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EPISODE: Episode 1
A trio of anticipated clashes start off the show: Spence and Crawford, Usyk and Dubois, and Beterbiev and Smith, before we move into comments made by Michael Conlan regarding not only his own upcoming fight, but also the fight between Leigh Wood and Mauricio Lara, before we conclude with quotes from Josh Taylor, Lawrence Okolie and Chris Billam-Smith, and end the episode with a brief tweet related to Oscar De La Hoya and his donation made to a local boxing club in California.
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Foreign boxing fans around the world thanks for joining me once again here on talking fighter on the episode of boxing news today and uh, we have a trio of stories to open up this episode, involving upcoming fights that we’ve all been looking forward to and finally they’ve Been announced, let’s start off with what I would consider the big one Terence Crawford has announced on Instagram.
He will fight Errol Spence Jr on July 29th in Las Vegas.
The American Rivals will face off for the Undisputed welterweight championship in one of the most highly anticipated contests.
Since Floyd Mayweather’s June Floyd May of the junior clash with Manny Pacquiao back in 2015.
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Crawford said, the wait is over it’s game time: Errol, Spence, Jr, Terence Crawford June 29th, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Everyone come out, show, support and watch me fry this fish good for him in other news, uh in the heavyweight division, seeing that needs to still to be a little bit.
Uncluttered we’re gon na see Alexander usick take on Daniel Dubois in Poland.
This August it seems uh his promoter, Alex kreichuk, has announced.
We won the bid and now working to Stage the fight in Poland on August 12th, which he said via Instagram uh.
So USIC will put the WBA, ibf and WBO heavyweight belts on the line against WBA.
Mandatory Challenger Dubois having retained his unified stats with victory over Auntie Joshua in last August’s rematch and it’ll, be interesting to see uh what happens with Tyson Fury, because if you remember the other day, I mentioned uh, he might go down under for his next fight, but That all might be leading up to our big December four person heavyweight clash in Saudi Arabia, but in the meantime, the third story I want to report on involves Arthur brittibiov and he will face a British opponent after the second consecutive fight.
The light heavyweight champer turns August 19th to take on Liverpool’s Callum Smith at the Videotron Center in Quebec City.
Quebec Smith is looking to become a two-weight champion, but to do so, he’ll have to be a man regarded as one of the deadliest fighters on the planet.
Better BF has fought 19 times and one every time with each opponent.
Failing to hear the final Bell, Anthony yard was the latest to fall at the hands of the russian-born Canadian resident back in January.
Another win for the champ will give him a 3-0 winning streak against the Brits having beat Callum Johnson back in 2018.
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He said Quebec is my second home, so I’m very happy to finally defend my titles on home turf when you’re the world champion everyone’s opportunity to take your belt, and that’s especially true in my case with three titles at stake.
I’Ve already started my training camp and I’ll be ready to not only defend my belts but to also put on an impressive show on August 19th.
I’M sure he will indeed what a great fight.
Let’S move across the pond, where I announced yesterday um Frank warns, got a bit of a show going on in Belfast.
One of those combatants is Michael conlon and the headline screams on ESPN.
Despite final round KO loss and last attempt, Michael conlon remains focused on world title uh, it’s a story written by my friend, Nick Parkinson over at ESPN.
He said Michael Conlin refuses to be viewed being knocked out of the ring in the last round of his first title fight as a painful and humbling experience.
Instead, he considers last year’s loss to Lee wood for the WBA featherweight World title as a key moment in his development.
It’S a setback that he believes.
He prepared him for Saturday’s shot at the ibf featherweight champ, Luis Alberto Lopez, which will be streamed on ESPN, Plus uh conlon by the way, he’s 18 and one with nine Knockouts uh was narrowly ahead in points before being knocked out by wood, and that was ESPN’s.
2022 fight of the Year by the way uh quickly rebuild his career with two wins: a unanimous decision versus Miguel mariga in August.
In a first round stoppage of Kareem Gary in December, he said I learned a lot from the wood loss.
I know how to Pace a 12 round fight.
I know when to put the foot on the gas and no one to make the right defensive moves.
Yes, Ben told Colin put that into the present tense because he didn’t obviously against lee wood.
Anyway, I’ve learned how to handle the defeat and rebuild mariaga was a dangerous puncher, and I fought him at my own pace and picked my shots.
When mariaga tried to put on put it on me in the last round, I still ended winning the round anyway.
Conlin, 31 years of age, we’ll get another attempt to win his first title when he challenges Lopez, 29 years of age.
