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Foreign fans around the world.
Thank you for joining us.
Another episode of talking fights fantastic friday night panel.
Here we are, we got a new person in the studio, JJ right and uh Mike of course, ready to just let us know what’s going to happen on the weekend and I’m ready to go as well so uh JJ.
If you want to introduce yourself, maybe you can start and then then we’ll start off uh with the uh fight information that Mike’s got lined up guys.
I I want to say a big thanks for having me on.
This is my first time break.
I go by Jay Jay as uh.
You just heard from Tim and excited to start talking about these uh.
This fight coming up this weekend, all right! Yes, man! Yes, I can’t wait.
I’M excited for this.
One come on guys.
The Assassin has his next assignment the electrifying atomizim.
We all know man Lucha Prospect, 7-06 Kos.
He will return to the ring Saturday February, the 11th, this one’s happening at Wembley arena in London against South American Santos Reyes, who is 12-0 with three Kos um.
With six consecutive stoppage victories, including November’s stunning, two round, demolition of the highly regarded Rylan Tartan, uh azim, has now established himself.
As you know, the world’s leading lightweight Prospect and considered by many as a future world champion after his breakthrough 2022 uh, the young Prodigy, was bestowed with accolades for his astonishing run last year, including the BBC sport young fighter of the Year award and the boxing news.
2022 Prospect of the year, which we touched upon on talking fight, uh, Azeem, strainer, Shane mcguin, was also so declared trainer of the Year by Leading UK media sport.
Outlet give me sport.
Azim takes the next step on this journey to World title contention next month, live and exclusively in the UK and Ireland on Sky Sports and marks a significant career Milestone as he headlines a major British arena for the first time.
This is crazy.
Guys, man, like yes, Adam azim, this Prospect, you know Prospect of the year last year, is now heading up one of the cards.
This is going to be great if uh, the amazing, Adam azim, can add a seventh consecutive stoppage to his own record in the process.
It will underline his staggering potential all-time great Amir Khan, who won his first major world title at the age of 22, but has predicted Adam azim will win a world title.
Even sooner.
Uh rails hails from Nicaragua, a Latin American boxing Powerhouse, which has produced names such as you know, Alexis agrulo, Ricardo, megura and you know, went 4-0 in 2022 he’s the current WBA uh Central America champion and successfully defended his title with dominant decision victory in December.
Then, on the card man, I always love to see this girl back in Action.
Man, Sweet, Caroline Dubois, 504.
Kos takes a big step up on February 11th when she faces highly experienced Argentinian National Champion.
Uh yamila lean, sorry mouth a little dry here, avalindella uh who’s.
15, five and one with three kills uh best known to British fans for her WBA Intercontinental title: bash uh with Natasha Jonas arch rival, Terry Harper.
In March last year, uh she successfully defended her Argentinian National Title four times since winning it in December of 2020.
Uh is making her second visit to the UK um Dubois stand-up amateur career, in which he became Youth Olympic champion World youth champion and four times European youth Champion has transition seamlessly into the professional ranks um.
You know, like your stablemate, Adam azim, she went 5-0 in 2022 and marked herself out as one of global boxing’s scenes talent to watch, and you know we got English middleweight champion – will be on the line when newly crowned Champion Tyler Denny.
Who’S 15 2-3 makes his first title offense of the title he won in November, with the win over um Manchester’s Brad, The Stig Ray uh challenging Denny in The Undefeated, Cornwall man, Brad Paul’s, who is 160 with nine Kos uh, brings his 56 stoppage ratio to the Ring and goes into the belt off the back of the win at London’s O2 Arena Last Summer.
Three stoppage wins in three fights: two of them coming inside the first three rounds made 2022 a year in which young Prospect Videl Riley who’s 7-0, with 4kos marked himself out as a rising threat in the Stacked cruiserweight division.
So, on February 11th he turns his attention to Taj, who is seven two and O with 5kos a boxer series, tournament veteran and aims to make it Judgment Day for the law graduate and Waterford Grammar School alum and starts his 2023 campaign in style.
Guys.
I’M looking super forward to this uh this card.
This one gets underway early.
It is in the UK.
It’S gon na be a 2 p.
m start.
So you know Mark that one down guys set it up.
If you got to work, set your pvrs, Let’s uh.
Graham you looking forward to this card at all or what yeah Zach jelly we’ve talked about.
It often uh.
I know he’s on the undercard, but uh he’s he’s someone who we’ve mentioned a lot um.
I I can’t remember if you just mentioned his name but uh, I’m looking forward to seeing him fight, I’m looking forward to our girl, uh, Caroline Dubois, as well uh, the main title and not really too, I’m not hey.
How about this in English word, I’m not too chuffed about it, but uh, but uh.
Nonetheless, on on the undercard, there are some fights, I’m looking forward to what about Jamie tkv got ta.
Remember him.
Yeah yeah go to the weak award.
He is back in Action.
Looking for his fourth win, looking at Santa Fe he’s taking on Harry Armstrong, who is 501 right now, so you know what heavy weighted out we’re gon na see it it’s gon na be great.
I believe it is the only it is the only scheduled heavyweight boat on the card, and then we got the cruiserweight with uh videll Riley, taking on and massage so it’s uh, it’s gon na, be a great uh, a great turn of events.
Man.
