From Fight Night Chaos To May’s Must-See Fight

Nobody needed another “safe” boxing recap this week. We needed the truth: which performances actually mattered, which storylines are overhyped, and which fights in May are about to shake up the sport. We’re coming off a run of fight nights and chaos, from the Alycia Baumgardner card to the Alex Vargas situation and the online rumor mill that can set whole fan bases on fire. We also tell the stories you only get from being there, including running into Jake Paul and giving credit where it’s earned for pushing women’s boxing into bigger moments. (Totally forgot to talk about Inoue/Nakatani SMH)

THE SPAR-INN ON YOUTUBE

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:14

You are listening. Got another one for y'all, man. That was a good interview, man.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Man, we got we get we're gonna start we've gotta stop interviewing people because we're just gonna be fans of everybody if we keep doing this. But hey, that's why we're here, the spar inboxing podcast, empowered by Empire Nutrition. Willie, what up, man? We got a lot to go over. We're gonna try and make it quick because we're fading out. Like we said, we're coming off that interview, but we missed a few weeks. But why did we miss a few weeks?

Baumgartner Card And Vargas Update

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Why? Um, why? Because we was out turning up in the city. Nah, shout out to MVP promotions, man. We went to the today's show. That was last week, I think.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Yeah, a week ago. Yeah, we missed a week because we missed that week. I don't know. Whatever. We missed that week.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

We backed this week.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

That was Alicia Baumgartner versus something shin. Yeah. Um, she should have kicked her in the shin because Alicia did not look great. She won. She won.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

She did not look great. That was a different style, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Well, she looks great, but she boxed great.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Yeah. Um, yeah. Are you tired of talking about my girl? Willie's very Alicia. I don't like how y'all just you know, flavor her, but um, yeah, she could she probably could have lost that fight.

Irish Fan Backlash And A Phone Leak

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Um, yeah, that was a close fight again. Uh, but our boy Alex Vargas was on that card. Shout out to Alex dusting off the cobwebs. Um, and there was some drama for us and the sparring before that fight. It was the opponent he was supposed to fight got um got stuck in Ireland for whatever reason. Whatever reason he got stuck in Ireland. Whatever it is, you know what it is. I don't know what it was, man. Whatever reason, but man, let me just talk about the Irish fan base. Alex Vargas was supposed to fight an Irish guy from Ireland. Uh he he lives in Ireland, but comes to New York to fight. He's part of Starbucks. Long story short, he got stuck in Ireland. Luckily, Alex Vargas had a replacement fighter to get his dust off the cobwebs and get back in the business. Um, I heard some information through the interwebs. I somebody asked me on a public forum what that information was. I I said why I thought it was. And uh man, the Irish fan base is very passionate, man. Let me tell you. And I'm I'm half Irish myself, half Italian, half Irish. So I'm a fan of Irish boxing. I I listen, Caleb Walsh, I go to all his fights, love that guy. So uh yeah, I I'm team Irish. They'll just leave it at that. Uh yeah, that that that's really it. He did his thing. Who else was on that card? Welcome to Puma Apology Tour. It's not even an apology tour, it was just weird, bro. So so basically, yo, a trainer got my number from Instagram. I'm not gonna name names, called me, called me up, and was like, yo, blah, blah, blah. Can you take that down? You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I was like, yeah, like you called me respectfully. How the fuck did you get my number? Yo, my dumbass phone number was on Instagram. I am stupid. Hi, my name's Puma. I'm an idiot.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Yeah, it was a telemarket, bro.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

But yeah, you know, I pissed off some people with the information that I shared. And and yes, if it's not true, I should have done my research. But whatever. Was it true or not? I don't know, man. I live in America, I don't live in Ireland, so I do not know. Oh man, that's entertaining, though.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Yeah, whatever.

