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Oh yeah, hello, blocks and fans around the world.
Thank you for joining me and Mike for another episode of the Friday night panel here on talk and fight.
Uh we’ve got some good good cards to talk about, and we’ve got some interesting conversation pieces to add on to those talks as well.
Do you want to start us off Mike what about coming up? Yeah man tonight guys 17th.
Here it is Main Event: matchup of undefeated Fighters highlights the second Show Box.
The new generation of 2023 at Showbox returnee, Adriel Bossman homes 12-0, with 5kos, takes on upset artists, Ismail Melo, verally 12-0 akos.
In a 10 round super welterweight contest.
This one starts at 9pm guys on Showtime from Storm Road Vail Event Center in Kansas, so yeah this one’s uh, this one’s looking pretty good um.
We got a co-main event.
Michelle Lopez 14-1, with 5kos of Denver Colorado, looks to win his fourth straight bout after suffering.
His first pro loss on Showbox when he takes on Edward kid Vasquez, who is 13 and one with three Kos of Fort Worth Texas.
In a 10 round featherweight belt, The Telecast opener pits two unbeaten knockout artists in former NCAA division; one college football player, Kurt scoby 10-0, with akos facing Australia’s John, the Beast Manu 7-0 with oh sorry, 701 with 4kos uh, with both Fighters putting their unbeaten streaks on On the task man in this eight round, super lightweight belt, the card is promoted by Lou de bella entertainment.
You know what it is.
He knows what he’s doing he usually puts on something pretty good um.
You know in his Showbox debut last March, against Vernon Brown, uh Holmes overcame a 28 month, layoff score in the unanimous decision fighting past the eighth round for the first time in his career as and amateur Holmes, won the 2015 U.
S Nationals and was a silver medalist At the 2013 National Golden Gloves that same year, he also won bronze medal at the world Golden Gloves in the 152 pound division Holmes is the oldest of 11 children and suffered a family tragedy in 2016, when his 20 year old brother was killed on the drive-by Shooting in Flint Michigan this one, you know what he’s he’s going to get in this ring tonight.
We’Re going to see some great action from this guy, but an aggressive and explosive Fighter.
The 25 year old Villarreal from the Bronx uh fights under the main events Banner.
He is a two-time New York Golden Gloves, winner with an amateur record of 66-7 uh in his last fight in july he upset the unbeaten lashon Rodriguez, scoring a six round TKO on the Danny, Garcia, Jose benavidez junior undercard guys.
I don’t know if you remember this.
One um, you know for his best win today.
He managed to stay active during the pandemic by going back to Dominican Republic to fight three separate occasions uh.
He recently receives his Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education from Lehman College and uh.
You know this guy’s goal is to be that 154 and 160 pound champion.
So Graham, what are you thinking for tonight’s fights? I haven’t looked as closely at them as you have because I’ve been focused on the lee wood story as it evolves right right, but anyway I I will defer commentary uh.
I was hoping to have a bigger panel.
Quite frankly, I would not be exposed uh, but I’ve been exposed.
So for me it’s throwing crosses all the way for these guys, uh sorry to say I can’t, I can’t add an opinion on this one for the uh keep going keep going.
Okay well anyways.
In the co-main event, we got.
Lopez 26 will be making his third appearance on Showbox and was born in Mexico, but now lives in Denver.
Colorado in his Showbox debut in 2018 Lopez got the better of James Wilkins in a battle of young.
Previously, undefeated super featherweight prospects tally in a unanimous decision.
Victory Lopez suffered his first career setback in his last Showbox appearance in 2021, when Jordan white scored an impressive six round.
Tko Lopez compiled an amateur record of 50 and five winning gold medals at the 2008 ringside World Championship, the 2010 Colorado State, silver gloves tournament and the Colorado State Golden Gloves tournament in 20 in 2009 and 2015.
uh taking on Vasquez, who is 27 fights out of His native Fort Worth Texas, the lone blemish on his record, came one year ago when he lost a controversial split decision to undefeated.
Former National Golden Gloves Champion Raymond Ford.
He is rebounded with wins in his last two fights for your decision.
Vasquez was a standout amateur with an 82-8 record in the in the in in the amateurs uh, he was noted.
Uh wins against Fighters such as uh in Ocha, Irving, uh, Gonzalez, Jose uh, uh, agrel and um.
He scored a split decision, wins over Victor silvinsky um.
This is all in the pros, so guys this kid he’s no such in the ring.
This one’s definitely gon na, be a great a great.
You know, co-main event uh.
You know these guys all putting their O’s on the line, but then we got to talk about it, Kurt scoby 27.
He is a former high school and NCAA division, one football star who rushed for 2 206 yards and 35 touchdowns in his senior year, uh for uh Monroe, monrova eye uh School in Duart, California uh.
He signed to play at Fresno State University as a criminal justice.
Major and redshirted his freshman season uh he transferred to Aussie Pacific University in San Gabriel Valley, so um southeast of Los Angeles, where he rushed for 2703 yards and 16 touchdowns from 2015 to 2017, when he failed to hook on with an NFL team.