We also have a Hassan azim on the card as well: um brother of Adam, so definitely gon na be uh.
Gon na be some great action here.
Uh Tyler, Denny, Brad Paws this one’s for the you know the British English middle uh.
You know Zach Kelly, WBA Continental super middle title vacant is on the lines Anthony Sims Jr yeah.
So I just mentioned: okay I’ll tell you one thing: five fights over there over there.
I just tell you one definitely needs to take over over there in Europe and then come to the states and find and 130 30 Pounders over here and see what he got.
He he will have to bring it away because here’s where the big money fights are made, so I I’m super excited.
I love the fact that we got two fights in one day and watch them both.
You know all day so uh, I’m super excited for this fight, so hopefully he can bring those talents over here to the states be nice.
It would be nice, that’s for sure, uh yeah, Graham, I know the English ones they’re, always uh they’re, always pleasing.
You know Carl’s always got some things to say over there at last bell boxing about you, know the greatest hot bed and Foxy and always yeah, but it did put together a pretty good card.
I am kind of excited to see Adam nazim again.
You know he did have an amazing amazing, 2022 uh.
You know the real deal, I think uh.
I think we’re seeing the beginning of a legacy, that’s being born here, uh in adamazine.
Definitely he impresses every time he’s out and you know what it gets better.
Every time he’s out a little more refined, a little more you know focused, you know every every every outing he’s growing as a fighter, which is great.
You know he is still really young.
He is now ranked 131 in the world out of 2097.
In that super light division, so you know, and that he’s only he’s only 20 years old, so you know he’s got a long career ahead of him definitely does have a long career, definitely looking forward to to uh seeing more of him uh.
I I I tell you one thing: he’s gon na: have it tough too, because there’s so many many good guys in that division, but right um he’s had he has to start getting through that mid level, opposition and um and then he’ll be the the big.
The big fight, so I’m definitely looking forward.
He he is, he is and uh.
You know it’s gon na be an exciting fight.
You know the gentleman that he’s fighting here and uh uh and it’s not gon na be a easy one.
So no, you know and I’m looking forward.
Yes, me too me too, I’m super looking forward to this one.
I’M I’m thinking I’m thinking um, you know, Santos, real is gon na put up a hard fight, but I think Adam azim’s gon na come through and win this one.
I think he’s going to take it.
I think it’s going to be a nice brilliant finish.
I think it’ll probably end up being a contender, for maybe The Knockout of the week, we’ll see you guys will have to tune in on Sunday to find that out.
Then we got the next card.
We got the next card, we’re going to talk about here’s.
You know Vargas Fosters yeah, got ta, got ta talk about this kid Vargas.
For a minute man, ray Vargas, uh, you know locked up did some time.
Uh he’s looking to um.
You know he got locked up.
It opened his eyes he wanted to give.
It is all before it’s too late in his career uh.
You know it made at a correctional facility in its hometown of Orange Texas in August of 2017.
, he felt abandoned by his people and thought you know who were his friends and wondered what would come of his boxing career after suffering, this kind of uh.
You know setback he’s uh he’s willing to get in there.
Now, though, and show us exactly what he’s about um.
You know undefeated two Vision, World Champ, Ray Vargas, top Contender yeah, but she Foster previewed their battle for the vacant.
Wbc featherweight World Championship during the vital press conference, which eventually Foster had to be removed away from uh, got a little heated.
You know it seems to be, it seems to be uh.
You know the last couple of years that this stuff seems you know, seems to be happening.
He he’s stepping for Flores right.
Flores was originally scheduled to fight Ray Vargas, yep yeah yeah, no, no you’re correct yeah, 100 uh 9 pm.
This one gets underway, guys uh.
It’S stopped by Vargas and his quest to become three Division: World Champ against you know the hungry Challenger Foster um this one there’s a lot.
There’S a lot of great undercard action here: uh Mario Barrios uh, taking on Giovanni Santiago, this one for the WBC Continental America’s welfare title Mario’s.
You know he’s 26 and two and uh.
You know Santiago.
14 2-1 uh Lanier pero is on this card, taking on Victor vikers, so there’s gon na be some big heavyweight action here.
This one’s for the WBA uh heavy.
This is going to be a a great, a great uh, a great event man.
I can’t wait to see these big guys get in.
There smash smash each other um then also we have his brother opening up the card uh, you know, profiled him uh denier, apparel, he’s 2-0 right now in his professional career uh.
This kid tried several attempts to escape his country to come here and get signed, and you know what he magically made it.
We don’t know how we don’t know what date he arrived, but we know that he is here he is signed.
He is in the gym.
Training and he will be on this card taking on Daniel Zavala, who is two one and two honestly pero’s last knockout was just devastating so guys if you’re looking for a big, you know a big Showtime finish.
You’Re.
Definitely gon na want to watch um.
This guy fight man, his last fight, only lasted 19 seconds uh for the pro debut for Baker.
Uh, you know sorry, Baker, you kind of got uh a hiccup in here in in your in your debut man uh.
You know there’s a little something that he’s now got to go back to the drawing workers.
He got smoked pretty hard by uh Pharaoh.
Apparel’S got some heavy heavy hands uh, you know fighting for his home country.
You know highly tilted amateur he’s now ranked 851 out of 1339 in the world in that heavyweight division expect to see this guy climbing quickly six five 23 years old, weighing in at 245 pounds.
