controversial draw in womens boxing begins our show, then we move on to discuss Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zhang and his crushing defeat of Joe Joyce – and the impact of that result, before moving on to report recent results from bouts in California, Argentina, Florida, Indiana, Germany and Japan; before concluding by announcing a couple of fights to look forward to involving Frank Sanchez and Jesse “Bam Bam” Rodrigues, the latter us set to take on Sunny Edwards, a unification battle, this December in Glendale, Arizona, and then wrap up with the on-going saga of Conor Benn and comments swirling, including from his right-hand man Eddie Hearn.
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Foreign [ Music ] boxing fans around the world thanks for joining me once again here on boxing news today and uh.
Let’S start off with a bit of a surprise: uh Sandy Ryan and Jess mccaskill went Toe to Toe on the weekend the same weekend that I think Joe Joyce has been knocked out of action for the rest of his life um anyway, let’s start off with what Happened to Sandy Ryan uh I’ll I’ll, tell you this story, courtesy of espn.
com, no appointments and words here.
This is what uh, Michael Rothstein, one of their staff writers, had to say.
Sandy Ryan won on Saturday night Sandy Ryan lost on Saturday night in the world of boxing.
Both things can be very true, while Ryan and Jess mccaskill fought to a split draw in their unified welterweight championship in Orlando Florida.
Boxing did what boxing does better than anything else in sports right now create unneeded and silly controversy over.
Judging now, how many times have you heard here on talk and fight is telling you that that could all be solved by the use of new technology.
That is available right now and, quite frankly, the technology team at talkingfight could deliver it to any fight right now in the world.
Anyway, let’s continue with the story.
It’S not clear what fight judge Mark Streisand was watching with his 97-93 scorecard for mccaskill Michael Ross by the way had the fight 96-94 for Ryan and Barry lindman had it at 95-95, but says the author.
It was not the fight I saw watching on television from hundreds of miles away that the Zone commentators were apoplectic over the Streisand scorecard and they weren’t wrong Ryan.
Did everything possible to win the fight she controlled? The ring controlled the pace had the Sounder strategy and landed the more impactful shots throughout 10 Rounds other than the third round remember Castle got Ryan’s nose to bleed.
There was not a clear round for mccaskill the whole night, although the two to three that could have gone either way so Ryan lost in the draw, because in the eyes of many observers, including this one, she beat mccaskill.
She won because in her first fight outside of Europe, she gained fine, she gained fans who might not have seen her fight before it was Ryan who received cheers from the crowd during the post fight in Orlando, not mccaskill, who was booed.
Let’S move along to uh our friend July Zhang, who absolutely clobbered Joe Joyce in their prior fight.
As you might recall, he uh closed his uh his eyes, well, one of his eyes, shut, close period and uh and uh.
Therefore, that fight was, as we all know, called halt uh anyway, let’s have a quick read here.
Let’S see what supportnews.
com has to say, this is I’m gon na give you a couple views of this one.
Okay, first one, as I said, sportnews.
com The more July tag, Joe Joyce on Saturday, the more uncomfortable I became a boxer is taught to avoid shots completely or roll with them.
At the very least, however, in both Zhang Joyce fights, the latter was continuously tagged as flush as a baseball bat striking the center of a melon.
Despite admitting, he was completely unprepared for shangs at southpaws stance back in April, when he lost via six round stoppage that I just described.
Joyce made no significant tactical adjustments for the rematch, despite all of his claims, leading up to this fight anyway, as early as round two, he was being clattered by the Chinese southpaw’s straight left hand, and it was a single right hook that ended matters in the third And we’ve all seen the the fight Recaps now, I’m sure we’ve seen the pictures of Joyce just lying on the floor.
Anyway, let’s move along to boxnews24.
com uh and what they’re screaming about um, possibly uh Joy’s, re-entering the ring.
I I find that hard to believe.
Anyway, fighting as often as possible is a key to Joyce being rebuilt, but the problem with that is there are only so many dates for him to fight it’s not like.
He can fight every weekend.
Um, there’s a there’s, a commentator.
Uh at the fight ADI uh LED pool fighting as often as possible is the key okay.
It was.
It was a world title on the line said ADI.
I understand why you take the rematch, because you want to try and get your belts back.
There wasn’t a world title online: yes, maybe there was a mandatory spot or a world eliminated spot that, but there wasn’t a world title.
So maybe there there’ll be people that are asking these questions, but yeah, I don’t know for I’m not sure uh, whether we’ll see Joyce back in the ring he’s saying now.
You can’t take that kind of punishment in the heavyweight division and is, and it not catch up to you, I’m sorry, you can’t in the lighter divisions it catches up to everyone.
I’Ve been watching sport long enough.
