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Good afternoon, good evening, good night, wherever
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you are in the world. This is Brunch Boxing.
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I'm your host, Matt. I'm here with the John Madden
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of boxing. Mr. Walk and Talk, Mr. Sit and Spin
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Himself, Mr. Asra Breakdown, Andrew Tate. He's
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coming for you, sucker. I'm here with Asra Boxing.
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What's going on, Asra? You know, the Andrew Tate
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thing, that's a good bit. I love that bit. Whoa,
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whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on. That's a bit? You
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don't really want to bite him? Let me explain.
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Let me explain. I definitely want to fight him.
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I'm just saying it's funny that we keep going
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with that. But I was talking to my wife and I
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said, you know, I'm getting fat. I mean, it's
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just, I just said, this is called what it is,
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right? I'm getting fat, right? Like, and I was
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like, I think the only thing that can motivate
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me to get in shape is a legitimate fight. Like,
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I think that's the only thing that'll do it.
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Because that's the only thing that ever got me
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in shape was there was a chance of a legitimate
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fight. I think a fight with Andrew Tate is necessary
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for my health. I really do. I think other than
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that, I get obese. If I don't have a fight with
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Andrew Tate. Or whose other guy called out Huey?
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Chase Damore. Chase Damore. I think I'm going
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to get out of shape. I think I'm going to get
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fat and obese. So you're no longer calling out
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Salt Papi? Salt Papi, too. Salt Papi lost, though.
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Not that much. I'll call, what's his name, Tony
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Ferguson? Call Tony Ferguson out. That's for
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sure. That's for damn sure. But I'm just saying
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right now, I think I need a fight to get in shape.
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I would like you to fight Jake Paul. I mean,
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I just think I have to work my way up to it.
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You got guns. Well, he's the final boss. Yep.
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Interesting. Ice caramel brulee latte? Not good.
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I'm going to tell you right now. Like for Starbucks
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drinks,
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right? And their holiday stuff? No free
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ads, Ezra. No free ads. This is a 4 out of 10.
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This is not doing it. But before we get started
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with the show today, I wanted to send out my
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condolences to a friend of the show, Al Bernstein,
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who announced the passing of his wife, Connie.
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So, you know, deepest condolences to Bernstein
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and his entire family. Definitely, definitely.
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Al Bernstein, class act, a guy that we all grew
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up with watching boxing. And his voice is, you
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know, with boxing, just, you know, you got to
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have praise for him at this time, man. You know,
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he's hurting. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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All right, Huey, let's get started. All right,
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before we get started here, just everyone listening,
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watching, whether it's on YouTube, Twitter, Ezra's
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account, the Brunch Boxing account, be sure to
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like, comment, share, subscribe, get more viewers,
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listeners onto the show. And then we can get
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right into it with the news and notes. First
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thing, we saw DAZN announcing their new ultimate
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subscription tier. What was it? $44 .95 is going
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to be the new price per month in America. I didn't
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recall checking the annual rate. Maybe you can
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speak to that. But did Turkey lie to the people?
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I'm going to let you start, Ezra. Not this time.
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Not this time. I got to say. Because he has lied
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before. And maybe we lied to this point. But
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he didn't say. This was building off the last
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lie. So I don't think you can count this as a
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lie. Because he had lied the last time when he
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said pay -per -views were done. And then he said,
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well, actually, we're going to do a monthly plan
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type thing. So this wasn't necessarily a lie.
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Because off of the last lie, this is the truth.
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They said they're going to give you a monthly
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thing. This is what they're giving you. Is it
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a good deal? Who the hell knows, right? Most
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likely not. I'm going to be honest with you.
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Most likely not, right? Because it's funny to
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say like, oh, well, you're going to subscribe
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to this and you have no idea what you're getting.
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We're not going to tell you anything you're getting,
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but subscribe to this and you're going to get
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12 pay -per -views a year. And then you're thinking
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to yourself, well, hell, I don't even think that
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there's five pay -per -views I think worthy that
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Zones ever gives me a year. Suddenly they're
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going to start giving me 12 pay -per -views that
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I deem worthy to pay for? That's the part where
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it's like, the mystery box of it all, they've
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never delivered on it. So if you're telling me
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that I'm going to get this David Benavidez card
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every month for a year, I'm going to say right
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now, it's worth it. It's worth it. This David
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Benavidez card for every month of the year, it's
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worth it. But if I'm getting nonsense and you're
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just calling it pay -per -view because that's
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a very interesting thing. It's like, what are
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you going to call pay -per -view now? One thing
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I think business -wise is what they did here
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is they realized that no one was buying these
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pay -per -views. We've been talking about it.
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It's obvious. Like I said, we don't need to know
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the numbers. It's obvious, right? You know when
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something's getting bought, you know when it's
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not. These are papers that are not getting bought.
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They know they have a loyal subscription, right?
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Whatever number that is of people, they have
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people that are subscribing and they know that
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they stay consistently. They said, we're not
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going to get no more new buyers, right? We're
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not getting no more new buyers. We can't advertise
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really anywhere. But we do have these subscribers
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that seem to stay with us. How can we get more
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money? How about we just charge them more money?
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These people seem to stay here. I think they'll
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pay the extra
money because we already have them.
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And that's what they did here. I don't think
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that they think they're going to get more pay
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-per -view. I don't think they're going to give
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you a better product because they're not. But
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they know they have people that have stood there
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through thick or thin. I'm one of them. And they
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said, hey, I think we can charge these guys a
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little bit more. You know what? They're right.
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I'm going to pay it. So that's all this is. I
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really do. I don't think this is going to, I
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don't think you're going to get great events.
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I don't. I think it's going to be pretty much
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the same. Maybe you'll get more fights. Maybe
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there'll be a little bit thicker of a schedule
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because it's been pretty weak this year. But
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I don't think that everything's going to be pay
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-per -view worthy. That's a very questionable
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term with pay -per -views worthy because if you
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look at everything they've offered in pay -per
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-view, most of it hasn't been pay -per -view
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worthy. What do you think, Matt? I mean... They
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gave us Moses Otama versus Dillian White as a
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pay -per -view for $50. That's what I'm saying,
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yeah. So that just tells you what they consider
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pay -per -view. And here's where you're wrong.
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How could you say he hasn't lied when he said
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there will be no more pay -per -view? No, you've
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been using the word pay -per -view, right? No,
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but that was the last lie. But then he came back
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and was like, okay, we're going to pay -per -view,
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but I'm going to offer you a monthly subscription.
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He did say that. So like I'm saying, it's not
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that he didn't lie on this before. He has. He
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didn't say that. He didn't say that. I know a
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monthly subscription was coming. The CEO of DAZN
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said that. Yeah, yeah. Turkey said no more pay
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-per -view. Yeah, yeah. Turkey said no more pay
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-per -view. Now, here's the thing. If you want
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to say that Turkey is not a liar, fine. But either
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he's a liar or he doesn't have the power that
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he likes to portray himself to have. No, no,
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no, no. He's definitely a liar. I'm not saying
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he's not a liar. Come on, what are we doing here?
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He's definitely lying. We've been talking about
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it all the time. I'm just saying - I'm talking
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about with this situation. Yeah, in this situation,
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I think he's lying. He told the fans - When a
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fan said to him, yo, they've been sitting on
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my pay -per -view. They lied before. He said,
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that was before my time. This is me now. Yeah.
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Okay? It don't get more blatant than that. It
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don't get more blatant than that. I'm just saying,
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to me, he already lied. We already knew he lied.
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This will just now go continuing on it. But if
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you guys want to say he's still lying, then that
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is what it is. He's lied a lot. He's lied a lot.
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And I think, you know, personally, I wanted to
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ask you this. What are the odds we still get
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a pay -per -view that's out of the subscription?
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Oh, come on. A super pay -per -view. Is there
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a chance we get a super pay -per -view? Because
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I really think there's a chance we get a super
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pay -per -view. I think we get a pay -per -view
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that they say, hey, this is in the subscription.
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You got to pay a little extra for this one. But
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it's so good. I think that that's what they're
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going to do. I really think that next year, you're
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going to get a super pay -per -view. They can't
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do that. All right. All right. We'll see. They
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can't do that. Ezra, Ezra, they can't do that.
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I don't know, man. I don't know. I can't count
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anything out at this point. I can't count anything
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out at this point. Because he's a liar. And I'm
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saying it. And I know we're probably going to
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get banned. We're probably going to get whatever.
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He fucking lied. He lied. And I got to tell you,
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Mr. His Excellency, it's not good to be a
job
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turkey so close to Thanksgiving, my brother.
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This is horrible. This is really, really horrible.
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Because if you think about it, right? You're
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charging the fans $44 .99, $538 a year, right?
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You gotta have an annual commitment. But if you
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pay up front, if you give us $450 up front, then
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you save $80. What are we saving from? Why do
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they make it seem like they're saving people
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money? You're not saving money by putting a paywall
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in between stuff that never used to have a paywall.
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Mola Atama is not someone that should be on pay
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-per -view right now. Can we all agree on that?
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I would agree with you on that. We lost Az, but
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100%, and we got Az back. So if you're charging
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me $50 to watch someone that should be free,
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and then you say, you know what, I'm not going
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to charge you $50. I'm going to charge you $20.
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You're saving $30. I'm still not saving $30.
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I'm overpaying $20. People don't understand the
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game that they're playing with these words, man.
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They said 12 plus pay -per -views. What number
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do you think they get of pay -per -views that
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you think you get in this deal? Well, I think
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they're going to do about 30 to 40. Pay -per
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-views? Yes. I think you're going to get 13.
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And then they're going to say, hey, that's what
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we promised. Because you gotta understand, they're
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just saying pay -per -view level fights. We don't
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even know what that means. Ezra, two weeks ago,
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we saw Joseph Parker versus Fabio Wardi. Yeah,
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yeah. Pay -per -view. Next week, we have Chris
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Eubank Jr. versus Conor Benn. Pay -per -view.
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The week after that, we have David Benavidez
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versus Anthony Orr. Pay -per -view. That's three
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pay -per -views in four weeks. For everything
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now? Yes, yes, yes. That's funny. So, like, even,
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like, these Eddie Hearn carts, you think they
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just offer them for $10 on Amazon as well? They're
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like, you know what? Screw it. Like, this is
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a good chance. Why not, right? Bro, NUA versus
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Picasso is pay -per -view in the U .S. Oh, man.
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Oh, man. Let me tell you something. You know,
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we talk about it often, I think. And I think
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you're on the same page with me. It's like, boxing's
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not in a great spot right now. It's not in a
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great spot. It's not the healthiest it is. And
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I got to tell you, like, you know, obviously
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there's no growth here in this plan, right? There's
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not a casual that's like, hey, you know what?
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Let me drop $500 to watch a sport that I don't
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watch ever. consistently, only watch the big
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events. I have no idea what's going on. Let me
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drop money on that. There's no growth here at
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all. There's no room for growth. Basically, if
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you fight on the zone, you fight to the subscribers
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they have, and that's it. You're not going to
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gain any more fans. It is in its own bubble.
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It's its own thing. It's not growing. There's
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no growth here. And I was thinking about Virgil.
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And they're going back and forth, right? And
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they're like, oh, he's not going to sign the
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contract and this and this. And I'm like, these
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guys have no idea where the business is right
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now. No one gives a shit about that contract
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right now because no one cares enough about the
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sport to watch it enough. Like you're doing stuff
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that worked maybe 10, 15, 20 years ago. Right
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now, no one's watching the sport enough to care
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about this contract negotiations. I don't think
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these people have the self -awareness to realize
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where this sport actually is. No one gives a
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damn. You're basically giving us fights or you're
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not. The other little talk, the sport's not there
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right now. Me and you will talk about it. But
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if you think that people are like, oh, I can't
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wait for this boots and Virgil fight to be made,
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that are casual fans, no, they're not. So this
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whole conversation back and forth, no one cares.