So yes, another one of these gigantic heavyweights.
That uh seem to be just you know, coming up these ranks man and uh yeah.
I can’t wait.
I can’t wait.
We do have some uh, some other underpowered action.
We got a couple of debuts uh, so you know it’s.
It’S always going to be good man.
There’S always going to be great fights, but the top it’s Foster Vargas, WBC World Super feather title Barrios, Santiago, WBC, Continental, America’s Welter.
Pero vikers can’t wait to see that one man we haven’t seen bikers out in a while another big heavyweight here.
You know, 30 years old, Ukrainian six five.
Eighty one inch reach 255 pounds.
This guy’s, a beast man he’s ranked 56 out of 13 39 in the world right now.
We have not seen him out since December 17th 2022 when he took on Franklin Lawrence in Germany.
Uh that one went eight rounds unanimous decision, so yeah he’s going to be looking for a big stoppage here.
Definitely one to watch guys mark my words.
You know I’ve seen them fight several times uh.
You know he is 32 years old.
Has a lot more experience with 222 rounds with only 10 Rounds uh for foster uh, but at the same time he’s not your tip later.
He is a Mexican boxer, so yeah he he loves to dance around the ring and Foster is just going to be chasing them everywhere.
Um – and I tell you, Foster – has some Power and Ray Vargas is going up and in a new division that he’s never been there uh to fight someone, that’s been, let’s see if his power power transfers over to that Division and uh foreign early early in the Week and I think my money’s on Foster, you know, Foster Foster’s a heavy hitter man um.
You know I, like Vargas, I like what he’s about uh.
You know he’s he’s getting up there.
You know highly tuted decorated Pro you can’t.
You can’t ask for more, but Foster he’s got something to prove um.
You know he’s looking to really make his Mark.
He is ranked number one in that super feather division in the United States he’s ranked number four in the world.
You know and uh he’s he’s really, you know he’s had a hiccup in his in his career.
That uh, you know, saw him incarcerated, but you know he’s not here to waste his time and he’s he’s here to take.
You know, take names and kick ass.
That’S what it’s about the uh uh hungry.
You got to be aware for those um.
You know Vargas he’s already a champion in the super Chloe.
He might not feel like he has much more to prove, so you got Foster coming in.
I’Ve never been the WC Champion trying to get that belt and it’s gon na be an interesting one yeah this is, you know this is his uh.
You know his first world title approach.
Uh, you know he’s he’s gon na be hungry.
Man he’s he’s got something to prove.
That’S for damn sure you know that that kind of that kind of thing you know you’ve been to that ring so many times, and this is only your first time you know going going into that world title shot.
You’Re gon na make sure that you make a statement.
So I’m I’m thinking uh, you know, look for a finish man, I think uh.
You know those Mexicans yeah if they dance high volume punching we’re gon na see a lot of that man.
We’Re gon na see a lot of uh.
You know they can also take damage.
Man they’re Warriors those Mexican Fighters are warriors.
They don’t know when to quit.
You know their Corners got to save them most of the times from themselves, but expect high volume punching expect Foster to be swarming uh, it’s gon na, be it’s gon na, be a great Main Event.
Yeah and and Vargas 10 has already with masago and he went down and he came back and won that fight so battle tested.
He has a big heart, so I I think, even if he goes down 12 rounds, but who knows? Let’S see tomorrow, uh tomorrow night uh, everybody, everybody be a great one, yeah, definitely definitely Vargas.
You know you can’t count them out, he’s a warrior.
32 years old, you know 222 rounds.
You can’t you can’t shake that off.
You know that win over magsayo.
That was huge, that was, that was a huge fight.
You know before that it was the unanimous decision over bias.
You know he’s uh he’s in there.
Man he’s definitely the one to watch he’s definitely gon na be the favorite, but you know what you can’t count out: the underdog who’s, hungry, hungry, hungry and and good and good yeah.
Definitely, I think, I think Tim Tim Witherspoon’s coming in Tim yay, why he didn’t send me.
Look at that beard, look, look! That’S how long you’ve been waiting to get on he’s been waiting, how you doing waiting for him.
I got my grandkids and stuff, so I’m kind of late shoot him over there.
That’S three of my 14 grandkids.
How many I got 14 grandkids.
I don’t want to show you underneath it come in hm you’re, letting all the gray come in uh.
No, I just didn’t shave.
I got a bit.
I got a bit of gray too okay, who we who’s.
Who are we here with so yeah? Hey, look at that belt.
Are you gon na talk about Ryan rozicki yeah? Let’S say: let’s talk about him: let’s talk about him yeah.
Why didn’t he send this to my email? He put it on WhatsApp, okay.
I got my laptop right here.
Yeah yeah, I I was confused as well, took me a while to find it as well.
Oh okay, all right we’re going! Let’S get it on, come on guys all right! Here we go Ryan roziki’s, there’s a fight going on in uh in Canada, right now, wow out of Nova Scotia.
I think right, yeah he’s at a Nova, Scotia um yeah.
It is going on tomorrow, night.
Isn’T it yep in Hamilton in Hamilton just around the corner from us man? Maybe you should uh? Maybe we should be on our way there [ Laughter ], you make me look old, [, Laughter, ], look like Don King! Oh no way he just he doesn’t have the hair for it.
