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EPISODE: Episode 1
Inequality women face in the sport of boxing and other industries.
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I am one of the co-founders and Chief Operating Officer for the Stafford Boxing Club Incorporated our non-profit organization, which is a yearly mentoring program for at-risk youth in the community.
So we will be able to teach financial literacy communication discipline decision making, as well as campaigning for a premium education.
These are the foundation for the Stafford Boxing Club, these 20 mentees in our program here at Panola Way elementary school 20 years from now, staff of boxing mentees will be known across the world and welcome to the Stafford show.
You have reached your destination through the portal of talk and fight.
Excuse me, you want to know who is the host and co-host of the Stafford show who lady Stafford Stafford, aka Big staff, aka Big staff, I’m funny.
I have a sense of humor sense of humor hello and welcome.
What’S going on everybody, hey man what’s happening man what’s going on, we got a lot to get into man for real.
It was a lot of entertainment this weekend in the sport of boxing for real.
Yes, Lord, let me just do this little stretch, real, quick, because we’re going to you talking about whoa, some good things, so I got ta loosen up all right.
We can get it going now, all right, everyone I’m loose.
So what I want to start off talking about is female Fighters.
Slash women, boxers, slash women, athletes, I’m not going to talk about everything, but I do want to talk about the lack of opportunity, which then goes the other half which goes with the weight division.
Okay, so the first thing is: I need everybody to breathe in through their nose and out through your mouth.
I need everybody, especially the men, to actually listen and hear what it is that we are going to be saying, regardless of the fact, if you think that women should box or they shouldn’t box or you don’t like woman boxing or it doesn’t even matter what industry It is it’s just going to be all wrapped together, but seriously put your ego aside, have some empathy and whatever narcissistic thing that you have going on? Let’S just cancel that out right now.
So the first thing that I want to say is you know about the spins and the Crawford fight this weekend.
My opinion, it would have been great to have a female, a female undercard for real.
Now it could have been the first undercard fight.
No me personally, because I’m just thinking like that, depending on who it was or who it would be, I would have had it the fight before the main car.
Now I would have had it the first time.
No, I said the first but me the main card, depending on who it is like if it was like Clarissa yeah and depending on who she’s fighting yes, Alicia, yes, Amanda Serrano, yes, I’m not gon na go on and on and on through all the there’s.
A couple of other ones that I would have had so yes, I would have had them the fight before now, someone like and this no disrespect uh like Dubois, I haven’t heard from her or the other Lauren, now no disrespect, but I would have had those two.
Probably for the first fight only because, unfortunately, which also goes to the women not having a lot of media, but because we’re talking about a Fighters.
Yes, we’re talking about the fighters that are going to actually bring in the money that are known throughout the world.
Yes, because they have put in that word yeah, so that was very disappointing and one of the other things that I want to say is okay, so we know in Media uh for the media for the sport of boxing and media period.
We know who is over it.
It’S it’s white men, that’s in charge, then, of course we have the promoters and we have the boxing organizations.
My thing is, there have been so many women in the boxing industry and out of the boxing industry that have put in a lot of work a lot of time, whether if they were already born and living here in the United States or fleeing from another country.
Maybe someplace like Cuba and then they’re coming here with either a child or their children married or not married and come in here to America, or it doesn’t matter wherever and when we know centuries ago decades ago.
It was extremely hard and much harder, especially for the women, because men still have that thinking the women should be at home.
The woman should be taking care of the home, the woman should be having children and cooking and cleaning and making sure the house is taken care of now.
Yes, us as women, we do do that.
Some of us do do that.
I think that we should do that, even though, even if the man is working, I think we should and and we’re a stay at home mother, then yes, we will bear their responsibilities and yes, sometimes we are going to need some help, so the husband will he’ll Still work do some other things and will help the wife out.
My thing is: is that all the women before that’s allowing the woman now to do what they’re able to do they left a legacy and the men you all are reaping the benefits of that Legacy and the reason how they’re the benefits? Okay, well number one, even though we know it takes two people to make a baby.
The final decision does live with the mother right so regardless, if you believe it or not, we’re not going to get into that either she could decide to have the baby or she can decide to keep the baby now remember when a woman is pregnant, she’s pregnant For 10 months, five weeks, equal equal a month when you’re pregnant, it is not nine months and the reason why I’m saying that you read you’re reaping the benefits of her legacies because number one you have that name number two, you that is your mother number! Three! No matter what it is that she did like if there’s a part, that’s named after her, that’s benefiting you because of the type of person.
She was the hard work that she put in the difficulties that she overcame the some of the sexual harassment that she may have to accept or take because during that time it was much harder for a woman to get hired or find a job.
So, in her mind, it was like I have to just take it.
I have to accept it, because this is bigger than me.
