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EPISODE: Episode 8
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What up talking fight fans thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of the friday night panel with me? Usually i’m joined by a bunch of people, but some uh.
We got some people running late, so i thought i’d just get.
It started off here and uh run down on these fights that are happening this weekend, guys uh, i’m pretty excited.
Not only do we have devin haney and cambo sis jr fighting we’ve got steve fulton in action.
We got kenichi ogawa in action uh and these cards are gearing up to look like it’s gon na be a lot of fun man this weekend for all these fights.
So what i’m gon na do i’m gon na run down on all these cards uh, while i’m waiting for the other guys to come and join me and if they don’t come and join me by the end of it, then i guess uh.
You know the friday night panel was all me and only me today and uh.
Just bear with me guys.
You’Re, just gon na hear me ramble on a lot like i do you know i do so here it is man all right.
First up guys we have ogawa and cordona squaring off at motor point arena in cardiff, wales june.
The 4th guys uh, you know joe cordero – will challenge kinichi ogawa for the ibf super featherweight world title uh.
You know this is a great fight.
Man uh.
I do like both these kids uh welshman cordona who’s 14-0 with akos, a former british and commonwealth champion at lightweight, dropped down, dropped down in weight to super feather after handing his uh count, his counterpart uh gavin gwen uh a first loss at the ot arena.
In august of 2019, the welsh wizard capper captured the wba continental 130 pound title against mexico’s mario enrique tinoco at the casino day, monte carlo in november of 2019, before suffering a hand, injury that kept him out of the ring throughout 2020.
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So now he’s determined to make up for lost time.
The now 30 year old, stacked up three wins in an act of 2021, including a stunning first round, knockout victory over chicago’s joshua hernandez at matron fight camp in the summer.
If you guys can remember uh, you know it now sits at number three at the super featherweight with the ibf, and then we have japan’s ogawa who’s 26 one and one with 18 kos claimed the vacant red and gold 130 world title by overpowering the dangerous fuzzily In a wide points decision at the hulu theater in madison square garden, new york last november drop in the south african in rounds 5 and 12.
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The 30 or 40 year old from tokyo is on the hunt for unification fights and represents a sizable step up in class for rio, 2016 olympian cordona having only tested defeat once in 29 professional votes, a stoppage loss at the hands of miosha at um uh.
What was it corrected all back in august of 2012.
um, you know and then guys on this undercard we got manchester’s zelfa, barrett um.
Definitely like watching this kid fight man 27-1, with 16 ko’s.
He is ranked number two with the ibf and uh he’s looking to him build uh.
You know he’s looking to build on his impressive win over australia’s moon and tamara uh tamara on the parker versus chizora 2 undercard when he challenges european super featherweight, uh kurbanov who’s.
19-3, with three knockouts, a former opponent of cordona um, so guys i’m.
I can’t wait for this one, this one’s looking like it’s really good um.
You know.
We also got some great guys on this undercard uh, we have you know.
Dalton smith is taking on jose lopez in a super light match uh.
We got skye nicholson, taking on gabriella bouvier uh for the women’s feather, and then we have gamal yafi versus uh.
I believe it is uh sean cairns and uh.
Then we got some guys that are up and coming here you know as well joe morgan, 3-0 ben crocker, 3-0 uh.
We have a debut of mo, i guess it’s monique and uh crying jones uh.
So we got some good kids coming up on this undercard and this one gets off underway very early, guys uh.
This one is scheduled for a 2 p.
m.
Eastern standard time start so guys set your set.
Your reminders definitely going to want to watch this.
One uh can’t wait to see joe cordona versus uh kenichi ogawa.
It’S uh, it’s gon na be a great fight.
Then, in action we have on saturday june the 4th we have steve fulton, united, unified wbc and wbo super bantam world champion steve fulton jr will battle former unified champion danny roman in a matchup between two of the most of the sword’s, most consistently crowd-pleasing fighters.
