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EPISODE: Episode 45
We start today’s show with a few quotes from Nottingham ahead of the Leigh Wood and Michael Conlan tilt, followed by two short pieces courtesy of Jazza Dickens and Dean Sutherland, based on their aspirations for a title shot, and then news regarding upcoming fights in Scotland, England, Bethlehem and Tanzania, and our episode concludes with the latest Probellum announcement regarding their broadcast deal with Discovery Sports.
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[ Music, ] hello, there boxing fans around the world thanks for joining me once again for another episode of boxing news today here on talk and fight, and we’ve got quite a bit of news to go through as we head into a big weekend, especially if you’re Living in the nottingham area uh in england, where lee wood is going toe-to-toe against michael conan, that’s certainly shaping up to be a great fight by all accounts.
We even have some quotes here from eddie hearn matron, sport chairman, and he said about this height.
As i’ve said before, almost 10 years since carl wrote historic victory in nottingham arena, we’ve been looking to bring a mega fight back to this city.
For some time, ten thousand persons sell out on saturday and the atmosphere is going to be incredible.
Three to four thousand irish also antennas for what will be a tremendous matchup now, with just under 10 000 people and sold out arena, we’ll see a great fight with an incredible atmosphere, huge support from the city of nottingham and a huge number of irish fans coming To see if michael conlon can become a world champion, lee wood himself responded, i’m buzzing to be here.
It’S been a long, hard road to get here back in 2014.
That was a terrible night.
I knew the reasons behind it and i went away and corrected it same with both the defeats i’ve suffered.
I went away changed my team and improved as a fighter.
I’Ve stayed disciplined lived, a life and that’s why i’m bringing this big night back to nottingham.
I couldn’t be happier and said uh and he he continues because he went on to comment about the carl frog.
This is a fairy tale.
This is fairy tale, honestly of all the arenas for carl uh.
I was at in the seed screen, i’m now headlining in the same arena, this isn’t the peak or where i stopped i’m going to further than this: the ground, the city, the city, ground, fight that you’ve tangled in front of me for so long.
You eddie said after this fight is happening, so i’ll hold you to that but eyes on saturday night.
First, i’m coming to get the job done.
I look good doing it fair enough.
Michael conlon, to his credit said: i’m ready to go.
My confidence comes from preparation.
My preparation has been fantastic, i’m very confident, very relaxed uh, we’re here in nottingham and it’s time to go, there’s not much more to say other than really can’t wait for saturday night.
I know what kind of performance is coming on saturday night.
This is going to be this relaxing calm.
I’Ve ever been in a fight week.
I don’t feel any pressure, i’m in the opponent’s back garden.
I’Ve got to rip the belt off him everyone’s here to see him.
I’Ve got fans coming in, though in the thousands already.
So there’s nothing new, i’m just here to get i’m just here to do a job.
I hope lee has the fantastic training camp.
I hope he’s uh the best leeway that’s ever been because i believe i will be it’ll it’ll make it all sweeter.
When i beat him, i’m just expecting a fantastic performance by myself right on that’s going to be a terrific tilt, all right.
Let’S move on to uh pro bellum’s new signing jazza dickens, who says uh that he’s put the the world featherweight jammies on alert after plotting his return to the title contention.
The 30 year old from liverpool is two-time world title challenger and could target a shot at rival, uh lee wood.
The wba regular champion this year in his latest bid for glory dickens, is backing wood in the tilt.
I just mentioned whom he defeated in 2020.
To keep hold of his belt after this weekend’s clash with michael conlon uh, he will then look to strengthen his own claim for a title belt, with victory on pro bellum show in liverpool on april 22nd, he said, it’ll be a close fight, but i’m picking lee Wood to defend his world title because the experience he has over conlan dickens, who’s 30 and four, with 11 knockouts returns to action in april.
As i said, for the first time since being retired at the end of the 11th round of last summer’s bloody world title fight with kid galahad, the former british super bantamweight champion says, with pro bellum’s backing he’ll be back and will contingent by the end of the Year with wood and other champions firmly in his sights good for him all right speaking of scotland, aberdeen zlatz dean sutherland is someone who’s, creating a lot of noise in the game, with some very impressive performances.
Currently, 12-0, with four knockouts, the 23 year old, has looked absolutely mustard in his last two fights claiming two belts: wbo, youth and wbc international silver welterweight titles, with stoppages over mexico’s jose antonio delgardo velazquez who’s, ten, two two knockouts and italy’s michelle esposito who’s.