I have a family, I have kids, we all have to eat, so I just have to deal with it and also because you have the name and because the name is going to be carried on and everybody’s gon na everybody’s gon na know that name, then you Can use your name that will help you to be able to get through certain doors now I know my husband said that your character and in your integrity in favor can take you to places where, even if you do have an education, it could take you a Lot further, I get it, but also the name that your mother has left.
That’S going to go from generation to generation to generation.
That means she has already opened up and started that Legacy.
So, no matter, even if you decide to to be a CEO of a company or open your own business, the name in itself is going to be remembered, and the other thing that I want to say is with the weight division.
Even though the men have 17 and the woman have 10, I was always wondering why aren’t we seeing more fights more often with the female Fighters or with certain female Fighters, and that’s really one of the main causes, and I don’t understand how this thinking is: there’s Always some type of excuse so really what you’re saying, because we have different body parts than than men, then you’re using that against us, and that shouldn’t be it because, however, you started someone took a chance on you, somebody gave you an opportunity.
You could have been struggling working, real hard, just graduated from college or high school or whatever Journey you decided to go through and all you needed was an opportunity and you worked hard day and night unless, for those that is just born into a family, that just Has money, I’m not saying that in that case that you still didn’t have to work, or maybe you didn’t have to work? It’S really who you know, but at the end of the day, and someone gave you an opportunity, why aren’t you allowing women to have that opportunity and the crazy thing about the all of this seriously is when you don’t allow women in certain positions or even when It comes to the pay.
I’Ve said this before you all are taking money out of the family’s mouth.
I mean here you are you’re living life, you’re doing what you want to do when you want to do it, how you want to do it, make it all these type of decisions, but when you have these women that are sparring with men that have put their Life on the line for something that they’re passionate about and something that they want to do, whether it’s their calling or whatever it is, and they’re, showing and they’re doing everything possible.
Staying later coming in early learning, more putting in more work, putting in extra work studying and then, of course they have their personal life, some have children, some don’t some may be married.
Some may not be married and then they’re balancing everything, but women are always showing and trying to prove to the world to the bosses to themselves that we are capable to handle a lot of situations.
And we would not ask you if we would not be able to do it if we could not do it so, with all the money that’s going to the WBO before the belts and the WBC WBA ibf and all of this research that’s being done.
I think that you should go back to the drawing board because there’s other women there’s other men, there’s female boxers, there’s women who want to be female boxers or whatever industry.
It may be go back to the drawing board and and talk to these women and really be open, and one of the important things that we all must have is empathy.
You have to put your feet in somebody else’s shoes for some people, it’s going to be hard because life is just so right for you, but you have to understand.
Life is not always right for everybody else, and you can’t put everybody in the same category.
Not everybody’s lazy, not everybody’s.
This way, it’s everybody is something and doing something, whether it’s right or if it’s wrong and it’s 2023, and for us to still be talking about the pay, the pay.
Let me tell you something: I’m not! I don’t know how much Clarissa is getting paid, I don’t or how much money she has, but in my opinion she should be making Floyd Mayweather’s money by now.
That’S just my opinion because she has surpassed so many men or the awards she’s.
Getting all the bells that she’s doing all the fights that she’s won and where the fights have been, and you mean to tell me this – is not happening.
So my thing is: how can one group of people which is men – because we know historically, that it’s just been dominated by men and then the promoters shout out to Eddie Hearn? At least Eddie Hearn has been working with some female Fighters.
But I don’t understand if you all can have a male fighter right and you all put all your work and your time and giving them everything that you’ve learned.
When you were a boxer, then I don’t understand why you can’t do the same thing for another woman, but let me say this here: let me go back from the original statement that you made in terms of their should have been a female card.
On that I mean that should have been a female uh fight on that card, yeah on that undercard and that would have been huge.
That would have been a sign of progress for women in the sport of boxing.
If they could have had a fight on that undercard with a major event.
You had esot Cruz and his uh fight.
Then you had two other Fighters or whatever and I’m not, and I’m not saying that those Fighters were not deserving, but if we talking, if we were talking about progress, if we are talking about diversity inclusion, there should have been a woman fight on that undercar.
It would have been.
I was looking forward to it and, like my wife said, some of the big names in the sport of boxing as it relates to females should have had an opportunity Clarissa Shields.
She deserved an opportunity to be on that undercar um.
What’S the other young lady who um she, she got she you know she’s, you talking about shadesha Green, no, not her under.
What’S what’s that, Alicia Alicia, what Baumgardner yeah her? Those two would have been a good matchup, but just something, but just not having a woman fight on that undercar.
It was kind of disappointing because Clarissa Shields she sold out the arena up in Detroit Michigan.
At the end of the day, she I mean and she’s selling out and Alicia.
