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EPISODE: Episode 22
We start off our show with an update from undefeated light heavyweight prospect Edet Mkapanam, who is returning to the ring, and then provide updates on forthcoming tilts in California, Massachusetts, Florida and Michigan (the Detroit Brawl featuring Otto Wallin), and Cardiff – where Joe Cordina will challenge Kenichi Ogawa for the IBF Super-Featherweight World Title – and conclude with news regarding Paul Butler and some quotes from WBA world champion Eimantas Stanionis.
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[ Music ] hello there once again boxing fans around the world.
Thank you for joining me once again here on talk and fight for another.
Let’S see another episode once again of boxing news today we’re going to start off today’s stories, courtesy of our friends from across the pond at boxing247.
com uh, with the bit of news uh out of the new bedford massachusetts, undefeated uh, light heavyweight prospect, edat mechapannam, whose six And oh five knockouts is battling back from both retina and shoulder surgeries.
The sidelined him for 16 months before his successful return.
This past march, the 27 year old, faces scott bombs, scott uh, this upcoming friday or saturday on may 7th hometown royalty is the name of that card presented by granite chin promotions in association with capiola sorry, capilla, boxing promotions insurance, boxing promotions at the bridgewater veterans club In bridgewater massachusetts raised in brockton, known as the city of champions, mach panam has had an abbreviated amateur career, although he was a heavyweight winner in the 2017 rocky marciano tournament, as well as a runner up a year later in a prestigious new england golden gloves championships.
Mack panam had back to back surgeries, starting with a torn ligament in his shoulder, followed by surgery to repair his retina in his right eye.
I he said i didn’t have much of an amateur career and i’ve been learning on the job as a pro.
He explained.
All this uh to boxing247.
com, i learned in the gym sparring with some of the top fighters in new england, like peter alfredo jr and mark deluca.
In my mind, i wanted to continue fighting.
I kept working hard in the gym, while recovering some doctors said.
I shouldn’t fight again, so i upped my intensity in the gym and when i was examined again, the doctor said my eye was a lot better and i was cleared to fight.
I had a tough training camp before my last fight, the first afterlife surgeries – and i wasn’t even thinking about my eye during that fight mcmahon.
Looked relatively sharp in his march 19th: comeback fight, stopping pro debut fighter, igor pacio in the third round of their fight in derry, new hampshire, now idat is on a mission to make up for lost time.
I’Ll bet he is.
He said.
I’Ve been working on my job and some other things.
My goal is to fight on bigger stages, which is one of the reasons i signed with branch and promoter chris trillati with i respect scott lampert.
He says, but i’m on a whole different level in new england.
Boxing and i’m going to prove it in this fight, i know chris is going to get me an opportunity to fight on bigger stages good for him.
There are a lack of fights going on on that particular card that i said called hometown loyalty.
As i said this saturday night may 7th, let me just throw a few by you, mike o’han jr, going toe toe against jose abul uh, former new england, welterweight champ mike badman ohan jr who’s 14 and one eight knockouts fighting out of holbrook massachusetts headlines, hometown loyalty In the eight round main event against argentinian opponent, jose el chino, abuela who’s, eight, nine, with seven knockouts quincy, massitude, lightweight, fighter ryan, the polish prince kilswesky who’s 30 and six with 11 knockouts, a 2008 national golden glove, silver, medalist and two times new england golden gloves.
Champ faces another argentinian: mario lozano who’s, 18, five, along with nine knockouts in the eight round code featured event, brockton welterweight prospect, david ribeiro, makes his pro debut and a four rounder against joshua zimmerman.
Who’S.
Oh and eight ribeiro was celebrated amateur.
Having won gold medals at the 2020 new england gold, glove uh tournament 2019 king of the ring and regional mike tyson tournament falls with falls.
River massachusetts, welterweight damon towns is 4-0 with three knockouts meets robert bricks, who’s, oh and nine, in a four round belt as well.