At the SSC arena in his home city of Belfast, Northern Ireland column believes his response is losing to Wood will ensure he becomes Northern.
Ireland’S first featherweight champ since Carl Frampton, now retired Frampton, won his first title when he appointed Kiko Martinez for the ibf junior featherweight belt in 2014.
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Calm was there that night with as a spectator at a specially built outdoor stadium on the site where the Titanic was built, there’s a bit of interesting trivia.
He also had something else to say with respect to Lee wood, as reported by Keith in a boxing scene.
Michael Collins, once Leawood to win his rematch with Mauricio Lara on Saturday night that’d be the same night that Collins Fighting by the way Wood is fighting Lara in Manchester.
However, if wood were to avenge his seventh round technical lockout lost to Lara and Colin beats Luis Alberto Lopez, Colin’s own rematch, would would be at 126 pound title unification.
Fight Colin will challenge Lopez for the Mexico City News ibf featherweight title in Belfast as I just reported, and while he hopes would win while Colin hopes would wins, he doesn’t see it happening.
Conlan said I think Lara knocks him out again.
I think it’s too soon.
I don’t know why they jumped into the rematch so quickly, probably because there’s a mandatory on that belt and that would be they use spec fighter, auto back komentov.
I don’t know where he’ll get his shot, but he’s a good fighter and I actually think he’d beat Lara with all due respect to Lara, but I think they want to keep that build in the matchroom kind of bubble.
I read that Lara and Josh Warrington can happen and there’s a mix between the three of them, but I don’t know why wood has taken that fight again.
Mexico’S largest 26 2-1 19 Knockouts won the WBA featherweight title from wood in their February fight uh in at the motor Point Arena in Wood’s, hometown of Nottingham England, Eddie Hearn, whose company promotes wood Lara and Josh Warrington propose that Lara make his first title defense against England’S Warrington to an eight sorry, Thirty Thirty one two and one, but they Knockouts, and that the winner face wood in his following fight: wood, who’s, 26 and 3 60 Knockouts instead exercised his contractual right to an immediate rematch which will take place just three months after His trainer Ben Davidson stopped their fight, wants a woozy wood got up from the seventh round knocked down.
Wood was winning on all three score cards through six rounds by the way Lara’s left hook.
However, knocked wood flat on his back with 26 23 seconds to go in the seventh round would got up in time to beat referee Michael Alexander’s count, but Davidson threw in the towel.
He’S done well in his first fight Colin said of wood.
If he’d maintain his boxing and not got greedy, he probably could have won, but I think it was inevitable that Lara would get to him.
I’M not the biggest punch in the world and I had lee wood out on his feet a few times that fight but he’s ballsy, he’s tough and he’s determined.
He can bite down on his gum shield and keep going so you’ve got to give him credit.
But I think the stoppage was correct at the time Ben Davidson threw the towel in because you know Lara is a devastating puncher and I think if you land a few more, it could have gone done.
Serious damage on Lee would knocked out Colin in the 12th round of a brutal battle that won numerous fight of the Year Awards in 2022.
By the way, uh Colin dropped wood in the first round of their March 22 bout at Motor Point Arena.
But wood recovered came back to send Colin to the canvas in the 11th round and knocked him out of the ring in the 12th round.
He’S had two fights back to back with me and Lara where he’s been concussed bad, said Colin, who has won back-to-back bouts against Miguel, mariaga and Karim Kofi since wood knocked him out in my fight, he said probably worse because he got going to cuss so many Times during that fight with the Lara fight, he probably got a bit of a concussion from the second round when he was getting rocked all over the joint and the one where he got knocked out with that was another concussive shot.
This is a dangerous game, dangerous dangerous game, and that’s why I respect everybody boxing.
Your life is online.
Every time we’re in that ring and would rematch is going to be streamed on the zone and go figure.
They are partners with uh matchroom as a main event worldwide from the AO Arena and the streaming service coverage of the uh undercard is scheduled to begin at 7 pm by the way uh the main event, between Lopez and Colin, by the way will broadcast by BT Sport, United Kingdom and Ireland, and streamed on ESPN plus I noted in that last story over in the U.
S and hopefully Canada alrighty.
Let’S move along to Josh Taylor, also as we’re being reported by boxing scene, uh chop: oh Keith, iduck again he’s on it.
Josh Taylor doesn’t think three American judges gave him enough credit for his performance against Jose Ramirez in Taylor’s last fight in the United States.
The Scottish South law is therefore hopeful that three American judges aren’t assigned to score his upcoming 12 round 140 pound championship bout against tiffino Lopez, Taylor, Who’s 19-0, with 13 Knockouts, will defend as WBO Junior Welterweight Title versus Lopez on June 10th.