Scoby turned to his first left boxing and after winning the 2019 California Golden Gloves title in the 150 pound, a 152 pound division, scoby term, Pro in June of 2020, signed with manager, Daniel Gonzalez fighting three times in Mexico, three more times in Dominican Republic before knocking Wins in Atlantic City, in Newark, New Jersey, uh in June of 2001 scoby decided to dedicate himself full-time to boxing and at the height of the pandemic, bout uh, one-way economy, airline ticket to New York City, where he soon walked into Gleason, gym and announced his arrival.
Guys so this one uh yeah, there’s lots to talk about here, guys, there’s lots to watch so definitely, there’s gon na be some action tonight, you’re not going to want to miss this one gets underway.
9 p.
m.
Guys! That’S, USA, show time this.
One ain’t gon na cost, no money to watch.
All you got to do is just flip over the channel at 9, 00 PM catch, it, I’m pretty sure uh, there’s a YouTube channel where you can find all the prelims before the Bell uh.
Definitely you can check that out man you’re going to want to watch the fights on the undercard uh.
It’S uh! It’S stacked up for uh, a great night of fights man a lot of guys here, trying to keep their oh Julian, Carrillo, John Cantrell and David Lopez to round up the card guys so definitely check it out man, you know what it is.
That’S uh! That’S the card for tonight now we’re gon na get into uh.
You know the one that you’ve been talking about and that everybody’s been talking about Lee woods and what do you have to say about it? Grand before before? I start rambling on here.
Ah, right from the get-go, we were talking about uh lee wood and his terrific battle with the Irishman, uh Mike conlon and, and that was one hell of a fight uh and in this past week, and only this past week, leading up to the fight uh.
Have I heard so many proponents of the how hard Mauricio Lara punches and uh and that potentially Leewood is taking this fella a little too lightly? As a matter of fact, Eddie Hearn came out and said: do not get in there, and trade punches with this guy and and Leewood is in the match: room stable, so um.
So anyways I’m looking forward to a really really great battle between these two guys, because right from the get-go we’ve been backing Leewood and then all of a sudden.
Just this past week.
All these incredibly positive statements about how good of a boxer Mauricio Lara is uh and and what a battle uh he’s gon na he’s gon na test he’s gon na test Leewood, definitely anyway.
So just some quick comments.
Uh, let’s hear it because I know some other great battles going on too.
Oh definitely definitely boxing 2023 schedule in the UK is set to begin with a bang at the motorpoint arena in Nottingham Saturday February 18th, Hometown hero lee wood puts his WBA featherweight World title on the line against the big punching Mexican Mysterio material, Laura um yeah man.
Honestly, he does have some big punching power.
Yes, Lee we’ll go lethal, lethalwood here, uh honorable stopped.
You know that memorable stop Michael Conlin in the 12th and final round of that epic.
First, Defense of the WBA 126 title back in March of 2022, knocking the Irishman out of the ring in brutal fashion to end their fight of the Year Center crazy.
We all remember that guys um, you know now remember if I can interject here, yeah Lee Leewood.
Like sorry, I was gon na say: Leeward was supposed to fight.
Uh Leewood was encouraged by Eddie Hearn to fight Kiko Martinez, right who’s, a tad older than uh Mauricio Lara, so uh lee would turn that fight down in favor of of taking on Mauricio Lara.
So if he gets beaten by Lara, it’s his own fault but anyway, as I said, the way he the way he the way he battled the Irishman and it came out as a classic fight uh, that’s what I’m looking forward to so uh anyway, anyway, keep going, Sir, but after that, what is now recognized as WBA associate, you know WBA only champion at featherweight after former super Champion Leo Santa Cruz relinquished his title on Monday December, the 12th and the 34 year old wants to waste no time adding more World titles to his Collection in 2023 uh, the Bronco 25-2 and one with 18 Kos has been waiting patiently for his shot at wood.
After their eagerly anticipated September, 24th fight was postponed following a torn bicep suffered by wooden sparring, but uh featherweight, KO artist finally gets his dream world title opportunity.
Uh, Laura is well known on the UK Shores after he flooded and Ruth and ruthlessly finished, Josh Warrington and sincere, oh yeah.
That’S right! Remember: um, behind closed doors at the SSC Arena, Wembley in February of 2021 and in the ibf featherweight world champions unbeaten record uh.
He rematched Warrington in front of a sold out uh stadium in Leeds seven months later, but a nasty cut over the left eye of the Mexican in round two caused by an accidental Clash of heads resulted in the contest ending in a technical draw.
The power punching 24 year old, blitzed Emilio Sanchez in three rounds in March of 2022 on the undercard of Roman Gonzalez versus Julio Cesar Martinez, before stopping Jose San Martin in three in another destructive, show a Brute Force to put the 126 pound division on notice.
Um.
You know this is good.
This is gon na be this is going to be a huge fight.
Let me let me throw in another twist to this one of the other writers uh, I’m not I’m not going to say he’s pro-mexican, but one of the other writers was saying uh.
What the judges and referee in particular should be looking out for is uh.