I was about to say this is an underrated fight right there um, that is an underrated fight that people are not talking about it.
Even for myself, i knew earlier.
I i remember early on in your week, and then you just reminded me of it now, like i’m even guilty of forgetting about it.
Um but fulton versus uh roman is going to be exciting.
Yeah.
These guys are not household names but household names, but they’re, like households names within the boxing boxing industry.
So you guys really need to make sure you pay attention to this fight right here, which uh, which um, which which card is that on what uh? And these guys these guys are headlining.
This is a showtime card uh.
This one gets underway, 9 p.
m.
Eastern standard time so guys be on the lookout for this one.
This really is a underrated fight, uh.
We you know born and raised in west philadelphia.
I, the fresh prince song, just went in my head as i said that, but yes, it was philadelphia.
We were born and raised exactly exactly.
You know we’re going to calm down.
We might, we might have to owe royalties or something copyrighted yeah exactly, but you know steve fulton, who’s 20-0, with akos faced an impressive competition while rising up the 122-pound rankings to earn the opportunity that saw him become world champion and eventually unified champion in his last 14 fights 27 year olds has beaten eight, previously undefeated fighters.
After taking the title from angelo leo in january of 2021, he edged out brandon figura in november to unify titles in one of the year’s best and most action-packed fights uh trained in his hometown and uh by coach waheed rockman um, who is fulton, has displayed a Sublime boxing skills that have allowed him to dominate opponents of varying styles and control, fights from start to finish um.
Then you know ranked in the top five by the wbc wbo and ibf roman who’s, 28 3-1, with 10 ko’s will have a chance to regain his unified 122 pound championship um.
You know this.
31 year old, from los angeles, has won.
Back-To-Back fights earning unanimous decision.
Victories over juan carlos and ricardo espinoza franco in may of 2021 rowan first became world champion in 2017, where he stopped shutting cuba for the wba title.
Roma would go on to unify titles by beating tj donny for his ibf strap in 2019 before losing the narrow split decision to uh out uh, alkamundov uh in january of 2020.
, and then we have now based in minneapolis morel.
If you guys know uh six.
You know five kos has shot, it’s shown off the um.
You know the way, he’s talented man with this six and o’s.
You know and five kos that made him a standout in cuba’s iconic amateur scene since arriving stateside in 2019, the 24 year old has captured an interim title by dominating them: unbeaten lennox allen in august of 2020.
morel who trains in texas, with renowned coach, ronnie shields Thrilled the crowd at the armory in his adopted hometown twice in 2021 uh.
He stopped the previously unbeaten mario cesares uh in one round in june, before dominating veteran contender, uh altenz fox uh, on his way to the fourth round stoppage in december uh.
Then we got the 31 year old hernandez who’s.
15 1-1 with 11 kos has won three of his last four bouts, including three stoppage victories in 2021.
He’S the native of fort worth texas henderson, bounced back from a decision loss against unbeaten isaiah steen to stop robert bernwall burwell in his most recent outing in october, henderson turned pro in 2016 uh winning his first 12 bouts before a majority draw against polana in december Of 2019 uh, so this is uh, i’m liking this one man i’m liking this.
You know steve fulton, very underrated, uh, daniel roman underrated nobody’s really talking about this man, you know, and then we got david morrell taking on calvin anderson uh.
This is a great card as well.
We got some very young up-and-comers here, man there’s a bunch, we got jose sanchez, we got back um.
I honestly i don’t.
I don’t even know how to pronounce this one.
I’M really bad at this one near mag, nerman bent uh he’s 6-0 taking on kalin wheeler another one to watch out for on this.
One is trayvon: marshall, trevon marshall is taking on marcus washington, freeman marshall’s five-and-oh, looking to keep his unbeated record and then you know we got malik warren in here as well.
He’S looking to stay undefeated so guys there’s a lot of good up-and-comers on this card that we get to watch.