Is she gon na sell out too so just think about, even though in the headliner was uh Spencer Crawford, but just to add Clarissa shield? And, what’s the other young lady name, Alicia, Alicia, Amanda, though, or or Amanda or uh? What’S the other ones um the Katie it is it don’t matter or Cameron it don’t matter.
There should have been a female fight on that undercar and I stand with you Sheila.
I’M I’m in totally agreement with you 100 that there should have been a female fight on that undercard because it was a great platform and it was an opportunity to introduce women into the sport of boxing even more to show that the uh these these these organizations Is making progress to support women in boxing because believe it or not? Uh women in the sport of boxing is here to stay, and it’s only going to get bigger and better, and I think the time is now in this era that we live in to demonstrate support for female boxers right.
The other thing is that when you talk about paying Sheila, I’m with you on that one like you have made some great statements on the show today and I think that there needs to be dialogue.
There needs to be discussion about these topics that address our communities, and I give mad respect for those women who sacrifice.
I mean they’re training just like they are men they put in their work.
They sparring they doing road work.
They I mean they they in the gym.
So if women are here to stay, then there should be some marketing dollars to address the women in the sport of boxing and just as much as uh, Earl, Spence and and um Terence Crawford was promoted.
I get that man they deserve it, the both of them fight us all.
The fighters on that undercard deserved an opportunity to be on that, but you should at least have one female fight and moving forward anytime, that we have a mega of Pay-Per-View fights.
There needs to be at least one woman fight on that undercard.
I agree yeah and I agree with you and I think with me an issue that I’m having is that you all are making decisions.
That’S not based off of.
What’S right, I mean go off of what you yeah well.
Well, not true! Well, it’s! It is tradition, because traditionally men have been the head of the boxing organization and that and that’s and that’s fine okay, I no! No! So Stephen A Smith done a remarkable job.
This past weekend uh promoting the fight and giving his uh preference on who he would think that would win the fight.
But here here’s my point that I’m going to so Stephen A said that if Dana White yeah, I believe that was the president or overseer of the the the the the boxing industry.
The fans would get the fights that they want and there will be more diversity.
Inclusion as it relates to women, because Dana White, he promotes women in the UFC.
There are a lot of UFC fighters.
Uh excuse me yeah.
They are a lot of UF UFC fighters on TV on national TV Prime Time.
Promoting these women and these women are getting better, they are putting on the show, people are paying, and the other thing is this we have talked about this before, but in the UK women boxing is like it’s popular, so this will be.
This would have been a golden opportunity for a female boxer to be on that card man.
So the next fight, Prime Time fight that we may have – I don’t know who it may be, but there needs to be one of these female Fighters – uh two female fighters on his undercard for real, oh and just one other thing before I forget before we move On the other, thing is for those that the men that make these decisions, whether if you’re a promoter or Media or whatever in the in the organization when it comes to females.
Okay, think of this now, when I was talking about decades ago and centuries ago, regardless, if you knew your aunt, your grade, Aunt your great-grandmother and so forth, and so forth and everything that they had to go through and they had to fight right.
Maybe you also had to endure some of those painful times where you barely could eat, but you saw your mama.
She was whoo boy.
She was a trooper, a strong woman holding the family together.
But let’s come to now your mother or your sister, or even your cousin or your auntie.
How would you feel if they really showed themselves and proved themselves not only to themselves, which is important first, their heart and their inside, and give them the strength when they don’t have it, because sometimes they don’t have that support system when they need it or they Just don’t have it all and they don’t get the opportunity and they’re being treated the same way that women still are being treated now.
Don’T get me wrong.
We’Ve come a long way and we appreciate it.
We are not complaining, not one bit in the boxing industry and other Industries.
Women are moving up, but women leadership in the working industry at their percentage is still very low, but let’s go back to the boxing.
How would you feel, how would you feel if you saw a family member, your mother, your mother or your sister, just putting in so much work and everything that I just said, because I don’t want to repeat myself again but because men and their egos and because They don’t think or because this is how they think and they don’t want to change their way of thinking, which reminds me of them being a hymn by the way for those that read that book, then you’ll probably know what I’m talking about.
How would you feel, how would you feel – and it’s still hard out here in the world? How would you feel if you’re, if, if they were down to their last, I feel and I couldn’t get their opportunity so and then there’s children? So, can you be that cold-hearted to where there’s so much money out here and then you have the money and you do have the money to where there can be more media plays for the female boxers and they can definitely get paid just as much as the Men get paid and having more opportunities being open with that and if and I’m almost finished and if you do have a female on your team on your promotion company, don’t sit her or sit them aside, work with them and get them out there, and I promise You they are not going to disappoint you.
There are gon na.
There may be a loss or two, but that just comes with the game.
Sometimes Bob said they’re not always going to win.
