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Crawford's Conquest: The Undisputed Super Middleweight Saga
Boxing's landscape shifted dramatically as Terence Crawford accomplished the seemingly impossible - jumping two weight classes to dethrone Canelo Alvarez and claim all the super middleweight belts. The historic victory was a masterclass in precision, timing, and fight IQ as Crawford neutralized Canelo's power advantage with superior movement and consistent output across all twelve rounds.
The episode dives deep into how Crawford's strategy unfolded, analyzing the key moments that led to his undisputed championship victory. We break down Canelo's late surge in the championship rounds and discuss why it ultimately proved insufficient against Crawford's dominance. Between Crawford's mariachi-themed entrance (complete with trolling Canelo) and the pound-for-pound implications of this result, this fight delivered drama despite not becoming the slugfest some anticipated.
But the true fight of the night award goes to Christian Mbilli versus Lester Martinez - an absolute barnburner that ended in a draw. We examine this under-the-radar classic that featured haymakers, heart, and non-stop action worthy of an immediate rematch. The episode also covers other notable weekend action including Naoya Inoue's continued dominance at super bantamweight and Lewis Crocker's split decision victory over Paddy Donovan.
We take a moment to pay respects to boxing legend Ricky Hatton, who passed away at just 46 years old, reflecting on his impact on the sport and the shock of his untimely death. The conversation winds through other topics including Max Kellerman's controversial commentary and Top Rank's streaming situation, all delivered with our signature blend of analysis and humor.
Listen now for our complete breakdown of a transformative weekend in boxing history. Subscribe to ensure you never miss our analysis of the sport's biggest moments and most compelling characters.
Welcome to Punches and Punchlines, where we break down the best in boxing with a sense of humor. And now your hosts, fritz and Franco.
Speaker 2:Welcome back everybody to this episode of Punches and Punchlines. Joining me is always the man that does all the work, the looks of the operation, the real worker, franco Ocampo. We have a big card that we want to cover. It was on Netflix, which was nice to not have to drop 90 or 100 bucks. Yes, it was on Netflix. I did watch a little bit of the youtube portion of it before it went to netflix.
Speaker 2:Nothing wonderful, um, okay, just some fun, evenly matched fights. All right, that's all I'll say is that, like you didn't miss anything if you missed that portion of it, but it was nice to have a great fight and not have to fork out the big money for the pay-per-view, still waiting to see, kind of what the numbers were on this. But yeah, it was headlined by terence crawford taking on saul canelo alibarez. I don't want to say that it lived up to the hype because it didn't turn out to be, you know, haggler hearns, but there's a reason why haggler hearns is is bar, you know what I mean. Like that's only happened once. So this turned out to be a good fight and we'll have plenty to say about it. Christian and Billy versus Lester Hernandez was kind of my favorite part of that whole card.
Speaker 2:And then on DAZN. That same night DAZN Lewis Crocker took on Patty Donovan for the rematch Get into that just for a second. And then niya anyway, defended his super band and weight belts. We'll touch on that a real bit, you know, I'll get into it. Uh, right at the top of the episode there was some bad news too that we will share. But let's, let's get into the boxing.
Speaker 1:It was a fun weekend oh, you thought it was a fun weekend, fritz?
Speaker 2:I thought it was the most depressing weekend of sports.
Speaker 1:By the time everything was said and done, I had to make two full racks of ribs on the smoker. That was the only thing that brought me any kind of joy this weekend. It was a miserable weekend. We won't get into this later, but the Bears got massacred. As, like a cherry on top of my depression, ice cream sundae. It was one of the saddest weekends. I'm still like I think I need to go see somebody like professionally to talk to about this weekend, because that's how badly it hurt me and you know what, it wasn't just me. After seeing my students today, we all had the same dead look in our eyes. We were all just crushed. So yeah, let's go on ahead and get into the reason, for it's why part of my soul has died they tell us all the time you can't play boxing.
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Speaker 2:Yesterday, on September 14th, they found Ricky Hatton dead in his home in Manchester, and I can't say that I was a giant Ricky Hatton fan, but I know a ton of people were. It was just when I wasn't really paying attention to boxing as much as when he came along. All right, I've seen all the highlights of you know him fighting Mayweather, him fighting Pac pacquiao, and I know those are two of his losses. But I've also seen highlights and respect what the man did in his career. But to pass away at 46 it's just sad. Um, he did have a comeback plan for december 2nd and people might be thinking like, oh, 46, that's too old to box.