We definitely are going to have a lot of fun with this one ray what’s up brother welcome.
Welcome! Welcome! Thank you very much.
You know brother, how you doing, how are you doing? How are you doing man i’m doing great? I can’t i can’t complain.
We got lots of fights to watch this weekend, which fight are you most looking forward to this weekend right? Um, probably i mean you just touch on it.
The raw man, um stephen fulton fights gon na be a cracking fight.
Oh yeah.
I think the winner of that fight has to take on the uzbek omg uh mj, sorry to to see who’s going to be the best um super battling weight in the world, um the lightweight fight on sunday, it’s going to be on sunday in the uk.
That’S intriguing cambodia’s in hany um, oh yeah, it’s an interesting fight for joe cordina as well.
Let’S see if you can win a world title in wales um.
You know and i’m i’m looking forward to seeing darren morel as well.
Um super middleweight um.
This guy’s got a lot of um a lot of hype, uh a lot of good people who knew that boxing talking about him.
So there’s plenty of good fights to be looking for this weekend.
Definitely definitely, i just hope they don’t clash at the same time, like the main events are uh, because some because some of these cars, like there’s, we’re looking forward to a lot of the the the undercard fights too, it’s not just the main event.
So it’s the only thing, i’m worried about man.
I just obviously these promoters don’t really care to work with each other.
I wish they would at least work with each other.
As far as scheduling like don’t schedule, your freaking two, like big fights on the same freaking night man like yeah, that’s that that’s that’s the one thing about being a boxing fan.
It’S not like uh following basketball or baseball, or american football or soccer, where you’re guaranteed to see your team every week.
You know yeah yeah, yeah six months to see a box and you find out he’s fighting on the same night yeah, the favorite boxer.
You know what i mean: it’s like yeah yeah, it’s like picking between the two children.
You know what i mean, which one you know, yeah yeah, it’s one of those.
Isn’T it it’s one of those, but i guess this is where um satellite tv comes into play.
Um, you can record one guy and you can catch another guy on the stream and then catch another guy on youtube.
Yeah.
That’S that’s what you’re gon na have to do.
You know you’re, just gon na have to be smarter.
Definitely definitely i’ve got my recorder already set.
I got my laptop out and i’ll have my cell phone, so i’m not missing any of the action.
That’S gon na happen this weekend for sure um yeah.
Let’S talk about the cambosis uh devin haney man.
This is a great one: uh cambosis who’s born and raised in sydney returns to the friendly down under confines for the most significant boxing match in australian history event, organizers, hope to break the australian attendance record of 51 026 set by the 2017 manny pacquiao jeff horn.
Super fight in brisbane uh can’t believe we all know in greek descent, and this this this crowd is breaking the pacquiao and and horn record.
That’S what they’re, hoping they’re, hoping that the 51 026 that was set by that fight is going to be broken by this one coming.
You know this one’s promoted by by dabella entertainment, ferocious promotions, top ranked devin haney promotions and duco events.
Nteg sport wow like how many forget how many promoters can you have on one deal? You know what i mean: devin haney promotions recently entered into a multi-fight co-promotional pack with dibella entertainment and top rank, so we’ve got a lot of hands here.
Here’S a question um! Well, for both of you guys actually mike what time is it is this? Is it going to be regular time for us and ray what time is it going to be for, for you guys, the haney fight four four o’clock sunday morning, um? So but then again, that’s that’s what time! That’S what time the american fights are so yeah uh.
If there’s a big fight in america, it usually comes on in the uk about anywhere between three in the morning and and five in the morning yeah you were the uk, you got ta, be a dedicated boxing fan of you, yeah yeah yeah sure i think the Way this is this, is this is going on? It’S going to be um.
I think it’s going to be the middle, the middle of the the day for the australians or late in the afternoon.
I think because it’s 9 p.
m.
Eastern, okay, so nine p.
m.
But so then they’re probably gon na walk out, probably about 10 30 11, then yeah uh, i think it’s set uh.