People take that kind of punishment.
Eventually, it catches up to you.
The head is not supposed to be hit that hard, let alone by guys that walk around 17 18 19 Stone and Joe Joyce has taken too much punishment.
Someone was going to get to him.
Angela Zhang got to him.
It’S just that simple said: Ade good for him uh.
So what are Joe Joyce’s career options? Now I guess, if you speak to uh his promoter, he has lots of options, but according to world boxingnews.
net with doubts over his career, Joyce has three solid options to consider.
One of them, of course, is retirement.
Joyce is 37 years old and he’s not getting any younger as a boxer and he’s also been beaten up, stopped and knocked out in his last two bouts.
Nonetheless, a rematch with Daniel Dubois works for Frank Warren as a main event.
The pair fought during the pandemic with Joyce halting DuBois and the last of the three choices would be to Target Tony yoka, maybe after a lower key combat win, the rivals have history after Joyce lost a controversial Olympic final at Rio in 2016.
, so uh where’s Joyce Go who knows I I do believe I have a story coming up where uh Eddie Hern of all people, have said that Oshawa uh Auntie Joshua would be up for fighting him, of course, who wouldn’t be up for fighting Joe Joyce now, anyway, um Frank Warren may Have seen two of his top heavyweight Fighters lose recently with Daniel Dubois losing to Alexander yusik and with Joe Joyce, losing and simply devastating fashion to ji Zhang, but all is not lost, as the promoter has options on the man who defeated Joyce July Zhang a superstar In China, and also one of the most high profile, interesting and exciting heavyweights out there today, regardless of where they’re from assuming we’ve got a number of big fight options, courtesy of his highlight real knockout of Joyce and again.
This is coming courtesy of boxing247.
com and warn, like many of us wants to see Zhang fight three belt heavyweight ruler, Alexander yusig.
Well, there’s also the possibility that big bang could fight Tyson Fury.
I doubt it you doubt it or Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn has said he would have no problem talking about making that fight.
So speaking after the fight Warren spoke about what he thinks would happen if Zhang fought, WBA ibfwo champ Busick, he said it’s been tough with Daniel Dubois, now Joyce losing but Zhang’s with us Hills he’s promoted by Queensbury he’s a WBO interim champion and he’ll be fighting The full WBO Champion next year, because it’ll be ordered and he’s with us, listen if he catches yusic with one of those shots.
He’Ll hurt him.
Won’T he it’s two South paws as well, so that’ll be interesting.
He’S not a he’s, not a boy.
He knows what U6 weaknesses are.
I think Zhang’s in the top four best heavyweights right now.
I think he gives anybody problems.
Look at the hergovic fight.
I felt he Jang won that fight he’s no slouch and he showed what power he has with the Joyce win.
He showed his boxing ability in the first fight and he showed his power in this fight, so not bad for a 40 year old, but it’s interesting uh somewhere else I had read that Eddie Hearn said Zhang is: is not an elite heavyweight fighter he’s a world-class Heavyweight fighter so War of the words and it continues and uh for most of us fans.
We just like to see a good fight start to finish and hopefully not uh decided by the judges anyway, over in Long Beach, California, in front of a full house at the Thunder Studios, uh Marv Nation promotions presented a seven bout fight card on Saturday night.
The orig, the original main event featuring the pro debut of uh Marco Antonio Barrera Jr, was scratched the day before so the card was reshuffled with two co-featured bouts middleweight Andrew Buchanan moved his record to 3-0 by outslugging, Mexico’s Freddie galazar two and one knockout in the Six round fight scores were not 59-55 and 60-54 Alfred Buchanan and then the co-future fights eight and one out slicked an outbox they’re, very game and tough Catherine lindenmuth who’s.
Now, five and two in a fast-paced, eight round female minimum weight bout elsewhere over in Argentina featherweight Prospect, loriano squito, 13-1 out of Argentina avoided the upset of Johann Segura who’s 12-2 out of Colombia by winning a majority decision on Saturday night at the club, social Ides.
I should not have tried to read that location anyway, Segura came out strong in the first half of the fight banging at the body of squito, while Landing several eye-catching, headshots sigura, slowly down the second half of the fight where skrito countered and piled at some point.
The judges in the end had it 97, 93, 96, 94 for squito and 95.
95.
Even the event was promoted by Marcos, madana arachino promotions.
We also saw by the way uh we were talking about this fight.
Last week, unbeaten wo number four IVF: number seven super lightweight: Richardson Hitchens who’s; now 17-0, seven Knockouts outbox, WBC, number, six WBO number 11, Jose zapeda who’s now 37-4.
Over 12 one-sided rounds on Saturday night at the Caribe Royale in Orlando Florida, the 25 year old Richardson Hitchens, was taking a large step in class with zippeda the victor of a brutal candidate for fight of the year in 2020.
