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EPISODE: Episode 1
To start the episode, we look at the upcoming Wood vs Lara fight set to take place at Nottingham Arena, then a few ESPN rankings of other bouts on the horizon, and an update regarding Canelo Alvarez and John Ryder, before concluding with more news related to the IBA and their championships (leading up to the Olympics) that are now being boycotted by more nations’ teams.
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I don’t know hello boxing fans around the world.
Thank you for joining me once again here on talk and fight for another episode of boxing news today, and we have a lot of news to report and a lot of rumors in innuendo.
I suppose as well, but let’s start off with a big upcoming fight.
Uh lee wood versus Mauricio Lara taking place over in Nottingham and it’s shaping up to be what we might call a doozy of a fight um, you got ta, admit uh lee wood was looking pretty good A few years ago and then Cove had hit, and he Took a bit of a not a Hiatus, but a little bit of a little bit of a Slowdown in a number of fights he was taken anyway.
Let’S have a quick look at uh lee wood lethal as his name uh, a name to use uh.
He missed a whole year actually before returning to the ring during covet uh with a new trainer, by the way, if you remember Ben Davidson uh but anyway, uh unbelievably.
During that time, a shot at the vacant, British crown was mandated between wood and a Reese mold.
With no fans in attendance over at Wembley mold was dropped three times as what captured the famed Lonsdale belt and that win Captain bullied him to an unexpected shot.
That WBA regular world champion can’t chew.
With the backing of Eddie hearn’s match room, he was able to Allure the Chinese boxer axis: access to X6 SX in the summer of 2021 inside a Mattoon Square Garden, uh still under uh.
The the covid-19 restrictions, with modicum of fans watching their British champ, shocked the boxing world and stops you in the final round uh.
That link with Hearn has cemented further month later, as a newly crowned Champion signed a promotional contract with matchroom, and I merely two fights later.
The world uh had turned upside down for him.
Three fights after beating a skilled Irish Olympian wood was tasked with the same objective.
In 2022, Michael conlon, a mandatory Challenger ventured into Nottingham to battle for the wa’s regular old title.
The defending Champion survived serious adversity after being knocked down heavily in the first round.
A scintillating scrap for the ages ensued as Wood’s grit, determination and heart.
Eventually, War down conlon, another dramatic final round knocked out, saw win.
Uh saw, would win literally and not gone through the ropes and out of the ring.
The stoppage proof of essential is narrowly behind.
In all three of the judges scorecards, if you might recall as courtesy of boxing news24.
com by the way and now a new challenge – awaits a 34 year old this Saturday night.
An eagerly anticipated fight that was originally set for September of last year will finally take place.
Mariciolara finally gets his Weller shot of the world championship with Woods belt, having been upgraded to A full world title since the status following Leo sent Cruz vacation of his featherweight featherweight title Lara label, Saturday, night’s fight as an acid test, the Mexican Challenger 10 years younger Than wood famously and shockingly knocked out, Josh Warrington when the Leeds man was widely regarded as the best 126 pound fighter on the planet, a technical draw and a rematch and two more Knockouts proceeded.
He was due to get his opportunity last Autumn, but unfortunately, wood suffered toward bicep that scuppered their initial fate.
I picked him.
I would said when the pair first faced off early this week, making a clear reference to his willingness to welcome the toughest Challenger possible to his belt.
He could have chosen a much easier defense, but wants to prove his medal.
This is the pro press conference.
It was widely publicized, as you know, the fight’s going to take place on the Zone, we’re all looking forward to it and uh and actually support that Leewood in his battle.
It’S going to be a good one.
I understand that Mauricio Lara was interviewed by our friend Carl over last belt boxing, so you might want to pop along to his podcast, to his his chat and his thoughts on the Challenger um.
Anyway, let’s move along to another story, uh about an upcoming fight.
Uh later in this month, we’re gon na see good old Jake Paul, take on Tommy Fury, probably uh, the the only real boxer uh to date, uh to take on Jake Paul uh Tommy, Fury by the way, is he’s sporting, an 8-0 record undefeated it’s gon na.
