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EPISODE: Episode 35
We start off with the news that Dmitry Bivol will defend his WBA Light-Heavyweight World Title against Mandatory Challenger Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, November 5, which is followed by results from the recent fights that took place aboard the historic Battleship New Jersey, and then we travel to California and provide the results from a card in Costa Mesa promoted by Roy Englebrecht featuring undefeated lightweight Ernesto Mercado, then we have a few announcements from Split T Management and Matchroom, before concluding with a few comments from VIP Boxing chief Steve Wood related to their slew of upcoming matches.
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[, Music ] hello about boxing fans around the world.
Thanks join me here on talk and fight.
Another episode of boxing news today, while we wait for uh news that uh alexander youssek and tyson fury will in fact fight in february, as has been rumored to be the case, and they might have that fight over in saudi arabia.
Not in the uk, as british fans might have hoped, but while we wait for that news uh to be confirmed, we can confirm dmitry bival will defend his wba light heavyweight world title against mandatory challenger galberto, zerto, ramirez and that’ll take place at the itahad arena in Abu dhabi, in the uae, on saturday november 5th and shown around the world on the zone excluding south korea and mina vival who’s 20-0 with 11 knockouts, is coming off.
A huge upset win over mexican pound-for-pound superstar saul canelo alvarez at the t-mobile arena back in may, which was held in las vegas, where he retained his 175 pound world title via a unanimous decision to make it 20 wins from 20 fights the 31 year old.
Handed alvarez only the second laws of his career nine years on from his first at the hands of modern, great floyd mayweather and in doing so further cemented himself as one of the very best light heavyweights on the planet.
For his part, ramirez, 44-0.
30 knockouts is a former wbo super middleweight world champ, who has won all five of his fights at light heavyweight inside the distance in impressive fashion.
Since moving up in weight in 2019, the heavy-handed mexican southpaw emerged as the mandatory challenger.
The long reigning champion evolved after a fourth round knockout of dominic boyzell in their may 14th title eliminator in ontario california, so that my friends is looking to be a very good fight and if you want a little bit more information, including some quotes from both fighters.
Uh please go along to boxing247.
com.
They’Ve got a great story on and all the details, but we need to move along.
Let’S talk about tamir smalls.
He kept off successful maiden voyage for r b promotions as he stopped joel guevara in the opening round of their scheduled six-rounder aboard the battleship new jersey in camden, new jersey that i was reporting on last week and probably the week before.
The fight capped off an eight bout card in front of a capacity crowd on the famed ship and, if you’ve seen the pictures, you will be impressed.
It looked like a great show to go to smalls uh 23 years old, fighting out of philadelphia dropped, kubera four times on route to dominating his victory, to raise his record now to nine at that with six knockouts uh cavero out of charleston west virginia now falls Four, eight and one elsewhere on that card, danny murray dropped to michael givens in round four on his way to a six round unanimous decision in the junior welterweight division.
Uh elizar almeida won a four round split decision over previously undefeated pneumons in a welterweight bout.
Timothy tyler stopped devon hall at the end of round three of their scheduled four-rounder in the super middleweight bout, uh tyrone arzino stopped elder chabot at the end of round two of their four-round featherweight contest.
Anthony dill stopped remiss brown at the end of their um.
Sorry, at the end of round three of their junior middleweight fight ten day, uh took a four-hour split decision from greg packett in the cruiserweight bout and drew aguiar dropped carlos nunez in the opening 20 seconds of their lightweight bout, and that proved to be the difference.
In aguirre’s four-round, unanimous decision, rv promotions is back in action on saturday october 29th at the showboat in atlantic city, and we certainly look forward to hearing uh what names will be on their card that time and, of course, the results following the show.
Let’S move along now to another lightweight star: rising lightweight star ernesto tito mercado who’s.
Now 7-07 knockouts kept his knockout streak intact.
Last thursday at the hangar in costa mesa california, when he stopped alfredo rodolfo blanco, who is now 22 and 11.
in the second round.
Mercado versus blanco in an eight round co-main event was promoted by roy engelbrecht promotions.
Mercado was all action from the opening bell, as he established his dominance, landing hard punches to the head and body in the early part of round two mercado landed a powerful left hook to the temple, sending blanco to the canvas on wobbly legs blanco got up and Continued fighting before being stopped by a combination flurry that mercado then unleashed the time was 45 seconds of round number two good stuff: uh sarnasto mercado, i’d like to uh father, i’d like to think of my son as boxer bunch, but lately he’s been talking and taking Guys out early um, so ernesto went on to say he was.
I was expecting this fight to get more good more rounds, but tito hurt blanco with a nice shot and he couldn’t recover we’re looking at three more uh fights before the end of the year.
Wow.
That’S ambitious anyway: let’s move along now to another fight taking place this past weekend.