Speaker 2:well, we saw tyson get in the ring at whatever 60, 105, but 46 might be too old to box, but it was certainly too young to be gone. So condolences to Campbell and the rest of the Hatton family. Yeah, it sucks that it was a young dude. There's no cause of death listed at this time and I'm not going to sit here and speculate because either way the guy is gone. Whatever the reason was, it's not going to help his family feel better about it.
Speaker 2:So I just wanted to lead off that news because he was a big, big star in boxing. You know what I mean. He was the fact that he's his name is known in the United States. When he became super popular in the United Kingdom, all right. But then he came over and you could see just how big of a draw he was, like when he fought Mayweather. That was not a Mayweather friendly crowd Like that was a Ricky hat and crowd in Las Vegas. Hats off to him and hopefully the next event that they do have there'll be the 10 bells for him, because he deserves it. Just sorry to see him go. Very sad, don't want to. Like I said, I wanted to get that out of the way early because I do want to have some fun on this episode.
Speaker 2:We'll start with the uh, the elephant in the room, franco Canelo lost all of his belts, all right, uh, I think seven or eight, whatever he had, um, they're all gone. Do I think that terence crawford is way better than canelo? No, I don't, but I do think he was better than canelo on saturday. The same problems that canelo was having kind of getting close to goal. He was kind of having the same problems getting close to crawford, but this time, instead of running away when he was trying to get close, crawford was just landing and landing square. Did he hurt Canelo at any point? I don't know about that, but he was scoring points and the name of the game is hit and don't get hit, and he pulled it off that night. You know, I saw this as at least a seven to five for Terrence Crawford. I will put him in probably number two or three and the pound for pound, best on the planet. You know what I mean. He cleared out 140. He cleared out 147 in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 2:And now this wasn't as dramatic because he didn't have to go get all the belts individually like Canelo did. He went and took the guy, took on the guy that had all the belt and won. Pretty clearly, I really I do like Terrence Crawford, all right. What I don't like is the people that are like mega fans of his that were gushing over him when he was fighting nobody, you know what I mean. Like, when he had that ESPN contract, he was taking on dudes either you never heard of or guys that were relevant 10 years prior. You know when he took on kel brook or you know he took on amir khan. You know it was the shells of those dudes. When he finally did leave top rank and get that fight with uh errol spence jr errol spence jr.
Speaker 2:When he took that on like he destroyed Errol Spence, all right. And at that point I was like, yeah, give this man his props, he is just unified and become undisputed in two different weight classes. And now I'll say this too he jumped up two weight classes, basically three, because he only had one fight at 154.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:And he didn't look great in that. But he totally skipped 160 and won right to C8 and certainly didn't look out match. Because he won this and before this fight started I was like whoever's the underdog I'm going to throw money on, just because I do think that this is going to be an even fight. Everything logic-wise to me said it was going to be Canelo. I was like he's bigger, he's younger, he's used to this 168. Like that's where he's made his home. So those three things. I was like Terrence Crawford's not going to win. But I also was like you know what? You give me that underdog money on Terrence Crawford, who's not been knocked down, not been defeated. I, who's not been knocked down, not been defeated, I'm going to take it, you know. So I did end up cashing a ticket, even though I was kind of indifferent going into this fight. I like both of these fighters. I think they're both top fighters in the world and, uh, thank you for making this matchup, looking forward to the rematch, cause you know there's going to be a rematch?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh for sure, and I will say this Let me get this part out of the way. T-bud is a great fighter. I've liked his style of fighting for a while now. But, like you said, he fights, and it's not that often and it's people that we just don't care. They're fighters that we don't care about. I'm not saying they're nobodies, because there was usually some kind of a belt involved, but it was just they weren't big names, they weren't the big name fights. But he started talking shit to Canelo a while back. He basically willed this fight to happen and, holy crap, like did he live up to his end of the bargain. He looked so good in this fight the way that, like Canelo was trying to redirect him and it didn't matter, like it didn't matter that Canelo was making him go where he wanted him to go, because then Crawford was still able to get in there and just land the shots that he wanted to land, and some of them later in the fight were really big. Now Canelo did finally turn it up way later in the fight and it kind of like about halfway through the fight. It was reminded me of when lomanchenko lost to teofimo lopez. Yes, it took him forever to step on the gas and it's like, bro, you're, you're, loma, like, go on ahead and murder this guy, but also part of me. So now, now we get into the other half of it for me, for it's.