Take place at uh the diraya arena in the iraya Saudi Arabia, and this will be the third attempt for the two to face off in the squirt Circle.
As you might recall, uh Fury had plot due to injury on.
The first fight was scheduled back in 2021.
Uh Paul then ended up taking on the former UFC fighter Tyron Woodley, which you all recall, um, then uh.
If you had to pull out due to travel restrictions uh for their scheduled battle in 2022.
Paul then ended up agreeing to fight haseem Rockman Junior uh, but then that weight issue popped up and Rockman had to pull out of that.
One too, so Paul ended up fighting and defeating Anderson Silva.
So almost later so you know you got ta, understand Paul uh Paul’s been uh fighting uh no hoopers like uh basketball, player’s name and retired MMA fighters.
Nonetheless, it seemed like uh.
He was uh just just dancing around the ring for fun and making a ton of money uh, but you got ta admit Paul is moving on uh from punishing novices as well as getting involved in the promotion side, with his most valuable promotions.
Promoting fellow boxers, like Ashton, Silva shadeshia, green and Amanda Serrano uh, so, given that give an MVP what they’re doing – and you got ta admit Paul – is supporting women’s boxing uh as well.
His not profit organization, boxing bully foundation so good for Paul and he’s about to take on um a real boxer now and we’ll see what happens, we’re all looking forward to it um you know it’s love them or hate them on one hand, he’s doing good one Hand he’s a loudmouth.
On the other hand, uh he’s now entered uh into a pretty good war of words, and, let’s see what the results of his fight uh with Fury, will be, I’m looking forward to it all righty speaking of um upcoming battles, um, it’s interesting to see what ESPN Had to say, by the way about the upcoming lee wood, Mauricio Lara fight um, because they’re saying it could be one of the fights of the year um wood out of England, as we all know, out of Nottingham, is faced with the new Challenger, as I just Described Mexico’s Mauricio Lara and let’s have a quick little look and see what uh ESPN had to say about this matchup Lara is No rookie in traveling, so don’t suspect uncertainty to flood his mind, uh, we’re pretty sure weight won’t be an issue either and his nerves Should be uh, pretty steady, uh being on unfamiliar territory? Nonetheless, we will have to fight better than ever to retain his title on home, turf uh.
This upcoming weekend, um, so ESPN seems to be backing, always wondered it’s a quick read here all ring words reflect on.
Why and how they got hit with a punch or repeated punch, especially if caused them to go down.
I expect, as the author would, to be 30 better because of becoming a bit uh.
A belt holder he’s tactically sound his decision making on knowing when to attack faint clutch or disengage, supersedes his athleticism, Lara’s boxing style says: the author is pugnacious and would by nature is also an aggressive boxer, so this they say is going to go down as a One of the fight of the year so good for them, uh upcoming fights that they’re mentioning here Tyson, Fury, vs Alexander usig.
Now we’ve talked about this earlier this week.
Will they actually go toe-to-toe that all depends on where they can agree to fight? If they can agree to fight in Saudi Arabia somewhere other than Jeddah, then that fight will take place because that’s where you sick wants to fight.
If it’s going to be in Wembley, which is where Fury prefer to fight uh, it won’t be against usick.
So we’ll have to wait and see on that one um.
We have another tentative boxing match scheduled between Ryan, Garcia and javonta Davis.
Now I just saw a picture, I’m sure you did as well as javonta Davis in a wheelchair, so he’s apparently injured.
So it might be surprising if he comes out uh of his wheelchair to fight on April 15th, just a few months away, but you never know um Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano set for May 20th for their lightweight Undisputed Championship, certainly looking forward to that one um, A ton of fight coming up that you might want to put on your May schedule, also May 20th for the Undisputed lightweight championship between Devin, Haney and Vasily, and lomachenko Devin Haney for sure is going to win that fight.
Loma is just a bit too old right now.