Fight Night Stories And Jake Paul

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Um, you know, listen, listen, I'm not, we're not, but but on a serious so what so you bought a shirt and then oh well from Caleb Walsh, like a month ago or two months ago, I bought one of his shirts. He was like selling shirts, and he said he's like, yo, I'm gonna throw autographs in it. Uh yo, I got one of them. That was one of the autographs, so that shit was sick. Uh, and you know, I I'm a big fan of his. I've we've pounded fucking booze together, which was cool. But yeah, so that was that. We had a night in the city. It's always a movie when we go to the fights. Oh, yeah. Um, and that that was a movie. Willie, Willie has turned into me. I'm a bad influence. Uh huh. Yelling at the fighters, calling girls chubby. Yeah. It was not good, Willie.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

That was not no, no, we just wanted them to be great, man. Oh, yeah. Yeah, don't forget the body when you're fighting. Like, come on, man. It was uh, and then if you fight somebody with a lot of body, you know? Um, yeah, Raquel, right? That's Raquel. Yeah, Raquel. We saw her, we saw her afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

And that girl, though, the girl Raquel Raquel fought was she was tough, bro. Tough she was just throwing haymakers. And then any other she was like a any given Sunday type of fighter.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

She was waiting.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Shout out to her. I forget her name, whatever, but yo, but again, we we talked about it in our uh last show we just did today, actually, with um Sugar. Yeah, but definitely uh Jake Paul with what he's doing with women's boxing. If if you don't like it, you're just being a hater because he is doing good work with it, man. We met Jake Paul too, man. We met Jake Paul, that was cool. Um, he was kind of mean to me.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

A little mean to me, but uh was it, but he really got in the picture though. Yeah, he did. And he grabbed it.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

He snatched my phone out of my hand and he took it. You hear what I said to him in his ear? I was like, you're still aggressive. Probably like, yo, who are these idiots?

SPEAKER_00 5:13

He probably remember you from harassing him like next side.

Tyson Fury Looks Slower

SPEAKER_01 5:16

All I said was follow the podcast. I didn't say anything. Yeah, yo, Jake Paul, follow the fucking podcast. We're we're fans of you, actually. We I like what you're doing, so that was cool. Um, but we got a lot to talk about. We got a few reviews. Uh Jarel Miller fought last night. This big ass fought last night. We have to preview Benavidez versor Ramirez and another fight on that card that I'm very interested in. And I'm I'm actually I'm actually gonna put a lot of money on somebody. So we'll get to that. But before we get into that, um, we have to talk about Tyson Fury fought again versus uh what's his name? Not not Madramov, um, Magnumov, whatever the big giant mountain guy. Yeah, and you know, I don't know. Uh Tyson Fury retires, unretires. He has seven kids. He he doesn't I think his dad was on to something onto something where he's like, he needs the money, which is probably true. But I think I'm done with Tyson Fury, man.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

I I think I think you're a Tyson fan. I know, I know, but he read you're the book.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

I am a Tyson Fury fan, but he picked him over Usick. I did the first fight. Uh but I don't know which was that. That was close. He he he does he does he does not look the same, man. He is my age, 37, 36, whatever he is. He's taken weeks off, months off when you do that and you're that tall, that the oil doesn't work on the tin man anymore, man. Like, you know what I mean? It's like changing the oil in an old old movie.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

I'm thinking you being harsh on him, man. Yeah, he yeah, man. He's still fun to watch, still entertaining. He's money, still can box. The Anthony Joshua fight is money. I don't think he's gonna get nobody out of there, but he can fucking put on a show and he's gonna make the biggest shot. Um, yeah, that AJ fight, big money.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Big money, and that that has to be next. And if that's not next, I think one of these up-and-comers, it's like kind of like a passing of the torch, like WWE, shout out WrestleMania. Yeah, like a passing of the torch. Moses Satama's gonna come in and knock his block off. Yeah, something like that.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

She yeah, if he can't get that fight, he needs to do that. Uh I don't know. I like him still for boxing because heavyweights is you know what they you don't get too many heavyweights with that charisma. Well, you do get a lot of charisma heavyweights, but a lot of his talent, he can fight for a little bit. How old is he?