So some some good fighting going on this saturday night down in massachusetts and we look forward to seeing those results elsewhere moving across the continent into california.
We see that sergey kovalev is going up against tervel poulov and that’s going to be held at the kia forum.
In englewood california, on the 14th of may sergey, the crusher kovalev, 34 and 429 knockouts now living in long beach, california, will fight true val poulov in his cruiserweight debut on saturday night may 14th.
At the kia forum in englewood, california, sergey is being trained by buddy mcgirt and his strength and conditioning coach is teddy cruz.
They are the duo that reinvented arturo gotti by the way buddy was a real smart boxer and a real smart trainer and coach.
Sometimes a good boxer can’t be a good coach and sometimes a coach wasn’t a good boxer, but buddy has it both ways, good boxer and good coach.
He does what he does need to do to get me prepared and prepared for the best fight, but he gives me tactics and sound techniques and strategy together we’re working towards another world title this time in the cruiserweight division and becoming champion for the fourth time.
For this eight-week training camp sergey is staying in a hotel in close to the park where he runs and his boxing gym.
He says it’s just 20 minutes away from van nuys.
The most difficult part of my career right now is being with my family said kovalev 10 years ago.
It was just me now.
I have a wife and two kids to be away from them.
For two months is tough kovalev hits the boxing gym at 5 pm daily as far as three times a week and is off on sunday an evening sparring would last about one and a half hours and go as such jump rope.
Four rounds, shadow box four rounds, spar seven rounds and then some neck exercises.
Well.
I’Ve never actually seen that in that press press quote before anyway, a non-sparing non-sparring evening workout would be technical training and some game plan.
The crusher arrives at the fitness gym early morning.
Every day, except for sunday, with strength and conditioning coach, extraordinary crews, they do a workout depending on how much boxing what workout he does the evening prior kind of makes sense spreading it out good stuff.
Let’S move along to dedham, that’s in massachusetts.
This is again another independent promoter, uh and we’ve.
We’Ve mentioned these fellows before they put on fights down at moseley’s on the charles in dedham massachusetts, and this one’s going to take place on the 14th of may promising prospects.
Michael fontenez and anthony caffalo will be making their professional debuts may 14th at mayhem at moseley’s, presented by vertex promotions, mostly on the charleston dedham vote.
Nas has fought at the national level as an amateur while encephalo experienced a more modest amateur career.
The 26 year old fontenez fighting out in nashua new hampshire is a two-time new england golden gloves champion, who has been nationally ranked in the top 10 for several years.
My pro debut has been long time coming.
Fontinet says it’s a perfect time.
For me.
I’Ve been ready for two years, but i needed more experience.
I was chasing a national title before i was going pro.
I was supposed to fight last december at the usa.
The boxing national championships, but i got coped.
I took that as a sign.
The gopro everything is good.
No more waiting foughtness drives 45 minutes to an hour to training with alex rivera in somerville massachusetts.
The travel is simply part of the process.
For a fondness.
He says i need to train with the best to be the best and that’s with alex.
I was at training camp sparring with rashidi ellis who’s.
23.
No, we’ll rate it as a welterweight and training with alex was my next step.
I bonded with alex.
I know where i’m at i know i’m getting great work, he’s a coach who works with us and drinks purple juice.
What the heck! Okay moving along um, mr cafallo said: um i’ve been that’s a long time working hard in the gym and giving good sparring uh.
I do i did take a hiatus from boxing during covert i’ll keep my head in this brain i’ll.
Keep my head in this pro debut i’ll, be fueled by the crowd.
My coach will be keeping me together.
I’Ll be excited a little nervous.
I just need to do what i’ve been working on in the gym.
Anticipation of my pro debut is going the way as planned.
The fellow was matched up against the super lightweight brandon agreement by the way uh who’s out of north carolina.
The headline is undefeated james.
