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EPISODE: Episode 1
Welcome to 2022. On this episode, the first of the new year, results from weekend bouts in Japan and Florida hit the headlines, as do several recently announced signings via Kynoch and Matchroom, a few forward-looking statements from Montreal’s Eye of The Tiger Management, more reductions of WBA champions, Claressa Shields makes the Guinness Book of Records and Keith Thurman finishes off with a few quotes ahead of his bout against Mario Barrios next month in Las Vegas.
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Hello boxing fans around the world.
Thank you for joining us once again on talk and fight for another episode of boxing news today, courtesy of our friends from across the pond at boxing247.
com, where you can get most of those holes filled in uh that i might leave out uh.
They they put up a great number of pictures and complete stories where i mainly go through the headlines and summarize a lot of the stories that have been reported by them, um in the in the realm of uh.
What might be to come in 2022 and welcome by the by the way to the new year? I see that uh george cambosis could be forced to face uh lomo uh lomachenko, with the wbo expected to order a fight.
Interestingly enough, in other weird news that you see it’s not necessarily news but is making the headlines, i see that dillian white wants 10 million dollars for his fight with fury and it’s not happening, says bob aaron.
So those are some of the things that we’re covering right now, but let’s get on to the news of the day i see there was a fight on new year’s eve over in japan, kazutu ayoka versus ruji, fukunoga and here’s the result.
Japan’S kazutu ayoka retained his wbo junior bantamweight title after beating his compatriot fugu naga by unanimous decision in an evening held in tokyo, japan ayoka did the right thing to win.
He dedicated himself to scoring with more precise shots and did not risk at any time.
He avoided exchanges before the great punch of fukunga who had won his of his 50 15 victories 14 by knockout anyway.
The champion ended up by winning a more complicated fight than expected: 118 110, 116, 112, 151, 113 and uh.
Congratulations uh! Go to the japanese fighter who’s.
Looking pretty happy in the picture, i see up on uh the boxing 247.
com page, probably because of that girl.
Next to him.
Anyway, oh we go to another result: uh on the first fight of the year.
First of january 2022 louis ortiz versus charles martin.
This is one followed by uh a lot of people, obviously because it was the first of the new year, but in particular by our uh own uh, talk and fight specialist from knuckle up mike gore, and also cedric ben the great trainer out of windsor ontario.
Anyway.
Top heavyweight louis king kong ortiz scored a six-round technical knockout of former heavyweight champion charles martin in a dramatic ibf heavyweight title, eliminator showdown that headlined a fox sports pbc pay-per-view saturday night from the hard rock live at seminole, hard rock hotel and casino in hollywood florida In a back and forth battle that topped a five-fight all heavyweight pay-per-view ortiz who’s now 33-2, with 28 knockouts recovered from two knockdowns to earn the tko over the former heavyweight title holder, martin who’s now, 28, 3 and 1 with 25 knockouts.
The fight got off to a hot start in round one with martin landing a bruising left hand to the side of ortiz head that sent him down late in the frame, while ortiz was able to regain his composure and do effective bodywork and snap.
His jab martin struck once again at the end of round four landing, a hard jab with his right hand that put her keys down for the second time in the fight.
I was very focused during his fight said ortiz.
I was never worried.
My trainer just told me to keep working the job and that’s what i was able to do in a battle of gargantuan southpaws.
Ortiz landed the left hand that ultimately decided the fight connecting on a counter early in round six and immediately dazed martin, who looked potentially out on his feet.
Ortiz quickly followed up with a flurry and scored knocked down, leaving martin with his glove tied up in the ropes.
It was very difficult going south, while i gained south plus ortiz.
At the end of the day, my intelligence won the fight and congratulations to mr ortiz elsewhere.
We see that boxing has been suspended in the united kingdom, so uh that match we’re looking forward to first eubank jr versus williams and all other bets they’re off with the recent omicron covet variant running wild around the world, especially in the uk.
Boxing has been suspended for the month of january, with february under review.