Eighteen, five and one with six knockouts um so he’s going to to against uh.
I believe corey mcculloch at the aberdeen beach ballroom.
Also this saturday night, i’m not mistaken, and the rest of the bill is made up of more emerging scottish talent, getting a chance to shine on the fight zone platform, including calvin mccord uh.
The 25 year old picked up the scottish lightweight title in just a sixth fight and an up-and-down exciting encounter with marek leskowski in 2019.
That saw both men in the canvas before mccord finally got on top with eight round stoppage, also appearing on the show or ding walls.
Ben bartlett, who’s, three, you know, are both cory mcculloch.
As i said, 4-1-1 ryan golf and dundee is three and one as well as irishmen, edward donovan from limerick who’s 2-0.
Getting him in for the british title currently held by nottingham’s.
Aku asuman would be good, but will we will keep building up his rankings with the wbc and the plan is to ultimately get him in line to become a world champion any title he picks up while getting it at the dish or in addition to that ultimate Goal, i’m sure dean is going to look very impressive on the show – and it’s really terrific talent – to fight some viewers to follow on his journey to the top.
It’S going to be great to have calvin mccord back in the action after a frustrating time with injuries.
He’S 9-0 and another scottish fighter is going to go on and achieve big things.
It’S also great fight zone to be showcasing his talent.
I wonder if that was uh kainak, who said that not really sure who that quote is attributed to anyway for more information.
You can go to boxing247.
com and find out all righty.
Let’S move on uh.
As i said, speaking of scotland there’s an additional fight going on this weekend in wishaw uh, former two-time wbo featherweight world champion scott harrison who’s 28.
Three and two with 16 knockout returns to the championship trail this saturday when he faces ghana’s, razak, nedi, who’s 22 and six, with 16 knockouts for the vacant professional accounts of boxing council, bbc lightweight commonwealth title at rivals in wisconsin scotland, which will be globe globally broadcast On fight f-i-t-e main support for the mouth-watering harrison versus net, a title clash sees two of uk’s most exciting young domestic prospects, denny’s kevin traynor who’s, five and oh, with three knockouts and basildon’s lewis, mulberry who’s, four and one with one knockout competing for the championship.
Honors, for the first time when they go toe-to-toe for the professional boxing council by the way british title on saturday, paisley’s craig kelly’s 11 15 on one with two knockouts is looking to get back to winning ways on his first outing in 22, when he faces tough Ghanian to plea keophilius, oh phi, dudu, who’s, nine, two and o now with nine knockouts, all nine of his wins will come by knockout in a non-championship’s, a six-rounder, so we’re seeing more and more uh ghanaians, more and more africans, and it was interesting if you watched The uh episode yesterday uh uh, we, we promoted a lot of the african fighters uh due to espn launching yesterday in africa, and so you’ll see a lot more.
I believe uh ghanaians tanzanians south africans, nigerians making their way up to face european challengers anyway.
Aberdeen’S sensational young heavyweight prospect liam allen.
Who’S 3-0 with three knockouts faces a late replacement opponent in adam harrison in a four-round contest and local lad.
Craig bullock is set to make his professional debut on saturday when he faces belfast’s ryan kilpatrick in a four-round heavyweight contest.
Aberdeen’S summer carol, who’s one-on-one versus india’s jet deep singh who’s owned one in a four round.
Super lightweight contest, coke bridges, stewart maxwell versus belfast’s marty case in a four round.
Welterweight contest and newcastle’s jack johnson is one of four versus india’s debuting singh in a four-rounder uh, the scott harrison versus razak nete for the vacant professional boxing council lightweight commonwealth championship headlines, elie mcallister promoted.
Let battle commence six.
So that’s this coming saturday march 12th at rivals in winshaw scotland, let’s move along down into england taking place at york hall on march 11th, the night before uh.
This will feature chris burke going toe-to-toe against mark leach.
They both weighed in as have frank, arnold and his uh opponent, paul holt uh.
We see that chris bork who’s 10-0 and puts his undefeated record on the line when he takes on mark leach who’s 17-1-1.
As i said for the vacant british super bantamweight title to be held at york hall, that’s march, 11th, live on bt sport.
The card also features, as i said, super featherweight frank, arnold, 801, olympic youth, gold, medalist carol, fatuma 5-0 in light heavyweight action.