Speaker 1:I was so depressed after Canelo lost I turned off the TV and I just sat there in silence, not on my phone, I wasn't. I was just staring into space with my thoughts for a good 45 minutes and then I thought I need to go to bed and I went upstairs and I just laid there. I just laid there and I couldn't sleep. The night before the fight I had a nightmare that Canelo went down and I thought he lost. But the fight went the distance and I couldn't remember who won in my dream. So I was like you know what? I'm going to wait for the ring walks before I bet any kind of money. Ring walks happen.
Speaker 1:Crawford came out to Desperado, you know, doing the Antonio Banderas El Mariachi thing, carrying the guitar. He kind of trolled us. He had Mariachi singing and then it was him who came out, not Canelo. That was pretty slick, but it was okay. Canelo came out with full on 10 piece Mariachi band and I said he has the live band today. He doesn't have some dude singing Narco Corredos or something. It was like straight up mariachi music. I'm like he's going to win. And so I put my money on Canelo because, like you said, that's what logic said.
Speaker 1:But this fight there was all logic was out the window. This was some Lord of the Rings shit where Crawford just dominated Canelo. But about halfway through the fight I also thought Canelo hasn't been able to handle business in a long time. He knocks people down but he doesn't knock people out. And, if anything, him not being able to put away Berlanga of all people that should have been my red flag. He knocked him down in the third round, but he should have killed Berlanga. Berlanga. There should be a 10 ring salute for him but there isn't.
Speaker 1:Because Canelo kind of let him off the hook and he's been not toying with fighters, but maybe maybe he that strength isn't there like it used to be.
Speaker 2:It happens with age, but crawford is older than canelo, so that is also out the window well, yeah, and that's what I'll say is that maybe just the the tire tread is starting to wear on Canelo, because he may be younger but he's definitely been in, I think, 20 more fights than Crawford has. He's been in more high-profile fights, for sure. Yeah, it could come down to a little bit of conditioning too, because I don't know if you noticed this, when they were sitting down in their corner in between the rounds, crawford looked like he had just relaxed on the couch to watch some TV. Toward the end of the fight, canelo looked like me after going up one flight of stairs, oh Jesus. So I agree with you 100% that he waited too long to download the necessary information than try to execute, because he really didn't come on till 10, 11, 12 and it was already. It was already too late by that point, and I don't even know if he won the 12th, because crawford was landed some really quality shots there at the end too.
Speaker 2:So I can't say that it lived up to the hype. Well, I can't say that it didn't either, like it wasn't a disappointment. It just turned out different than I thought it was going to be. It was 12 rounds of decent action with two guys that are top notch and both have incredible chins. You know what I mean. Like because canelo did land a. You know a couple like just beautiful shots, but it did not even stumble cropper. You know some of the shots that cropper was landed are the same ones. That has errol spence still trying to figure out where he's at on Canelo, and same thing. Canelo wasn't even affected by him. So I can't imagine that there's any fight that's going to be next for either one of them other than to take on each other again. Yeah and uh, we'll definitely have that action for you the other thing.
Speaker 1:I feel like what was salt in the wound, because I I love Canelo, I'm a huge Canelo fan. But the thing that just made it even shittier was Max Kellerman and his stupid yapping. He was so horrible. From the weigh-ins all the way until after the fight, he had this weird look on his face. He had like a weird speech pattern that he was holding down when he would start talking. It wasn't normal talking. It was like some kind of alien had shoved their hand up his ass and they were controlling his talking. Everything he said was ass. Hearing him during the fight, he wasn't contributing anything. He wasn't giving me any kind of background information. It was all just random shit that he was making up off the top of his head.