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It's a waste. It's a waste of time. It's a waste
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of time. It's a waste of time. And this thing
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that they announced, like I said, there's no
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growth here. There's no growth here. There's
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no, oh, we want to build a sport. No, they don't.
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No, they don't. I don't know what the hell they
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want to do. I don't know what the hell they're
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trying to do with it, but there's no growth here.
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There's no plan to growth here. There's nothing
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you can do here. This is in its own box. This
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is a sport. If you're a fan now, you can watch
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it, but there's no growing new fans. There's
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no talking. No one's going to know any of this
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stuff's happening. No one knows any of this stuff's
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happening. This stuff is dying. I'm going to
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be honest with you. It's dying. Virgil Ortiz,
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who's supposed to be one of the few shows of
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boxing. is fighting Erickson Lubin, who some
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boxing fans know, okay? And his hometown, and
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they couldn't even open up the rafters. They
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couldn't even open up the rafters. Well, it's
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brutal out there. That's what I'm saying. There
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just needs to be some awareness of what it is,
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right? And I get it, right? None of these boxers,
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the money's there. I'm not gonna blame them.
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We're gonna take the money. There's no doubt
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about it. But none of these... The money's going
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to be there. Yeah, right? The money's there.
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Yeah, the money's there. But the back and forth,
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I think it's a little bit much. It's a little
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unnecessary. It's unnecessary. No one cares.
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No one cares. No one cares. And here's the thing.
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Here's the thing. Here's the thing about that
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fight, right? And I hate that we're going off
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the tangent on this fight. You love to take the
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eyes off Turkey. You love Turkey. Like you? Listen,
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I'm honest about Turkey. You are a Turkey gobbler.
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You know what it is? Can I tell you this right
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now? What's wrong with you? What's wrong with
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you? Now, the crazy part, let me tell you the
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crazy part, is I'm negative on Turkey all the
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time, right? And then if I say one thing, I guess
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it wasn't negative enough. I just said that I
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don't think he lied in this one instance. I think
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he lied before about this equation. But I think
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we already got past that lie. Here's the thing,
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right? Say if I lie to you, Matt, Right? I say
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- What you do all the time. Okay, let's just
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say, right? Let's say I was going to go to this
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place, and I didn't go to that place, right?
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And I ended up going to a different place. That's
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the lie, right? And you caught me on that lie,
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okay? That's the lie. Now, in a week later, I'm
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still at that place. I'm not still lying at that
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point. You already caught the lie. Now we're
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moving on from that lie into where we're at and
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the new information. That's all that happened
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here. That's all that happened here. Is this
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what's going on? What happened? Is this what
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you saw in your life? Yes, you only catch me
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on a lie once. You can't keep going on that same
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lie like you're still lying. No, no, no, you
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already caught me on that lie. Now we're here.
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This is a new truth. So the lie ends once you're
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caught. Yeah, once I'm caught, that's the lie.
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It doesn't continue. It's just a new truth at
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that point. Oh, shit. Okay. That's the right
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truth. That's insane. It's insane. But do you
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think the zone just suffers from bad PR? Do they
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just suffer from bad PR? Yeah. Or do they really
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just not know what they're doing? It's just a
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business model that doesn't work. It's a business
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model that just doesn't work. I don't think it's
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PR. It's anything. It just doesn't work. There's
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no solution for it. You have a thing that no
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one knows about. In the States, you have a thing
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that doesn't draw any eyeballs. They needed something
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big like, I don't know, like the, you know, they
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need a bigger sport that forces people to go
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there, right? That navigates, funnels people
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to it. Huh? They need soccer. They have soccer,
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you said? I said they needed soccer. Yeah, yeah,
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exactly. They almost had that deal, right? And
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then that fell apart. Yeah, it just doesn't work.
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Now, they have Turkey, who's funneling some money
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to them to keep the boxing, right, still getting
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the biggest fights. Now, I don't know what the
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hell his plan is to grow this, but this right
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here, what they have just doesn't work. It's
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just not gonna work. That's the truth of this.
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We all just know. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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You say you don't know who's planning to grow
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the sport. Can we stop with the notion that he's
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trying to grow the sport? No, no, he's not trying
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to grow the sport. He's not trying to grow the
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sport. Okay, thank you. He's not trying to grow
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the sport. Thank you. The reason why I say that.
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It's because if you have people out here, they
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will say he's trying to grow the sport. You have
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people out here saying that he's saying boxing.
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Now, as clear as day, I think a lot of people,
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too, that I see have those opinions kind of admit
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this week that, no, this isn't great. There really
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wasn't people coming out saying this was a good
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thing. There really wasn't that. Because here's
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the thing. If you come out and you defend it,
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you make it kind of obvious that you just either
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are blabbing before and everything, or you don't
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know what the fuck you're talking about. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Did I see Mike Hoppinger trying to
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alibi this? Hey, look, you get in November, you
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get Lubin Ortiz. Yeah, yeah. And you bet, and
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benefit is gone. All for the low price of $44
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.99. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, bro, eat a dick.
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What are you talking about, bro? Yeah, no. Here's
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what you're also
going to see, okay? You're going
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to start seeing people say, hey, listen, for
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the price of your DAZN subscription, that's three
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PBC pay -per -views, duh. Yeah, yeah. Like I
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said, we're talking about DAZN. It just doesn't
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work. It's not going to work, okay? You're not
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going to build an app, I'm sorry, around just
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boxing. It's not going to happen. Okay, it's
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not going to happen. And boxing is an event to
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event situation, right? You build an event and
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that event brings in a bunch of people, but it's
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not like a continuous thing. That's not the way
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the sport is built. It's not the way it works.
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And you're especially not going to build it while
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you have to charge 500 bucks to start boxing.
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So it's not going to happen. This doesn't work.
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They're trying to make money with whatever they
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have. I think DeZone's plan is more international.
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I think they do things more internationally.
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They're trying to figure out what they can do
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here. I mean, if you look at the main events
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that they put on, obviously it's more international.
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Yeah, it's more international. But I think they
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have other sports that are international. I think
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they have UFC in some spots and stuff like that
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that they show internationally. They have other
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ways that they're going about it, right? Here,
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it just doesn't work. This is not going to work.
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And it's not going to work. It'll never work.
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And it's not just for boxing. And as long as
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it's, I gotta be honest with you, as long as
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it's around, it will continue to suffocate boxing.
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It will continue to just, boxing will, not just
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a niche sport. I mean, we're talking about only
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a few people will ever know what the hell's going
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on. You will not be able to talk to a casual
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fan and be like, did you hear about this guy?
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Because he's gonna be like, I don't know what
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the hell you're talking about. Bro, nobody knows
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what the zone is. Exactly. Exactly. So you have
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this thing, it's gonna hurt the sport for a long
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time. Now I get, people see those pay -per -views
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and everything. Yeah, but people kinda at least
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know what those vents are. They know those fighters,
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they know where they can find it. No one has
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the zone because the zone you would only get
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if you watch boxing. If you're a die -hard boxing
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fan, I'll be honest with you, a lot of die -hard
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boxing fans don't even own the zone. They don't
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even pay for it. So like I'm saying, it's never
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gonna work. This is never gonna work. This is
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not a business plan that's gonna - Build a sport
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or be successful. It's not. So we'll see what
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happens over the years. If they keep going with
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it, they keep attempting this, but Turkey just
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keeps funneling money into it. But there's no
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success here. You know what's funny about this
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whole pay -per -view argument and Turkey said
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this, Turkey lied, Turkey did a lie. Turkey on
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a sheet has enough money that if you want, you
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can take this stuff to another platform. It doesn't
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have to be on the dog, but it doesn't have to
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be on the dog. He could take this card to another
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platform where it would be shown for free. You
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know, I keep, I mean, this is something we keep
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talking about, right? We keep talking about.
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It doesn't make any sense to us. You know, there's
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a reason why it doesn't happen. I don't know
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what that reason is, whether the money's not
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what we think it is or for other reasons. I don't
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know, but it's not happening for a reason because
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I find it hard to believe, right? If he really
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had this money to spend, remember, everybody
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keeps telling me it's not about money. He has
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all the money in the world, does all this. There's
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a better way to do this then. And it's like,
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I'm not some business genius with boxing. I'm
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not. But I mean, there's guys that
see it, right?
00:21:07.970 --> 00:21:09.869
Like DiBella, he sees it. He's like, sometimes
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I don't get the play they're doing here. No one
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gets it. It's just common sense. You can take
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this somewhere else and get so much more viewership
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and maybe build something, right? Like you're
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trying to build something, but they're not doing
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that. basically blocking it, putting a wall around
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it. They keep putting a wall around it on a project
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that no one wants to see. It's the strangest
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business thing. It's like, hey, I have something
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that no one wants to see. And you're like, well,
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let's just put a wall around it. Wait a minute,
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but no one wants to see it already. Let's keep
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building walls around it. I don't understand
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it. Joining us now, Matt, before you respond
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here, we have Bellini Award winner, friend of
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the show, sometimes guest host. host of the Longest
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Running Boxing Podcast on YouTube, The Boxing
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Source. J .R. Bell, J .B .Z., how you doing today?
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Yo, what's going on, folks? Talking about this
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whole DAZN thing and Ezra Conley alluded to it.
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This thing with DAZN is they really deal with
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more about world sports and stuff like that,
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and boxing is like... almost at the very bottom
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of the totem pole when it comes to that. They
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get those contracts as far as acquiring broadcast
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rights for some of these sports in these other
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countries so that they can get the TV revenues
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from that. Boxing is not really part of that
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plan, unless if it's a secondary thing. For example,
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when you had Tank versus Ryan Garcia, right?
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And you say Ryan has a contract with the zone.
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So what ends up happening is when they had the
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pay -per -view, you had, what was it at this
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time, Showtime, that had the US rights, but DAZN
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had the rights elsewhere. Pretty much like it
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happened the same way with, what was that? So
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you're not necessarily gonna get that much investment
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from DAZN in the US market like that unless something
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drastically changes, but. They're concerned about
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soccer or maybe getting MLB in Canada or the
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NBA in Japan and stuff like that. But outside
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of that, they really don't, you know, put too
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much into boxing, at least not right now. If
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they're concerned about the international audience
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and they're getting all this stuff from soccer
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and all these other ventures, why aren't they
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charging those fans? more money since those are
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people that actually consume their products.
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You say, why are you talking about those? Wait,
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wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold
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on. When you're asking the question, why aren't
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you charging those fans more money? Because the
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demand is there for it. Pretty much the demand
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is there for it. But the thing is, you can still
00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:05.559
make the money off of that. You brought up the
00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:08.240
whole thing as far as like, what was it, Mike
00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:16.039
Hopper just saying that, you get this. the rematch
00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:19.460
with you bank versus Ben and then the ring for
00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:24.640
with Benavidez yard and that be the same prices
00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:28.339
like a WWE pay per view. So, I mean, either way,
00:24:28.380 --> 00:24:30.559
it's more about what the consumer is willing
00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:40.630
to pay for. There's no evidence in history that
00:24:40.630 --> 00:24:42.410
the consumers want to pay for this stuff. No,
00:24:42.430 --> 00:24:45.130
no, no, but that's the thing. I think this is
00:24:45.130 --> 00:24:48.109
admitting something. This is admitting something.
00:24:48.289 --> 00:24:50.109
This is admitting something. They're admitting
00:24:50.109 --> 00:24:53.210
that boxing isn't working. I think that's what
00:24:53.210 --> 00:24:55.230
they're admitting. They're admitting that, hey,
00:24:55.309 --> 00:24:57.509
who would buy this premium subscription? Only
00:24:57.509 --> 00:25:00.309
boxing fans. You get DAZN, you get all the other
00:25:00.309 --> 00:25:02.710
sports, which is paying for DAZN. What they're
00:25:02.710 --> 00:25:04.490
telling you is we're not making any money off
00:25:04.490 --> 00:25:07.210
this boxing thing. So we're going to offer, if
00:25:07.210 --> 00:25:09.109
you really want to watch boxing, if you have
00:25:09.109 --> 00:25:11.069
a thing, we're going to offer you additional
00:25:11.069 --> 00:25:12.809
money to watch it because we're not making any
00:25:12.809
--> 00:25:14.009
money on that. We're making all the money off.