Some may always win Clarissa Shields.
A prime example she’s always been winning, but some you may not.
You might have a loss or two, but just don’t give up on them just give women an opportunity.
I think if you give us more of an opportunity, then you will know that you definitely have made the right decisions and I would like to thank all the men for or whoever you all just finally just listen but come to the table with some of those Boxers so basically you’re saying giving women an opportunity, you’ll get a a huge return on your investment yeah opportunity.
That’S what we see! That’S, what a woman see as a as a black man, my goal and most of my energy is towards getting that opportunity.
I know that once I get that opportunity I am going to capitalize on it, I’m going to prepare for it, I’m going to be ready, because I know that an opportunity can take you from the pit to the mansion amen, because I did for sure so now.
Well, let’s get to it this weekend, we witness something that was unexpected.
No well.
Actually, it wasn’t unacceptable.
No, no! Not for me now wait a minute Sheila! I said that I was going for Crawford, but I said that man, I really don’t want to choose because of the simple fact I like, both of them.
I like both of them right, but when I had to just I don’t I don’t really like to be in that position, because I like Earl, though I really do I like Earl Earl, I like buddy, I mean buddy right, but man.
Let me tell you man, that boy Crawford he’s a bad man, man, he is a bad man.
This is all I.
This is all I kept seeing from Crawford.
He was doing all this.
You know what I’m saying he was just boom boom.
I’M talking about just blocking all them shots.
Terence Crawford is the number one powerful power in the world hands down.
Don’T talk about that Asian boy? No disrespect! We don’t want it.
He ain’t put no work in bro.
This man got 30 fights bro 30.
, oh, is, is it 30? I think it was 29.
I think it was 20.
yeah.
I think it’s made 30.
.
This boy, this boy got 30 fights undefeated.
You can’t take nothing away from that boy.
Man and the thing that I really admired about this fight was the way that these guys promoted the fight and for all the supporters of Earl Crawford is, I mean uh Earl, I’m talking about Earl Clark, uh, Earl, Spence and Terence Crawford man.
Like Terence Crawford said, man y’all need to chill bro because man, the white folks, be looking at this situation, be like man, I don’t know we’re gon na do that man cause every time they come out.
Man, it’s a whole bunch of violence and then, as a promoter bruh, you know they got ta rent out that venue they it’s it’s a lot of responsive man.
It’S a lot of bread involved.
They got ta have insurance.
Man bars man, it is so much man and and it’s okay, to support your fighter to believe in, but doing all that extra man it’s unnecessary and the crazy part about it.
It was their support team or their fans, whether it was relatives or not.
Who was doing all that old capping and all that other boo falling man? It was crazy.
Man was crazy, it was crazy man, it was crazy and the maturity level of Terence Crawford how he was like Hey man, y’all just chilled man chill we’re talking about with the shooting right, yeah man.
It was just crazy man and then here’s.
The other thing aerospence told Terence Crawford man thanks for making this fight happen.
Man, you know what I’m saying like man, just the the the gratitude for the opportunity like we just talked about the opportunity like Earl Spence, knew that this opportunity was going to put him in a position to eat, to to feed his family and everyone else.
Even more right, so man when I saw it was like, I think it was in the second round and when Terence Crawford just just pushed him off from like he just he just like.
Well just say man get off me man when he did that to Earl Spence.
I knew it was over with, because Earl is mostly the aggressive like he’s.
Always you know he’s pushing folks, but when man when tears did that man, I was like man it’s over with man.
It kind of reminded me of the fight between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson.
Evanna did Mike Tyson like that.
Mike went back boom.
You feel me so I was like man once once: uh uh Terence Crawford did that man I was like man.
This is crazy man and you know the other thing is this: this is two fighters that was in Peak condition.
That’S the other thing that I had liked about this fight was.
They was in Peak condition like most of the times.
You could be Fighters man and they get on this platform and they they gassed out Earl, even though he took a beating yeah, he he still had stamina.
You know it was just Crawford Crawford.
Would just I mean that boy there man he would just man that boy someone had said something before if we read that or answer it or whatnot.
I want to say this before I forget, because Terence Crawford really is: what’s your name, his name is uh drink.
That’S right, yeah, he he really amen.
Terence Crawford is the king of boxing uh Ringside magazine top rank man, get that man his cars man, and it was a reason why he was talking the way he was talking when he was at top ring because he felt like Bob Abram was holding him down.
Man and now he didn’t, got loose from that man bro, he showed the world and I’m telling you man this boy here was man hold up man this boy here, I’m I’m talking about man, just the art of this just the art of boxing man.
I mean you saw it on display man, I’m talking.
He was like.
You feel what I’m saying.
He was just doing man, I’m telling my boy.