The bold move was based on freeing up nhs staff to deal with the current struggle with omnicron.
With this in mind, the first major british bout casualty is the rearranged chris eubank jr vs.
Liam williams about that was scheduled for cardiff, wales.
The british board of the british boxing border control released the following statement.
Following advice in the british boxing border control medical panel, boxing tournaments under the judicial jurisdiction of the bbboc, will be suspended for the month of january.
A further review by the medical panel and stewards will take place prior to the planned recommencement of boxing in february elsewhere.
In the united kingdom.
We see that we see that kainak boxing has signed jordan spence to a contract.
It says conocboxing are delighted to welcome another scottish boxer to their stable jordan, spans jordan box for o’neill’s boxing club as an amateur and will be trained by brian murphy in the pro ranks.
Jordan is going to compete at bantamweight and will make his debut in early 2022 with details to be announced soon elsewhere.
On the kind of front we see that they’ve signed french flyweight champion johanna wanyu young lady out of france, uh kainak boxing’s final signing of 2021 is one we’re very excited about, says the press release as they welcome johanna juanyu to our team.
Johanna is a world-class talent as an amateur.
She claimed victory in 83 of her 91 contests.
She also claimed the bronze in the world championships as a professional, she’s, 3-0 and french flyweight champion.
Johanna is now based in london.
Is training at the churchill’s boxing gym with sam mullins she’ll be back in the ring in early 2022.
elsewhere we see that alicia baumgartner has signed with eddie hearn’s matchroom group alicia barmgunner signed the multi-fight promotional deal with eddie hearn and matchroom bomb cottner who’s 11-1.
With seven knockouts burst onto the world scene with a stunning knockout win over terry harper in sheffield england in november, ripping the wbc and ibo world super featherweight titles from the doncaster star in the fourth round of her first world title fight the 27 year old.
Designing a massive year in 2022 and has made no secret of her targets to unify and become undisputed at 130 pounds, putting both ibf and wbo champion.
Michaela mayer and wpa ruler, ayan mee choi on notice and the ohio has made it clear to hearn, matroom and co promoters king’s promotions.
What she wants and that’s all the marbles she says 2021 – was definitely a breakthrough year.
For me, i had the great experience working with matthew to win the wbc.
I know ibo world titles in uk science deal with them puts me in a position to achieve my next goal.
Becoming undisputed 130 pounds being on top is to stay on top and continue being the athlete.
I know i am in other news from other countries, positive 2021 end of year review for eye of the tiger management and they are based out of montreal.
In spite of the upsets and challenges posed by the coveted pandemic eye of the tiger management wishes to highlight the accomplishments of its team at the end of the year, fraught with emotion, the team doubled down in its efforts to present a total of 12 events.
All over the world not only to ensure that its athletes continue to grow and scale world classifications, but also in order to respect its commitment to boxing fans and featuring quality bouts, david lumiere’s, 43 and four with 36 wow.
That’S a good record 43 and four with 36 knockouts anyway.
His knockout victory over david zagara last june resulted in his finishing second worldwide in the wbc rankings and third in the wbos fifth in the wbas and six in the rings.
The wbc has mandated a world championship fight in 202 between the heavy hitter and david benavidez powerhouse, our slamback mahmoud who’s 13-0, with 13 knockouts defeated both pavel sauer and kem tipper, holding on to his nabf title and winning the naba heavyweight felt these accomplishments.
Hoisted the lion to the 10th place in the wbc and 9th in the wba, bringing him that much closer to his ultimate goal of becoming the undisputed champion of the heavyweight division.
And i hope that happens because we need the heavyweight division to be unclogged.
For his part, christian mcbilly, who’s, 20 00 and oh with 19 knockouts sean on three separate occasions in 2021, reaching the rings eighth place worldwide of the wbz’s 10th on december 11th, solid sent a clear message to the entire middleweight division, where he easily dominated every round Of his battle against a tough and tenacious analyst and held on to his wbc continental america’s belt, eric bazinian who’s, 26 and 0, through 20 knockouts carved out his spot in the elite super middleweight division by quickly dispatching scott sinman.