In a main event, ESPN um televised from the theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City Lopez, as we know, is 18 and one 13 Knockouts was born in Brooklyn and has also relied in South Florida and Las Vegas as well.
Taylor said, obviously I’ve requested to have three different judges that they’re not they’re, not all be American judges.
Hopefully they accept what we’ve requested and hopefully that’s the case, but I don’t let things like that.
Bother me.
I believe in myself I’m confident my ability uh.
It’S going to be much different of a dominant display.
The judges cannot deny me.
The New York State, athletic commission approved a diverse panel of judges for Lopez last fight, a 10 rounder against Spain, sander Martin that took place December 10th at Madison Square Garden.
Canada’S Pascal procopio 97 and 92, and California’s Max DeLuca at 96 and 93 both scored that fight for Lopez.
Italy’S Guido caviari scored Martin at 95-94 winner over Lopez, who was knocked down during the second round.
New York’s Ricky Gonzalez was a referee for the Lopez Martin match, which Taylor recalled could have gone either way.
There were two judges from his opponent’s Home Country when Taylor defended his ibf WBA WBC and WBO 140 pound crowns last year at the SSC Hydro in Glasgow.
England’S Ian John Lewis scored 114-11.
Scotland’S Victor Laughlin 1312 scored that 12 round fight for Taylor, whereas England’s Howard Foster scored their February 22 about 113, 112 for England’s Jack caterall.
An English referee, Marcus McDonald deducted a point of piece from Taylor and Carter.
All that night McDonald took appointment holding in the 10th round and a point from Taylor for Hayden cattle after the Bell had sounded to conclude the 11th round nine months earlier, Taylor defeated Ramirez, who fights out of California by the same score: 114.
112.
According to each judge, as their 12 rounder uh in that 140 pound title unification fight and what took place in May of 2021 by the way, the Virgin hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada residents, Tim sheatham and Dave Moretti and New Jersey, Steve Westfield, scored that fight identically.
The two knockdowns Taylor produced won the sixth another seventh accounted for the difference on the cards of Cheatham, already Adam weissfield, who scored six rounds.
Apiece for Taylor and Ramirez, already 78 years of age, has again drawn criticism for how he scored the Devin Haney basilia lomachenko fight, most recently at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
I’M already scored Haney a wider winner, 116 112, then Cheatham, 115, 113 and as David Sutherland 115 113.
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He also scored the 10th round around lomachenka appear to win.
Definitely for Haney Taylor felt Haney lomachenko a 12 round fight for Haney’s ibf WBA WBC nwbo lightweight titles was very competitive.
Having seen that fight, he said I don’t know what all the huge fuss is about the lomachenko fight.
I think it was a fight that could have gone either way.
Alrighty, let’s move along quickly.
To conclude, the show quick little quote from Lawrence of Coley and uh Chris billum Smith uh, both who were former teammates and are now turned uh title rivals uh and they faced off in Bournemouth.
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I guess of the media scrum Bournemouth England, because they’re going to be fighting for the WBO Cruiserweight Championship at the Vitality stadium in Bournemouth England.
This weekend said I’m coming to make an extremely big statement on my old man on my own journey and there’s stuff that I want.
I need I’m ready to fight for it.
I’Ve shown time again, I’m ready to take the risk and do what needs to be done.
I can say it: I’m in amazing, shape I’m coming to do the job Miss film Smith.
His part said: any fight against Lawrence is dangerous because he can punch and he’s got long levers, so you have to take educated risks and he got to work really hard to get the shots off.
You need to that’s what we’ve been doing the whole time.
I don’t expect to stand there and trade with me.
He knows he can’t do that.
I imagine he’s going to try to keep it long and move his feet.
The hard thing with Lawrence is getting in position, so we know what we’ve got to do.
Finally, to conclude, the show I just want to drop off some good news.
Oscar De La Hoya has donated 30 thousand dollars at a press conference that was held most recently um in California to benefit local boxers at in the Coachella Valley.
The donation was accepted by Lee Espinoza on behalf of the Lee Espinoza Boxing Club, and that is courtesy of a golden boy tweet that I thought was pretty good news all right boxing fans thanks for joining me once again appreciate it.
Uh yeah I’m looking forward to that spins crossword Crawford fight.
I think the entire world is in the well the entire boxing world is.
I appreciate your comment.
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When I joined Michael and Cedric Ben for their show knuckle up thanks for joining me bye.
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