What is described as a straight arm tactic? So apparently this is illegal in boxing uh, it’s where you literally have your arm straight out and forcing the other fella not to be able to reach you or punch uh anyways, it’s an illegal move, but apparently it’s something that Leewood has done in the past and Uh, I can’t quote specific instances because I’ve been reading a lot about this particular fight.
I’M so engaged with our friend Carl on whether or not leawood’s going to be able to pull us off.
Um he’s already come in.
There is only one topic this week and it is this fight that we are talking about right now and we’re talking about the straight arm, the straight arm so yeah.
So this particular writer was uh um, if not advising certainly warning Leewood uh not to use the straight arm because it is illegal and if he uses it and if he gets called on it uh he could lose the fight uh by using that tactic.
Uh anyway.
Uh, I still want uh Leewood to win uh, but boy, the uh, the writers who support Lara are are incredible and uh.
It’S going to be an amazing fight.
Definitely honestly, there’s a bunch of this.
This Curtis stacked too um.
You know we got Dalton Smith, taking on Billy aylington for Smith’s British super light title uh.
We got Siobhan Clark, uh versus Dex, Spelman, he’s Clark’s 4-0 right, yeah, yeah, right yeah, but yeah.
I believe so.
It is for dark outside in that cruiserweight division.
Definitely uh.
One to watch for yeah um, you know it’s gon na be a good one he’s taking on uh Israel doofus toughest uh.
You know this is gon na, be a little step up for him and uh Duffy’s got some ringing experience um.
You know he’s 28 and O in the ring, so um definitely a test for Siobhan Clark, uh Gamel, yafi, taking on uh, Diego Alberto Ruiz uh.
That’S in the super Bantam uh Kieran Conway uh, Jorge Silva uh.
Then we got Junaid Boston, uh, oh man, Peter cramper.
This one’s gon na be a great fight, Aaron Bowen, Sam uh.
You know Aaron Bowen, making his uh his debut to open up the card against uh Matthew.
Gomes.
Definitely you know, there’s some great fights on here Gary Kelly, taking on Wilfredo Flores for the WBA InterContinental light title: that’s vacant uh, you know, there’s gon na be some great fights on here.
Definitely, I’m interested to see the Chevron Clark.
I like these big guys.
You know I want to see this guy go 5-0.
Yes, Gary Kelly, my Countryman.
Yes, yes, definitely quick question for Carl senior love um.
Are you gon na, be there Carl? Are you gon na be at the fight you’re gon na be streaming live on, talk and fight? Let the fans know what’s up come on come on girl, we we have the technology, we have the audience.
Yeah girl over here dude man get that get get that Gary Kelly interview for me.
I I forget to look uh.
Were there any women uh fighting tomorrow in Nottingham, or do they allow that? Yes, of course, I’m there are your ringside hey Mike you’re you’re, Mike you’ve yeah, I believe last bell is ring set for this one or they have media passes.
We know that he’s gon na get uh he’s gon na be talking to Eddie Hearn, that’s gon na be good.
No, he already did he spoke daddy hear and he uh.
He got a couple good interviews.
Apparently he interviewed Lara as well all right so um.
It would have been nice, but Carla join us online and uh hear what uh not only well.
I know what Eddie earn had to say: hey, hey, Leewood, don’t get in there too close uh, but he had more to say about Auntie Joshua that he did about uh lee wood uh, knowing Eddie Hearn but uh, and who’s that announcer guy uh, the guy.
With all the dreads uh, what the heck is that guy’s name, but I thought that’s the other fellow who uh yeah yeah, he’s good he’s.
I like him, but uh anyway.
That’S the other fellow that was on last belt, boxing yo that guy’s dreads touched the floor.
Bro, but he’s got a great voice.
He’S got a great he’s, a great announce.
He really is definitely definitely uh yeah.
So you know what this card? It’S uh, it’s it’s big man, it’s one that everybody’s talking about.
I can’t wait.
I’M super excited this one gets underway.
2Pm guys set your pvrs if you’re at work, you’re not going to want to miss this one you’re not going to want to hear it from somebody else’s point of view.
You’Re definitely going to watch it on your own David Diamante, proper, good fella.
Yes, yes, he is shout out to him and his wonderful ring announcing voice.
Oh yeah, Japanese, made a mark on boxing he’s, got Style real style yeah, like Michael Buffer type style.
You know what I mean like uh: it’s it’s just something you pay attention to, and and and the Cadence in his voice is just absolute perfection.
Great great great Ring announcer, then uh, you know to round up the evening.
We got another card uh this one’s 9 p.
m.
Oh, can I say something else so before you get going yeah.
Definitely I’m curious.
I’M curious Carl singing interviewed uh Diamante, I’m just curious.
Did you ask him when he was growing up? Did he want to be a ring announcer like ever since I was a kid I saw Michael Buffer and I thought foreign.
I want to be a ring announcer when I grow up all right.
Okay, sorry, go ahead, go ahead! Yeah I don’t know.
So we would knock out round six says Carl wow.