Listen man that dude there is and then baby, naturally he’s Orthodox yeah, but he switch it up to South Park.
So 78 of his mics that he’s fought he’s fought uh South Park, but he’s Orthodox you see what I’m saying so man this man here, fighting Orthodox fighting like that white jab man, he caught him back back, fell down.
Man and I ain’t gon na lie.
Man shout out to Earl Spence man yeah, I mean bird like keep your head up, keep your head up.
I saw it yeah, but let me say something before I forget, though, and it um also reminded me of your situation, but the first thing I want to say is: when Crawford was talking about the shooting.
A lot of people were saying: oh he’s going to lose because he’s being too emotional with the shooting thing.
Well, I learned something that I did not even know that he was shot.
Oh yeah, back in the head, when he, after counting his money on the dice game, 7-Eleven and then he they said that he started boxing because he was scared.
He was scared.
So if you put both of those things together, so anybody who’s been shot or had a gun pulled out on them.
I have two what has been shot at you’re gon na feel some type of way when you reach that peak of maturity and then you’re here for the press conference or the weigh-in and you’re supposed to be talking about the fight and the trainers are supposed to Be talking about the fight or whatever questions they’re answering and then you’re talking about shooting him like you said that really leaves a bad taste in other people, who’s watching it the business.
It’S always like.
Okay, black people, every time they come, they come together.
It’S one thing that you’re all the talking, crap you’re, probably cursed and you’re gon na say what you’re going to do and go back and forth, but then to bring up guns, that’s very unacceptable and that should not ghetto bro.
That should not be done.
That’S ghetto period, but especially in this type of on that platform platform.
When I this this was like this was like the fight of the decade.
Like the I mean, this was a major fight bro this.
This fight was like up there with Floyd and Pacquiao.
Like you know what I’m saying these the magnitude, so you had the world watches, understand, and so, just like Terence Crawford, he understood the assignments yeah.
He don’t.
He understood the opportunity that he had and then man what was so play about the situation is when Earl restore said, hey man.
Thank you for making this fight happen.
I’M like man come on brother, the one thing that uh you was when Terence was talking and he was just saying pretty much saying, like everybody just counted him out yeah, he would always either talk bad about him.
Man baby.
He had to go there yeah, so that yeah, so that reminded even with me, but more so with you, but you know with both of us, but more so God did.
But more said with you, God told me it kind uh.
It was like an emotional tug emotional touch on my string or baby.
That’S you know when when he said that, because it was like, I get it like everybody’s – certainly amen, listen man, they counted your boy Stafford out man.
They I’m telling my man listen.
When I tell you, listen man, that’s okay, because it’s gon na be in my book and when it’s all said and done, but I didn’t stop believing what God told me I mean.
That’S that’s what that’s that’s important.
That’S the difference between me and most people.
I didn’t I didn’t give up and I didn’t stop believing in what God Said.
In spite of the situation it didn’t matter, I was look I’m willing to die for this man for whatever, for my belief, man, I’m willing to die for it, but baby pick this out.
But let me say this here: man Derrick James.
You deserve some accountability.
For this man losing bro cause, you didn’t make you.
You did not give this man the proper information that he needed to take in order to make the adjustment now coach, Esau, uh, Terence Crawford, um trainer.
I heard him he said: listen off the uh combo.
Now, on the counter he said you could give him the hook off that counter now and Terence Crawford hit him with the hook.
Bam Bam, listen man.
He made listen man.
This man deserved to be trainer of the year, so it is blasphemy that Derek James got trainer of the year and all the records in terms of Terence Crawford record being undefeated Undisputed in two weight Division and the man never got trainer of the Year man.
That’S Captain Crunch bro, they talked about it, man, that’s captain and they talked about it.
They talked about his weight, but I said baby.
I you remember when we started a little Showtime thing and I was like baby check this out.
Don’T boy that, even though that man may not be out there in terms of like running with uh Terrence, but he had that mind that vision and the boy put a amazing team around Terence Crawford yeah, he had two strength, uh strength and conditions.
One was a female and then and then he had the dietitian, the white lady, which was a female, and then he had a chef yeah.
The chef I mean his team and he said it was a team.
It was a team, he was humble and he to what is not me.
He said: hey man, we want to sponsor one of you next Fighters, a fight with one of the uh pair of boxing gloves from Stafford boxing, but these boxing gloves are called spiritual gloves.
Lord have mercy spiritual gloves these spiritual gloves but yeah, so their needs to so so.
Uh coach, Esau coach, Terence Crawford uh trainer.
He needs to get an award for trainer of the year because he prepared his fighter.
He was prepared mentally physically and emotionally.
He was there, he was prepared that dude was there I’m talking about, he was there and so now in the post fight.
I watched it and I studied it right and I was listening not only with my ears but also with my spiritual ears right and I understand in the moment of defeat.