Hitchens, however, outclass the Peta from the onset with a technical, albeit defensive, style uh, with each successive round the carbon copy, the last good for him uh we’ll talk about Connor Ben.
In a couple of minutes, uh we talked about uh Sandy, Ryan and Jessica mccaskill.
Again very controversial decision um most even that writer has Sandy Ryan winning, but uh Jessica, mccaskill uh got her draw um results from Hammond Indiana.
We rarely get results from Indiana Damon Howard’s four Champs promotions put on a quick and entertaining four bout card at the gene Shepherds Community Center in Hammond Indiana on Saturday night debuting super middle Alan facio took on Robbie Thomas in the main event after two throwdowns vashio.
Legally put Thomas down for good with a Non-Stop barrage in the corner, and the end was one minute: 42 seconds of round number one last show started out want to know one knockout.
While Thomas goes oh and seven elsewhere.
We noticed that this fighting going on in Germany, heavyweight Tom Schwartz, a man.
We don’t discuss much on talk and fight, but we should because he’s 27 and one with 19 Knockouts, whose only loss is the Tyson Fury uh got all he could handle from rugged journey.
Man uh costiento, 10, 13 and 1.
, and that was also held on Saturday night at the Gtech arena in Germany, Hometown hero Schwartz got away with a 97 93 979 39794 decision and after The Bouch was declared.
I am back also super WBA super middleweight champ Tyron zugi uh, 27 1 on 150 Knockouts won a unanimous decision over at Nasir book, yenka uh, sorry uh down uh once scores were seven nine, seven, two eighty seven one eighty-71 and unbeaten light heavyweight Adrian crash Nikki.
6-0 Six Knockouts knocked out Denise alts, he’s 50 and 11 with a body shot at 133 of the opening round.
Krasnicki is the new nephew of former lightweight no former heavyweight Contender, Luan rajnicki wow, very good, very good stuff um over in Japan, former two division, champ horito kayaguchi 18 and 1 12 Knockouts scored a lethal left hook to the belly and finished Filipino flyweight uh German Mama uh for the count at three men nine seconds, the third session uh in a scheduled 10 rounder on Friday night, that’s held in Tokyo, Japan, having been beaten and dethroned by kenshiro chirashi by the way in 108, pound and unification Bell.
Last November uh hidito appeared in the second comeback about displayed good form to impress the crowd after mixing up Toto when the first two sessions with these kaguchi swarmed over the Filipino Mama overweight by a pound, then the contract stipulation exploded, a vicious body shot that obviously Hurt mama, who very barely stood up only to be unable to resume fighting Rito 29 said.
I look forward to winning the third division belt, good stuff, eh, um and one last one to report here.
Do you remember, x, o p, b, f, 2 Division, champ Yuji watanabi 25-5, a very popular knockout in the 90s, who unfortunately failed to win World Bates, will belts from Gennaro Hernandez uh and from Wilfredo Vasquez in 92 and 97 respectfully his cousin WBC number 22 suzumi Takayama 7-06 Knockouts a southpaw heart puncher, like his Uncle impressively, turned the tables and kept his Japanese Superfly belt by scoring a fine technical knockout victory over former WBO AP ruler and JVC number one uh subasa morachi who’s now, 10, 2 and 1, with three Knockouts at Two minutes 44 seconds of the eighth round in a scheduled 10 rounder over in Tokyo, good stuff, alrighty upcoming fights that we’re looking forward to uh top heavyweight Frank.
The Cuban flash Sanchez will highlight the stack three fight ShowTime pay-per-view countdown as he takes on Scott Alexander uh.
That’S leading up to the canal Alvarez charlow fight taking place at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas uh courtesy of Canelo promotions.
The lineup will also see former light heavyweight champion Alexander govtik uh battle.
Brazil’S Isaac Rodriguez in an eight round duel, while 2012 U.
S Olympian Tyrell gausha faces Keandre Leatherwood in an eight round.
Middleweight bout, so good stuff happening that night uh coming up in December.
At a press conference held the other day, uh Jesse Bam, Bam or, as he says, bam Rodriguez and Sonny.
Edwards came face to face for the first time at a press press conference in Orlando, ahead of their Blockbuster flyweight unification Clash at the Desert Diamond arena in Glendale Arizona has to take place on Saturday uh December 16th and will be shown on the Zone worldwide.
So a pretty good press conference Jesse said I’ve never been one to say no to fight.
I’Ve always said.
Yes, this was the best versus the best it’s what every boxer dreams of, even if flying titles December 16th, is going to be a movie right.
Oh okay, now, let’s move along to Connor Ben and I will be brief.