I say you better get it done quickly if he’s gon na, do it at all uh, because if I don’t think he can go toe-to-toe with Lara and go the distance and don’t leave in the hands of the judges.
No, no.
This one is that this one is definitely not being left in the hands of the judges.
That’S for sure cannot be left in the hands of Judges.
So when you get when you get your little water break from watching that card, and you get that hour before this one even starts uh, we got the Neri and hovenician card going on uh, starting at 9pm, two of the most aggressive forward, pressing super bantamweights.
In boxing will face off in a 12 round WBC Eliminator Saturday February 18th, guys former two Division World Champion Louis Pantera, Neri 33-1, with 25 Kos of Tijuana Mexico will face as that crazy, a hovenician who is 21-3 with 17 Kos of Los Angeles by way of Armenia in a matchup where the winner will be one step closer to a coveted opportunity to fight for a world championship.
The event presented in association with zamfer boxing is scheduled to take place at Fox, Theater, Pomona and we’ll be broadcast worldwide live on the Zone because evening, at 5 PM Pacific 8 PM Eastern Standard Time guys this one, I’m uh, I’m kind of excited to see.
Uh Lewis Theory represents it.
You know the tough Fighters that have come from the ranks of Tijuana Mexico.
You know 28 year old, former two Division World Champion with nearly spotless record, having only blemish against Brandon figuera in May of 2021.
That saw him lose his WBA WBC World Super Phantom Titles.
Since then, he has been on a Vengeance to get back on top securing the WBC silver and WBO InterContinental super bantamweight titles in his fight against Carlos Castro in February 2022, and then a third round knockout against David Carmona in October of 2022.
And then you know hovenician Hills from Armenia and has steadily climbed the ranks to make a name for himself in his division.
The 34 year old, crazy, a has, earned the respect of the LA fight scene with his impressive, aggressive forward style uh.
His last string of fights since challenging unsuccessfully for the WBC super Phantom championship, title against Ray Vargas, have all ended in knockout, wins, aside from a solid unanimous decision, victory over Jose Santos Gonzalez in July of 2021 uh, currently ranked number two by the WBC number one By WBA number three by the WBO and number four by the ring, hovenician is on the doorstep of another world championship opportunity, and this one.
This is, this is a fight guys you’re, definitely not going to want to miss this.
It’S definitely going to be an epic Main Event uh.
You know co-main we’re looking at Shane Mosley Jr, taking on Mario Lozano uh, we’ve got Ricardo, sandova uh, taking on jerson Ortiz USA Stevens, taking on Jen Gonzalez uh, and we’ve got some debuts guys of these young and up-and-comers that you don’t know, but you’re, probably going To want to watch because they’re definitely going to give it their all.
You know fighting on this card, this one catching it on the Zone, Oscar Dela, Hoya promotions.
What are your thoughts? Graham? So you might recall a couple of weeks ago.
I took part in the absolute boxing um challenge to pick winners over the month of February.
So let me have a quick little look at my piece of paper here.
I know I picked Nary to win uh.
I picked Nary to win by knockout in the in the 10th wow anyway.
I’M I’m three for four so far in my predictions, so I’m doing pretty good, I’m pretty sure, I’m not I’m guessing you’re, not last.
That’S right! That’S right, but anyway yeah! So that’s a that’s! That’S a great fight, uh coming up for sure um! It’S gon na be some great action for sure.
Um Carl yeah definitely join me for The Knockout of the week award man and accept that, on behalf of our boy Lee Woods who, I think is going to win it even earlier than the sixth round.
I think he’s gon na get him out of there by the fifth he he’s gon na have to come out swinging heart.
Oh he’s he’s gon na he’s, Gon na Come Out Swinging Lee Woods.
He’S gon na come out there swinging heavy, it’s gon na be great.
I think he’s gon na get him out early.
I think I think you know it might not even go to five I’d like to see I’d like to see I’d like to honestly see Laura just not come out in the fifth yeah I’ll I’ll bet.
That’S what Lee would thought about uh conlon as well though, but that was the whole point of these Mexicans who were writing articles.
So it’s going to be a great fight either way you look at it and will there be a knockout? I hope so and I hope we can get that knockout but boy.
Oh boy he’s he sounds to me.
Like he’s I’ve not seen Lara fight.
I’D like to I should I should have gone online.
I should have watched his YouTube fights but uh.
I didn’t.
I just took – I was just so enthralled by what these writers were saying about him.
I didn’t, I couldn’t believe, uh what what a what a what a fight this is going to turn out to be so Carla, Carla you’re in for a good one.
For sure.
Definitely being ringside, yeah and and and and broadcasting direct to talk and fight audiences around the world, [ Laughter, ], Yeah, Carl, we’ll uh, we’ll send you the link you can just uh.
You know send out, send that right across the sea right over to us and we’ll put it up, live for you, no problem, yeah 17 different platforms going around the world.
He wants your prediction um! I already already.
I already reset this.
I already said uh.
I predicted uh lee would if you’re talking about Leewood or daenery fight Leewood, I already predicted Leewood would win um.
What I’m saying, though, is in this past week.