They say that it should be around should be around 11 o’clock.
Yeah main event ring walks: approximately 11 p.
m.
Eastern.
So it is, isn’t that standard for you guys, though yeah yeah.
That’S that’s the only thing.
It’S it’s it’s the same for us in the uk.
It’S it’s no different from what we would usually see if we’re watching a big american fight.
The only difference is in australia, but time-wise.
You know it’s um, it’s no different, really, yeah! No! No! It’S not um! I’M! I can’t wait.
Uh, there’s some good fights on this undercard too uh.
You know.
Jason maloney have been following this kid junior far another kid to look at yeah andrew maloney’s, fighting as well um.
Those are the twins, yeah yeah yeah, yeah um.
So you know it’s gon na be interesting to see how those guys get on um and um yeah.
I’M looking forward to seeing how the maloney boys get on and junior farm, not too i’m i’ll be honest with you guys.
I can get up for that.
One because he’s fighting lucas brown and luca’s brother lucas brown is is a great a great fighter.
I don’t think he’s gotten any more make.
I don’t think he’s gotten any more from being honest with you he’s had some heavy heavy losses and um i just i just don’t think he’s gotten any more and junior fall.
Didn’T impress me against uh joseph parker um.
So i’m it’s not a fight that fills me with a lot of anticipation and intrigue um, but i want to see how the milone boys are getting on.
I think um very interesting division um, both of those guys and uh yeah, i’m looking forward to those fights all right before before we continue saying what up to bone kiki in the chat.
I was about to ask you who you got haiti or cambodia says you said haney time, so i guess you’re going for haney.
But what i want to know.
Well, let’s go through this undercard first and then get back to the main event, because i want to know specifically how how you, how you’re predicting the fight’s going to go, not just win or lose, but let’s get into a little bit of details afterwards.
I want to tell you who i’m, who i’m looking forward to on this undercard man has to be uh, hemi, agile uh.
If you guys don’t know about him.
He’S 18 and oh man, i’ve watched this guy for a little while he’s from new zealand he’s 31.
uh.
This guy packs a nice punch, man, 18-0, 13 knockouts taking on.
I don’t even know christian christian.
I don’t even know how to pronounce it.
Man t-s-o-y-e to soy – i i guess i guess i don’t know and that’s how it spells.
This is a good one.
Man i like that kid hemi.
He packs a punch man.
He definitely can uh knock.
Some people out he’s exciting to watch um.
I’M excited for that one also, our uh, our friend man, our friend, that we’ve uh interviewed many many times is gon na, be on this one uh, who we talk to a lot and that’s uh amari jones man amari jones is uh taking on huda and uh.
He’S looking to stay undefeated, men, 5-0, looking to improve and uh he’s very exciting to watch as well, and then we got a bunch of debuts on this one.
So i definitely will be watching this one from start to finish.
Uh just watching these prospects up and coming man, but let’s go back to it.
Let’S talk, let’s, let’s dive into depth about this cambosis can’t hear you my bad.
I was about to say most of these prospects.
We’Ve uh we featured on on knuckle up on at the every day at four o’clock.
So yes um so um, i guess i’ll just go.
First, real, quick um! Even though he’s going into foreign territory with 50 000 people in attendance, um i’m going with haney by unanimous decision, but i think he’s gon na you know he’s gon na win united’s, but it’s gon na be closer than than than the scorecards look, because it’s gon Na be close, close rounds and but they’re going to be a lot of close rounds, but but i believe haney will win those close rounds.
Here’S a big one, i’m predicting haney will get dropped, i’m predicting haney will get dropped, but he will still be able to just to get up and finish the fight, strong wow kind of like uh fury versus wilder um.
So that’s my prediction.
You uh haney by unanimous, close rounds.
Haney will get dropped but still get up and finish finish the round strong.
