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EPISODE: Episode 1
Today, we begin with news from downunder, where Skye Nicolson is looking to get back in the ring this April against Sarah Mahfoud, then we move on to more boxing news eminating from Canada, including another upcoming clash featuring Ryan Rozicki, who is the mandatory challenger to the WBC’s cruiserweight crown, before discussing Artur Beterbiev and concluding with a purse bid snippet, and KSI – specifically a pair of his Misfits – and a UK card seeing the rematch of AJ Bunker and Elle Brooke.
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Here on talk and fight the mecca of boxing in Toronto, Canada, bringing you another episode, boxing news today, all the headlines fit the print.
Let’S start off with a quick little story out of Australia, Scot Nicholson, one of our favorite Fighters signed to matum, is hopeful.
Her first world title bid will happen on home soil in Australia in April uh she’s based uh in the UK and is unbeaten with nine wins from 9 fights in her professional career and after Amanda Sano vacated the WBC featherweight belt uh last month.
Uh, you know due to her little scuffle with WBC uh, not wanting three minute rounds.
Uh in belt holder Nicholson was told to fight Sarah mafud for the vacant belt.
Nichol said Nicholson says it would be dream, come true to challenge for first world title in Brisbane.
The 28-year-old is signed, as I said, with Eddie hearn’s matchroom and will will be a big favorite if the fight does happen in Australia, but um mafud is uh she’s good.
Denmark’S mafud is a former ibf champ at featherweight, but lost that belt to Sano and points defeat back in September 2022.
Um Nicholson, who won the in belt last November, was targeting a fight with Serano before the Puerto Rican took a stand against the wbc’s decision.
Mafud by the way has uh three points wins under her belt in Mark since losing to Sano.
Um Nicholson said: I know, mood won three rounds against Sano just over a year ago.
She won three rounds against me and that was the same against Lucy wildhart.
She won three rounds against Michaela Mayer.
She wasn’t winning three rounds against me.
Never it wasn’t going to be close uh.
I feel very confident I know she’s a good boxer, but that works in my favorite fight like fighting good boxers does so there you go some news from down under from Sky Nicholson and matchroom boxing.
Let’S have a quick, uh scoot around the world and have a look at what’s happening in Canada on January 25th, at the casino de Montreal I of the tiger, it’s having another, U fight night, and this year’s main event will feature Eric bazan 31 and0 wow against Uh Bill gdy he’s uh 41 and7 for the nabf and WBA Continental super middleweight titles, uh Albert Ramirez 17-0, originally set to face American Contender Charles Foster in the evening’s co-main event.
Well also step into the ring.
Um that’d be a good night of fighting over in Montreal.
Let’S move on out to the east coast have a look at what Ryan rosiki is up to he’s promising War Ryan, rosiki 20 and one great fighter from Sydney Nova Scotia is fresh off his first round.
Knockout of Olan re waju dullah.
Last month the wi made rosiki the mandatory Challenger to the WBC cruiserweights Crown uh, which is currently held by H, nol melan, who’s, 27 and two by the way uh.
So speaking speaking with rosiki here, let’s have a quick look here.
Where does it say, speaking with rosiki and his promoter Dan otter, over three lines? Promotions both gave their takes on on the last fight and having earned the right to be next in line to face melen um.
So the you know it could have been a King Kong across for me that night said rosiki and I was getting The Knockout anyone steps into the ring with me is Walking Dead as far as I’m concerned and durola is lucky the ref stepped in when he Did because I was ready to fight there until the death, so not surprised just gave me some reassurance, so a great quote out of Ryan rosiki from the east coast of Canada, and I look forward to seeing uh that f fight being scheduled and looking forward.
For that result, as well uh upcoming as well, looks like U, William zapa is going toe totoe against Maxi Hughes, looking at the March 16th date for the ibf light Eliminator in Las Vegas um know, negotiations are still underway for this one uh, but uh the ibf Light lightweight final Eliminator is on on online here it’s a tough matchup for the number five ranked I Contender Hughes, he’s 266 and two by the way, because he’s not much of a puncher and he’s coming off a loss to George kosas Jr, all bit a controversial One, the winner of the Hugh AA fight, if it happens, will decide the mandatory for this Vil lomachenko George kosa Junior winner.