00:25:14.069 --> 00:25:17.049
Everything else we have, they feel like returns
00:25:17.049 --> 00:25:18.970
some kind of value to them. They're basically
00:25:18.970 --> 00:25:21.609
telling you, boxing isn't working for us, so
00:25:21.609 --> 00:25:23.369
we're going to offer an additional thing for
00:25:23.369 --> 00:25:24.849
anyone that wants to pay for it, and we'll see
00:25:24.849 --> 00:25:27.349
how it goes with that people paying for it. But
00:25:27.349 --> 00:25:28.369
that's basically what they're admitting. They're
00:25:28.369 --> 00:25:29.650
admitting that this isn't working. This is the
00:25:29.650 --> 00:25:31.990
one sport they put money in that's not returning
00:25:31.990 --> 00:25:36.859
value to us. I think that's what this is. Well,
00:25:36.859 --> 00:25:45.660
good luck with that. But the other thing is that
00:25:45.660 --> 00:25:48.480
you still have to run into the issue of how you're
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.700
going to take care of the cost, regardless if
00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:53.180
it's DAZN or anybody else. You still have that
00:25:53.180 --> 00:25:56.059
same price point. Like you said with the thing
00:25:56.059 --> 00:25:58.720
with the $44 .99, it's not much different than
00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:00.359
what happened with Showtime, not much different
00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.119
than what's happening with Amazon Prime. You
00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:03.940
still have to deal with that price point because
00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:06.220
you still have to pay out. Who you need to pay
00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:08.539
out, regardless of who the fighters are and what
00:26:08.539 --> 00:26:11.880
the event is. Would we say streaming has been
00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:16.680
positive or negative for boxing? Negative. Right?
00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:21.099
I think streaming has been pretty - Viewership
00:26:21.099 --> 00:26:23.019
standpoint, negative. Pretty obvious. I think
00:26:23.019 --> 00:26:25.140
to me, pretty obvious and negative, right? Pretty
00:26:25.140 --> 00:26:29.099
obvious. Yeah, it's negative, but you're - Like
00:26:29.099 --> 00:26:33.779
I said, what else can they do? I do want to add
00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:37.400
another voice to the conversation quickly. We
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:39.599
have host of the Sunday Morning Sermon and host
00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:42.579
of the RNS podcast, T .Y. Follow him on Twitter
00:26:42.579 --> 00:26:44.859
as MrKeepIt100Boxing. What do you got to say
00:26:44.859 --> 00:26:49.900
on this? Y 'all tripping, man. So basically,
00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:53.039
I got a lot to say. For one, so basically you're
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:55.180
telling me boxing on the zone is WNBA getting
00:26:55.180 --> 00:26:56.880
subsidized. That's what you're telling me, right?
00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:02.720
Yes. Yeah, 100%. Okay, and two, I've been listening
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.140
since y 'all started. So get it, turkey ain't
00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:08.240
perfect. But y 'all complaining about the one
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.160
guy that doesn't want to spend money. I'm scared
00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:11.440
the other guys don't want to spend a fucking
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:14.700
dollar on the sport. And y 'all kids stay ass.
00:27:14.779 --> 00:27:16.660
That's not true, y 'all. They don't spend a dollar
00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:22.309
on the sport. That's not true. Okay, $2. That's
00:27:22.309 --> 00:27:25.009
what I've been telling me for two years going
00:27:25.009 --> 00:27:27.089
out of business. Now he's in top rank going out
00:27:27.089 --> 00:27:28.930
of business. He's been on five shows a year.
00:27:29.130 --> 00:27:31.950
But Josh and the guy is actually trying. That
00:27:31.950 --> 00:27:34.970
makes no sense. That makes sense. That only makes
00:27:34.970 --> 00:27:37.970
sense. But wait, but Ty, okay, just question.
00:27:38.289 --> 00:27:39.930
Is boxing in a better spot because of Turkey?
00:27:42.360 --> 00:27:45.500
Yes. No, it's not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:46.299
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:27:46.299 --> 00:27:48.359
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:49.039
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:49.420
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:27:49.420 --> 00:28:12.190
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, We
00:28:12.190 --> 00:28:14.410
will get more events, not less events. I think
00:28:14.410 --> 00:28:19.230
so. On ESPN? Wait, wait, wait. Ty, I think you
00:28:19.230 --> 00:28:20.990
will get these fights that we're having on one
00:28:20.990 --> 00:28:23.710
card spread out through a schedule. On what channel?
00:28:24.930 --> 00:28:27.210
You would have had ESPN, you had The Zone, you
00:28:27.210 --> 00:28:30.230
had - They left us for it. ESPN left us for it.
00:28:30.450 --> 00:28:33.769
He didn't add any channels. Since he came, we've
00:28:33.769 --> 00:28:39.509
lost channels. You know why we lost channels?
00:28:39.670 --> 00:28:42.750
Because - The promoters say, you know what? You
00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:44.769
got to invest my money. Don't give me the money.
00:28:46.549 --> 00:28:48.710
That's not exactly true. They were getting money
00:28:48.710 --> 00:28:52.269
to them. That is true. No, no, no, no. Because
00:28:52.269 --> 00:28:57.619
Top Rank lost ESPN because TKO. Had an inside
00:28:57.619 --> 00:29:01.380
man at ESPN that convinced ESPN not to negotiate
00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:05.200
with Top Rank. And then as soon as UFC got their
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:07.640
contract with Paramount, they hired a waiter
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.400
guy from ESPN, Matt Kenney, to come over and
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:12.299
work for them at Paramount. That's why Top Rank
00:29:12.299 --> 00:29:16.319
wants to deal with ESPN. If you want to go behind
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.039
the
scenes. That's Turkey's fault? I didn't say
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:20.819
it's Turkey's fault. Did you hear me say it?
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:24.339
So, so, hold on. It's Turkey's fault they can't
00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:25.960
make it to Ryan Anderson versus Ortiz? No, but
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:30.180
here's the thing, though, right? Here's the thing.
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.579
When Turkey comes in, right? And I get you. You
00:29:32.579 --> 00:29:34.640
got some fights where you're like, oh, well,
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:36.779
look at these cards. I get it. I get it. But
00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:39.180
the problem is, is that there was a business,
00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:40.980
right? Because here's the problem with boxing
00:29:40.980 --> 00:29:42.940
now. We basically have to talk business every
00:29:42.940 --> 00:29:46.099
time we talk the sport now. Because why, though?
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:48.539
Because the sport's dying. Now, what Turkey did
00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:51.180
is he came in and he threw money, right? And
00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:53.059
he said, hey, come over here. Well, the fight's
00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:54.740
in Saudi. Come over here. We'll make these fights
00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:56.799
that aren't getting made. But there was a reason
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:58.220
why some fights weren't getting made. Like, look
00:29:58.220 --> 00:30:00.640
at Benjamin Bavall. I agree with you on that.
00:30:00.740 --> 00:30:01.900
We wouldn't have got that fight, I don't think,
00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:03.380
without Turkey. I don't think we'd get that fight.
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:04.799
But the reason why we wouldn't have got that
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:06.779
fight is because they wanted an insane amount
00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:08.299
of money to make that fight. And they weren't
00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:10.880
worth the money that was. There's a business
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.339
to it. He eliminated profitable business that
00:30:14.339 --> 00:30:16.440
these guys were doing, smart business to grow
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:19.160
the sport that made these guys earn the audience.
00:30:19.930 --> 00:30:22.869
work for an audience, and build a sport. He eliminated
00:30:22.869 --> 00:30:25.009
that. So now what they do, the guys are just
00:30:25.009 --> 00:30:26.809
going to him, getting funneled, but you're not
00:30:26.809 --> 00:30:28.250
building any names. You're not trying to build
00:30:28.250 --> 00:30:29.869
any audience because you know the money's coming
00:30:29.869 --> 00:30:33.809
from this guy. That's the truth. So why Bavall,
00:30:33.809 --> 00:30:36.009
here you go, why Bavall promoted and Eddie Hearn
00:30:36.009 --> 00:30:42.779
and Bertram promoted at the time? Because they
00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:44.220
weren't going to make any money from it because
00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:48.500
of money that they wanted. Exactly. That's a
00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:50.900
business, though. So you have to earn the audience.
00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:52.640
So then you go a different direction to build
00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:54.559
it. Or the fighters give in and say, I'll take
00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:57.619
what's there. But doing this, like entering fake
00:30:57.619 --> 00:31:00.059
fluff money, and then not building an audience
00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:02.200
and not caring about that is killing the sport.
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:05.019
No, no, no. Hey, Az, I'm not saying you wrong,
00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:08.400
Az. But y 'all, it's like y 'all focused on Turkey.
00:31:08.809 --> 00:31:10.750
But don't focus on Eddie. Y 'all don't focus
00:31:10.750 --> 00:31:14.609
on Oscar. Y 'all don't focus on PBC. Let's put
00:31:14.609 --> 00:31:19.430
on fights. No, no, no, no, no. That's not true,
00:31:19.529 --> 00:31:21.410
though, because I've been negative on Oscar.
00:31:21.529 --> 00:31:23.170
I've been negative on Eddie. But the truth is
00:31:23.170 --> 00:31:26.269
now that with Eddie, he's going to go to where
00:31:26.269 --> 00:31:27.990
the money is easy. That's what all these guys
00:31:27.990 --> 00:31:28.910
are going to do. They're going to go to where
00:31:28.910 --> 00:31:32.210
the money is easy. Exactly. Yes, I agree. But
00:31:32.210 --> 00:31:34.009
Turkey's entering this money that's not real
00:31:34.009 --> 00:31:41.540
with no plan. He doesn't have no business. I
00:31:41.540 --> 00:31:47.039
mean, the thing about it is, with Turkey, it
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.259
gives them an opportunity to either lease their
00:31:51.259 --> 00:31:55.079
fighters out or lease a card out. He's almost
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:58.339
like how the TV networks are. Because what happens
00:31:58.339 --> 00:32:01.079
with these matchroom cards or top rank cards
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:04.000
or golden boy cards is they'll have something
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.759
that they put together, matchmaker, promoter,
00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:09.579
whatever it is. And then they submit it to a
00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:11.700
network. If the network's cool with it, they'll
00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:13.900
be like, all right, bet. We'll put it on the
00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:17.140
network and see what happens. If not, then it
00:32:17.140 --> 00:32:23.660
just gets rejected. They don't necessarily have
00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:26.359
to deal with that on that front. But at the same
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.640
token, given the platform that they're currently
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.079
using, you still have that paywall. So that's
00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:37.630
the thing about it is that you don't. For example,
00:32:37.710 --> 00:32:41.269
with the events and so on, right? Not all of
00:32:41.269 --> 00:32:44.730
those will be on a paywall, but depending on
00:32:44.730 --> 00:32:46.769
what they have as the event, it will be on a
00:32:46.769 --> 00:32:48.630
paywall. Like how to change the thing here for
00:32:48.630 --> 00:32:51.529
November 22nd. Originally, it was supposed to
00:32:51.529 --> 00:32:54.609
be $3 .99. Now it's on a paywall. It was never
00:32:54.609 --> 00:32:58.099
going to be free. He lied. What are they going
00:32:58.099 --> 00:32:59.859
to get that for y 'all fucking thick skulls?
