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EPISODE: Episode 23
On today’s episode, we will not discuss the heavyweights or Jake Paul; our show starts off with some news about Ben Whittaker and his upcoming clash against unbeaten Peter Nosic to take place in Jeddah, and then we’ll profile one of the UK’s formidable veteran female boxers, Krissy Shergold, set to enter the ring and fight for a title at the “Rumble on the Riviera”, before rolling through the upcoming PBC card in Florida that will feature Omar “Panterita” Figueroa Jr. and Sergey Lipinets, who’ll battle in a 12-round WBC Super Lightweight title eliminator, and report on a few of the recently victorious Split-T winners, including Jessica Camara, and conclude with a few quotes from undefeated super featherweight Pedro Valencia prior to his bout in California against Adrian Corona.
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Transcribed:
[, Music, ], [, Music, ], hello, boxing fans around the world thanks for joining me once again here on all right.
We have some uh some headlines report on today that do not feature either jake paul or the heavyweight division.
Instead, we’re gon na start off the show, with a bit of news out of one of our favorites uh ben whittaker, uh, who was uh in the olympics, he’s now a pro and he’s set to fight over in jeddah saudi arabia on on a fabulous undercard.
That’S shaping up this saturday night.
Here we go.
Let’S start off with fresh from his incredible debut rising british boxing, superstar ben whittaker returns to the ring for his second fight this weekend, as he faces a former foe in saudi arabia, the team gb olympic silver medalist had everybody talking when he began his professional career.
In blistering fashion, in bournemouth just three weeks ago, in dazzling in a dazzling display, benzo who’s, also known, as the surgeon showed why many believe he is destined for world title glory as he blasted away greg o’neill with devastating second round stoppage.
Now he’s now trained by sugar hill stewart and the 25 year old has matched his impressive in-ring prowess, with an entertaining combination for bottle and showboating to immediately get fight fans excited about him uh.
Without a doubt, the birmingham light heavyweight whitaker now 25 will go toe-to-toe with unbeaten croatian boxer leader no sex 6-0 in a six-round contest as part of the action-packed undergrad.
As i said before, the main card airs live and exclusively on sky sports box office.
So there you go some good news, uh out of uh jeddah that does not involve heavyweights.
Moving along to um women, fighting uh, one of britain’s uh longtime favorite veterans is returning to the ring uh.
She returned after four-year absence.
I believe this past december, but she’s back again and she’s, going to be fighting for a commonwealth super by the weight.
Uh title name is chrissy shergold and [.
Music ] insists that becoming the commonwealth super featherweight champion might only be the beginning of her resurgence.
She gets home advantage when pcb promotions staged their first show at the riviera international center in devon, with a fight night scheduled for friday september, 2nd uh shergold, who was born and bred in torbay, goes in for arguably her most major title today, some 14 years on From when she made her first uh fight debut the 41 year old now has held the lesser known, wibf and gbu world belts, along with challenging for the gpc bubble way back in 2008 uh.
She ripped those drafts from uh calapi kajuni in july 2018, with both title tests, seeing her complete the 10 round distance.
That commonwealth challenge is set for a quick little note here.
She goes, i’m a torbay girl through and through.
Although my boxing and social media platforms say that i come from exeter a bit of a tech dinosaur, so i’m not sure how that what’s happened there.
I’Ve been pretty inactive for the past four years, but it’s good to get out again.
I just were christmas, and that was in december 2021, and that was her first bout in three years.
I felt the ring rust and it took me just a couple rounds to find my range, but i got the win and now straight back into a 10 rounder.
After i fought in 2018 uh, my left shoulder went and went in training two months later and i had the surgery out on it in 2019.
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It’S a lot more to do than they thought.
I had my arm and sling for six weeks and shoulder injury like that is always going to be serious for boxer, took a long time to get back my shoulder it’s flying now.
I already heard my left hand against bec connolly in 2018 in one fight before that i hit her with a jab and overstretched all the ligaments in my index finger wow.
She had some tough goes here, but anyway, she’s, as i said, set the fight once again.
Um in a big battle coming up called rumble on the riviera where she goes toe-to-toe against victoria wilkinson.
Also on that fight, you’ll see uh christy brementon, as well as james drummond des newton chris ottawatt, sam smith and uh martius rowan uh, not to mention christie’s uh rizzy, burton’s opponent, shannon willey, good stuff of bcb promotions.