As a result, bizeau has attained seventh place in the wba eighth in the wbo and 16th in the wbc mark.
Ramsey’S protege is now on the cusp of world championship fights so encapsulation.
Here 2021 was a good year for esu lucy jr who’s 2, with 11 knockouts, who offer the flawless performance against david rowe.
Retaining his nabf light.
Welterweight title he’s now: 14th in the world, division of wbc is moving quickly toward major fights in this division.
Uh quote: i’m very happy with the distance we have covered over the past 10 years at this positive review.
We’Ve made history by crowning, not only the first quebecois heavyweight world champion berman steven, but also super middleweight, david lemieux, and we have established a solid reputation on the world scene.
As an organization.
We have worked hard and learned a lot.
The future is bright for e o t t m, i of the tiger management in the coming years, and we intend to take the support of boxing to a higher level that is coming from eotm president camille estefan.
The team extends heartfelt thanks to all those involved with the association as fans as partners and members of the press for their support throughout the year.
We wish you health and happiness in 2022 and look forward to seeing you elsewhere.
We see the wba has managed a 51.
85 reduction of their champions so far as per their ongoing process.
Gilberto jesus mendoza president of wba, in an interview with espn in early 2021, promoted to begin the title reduction process and has delivered.
There are already seven categories with unified champions and 28 champions when the process began, the wba had 54 champions, 10 interim 12, gold, 16 champions and 16 super champions.
The first measure was to eliminate all interim titles and remove the gold from the world championship status and request mandatory bouts or box offs.
The process has been fulfilled with bouts such as eric rosas versus victorio sallidor in minimum luis concepcion versus artem dalakian in flyweight jamal james versus rajyabh.
To cite several examples, although it’s not an easy job, a firm hand has been kept throughout the process to fulfill what was promised and that the fans can see high quality fights like the ones that they’ve watched this past year.
As a result, they’ve managed to reduce the number of champions by 51.
51.
85 percent and have 41 percent of the chat categories with only one champion.
There’S still a long way to go, but president mendoza has affirmed that he will keep his commitment to fulfill what he has promised elsewhere.
Congratulations are in order for clarissa shields.
He was included in the guinness world records of 2022.
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The promotions wishes to congratulate their female superstar clavicha shields for inclusion in the 2022 installment of the guinness world records for becoming the first boxer in the four belt era to hold all titles across two weight divisions simultaneously on march 5th 2021 shields who’s 11-0, with two Knockouts scored a unanimous decision over canada’s marie eve to care to add to the idf and wba super welterweight championships to the wbc and wbo belts she already held.
The greatest woman of all time was previously crowned the undisputed women’s middleweight champion, with the unanimous decision victory over germany’s christian, christina hammer in april 2019.
No man or woman in boxing history has achieved that incredible feat and for that reason she has gone on to the guinness book of records.
Let’S close, this episode off with some quotes from keith thurman who’s, looking forward to his fight against mario barrios at the mukulov ultra arena at mandalay bay resort and casino in las vegas on the 5th of february 2022.
, keith thurman says in 2019.
I fought many pacquiao because that was the most exciting thing i could do then, once i’m comfortable in this return, i’m coming for greatness.
We know we’ve fallen from the ladder and we’re looking up.
That’S okay, because we’re going to take it one step at a time and get back to where we were in the top spot of the welterweight division.
The fire has been burning inside me, my whole life.
It doesn’t matter what we’re competing in when you’re in this sport you’re in it to win.
You have to be that competitive business that competitiveness is natural for me, no matter how long i’m uh i’m off! I’M thinking about boxing i’m here to prove that i’m not the kind of fighter you can write off the cream is going to rise, the top i might have fallen, but the best that you believe i’m going to rise again.
That year’s about to do the year is a is it the year is about doing what i have to do to be at the pinnacle of the division wow, what a tongue twister that was.
I would love to have heard him say that all right anyway, uh for more press quotes from keith, thurman and mario barris.
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