Uh the amount of attention given to Lara uh indicates it’s going to be one heck of a fight and even with Eddie Hearns saying to Lee wood amen, don’t go in there, so close is to go into this um brawl uh do proper boxing and and be Careful be wary of this guy this.
This Mexicans head hunting, um, don’t don’t take him lightly, he’s no Kiko Martinez! No, no he’s not so anyways! So I’m behind I’m behind your boy from Nottingham Carl.
Don’T worry! I have two man yo lead with the dog.
He can get in there and get it done, he’s a grinder.
You know he might he might.
He might take some damage doing it, but uh.
You know he’s gon na come through with that Victory.
Man Laura looked at the weight yeah, he did eh.
Okay, they all do yeah well, except Tyson, Fury, you’re, lucky you’re, lucky even shows up laughs.
So have you been in? Have you been seeing the stories on that debacle? Oh my God.
I know between him and music, like oh wow, so the the Saudis are willing to pay you you sick and fury to fight in Saudi Arabia, but they don’t have the stadium ready in Jeddah, so they can’t hold the fight there.
So now Fury’s going well.
Let’S have it back in Wembley, of course, Bob Aaron wants it in being Wembley, because he’ll make a ton of money there as well, but uh usick won’t fight in Wembley, um, so uh, who I guess he doesn’t want that uh 45 minute ring walk if it So if the usick fury fight does not occur in Saudi Arabia, it’ll be interesting to see who Bob Aaron picks for Fury to fight and beat uh and to see if Auntie Joshua can step up to the plate if he can even beat Jermaine Franklin.
Quite frankly, um uh and we’ll we’ll see about that.
We’Ll definitely see about that.
That’S what I’m saying so if, if van hit Joshua can beat uh Jermaine Franklin good for him uh that might set up a battle between him and fury in the summer we’ll see.
I mean um well, we’ll leave it up to the English to decide.
Won’T we yeah definitely the Saudi deciding the side he’s put in their two cents and uh, and I think I think they’re losing that fight yeah.
Oh for sure, for sure all right! Sorry I interrupted you, you were talking about uh, something else.
Sorry blurry! Oh, I thought I thought we got to the uh the end of that pretty much.
Oh.
Okay, all right! So yeah, it’s a small car to Oscar De La Hoya promotions.
Uh! You know he came up with that.
Banger at the beginning of the year, wait a second she’s speaking of Oscar De La Hoya, so not only he uh, but Bernard Hopkins also chimed in on this uh uh javonta tank Davis, fight and Ryan Garcia.
So, as you know, uh tank Davis has had some um shall we say Court slash justice issues.
He was involved in a hit and run a few years ago and has been found well actually pled guilty uh, so the reality of it is is he’s going to get his sentencing in May, but the fight will, if, if he will finally sign on the dotted Line by the way uh for that fight against Ryan, Garcia uh that will take place uh April yeah.
It was definitely April uh.
Definitely before sentencing, but now they’re saying you know: oh, is it going to wait too heavily on tank, as you can uh be able to Bear the mental strain of facing jail time which he is um anyway? What has happened with Legend Roberts does leaving Golden Boy yeah, yes, yeah, Roberto, Diaz uh.
He parted ways with the company Tuesday, after Oscar De La Hoya um couldn’t pay.
Him did not renew his gun, didn’t renew his contract, so I don’t know what’s happening there.
Well, I mean there is still the issue, we’re really not happy with his.
Were they not happy with his his matchmaking abilities or something uh Canadian cards yeah.
There are there’s quite a few um smaller cards um.
You know we we had our.
We had our Nationals.
Last week, um well one of the big announcements that came out of boxing uh Canada.
This week was the boycotting of the upcoming Women’s World Championships that were uh scheduled to be held in India and so Team Canada’s joined uh Team, USA team GB, uh Team, Ireland, they’re all boycotting uh.
Something like a dozen countries now are boycotting those women World Championships that are being held by the IBA, formerly the aiba, that is run by Umar kremlov, the Russian and supported by gazprom, the big Russian oil giant.
So an awful lot of not controversy surrounding that, because I do feel bad for the boxers, but at the end of the day, um you know team team.
Canada issued a pretty big long like these from from fellow, by the way heads Team, Canada, uh, uh, Ryan O’Shea.
You might remember, he joined us on the Friday night panel uh last year, he’s out of Vancouver uh but uh.
He had.
He had some quite Stern words to say, as did all the other boxing federations uh about uh Russia and their involvement, and allowing the Russian and Belarusian fighters to fight under their national flags at the World Championships which violated the ioc’s Declaration earlier.
So the the boxing federations basically support uh boxing being in the Olympics, but not being run by the IBA.
So there’s there’s quite a bit of controversy surrounding uh again as we approach Paris, 2024 uh, because quite frankly, boxing is not and remember.
This is a this.
Is a sport that goes back thousands of years and was probably one of the uh.
Only sport that launched the Olympics um that had International interest in the years of ancient Greece so for boxing not to be included in the Olympics as a travesty.