You have you know some things to say, but personally Earl Spence respectfully, I don’t think that it would be a difference at 154.
Personally, I just don’t.
I just think that Styles uh uh make fights and your style you so used to yeah.
They said this.
He was predictable, you know what I’m saying like and – and I think that it’ll be now – you can work at it, but you I mean you have to Elite level of boxing and for you to change your style.
It’S going to be very difficult and it’s going to take a lot of time, but I don’t think like we should see a rematch of the fight.
That’S just my opinion, because it’s going to be the same thing, because that boy, Terence Crawford Mama there go that man that Mama there go that man.
When I say man, oh, that man boy, are they saying that Enos and Crawford are supposed to have a mandatory fight Venus? Oh, oh, oh, oh boots, are they no? But but you know, I don’t know, he’s he’s great he’s good, but yeah and then Crawford came out even even his his uh, his uh his gear, where he had the fish net on.
I was like, oh man, this boy came and the boy came out with Eminem The Eminem.
I ain’t never seen Eminem come out for nobody, but that’s the thing that I like about Crawford Brook.
He is marketable because he had ass on he’s marketable on social media.
Yeah he is marketable and what I mean by marketable, he don’t he’s he’s very low-key, he’s very respectful that boy from Omaha Nebraska, you feel me so being from Nebraska bro you it’s it’s a different type of culture up there matter of fact, that’s where Warren Buffett Is from Omaha so those those white folks up there bro they they different.
You know what I’m saying they about family now, don’t don’t get me wrong.
It’S some there’s some G’s up there, but for the most part it is a level of respect, character and presentation and you’ve seen that in Terence Crawford in his press conference how he carried himself off.
The excuse me outside of the boxing ring and inside of the boxing ring, and he would just I mean he was just very graceful and so going back to this uh post.
So Earl Spence said man, I have a rhythm, you know, and you know I I knew I was trying to get into a rhythm, okay, my bad, my wife smacked me because I said a feeling, so we trying to stop saying feelers so Eric I mean Eric Crawford Eric Crawford, I’m tripping Eric Crawford, Earl Spence, my bad bro, no disrespect.
He said that he wasn’t in a rhythm.
The reason why you wasn’t in the room Rhythm.
My boy was because Terence Crawford was doing everything to get you out of rhythm, even the uh shoulders like he was lining you up and he was taking away that jab.
You know what I’m saying that you have made a name for that.
Jab, like you, set up a lot of your punches with that jab right but Crawford.
He knew that and he took that away and Crawford is was was able to make the adjustment and he started off differently too.
I’M telling my man say: listen, I think with him.
Man he’s one of those that can just that can just change he’s up there with the greats he’s up there with the question I’m talking about.
Terence Crawford is up there with Muhammad Ali Mike Tyson uh Sugar, Ray Leonard Sugar, Ray Robinson uh, Roberto Duran, he’s up Marvel, Hagler, uh, Thomas Thomas Hearn uh.
What’S my man with the uh, the the uh? What’S his name, um George uh foreign, listen uh! It’S! He he’s up there with uh Jack Dempsey.
Man he’s up man, he he he’s in that category, bro he’s because he made history being Undisputed into weight.
Division, there’s never been done in the sport of boxing and he gets Spence those belts and then yeah, because if because because they gon na send him his personal belts right.
But after the fight he took the belt and that’s the classy thing about uh uh, Crawford man.
He gave the boy his belts back, even though he’s not the champ, but at the same time you want to have those belts in your home as memorabilia or what you accomplished.
Man gay that man that’s a playoff man.
I respect that dude bro and that’s the type of an example that you young Fighters, need to be taking game from bro from both of them.
Bruh.
You feel what I’m saying I mean Earl Spence told him man.
Thank you, bro for making the fight happen.
Man, you feel I’m saying he had an attitude of gratitude.
Bruh, you feel me and that’s and you Fighters think that cursing one another and and talking about somebody, mom or wife or kids, or even like the boy Caleb slap, the dude man, come on bro.
My wife’s name wow, but this fight was was, was marketed based on these guys performance.
It wasn’t that rhetoric, it wasn’t.
It was strictly about this.
You see these that’s what the skills, your skills and your records should be able to promote.
Now babe, you know what Shakura Stevenson have not been tested and you know will be a great fight.
Shakur, Stevenson’s and uh boots.
Ennis yeah that’ll be great that’ll, be yeah, that is, that boom yeah, because that’ll yeah, so so Shakur yeah.
So so, like uh Showbiz, uh Showbiz, the dope, you gave Shakura Stevenson the name sugar.
Hmm.
You said that uh Shakur Stevenson reached out to Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar, Ray Leonard cosine, uh Shakur Stevenson, putting sugar Shakur Stevenson, no disrespect, but Shakur ain’t been tested bro.