So so you guys were talking about the fights who’s up who’s, our who’s, our who’s.
Our guest is our newest host on talking fight, oh he’s out of that land he’s out of Atlanta and he’s uh.
Okay he’s going there in a couple of weeks.
Hey is Holyfield still based.
Oh he’s Holyfield still in Atlanta.
Yes, he’s uh all base out of here, yep abandoned and I’ve, and I’ve actually seen them walking on the road getting out of the car.
So I thought you were gon na, say: oh yeah, I’ve even been having a few rounds with them.
Lately, even uh, even at his age, he he’ll still do some damage.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, he is strong.
I’Ve seen him sparring who’s that oh John Ruiz, I’ve seen the video I don’t know when it was, but it looked.
It looked pretty.
Okay, he hung in there with John Lewis and matter of fact, John wasn’t really it was today.
I saw it today, but I don’t know when the video was looking really good.
No, it’s just John, not John Ruiz, um, Andy right, Andy Ruiz.
I seen the spa with him and they go go ahead, go ahead and leave that alcohol alone water all right.
We’Re gon na talk about a fight coming up in Hamilton tomorrow, yeah yeah, Ryan, roziki, 16, 1-0 uh he’s ranked 17th in uh the world.
Taking on our tourists uh, it was ten two and one cruiserweight division: uh yeah Hamilton, Ontario, athletic commission three lines for oceans, putting it on uh, there’s, there’s a couple of uh there’s a couple of Shania uh, Jake Dost, one of those ones get my shaver Gonzalez.
Come here, Caroline Redmond, 501-0.
I’M sorry, I’m sorry, Sylvia Barraza um, some good fights man.
I can’t wait.
I’M surprised we uh We’re Not Gon na Be ringside for this one me too yeah.
I’M surprised we’re not ringside for this one get in touch with three Lions, we’ll have to talk to our producers about this yeah.
We will we’ll have to talk to the produce foreign [ Laughter, ] fight helicopter is already booked anyway, but uh yeah.
All right keep going, keep going Mike, keep going uh as we watch The Champ have a shave.
Yeah live, live on, talk and fight right, yeah is it the only place? Is that uh yeah? You know what I can’t wait.
Okay, go ahead.
There’S gon na be some great there’s.
Some good Grenadian views on this card.
Uh.
You know a lot of a lot of people sleep on Canada.
You can’t man, we uh.
You know we got some great Fighters here.
Some great representation we’re gon na see some great guys who are trying to keep that oh intact uh, Tristan, Brooks 2-0 taking on Emilio Silva uh, Stefan dronjac, who is 2-0 trying.
You know try to keep that.
Oh taking on Marlon address um Retta uh, taking on Dylan Russian, so we got a bunch of guys who are sub five fights here.
Uh, you know wan na want to make a statement want to show what they got and uh.
This is a it’s gon na be a great undercard man of Canadian Boxing.
Definitely some great fights on here.
You can.
Please hit the Hamilton Convention Center Hamilton, Ontario, Canada have you featured on female Friday, Carolyn Redman, yet uh? No, I haven’t.
I haven’t, but uh she’s.
Looking pretty good she’s due she’s due uh super Welter out of Guelph uh, you know she’s ranked three out of four in Canada, 15 out of 77 in the world, you know he’s been 33 rounds, scoring that 33 knockout rating uh her last fight.
She lost the decision to uh Diana Tapia Castro, so you know she’s going to be looking to make a statement and uh, you know add another add another notch to that win and knockout column.
So definitely gon na be some good fights on the undercard there.
For sure yeah good fights I’ve been here about uh prospects coming out of Canada.
It’S really a delight to see uh the the world of boxing just growing everywhere, uh when it was just you know, and and and some spots on this planet.
So um you guys are in Canada are getting uh more and more into this and and bringing out all these awesome Fighters that will leave the mark, you know and so uh.
You know kudos to you over there in Canada and and uh.
Both of these amazing fights boxers years ago now they had okay, the Hilton Brothers they had uh.
They had some bad boys coming out of there and them Hilton Brothers running them.
Brothers, don’t mess with him.
I forgot which one it was.
You can’t mess with him as if a Stuart he died.
There was a this there’s like four of them.
There was some fighting Brothers man, remember the Hilton Brothers, absolutely dumb boys with some Bad Dudes.
They came down King’s camp and then back off of nobody.
That’S why we got respect.
There was a lot of black real, quick there’s, a lot of blacks there in the camp and they were white guys and they came in.
Everybody gave them respect after a while this day, man because they didn’t back off and nobody didn’t care who you were ugly man Alex Alex Stewart and Jimmy they’re, my family, they my family, they were some tough, they didn’t back off of nobody.
I don’t care who you were.
I was like I like them, boys, hey man, they some good dudes, but they were not back off from you.
They don’t care what nationality or whatever I was like.
Okay and they’re drinking there drink some alcohol too.
I am surprised they were very successful.
Man um, you know, yeah Dave, Hilton senior uh, you know 65 wins 16 defeats between 1958 and 76.
.
Oh he’s dead, yeah Dad too man.
I used to talk to him all the time.
What was his record, his dad’s record.
He was 60 uh, 65 and 16.
yeah wow.
All these shoes yeah.
Oh they used to come together.
Man they used to talk.
His dad was real nice but Stuart.