What are you predicting ray? I’M going for cambosis um, i think david devin haley is going to need a a terrific uh pinpoint strong job to keep the pressure off.
Um cambodia’s junior is cautious.
That’S his nickname.
He’S quick he’s got the power um.
He falls on the inside uh devin.
He doesn’t like inside fighting and what you’ve got to remember as well is styles make fights, and i think people forget that i think what what the other thing to look at is as a general rule of thumb.
It’S not always a truth, but it’s a general reform.
Pressure fighters tend to do well against boxers because boxers don’t have the power to keep them off right.
I can’t see devin haney having the power to keep cam bosses off.
I think he’ll struggle.
I think he’s gon na need a lot of that real movement and he’s gon na a job which is also his offense as well as defensive.
And what i mean by that is his job’s got ta, be able to keep cambodia’s off may cambodia’s reset, but also to defend himself from the the borrowers and the tax is going to be under.
He’S got to be able to pump out a job as well.
In twos and threes and then work off the back back of that job, if he could do that successfully, then yeah he could argue, he wins the fate.
I just can’t see him doing it.
Um i i looked.
I mean i mean people talk about the george or diaz freight etc, but when you look at it properly, giorgio diaz isn’t on the scene like cambodia’s, i’m not seeing cambodia’s just the next incoming.
I just think that he is a class above.
I saw him against lee selby, and i’ve saw him against previous fight.
I think he’s a better fighter than giorgio diaz um.
I think he’s a better fighter than what he’s been credit for.
So it wouldn’t surprise me if cam bosses wins his fight mike before you say your thing, just real quick on that um ray you’re, exactly right, that that pressure fighters do good against boxers, because boxes have a tough time keeping those fighters off them.
Yeah.
If you don’t have the skills to keep that pressure fighter off you right, like you, said uh, you bet you, you hate any better make sure his jab is as well and working um pumping it at different tempos, a hard jab, a a fast jab to mix It up so george campbell is just this doesn’t have the confidence to just walk him down.
Go ahead.
That’S that’s! That’S exact! That’S exactly right, cedric, and and that’s why you’re the coach on the show you know um, because at the end of the day, if, if haney’s job is less than 10 out of 10 he’s going to have problems because yeah, although he’s a physically bigger guy as Well, don’t forget, physically bigger guy in this fight, come horses juniors, going to be able to see those jobs coming you get those jams pretty good um, so it’s an intriguing matchup, but um yeah i’ll.
Let mike finish off yeah, honestly um.
I, like cambosis, i’m with you ray uh.
I don’t believe haney has the power to stop him uh and yeah.
He definitely needs to uh.
Have a 10 out of 10 job all night long.
Just to keep him off.
Um also got to take into consideration, is devin is devin in the right place head wise, his father’s, not there with him? Yes, yes, no, no, his dad got there.
He’S got a visa like this hours ago, yeah yeah two or three hours ago, two or three hours ago, he got the.
He got the visa, so he’s going to be there in time yeah.
So that’s the listen! That’S a for this that whole situation helped caney because he went over there.
Thinking like already with a mentality like okay, my dad’s, not here i got to be even more focused, so he was already in that mentality.
Now his dad’s gon na, be there now he’s even more confident, yeah, yeah and you’re exactly mike you’re exactly right.
He doesn’t he, i don’t.
He doesn’t have the power to knock out cambodia.
That’S why i said uh um unanimous decision, but i believe i just believe you guys might be right too.
You know we don’t know what’s going to happen, but i just believe we’ll see tomorrow, starting at 9 pm eastern won’t we yeah exactly exactly but yeah.
No honestly, i’m with you ray i’m saying, yo cambosis can’t sleep on this kid man he’s ferocious.
He definitely has the tools in his repertoire to hand anybody a lot that stands in front of him.
Uh, honestly, haney just doesn’t have the power to put him away and that’s what you’re gon na need to to pull in a w here, honestly yeah to pull out the w.