Those are those guys are fighting for the ibf vacant lightweight title um upcoming in April and Devin Haney recently vacated the Bel.
As you all know so, on paper, this a slam dunwin for zapa, 290 25 Knockouts because he’s too big and too powerful and too busy for Hughes who um is a p, a p pot, shot mover type of fighter zapa will catch up to Hughes and chop Him down like he did the last opponent, merito gasta and his courtesy of boxing news24.
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I’Ve seen him the last couple years, so I know exactly where he’s about said Hughes uh.
In a recent interview about zpa, what you see is what you get he’s an aggressive come forward: high volume, puncher he’s also Southpaw he’s not awkward like M.
He doesn’t make it tricky.
He comes at you.
Zapa has been moved slowly throughout his nine-year professional career, but he’s finally on the verge of putting himself in a position to fight for a world title recently.
Zapa has beaten these Fighters.
Mercito gasta, haime, arbola, Joseph Diaz and Renee Alvarado so looks like Maxi Hughes.
Has a fight on his hands coming up anyway, speaking of upcoming fights, it goes on Callum Smith, on ber of making three crucial mistakes going into their unified WBC, ibf and WBO title fight.
Callum Smith warns Arthur Bev that he is big enough to be a threat at light heavyweight, as well as super middleweight and as his performance against Canelo Alvarez does not reflect his true fighting abilities and that, looking ahead to a possible Undisputed title fight, would be a Major error: um BBF defense is WBC ibf and WBO 175 pound title againsts Britton Smith over the video transcender in Quebec City upcoming to be shown on Sky Sports uh in the early hour UK time Sunday morning.
It’S taking place Saturday night here in Canada, uh the champion has suggested that Smith will struggle to replicate his success at Super middleweight in the division of above, but Smith is adamant that BBF should not underestimate the threat he poses.
I think people always see him as a big super middleweight and probably small light heavyweight.
I think I’m still a big 175 pounds.
I think I filled into the weight nicely since moving up.
It’S been a couple years now, if he does think he’s just a super middleweight, then more fool him.
I think he’ll be in for a shock when we get in there and I’m a big, fully-fledged, 175 pounds now.
It should be noted that BBF has been cleared to fight Callum uh after returning a typical drug test result um.
So, let’s quickly read here: Curtis of the independent over in the UK, RW BBFS title defense against colum Smith will go ahead on Saturday, where the champion cleared to fight after returning an atypical drug test result.
It was revealed on Thursday, and that would be the 11th of January, that better BF had returned an atypical result in a voluntary anti-doping Association about a test in December.
However, the unified light heavyweight champ has since tested negative and been clear to compete.
Smith’S promoter Eddie Hearn uh, said there was never a contractual reason to cancel the fight because better be’s result was atypical rather than adverse.
While journalist Kevin iol report, an atypical finding is not a violation, requires more testing and better be have underwent those examinations at V’s request, V reported negative results from the followup tests from Ur tests done on December 15 and December 21st, and from blood tests on December 21St and January 3rd um, better BV, had received aable findings for human growth, hormone HGH and 5D Andro stanil both occur naturally in the body when an atypical finding is received.
Further testing is required to determine if an athlete naturally produces a substance in his or her body at a greater level than average or if the elevated levels were signs of anti-doping v, z, Vada, founder and chair Margaret Goodman, told boxing news.
Atypical findings are fairly common in P, performance-, enhanced drug testing and do not constitute an adverse test result.
They can result from various causes.
Atypical findings generally warrant the collection of further samples, but no negative, uh interference should be drawn.
Inference should be drawn from an atypical finding in and as of itself Smith also said, it’s not a pass test, it’s not a fail test.
The fight’s still happening.
The main thing is: I’m not a scientist, I’m a fighter, I’m here to beat him, take his belts and go home, um yeah, so so that is making the rounds.