SPEAKER_01 7:31

How old is Tyson Fury? Yeah, like 36, 37.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Okay, uh, he'd be all right. He's still good. No, make some money, yeah. He's he's still entertaining, man. Yeah. And like what? Usyk is the only one that really got his number. So don't fight Usick again, though. That's what they want to do. They're not gonna fight again. I don't think they're gonna fight again.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Ericsson Ericsson, hi, I'm a big fan. All right, well, I appreciate you, bro. Thanks. Are you lying? Um, somebody else, shit. I'm reading the comments. This is our regular show, by the way. We just interviewed, we had an interview. I'm gonna chop that up and post that out. It's on it's on the YouTube now, but I'm gonna fix it up later. We're lazy. But yeah, we're talking about Tyson Fury and what's next. Um, he's just too when you're when you've when you're that war-torn, bro. It's just it looked he looked slow. He didn't get him out of there. He should have got him out of there.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Man, he how long how long ago? How long ago he fought? Like what, six months? I don't know. It was a long time.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

I think he did pretty good. I don't know, man. That I mean, I hope so. I hope you're right. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but I just don't.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

The fiasco afterwards was fucking corny from your man. Oh, Joshua. And AJ is so corny. Nah, they're hyping it up.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Yo, Eddie Hearn, Eddie Hearn is smarter than we I mean, yeah.

Heavyweights Need An American Star

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Eddie Hearn is a genius. I ain't gonna lie to you. But he's doing promotion wise AJ is so corny to me, man. He's just I don't know. Yo, leave him alone, bro. I understand now, but for real, though, he needs to recover for the car accident. Cool. Don't show up to the fight and just sit there and try to just sit, like you already know what they're gonna ask you a million questions. Like, you know what I'm saying? They don't it's like did they tell him they was gonna plan like this fight, PV, or they try to pressure him. Like, you know, that was kind of weird too. You it looked, it felt weird, like the whole situation before before him being corny. It was like a situation put your hate aside. No, yeah, but Turkey would that was kind of if it was like it was like it was trying to force him to answer, it was kind of awkward, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Heavyweights, I mean, heavyweights is heavyweight is tough, man, because they're not that skilled. There's only a few real, real skilled guys, and and the whole division is kind of wide open still. But but we got to speak on American heavyweights, and we need one. We need a guy to carry the damn torch. Apparently, Jared Anderson got hurt, and you know, he he's coming off the knockdown. I mean, Richard Torres, I think he's the guy, man, but but there's another guy lingering out there who wants to move up. He's got a fight coming up that we're gonna preview in a little bit here. Benavidez said something recently that he might want to move up to heavyweight and fight Usyk. And I think I'm I'm all here for that. I want to, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Fuck it. I mean, but let's still gotta go through this fight first.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

We'll get there, we'll get there. But but you know, heavyweights are big, man. They're really big. And last night, it's now Sunday, but last night Jarrell Miller fought. Speaking of big heavyweights.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Um he had a he had his hair cut this time.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Yeah, the hair was Gucci, sort of. The hair was all right. Listen, uh, this fight didn't do good numbers. I mean, Jarrell Miller he was the main car, the main guy. Yeah, in the fountain blue in Las Vegas. Um the crowd was kind of empty, man. But that's nothing against Jarrell Miller. Listen, he's he he's had a hard, hard going. He fought Lanier Perro. This guy, Lanier Perro, man. Uh I've never seen a pro boxer. A pro. He reminded me of me. Two rounds, all smoke. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah. All smoke was winning. Bro, I put a live bet, and I'm like, shit, my guy Jarrell Miller ain't gonna do it. This guy's tagging him up. But then just he finished Parro, but was gone. The the stamina was gone, depleted after two rounds. It was weird, dude. It was like someone sucked the life out of him, and he was 250 pounds to to Miller's 305 pounds or whatever it was. Like, that is crazy, dude. But props to Jarrell Miller, he he thugged it out. Uh, he threw over a thousand punches.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

Yeah, that's impressive.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Yeah, I gotta give it to him. He's over 300 pounds and threw over a thousand punches in 12 rounds and was throwing till the end. So, for that, that's great to see.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Just like just like the clip you you reposted and say it's like uh rock a sockam, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

BBW rock'em sockam robots, man.