You need to stop him if it’s going the distance, i’m giving it to cambosis for sure man.
The only way that haney’s come through with the victory here is knocking him out and finishing the fight.
So you know i’m saying cambosis junior.
I like watching this kid.
You heard it here, we’ll see we’ll see tomorrow.
Won’T we cedric.
Yes, we will [ Laughter ], you guys want to touch on any of the other cards going on here or um.
Real quick um is is donaire in any way.
This weekend, too.
That is on the seventh guys, tuesday.
Isn’T it yeah? I was gon na bring that up.
Tuesday well, listen and it’s also 5 a.
m.
Eastern standard time, okay! Yes, you heard that right so june, 7th 5 a.
m.
Eastern standard time we have inui and donaire 2.
uh.
This one’s this one’s gon na be a good one.
Man um honestly inuit donaire will meet in the title: unification rematch, tuesday, um this one’s good man, it’s in japan, inui and donaire first fought in november of 2019 and uh yeah.
We know what’s going on here.
This one um in a way in a ways what 22-0 19 kos you know, three-weight world champion, won the wbc light flyweight title in april 2014 and ascended to pound-for-pound prominence with dominant runs at junior, phantom and bantamweight and at one point inui had a championship streak Of seven consecutive knockouts against fighters who had never been stopped before uh, he joined the bantamweight ranks in may of 2018, with a devastating first round stoppage over jamie mcdonald.
One year later, he knocked out emmanuel rodriguez in two rounds to win the ibf world title and uh, since unifying the ibf and wba belts.
Uh versus donaire inouye has knocked out jason maloney, uh these days, marines and uh japan.
So this one’s this one’s looking good.
What it is mike when you read out the facts, you just pump me up.
You just get me ready.
Absolutely it’s a bit like it’s a bit like mike buffer when michael buffer’s giving out the introduction yeah yeah yeah.
You know i just want to do this.
Sort of, like you know, get ready.
I know right just get your hyped up ready for these yeah.
It is a big fight man.
This is a huge fight.
Like you know, we got donaire he’s 42 and six 39 year old, future hall of famer.
You know he won his first world fight uh title flyweight in 2007, experienced a cree, a career rebirth since moving down from featherweight following the decision defeat uh to carl frampton in 2018, here in stoppages over ryan burnett uh, stefan young, in his first two bantamweight contests.
Before stepping up to face inui donaire before showed no ill effects from the 12-round shootout, with inui uh returning last may to upset uh nordin, i can’t even pronounce that one sorry guys uh julie figure.
The only thing i would say about that that one is the ryan burnett when he was injured, right yeah that wasn’t really he’s back when and then donaire won.
But what i’ll say about that as well is he’s going through what we call an indian summer.
You know he’s at the last stages of his career, really um and he’s he’s he’s he’s had some terrific wins and when you look back um it was only a few years ago.
He fought carl frampton and lost yeah and then look what donaire’s kind of went and done.
Um he’s been on a phenomenal run, but i just don’t see him beating a new way who, for me he’s i’m a pound for pound champion yeah.
Definitely definitely, i think, i think you know he’s walking away with this one um i like watching this kid.
He truly is the monster.
You know his his ability in that ring and the way he puts together his combos uh.
You know his ring iq the angles that he plays the levels and then he’s just got power.
Man he’s got power for such a small guy.
You know, anyways, no joke he’s no joke at all and uh.
I think this is going to be a good one.
I don’t know, i don’t think it’s going the distance.
I think this one’s going to be a stoppage.
No, i think um anu is probably, in my opinion, be interesting to see what cedric says um, but he’s definitely in in in my top five punches in boxing today.
Yeah definitely cedric.
What do you want to say about this? One any comments: dad um donaire, i mean he’s he’s uh he’s on a nice little run lately doing it for the old guys uh.
I think he’s about 39, but he’s he one is he’s one of the oldest after george foreman.
I think, there’s george foreman.