00:32:59.859 --> 00:33:03.819
He lied. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
00:33:03.819 --> 00:33:05.660
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
00:33:05.900 --> 00:33:12.960
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
00:33:20.539 --> 00:33:28.619
Hold on. is kill these markets in boxing so that
00:33:28.619 --> 00:33:31.960
he can scoop up everything for cheap. His plan
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:34.579
is working just fine. And you got people like
00:33:34.579 --> 00:33:37.519
Todd defending him. No, I'm not. Because he don't
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:39.539
know no better. He don't know no better, man.
00:33:40.460 --> 00:33:43.240
Listen, your man Oscar allowed it. Al allowed
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:46.180
it and Bob allowed it. Because they put their
00:33:46.180 --> 00:33:48.460
hand out. They allowed it. If they want it to
00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:50.440
happen, they should have put their fucking money
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:52.740
up. They already have network deals, all the
00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:55.000
fighters. So who are we talking about? Wait,
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:57.319
wait, you're telling me that PBC not putting
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.140
their own money up? I'm not saying that. They're
00:34:00.140 --> 00:34:07.339
not putting events up. We got eight events in
00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:10.880
two years? Whoop -dee -doo. Give them a cookie.
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:20.880
Okay. How many events have we got in two years?
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.579
Here we go. They are number one. They are the
00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.940
big leagues. So why are the big leagues getting
00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:28.360
excused for putting on shit shows and no shows?
00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.679
Why do they get a pass? Who's put on shit shows?
00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:35.739
See, they put no shows on. When's the last show
00:34:35.739 --> 00:34:37.920
they had? No, you said they put on shit shows.
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:41.400
Take off one word I said. When's the last show
00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:45.440
they put on? Hey, they need more shows. No, answer
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:47.260
my question. When's the last show they put on?
00:34:48.489 --> 00:34:50.530
No, no, no, you can't answer my question. No,
00:34:50.769 --> 00:34:53.889
no, no, you can't answer my question. One month,
00:34:54.030 --> 00:34:56.090
one month. Todd, they need to put on more shows.
00:34:56.949 --> 00:35:01.070
Okay. There we go. They need to put on more shows.
00:35:02.489 --> 00:35:03.530
One more thing, one more thing, if you could
00:35:03.530 --> 00:35:06.190
go on. Why are we not hiring, why are we not,
00:35:06.269 --> 00:35:07.929
we're not with Turkey, what about the motherfucker
00:35:07.929 --> 00:35:11.150
that got all the fighters, that's the
A -team?
00:35:11.590 --> 00:35:14.110
We should be criticizing them, not the fucking,
00:35:14.230 --> 00:35:19.369
not the Raiders. Why wouldn't we be criticizing
00:35:19.369 --> 00:35:22.949
him? Listen, he is the cause of a lot of things
00:35:22.949 --> 00:35:24.550
behind the scenes in boxing that nobody wants
00:35:24.550 --> 00:35:25.429
to talk about. All right, man, all right, all
00:35:25.429 --> 00:35:27.210
right. I forgot I'm talking to him. I forgot
00:35:27.210 --> 00:35:30.849
I'm talking to him. Listen, people are afraid
00:35:30.849 --> 00:35:33.389
of reprisal, so they're not going to say things
00:35:33.389 --> 00:35:37.730
out loud. He killed the UK boxing scene. I agree
00:35:37.730 --> 00:35:39.789
with you. He suffocated the American boxing scene.
00:35:40.190 --> 00:35:47.550
Bro, this is what he wants to do. I just think
00:35:47.550 --> 00:35:50.670
if people went by, like, if we said the other
00:35:50.670 --> 00:35:52.690
day when we were talking, I'm not trying to pick
00:35:52.690 --> 00:35:55.269
on PBC, but if Tank and Earl and all the dudes
00:35:55.269 --> 00:35:56.730
they were supposed to do, Turkey wouldn't have
00:35:56.730 --> 00:35:59.610
had no foot in the game. They want to be rappers
00:35:59.610 --> 00:36:02.289
and do other shit, so it's fucked up. The game
00:36:02.289 --> 00:36:07.190
over. Get in where you fit in. It's not over.
00:36:07.389 --> 00:36:10.110
I think it's going to be interesting. I think
00:36:10.110 --> 00:36:14.429
right now, Thanos is winning the Infinity War.
00:36:16.629 --> 00:36:20.070
But the Avengers, they come out on top in the
00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:23.170
end. Just remember that. Okay, Matt, I agree
00:36:23.170 --> 00:36:25.670
with you, Matt. I get it. But it's just like,
00:36:25.690 --> 00:36:29.070
man, I don't know, bro. I don't know. I want
00:36:29.070 --> 00:36:31.510
to say this. I want to say this. I don't, listen,
00:36:31.690 --> 00:36:33.610
I think that you're right, Matt. I think what
00:36:33.610 --> 00:36:35.929
we're talking about is, you know, kill the markets
00:36:35.929 --> 00:36:38.750
and you have control over this. I don't know
00:36:38.750 --> 00:36:40.289
that, I'll be honest with you, because sometimes
00:36:40.289 --> 00:36:42.030
it's the only thing that would make sense to
00:36:42.030 --> 00:36:44.190
me that they did that. I don't know that he's
00:36:44.190 --> 00:36:46.050
necessarily even doing that. I don't think they
00:36:46.050 --> 00:36:48.250
have any sense of what they're doing. That's
00:36:48.250 --> 00:36:50.150
personally, that's what I think. I don't think
00:36:50.150 --> 00:36:51.769
they have any sense of what they're doing. I
00:36:51.769 --> 00:36:53.409
think he just wants, I think Turkey wants to
00:36:53.409 --> 00:36:55.909
be the face of boxing. I think Turkey wants to
00:36:55.909 --> 00:36:59.269
be the Dana White of boxing. I think that's what
00:36:59.269 --> 00:37:01.449
he wants. And that's personally, that's what
00:37:01.449 --> 00:37:05.849
I think. I don't see some grand scheme really
00:37:05.849 --> 00:37:08.769
to turn this all around. I don't see it. There's
00:37:08.769 --> 00:37:11.550
just some moves. You would have to do some moves
00:37:11.550 --> 00:37:13.829
to do that because honestly, right now, He could
00:37:13.829 --> 00:37:17.309
pull the rug on boxing right now. Exactly. The
00:37:17.309 --> 00:37:20.690
rug on boxing. He's not doing it. He's not doing
00:37:20.690 --> 00:37:24.369
it. So I just think it's a slow death with a
00:37:24.369 --> 00:37:26.190
guy trying to be the face of something that doesn't
00:37:26.190 --> 00:37:28.670
know how to grow it. That's the truth of it.
00:37:28.909 --> 00:37:31.889
That's honestly, because you would stop giving
00:37:31.889 --> 00:37:34.230
money to these promoters because the promoters
00:37:34.230 --> 00:37:37.389
are collecting checks from this. They are piling
00:37:37.389 --> 00:37:40.889
money up. So you eliminate the competition and
00:37:40.889 --> 00:37:42.789
it'll take all that away from them. And I just
00:37:42.789 --> 00:37:49.909
don't see that. I told you, I told you what they
00:37:49.909 --> 00:37:52.050
need to make this work. Yes, I agree with you.
00:37:52.269 --> 00:37:55.210
And they didn't do it. They didn't do it. They
00:37:55.210 --> 00:37:58.130
hitched their wagon to the wrong horse. I agree
00:37:58.130 --> 00:38:00.570
with you. And it's not working. It's not working.
00:38:00.730 --> 00:38:03.170
And they hitched their wagon to the wrong network.
00:38:03.510 --> 00:38:07.199
And to be fair, the zone. Did this originally,
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.139
right? DAZN did something what Turkey did, but
00:38:09.139 --> 00:38:11.500
a smaller form was overpay for flights and then
00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:13.579
bring their stuff over there. And we know that
00:38:13.579 --> 00:38:15.420
the viewership went down because we had the perfect
00:38:15.420 --> 00:38:18.920
test sample with Canelo Alvarez. Alvarez's numbers
00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:22.000
dipped major when it went to DAZN. We know that.
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.460
We all know that. Okay, there's no arguing that.
00:38:25.139 --> 00:38:27.340
They did that with everything they took over
00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:29.719
their dime. Mikey Garcia lost over there. No
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:31.739
one even knew that Mikey Garcia had lost over
00:38:31.739 --> 00:38:35.340
there. It's its own world. The fact that he went
00:38:35.340 --> 00:38:37.440
in and committed with this network, maybe because
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:38.860
he was the only one that would let him in like
00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:42.039
that, there's nowhere to grow from here. He's
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.119
just doing an extreme what DeZong already did.
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:46.840
He's doing it to an extreme. I know people say,
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.000
well, PBC tried to orbit. Well, PBC did this
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:51.760
on networks people can actually watch. And a
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:53.780
lot of the times, it paid off for them because
00:38:53.780 --> 00:38:55.860
they were still being profitable. This right
00:38:55.860 --> 00:38:58.800
here is dying. I get what you're saying, but
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:02.179
there's no truth. I get it, people don't know
00:39:02.179 --> 00:39:04.940
the network, but don't tell me a person can't
00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:07.460
download an app. My 11 -year -old son can download.
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.300
He probably got more apps on his phone than you
00:39:10.300 --> 00:39:15.960
do. But Ty, but Ty, so why can't The Zone even
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.820
crack 500 ,000 US subscribers? You know why,
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.840
right? Listen, and I bet you, right, if we did
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.880
a little poll with regular boxing people, not
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:28.820
us nerds, they'd probably say, come on, HBO.
00:39:30.230 --> 00:39:34.429
Bet you half will say HBO Showtime. That's average
00:39:34.429 --> 00:39:38.329
casual fan that watch boxing. HBO, right? They
00:39:38.329 --> 00:39:41.210
don't know it? They don't know it's off ESPN?
00:39:43.789 --> 00:39:46.110
But here's the thing, right? And this is why
00:39:46.110 --> 00:39:47.710
I was talking about the streaming, right? Because
00:39:47.710 --> 00:39:49.789
streaming separate, one thing that boxing already
00:39:49.789 --> 00:39:51.769
is, is it's separate. It's all broken up, right?
00:39:52.670 --> 00:39:54.650
streaming separated even more. You had one guy
00:39:54.650 --> 00:39:57.510
here, here. But at least when it was on ESPN,
00:39:57.650 --> 00:39:59.130
right? And then you have it on Showtime. And
00:39:59.130 --> 00:40:00.969
you have Crawford and Earl Spence. And they're
00:40:00.969 --> 00:40:03.010
talking contracts. At least you're getting contract
00:40:03.010 --> 00:40:06.769
talk on ESPN and Showtime at the same time. So
00:40:06.769 --> 00:40:08.170
it's almost a connected storyline. You're getting
00:40:08.170 --> 00:40:09.690
two different audiences, two different things,
00:40:09.789 --> 00:40:12.389
two options. On DAZN, when I laugh at Virgil
00:40:12.389 --> 00:40:14.650
Ortiz and Boots arguing a contract, no one's
00:40:14.650 --> 00:40:17.349
watching you argue this contract. No one is listening
00:40:17.349 --> 00:40:20.039
to it. When you're on HBO and Showtime, right?
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.260
At least everything was getting funneled to one
00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:24.659
thing. One thing was focused on advertising that
00:40:24.659 --> 00:40:27.599
thing. It all felt connected in a way, right?
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.440
Now everything's separated. Okay, that was already
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:32.559
bad. Separating everything, hard to make fights.
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:35.639
But at least they're on ESPN and Showtime. Even
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:37.059
I'll take Amazon, right? Even if you're on Amazon.
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:39.760
But now it's all separated and everything's on
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:43.519
its own. No one's going to watch it. It doesn't
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.639
work for the sport. The sport needs a funnel
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:47.800
system. You have different voters and everything,
00:40:47.860 --> 00:40:50.699
but it follows to one thing. And this DAZN, no
00:40:50.699 --> 00:40:52.360
one's going to buy the app because it can't advertise.