Not Stewart.
Stewart was kind of like disrespectful to some people sometime, but he was cool because he was the youngest Alex, was quiet and could punch his ass off baby was the boxer.
Davey was the oldest in the boxer.
He could punch Alex a punch that was them some good dudes.
Everybody gave them respect that Don King’s camp, everybody, they said, don’t mess with them, boys from Canada, uh one another.
They were too small, they were, they were smaller.
I might have messed around just playing around with with Stewart the youngest one he got he got in a car accident um.
He was just young trying to find out the future.
That’S all that’s why he was so mistress running doing little bad things.
He was young, but he he was pretty good too, and you could tell if he would have grown more.
He would have did really good, but then I heard I felt bad when he passed away um.
Is it a car accident or something accident? It was a car reaction yeah.
I believe it was a car accident yeah they were hey.
If you was in Camp with him, they they they, they capture theirself a little, not kept itself.
They was cool, but if you mess with them, they are not backing up.
I don’t care who you are, that’s what I respected about them and they stuck together too yup yeah that time, you know very tough time how they used to so yeah, I’m sure, 25 years ago, right yeah, I’m sure you remember, George savalo yeah, that’s my man! George, is a nice guy? I can’t believe it.
I ain’t gon na talk, hey look guys.
I ain’t trying to steal the show, but I mean I was cool with him.
I had a chance to meet the great George to follow and I was shaking hands with him and we talked he’s quiet.
I don’t know about you guys, but he was quiet and we talked.
He just would look at you and say something.
Then he looked back and then but I’ve never seen him go any further than that.
I never seen him get really active.
He always moving around a little slow and then he talked, but you guys might know more.
He was cool, he had he had the best.
Shame in the box – and I think no, I think he had the best chin he was.
He was a great Fighter, um he’s having his troubles medically these days, but I met him back when I was a waiter uh in 1977, actually uh and he was just driving through we.
I was a waiter at the Holiday Inn out in Oshawa and I Met George ball and he came home with a whole bunch of people and uh.
My maitre d at the restaurant said.
Aren’T you going to get his autograph and I went uh? I went I mean he was the quietest, one at the table and I went who is he what he was? He was a gentleman like a real gentleman, um yeah we have.
We have.
We have a historian when he does a show on talk and fight.
His name is Lou Eisen, and he constantly highlights the fact that Canada has had over the years like over hundreds of since, like they had fights, um like just after the Civil War had ended and Canadian Fighters would go down.
Uh black Canadian Fighters would go down from Canada to fight white white uh Fighters uh from in the South uh, and he he taught this not one.
I think two shows ago he mentioned say it again say that again, the south of Canada or south of America, South of America.
So he went this this white, this black Canadian fighter from Nova Scotia in and around 1890s, went down to New Orleans, just just out just decades after the Civil War ended to take on a white fighter.
So you can imagine the crowd right yeah anyway, anyway, the the show host that we have on our show talk and fight Lou Eisen.
He described this fight and it would.
It must have been incredible: uh for a black fighter from Canada to go down to New Orleans just a decade or two after the Civil board ended and then take and beat by the way and beat this white fighter.
Then so the crowd was astonished.
So Canada has a very unique history in that it’s always produced great Fighters like Lennox Lewis, um, you know, and and and well well we’re Lennox from now.
Where is he from now orig? Now? Okay, originally, he was born in England, okay, he was born in England, but his mom uh moved him over to Canada.
He got trained.
Uh in Canada went on to win the gold at the Olympics.
If I’m not mistaken for Canada and then uh went to where the money is over in England and continued his heavyweight career in in England and uh, you know the English see him as the best English heavyweight ever well.
How old was he? How old was he when he went to Canada uh like a a wee man like uh, six or seven, he was very young.
He’S Canadian, then he’s Canadian? How how we, how we, how we was he yeah? No, he I’m talking about six or seven years old.
Very, very young, Canadian, he Canadian, but anyway anyway, we have this argument all the time with our English friends uh.
You know about whether he was Canadian or English, but at the end of the day he won Gold for Canada at the Olympics, uh a great fighter on nonetheless, a great heavyweight fighter, Lance Lewis he’s still around um and having fun um wow did we ever jump Off topic there [ Laughter ] we were talking about.
We were talking about Ryan rozicki, uh out of Nova, Scotia uh Main Event uh in in now.
Oh, I know what I was gon na say to you guys the reason JJ, the reason that that Canada had to take a bit of a backstep was because here here in Canada, we have 10 provinces couple of territories.
The biggest province is Ontario where, where Mike and I are from and uh, we had a even even back when you were in diapers Muhammad Ali used to come and fight at Maple Leaf Gardens here in Toronto.
Okay and uh Toronto had a huge boxing history, huge in terms of attracting big names to Maple Leaf Gardens having fights practically every weekend, and then this fella stepped in a boxing commissioner, by the name of Ken hayachi, and he absolutely destroyed boxing here in Ontario.
It’D.
Be like someone’s name it’d, be like someone saying that Tim Witherspoon there’ll be no more boxing in Pennsylvania period it.
What did he do? What did he do for some of the things that he did um? He would make it impossible for the promoters to actually make money.
He would not allow people to fight on a card, but then would tell them last minute, so they couldn’t find a replacement uh to stuff in that slot.
So promoters were losing money.