Quite frankly, and right now in the 2028 games that were scheduled to be held in Los Angeles, I believe boxing is not included at this moment yeah because of the involvement of the IBA and new mark kremlev in particular, and the ongoing sad uh war in Ukraine.
Right now, anyway, uh wow did I ever Sidetrack.
There um, oh yeah, it’s boxing that was there any news from Canada uh.
You know.
I I saw on uh on boxing Kansas website a great clip of Cody Crowley, who’s uh continuing his uh climb, his Ascension of the rankings um.
We should get him back on the show and find out what he’s up to these days uh.
Actually, I was talking to him um, but about two three months ago: uh just randomly catching up uh.
He he had taken six months off after his last fight um and then was looking to just you know: recoup uh, you know relax with his wings and uh yeah.
Now he’s looking to get back into it.
Cody Crowley.
Look him up! [ Laughter, ] he’s from Canada, Carl look him up and he’s dangerous they’re they’re our crippler yeah there.
There are quite a number uh, as I keep on saying now, that uh boxing is been allowed uh to re-emerge in Ontario uh as the force it should be within Canada.
Canada is a huge Nation Coast to Coast spanning quite a few thousand miles, and we’ve got quite a lot of gyms and quite a lot of uh.
Quite frankly, people who can afford the sport he’s right.
Number fifth in the world in the welterweight Division come on there, you go Cody Crowley come on.
I’M surprised last spell boxing does not know these top five boxers yeah come on.
Man he’s ranked number five out of 2059 boxers, plus we have some top women, uh Talent as well.
Fighting out of Montreal, primarily um Jessica Kamara, comes to mind um anyway, anyway, we’re we’re sidetracking.
We don’t want to talk about Canadian boxers at this moment, because there is nothing going on this weekend.
I believe I mean we had a big fight last weekend in Pickering uh at the casino uh.
So it’s good to see so, for example, Carl uh, two venues very close to us: one called Rebel entertainment where Lee Baxter holds his fights and the other a few miles away from from Mike and East Side uh in Pickering at a brand new casino.
That’S absolutely huge uh that was sold out for the uh United boxing uh promotion event there that was a sold out, show and uh.
You know that their next event is up in Brampton again the CAA Center yeah a few miles Northwest of us.
So we’ve got three big centers of of boxing in Toronto, whereas three years ago you could count them on well, no fingers well, don’t forget.
Also uh budo for budo boxing well Buddha was putting on some pro events as well.
Are they? Yes? I did not know that their last.
I believe their last event was a pro event, so uh yeah buddho Buddha.
This one definitely has a nice setup, uh yeah.
I I like to set up a budo I like to set up at Red, Owl, Red Owl, actually Red Owl, red owls, there’s another one having having pro events too man yeah.
These guys are all they’re all stepping it up.
So they’re they’re, all uh.
You know the cream is rising to the top and you can and you’re gon na Carl you’re gon na start, seeing some Canadian names like Lennox Lewis, and to those big fights once again so wait and see patience.
My man patience anyway.
What else? What else is on the the headlines? Uh? No, you know what that’s uh.
That’S the cards for this weekend.
Really, there’s um! You know we got.
We got Hardy and uh cardoso uh next next weekend, 23rd.
Oh, oh, wait! A sec wait a sec.
What do you think about okay, Carl’s favorite? Subject? Let’S touch on it, Jake Paul yeah, we we! We know that he’s got a poster of Jake Paul in his bedroom um.
But anyway I think it’s a WBC or WBA.
I can’t remember which one uh but they’re gon na if he beats Tommy, Fury, which I think he will um they’re gon na they’re gon na rank him they’re gon na really, yes, oh wow, it’s Mauricio Suleiman.
So is that WBA or WPC? I think it’s WBC, but anyway it doesn’t matter.
The point matter is, is if he beats Tommy Fury, he will be a ranked boxer and but you know, if he becomes a rank boxer, I’m going to send you a poster that you have to hang behind you at last spell boxing the next time you do.
The show – okay, that’s that’s it [ Laughter, ].
You know what that would be nice, though it would be nice to see.
Eddie Hearn come over here and sprinkle a little Pizzazz on a Zone card at Rebel.
That would be great to see.
You know what it’s interesting.
I mean it’s, it’s easy, it’s easy to promote a fight.
You know you rent, an arena, you put up the money for the overhead, the prize versus the applications, Etc.
Um and then you need Fighters, and so you go after the manager and say who you got available, so you know we’re seeing fights I mean as as um you can see on our talk and fight site.
We have a section they’re devoted to upcoming fights and the tickets are available, and if you take a look, there’s a map there as well, that even indicates the fights that are occurring on a global level.
You know, and Canada has quite a few all the way from uh, Vancouver and Edmonton across the country to Montreal Halifax and here at Toronto.
So um you know, no, we don’t we don’t.
We don’t dominate the top ten because they’re dominated by politics quite frankly, and dominated by people like uh, Eddie Hearn.
So once once we start developing the caliber of managers and the caliber promotional expertise, uh that exists in other countries, you’re going to start seeing some Canadian fighters in the top ten.
Well, you already do um Cody Crowley rank number fifth in that welterweight division that that’s that’s the name I was looking for there.