SPEAKER_00 11:49

They were haymakers.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

It wasn't a skilled fight, but it was a slobber knocker. But there's one thing I I want to point out he's always gonna be able to make money fight like that because he's fun. His best attribute is his chin. That dude is hard to knock out.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

Yeah, his best attribute is his chin. Jarrell is exciting, bro. He's and he got charisma, so yeah, he definitely has charisma.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

So it's like it's just it's just like this. This is it, dude. Again, he he he he won the fight, but I just want him to look way better. I want him to get the knockout. I really did. Uh and and he didn't. And I don't know. I just don't, I hope I'm wrong again. I just don't know if he's the guy to carry the American boxing torch right now. And I don't know if he beats a top five guy. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Because if he he gets hit, he's gonna get the top five fight. Hopefully. Who do you think he's gonna get? Well, I I'm not sure who he's gonna get, but I know that he's he's being active now. That's the one thing that we wanted from him for longest is being active, and now he's getting a chance. So, you know what I'm saying? He will get one of these fights, man. He he said he's making a name for himself again.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Eddie Hearn, again, speaking of Eddie, he he said it best, dude. He said uh the the best fight to make right now for Gerrell Miller. He said this in the ring is Deontay Wilder in New York City.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

That fight sells that that fight sells. Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Deontay Wilder's known in America. That's Deontay Wilder.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

Or or the the um generic one, um, Big Baby versus Big Baby.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

But he got hurt, I guess. Jared Anderson just got hurt recently. He had a comeback fight. Yeah, like legit hurt. I don't know what it was, but he got hurt, so he had to cancel a fight.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

So okay, but then the but that's a generic fight, though. Yeah, that's that one will do numbers too.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

But Wilde, Deontay Wilder's a huge fight. He's still a huge name.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

The promo who they were trying to promo him to the fight, though. Oh Joshua. Joshua. Oh, Joshua. Damn, Joshua's getting attacks from everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Yeah, I want the money. That's the money, man. They English boxing sells, bro. English boxing sells. But listen, uh he's just uh welcome back. I I hope you can continue this, Jarel Miller, for real. Because you're getting old too, man. So that's just our opinion on it. Um, yeah, that was it. That card was a little lackluster.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

I want I would like Big Baby versus my boy Dane Dubois.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Again, a rematch?

SPEAKER_00 14:05

I like that fight.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Yeah, yo, but even in that fight, dude, Jarrell Miller didn't get knocked down. He got tagged up, and thank God the ref stopped it, but he didn't get knocked down, bro. That's crazy when you think about that chin, dude.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

That's another that's a nice fight. That's uh like I'm just looking and trying to see like the size.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

DuBon got his hands full, though. He got a fight coming up.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Yeah, who he's fighting in? Um shit. Damn. It's a good fight. He's fighting in May, too. Damn May's. Yeah, May.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

He's fighting in May, dude. May is stacked. He's fighting Fabio Wardley.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Oh, yeah. He got his hands full for the WBO belt, too.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

That's a championship fight.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

I mean, he he could. I think he probably win. He landed a punch. Yeah, but Worley is a boxer.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

If he he's probably gonna win by I think Dubois is a little punchy now, man.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

Yeah, well shit. A little punchy, but it's only from uh Usyk is the one.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Yeah, but he got knocked. Uh Usyk, who else? I don't know, but he Dubois been knocked down by someone else, too, man. Um, who the hell was it? Oh no, I think just Usyk, you're right. Oh no, no, Joe Joyce, that one fight where he quit. Oh, yeah, just Usyk. Usyk really hurt him. Yeah. Joshua, Joshua, he he Joshua hurt him, but he stood. He stood tall.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Yeah, he hurt Joshua.

Benavidez Vs Ramirez Preview Begins

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, he did. He really hates Anthony Joshua. I don't know. Yo, I can't stand him. Um but then we have uh so then in May, speaking of May, actually this weekend. Do you want to come? What are you doing this weekend? Anything?

SPEAKER_00 15:33

What's this weekend?