Canceling shows uh.
He wouldn’t have doctors stay ringside uh after the fight um.
He would you know he just wouldn’t allow venues to happen uh.
He made you jump through all these like.
Like all these hoops.
You know he promoted safety but then, like wouldn’t make things safe.
There was all this stuff that he was doing.
He was just trying to like kaibash everything across it and uh.
You know, there’s a lot of promoters that actually went bankrupt and lost their promotion.
Companies dealing with this guy, you know, can you imagine, having you know, having your eight card fight set up ready to go in the day before he’s like okay? Well, these two can’t fight these two can’t fight and these two can’t fight and no you have what 12 hours to fill the slot.
You can’t do that, so you know these promotion to drop, so he would do stuff like that, and you know it just made it.
It made it impossible for any promotional company to try and make money.
I made it hard for any professional boxer to really you know, gain any sort of notoriety and you know, then our Fighters leave man, they go down in the states, they go to Mexico, they go to the UK.
You know they go all over the world because you know we have no transition.
You know we got great.
We got great programs leading up into the Olympics and you know Olympic youth boxing and all this kind of stuff, but then it’s like as soon as the Olympics is over.
We didn’t have.
We didn’t, have a structure to transition these amateur boxers into the paid ranks.
So they had to seek that somewhere else and where is that UK United States? Are you seeing uh more Fighters being able to do and and work out their craft thing uh? That was going on back when I was diapers yeah? No, no! No! No! No! There’S a big change: we got a young promoter uh by the name of Lee Baxter, who uh has made it his mission to put Canada back on the map as the mecca of Canadian Boxing uh.
You know he’s done a deal with the Zone uh you know and they’re, showing his stuff Cedric.
What’S up brother long time, no see hello, hello, Champions, hello, hello, hello, yeah man, so so to our American friends and UK friends who are watching right now I mean Cedric can probably fill us in with respect to the Ken Hayashi regime and how he actually destroyed Boxing here in Ontario uh, because Cedric is now the uh head coach of boxing Ontario’s program and bringing forward all those young amateurs and hopefully transitioning them into the professional ranks.
Is that right? Cedric? Thank you.
Yes, yes, yes, I don’t have my foot in in the professional door yet but um I’m getting my yeah amateurs.
Hopefully the right way, um but yeah.
So so now that that Mr Ashley has gotten the the professional boxing scene in Canada is rising, it was already it was always good in Montreal, but in Toronto Ontario, it’s really booming.
You know.
There’S fights, there’s shows like every other month, if not every month, um.
So it’s really it’s really good man really excited I’m assuming we’ll get.
You know.
One of the one of the major belt holders will have a fight in in Ontario in the next couple of years.
I’Ve assuming it’s my prediction: yeah yeah, it’s looking good looking good! Well, listen, listen if Cody Crowley who’s ranked what number four four in the world right now! If he ends up fighting for that title, you know he’s bringing it back home and you know that venue is gon na be Rebel nightclub.
It’S gon na be Rebel, entertainment center.
You know that they got some tough boys over here.
I’M telling you they got some tough boys over there young Canadians.
They got some tough Canadians, man, I’m telling you I witness it.
I’M serious he’s talking about the hill there’s another Boxer there’s another box there um besides the Hilton brother that was which is named some of those welterweight or Junior middleweight Eric Lucas Brothers, the grant Brothers nah.
Okay, okay, were they black? Yes, were they black? Okay? Okay, the grand Brothers one of them, one of them, had the title right.
Did one of them have the title? Yes, yes, yes, okay, okay, yeah! I remember I apologize.
It was a good old days from Atlanta right now, Cedric’s in the talking fight helicopter.
So things are a little tough for him anyway.
Wait a minute, yeah man, yeah, hey thanks for the hello here in Atlanta Georgia, you know, are coming out as well um and can’t wait to it more into so.
I’M looking forward to you know continuing on with the show and uh.
Let’S see what nice welcome to the family I’ll be down in Georgia on, I should be down in Georgia with um Terrell biggs’s brother, Xavier Biggs, he’s doing he’s doing a uh, a fundraiser for his brother, that that uh won the Olympics and I think in um.
Well, what it wasn’t 80, I don’t know you know Terrell Biggs when he won the um Olympics, so he having a thing on the 5th of March down in Georgia.
I don’t know what city but um I’ll be going down there, because I got two grandsons and my daughter down there I’ll be down there gym down there.
Okay, yeah uh one you heard of Xavier no, I haven’t, but once we’re done with the show uh, we could definitely exchange some contact a touchdown over here in Atlanta and uh.
We can discuss um, it’s called Decatur Boxing Club, oh Decatur.
I think that’s where they at yeah Decatur Boxing Club, all them pretty women down there, Georgia, peaches, I put Tony Chubbs down there, that’s about it! Then I went down there.
Um I went down there wait a minute.
Did I go yeah? That’S the only time I went down there, but I’m going down to see my daughter, poor, Tony tubs.
I forgot where you know and um it was pretty cool foreign woman, [ Laughter ].
Getting back to the main point of the show, you’re right, hey guys, I can’t get off of here.
So let’s not talk, hey real, quick! I got five daughters.
I don’t be neglect, I mean not neglect.
I don’t be trying to chase women.
I got a job to do, raise this little dude.