Speaker 1:My one request for the next fight I don't care what weight they fight at, I don't care the location that they fight. It could be in Omaha at 154. Don't care. No, max Kellerman. If Max Kellerman is there for the next fight, I'm flying out there and I'm beating his ass. What he could beat my ass, true, but I fight dirty fritz. I'm going to hit him with the brick. I'm coming, I'm spitting in his eye, I'm kicking him in the junk. I was so upset with Max Kellerman at the end of all of this and then post fight just more bullshit nonsense. He was horrible. If anybody heard him, I'm pretty sure you'll agree. Max Kellerman should lose his job.
Speaker 2:Well, he's uh, you know his former employer. Uh, employer was ESPN. He's just got that fan boy from ESPN about Terrence Crawford. So that was clear throughout. Listen to this fight, like. I like hearing him be the commentator, but he shouldn't be ringside. Like who's the guy that does it for the zone? Who does the unofficial scorecards? For, oh, not sergio mora sergio mora is the play-by-play or the color guy, and then they go to the guy who's from sports illustrated.
Speaker 2:Oh god, I, I know people also don't like him right now yeah, but like that would be a better role for him for sure, because I don't dislike max hellerman. I do because when he was on espn he was one of the few people that would bring up boxing during his regular segments. I just didn't. I didn't care for him this night because his fanboy oozing of terence crawford was coming up. I don't know if you notice this. I wasn't expecting crawford to get booed and that when they did the intros, like I thought that that was crazy. Oh, I wasn't expecting crawford to get booed and that when they did the intros, like I thought that that was crazy oh, I was totally expecting that, um, but then turkey was surprised that he got booed.
Speaker 2:He was like wait I paid for this. I put up a big check. Uh, a lot of people are coming by kissing my ass like, yeah, we saw you talking to all of them during. Oh God, that was the worst the lead up fights.
Speaker 2:Here's what I thought the dumbest thing that Kellerman said to close out the Kellerman segment. He said this is the biggest fight since Mayweather Pacquiao, which was a big fight, but Husek versus Fury was bigger than Mayweather Pacquiao. Maybe maybe not to everybody, but that was undisputed heavyweight championship twice. That was an incredible fight. So to just ignore that one and go back to you know something that just served your narrative better was dumb yeah, there was tons of fights that were way bigger than that.
Speaker 1:Even fury and uh, what's his name? Bronze bomber uh, their fights were bigger. Like right, this was big.
Speaker 2:This was a big fight but it was made with a patio. But yeah, to act like there was nothing in between there, it was just dumb.
Speaker 1:I also didn't like him and I think that there's room for this just not yet. But immediately after the fight, when he said Terrence Crawford, you are now one of the goats. And it's like slow down, slow down a little bit, because when you start putting that stuff, that's like what they were telling Teofimo. And then look at how that played out, like I don't think Terrence Crawford is going to let stuff get to his head like that, but also pump the brakes a little bit Like he beat Canelo. But, like you said, he doesn't have that huge resume. He's accomplished a ton. He's an amazing fighter, but to say the goat, like to put him with muhammad ali, easy robinson, like those are the yeah, so people just like saying goat.
Speaker 2:Even when people like tom brady, I'm like he's the greatest. But the whole goat thing, maybe I'm just too old for it, franco and I, I refuse. I'm interested to see what happens next for the two of them. I can't imagine it's anything but a rematch, which leads me to one of the fights that was before this with christian and billy and lester. Was it hernandez, lester, martinez? I apologize, yes, christian and bill, billy versus Lester Martinez. This was just fun, yeah. So if you didn't tune in until the just the main event, go back to when this started and watch Lester Martinez versus Christian and Billy. Have they come back yet, franco? Did you think that they watched it yet? No, I bet they're back. Okay, so you're back, you. You've watched that highlight.
Speaker 2:Normally I wouldn't recommend go watching a draw, but this was so fun, yeah, that the only thing that seemed correct was a draw. It was two dudes like land and giant haymakers in. Neither one seemed to be really affected by it. But the reason I was talking about uh, this too is they said, oh, the winner of this will take on the winner of crawford versus canelo. No, they're not. There's gonna be a rematch. I'm like if crawford win, there's definitely gonna be a rematch, and if canelo wins by a slight margin, there's gonna be a rematch. So they can say all they want about oh, this is for the next guy. These were just two dudes that now they need to rematch because that was such a fun fight from the opening round through every round. It was just really good action. The only thing I will say that martinez was leading with his head toward the end, where you know this was a 10 round fight I'd say 8, 9, 10 or 9 and 10 where he was kind of like reaching forward and, oh, I headbutted you.