SPEAKER_01 15:35

May 2nd.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Um I think I had oh, my cousin Kinciero. Kincierda. Oh, she's not a I can say quinciera. She's 16, sweet 16, she black. Not bad.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Yo! Willie, Willie about to have another Hispanic child, so it's good. You're learning. I like it. I like it. Kincierra. They're all quincier. Is that 15? Oh, quincierra makes sense. Um, but you know, speaking of quinciertas and Latinos, Gilberto Ramirez, Zerto versus David Benavidez, the Mexican monster. No pun intended. They're not having a quincierta, but it might as well be. That is gonna be a fight, man, and we're gonna learn a lot. We are gonna learn a lot. Yeah, May 2nd, bro. Woo wee! You coming over? Uh maybe. It's in Vegas, I think, right? Isn't that fight in Vegas? Yeah, Vegas. It's in Vegas, so it'll be a later fight. If you want to come over, maybe I'll I'll clean out the uh the podcast room and we'll we'll get this spar in fights back in action.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

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SPEAKER_00 16:49

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SPEAKER_01 16:50

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SPEAKER_00 16:53

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Why We’re Betting Resendiz

SPEAKER_01 16:55

No, hell no. Nobody wanna see my little Peter. Um Gilbert Overmeires versus David Benavidez on the undercard. The the undercard is is a little stacked. Um a little stacked, but one fight that I'm very interested in, very interested in. The Jose Armando Rizendez versus Jaime Mungia.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

Oh Mungia, that's more 160?

SPEAKER_01 17:24

No, one one, I think 168, yeah. 168. Um shit. That fight, dude, is fire, and I I think Mungia is gonna come in as a favorite, and I am gonna bet my fucking salary on Racendez. I'm gonna bet the bank on Racendez.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Oh, we met his trainer. Right? Him and his trainer were sitting in front of him. Yes. Oh man. Oh dude.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Dang, yo, damn. He is gonna. I I I he's they're gonna get another upset. Toro is gonna get another upset.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

He's the underdog again. I don't know yet.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

I don't know yet. I didn't check. I'm just assuming so, but here's why I'm gonna pick him. He's relentless one. He he's smooth as hell, he's good. He listen, he's been knocked down. His trainer is is his trainer has the most upsets in in like all of boxing. He upsets everybody. He's motivated, he's working out, but but here's here's why. And it has to do with Jaime Mungia. After fighters test positive for drugs or performance-enhancing drugs, they are never ever ever the same again. Yeah, and if Jaime Munghilla doesn't get a knockdown or a knockout, he's gonna lose. So put your bank on Jose Rezendez if he's an underdog, and if he's not, put your bank on Jose Rezendez. Um, I'm I'm literally probably I I never bet this high, but I might put a G on him. Get the I swear I might not. I might go get not I might go to the penny jar. I might not I might put a G on it. I swear I bet you won't do it. That's how confident. I bet you won't do it. I might put a G on Jose Recendez. I bet you won't do it, and that dude's hair. He's got the the best hair. Bro, that shit does not move. I don't know. Like, I bet you you won't do it. Yo, go for those of you that don't know who Jose Recendez is, you need to go Google him, and then you need to go tag him in every gel hair company because that shit does not move before the fight, after the fight, at the fights, training, jet black, just glued hair, bro. Like it's crazy. And that sounds a little suspect, but whatever. Who cares? It's dude, is a G-man, and I'm very excited for that. Again, uh, he's probably gonna get hit, but I just don't think coming off of a positive test, this is not what Jaime Mungia wants. This is not what Jaime Mungilla wants.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Oh, yeah, he tested positive too. You know, they when they come back from positive tests, they don't be looking good. I would probably bet the house on bro too. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy, though. That is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

And and like um activity, dude. Activity.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Uh we're talking about his trainer is that he got the trainer advantage already.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

So it's it's gonna be a good one. Um whole card's gonna be good. All of the cards are gonna be good.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Wow, finally, my boy got a fight to Duarte. Yeah, Duarte. He's on the undercard.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

That we're talking about the uh Gaberto Ramirez card. He's on the undercard, yes.