This past saturday, night junior weltsweight tiger johnson and light heavyweight dante benjamin retained undefeated, so he remained undefeated with victories on a top-ranked promoter card, the hard rock hotel and casino in tulsa oklahoma.
You might recall this the same fight that featured not only knockout of the week, but also one of our favorites here on talk and fight.
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As we all know, jared anderson anyway, johnson and benjamin – are both managed by split team management and split team.
Does to let you know how their fighters prepared 2021 olympic champion uh tiger johnson stop harry gigliotti in round five, their sixth rounder, which we have reported on and uh 20 year old dante.
Benjamin remained undefeated with around unanimous decision over leon dos silva in their light heavyweight bout which we’ve also reported on, but there you go both johnson and benjamin are promoted by top frank and the boys at split tea.
Want us to mention that as well uh this week, so there you go speaking of mentioning.
We can’t uh go a week without mentioning eddie, hearn or matroom, and they are delighted to welcome o’reilly, auto parts as a partner for the blockbuster trilogy battle between saul, canelo alvarez and triple g golovkin at the t-mobile arena in las vegas to be held on saturday September 17th, an event that we broadcast on the zombie view in the u.
s, canada, uk, ireland, australia and new zealand, as well as around the world on the zone, excluding mexico, latin america and kazakhstan um.
Let’S have a quick little quote here from eddie hearn, because we just can’t mess with this one up all right here we go.
We are delighted to have o’reilly auto parts on board for the biggest fight of the year.
They have a long and proud tradition of backing the sport and it’s great to have their support on what promises to be an unforgettable night in las vegas o’reilly.
Auto parts is pleased to continue our associating with canela alvarez and triple g for this trilogy match said.
O’Reilly vp of marketing and advertising hugo sanchez, and we will be joining boxing fans everywhere, watching these two great fighters give their all inside the ring their part by the way o’reilly automotive is listed on the nasdaq exchange o-r-l-y and one of the largest specialty retailers of Automotive aftermarket parts tools, supplies equipment and accessories in the united states, serving both professional service providers and do-it-yourself customers.
There you go there, you have it right.
Let’S move along quickly last story of the day coming to you from vip boxing, not vip promotions.
Vip boxing at the uk will promote, at least they say top 10 sorry, 10 top quality shows before the end of 2022, starting with five weekends.
On the bounce from september 10th onward, also many boxes from the northwest of england number one stable will feature unboxing uh big tv cards in the coming months they say, and on their own free to air tv event.
On the 8th of october vip chief steve woods said, it’s been a busy few months and the fights are coming are going to be competitive and furious.
We have some big announcements coming up and some of the matches i am planning on our shows will surprise a few people and create interest.
I have also agreed for some vip boxes to fight on big televised cars with some of the lines entitled fights the promoters.
I’M working with will be announcing.
These shows very soon.
Let’S just roll through a couple of these names and see if you’ve heard of any of them, the first vip promotion of the new season will take place at blackpool’s world famous winter gardens on september 10th.
It is topped by isle of man, south plot matthew, rennie, who faces birmingham’s battle, hardened ben fields.
The following year.
There’S a stack card at bolton with eight vip fighters already announced, including jake james and james morcroft.
A week later on on saturday september 24th.
Vip will showcase their mersey side, talent at liverpool, olympia on a bill headed by unbeaten super lightweight tom atchison 7-0, who has had his learning uh fights, and that 27 is now ready to be pushed vip.
Stay on merseyside for the next action on saturday october, 1st.
In hoyton, when southport’s jake barton 701 is back after a central area, light heavyweight thriller against mickey ellison, which would add it.
Mickey was too experienced on the night, but jake will come on for that loss and will soon be fighting for titles again.
The biggest vip show so far in 2022, which was announced recently takes place at doncaster, racecourse on saturday october 8th and will be televised by sporty stuff tv for free, i might add, top of the bill is local boxer, rhys, mold, 15-1, six knockouts, who challenges bradford’s Ahmad gaz 18-0, four knockouts for the vacant, ibo continental lightweight championship.
The second title contest will be another all yorkshire battle when leeds warrior, zaheed hussain 16-2 by the way meets old rival, nazar najib 12-4.
By the way for the vacant english super bantamweight, title najib took a close decision on their very first clash.
Many other shows are being worked on, uh to be promoted by vip boxing before the end of the year, with fights to be announced at venues, including wigan manchester and bolton shortly to wrap up a busy and successful 2022 says mr wood and congratulations to him and All of his boxers and we look forward to hearing more about the cards and, of course, the results that wraps us up for today.
Thank you join me once again here on talk and fight another episode of boxing news today.
I look forward to joining you again later this afternoon at 4pm uh, when mike bohr and the cedric ben host knuckle up remember to like share subscribe and hit that notification.
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