We look forward to hearing the results of that clash in september.
Let’S move along now to um, oh yes, this is going to be i’m going to explain to you the full card uh, because adrian broner, as you know, pulled out of a fight and uh in a last-minute decision from lotus, broad and sergey lippinets.
So now, in an all-action crossroads clash former world champions, omar ponterita, figueroa junior, will now battle sergei lipnets in a 12-round wbc super lightweight title eliminator, which is headlining, live on showtime this saturday august 20th, from the hard rock live at seminole, hard, rock hotel and casino.
In hollywood florida, this by the way is a ppc event.
Um, the telecast will also feature top 140 pounders alberto cuello and tatir akhmandov squaring off the vacant.
Wba super lightweight world championship in the co-main event and wba super featherweight world champion roger kateras, defending his title against unbeaten actor garcia in the telecast opener brandon lee uh, one of the sport’s most exciting prospects and biggest punchers will take on will madera in the 10 Round super lightweight bout: additionally, uh we’ll see coverage of unbeaten cuban uh standout, linear perro battling joel caudle, nate route, an undefeated middleweight fedor, sarah casine, taking on gilbert venegas junior, an eight-round duel and that will be featured on uh by the way the showtime sports youtube Channel, i suppose, that’s free, so that’s some good stuff out of florida taking place in florida, the same night, the big fights going on down in jeddah saudi arabia, uh elsewhere.
We see that uh split, split team management are pretty proud of some of the victories that their fighters achieved and they wanted us to.
Let you know as well split team management’s, omar rosario remained undefeated with a six-round unanimous decision over esteban munoz in a super lightweight bout that uh took place at the bio event center in houston, texas, uh and three splitting fighters registered impressive stoppages.
There highly regarded welterweight giovanni marquez stopped william davis in round two of their scheduled full round out.
Uh heavy-handed louis acosta stopped abdel saucida in round four of their six-round lightweight contest by the way is now 13-1 with 12 knockouts.
Well, not bad at all and uh.
Recent world title challenger jessica, kamara, made her first knockout a memorable one as she took out four-time world title challenger, simone da silva, in the second round of their eight round lightweight out, camara landed a crunching left hook to the ribs that made da silva scream in Agony as she hit the deck and the fight was waived off one minute 32 seconds of round number two camara, as you all know, fights out of montreal canada and is now nine and three with one knockout and desert da silva.
Fighting out of brazil is now 17-22, where, by the way, is promoted by dibella entertainment.
Finally, last uh story of today’s episode: we’ll go to uh pedro valencia’s training, camp review of his quotes.
Undefeated super featherweight pedro valencia, he’s 10-0 uh fighting out of los angeles.
California.
Will put his unblemished record online when he clashes with fellow unbeaten foe, adrian corona uh, also fighting out of rialto california, with a 901 record valencia versus corona is an eight rounder scheduled to take place again this saturday night same at night that there’s going to be A big bout going on down in saudi arabia and they’ll set off a string of exciting prospects looking to become contenders.
Valencia feels he has tremendous amount of momentum going into this fight.
This is taking place at the intern.
The omega products international event center in karuna.
California, doors open at 6, 30 p.
m, pacific time with the first fight starting at 8, 00 p.
m, and here’s what valencia had to say about his recent training camp uh that took uh taking place in southern california.
We treated this camp like it’s the most important fight in my career, because it’s essentially just that for us all, the road work, sparring and strength and conditioning has been elevated for this camp.
I’Ve been busy and i feel the momentum and i’m going into this fight.
What separates me from my opponent, i’m preparing to be the best shape of my life, so i can go every minute of every round and regarding his opponent, adrian corona, he goes, i know of him.
I know he trains with ben lira.
He was a great trainer.
I’Ve seen him fight in the los angeles area, and i know what he does.
I’M sure he knows what i do the problem for corona is, you can’t teach power and he doesn’t hit hard enough to keep me off him.
This is the biggest fight to date.
For me, against another fighter from neighboring city, southern california, i know that the fans are going to go crazy for this one, since we both have large fan bases that will be in attendance.
I believe my power will be the difference in this fight, and i see myself with my hands raised afterwards.
Well, there you go fight fans thanks for joining me here on not knuckle up, but boxing news headlines today, thanks for joining me, uh remember like share subscribe hit that notification bell and we’ll see you later on on knuckle up featuring mike four and cedric fan at 4Pm eastern time,
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