Unbeaten irish super lightweight willie, hayden, who’s 2-0 and super welterweight josh frank and miss forno super featherweight, jamie chamberlain, who’s three-year-old has his first fight under the queensbury banner, while jake hunty who’s 1-0 super wealthy and eloy’s junior owen, juan cruzy wait both having their second professional Fights cruiserweight arnold abbadai will make his professional debut and it’s great to see on this card all those zeros those fighters are putting up their zeros and uh that will make for a great card.
They said that’ll take place at your call on march 11th.
Across the pond.
We see that uh the weights for friday night’s kings promotion, eight bout card taking place at wind, creek event center have taken place.
This will be featuring ryan adams, going total tokens, camille wheeler um, both ryan adams, weighed in at 165 now and willie weighed in at 167.
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As i say, this will take place at the wind creek event center in bethlehem, pennsylvania.
First, bell, 7 p.
m.
Eastern time, also on that fight, kenny robles, going toe to against niamh nelson jonathan rodriguez uh going against jose flores chavez, james bernadine, going against kevin azmat julian gonzalez, against carlos padilla lyanna cruz, amiela lopez, claudia albrecht, going against antonio hotel and tahan j teasley going against Daniel giles great action down in pennsylvania, fantastic stuff, all right, let’s move along and we’re going over a state or two to new york where we see oh, this interesting story uh.
This is a ukrainian fighter, oled duven, all right, so he’s set to fight uh, guram oleon at the paramount theater in huntington new york on the 18th of march.
The story goes courage of our friends over at boxing 247 long before he was nab a champion and number six world rated wba super bantamweight ole duvan who’s 13-0 with five knockouts, was just a kid growing up in western ukraine, with a population of only about 20 000 uh his city, stepnick duven, enjoyed a peaceful upbringing in a small town alongside his mom dad and older brother.
The small town son soon became fascinated with the support of boxing a journey that has now led him to long island new york.
For this upcoming title defense on march 18th, on star boxing’s, renowned, rock and fight series, at the paramount, while in elementary school duvan became friends with fellow students who had begun to fight amateur bouts, says devon.
He would again he would get a lot of attention from other students who were interested in him because he was boxing.
I wanted that attention too.
He said, while laughing so at the age of 10 duvan made troops promise and began boxing.
Nearly 13 years later, duvan’s schoolyard attention ploy transformed into his livelihood amassing approximately 250 amateur bouts, while traveling throughout much of europe and asia to compete from the ukraine to kazakhstan.
The philippines to china, duvan was able to see the world as an amateur boxer while on his face and seemed glorious for a small town ukrainian kid to travel the globe doing what he loved like most in boxing.
His journey did not come without major sacrifice.
Yeah as i was in the middle of competing as an amateur in the world series boxing in 2016, when my grandmother passed away a few days before my fight.
Not only was i depressed leading into the fight, but i’ve broken my thumb during the fight, but i dug deep and i still won said devon reminiscing on one of his toughest moments as a boxer in 2017, alongside fellow ukraine native and future star boxing stable mate Lumiere princess who’s 14 and two and one with eight knockouts duvan, took a leap of faith and left the ukraine for greener pastures in the united states, hoping to turn pro with world title aspirations.
Finding his way to pittsburgh.
Duvon teamed up with mike mcsorley of congrat boxing club to try and make that dream a reality fast forward to today and devon as well.
On his way, devon holds an undefeated record of 13, no with five knockouts in his current napa super bantamweight champion and is rated number six in the world by the wba.
Devon is focused on the ultimate prize.
I’M going to beat john of mendeliov in 2022 and become the wba champion of the world nearing his ultimate goal of becoming a world champion.
What advice would devon tell his younger 10 year old ukrainian self work hard and believe in yourself at all times, always focus and follow your dreams by the way? Originally devon was set to defend his naba title against fellow undefeated super bandwagon, michael de silva who’s, 13-0.
But the fight was moved due to visa issues.
Stepping up for the challenge will now be belgian, bruiser, garam, aloyan who’s, seven, two and one with six knockouts as devon, seeks to remain undefeated in his naba title.
Defense and that’ll be taking place next friday march 18th.
At rocking fights 41 elsewhere down in africa, speaking of africa faces alex kabunga for the wbo belt on march 26 in tanzania wow, these guys look, tough tanzanite holly is his hometown mongoro tanzania.
This is where the former wbo all africa super welterweight champion.
Aka is.
It is fair to say, as tough as they come in a professional career spanning almost nine years is compiled in 18, 8 and 1 with 8 knockouts ledger.
He with his losses.
Only one of them established coming against opponents with a combined 94-1 record wow on march 26, at tons of night hall in his hometown.
As i said, of morigarok tanzania, he will take on south africa based congolese alex kabungu kabangu.