What I’m with you know – and I just be talking stuff – I do need to find a girlfriend.
I do need you cause I’ll, be snapping on her all the time I’ll be like 10.
But it’s not really bad, though it’s nothing really bad, but it’s good! You don’t you don’t need to chase any more women, because you don’t need any more daughters, right laughs.
I feel good now I feel good about doing the right thing and and and I don’t want her to be chasing men and men and men – you know I want to.
I want to be a good example.
I got four more daughters, they all got kids um.
So I wanted to be a good example for them: another another young lady.
So I try to keep things on the right line.
I do need a girlfriend, though I leave your girlfriend yeah all right.
I’M scared, shitless.
How scared shitless are the boyfriends of your daughters.
I never seen some of them.
It took a while every time I go away to training camp.
You know I go to training camp and I mean Hey where’s where’s, my where’s so and so at oh stay out somewhere.
You know I come home.
I know you don’t see no dudes, it took a while it took a while for for you know they wouldn’t come around and then they did when they got older.
When they got older, I seen their boyfriends, but ain’t.
None of them get smart with me.
No! No, no, but I’m gon na teddy bear I’m a teddy bear.
You know, I don’t be up there wanting to fight and stuff like that, but I will I will get hey.
I know what I did.
I know what I did cause my dad.
He wasn’t around all the time he was cool, but he didn’t direct me.
He didn’t direct me and um.
I did good.
I did good.
I didn’t really treat women bad at all.
I didn’t, I did good, you know, so she can’t do that man, you can’t you can’t be out there.
It sounds like it sounds like you did.
Well Tim, but uh.
You know.
If you want to attract the women you got.
Ta have a shave before the show [, Laughter, ] Asian women.
I would have shaved.
That’S right.
That’S right! Team, Canada, bro, hey! I was ashamed.
I want to shade, but you see me doing this.
Look they see me doing this see we we can find.
We can find you clients who you can train Tim, and we can also find your girlfriends if you shave, yeah, hey [, Music, ], there’s no fights tonight, brother, nothing to watch, I’m having fun bullying Shania my daughter and bullying my gang grandkids when they come over.
That’S how I get my um energy, that’s how I get my my stuff off me I’ll, be bullying them, but I have it’s like a fun bully.
It’S cool, though I don’t have to chase girls.
It’S going to come everything Carlos Carlos cuadros versus lamberto matsayas.
You know Canelo TV, it’s a Mexican fight going on right now do last weekend.
What’S that Frederick? How did the tournament go? It was good.
Ontario got uh six gold medals, two silver, ten bronze, all right yo! That’S that’s all! That’S all! Because of the head coach right, that’s all because of that head coach, that’s right way to go: Cedric yo, another person driving with you to Pat you on the back bro good job way to go: Cedric, hey yeah, hey speaking speaking of that, let me interrupt guys.
Uh, one of our original show hosts here on talk of fight Scarlett Delgado, actually actually won um.
She won her division, yeah uh she she’s.
Congratulations fills in Cedric fills in she’s, one of the six gold medals from Ontario she’s under the Canadian national team um and she actually um she should have won.
If not, I can’t I’m not sure if they gave out medals, but if they did she she would have got best female box of the tournament because she had three fights and she looked like basically Flawless in all three fights looked very good.
She showed her Superior skill level to her to her competition and she looked very good in all three of her fights so yeah wow.
That is really cool for the guys.
Um kid called love.
This kid called kioma Ali he’s gon na be the next one.
Coming out of Canada, that’s going to make some noise, so remember that name him and his sister nationalities.
What nationality is he um? Well, they were both born in Canada, but I forget what their parents are somewhere from the Middle East, but they were both born in Canada.
Okay, that seems like a lot of situations, not like clinics.
Uh got ta go back to well.
A lot of those guys are dedicated to eat proper.
A lot of them pray a lot of them.
You know, I’m not saying this excuse, I don’t know about the skills of them.
Do a lot of uh.
They don’t be drinking and partying like we do.
The country, but in them to me and those countries like like there, they they kind of like stick to the to the rules.
Yeah, you definitely got the dedication, that’s for sure, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, lots and lots of dedication.
I mean that’s what a tank World honestly, you couldn’t get in the ring and perform very well intoxicated the weekend before.
So you know you definitely have to show some way of that determination in order to get in that ring and and be successful, discipline is okay.
Real quick, I know this um this box here three, you know with three knots: he three no with three Knockouts and he’s in he’s he’s in Italy right now, but he’s from the Middle East praise all the time, he’s three no three knocks and he couldn’t get.
No fights he couldn’t get his uh passport, and now he was asking me to help him uh.
He got a long name too, and, and I’m keep in touch with him, I’m trying to get him.
Some help he’s three, no three Knockouts, but he 32.
.
His name is assabazi, Dolly something I got his name.
I’Ve been in touch with him for, like again, I’ve been in touch with him for like four or five years now and um, and then later on, Tata, yeah and um.
I think you want to come turn the light on Ty.
Don’T do that, I’m on the show I’m gon na show you that’s my granddaughter she’s being bad anyway, we’re almost at the hour yeah yeah she’s screaming come on sit down, sit down, be on the show.
Another fight was just announced for Dubai, so I mean there’s a lot.
There’S a lot of big cards being announced for both Dubai.