Duarte Vs Hitchens And Zuffa Drama

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Dropout fight, and damn, that sucks. Dropout champion fight. And now he's over there as let's talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Let's talk about that real quick. What's your take on that? What he's talking about is Oscar Duarte versus Richardson Hitchens. Richardson Hitchens got sick, quote unquote, but aka couldn't make the wait. Um, backed out last minute. We were pissed because we were there.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

And that was that was a really good fight. We thought, and then Richardson Hitchens joins Zufa boxing, and there's drama with Zoofah boxing where you know they they're not gonna be able to fight guys with belts. They are, we don't know. They're they're going after the Ali Act. We don't know what's going on over there. We just watch it and we want the best fighting the best. We don't really care. But what's your take on Richardson Hitchens with that? We're Richardson Hitchens fans, too. Nothing but love to us, but we gotta keep it real.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Yeah, that's uh it was it's we don't know exactly. We don't we don't know, we only can go how we feel at the moment, right? And I feel like it was a duck a little bit, you know what I'm saying? We can say it, man. We can say it. We we was waiting for him to get he looked like he was about to fight, he came out to the wait the scale, he was there for the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

You know what I didn't like? So, yeah, you're you're right. He did do all that, but then after what happened happened, he he then calls out Oscar Dwarde and then signs with Zufa.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Yeah, wait, what they had they just move in walkie. I don't know but no, they move in walkie, man. Uh Richardson, he's Moving cool dude.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

We we love we're you're from New York.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Always say what up. Yeah, you're from New York. And he like he acts as opinions.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

I've got a video of him, Oscar Duarte. I'm totally focused on Oscar Duarte, and then this happens. Like it's very odd. Very odd.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Very, very odd. He's like, he can't make the weight. He's moving up. Oscar Duarte looks serious. He said on stream that he's moving up. Yeah, he is. To 147. So it's like, damn, so you moving up. He could have.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

I wish he would have just said that from the rip.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah, like yo, I tried to make weight.

Teofimo Moves Up And Belt Talk

SPEAKER_01 22:30

I couldn't. I need to go to 147. But he called him out again. Hopefully, he just made a mistake. Again, we're keeping it real. And I'm a fan of his. Another guy moving up, and you know it wouldn't be a little in boxing podcast if we didn't talk about him. Who? Tia Fimo Lopez moving up to 140. I like what he did though, man. I like what he did.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Oh, what with the videos and shit?

SPEAKER_01 22:52

No, no, no. There was a fight announcement. Um him versus oh fuck, I forget his name, but he looks like a substitute teacher, but he's really good.

unknown 23:01

Fuck.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

There was a fight announcement for a belt. And I remember I posted, I was like, yo, if you're coming off a loss, you shouldn't get a belt opportunity. And then people were messaging me back with it. And I like what Tio did. He said, nah, go get it, man. Viva Mexico, whatever. Like, I'm moving up to 147. So he turned that down and officially announced he's moving up to 147. Oh, he's gonna get a fight a 140 belt. Yeah, yeah, it was for 140. And they made it a mandatory. I forget what sanctioning body. But I like what he did there.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

That's that's yeah, that's that's that was that was T Tio.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

That was smooth.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Like, how the fuck did Ryan get a title shot?

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Even though he won. Jim Jamel Herring actually commented that. He was like, Yo, Ryan Garcia, they let happen. I'm like, yeah, man, they're following the money. Like, like, that's corny. Yeah, and then somebody in the comments wrote, and you know, I want to I want people's take on this. Like, what do you think? Like, I don't think if you if you have belts, whatever, you're a champion, and you lose, right? Yeah, why should you be granted another opportunity at a belt right away? People said, Well, he fought the best. Tio fought Shakur, he's the best, blah blah blah. Yeah, he should get another opportunity. No, I think you gotta beat a ranked guy first.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

No, or you earn your shot again. Or you get a a rematch with the guy.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Yeah, or that, or that. But or but earn your keep again if you're not getting the rematch. Let these other guys come up. Like, I don't like that at all.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

I mean, you should drop like two or three spots or something.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Of course, I agree. And that it, my friends, is the problem with boxing and the sanctioning bodies, and that is what gives Zufa some some clout. So it's it's it's a weird, weird boxing world. But hey, give us the fights because May is fucking wild.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

May that is wow.