00:40:52.579 --> 00:40:54.860
Have you seen a DAZN commercial? When you watch
00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:56.980
NFL, you see a DAZN commercial. When you watch
00:40:56.980 --> 00:41:00.000
a DAZN commercial, they can't advertise. That's
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.500
a key point. You have to be able to advertise
00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:04.239
these fights. They can't advertise the fights.
00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:07.000
They can't advertise their network. No one knows
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.380
it exists. I know you said that. Your son downloads
00:41:09.380 --> 00:41:11.019
a bunch of apps, but because he's heard of the
00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:14.039
apps, because he's seen them. He don't know what
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.000
the zone is. No one's going to go download the
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:19.760
zone. The zone's been around forever. Bring it
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:21.159
up to people. They won't know what the hell I'm
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:23.219
talking about. They don't know what I'm talking
00:41:23.219 --> 00:41:25.420
about. It's impossible to get this going. And
00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:27.199
in the US, you're trying to build it off of boxing.
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:29.199
That's not going to work. It's not going to work.
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:33.000
It'll never work. And it hasn't worked. And it's
00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:36.019
not going to work. All right, well, stop watching
00:41:36.019 --> 00:41:38.400
boxing. Stop watching boxing. Go watch the Knicks.
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:40.780
Go to the Knicks Twitter then. Bye. Hey, listen.
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:46.659
Let me tell you something. I barely, I will barely
00:41:46.659 --> 00:41:50.019
watch anymore. Trust me when I tell you. You
00:41:50.019 --> 00:41:52.900
ain't got to worry about me. Bye. You ain't got
00:41:52.900 --> 00:41:54.659
to worry about me. I'm going to tell you this
00:41:54.659 --> 00:41:56.260
right now. Go watch Eden Press and break your
00:41:56.260 --> 00:41:58.059
heart. I'm going to tell you this right now.
00:41:58.739 --> 00:42:01.900
The Zone, the Matchroom, all the guys on there.
00:42:02.659 --> 00:42:05.739
should be funneling all their stuff to guys like
00:42:05.739 --> 00:42:08.559
us to support and watch the sport and talk the
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:11.139
sport basically for free, right? Actually, it
00:42:11.139 --> 00:42:12.219
kind of cost me money, I'll be honest with you,
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:14.199
to talk the sport. But it cost me money. Like
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:15.719
I
said, it's only cost me money and time with
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:18.280
my family. That's all this cost me. But all I'm
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:19.719
saying is they should be funneling to us because
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:23.119
they cannot advertise, okay? But bringing in
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:25.300
guys and then saying, oh, you're on the zone
00:42:25.300 --> 00:42:27.449
now. Well, then that doesn't make any sense.
00:42:27.530 --> 00:42:29.369
You've got to take the zone and spread it out,
00:42:29.449 --> 00:42:31.230
not bring it in. You've got to take the zone
00:42:31.230 --> 00:42:32.409
and spread it out. They should be giving me all
00:42:32.409 --> 00:42:33.650
their content. They should be giving us all their
00:42:33.650 --> 00:42:34.869
content. We should be allowed to talk about it.
00:42:34.909 --> 00:42:36.309
We should be allowed to do breakdowns on it,
00:42:36.329 --> 00:42:38.070
but they don't do that. They don't let you do
00:42:38.070 --> 00:42:39.250
breakdowns on their stuff. They don't let you
00:42:39.250 --> 00:42:43.369
advertise their stuff. Did they just add Queensberry
00:42:43.369 --> 00:42:47.670
Promotions with the deal? Yep. Yeah, another
00:42:47.670 --> 00:42:52.530
one. As they say, another one. As I said before,
00:42:52.710 --> 00:42:55.809
we'll see how it goes when the actual product
00:42:55.809 --> 00:42:58.949
is off the zone. Doesn't really invest that much
00:42:58.949 --> 00:43:02.150
into boxing in comparison to all the other sports
00:43:02.150 --> 00:43:04.489
that they, you know, try to get their contract
00:43:04.489 --> 00:43:07.789
broadcast to. So we'll see how it goes here within
00:43:07.789 --> 00:43:12.510
these next couple of years. Yeah. So from one
00:43:12.510 --> 00:43:16.650
subscription deal to another. Subscriptions are
00:43:16.650 --> 00:43:19.530
going to be broadcasted on the Top Rank Classics
00:43:19.530 --> 00:43:21.969
free ad -supported streaming TV app in the U
00:43:21.969 --> 00:43:23.869
.S. This is going to be available on the Roku
00:43:23.869 --> 00:43:28.750
channel, Tubi, and Vizio. So we saw this start
00:43:28.750 --> 00:43:31.190
last week, I believe. It'll continue next week.
00:43:31.769 --> 00:43:33.389
Matt, let's start with you. Is this a win for
00:43:33.389 --> 00:43:37.349
Top Rank? This is a huge win for Top Rank. And
00:43:37.349 --> 00:43:41.769
it's a huge win for boxing fans. Because when
00:43:41.769 --> 00:43:47.619
PBC... left Showtime and they had to deal with
00:43:47.619 --> 00:43:52.579
Amazon, we went almost a whole half a year without
00:43:52.579 --> 00:43:56.119
being able to watch our favorite PBC fighters.
00:43:56.559 --> 00:44:02.000
So I love that Top Rank are keeping their fighters
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.340
not only busy in the meantime, but they're putting
00:44:06.340 --> 00:44:08.679
them in a place where everybody can watch it
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:11.239
for free. I think that's a huge move for boxing
00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:15.420
and a huge W for top rank. I think it's good
00:44:15.420 --> 00:44:16.940
for fans. I think it's really good for fans.
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:18.380
I think it's great for the fans. You're going
00:44:18.380 --> 00:44:19.739
to be able to watch these fights, and we know
00:44:19.739 --> 00:44:21.219
the tension fight, which is a fight I'm really
00:44:21.219 --> 00:44:22.920
excited about. We're going to be able to watch
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:24.639
that, and it's going to be easy access to it.
00:44:24.780 --> 00:44:30.199
I think that's great. As far as good for top
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.619
rank. I mean, I don't know. I think I guess compared
00:44:34.619 --> 00:44:37.059
to not being able to view it anywhere, I guess
00:44:37.059 --> 00:44:38.820
that's, yeah, comparative to where they were
00:44:38.820 --> 00:44:41.639
at. Then, yeah, I'm with you on that. But as
00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:44.139
far as for the fans, I'm with you. Like, I hope
00:44:44.139 --> 00:44:46.460
that this gets a lot of viewership because easy
00:44:46.460 --> 00:44:48.079
access to it and everything like that. And you
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:50.239
know one thing they did last time for the mayor
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.099
fight, which was pretty good, is they had a lot
00:44:52.099 --> 00:44:54.639
of, like, advertisement on Twitter. Like, oh,
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:56.019
this is where you can see the fight. You go here,
00:44:56.099 --> 00:44:57.559
here, here. And they explained it pretty well.
00:44:58.009 --> 00:45:00.590
So you can, you know, a lot of times I see it's
00:45:00.590 --> 00:45:02.269
funny that these social medias are like really,
00:45:02.309 --> 00:45:04.110
really not great. And you would think that that's
00:45:04.110 --> 00:45:05.530
the one spot where you could be pretty damn good
00:45:05.530 --> 00:45:07.630
at, right? You could put some money into advertising
00:45:07.630 --> 00:45:10.449
and they're not that great at it. Like DAZN and
00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:12.769
Matchroom and all them, they don't do it that
00:45:12.769 --> 00:45:14.590
well. But I like the way Top Rank did it. But
00:45:14.590 --> 00:45:16.690
like I said, it's a good spot for national anything
00:45:16.690 --> 00:45:19.010
at all. It's a good spot for that. But like I
00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:20.250
said, for the fans, I think it's pretty good.
00:45:21.769 --> 00:45:24.789
So does this mean that you're going to stop getting
00:45:24.789 --> 00:45:30.670
those good luck tweets? Hey, we got a congrats
00:45:30.670 --> 00:45:33.190
tweet last night for Tiger Johnson. Yeah, congrats
00:45:33.190 --> 00:45:36.269
tweet. You know, congrats to Tiger Johnson for
00:45:36.269 --> 00:45:38.730
this. You know what I'm saying? I don't know,
00:45:38.750 --> 00:45:43.099
man. Well, we've had the recent news in reference
00:45:43.099 --> 00:45:45.739
to a fight that involves the top ring fighters.
00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:49.440
So maybe that gets
put on the network. And then
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.079
we got, what is it, one other announcement for
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.179
another world champion? What is it, Spinoza supposed
00:45:54.179 --> 00:45:55.739
to be on there or something like that? Yeah,
00:45:55.739 --> 00:45:59.340
Spinoza. So, yeah. So, I mean, we'll see how
00:45:59.340 --> 00:46:02.320
they kind of build that particular challenge,
00:46:02.420 --> 00:46:05.219
if that works for them or if they're going to
00:46:05.219 --> 00:46:07.599
continue to look for another broadcast deal.
00:46:10.019 --> 00:46:11.760
T .Y., what are your thoughts on this deal for
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:15.199
top rank? Well, it's great to me because I've
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.340
been pumping 2B. I've been liking 2B. I watch
00:46:17.340 --> 00:46:19.599
the HBO series, so I like 2B. I like it. It's
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:22.360
easy, accessible. You know what I mean? Download
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:24.159
it, just like The Zone. You download both of
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:26.300
them, but, you know, one is free, one not free.
00:46:26.460 --> 00:46:28.920
It is what it is. Let me ask you a question,
00:46:29.019 --> 00:46:31.019
Ty. You know Matt going to pump up one and hate
00:46:31.019 --> 00:46:33.119
another one. You know how Matt is. Let me ask
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:36.800
you a question, Ty. Who is going to be a bigger
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:40.670
star on 2B, top rank or gravy? Gravy, he liked
00:46:40.670 --> 00:46:47.210
himself. Okay, okay. I like that though. I really
00:46:47.210 --> 00:46:49.190
like the 2B thing because 2B is accessible to
00:46:49.190 --> 00:46:50.449
everybody. So I like it. I mean, it's a good
00:46:50.449 --> 00:46:55.010
move. I look at it this way. If 2B is good enough
00:46:55.010 --> 00:46:57.929
for the Super Bowl, it's good enough for boxing.
00:47:00.250 --> 00:47:07.289
And 2B owned by Fox, right? Yes. So couldn't
00:47:07.289 --> 00:47:09.889
they buy commercial time? If they had a big fight?
00:47:10.150 --> 00:47:14.269
Yes, yes. Well, Jimmy, yeah, they do that. Okay.
00:47:14.489 --> 00:47:18.309
They may have those heads, like Chad. Who's Chad?
00:47:19.909 --> 00:47:21.710
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that. I've
00:47:21.710 --> 00:47:23.070
seen that. I've seen that. A question from the
00:47:23.070 --> 00:47:25.389
listener. His friend Rosebud Ice Cream says,
00:47:25.550 --> 00:47:27.309
Matt, do you know how long the length of this
00:47:27.309 --> 00:47:29.849
deal is? Or maybe rephrasing that, how long their
00:47:29.849 --> 00:47:32.630
fights will be broadcast on top -ranked classics
00:47:32.630 --> 00:47:35.429
before they maybe move to a more standard traditional
00:47:35.429 --> 00:47:40.570
TV deal? First quarter of 2026. Oh, wow. That's
00:47:40.570 --> 00:47:41.929
going to date. That's not going to date, Matt.