He has not been tested to me.
He he’s been fighting, can of tomatoes bro straight up, bro, that’s no cappuccino! Bro! Now Shakur.
You say that you are a great fighter.
You need to be tested, I don’t think you’ll be tested with Devin Haney.
That’S just my humble opinion: that’s no disrespect, but you will be tested with boots in this bro.
Yes, Lord, he would be tested.
You say that you are sugar, Shakur Stevenson.
Well, won’t you go up against uh boost Ennis that’ll be a fight because Devin Haney’s.
I believe is finding somebody else, but what is someone saying something? Man, Cedric uh Sports training good afternoon? What’S up said Cedric? Yes, Lord? What did he say? I hate you say what’s up good afternoon from Canada, hey I used to watch them all the time.
That’S the surgery Cedric and Mike yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah for sure for sure yeah, but listen man going back so uh Derek James, hey man.
We need it hey.
There needs to be some accountability.
Man, yes pound for pound number, one Terence Bud Crawford.
Is that guy don’t talk about that boy, bad, no, more yeah! You feel me! The boy been boxing since the age of seven years old.
You feel me and he’s considering.
If, if I was him man, I just hey bro, you didn’t got plenty of money, and now you have an opportunity to do endorsement deals matter of fact.
He had a prime uh Logan Paul yeah yeah.
I thought so because I had seen the drinks yeah.
I had seen the string too, so man, you can make more money promote promoting different products.
Now, now that you made history in the sport of boxing, you make more money matter of fact you can do like Floyd.
Do Exposition, uh, uh yeah, whatever so yeah.
Some listen you might not want to.
He might.
He might still want to go Expedition, not Expedition, yeah uh, it’s a Expedition Expedition! It’S a young super yeah for real for real, and I’m telling you man boost in this and Shakur Stevenson.
It’S hard for me.
For you to give you sugar, bro, you got the man, you got to earn.
Yeah man, you yeah yeah bro! You got to earn that Sugar bro! You ain’t, earn no sugar.
Yet bro you! You should core Stevenson.
I can’t give you a tablespoon of sugar yeah.
No, we cannot, we cannot give you a table, hey, say: bro.
We can’t give you a tablespoon of sugar yet break you.
Ain’T been tested bro.
Now, if you get in a ring with Boost in this and you beat and you beat him, then we give you some sugar matter of fact.
We give you organic sugar yeah for real, no cappuccino yeah.
We, I be more than happy to call you sugar, Shakur Stevenson, but it’s hard for me to call you sugar, Shakur, Stevenson, bro, and you ain’t really fought nobody and Devin Haney is not it bro, Devin Haney is not it respectfully, respectfully and well.
What about uh? What’S his name Javonte Davis, um now now I want to see you fight boots in his Shakur Stevenson.
That’S the one I want to see.
I pay for that and I think the the public will come and support that fight bro.
But I want to say this again, I want to say thank you so much for sharing light on the diversity issues that uh female boxers face in the boxing industry.
We need to have more discussions about this so that we can give these women their just.
Do they earn the opportunity to be on some of the big time undercards? We have a lot of great up and coming uh female Fighters female, like uh, uh, Clarissa shield, and what’s the other girl, now keep forgetting them.
Alicia Alicia like now, she said that she wanted to fight um.
She was calling out Katie Amanda and, I believe, Cameron, so the other thing is this.
I know that the boxing industry has been run a certain way for, since its beginning, the mafia used to run it.
But then our rip, the custom motto he was able to fight that and it went to Congress and so forth and so forth.
But now there needs to be some change and there needs to be a level of leadership where it brings about diversity.
Inclusion – and I am a big fan of Dana White – say what you want to say about the man, but that man gives the the people the fight that they want to see, and so often we will get a fight in the boxing industry.
That’S two three.
Four years late, we want it now the fans deserve it.
The boxing industry needs to think about change in life.
Change is, is inevitable, so we have to embrace change and in change is uncomfortable because there has been a level of you know, people being comfortable.
You know what I’m saying but complacency, but like uh, what’s what’s my man name, Jim Collins? Who is the author, who wrote the book good, the great shout out to Jim Collins matter of fact I bought a book.
Then I sent him my information.
He was impressed, so he sent me an autograph uh copy from good to Great to put in my library, but anyway, good is the um the death of Grace.
So, in order for the boxing industry to compete at the level of the UFC, there needs to be some change and I think, like having a board, will be great for the boxing industry.
Having a a commissioner, some someone who can regulate and and is voted in by a a body and group, they say hey, we want this person to oversee the.
It will be better for the boxing industry.
I think some boxers female boxers, yeah female reporters or whatnot need to be a part of that, but with you saying that too, like as far as with the judges, because there have been some fights where the judges were uh, you were very questionable.