I think he’s probably like second as far as oldest winning a world championship, so um, you know we’ll see how far he can take this, obviously a big.
He already thought he knew what happened the first time he lost.
Obviously, but it was, was it close yeah? It was relatively close, it was relatively close.
I can’t remember, i mean he knew he had a broken um orbital bone.
You know, so i’m assuming it’s because of the way he’s looked lately that got him a second shot at anyway.
Um – and so i mean he’s, got some momentum on his side, but not not uh, not not age and time so, we’ll see you know, bernard bernard bernard hopkins had to learn the hard way when, when it was time time to quit right, he was looking good Up until that point, until he fought joe smith yeah and he fell out, the ring yeah yeah swim dive off the side of the ring.
So you don’t want that to happen.
So it’s always.
It’S always tricky with the older fighters when you’re at that 38.
39.
40 year old range, but you know you know you still look at yourself in the mirror and still think you got it.
You might tell yourself, you still got it, but physically you’re, not sure you know yeah true uh.
His younger brother is also on this card.
Takuma inuit is taken on furusha this one’s for the wbo asia, pacific super bantam title and the japanese super phantom title and then also uh andy hiroka uh, who is undefeated 19-0 in the super light is taking on akawa and that’s for the japanese super light title.
Uh the rest of the guys on here uh, you know, they’re not really well known uh.
They are good filler fighters uh, you know up-and-comers young, young and hungry kids looking to make a name for themselves.
So definitely it’s gon na be a great card to watch, but really we’re we’re.
Looking for the two, you know the main event and the co-main is really what we’re here for in this one uh.
You know the inuit brothers, that’s who’s, uh heading this one up.
So that’s what it’s gon na be about and if you guys can wake up at 5 00 a.
m.
Eastern standard time you get to watch it too, so we can’t forget cedric.
We need to remember that that fight is going to be included in next week’s knockout of the week right.
That’S how it’s gon na go guys.
You guys want to touch on anything else in in the boxing world before we get out of here today.
Well, that’s it for now man just looking forward to this weekend.
The fights i was just gon na.
Ask you guys just real real quick, especially you cedric, being the coach.
What do you guys think of um anthony joshua’s move got and robert garcia in his corner? Uh interesting move, interesting, move um i mean you, never know how it’s got.
How far he’s gon na respond till the fight happens.
Um i get robert garcia he’s known to be more of an.
I guess, an offensive coach um.
So i don’t know man.
That’S that’s.
At all the names i wasn’t expecting, i wasn’t expecting expecting him.
Um nemo was that so i don’t know i i really i’m really not sure what to what to make of this uh.
You know so sometimes when a fighter loses even though joshua lost before, but so i don’t know what made him think that he needs a a coach change.
Now, that’s that’s the question that i’d want to know from joshua.
Why does he feel now that he needs a coach change when he lost before and had a rematch and and did very well in that rematch wondering why he believes needs a thing now, so i don’t know what this i don’t know.
What to think about this coach change? I i’d like to know more from joshua why he chose that josh joshua said that the reason why he’s done this is because he was encouraged to ditch his corner team and come up with a new strategy to beat uh yusek, and he admitted he is happy With his new coaches and garcia’s, addition has been invaluable to his preparations, but the main thing is a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter and he’s in a good place.
Uh, garcia is actually here now and we, you know and he’s said, they’re just working on a few things: it’s not about changing style as such, uh garcia’s, garcia style.
Um must, you know, might be a crouch down bob and weave, but he’s a six foot heavyweight.
You know so he’s he’s wants to try a different style.
He wants to mix it up, and you know i don’t know the drastic change though it was.
It was a weird step to see.
I didn’t expect it, but uh.
You know, i guess he believes that usek has his number, no matter what um, with with his old corner.
So i guess he’s really trying to uh he’s trying to come through the big victory here by changing up his whole team is what it is interesting haven’t, cut any quotes from his coaches and his old coaches um.