If you take a look at the headlines, uh uh, Callum Smith is is quite excited about fighting better beev and uh, defeating the undefeated Champion.
We we’re all looking forward to it uh because, quite frankly, uh if bvv does win and I’m thinking he will win.
I’M sure he will win.
Let me correct myself um.
I would like BBV and bivel to fight, but, as we know, pbev must beat Kellum Smith.
First and Callum Smith thinks he will win and so does Eddie Hearn think he will win um wow.
So if, in fact, this uh Victory does uh occur for better beave against colum Smith looks like the Undisputed championship against bivel uh in the light, heavyweight division would take place in Saudi Arabia in either April or May says boxing 247.
com better, be by the way.
He’S 19 and0 he’s closing in on.
I believe 40 years of age, though, still needs to beat Smith on Saturday and then sign his own deal deal with the Saudis if Callum 291 by the way wins his promoter, Eddie Hearn, says they’ll make a deal to fight bivel as well for the four ballots.
So this should be interesting.
Hearn revealed the news today to the media about bivel 22 and0 uh signing to meet the winner of Saturday’s, better BF Smith Clash at the videoon center in Quebec City uh, said Eddie Hearn.
I think his boxing brain and his one punch knockout P power wow uh when ask what advantages Callum Smith has in this fight with ar better be of boxing brain and a one punch, knockout.
Okay, Smith is in the position to wreck the Saudi plans for better BF bble fight by defeating better BF and taking his place.
Hern insists that Smith has improved since his lost to Canelo Alvarez four years ago in 2020, but looks pretty much the same and he just put on more sides since moving up to 175.
As we just discussed um over in Germany, uh Aon Sports has won an ibf purse bid at uh for the right to promote the ibf junior middleweight, title fight between Golden Jack, Kul and bakram MAV by bidding $ 666,000.
Roughly a g Sports th trumped murdered zab’s promoter who offered 500,000, so the K, Melia fight will likely take place in on April 6 at the Falcon sea arena in Germany, and the title is currently vacant after being relinquished by Jal Charlo last month.
So things move quickly now, speaking of moving quickly, uh be remiss without mentioning our good friend KSI, who had never heard of a few months ago, but anyway, uh KSI runs out of the UK um a boxing outfit called Misfits and apparently Misfits 12 is happening soon.
I want to to bring this to your attention simply because it’s fun um, I don’t know how many uh this is what they call influencer boxing.
So I don’t know how many fans of these influencers are also fans of boxing, but I’m sure they will be if they were to watch a couple of young.
Ladies go toe-to-toe in a rematch young.
Ladies now, I believe, there’s a show over there called love island in the UK.
I’M not familiar with it.
I’M not sure how it goes, but I believe uh one of the furies was on it uh anyway.
Uh this upcoming card missfitz 12, is going to see a rematch between AJ bunker and L Brook both of them influencers, both of them only fans Superstars uh, but anyway, Brooke came out on top uh on the last time they met and uh, and the two are Ready to go head-to-head again in the ring, it’s uh it’s for the Misfits female middleweight championship and uh.
If you have a look at the pictures online, I’m sure you’ll find them.
These gals are pretty goodlooking.
It’S going to be a great fight to watch um uh for the boxing fans, influencer influencer boxing fans – I don’t know, I guess that’s how you might might call it it’s being uh fought in leads.
First, Direct Arena with the capacity being approximately 13,000 and KSI is in fact hoping for a sellout uh in his first M misfitz boxing event of the year, uh so good for him um.
You know promoting boxing and also getting in the ring and fighting himself, but we’ll see where it goes.
Um.
We we’ve debated it often here on talk and fight uh, the impact of influencer boxing such as uh Traer, Clash that happens down in Florida each year and uh influencers like Jake, Paul and uh and, quite frankly, the way he’s dealing with uh management H with through Through his own company called MVP promotions, so um, I’m sure it’s good for the sport, I’m sure anything that is good for boxing is GNA help.
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