Speaker 1:That was an accident where you know the ref kept saying like, hey, watch your heads I think that was almost on purpose, though, because and billy kept leading with his head and pressing forward to a crazy extent, to where you're like there's no way he can keep this up the whole fight. And then, without a doubt, I thought it was on purpose. It's almost like Martinez was like, oh that's, we're going to ram heads, like I can do that too. I, I loved this fight for it's. I love this fight so much it stole the night. It was the fight of the night, hands down.
Speaker 1:But here's a thought what if one of these two is the future usic to where you know, canelo and crawford? They have their rematch and it gets all the headlines and everybody goes crazy. And then they have a third match just to, like, you know, really separate everything. And then one of these two just comes in as they're like all right, well, I guess I'm the next mandatory and then wins all the belts right and just rides off into the sunset like usik where usik came in, and like wrecked the heavyweight division and everybody's plans. What all the promoters wanted, they, he just came in, shit all over all of that, beat everybody twice lester, martinez and chris and billy put on such a crazy show. It was like watching an anime where you're like this could never happen in real life. Nobody could take that many punches. And then there it was there. Neither one of them went down. It was so much fun. A draw. I it had to be a draw just to guarantee that we see a rematch, and it was great it was so fun wherever.
Speaker 2:If this is the main event somewhere in the united states, it would be something. I'm like all right, what are flights and what is hotels? Because it would definitely be something that would be so cool to see live. That was kind of the only two on that card. I even felt like we should talk about fernando vargas jr versus calum walsh. It was a shrug. I fell asleep yeah it was.
Speaker 2:It was definitely a shrug, where your buddy Kellerman's like oh, dana White saw something special in Callum Walsh and we're going to see it here tonight. We didn't see it, you know. Yeah, dana White's also the guy that thought that a guy that had never boxed before was going to beat Floyd Mayweather. So that kind of puts the end of that. Now, on DAZN, that same night Patty Donovan versus lewis crocker 2 happened and I only got to see the highlights of this. But god, franco, you're going to want to check out the highlights of it. It's like a six minute package 12 round fight, because it was. There was a belt on the line, it was for the bacon ibf welterweight title and it was fun, all right.
Speaker 2:Now patty donovan gets knocked down twice. First one was he got hit, but also crocker kind of stepped to the left while he was coming in, so he got hit and then was kind of off balance, kind of where it was like it was still a knockdown, his gloves touch, but he was like, oh shit, you know where he knew. Like, all right, yeah, I did hit the mat, but that's on me, you know. But then later on in the fight in the fifth, there was a great knockdown that you got to watch because it happened with like six seconds left on the round or something like that. The bell rang during his eight count and if this happened a minute earlier.
Speaker 2:I don't think he makes it out of that round. He was hurt. Man Goes the distance. It was awesome back and forth Patty Donovan versus uh, lewis crocker. Totally worth watching. It was a split decision, so you gotta think like, with two knockdowns and you still end up with a split decision, like that was a really close fight, so and then pound for pound, number two or number three, depending on where you want to put them. Nioya, anyway, took on mj akhmadaliyev job fritz yeah, it was just good.
Speaker 2:You know where akhmadaliyev looked like the whole time for the last two or three fights. For, anyway, akhmadaliyev was just saying like, oh, he's ducking me, he doesn't want to do this, and he did have some power, but it didn't seem to really be hurting naoya. Anyway, with like five seconds left in the fight, he does land like his best shot of the fight, but it was, you know, too little, too late. Yeah, it was already a unanimous decision for naoya. Anyway, here's what I'll say. This was on top rank, but top rank doesn't have a home for us right now in the united states. So I'm begging, please get your shit together, top rank, like, I've heard talk of top rank also going to be on the zone. If that's where it ends up happening to be, I won't be happy, but, uh, like, at least do it paramount. I've heard them as, uh, as a contender for it, dan rafael, had said that they're one of the leading candidates to get top rank. Cards I just want, anyway should be available to stream without finding some crazy backdoor stream.