How Benavidez Beats Zerdo

SPEAKER_01 24:40

But yeah, that's Jaime Mungia. What well we alluded to other things. Oscar Oscar Duarte's on the undercard, and that's a good little night of Vegas boxing. Um but the main event, now this the main event that we gotta dissect a little further, and then we'll end the show because we're a little cooked. Again, if you if you're if you're listening, please listen to our last episode. We interviewed O'Shea Jones. Awesome interview. Awesome interview.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Sugar. So let's get to it, man. Oh man. This is about to be exciting. Yeah, this is a really, really a really good fight, man. This should be. I feel like they're doing this the justice. Like, I said, oh, I said that wrong. They not doing this no justice. Like, um, injustice. That's what I meant.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

So what you which justice did you? I said the justice.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

I said David Justice, David Justice, they doing injustice to this fight. Okay. I feel like it wasn't promoted like as much as it's supposed to be. Like, this is the big fucking fight, bro. This is a uh maybe it's just too much boxing going on that it can't get no focus.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

I don't know. I think I think what it was was like baseball started, like in America anyway. Baseball started that got people going, NBA playoffs started, and then you got the NFL draft.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Yeah, um, oh yeah, there's a lot, a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

And then, you know, boxing takes a but yeah, boxing takes a back seat.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

This is an amazing fight, bro. This is gonna be a more action fight. This what David moving up. He wait, do you like all right? So you remember how we were just talking about the title fights? I know he David didn't lose. He's coming up for a win against Jade, whatever the case is. Him moving up again in title fight is cool with you too.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

But you know why he's moving up? His reason for moving up is totally different. He's moving up because people are ducking him. He wanted Canelo, couldn't get the belts. His goal is undisputed, and he wants the belts. Yeah, so now he sees an opportunity here, and he's he's going to grab it.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Two belts, right?

SPEAKER_01 26:41

Yeah. Uh-huh. And I uh this is we're gonna learn a lot about David Benavidez in this fight because Zerdo's skilled, he's big, um, he's a he's a Mexican warrior, he's a proven champion. They both got in trouble for cocaina, which is cool. He's you know, like it's it's seriously, which is cool as crazy. Um, but I I don't know, man. I I think I I really think we're gonna learn a lot about David Benavidez in this fight. And he like we said earlier in the show, he's he wants to move up to heavyweight eventually and fight Usyk. He wants to fight the best, dude. Like, yeah, so yeah, we we shall see. Zerdo Zerdo's big dude, has good legs, moves, nose boxing, smart. I I I think this fight's gonna go the distance, though.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

And they're familiar with each other.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

They forty, they spar years ago. Okay. I I think this fight's gonna go the distance. What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Yeah, definitely going the distance. Um, David really haven't been really, you know. I mean, his last fight, he did stop him. He shouldn't have he shouldn't have stopped him now. As he moves up, though, yeah. That that's what I'm saying. As he move up, is that power is not gonna probably translate, right? Yeah, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

But he's still gonna have a quick in hand, so but there's something there's something that goes really unnoticed about David Benavidez because his style is so I don't want to say sloppy, but unorthodox. Like his style's different, yeah, it's not normal. Um, but it's the way he sets up his traps. Like this guy sets up traps that you don't even notice until you watch the replay. Yeah, and then when he follows up and he gets you in those traps, it's a 20-piece chicken nugget combo. So like it's like and then he's still in your face relentless again. And like he does faint, he does foot feints that we don't notice because he's walking up, he's not it's not that normal stance. He's he's gonna be a problem for Zerdo, and and he just said something in the interview, too, where like he's like, People don't realize like I'm I'm cutting off the ring like crazy. Like, I got good feet too. Yeah, so again, this fight, this fight is gonna be really good. This is worth the pay-per-view. This is worth whatever. This is this is a type of fight where I invite people over that don't really like boxing, and I'm like, yo, watch this fight.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Man, this is great. And he's damn, he's tall too. He's 6'2, Zerdo, right? 6'2, yeah. This is a challenge, man. Yeah, man. And his reach is 7'5. Okay, damn. That's oh yeah. This is gonna be a difficult fight.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Two good fights back to back, too.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