It is the crippler all right.
Let’S have a quick think here so yeah so Jake Paul is making headlines he’s uh he’s uh he’s.
Looking to crush uh, Tommy, Fury and uh and have fun doing so and I think are they fighting in Saudi Arabia or Dubai.
I can’t remember, isn’t it it’s it’s good! It’S uh! It’S gon na, be it’s gon na it’s gon na be a good fight.
I mean love them or hate them.
I mean at the end of the day, Jake Paul forget about forget about his fighting, for example, because he hasn’t really fought any boxers.
Yet I mean MMA, guys, basketball, guys blah blah blah.
Okay, but I’ll tell you what he has done, he’s put his money where his mouth is.
He supported MVP he’s he’s brought in some really good, two really good female Fighters.
Obviously uh um, uh, Amanda Serrano and the other girl you featured the other week.
Uh use your dream green and you can’t forget, Ashton, Sylvie and Ashton Sylvie.
So three really good Fighters he’s putting his money where his mouth is um, you know an MVP is doing a good job of obviously managing their careers.
So you know and I’ve I mean if you remember, I said this about uh Terence Crawford, a while back.
I said: if he’s such a big loud mouth about you know supporting various boxer who don’t get that shot.
Why not just open up your own company you’ve got the money to do it? Well, Jake Paul did and look what he’s doing I mean yes, I mean I really don’t like this one.
Would this one be considered a social uh? You know King of the social media fight was it wasn’t that many Fury in a reality show? I think he was yes.
So one of these MTV kind of things just like the next guy who’s fighting Floyd Mayweather, the guy who was on Gordy Shore, who needs to be relevant in the world.
That’S right! I want! I wonder if you’re from England, I wonder or Britain, let’s just say, I wonder if you’re supporting Tommy Fury in this one, because I wonder if he’s like not liked uh, because you know he’s honestly he’s gon na he’s got a he’s, got a big set of Shoes yeah exactly all the pressure is on him right all the pressure.
He doesn’t.
Oh love, Island.
There you go yeah, it was love Island, oh yeah, so I I just wonder whether you know this.
The the British fans are saying the same thing about uh, uh, Tommy Fury is worth saying about Jake Paul.
You know you guys just a reality star, you guys just a YouTuber he’s just he’s just a just a Jester.
So, at the end of the day, we don’t really care who gets knocked out.
I want to see one of them get knocked out.
I don’t really care who somebody’s going to sleep somebody’s going to sleep and, quite frankly, I you know again, I’m not a fan of this, but I’ll bet.
Jake Paul wins that fight, hey man, he’s he’s, definitely learned a lot along.
The way he’s come a long way.
He definitely has the money to pay for the right kind of training um.
You know we just got to think of this.
You know no, no amateur career.
So what did he do? He paid to have his amateur career in front of everybody.
That’S what he did.
He went through the images in front of everybody under the microscope under the spotlight.
You know it’s uh, it’s there’s.
You know, there’s gon na, be a lot of added pressure for Tommy Fury to perform.
That’S that’s.
You know and look look what else he’s doing with his money, which he doesn’t have to do, but he is doing it.
He’S launched the foundation uh an anti-bullying foundation in school, write it right.
I don’t know if it’s Global uh, but certainly Across America, and that certainly needed.
I know, there’s uh foundations in England as well like box, wise uh.
You know, because I I actually think it was.
I wasn’t uh Tyson Fury’s cousin, who was killed in the knifing accident, yeah accident or but a knifing incident uh.
So there’s a foundation called box wise who goes into communities opens.
I don’t know if they open up gyms per se, but they open up venues and uh help.
Kids, not gon na, say get off the streets, but uh give them some values.
Then the the values that the boxing provides um.
You know the dedication, that’s needed and integrity and, and you you’ve got to listen to your mentors and you.
You have to listen to your trainers and you have to listen and you have to learn and you have to you know the proof’s in the pudding.
You know if you win, you win.
If you lose, you lose, but our motto is: Don’t Leave in the hands of the judges.
No or else it would have a show on Sundays, [ Laughter ].
We call Michelle will be called like best punch of the weekend.
[ Laughter ] our best hugs on on a corporate level.
We were asked uh whether we we would entertain uh coverage of other boxing events, whether they beat bare knuckle boxing or boxing or oh sorry, Little People boxing um, you better, go back and take that word anyway.
It was.
It was interesting because you know just different people around the world have different opinions on boxing, obviously and uh, but uh.
If ever you’ve seen any of those bare knuckle.
Uh boxing brawls, that are happening, I mean they’re vicious they’re, they’re, probably what MMA hoped to be um.
There were a lot of guys in MMA that went from that kind of bare knuckle boxing stuff, like you know the ax murder wonderly Silva, that guy he.
You know, I watched some of his older fights.
Man, where you know bare knuckle, he could punch and you’d see that eyebrow split and then it would just dangle over the eye and like like a curtain, and you know they’re still going at it.
Some gross yeah man.
It is vicious uh, the newest one.
I’Ve seen is card jiu jitsu.