Speaker 1:So, top rank, please get your shit together and get us, uh, the content we want, you know yeah, I was able to to watch the highlights for this one and in new way, is still anyway like he wasn't gonna knock him out from what I saw, from the little bit that I saw in the highlights, but it doesn't matter. It's kind of like what crawford did, where it's like all right. So then you adjust your game plan a little bit and you just rack up the points, you rack up the rounds and then that's it, you still win anyway. The fact that we have, anyway, crawford and usic right now doing crazy stuff like I kind of like that we have Inouye Crawford and Usyk right now doing crazy stuff like I, kind of like that we're not hearing about like other bullshit fighters being in the top three pound for pound, like that's it right, there, right and and there's like not really a lot of arguing where, post pandemic, there were some people in top five where it's like what are you talking about? And it was just because guys were taking time off or you know big fights weren't happening because they wanted big money.
Speaker 1:And yeah, there were some dudes that were being mentioned for pound for pound and it's like that guy sucks Like I saw him boxing over at Bourbon Street. That's not a pound for pound fighter, but the fact that we're living in this era and we're able to see all this stuff is awesome, but streaming services not being able to get their shit together or charging obscene amounts for bad pay-per-views. It was refreshing to have the Terrence Crawford Canelo thing be on Netflix. Maybe Top Rank can get picked up by some other monster corporate entity I would say Hulu but they're under the disney hulu umbrella yeah, that's already out right yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean, maybe you just shift it within the same company and they pick it up at a different price. I don't know, but I really hope it doesn't go to the zone like. The zone is just so annoying, but that's. I don't like their streaming service, not even their people. It's like the physical layout of like trying to find fights is so antiquated and so shitty. I don't want top rank getting sucked up into that mess, but if it happens, it happens.
Speaker 2:If anybody out there wants to pay for our DAZN subscription for the year, you can Venmo, venmo Franco, the the cost of a yearly subscription and we'll split it. Just just message us and we'll make that happen, yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'll start a boxing club at school and then the students and, like we would, I'd be like well, we need, like I could ask the school to pay for it. Oh no, it's part of the club, but really it's just that we can watch all right now.
Speaker 2:To wrap up, franco, I'm not sure what we have coming up, but the people know, once there's a fight we're talking about or anything like that, we will be back with an episode. I have some trivia for you. Uh, before we, uh, before we say are you, are you ready for some trivia? I?
Speaker 1:I think so I've been really bad, but yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:I had weeks and weeks of uh not being able to answer a question, so this is our first time for you back in the seat, so we'll see whether you can uh, you know, pass the torch right away again. All right Now. Terrence Craw crawford the new undisputed 168 pound champion. He has beaten, uh, everybody's face, branco. Yep, I'm gonna give you four names. I want you to tell me the guy that he did beat.
Speaker 2:All right, oh three of these are fakes, oh geez. And only one of them is real. All right, amir Khan, all right. So did he beat Harold Jordan, simon Boz, brian Cummings or Alan Scott? What were the first two again Harold Jordan, simon Boz, brian Cummings or Alan Scott.
Speaker 1:I know it's not Alan Scott. I am going to gorian cummings he did beat brian cummings. Let's go well done sir.
Speaker 2:The other two are, uh, also green lanterns. So oh, okay, carol jordan is better known as hail jordan and oh, that's sneaky, come on simon boz is also a green lantern, so that one sounded familiar yeah, for any.
Speaker 2:Uh, the middle eastern fans we have. He was the. He is the middle eastern green lantern that they accepted into the into the ranks of 20814, so nice, uh. So, yeah, thanks for chatting, boxing with me again, franco. Thanks to everybody for subscribing. You know, we'll figure out what we got coming up.
Speaker 2:We will be back with an episode. I don't know how quick it'll be, but once there's a card that we want to talk about, or even if there's just a fight that crosses our way that we're like oh, that was so much fun, we're going to talk about that, we'll be back because, uh, like we said before, we're not just going to put out an episode, talk about shit we don't care about. I think that will make you not want to listen. So, yeah, just be patient with us, and as soon as we have an episode, if you're subscribed, it gets delivered right to you, so you don't even have to do any work, unlike Franco. Once we shut our laptops here, he does all the real work. So, thank you to Franco, thanks to everybody for listening, for subscribing. If you don't have anything else, franco, I'm throwing in the towel.
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