Yeah on your score cards come on.
My thing is I, in my opinion, yeah.
I think that the judges need to have some type of education.
Now they need to go through some type of training education, but more so I believe that they need to be held.
Drake, I don’t know about that.
Dre! I don’t know about that.
What happened? Drake said that boxing is on top.
Now I don’t because of one fight.
No it don’t have to be.
It’Ll have to be so yeah.
It’S gon na have to be more fights like that: yeah yeah and even the ones that are just coming up because we get it from the Olympics to the amateur.
We know that they’re really not going to be that much, but you can build that reputation up and there was something that you said too.
You said that Prime sponsored: oh that’s another thing for the female Fighters, because I was always wondering when I see their posts on a social media platform, some Fighters, female Fighters are actually asking for a business to promote them.
That should not be their responsibility.
That should be the promotional, uh company’s responsibility.
That’S number one number two, because we’re talking about change.
So if technology changes that everything is going to change, but the other thing I was going to say is, if you do sponsor a female or or whatever pay them, because, apparently you all are not paying them as much as you are paying the men.
So once again as a business, you are putting your name and your brand on a fighter.
If you did not believe in that female fighter, you would not put your name out like that, so you need to pay them.
I can’t believe, like we’re literally still having this con um conversation.
It’S it’s, but but having these conversation is healthy, though no I mean I get it and so you’re gon na always happen.
I get what you’re saying, but what I’m saying is it’s.
I guess what I’m not understanding, because I’m not a man number one, but how can you not I’m just saying like how can you not this is not the dinosaur baby.
Listen, listen check this out.
What are you doing? You know what you you you it just it just it just popped.
In my spirit, you know what you’re doing you’re being a Trailblazer bro, whether you know it or not.
Well, there’s been, I know, ladies, like Melissa she’s been doing it, everybody listen, listen, everybody has their own path of being the trail Trailblazer right you not having a background in boxing coming into the boxing industry.
Talking about the issues speaking up on behalf of women and voting and excuse me and I’m saying voting but promoting equality.
That’S Trailblazer bro because most women who are in the boxing industry, most of them on a high level, had some type of either amateur or professional background experience.
You didn’t, God gave us this vision and we and we ran with it and look how the vision has turned into so.
We got our own boxing gloves.
We got merch Galore, we got shoes on the way you feel me um and you making a a a uh, a credible case.
What you are stating on the Airways on the podcast show people got to respect it.
Even even you got uh comments from our supporters.
They you got Cedric, you got Dre, you got uh, but listen, Drake! That’S only one fight, though bro uh UFC making Bookoo lots of money bruh, it’s like every time.
I’M telling you about it.
There already on ESPN, regularly, bro or the way I’m telling you bro.
The UFC do way more promoting than boxing bro now in the UK, it’s different, but in the US we need a Dana White in the boxing industry and that’s just my opinion and some and people being held accountable for the BS because they carry out because hey Who’S that that’s Eddie, what’s up daddy man, Eddie, say boy Eddie, don’t you ever try to got dog on me, bullying, me boy.
You know who I am you.
You know who I am my boy, hey man, listen.
I want to give a shout out to Eddie because he is a remarkable father bro.
This man here take care of them.
Girls they be so clean.
They’D, be neat hell, be done very respectable man, his son on point man, Eddie man.
It’S all love bro for real, but anyway baby before we close out babe.
Can you take these out sure foreign, my gosh, but before we leave and my husband says what he’s going to say, I just want to shout out to all of the women out there who couldn’t it work yeah, that’s putting in! Oh, oh, don’t give up.
What’S the name lady uh, lady tiger, lady tiger, what’s the name of man, lady tiger uh, what’s her name, lady tiger, no, her name, not lady tiger, what you doing what you doing, but you completely interrupted me when I was talking so now.
I got ta brain freeze every time you do that when you interrupt me just like when I interrupt you and you’re like talking, and then you say: oh man, I I totally forgot, but anyway, oh shout out to all Marion tremair.
That’S the name, my bad! Thank you shout out to all the women out there keep your head up.
Do what you do, let’s make some changes, let’s support each other.
Look within your heart.
If you need to make some changes, make some changes and if anybody gives you constructive criticism, just take a deep breath and sit by yourself and just think about it.
It’S gon na be all good, hey man great show.
Today, man, you did good for real.
Keep up keep up the good work and yeah and we got new uh wristband.
You know spiritual gloves.
You know we’re on the way a staffer boxing, yeah yeah, I’m thinking of Champions bam, foreign
Estella
Only in America exists such a challenge for women boxers to be respected in the boxing industry, it’s about respect, Sheila I agree with Stafford that you are a trailblazer, continue to be The Voice of support for female boxers ??