What cards you Jitsu I’ll, send you a link to it later, give me a little little robot cars.
No, no! No! No two grown men get into a car.
They buckle up, wanted to draw in the driver’s seat.
The other is in the passenger seat and then the Bell goes and then they unbuckle and then they try and like Jiu-Jitsu, each other in the car and buckle them back into the seat.
Okay, right, okay, which which nation in the world thought about that one uh.
I mean, I think, I’m I’m pretty sure.
It’S don’t don’t say Japan, no, no! No! No! It’S not! There’S a couple white guys in the car uh.
I don’t.
I don’t believe it was English.
So I’m gon na say: East European, oh yeah, yeah! All right come on.
They were the same guys who uh you know, decided to turn arm wrestling into punching each other, while attached at the hand that one arm punching thing yeah, that’s what I’m punching to that had to be the Beyond Bare knuckle boxing that had to be the most Brutal quote-unquote sport I’ve ever seen – oh my God, one Army boxing amazing.
It was like amazingly brutal, yeah or brutally amazing, but uh, but either way I mean yeah.
That was, are they still doing it or has that been? Has that been outlawed yet or is that or maybe maybe a new car wild new sport car Jiu Jitsu sees Russian men fight in small car in Russian? I was just gon na say: was it Russian, hey man, a bottle of vodka and a lot of snow? Will give you some some great ideas, or are you going to the front? Give me that bottle give me the car.
Let’S go, oh my God, unbelievable all right, Mike uh, you’re yeah we got fights to watch, we do we do we got fights to watch.
Guys.
Remember, homes Villarreal come on 9 p.
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Show time it’s getting underway, it’ll be fun to watch.
Wait, wait, wait! There’S one other quick singer scene.
We were talking about Eddie Hearn and we were talking about Bob Aram, poor old Adrian Broner.
Did you hear about this one? Oh God, okay, so he was so.
He was scheduled to fight somebody that guy something happened to him.
Then he was supposed to fight someone else and that guy lasted about a week as a condemn.
So then he was supposed to fight um.
Is It Michael Williams? Jr and that kid broke his jaw, so this this was the big fight.
The BLK Prime was promoting just outside of Atlanta Georgia and they were announcing their undercard.
It looked like a really good, complete match.
You look great okay and then this guy, Michael Williams, Union breaks his jaw this week, but now now Adrian Broner can’t find anyone to fight yeah, yeah and and and his quote-unquote handlers are being very careful of who they select because they don’t want.
They don’t want.
Adrian Broner to get clobbered, which is what the writers all suspect will happen, which is why he was picking these uh, I’m not going to say tomato cans, because he they were really worried about this Michael Williams, Jr character, so yeah, you know Adrian Broner’s getting old.
Well, that’s what like Williams Jr said so yeah.
So Adrian owns what 34 34 right so yeah and he’s got a great record, but he’s passed his Prime and uh and – and I don’t, I can’t even think I can’t think of anyone who could step into Williams.
But my point is: BLK is going to take a bath.
They need to find someone else to fill them he’s still scheduled exactly to be honest and they’ve sold tickets.
I’M pretty sure the Arena’s actually sold out, because I mean I hate to say it, but there aren’t that many events in Atlanta.
Sadly, it sucks what sucks it’s a Christy, Martin promotion, ah that that does suck that’s weird, but I also believe she works for Don King.
So this is kind of a kind of a connection there and I don’t really know what it is well, there always is a connection.
Isn’T there yeah Misty Martin? What a story so has anyone made a movie of that yeah? They have there’s.
Actually, a documentary on Netflix really yeah there was this whole series.
Actually docu series is pretty crazy.
You know she got shot by her husband six times because she came out as being gay.
He didn’t like it and she she tried to leave him and uh he’s.
Like yo, you ain’t going nowhere honestly, uh I’ll, send you the link for you got ta watch it.
It’S uh, it’s a great.
It’S a great series.
Man, real tough woman, uh, definitely a Pioneer for women’s boxing.
Yes, yes, quite a legend without a doubt, but I’m pretty sure if you dig a bit deeper, I’m pretty sure.
Uh.
Last year there was an announcement made by uh Don King that he had uh secured her services.
I don’t know what capacity whether as an employee – or you know as a consultant, I’m not really sure what capacity uh but but the Adrian Broner fight was her fight was it.
I did not know that yeah and I know it was Blk, and you know they’ve only had a couple of shows so far and they were really looking forward to uh big pay-per-view sales on this one yeah that doesn’t ruin it that’ll suck that’ll, be a big Lots of money – that’s for sure, oh well, yeah – is that uh is that all we have for this uh, this wonderful Friday night panel, starting Mike and Graham, give me a few more beers and we’ll be talking all night.
Give me a few more beers and we’ll watch a boxing match live.
Remember that time, oh yeah, all right, good stuff, thanks Mike appreciate it yeah man well with all the Talking fight fans around the world.
Thanks for tuning in to this week’s episode of the Friday night panel, uh shout out to Carl over at last bell boxing.
Definitely I’m excited that uh you’re gon na be able to fight tomorrow.
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