No, you know what i didn’t.
Even i didn’t even look i i wasn’t really.
I wasn’t really interested yeah, i’m not too sure whether rob mccracken’s being vocal about the issue or not um also, i also know he’s retaining uh angel uh fernandez as part of his team.
You’Ll, probably remember a couple of months ago by me and maybe in a couple of months ago, maybe about three or four months ago.
He announced angel fernandez.
Is his head coach effectively promoting him from assistant to head coach and then now he’s brought in um robert garcia? I don’t know what aj is thinking um it’s it’s kind of almost undermined angel fernandez.
Already before the fights kicked off.
I don’t know, i guess we’ll just have to wait and see um what happens in july early august.
Is there a schedule for that fight yet date? For me, uh it was going to be july 23rd, but it’s probably going to be put back a week or a fortnight or maybe even a month.
Speaking of scheduled fights, i just i.
I hope this is more true than just uh: rumor speculation, but uh crawford and um october close to yeah.
You heard it too: oh yeah yeah.
We were in vegas yeah.
Yes, i might just book my ticket man.
I might just take it.
Oh yeah um we’re joking the same and that that’s that’s the fate that, for me, that’s immense boxing.
I think that’s a big second biggest fight.
There is yeah yeah that one scheduled for what what day, allegedly allegedly october, right.
Okay, i can’t wait.
That’S gon na be a great one.
I’M super excited for that yeah yay.
We got something to look forward to in the fall folks, oh yeah.
Yes, exactly for the record, i’m going for spence yeah.
I mean i like both guys equally like equally, but i just think spence has the slight up slight edge, so i’m gon na go yeah, yeah yeah.
I would agree.
We come on guys.
We don’t have to sugarcoat it.
We all know.
Spence has the edge come on, let’s be real man.
Do i have to hype you up for this fight too melissa.
Hey crawford was the only person.
Crawford was the only person to stop porter right.
He create even porter.
You know porter hurt spence later on in their later rounds.
Yeah stop them.
Crawford was vulnerable.
He got hurt of kavliamskis yeah, you know and that’s what i said he got hurt by gamboa crawford got hurt by gamboa who’s like came up yeah and for me spence um spencer’s is bigger and stronger than those guys um and for me, crawford gets into the Zone when he switches stands to southpaw and um, i think spencer’s already got a taylor seal plan for that, oh yeah, oh yeah.
I think it’s gon na be a great fight.
Man.
I’M super excited for this one.
Hopefully it gets underway by october.
I can’t wait.
I don’t want to wait a whole whole other year to see this one well guys.
I think i think we’ve touched on all the boxing for the weekend and early in the week, so i think we uh we should get out of here.
Um ray always a pleasure brother uh.
Why don’t you shut up? Let all the people know where they can find you brother, yeah, guys uh i’ve, i’ve gotten, i’m on a i’m on a channel called between the ropes tv um.
You can find us on youtube uh, with similar to the step setup.
You guys got here, talking fight, uh, we do interviews um, we started going to.
We started gon na, go to actual fights and get some footage from fights and we’re gon na be interviewing boxers.
Backstage um we are, we’ve got our own um uh shows where we we we’re reviewing fighting previewing fights um, but um tomorrow.
I don’t know how it works.
I think we’re five hours ahead of you yeah, so ahead of you so tomorrow, night for the joe cordina fight we’re doing a live watch along.
That’S gon na be at that’s nine uk time.
So, if you’re doing one three 1, 30 eastern standard time, yeah yeah, 1 30 eastern time so just find us on the channel click.
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Whilst you know myself, josh and scott and my co-presenters are going to be um watching the fight so um on on the zone um, so it’s it’s! It’S real good! It’S real picking up getting a lot of views, um getting getting a lot of sub swords! We’Re doing really really well so guys give it give us a like uh subscribe and and give us a watch on between the ropes tv, excellent.
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Man ray between the ropes tv check them out tomorrow.
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