As we all know, Connor Ben was cleared to return by the national anti-doping panel in the UK in July and even blew off the cobwebs with uh and blew off the cobwebs.
As we all know over the weekend, with unanimous points when over tough Mexican Rodolfo Orozco.
But an emotional band told some sports afterwards with a tear in his eye that months of Hell had killed him and left him contemplating his career.
The British boxing border control Chief Robert Smith, blasted before the 10 round in Orlando, that Ben shouldn’t have been allowed back in the ring until he was cleared by all the regulators, the BBB OC and Vada, who failed banned twice in the lead up to the original Eubank fight both appealed.
His reinstatement but brighton-based Ben who tested positive for the fertility drug clomiphane, which is a banned substance, has always insisted his innocence um.
He blamed it on eating a bunch of eggs anyway, after failing uh to land, a knockout uh.
For the first time since August 2021, he did uh put in 10 rounds and got Morty bargained, for, I might add, against a very tough Rodolfo, Orozco um, but moved on to 22-0 and settled for a decision.
So Connor Ben is back in the ring, at least in America, and won’t be allowed to fight in the UK until the administrators uh figure it all out, and we as fans, don’t really care um.
What we do like to see is um fighting and as many people, including Eddie Hearn, have gotten involved in this um.
Here’S here’s kind of like where it gets a bit confusing Texas can ultimately ignore the Ben failed to drug test with his promoter, Eddie Hearn insisting he’s cleared to fight in reality, though it’s a vast gray area – and this is courtesy of worldboxingnews.
net – it’s a vast gray Area the bbvoc is sure Ben is not yet cleared his name.
Hence the action is a game.
Spin uh were appealing along with the oh, you CAD uh, it’s ukd and nadp’s decision.
We’Re waiting for a date we’re a bit frustrated that they take so long.
We’Re ready to go, I understand, UK is ready to go.
We’Ve asked for date as soon as possible, we’re very disappointed with the original incision.
If we were to lose the next one, we would be disappointed, but we’d have to take on the boards and what the decision is uh.
Then we would decide what we need to do.
Regarding allowing Ben to fight in the UK setern so he’s a bit uh a bit upset and in fact, uh had something really quite negative to say: um a chap by the name of let’s say his last name’s kante, I know he’s.
I know he’s been in trouble before in the UK, but anyway you British guys know who I’m talking about.
I heard her and fired back at kante in what seemed to be a Potential Threat of action against him.
Another lie by you stand by stated: Hearn kante responded to the matchroom boss.
I do my best to be a truth, speaker and advocate for clean boxing.
Previously kante had questioned the wbc’s belief that Ben tested positive for drug for the drug due to over consumption of eggs.
As I said earlier, he cited the case of Canelo Alvarez who faced a six-month band for clanbuterol, despite despite providing evidence of the food he suspected.
As being the culprit, if chicken eggs are suspected of chromophium exposure, then Connor Ben must identify the brand to be tested by the wada, lab um Ben can fight under alternative jurisdiction, despite the BBB OC, not permitting him to fight in the UK, seeking out alternate licensing Through Texas meant band could battle in Florida.
However, bboc’s secretary Robert Smith, insisted Ben, is not clear to fight and shouldn’t be competing and should not be competing in his valued opinion.
The entire situation remains questionable, not only by Conte but many in the sport.
This means a swift conclusion is necessary before Ben attempts to fight again, so there you have it the box and fans uh Joe Joyce has got to retire.
That’S the the underlying theme.
I think you know you hit a point where you just you got, ta, go and hang them up and, as I’ve said, with respect to many other fighters who face that very same decision.
You know your health is more important and, quite frankly, Joe Joyce’s brain has got to be hurting.
The other brain has got to be, hurting is Deontay Wilder, so the heavyweight division will be shaken up we’re starting to see a whole lot of other heavyweight names.
In boxing good to see it anyway, I didn’t like that Sandy Ryan uh call by the way, um, don’t know why that judge was calling it by such a wide margin.
That upset me.
I think Sandy Ryan should have won uh but other than that um.
I look forward to seeing who uh July Zhang can beat up next and, of course, we all look forward to Tyson Fury getting knocked out by Nagano and uh auntie and Josh Joshua where’s his career growing, who knows anyway, the people in the middle of all.
This are guys like uh, 90 plus year old Bob arum.
Even Don King is still promoting uh Eddie Hearn, who uh our our commentator Louise and has nothing good to say about on several levels and has called him a culprit several times.
You know the the this.
This management has to change, um Fighters have to be allowed to fight and the best should be fighting the best.
That’S what I got to say today, remember that, like share, subscribe, hit that notification Bell and we’ll see you later on at 4pm when I join my core at 4 eastern time for his show knuckle up.
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