00:47:42.070 --> 00:47:44.429
That's not going to date. First quarter of 2026,
00:47:44.710 --> 00:47:49.110
you will see top rank on another platform. By
00:47:49.110 --> 00:47:53.550
March 31st. Okay, so will we get an announcement
00:47:53.550 --> 00:47:57.030
this year? We might not see it on that thing,
00:47:57.090 --> 00:48:00.230
but will we get an announcement this year? I
00:48:00.230 --> 00:48:02.210
don't work for Evan Korn. I couldn't tell you
00:48:02.210 --> 00:48:05.059
that. If I were you, I would send a message to
00:48:05.059 --> 00:48:07.079
Evan Korn and ask Evan Korn when we get an announcement
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.239
this year. You can save it for his files. All
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:14.099
right. Of all the people here, I am going to
00:48:14.099 --> 00:48:16.480
own this premium subscription. I'm just curious
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.000
if I'll be watching Top Ring on it. That's what
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:21.400
I'm curious. Yeah. Hey, listen. All I know is
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:25.219
we could now see Tenshin Nasukawa versus Takuma
00:48:25.219 --> 00:48:28.219
Inoue for free in the U .S. And we could see
00:48:28.219 --> 00:48:31.559
Raphael Espinosa versus Anika Gai for free in
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:34.349
the U .S. That's all I know. This is true. This
00:48:34.349 --> 00:48:38.769
is true. All right. Next topic we have here for
00:48:38.769 --> 00:48:41.730
the week is the UFC being under federal investigation
00:48:41.730 --> 00:48:44.969
for a betting scandal. Reports of multiple fights
00:48:44.969 --> 00:48:48.409
being fixed throughout the year. So we're seeing
00:48:48.409 --> 00:48:51.429
that they're being investigated for fight fixing
00:48:51.429 --> 00:48:53.730
TKO, UFC's parent company. You know, they're
00:48:53.730 --> 00:48:55.909
planning on getting into boxing here in 2026.
00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:00.440
What are your thoughts on, one, the overall story
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:03.840
and how it could impact their move into boxing?
00:49:05.139 --> 00:49:08.679
You're the UFC guy, Ezra. Take it away. This
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:11.539
isn't the first betting scandal they've had in
00:49:11.539 --> 00:49:13.980
the sport. What's the guy's first? I know it's
00:49:13.980 --> 00:49:16.000
Kraus, but what's his first? James Kraus was
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.300
a trainer who was giving insider information
00:49:19.300 --> 00:49:22.579
and getting paid for it to a group chat where
00:49:22.579 --> 00:49:24.800
he was doing betting. And then there was speculation
00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:26.960
that even some of his fighters, Through fights.
00:49:29.739 --> 00:49:34.699
Hold on. You don't have a mute option? My bad,
00:49:34.699 --> 00:49:39.739
Joe. I apologize. This isn't the first time this
00:49:39.739 --> 00:49:43.639
happened. When boxing, throwing a fight and taking
00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:45.599
a dive, I think it's a little bit harder in boxing
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:47.539
because you got to act out the punch and the
00:49:47.539 --> 00:49:50.099
thing. It never looks great. Every
time you've
00:49:50.099 --> 00:49:52.500
seen an obvious dive, it looks like an obvious
00:49:52.500 --> 00:49:55.760
dive. In MMA, it's a lot easier because the grappling.
00:49:56.449 --> 00:49:59.409
The grappling, you can go to the ground and give
00:49:59.409 --> 00:50:01.530
up a spot and really to the untrained eye, they
00:50:01.530 --> 00:50:03.510
probably won't even see it, right? It just looked
00:50:03.510 --> 00:50:05.969
like he got tapped out. Well, not only that,
00:50:06.090 --> 00:50:09.010
if someone takes you to the ground in MMA, it
00:50:09.010 --> 00:50:10.809
doesn't hurt as much as being punched in the
00:50:10.809 --> 00:50:13.570
face. So you could take me to the ground for
00:50:13.570 --> 00:50:16.090
real and then get your little hold on and I'll
00:50:16.090 --> 00:50:18.780
tap out. Exactly, exactly. There's always a spot
00:50:18.780 --> 00:50:20.239
where you get tapped out. And people, like I
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.360
said, I could go in the jiu -jitsu gym right
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.699
now and give up a spot. And sometimes people
00:50:24.699 --> 00:50:26.500
would just be like, does he just not know how
00:50:26.500 --> 00:50:29.500
to protect that spot? Or is it really impossible
00:50:29.500 --> 00:50:31.260
to tell? It really is. It's really hard to tell.
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:36.079
Now, do I think, how far is this going to go
00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:38.380
to hurt the sport? They're in good graces with
00:50:38.380 --> 00:50:41.659
the people that are investigating it. So I don't
00:50:41.659 --> 00:50:43.000
know that it's going to be like an all -on attack
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.219
on it. I think that people, for the most part,
00:50:45.260 --> 00:50:47.219
they're going to say. We got out the guys that
00:50:47.219 --> 00:50:48.460
did it and we don't have to worry about that
00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:52.440
going forward. As far as that and as far as getting
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.000
into boxing, I don't think it's obvious that
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:57.380
it's not the UFC doing it. It's the fighters
00:50:57.380 --> 00:50:59.539
doing it. And I said it's harder to do in boxing.
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:00.820
I'm just going to tell you right now, it's harder
00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:02.940
to take dives in boxing because it's easier to
00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:06.219
see. It's harder to act out these punches and
00:51:06.219 --> 00:51:08.880
stuff like that. So in MMA, I think it's easier
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:11.960
to do. Is there a chance that we're... see this
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:13.400
more often? I don't know. I don't know. I don't
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:14.340
know if these guys are going to keep taking the
00:51:14.340 --> 00:51:16.840
chances if they see that people are on it. This
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.260
isn't the first time they've had this problem.
00:51:18.460 --> 00:51:21.760
We will continue to see this in UFC. We will
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.039
continue to see
this in UFC. And guess what?
00:51:24.380 --> 00:51:26.719
We're going to see this in Zephyr Boxing also.
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:31.500
You know why? Because of the pay scale. Because
00:51:31.500 --> 00:51:34.800
of the pay scale. These guys are not making that
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:36.179
much money, so if they can make a little bit
00:51:36.179 --> 00:51:38.480
of extra money by taking a dive, they're going
00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:41.659
to take a fucking dive. You'll never see Canelo
00:51:41.659 --> 00:51:45.480
Alvarez or Terrence Crawford or Errol Spence
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:48.019
or one of these guys take a dive. Because first
00:51:48.019 --> 00:51:50.619
of all, boxers are way too prideful and they
00:51:50.619 --> 00:51:53.820
make too much money. But these UFC guys who are
00:51:53.820 --> 00:51:57.199
basically, if they don't fight for a few months,
00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:59.900
they're in line at the soup kitchen. Of course
00:51:59.900 --> 00:52:01.820
they're going to take a dive. Of course they're
00:52:01.820 --> 00:52:04.280
going to give away inside information. Of course
00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:07.780
they might carry a fighter more rounds. I think
00:52:07.780 --> 00:52:10.920
we should be very concerned with this move into
00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:16.150
boxing because I was listening to... The TKO
00:52:16.150 --> 00:52:19.429
earnings call this past week, and they said that
00:52:19.429 --> 00:52:22.909
they're expecting to see the same margins in
00:52:22.909 --> 00:52:26.469
Zufa boxing that they have with UFC. So if you're
00:52:26.469 --> 00:52:28.809
going to be seeing the same margins, what does
00:52:28.809 --> 00:52:32.369
that mean? You run a business, Ezra. What's your
00:52:32.369 --> 00:52:38.170
biggest cost? Labor. Exactly. Control the labor,
00:52:38.389 --> 00:52:42.210
control the cost, control the profit. They are
00:52:42.210 --> 00:52:45.849
going to - Screw over the labor. And that is
00:52:45.849 --> 00:52:50.170
going to make guys more susceptible to get caught
00:52:50.170 --> 00:52:54.190
up into these gambling scandals. Yeah, I think
00:52:54.190 --> 00:52:56.429
that's a great point. I mean, that's what opens
00:52:56.429 --> 00:52:58.250
it up, right? I don't think I'm misquoting it.
00:52:58.289 --> 00:52:59.849
So we're not going to get the finger poke of
00:52:59.849 --> 00:53:03.050
doom again? It was like five people talking at
00:53:03.050 --> 00:53:07.550
once. I didn't hear you. Beezy, you go. I said,
00:53:07.610 --> 00:53:09.429
so we're not going to get the finger poke of
00:53:09.429 --> 00:53:15.820
doom again? Nah, come on. And Matt, I was just
00:53:15.820 --> 00:53:17.599
speaking to your point. I believe the number
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:20.539
is 12 % of the UFC's revenue is fighter pay.
00:53:21.219 --> 00:53:25.019
Come on, come on. Hey, Ezra, you would kill for
00:53:25.019 --> 00:53:29.440
that kind of margin in your business. I'd be
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:33.219
in a different room right now. I wouldn't be
00:53:33.219 --> 00:53:35.340
flying Spirit to San Antonio, I'll tell you that
00:53:35.340 --> 00:53:38.440
right now. Hey, Matt. Oh, my God. I love the
00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:40.059
point you made, man, because I never thought
00:53:40.059 --> 00:53:43.119
of that. I always thought about what a dive in
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.599
boxing or MMA, it just be like you get knocked
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:47.719
out. I never thought. If I'm fighting a bum,
00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:49.860
I just carry him to the distance. It's plus money,
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.699
right? Yeah. I didn't think about that, man.
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.219
Or the over -under nine and a half. I carry him
00:53:55.219 --> 00:53:57.219
to the 10th round, 11th round. Then knock him
00:53:57.219 --> 00:53:59.719
out. I've never thought about carrying a motherfucker.
00:53:59.960 --> 00:54:01.820
You know what I mean? Carry him. It's the easiest
00:54:01.820 --> 00:54:06.659
way to do it. I mean, what was it that promoted
00:54:06.659 --> 00:54:11.239
at Club Tibet in Canada for - But Yohannes Tejas,
00:54:11.420 --> 00:54:13.619
Yohannes Tejas. Yeah, Tejas was accused of this,
00:54:13.639 --> 00:54:17.380
of carrying a guy. Carrying a guy, yeah. But
00:54:17.380 --> 00:54:19.360
you'll never get boxes to take a dime because
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.300
here's the thing. In boxing, if you lose, that
00:54:23.300 --> 00:54:26.340
hurts your marketability a lot. And that hurts
00:54:26.340 --> 00:54:28.739
your earning potential a lot. So you're not gonna
00:54:28.739 --> 00:54:31.980
see guys take a dime like that. And I'm not giving
00:54:31.980 --> 00:54:33.800
you a free shot to punch me in the face and knock
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:39.380
me out. Hell no. Any other thoughts on this before
00:54:39.380 --> 00:54:41.119
we go on to the next topic? We spent a lot of
00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:43.079
time on the first one, so moving through these
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:46.360
a little quicker makes sense. I mean, Ezra has
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:51.320
a hard out again at one. All right, so next up,
00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:55.239
what are your thoughts on the Gervonta -Tank
00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:58.400
-Davis -Jake -Paul fight being canceled? And
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:01.130
who should replace Tank, if anyone? Can I start
00:55:01.130 --> 00:55:04.190
on this, Matt? Whoever wants to start. Ezra,
00:55:04.230 --> 00:55:07.710
go for it. Tank's an idiot. And I'm going to
00:55:07.710 --> 00:55:10.489
tell you right now, there's one professional
00:55:10.489 --> 00:55:12.389
in there, and that was Jake Paul. And Jake Paul's
00:55:12.389 --> 00:55:14.829
continued, even though it's all mostly circus
00:55:14.829 --> 00:55:18.070
stuff, to be a professional. If Jake Paul signs
00:55:18.070 --> 00:55:21.130
a name on a deal, he gets there. Tank Davis is
00:55:21.130 --> 00:55:26.570
an unreliable person. I think he's dumb. I think...