South Paul. Oh man, this is great. This is gonna be a great fight. Yeah, um, this is the most exciting fight. Um, I see, yeah, I definitely see this the distance. I don't think he's gonna outwork David Bedevias. You have to outwork him, man. I don't think he could. But Zerdo's smart though, man. Zerdo is definitely tough, big, he's smart.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

One thing though, one thing I will say is in and this is just from clips that we see. Zerto looked real slow to me, man. He he didn't look fast at all. And uh, I I you know we're we're friends with heavyweight Lorenzo Medina. Yeah, Lorenzo Medina was actually sparring with um Benavidez. Yeah, and he said when he throws those like 10-piece combos, he's fast as fuck, man. Like, you don't even know where they're coming from. So that's a little intel there to for however you bet. Um, I'm betting distance. I'm gonna bet Benavidez distance just off volume and money. Benavidez is the money. Um, and I know that's not fair or right, but Benavidez is the money. And listen, technically he's American, so proud to be in America. Nah. Um, yeah, could good fight though, man. I'm actually excited. This is a good fight. You gotta come over, actually. Come over for that one. We'll get some pizza.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

Maybe I'll invite some people, maybe have a little thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Wait, here, yeah. All right, yeah, a little thing. What do you mean? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

They have a little thing, just me boxing fans, you know?

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Yeah, no, yeah, for real. Let me know. Let me know ahead of time, though. I'll be down here. I might and I'll I'll fix up the tables.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

Maybe I'm not, maybe not.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

I don't know. What the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 30:40

I'm just trying to, you know what I'm saying? Whoever likes boxing, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

Dude, I wish one day the spar in will be they don't show up when you invite them. Yeah, because nobody likes boxing, man. It's just us. So I say UFC, fucking the whole world comes to watch people grapple. Yeah, good. You know what? I gotta start watching like WWE though, man. They fucking sell. Those motherfuckers, WWE. I can't watch it.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

They still bro. What?

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Sell. I don't know. And my boy Shawn Michaels is back in the public eye.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

You saw the speed and them there.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Yeah, streamer. Everyone's going to streamers. Cameron did it went viral. One day you're gonna see me and you in there. Spar in streamers, tag team champions of the world. All right, guys. Ah shit. Um, but yeah, that's definitely May 2nd. Good fight. All of May, yo. May is boxing.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

Fucking happen that we have to go like every week.

Schedule Changes And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Yep. I'm actually going to fights in Georgia May 9th. So this might be our last recording for a little bit. Um, unfortunate news. If you are an avid listener, well, not unfortunate, but um, I my hours at work are changing. So we're gonna have more content though, but not necessarily the podcast itself. We're still gonna record the podcast, no doubt. Never die, never settle, never will. But um, we're definitely gonna slow down a little bit, maybe not slow down, but it'll just be different days. It'll be different days. It won't be like Sunday or Monday, maybe. But we're gonna do our best to get it done. But we're gonna have more content because I will have more time off to do things. Um, we are working men, and that's how it goes.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

And we got a relationship with fighters, so you know, you might see us in a workout with a yeah, uh, you know, Sam, oh yeah, something content.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Content is coming. Content is coming.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Sounds weird.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Again, like like coming to you, not on you, to you. Um this is a weird show. This is a weird show. This is getting weird, but it's again we need to go. All right, guys.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

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SPEAKER_01 32:37

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SPEAKER_02 32:51

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SPEAKER_01 32:53

All right, that's it. Yo, like, subscribe, follow. Go see Michael Jackson. You guys didn't shout out. Go see Michael Jackson, go see MJ. Don't bring your kids though. All right.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Well, I broke my kids.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

Yeah, but you know, you're crazy. Uh anyway, peace. No shit.