The slim loop for perella who’s 10-0, seven knockouts fighting out of mansfield massachusetts against argentinian challenger, rogue augustine ajunko 10-10-01 in the eight-round main event.
A decorated amateur boxer, perella was four-time usa, new england, champ and four-time new england, gold gloves champ boston’s, enthusiastic irish boxing fans.
Will once again be supporting galway, light heavyweight, tommy the kid oh tool: 3-0, with two knockouts in the six-round co-featured event versus mexican joshie abondo who’s 20, 33 and 2 15 knockouts o’toole was the 2019 irish elite champion gold medalist the grandson of marvelous marvin hagler james Hagler jr is on this bill two and one one with one.
Now: okay, we’ll make his massachusetts debut in a four round.
Super middleweight bout against brazilian hye tour manga review debut also fighting on the undercard is uh in the six round bout, his dorchester massachusetts, featherweight, troy, uh anderson jr is 4-0 and a 2016 rocky martial tournament champ versus michael gaxiola, who’s uh, fighting on salesforce massachusetts, super Featherweight alex rivera who’s 3-0 versus william para smith, three and ten, with one draw and south boston welterweight, joe farina, seven and one before knockouts, going up against rakhim johnson.
There we go a big fight coming up at uh, uh mosley uh, mostly on the charles in dedham massachusetts, if they pronounce it denim dead ham, dead, hem, denim massachusetts moving along at the youngling center in tampa florida.
We’Ve mentioned this before, but now they’ve provided us with an update, big fight going on among youtubers and celebrities of that sort on may 14th.
The let’s quote this as it’s as it reads: the highly anticipated creator clash boxing event taking place, may 14th at the youngling center in tampa florida, just added two additional professional boxing boats, redevoid j, hot rod, kala jugsec who’s 26 and two with 18 knockouts and ernest Amuzu who’s 26 and 6, with 22 knockouts will square off in a 10-round light heavyweight contest, as well as fabian lopez, who’s 5-0, with three knockouts going toe toe gates or final lewis.
There’S one on one with one knockout in a six round super middleweight clash.
Let’S try that name again: calendulic versus a muzover and lopez versus louis we’ll stream live on idubbbz uh youtube channel, which has an astounding 7.
76 million subscribers.
The boats will go, live at 5 pm eastern time uh as a special chief of fans before the creative class.
Pay-Per-View fight starts at 6 p.
m, whatever the heck.
That means this is a great opportunity for these professional fighters to showcase their skills to a broader audience, said promoter idubbbz, who will be fighting dr mike.
In the main event, we want to show support to the bro boxing community by by giving amazu lopez and louis a platform to get our fans pumped up for the pay-per-view fights.
I believe these guys are going to be set are going to set the tone for a great night of boxing and i’m happy that my subscribers will be watching these guys go to war.
The entire 12 bout card will be sanctioned by the florida state athletic commission with all net profits going to charity.
In total, the creators fighting at the event have altogether over 22 billion lifetime views and over 131 million followers tickets for the event, which is produced by idubbbz in collaboration with co-creator mike galinardi and real good touring are on sale now and can be purchased at the Creative clash website, i’m sure if you googled, as i did creative clash, you’ll find them pretty quickly.
Moving on it’s good to see that uh, the detroit brawl is uh continuing and on may 26th they’re going to feature otto wall who’s going toe-to-toe against rydell booker at the lincoln ballroom of the ford community and performing arts center in dearborn michigan just outside of detroit.
On the 26th of may, a 10 round heavyweight main event has been added to salina promotions special memorial day week and kickoff detroit brawl event as wbc number 11 rated heavyweight, auto wallet, 23 and 1, with 14 knockouts out of sweden, will face detroit’s own rydell booker.
On thursday may 26th, as i said in the lincoln ballroom with the ford community and performing arts center in dearborn michigan, someone needs to rebrand that name: uh tickets are on sale and and uh.
Let’S move on to.
Oh, there are also some vip tickets.