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:30.639
I don't think he's a good person. It doesn't
00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:32.579
sound like from things like that. This is a legend,
00:55:32.699 --> 00:55:34.679
but that doesn't sound like a good person. But
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:37.300
I think that everyone looking at doing business
00:55:37.300 --> 00:55:39.820
with him going forward is going to be a little
00:55:39.820 --> 00:55:41.679
hesitant, be a lot more hesitant than they were
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:43.960
before. I think that if you're going to replace
00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:46.860
someone for him, for Jake Paul, I think it's
00:55:46.860 --> 00:55:48.800
Francis Ngannou. I know that's crazy. I know
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:51.179
people think that's insane, whatever. I think
00:55:51.179 --> 00:55:53.280
Jake Paul is going to take a beating from Tank.
00:55:54.059 --> 00:55:56.699
I think that he probably takes a beating from
00:55:56.699 --> 00:56:00.550
Ngannou, right? What? Yeah, I think it's our
00:56:00.550 --> 00:56:01.889
chance to beat him in the gondola, but I think
00:56:01.889 --> 00:56:04.010
that fight sells. I think that fight should be
00:56:04.010 --> 00:56:05.610
in the tank. I got to be honest with you. Ezra,
00:56:05.630 --> 00:56:08.610
I hate to break it to you. That fight won't go
00:56:08.610 --> 00:56:10.110
to where you think it's going to go. All right.
00:56:10.170 --> 00:56:14.090
Nick Paul will sleep Francis Ngannou. Man, man,
00:56:14.510 --> 00:56:16.289
I don't know about that. Nick Paul will sleep
00:56:16.289 --> 00:56:21.449
him. Are you kidding me? How long are you gonna
00:56:21.449 --> 00:56:23.650
fall for the MMA guy trick? Well, I'm just tired
00:56:23.650 --> 00:56:24.869
right now. First of all, I never fell for it.
00:56:24.909 --> 00:56:26.670
I always pick Jake Paul for solid MMA guys. So
00:56:26.670 --> 00:56:28.809
I never fell for that. But when I would say this,
00:56:29.150 --> 00:56:34.510
when you're fighting a Mike Perry, I get it,
00:56:34.510 --> 00:56:38.829
right? Mike Perry is a tough guy in MMA. Likes
00:56:38.829 --> 00:56:41.929
to throw his hands, but not really that good.
00:56:42.769 --> 00:56:46.309
Nagano, he really hits. He really can crack.
00:56:46.829 --> 00:56:48.929
He's not going to just fold to hit from Jake
00:56:48.929 --> 00:56:51.210
Paul. Jake Paul can land that right hand. He
00:56:51.210 --> 00:56:52.590
ain't going to fold Nagano. He's not Anthony
00:56:52.590 --> 00:56:56.570
Joshua. He's not going to fold Nagano. And Nagano's
00:56:56.570 --> 00:56:58.369
comfortable with the hands. He's not bad with
00:56:58.369 --> 00:57:00.269
the hands. He's not a fighter just like, oh,
00:57:00.269 --> 00:57:01.409
he doesn't know what he's doing. No, no, he's
00:57:01.409 --> 00:57:04.329
all right. He's all right. Bro, he's... that'd
00:57:04.329 --> 00:57:05.670
be a tough fight. I'll just say that, that'd
00:57:05.670 --> 00:57:07.130
be a tough fight for Jake. If Jake pulled that
00:57:07.130 --> 00:57:09.150
off, I'd give him a lot of credit. If he pulled
00:57:09.150 --> 00:57:11.090
that fight off. But I think that fight's huge.
00:57:11.269 --> 00:57:13.070
I think that if you make that fight, it's a really
00:57:13.070 --> 00:57:14.369
big fight. I think that that's something that
00:57:14.369 --> 00:57:16.389
Netflix would buy. I know people saying, they
00:57:16.389 --> 00:57:18.449
want to do a Netflix fight. And then they bring
00:57:18.449 --> 00:57:20.289
up Nate Diaz, Netflix is not going to buy a Nate
00:57:20.289 --> 00:57:21.909
Diaz fight. That already happened. They're not
00:57:21.909 --> 00:57:23.750
going to do that. A lot of these guys they brought
00:57:23.750 --> 00:57:26.110
up, Netflix is not going to buy it. They'll buy
00:57:26.110 --> 00:57:32.559
a Francis fight. Okay, wow. Francis Zagano will
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:34.659
get slapped by Jake Hall. But what I will say
00:57:34.659 --> 00:57:36.480
about this tank situation. Bro, that's insane
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.440
to say. That's insane to say. It really is. It's
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:41.340
really insane to say. What I will say about this
00:57:41.340 --> 00:57:47.420
tank situation, I think the time has passed and
00:57:47.420 --> 00:57:49.860
the time has come and gone where you could rely
00:57:49.860 --> 00:57:54.980
on tank for anything. If he shows up, we'll have
00:57:54.980 --> 00:57:58.659
him. We'll watch him. Best of luck. But you can't
00:57:58.659 --> 00:58:02.699
build anything around him. You can't. Because
00:58:02.699 --> 00:58:07.219
he's too mercurial. He's too mercurial. You know,
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:11.900
and maybe he needs to sit down. Sit down for
00:58:11.900 --> 00:58:14.719
a little while. Sit down for a year. Come back
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.619
in a year. We'll see you in a year, Tank. Get
00:58:17.619 --> 00:58:20.639
your mind right. We'll see you in a year, man.
00:58:20.900 --> 00:58:25.139
But I'm done. Now, who's the replace, Tank? If
00:58:25.139 --> 00:58:31.760
I'm Jake Paul, I go with Roland Romero. Roley
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:40.880
Romero, the sleep god himself. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:58:42.619 --> 00:58:48.119
Yeah, yeah. Now, Roley, he'll sleep Jake Paul.
00:58:50.019 --> 00:58:57.920
Okay? He'll sleep Jake Paul. Oh, man. Are you
00:58:57.920 --> 00:58:59.440
sure he's not going to sweep him for 12 rounds?
00:59:00.329 --> 00:59:01.989
How are you going to knock him out? I think Roley
00:59:01.989 --> 00:59:04.769
would knock out Francis Ngannou. What the hell
00:59:04.769 --> 00:59:06.530
is going on? What's happening right now? What's
00:59:06.530 --> 00:59:15.349
happening right now? Ty, you got something. Ezra,
00:59:15.389 --> 00:59:17.809
do you think Francis Ngannou is like 19 -year
00:59:17.809 --> 00:59:20.510
-old Mike Tyson? No, but bro, Francis Ngannou
00:59:20.510 --> 00:59:24.030
is 265 pounds. What are we doing here? This dude,
00:59:24.190 --> 00:59:28.570
he's a
heavyweight. Okay, whatever. I don't think
00:59:28.570 --> 00:59:29.920
he's like, oh. I don't think he's like a championship
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:32.440
level boxer. Maybe not even contenders. I think
00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:34.219
he got friends. I think he got Tyson Fury with
00:59:34.219 --> 00:59:35.760
Tyson Fury, not thinking that fight was serious
00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:37.880
at all, not training at all, not in shape at
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:39.500
all, but he was still good enough. Like, let
00:59:39.500 --> 00:59:41.900
me say something. Tyson Fury could, can fight
00:59:41.900 --> 00:59:44.000
a lot of guys, not be in shape, not take it seriously
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.280
and smack him around the ring. Like this guy
00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:47.380
was good enough to be like, Hey, if you're going
00:59:47.380 --> 00:59:49.739
to really mess around, I'm going to be dangerous
00:59:49.739 --> 00:59:51.860
in here, bro. Let me tell you something now.
00:59:52.420 --> 00:59:55.369
Rolly Romero. He cannot hurt Francis Nagano.
00:59:55.469 --> 00:59:58.070
I'm sorry right now. Maybe I'll box him, move
00:59:58.070 --> 00:59:59.570
around the ring him, but he's not gonna hurt
00:59:59.570 --> 01:00:01.289
him. So he's not gonna knock him out. Jake Paul
01:00:01.289 --> 01:00:03.590
is not knocking out Francis Nagano. I'm sorry,
01:00:03.730 --> 01:00:06.469
he's not doing it. He's not doing it. I'm sorry.
01:00:06.929 --> 01:00:10.610
If I'm Jake, I'll fight Anthony Joshua. Bro,
01:00:10.670 --> 01:00:12.150
what are you trying to get him murdered? He's
01:00:12.150 --> 01:00:13.769
not gonna do that, okay? He's not gonna get murdered,
01:00:13.949 --> 01:00:15.750
okay? He's not gonna get murdered. You understand?
01:00:16.250 --> 01:00:18.190
The Francis fight, I think he'll lose, right?
01:00:18.289 --> 01:00:19.889
And then he gets knocked out, okay. But with
01:00:19.889 --> 01:00:21.869
Joshua, he don't make it out the first round.
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:23.800
You do not make out the first round with Joshua.
01:00:24.219 --> 01:00:25.920
Joshua's gonna put you to sleep in a horrible
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:28.340
way. You see what he did with Francis? He's gonna
01:00:28.340 --> 01:00:29.820
put you out in a horrible way, in a horrible
01:00:29.820 --> 01:00:38.519
fashion. Now, the thing with Tank and as Matt
01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:41.559
and I was out there for Tank's last fight and
01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:44.960
at the press conference for it. And we kind of
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:47.159
like, well, at least I didn't realize at the
01:00:47.159 --> 01:00:49.739
time, but then they were pretty much like negotiating
01:00:49.739 --> 01:00:52.460
that whole thing with Jake Paul, right? So as
01:00:52.460 --> 01:00:56.679
far as what this current news is now, my thing
01:00:56.679 --> 01:01:01.039
is Jake's team should have known about that before
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:04.239
going forward because he's had that past before.
01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:08.179
So whatever came out through the news or anything
01:01:08.179 --> 01:01:11.440
like that recently, that's happened before. So
01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:13.820
you already knew that risk coming into this.
01:01:14.360 --> 01:01:17.000
So once you make that decision, you pretty much
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.940
made that risk, all right? The other thing is,
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:23.619
according to, as they say, according to reports,
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:30.440
one issue that may have been the little robot
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:35.139
is that it's reported that Jake Paul wasn't close
01:01:35.139 --> 01:01:37.820
to making a contracted weight. That's the word
01:01:37.820 --> 01:01:40.659
on the street that I got, or some people have,
01:01:40.860 --> 01:01:44.280
right? So they're trying to scramble and say,
01:01:44.420 --> 01:01:47.179
hey, we can't get him to get to that weight,
01:01:47.300 --> 01:01:51.179
right? As far as this new date that they got,
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:56.300
is Drake going to make it to that December 14th
01:01:56.300 --> 01:02:02.199
date, Sunday night? Maybe. Ngannou, possible.
01:02:03.300 --> 01:02:06.119
Someone else told me - Ngannou is scared of Jake
01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:09.440
Paul. He doesn't want to fight him. Ngannou is
01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:14.059
scared. What are we doing here? Man, I'm a -
01:02:14.699 --> 01:02:19.300
You know what, I'm gonna quit that. The dude
01:02:19.300 --> 01:02:24.840
was on Twitter making excuses. Is this respectful
01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.239
that you wanna fight me? Bro, who the fuck is
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:30.619
this guy? Who are you in boxing, Francis Ngannou?
01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:34.880
You're disrespecting your favorite fighter by
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:36.679
saying that. Because Francis Ngannou will get
01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:38.659
in the ring with Deontay Wilder. He'll get in
01:02:38.659 --> 01:02:41.679
the ring with Jake Paul. Francis Dugano is a
01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:43.840
guy that I think holds himself in high esteem.
01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:46.139
That's why when he fights a boxer, he wants to
01:02:46.139 --> 01:02:48.260
fight the top guy. When he fights MMA, he's trying
01:02:48.260 --> 01:02:49.920
to fight the top guy. I don't think he wants
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:52.079
to get down to that level because he finds it
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:54.659
embarrassing. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You
01:02:54.659 --> 01:02:56.179
admit that he doesn't want to fight Jake Paul.