Sorry, five three and three with two knockouts for the vacant: yubio all-africa super middleweight, title thirty-year-old kasim started out as a lightweight and won national honors at that weight.
In only his fourth outing in december 2016 he lost a wbf all-africa welterweight title fight to current wbo.
No sorry, that’s yubio champion idid pilari, the only time he has lost to a fellow african the following year.
He ventured up to super mellow, wait and drew with former ubo and future wbo and wbf titleist abdullah babwazi star, starting what would emerge as a heated tanzanian rivalry going back down in weight.
He won the ubo all-africa super welterweight crown in september 2018, decisioning zambian sharif.
Kazango in 2020 he was back at super middleweight, but now much improved physique as he scored a unanimous decision, victory over in a highly anticipated rematch.
Almost exactly a year later, in his most recent outing, kazim won a third fight with posi posi holy crap.
That’S a whoa alrighty, leaving no doubt that he is the better man with the wide unanimous decision he has gained in the name of six kilos, since he last strapped a yubio yubio belt around his waist, but not due to lack of training.
In fact, hazim has transformed his body into a strong super middleweight and he plans to let that show against kabungu on march 26th, very good stuff and that’s being promoted by peak time.
Media out of africa and broadcast live on azam tv.
You learn something new every day, all righty across the pond in deadwood usa.
I’Ve reported on this before revisit the story: undefeated middleweight prospect, adriel holmes, who’s 11-0, with five knockouts, we’ll put his zero online uh and once beaten brenda brown uh 13-1-1.
Both made weight thursday.
A day ahead of their 10 round main event on show box, the new generation tomorrow night, so that’ll take place tonight, uh at 9, 35 pm eastern time, uh from deadwood mountain grand hotel in deadwood, south dakota, the co-feature pits undefeated prospect, louis acosta, who’s 12-0 and The power punching edwin de los santos who’s 13-1 with 12 knockouts in an eight-round lightweight bout plus 2021 national golden gloves, champ giovanni marquez, the southern former world champion and show box commentator.
Raul marquez makes his professional debut against dominican nelson morales who’s 2-0 in a four-round welterweight bout that opens the three-fight telecast, as i said before, it’s great to see these guys putting their zeros on the line makes that box boxing exciting uh for a final piece of The day, let’s uh go back to pro bellum and they have announced a landmark broadcast deal with discovery.
Sports pro bellum has today announced a multi-fight agreement with discovery sports.
The partnership starts with back-to-back events on march 18th and 19th with discovery sports set to broadcast the two pro bell.
Evolution shows through eurosport’s linear channels, discovery plus and eurosport, app to millions of homes across 62 markets and territories in europe and the indian subcontinent, since launching in september 2021, pro bellum has now signed almost 50 fighters from across the world, including current and former world champs Past olympians and emerging talents um richard shaffer, president pro belm said agreeing a multi-fight deal with the broadcasting powerhouse such as discovery is a truly momentous day for our companies are so early in our journey.
Discovery’S truly global audience is a perfect platform for us to help continue with our core mission, to open up boxing to new audiences by bringing together the best fighters for fans around the world together, i know we’re going to bring about real change to the way that Live boxing is presented.
I have no doubt that it will be a perfect broadcast partner uh, as we aim to transform how fans can experience boxing uh trojan playoff, vp, uh sports rights, acquisitions and syndication of discovery.
Sports said discovery has a strong heritage, taking support wider audiences and helping grow competitions and events using our full scale of channels and digital platforms with the global reach.
That discovery enjoys this new partnership with pro bellum as a perfect opportunity to showcase some of the best athletes in the world to millions of passionate sports fans in europe and the indian subcontinent fantastic stuff.
Uh viewer viewers, by the way we’ll be able to watch uh.
The talented upcoming fight featuring pat mccormack and his twin brother luke and uh and twin brothers luke and peter mcgrail, who will uh, who all represent team jim b in japan, um, oh and there’s a double header, i’ll, find the double header in dubai.
Um.
Pro balance impressive, roster fighter, then moves to new castle uh march 25th, where hometown favorite lewis ritzen takes on the john of montenegro with world title hopes online for both men.
The discovery cameras will follow pro bell up to liverpool on april 22nd for a world bantamweight title clash between local hero, paul butler and champion john riel casemero of the philippines.
Before the action moved to a major show in london in may wow.
That is pretty good news that brings boxing to to a whole new level and to a much wider audience and hopefully brings a lot of new fans to this great sport right sports fans.
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