If you have a bit of cash, an athletic southpaw heavyweight, who does everything? Well, while inhales from sonsval sweden, the 31 year old wallah, made the world stage and captured headlines in 2019 when he waged a thrilling war with lineal world heavyweight, champ tyson fury and came extremely close to scoring a monumental stoppage upset then unknown and a 10-1 underdog Wellin took the fight to fury early and cut the superstar englishman for 47 stitches with a surprise left in the third round.
What followed was a nail-biting back-and-forth war of attrition that fury eventually pulled out via close controversial unanimous decision wallin now lives on trains in new york, under the tutelage of popular former two division, champ joey gamache at the mendez boxing gym in manhattan.
He captured the ebu european union heavyweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision victory over adrian granit in april 2018 and has also held the wba continental heavyweight championship.
One was last seen in february of this year scoring a unanimous decision over polish veteran camille.
Sokolowski training is going really well said.
Wallen i’ve been getting a lot of work in the last few months i saw booker when he fought franklin.
I know that he’s an experienced and skilled boxer he’s not someone i will underestimate, but this is a fight.
I need to win.
I appreciate my promoters, salida promotions, keeping me active.
This is the first time i fight twice in a year since 2019, i’m looking to put on a good performance, and i hope he does all righty.
So, let’s uh move along to our next story of the day, ah taking place over the more point arena in cardiff, wales, this fourth of june joe cordini, joe cordina, sorry we’ll challenge kim chi agawa for the ibf super featherweight world title at the motor point arena In cardiff on saturday june, 4th live worldwide on the zone, excluding australia and new zealand welshman cordina who’s 14-0.
Eight knockouts, a former british commonwealth champion a light lightweight dropped down in weight to super featherweight.
After handing his compatriot gavin guinn at first loss at the o2 arena in london in august 2019.
, the welsh wizard captured the wba continental 130 pound title against mexico’s mario taniko at the casino de monte carlo in november 2019, before suffering a hand, injury that kept him Out of the ring, through 2020.
determined to make up for lost time, the 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 the match.
Room fight camp in the summer and now sits at number three at super featherweight with the ibf for his part, japan, zagawa who’s 26 101 with 18 knockout claimed the vacant red and gold 130 pound world title by overpowering the dangerous azinga fazool.
In a wide points decision at the hulu theater in madison square garden last november, dropping the southern south african in rounds 5 and 12.
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The 34 year old hails from tokyo, is on the hunt for a unification fight that represents a sizable step up in class.
For the rio 2016 olympic cordina, having only tasted defeat once in 29, professional bouts, a stoppage loss at the hands of yuki maishaki at the kochian hall back in august of 2012.
, by the way on the undercard manchester’s alpha barrett who’s 27-1 with 16 knockouts.
Who is ranked number two of the ibf looks to build on his impressive win over australia’s bruno tarimo on the parker versus azura undercard when he challenges european super featherweight, champ farook kurbanov who’s 1903, with three knockouts, a former opponent of korina.
I’Ve dedicated my entire life to boxing and putting myself in this position said kodina.
Now it’s all come down to this opportunity.
My world title shot it’s a lifelong dream of mine to become world champion.
I’M stepping stone securing my family’s future and making all the times missed with them worth it i’ll be taking this opportunity with both hands, i’m prepared to do whatever it takes to win and be crowned the new ibf world super pregnant weight champion be ready to see The best joe cordina comment by night, as i put name at the top of the division wow, so that is shaping up to be a pretty heavy duty fight among uh, like featherweights, who look pretty good, all right, uh to be shown zone yep the zone is Showing that one uh so you’ll be able to catch it uh on the zone, all right! Oh yes, as a follow-up to a story i had last week, uh paul butler has in fact been named a full wbo world bantamweight champion.
Let’S go to this story: paul butler has been elevated to wbo world bantamweight champion after the sanctioning body voted unanimously to strip the title.