In my humble opinion, we’ve got uh March 25th super middleweights, David benavidez and Caleb plant going torto.
That should be a doozy look forward to that.
One and uh inui versus Stephen Fulton, taking place in June for the junior featherweight title fight um.
Let’S have a quick read of what ESPN has to say about this: to go straight into a world junior featherweight title fight in his first outing at new weight class is a bold move by anyway to do it against Fulton, as even bolder uh Fulton 28 years Old from Philadelphia’s ESPN’s number one boxer at 122 pounds as a seasoned campaigner and division, who throws a prodigious number of punches.
He represents a big risk for anyway.
In a way, he became Undisputed bandweight Champion December and is chasing a world title belt in his fourth division.
A fito will be surely deserve Universal recognition or confirmation as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter wow.
So there you go some uh, some interesting fights coming up and one more I might want to mention that’s on the horizon.
That may may not happen but they’re looking at it.
Canelo Alvarez and John Ryder they’re.
Looking at finalizing a May 6 May 6th titled bout, um they’re in the process of finalizing a deal for the Undisputed super middleweight Championship uh.
As I said, uh May 6 that may land in Jalisco Mexico, which would deliver a long-awaited homecoming fight for uh.
Canelo Alvarez Alvarez is from the capital of Jalisco Guadalajara and that might take place at Akron Stadium.
According to the C-SPAN writer, a soccer venue with a capacity of 60, 46 000 plus wow um, though other venues in Jalisco, are possibilities, including the Jalisco Stadium.
The boat will be canelo’s first in Mexico since 2011, when he defeated uh Korean Citron to retain 154 pound title wow.
So, let’s look forward to that one now on to another story that I brought up the other day with respect to the IBA form of the aiba um, who are pretty well running: uh, the amateur uh boxing championships and apparently, according to some organizations around the world Running them poorly, as you know, some organizations like boxing USA, the Irish boxing Federation and the British team GB, have all pulled out and chosen to boycott the world championships.
Now we hear that the Czech Republic has joined Britain USA in the Ireland, as well as Canada and Sweden, in their boycotting of the IBA World Championships uh.
These countries now join in planning uh, both United States and Ireland, to be absent from the upcoming international boxing Association events that be the women’s and men’s World Championships this year due to the planned participation of Russia and Belarus under their national flags, um said the check President of the boxing Association, madaksimac uh, it bothers us it’s wrong.
The association is led by a Russian who’s in very close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and everything is paid for by gas prom.
The stupid thing is that Europe is a small uh, that Europe is small and the IPA president Umar kremlev influenced it worldwide with money.
The problem is that some states allow themselves to be bribed boxing.
Canada said in a statement.
Its boycott is due to the planned participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes, as well as a protest at the sports governance.
Uh said Ryan O’Shea, who has appeared on talking fight before he’s boxing Canada president, given the continued corruption within the international boxing Association, we have significant concerns surrounding the risk our Sports faces and its future within the Olympic lineup.
We understand the implication.
This decision will have on our national team athletes and we’re working diligently alongside our sport Partners to find a suitable replacement tournament to continue the development of our high performance athletes in preparation for that Pan American game qualifiers, as well as a 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Meanwhile, the Swedish boxing Association chairman pure Excel show home uh, said iba’s decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to feature uh was the main factor in their decision to join the boycott.
We do not accept IBS handling, there’s no democracy or transparency.
We’Ve worked for several years that bring about change, but without success.
Then they made the decision themselves to allow Russia and Belarus to compete, moreover, under their national flags.
Another reason is that Olympics are much more important to us than the World Championships organized by IBA, so it was an easy decision for us in Sweden.
He concludes so there you go another update on the Olympics and the World Championships that precedes them.
Uh run by Umar kremlev and his people at the IBA, the international boxing Association, which is sure to face further criticism from other boxing associations around the world.
As we move closer to the Women’s Champions championships up first and then the men’s championships right boxing fans.
That’S all the news fit to print for today.
Thank you for joining me once again here on talk and fight.
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