There seems to be a bit of a competition going on the Saudi Arabians and the uh Emirates, uh they’re, putting on some big shows these days, throwing up some big money by the way, hey Tata, so we’re having uh ourselves uh internationally globally.
Hi there we hey, we’ve, been we’ve been approaching uh promoters in both Saudi Arabia and Dubai uh, whether we can host some shows live stream, some shows from there and promote some of their Fighters and their fights so yeah boxing is growing globally uh and we’re part Of it as a matter of fact, uh, we are talking right now with uh, with a big promoter in Tanzania, the biggest promoter in East Africa.
He promotes fights in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and uh.
He he’s he can’t be out because the time zone you can’t be on our Friday night show, but he honestly wants to promote his Fighters yeah, so they’re they’re watching talk and fight in East Africa and uh and they’re learning, they’re learning.
You know, it’s not just know what’s happening in England happened in America or Canada, but we’ve got to take, take and look at what’s happening around the world, so the fights going on around the world um.
So anyway, I was mentioning to Mike there’s a fight going on in Mexico right now, uh we can’t.
We can’t ignore those Mexicans, no nope, there’s so many of them.
Okay, so um honestly, a lot of the Mexican Fighters.
Uh is that a lot of people like to pay to watch? You know you you’re constantly getting uh um and not a lot of dancing around so I mean watch it.
Um definitely see more of those um and you know bring it to the states.
You know, there’s if you go on BoxRec and go pound-for-pound for Mexico, there’s 58 pages and 2884 registered professional fighters that are active right now in Mexico.
How much say that number so 2884 active registered on the pound for pound list for Mexico wow? That is nice, that is nice? That’S just mail! Yes, oh 2884 registered active on the pound for pound list in Mexico, uh yeah a huge amount of boxing legends that all these young people to throughout the years and, honestly, I don’t think that’s ever gon na stop telling you uh.
You know that that movie coming down in Mexico is it’s a way.
It’S a way for the poor families to even feed themselves.
Man, you know like, so you know some of these guys don’t have options the options either.
You know what become a boxer become a cartel member.
You know yeah they’re, fighting all over the world, there’s so many registered that they’re fighting all over the world.
You know Australia in England, you know they’re they’re, fighting everywhere, they’re everywhere.
You know they should have ever you know should be a situation where they should have ever further opportunity.
Opportunities too.
I know because you’re getting hit up side, your head and everybody.
I wish it was the other opportunities too yeah man, yeah yeah.
What about the scientists and what about scientists and cooks and and all that other stuff too? It should be over options right, yeah! That’S a lot of boxers! There’S there’s 200 there’s 259 females, oh okay, 290.
, that’s kind of guess, registered and more every day, more every day say that again, 2884 male registered fighters in Mexico more every day, because you got to think about this.
What’S the age 17, you can turn pro in Mexico yep.
Maybe it was 15 back then, because you know Canelo a long time ago, right, hey get my cord yeah three or four years play chords.
Are we gon na be watching fights Friday night with Tim Witherspoon and his family yes hold on? Thank you.
We’Re gon na pick a nice knockout for this one, yeah [, Music, ] Brian, need your papa, hey! I’M your papa! All right! Here we go.
Let me find this: let’s sign off as soon as he comes back: okay, yeah man, uh.
What the hell is going on here.
All right hold up, Cedric you’re doing a scorecard this weekend for the fans.
Yes, I am yes, I am a scorecard will be back Sunday morning.
9 30 a.
m, sick fight which fight you do there’s two of them: um Ray Vargas versus um uh up and coming.
I forget his name and then there’s um Erickson Lubin versus Carlos Adams, dummies Thomas at 160.
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Yeah.
The Vargas was going to fight Flora, as we mentioned earlier, but now he’s taking on this uh.
Oh shaki, Thomas yeah, he’s taking on oshiki Foster.
So that should be interesting.
I’Ll do a little bit of research.
Yeah Foster did some time in the pen uh.
He got released.
Uh now he’s ready to make a statement he’s been in the ring 21 times.
This is his first title match he’s looking to make a huge statement, so you know it’s uh.
It should be a.
It should be a great main event, but uh Barrios and Santiago are fighting on the same card.
Lanier pero is on the card taking off Victor vikhurst, two heavyweights.
There that’s gon na, be a big one.
Man, both those guys, are undefeated looking to stay undefeated.
So you know the car’s got tons.
Oh and we did uh.
We did profile his brother, Daniel apparel, the big heavyweight with that nasty knockout 19 seconds.
Uh he’s opening up the garden um yeah yeah yeah, the pair of Cuba, yeah man yeah.
He attempted seven times to make it to the United States, but somehow was denied every time and then ended up showing up um.
I wonder what kind of raft he made to get here wait a minute.
I’M almost finished it’s time time to go.
Yeah man thanks! So much yo, thank you, Tim Frederick great to have you back JJ guys.
Thank you talking flight fans thanks for tuning in to this week’s episode of the Friday night panel.
You know what it is man we got, ta go work, so you don’t have to and we’ll see you Sunday, 9 30 for the scorecard with Cedric and we’ll see you at four o’clock for The Knockout of the week and guys.
You know what man fighting solves everything you sure you remember that and we’ll see you next time, hey buy me a coffee foreign.
You know what it is guys we’ll see you next time, new topics.
Adios, okay, see you guys.
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