Holder butler won the interim belt at pro bell in liverpool last month, with a masterful display against jonah sultan.
At the m s, bank arena sultan stepped in to replace the the champion john real casmaro, reinforced out of the clash having contravened burst.
Boxing board of control rules, around weight making and the use of saunas butler defeated sultan on points over 12 rounds with the career best display and was waiting for the wbo to decide on casimiro and the fate of the full world title and the 23 year old.
Woke up this morning to the news that he is officially now the wbo title holder at 118 – pounds with cosmeros stripped of his belt, but set to be installed as the number one contender in the division said butler.
I already knew i was a two-time world bantamweight champion, but to have it officially confirmed by the wo this morning is a great feeling i produced the best performance of my career.
Beating jonah sultan at pro bell and liverpool and casimiro will have watched that display and realized.
He was seriously underestimating me had casimiro not pulled been pulled out of the fight.
The result would have been the same as i was in the shape of my life.
The biggest contest in my career – and i could see that on the night now with the wbo belt around my waist – i’m ready to secure some huge fights in one of the best divisions in boxing i will be watching the outcome of the daenerys versus the nui Fight with interest butler won the ibf ban to make title in 2014, but soon relinquished his belt to chase honors at super flyweight.
Yet the decision of the wgo’s executive committee overnight, who voted 21 to 0 in favor of promoting liverpool fc fan to full champion means he is now officially back among the best fighters in the division.
If you want to keep up to date with the latest news on butler, as well as other fighters in propellant, roster sign up to their newsletter as we have and follow them on instagram elsewhere and for the last story of the day.
A few words out of uh amantis daniels, who’s, reacting to the conor manfight talk and he’s saying: zero.
Sweats next have a quick read of this one here and i’ll.
Let you go on with your day, wba world champion my mantis staniosis says: connor ben is being protected from facing him and has laughed off claims.
A fight between them would not sell any tickets.
Dethroned, the regular welterweight title holder rajdhab in dallas last month to create history by becoming lithuania’s first ever professional world champion the 27 year old won the wawba crown a few hours after britain’s ben had stopped chris van hern uh in two rounds and following that contest, His promoter, eddie hearn, was asked about pitching his charge in with staniosis and praised the 2016 olympian as a really good fighter, but said the welterweight champion had zero profile and they would sell only about 5000 tickets.
For that contest at a venue in london, stanions has now responded to those claims.
By saying i heard what eddie heard said, they don’t want the fight and that’s why he said that nobody knows me.
I just laughed when i heard it, but he’s just protecting his guy.
It’S his job he’s promoting a guy for the future and he knows it’d be very tough fight with me.
But i was just laughing because there’s a big big community lithuanians in england and many people fly over from my home country for that fight too.
So we would sell a lot more than five thousand tickets.
He said conor is a good fighter.
He can.
He can bang and he has power, but he’s never fought.
Anyone could pressure him like.
I would and he’s been fighting inactive guys, but a fight between us would be a lot of fun right now.
Sansa’S victory over uh butyev has made him the mandatory challenger for errol spence by the way who holds the wba’s super title at 147.
Pounds spencer also has the wbc and ibf welterweight belts and could yet agree to fight wbo king terence, crawford but samyang says, wants this to be his next opponent.
My contract means i’m next in mind to fight spence, so i will wait for that opportunity.
He said it would be cool if i could fight him for three belts, because when you achieve one goal you have to create new ones, and i want the other belts.
I like a challenge.
I want to see where i stand and i want to see how deep i can dig and how far i can go through the fire.
I don’t know if spence will fight crawford next, i’m a sports fan too, and so i’d love to see that fight.
But i’m also a young hungry fighter who wants the biggest fights? I’M contracted that fights that’s next, so maybe he gives up the belt and i’ll fight somebody else.
So there you go extra news out of probalum on a mantis stenosis all right and that’s that’s it.
That’S it for the news today.
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