01:02:56.360 --> 01:02:58.219
So you admit he doesn't want to fight Jake Paul.
01:02:58.460 --> 01:03:00.780
I think he thinks it might be below him. I'm
01:03:00.780 --> 01:03:04.039
not sure he's wrong about that. Hey, hey, hey,
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:07.920
listen, listen. He's going to be below Jake Paul
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:09.380
because he's going to be on the cameras while
01:03:09.380 --> 01:03:11.800
Jake Paul's standing above him. Crazy take.
But
01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:13.139
I want to say this, the one thing about what
01:03:13.139 --> 01:03:14.900
JB said about, and I've heard a few things like,
01:03:14.980 --> 01:03:16.699
oh, Jake Paul couldn't make weight. They weren't
01:03:16.699 --> 01:03:18.199
selling tickets. Who cares? No, no, no, no, no.
01:03:18.199 --> 01:03:19.840
Hold up. They weren't selling tickets or anything.
01:03:20.260 --> 01:03:22.159
Guys, I'm going to be honest with you. That's
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:24.320
not what happened here, okay? Tank messed up
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:26.400
the money. That's all that happened here. Tank
01:03:26.400 --> 01:03:28.400
messed up the money. They couldn't go forward
01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:30.440
with what they thought. They don't know if it's
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:32.480
going to come out or not of the story. And that's
01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:34.400
it. That's just honest truth. It wasn't Jake
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.179
Paul. Jake Paul was there, he was gonna fight.
01:03:36.599 --> 01:03:38.440
It wasn't ticket sales, they were gonna make
01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:40.519
a bunch of money from Netflix. Their viewership
01:03:40.519 --> 01:03:41.880
was gonna be insane, it was gonna pay off for
01:03:41.880 --> 01:03:45.440
Netflix. It's none of those things. The guy messed
01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:47.079
up the money. We didn't hear nothing canceling
01:03:47.079 --> 01:03:48.780
this fight until the one guy had the incident
01:03:48.780 --> 01:03:50.699
and it messed up the money. That's what it is
01:03:50.699 --> 01:03:52.219
with Tank. That's just honest truth. Ain't no
01:03:52.219 --> 01:03:55.119
one else to blame. It's the one guy, he allowed
01:03:55.119 --> 01:04:00.380
it to be the blame. As far as the - Go ahead.
01:04:00.619 --> 01:04:02.670
No, go ahead, go ahead. No, as far as the Nagano
01:04:02.670 --> 01:04:04.789
thing, I think the Nagano thing that's below
01:04:04.789 --> 01:04:09.050
him, whatever. If I was talking to Nagano about
01:04:09.050 --> 01:04:10.670
his career, I would say, hey, go take this guy
01:04:10.670 --> 01:04:13.570
out. I think it gets you right back in the limelight.
01:04:13.710 --> 01:04:15.789
I think it gets you the people talking about
01:04:15.789 --> 01:04:18.610
the UFC again, Jon Jones again, Aspinall again.
01:04:18.809 --> 01:04:20.570
And it gets you right here with the boxers because
01:04:20.570 --> 01:04:21.929
everybody's going to love you if you go take
01:04:21.929 --> 01:04:23.869
this guy out. If he's willing to step in the
01:04:23.869 --> 01:04:25.550
ring with you, you should go do it. If it's on
01:04:25.550 --> 01:04:27.650
Netflix - When was the last time I pressed Nagano
01:04:27.650 --> 01:04:30.610
even for it? The last time he fought was on PFL.
01:04:31.039 --> 01:04:33.480
It was over a year ago, I want to say. Come on,
01:04:33.480 --> 01:04:37.400
man. Nothing's beneath him. Come on. Come on.
01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:42.260
Look, I have a lot of respect for Nagano. I do.
01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:44.679
I have a lot of respect for Nagano. I think that
01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:47.539
this is a man that turned down a big UFC contract,
01:04:47.699 --> 01:04:49.880
maybe the biggest UFC contract, because he said,
01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:51.079
I want the fighters to get in the ring with me
01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:52.880
to make a million, too. They got to make a certain
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:54.219
amount of money, too, the guys that step in the
01:04:54.219 --> 01:04:56.039
ring with me. I want these guys to have insurance
01:04:56.039 --> 01:04:57.139
to make sure they take care of the rest of their
01:04:57.139 --> 01:04:58.940
life. And because he didn't get that, he left.
01:04:59.420 --> 01:05:01.579
Okay, this is a guy that does stand for something.
01:05:02.539 --> 01:05:04.519
He's not a guy that just goes and does whatever
01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:06.840
just to make money. That's not really been him.
01:05:06.940 --> 01:05:11.699
It really isn't. It's never been him. Well, you
01:05:11.699 --> 01:05:15.840
know what? If he has the balls to step in the
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:18.340
ring with Jake Paul, he'll be standing for that
01:05:18.340 --> 01:05:21.099
right hand and laying down for it. All right.
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.440
Yeah, I have a request for the great producer
01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:30.380
of French boxing. If you can, please clip that
01:05:30.380 --> 01:05:34.239
rant from that about Francis Ngannou and just
01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:36.719
that last comment right there. I flagged it after
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:38.380
you said you wanted to clip it, so I got you.
01:05:40.500 --> 01:05:42.519
I can't believe you got there and Francis Ngannou
01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:46.719
would beat Jake Paul. That's insane. That's fucking
01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:49.460
insane. Could Jake Paul win that fight? Yes.
01:05:49.500 --> 01:05:51.719
Would he knock out Francis Ngannou? I don't think
01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:56.539
so. Knock him the fuck out. Francis Ngannou would
01:05:56.539 --> 01:06:02.250
put Jake... Paul in the dirt. Bro, he can't box.
01:06:03.210 --> 01:06:05.190
He doesn't have to box. He just has to brawl
01:06:05.190 --> 01:06:08.550
him. He just has to be really aggressive. Okay.
01:06:09.130 --> 01:06:12.489
Okay. Jake Paul won't be able to take the shot
01:06:12.489 --> 01:06:16.550
from a 265 -pound Francis Ngannou, Matt. Listen,
01:06:17.130 --> 01:06:20.090
Francis Ngannou versus Jake Paul ends up with
01:06:20.090 --> 01:06:23.670
Francis Ngannou face down. That's how bad Jake
01:06:23.670 --> 01:06:25.429
Paul is. This conversation we're having is why
01:06:25.429 --> 01:06:28.250
this fight would do astronomical numbers. Like,
01:06:28.250 --> 01:06:31.530
this is what my Netflix needs. All right. So
01:06:31.530 --> 01:06:33.869
we're trying to set a record for how many times
01:06:33.869 --> 01:06:35.909
we can talk about the same topic in consecutive
01:06:35.909 --> 01:06:38.690
weeks. Matt, what's the latest on Teofimo Lopez
01:06:38.690 --> 01:06:46.110
versus Shakur? It's a done deal. All right. It's
01:06:46.110 --> 01:06:48.150
a done deal. I've heard that before. We have
01:06:48.150 --> 01:06:52.730
a date for it. January 31st. Oh, wow. Madison
01:06:52.730 --> 01:06:56.420
Square Garden. Oh, wow. It's a done deal. And
01:06:56.420 --> 01:06:57.820
I got it covered on my premium subscription?
01:07:01.619 --> 01:07:03.920
That's a good question. According to the rundown,
01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:05.559
this is the part I didn't read, the belt would
01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:09.099
be a DAZN pay -per -view. That's what I'm saying.
01:07:09.239 --> 01:07:11.039
Is this my premium subscription or is this a
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:13.179
super pay -per -view? You just got to pay 30
01:07:13.179 --> 01:07:16.079
bucks more. Come on now. They're not going to
01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:18.800
do that. Even DAZN won't do that. All right.
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:22.909
We shall see. We shall see. We've talked about
01:07:22.909 --> 01:07:24.250
this fight enough. We don't think we need to
01:07:24.250 --> 01:07:26.289
spend a lot of time on it. So next up, what we're
01:07:26.289 --> 01:07:29.170
hearing is a grudge match in 2026 between Jamal
01:07:29.170 --> 01:07:31.150
Charlo and Caleb Plant. Ezra, let's go to you
01:07:31.150 --> 01:07:32.190
first. What are your thoughts on this fight?
01:07:33.590 --> 01:07:34.949
Like I said, I don't think a lot of these guys
01:07:34.949 --> 01:07:37.190
have a lot left in their career. At this point,
01:07:37.309 --> 01:07:40.030
you might as well just make this fight. I thought
01:07:40.030 --> 01:07:43.210
Jamal Charlo would fight Armendez. I was hoping
01:07:43.210 --> 01:07:44.610
he would kind of do that to kind of like, that's
01:07:44.610 --> 01:07:46.630
like a perfect fight to legitimize. Resendez.
01:07:47.349 --> 01:07:53.119
Resendez. Yeah. Resendez. Last name. That's exactly
01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:55.059
what I did. Maybe you should go with that. But
01:07:55.059 --> 01:07:58.059
that was a fight to me to legitimize that he's
01:07:58.059 --> 01:07:59.860
back, right? That he's really going to contend
01:07:59.860 --> 01:08:01.840
for titles and watch serious fights. But the
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:03.519
kid at the plant, like I said, he looks way past
01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:07.480
it from last time I saw him. And I think that,
01:08:07.539 --> 01:08:09.880
you know, like I said, the fight has name notoriety,
01:08:10.019 --> 01:08:14.059
has a thing to build on, the slap. And that works.
01:08:14.300 --> 01:08:16.699
So I'm not mad at it. I get it. But I thought,
01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:19.109
Jamal, if I was... Pointing him might go a different
01:08:19.109 --> 01:08:21.750
point of his career, go a different spot. Well,
01:08:21.810 --> 01:08:24.170
I think Jamal Chawla has a lot left to give.
01:08:24.390 --> 01:08:27.170
Okay. And he's going to
give some of that to
01:08:27.170 --> 01:08:30.510
Caleb Plant. I think Jamal stops him. And one
01:08:30.510 --> 01:08:33.770
thing I don't like about Caleb Plant is he's
01:08:33.770 --> 01:08:36.810
getting another new trainer. You never want to
01:08:36.810 --> 01:08:39.489
go into a big fight with a new trainer. I think
01:08:39.489 --> 01:08:42.210
that that is always a recipe for disaster because
01:08:42.210 --> 01:08:44.449
I feel like it takes - a couple fights before
01:08:44.449 --> 01:08:46.789
you get acclimated to that trainer and you have
01:08:46.789 --> 01:08:49.390
a nice little rapport on what he needs you to
01:08:49.390 --> 01:08:52.430
do and stuff like that. So I want to see the
01:08:52.430 --> 01:08:56.409
fight next. And I think that that fight would
01:08:56.409 --> 01:09:04.029
be a nice pay -per -view event. Maybe hopefully
01:09:04.029 --> 01:09:06.770
it's thrown on my premium subscription. Now,
01:09:06.850 --> 01:09:09.729
let me tell you something. Signs at the end,
01:09:09.850 --> 01:09:11.489
we already know it at training at the beach.
01:09:11.649 --> 01:09:14.670
Becoming a trainer yourself, switching your trainers
01:09:14.670 --> 01:09:16.569
after every loss because you have to blame the
01:09:16.569 --> 01:09:18.649
trainer. You can't take the, you know, you're
01:09:18.649 --> 01:09:20.510
just slowing down a little bit. That's a sign
01:09:20.510 --> 01:09:22.310
to the end. I tell you right now, this might
01:09:22.310 --> 01:09:25.829
look ugly for Plant in this fight. BZ, you got
01:09:25.829 --> 01:09:29.649
anything to say on this fight? Yeah, I'm leaning
01:09:29.649 --> 01:09:33.029
towards Jamal Charlo for the win. I mean, I saw
01:09:33.029 --> 01:09:35.649
a lot there from Caleb Plant in his fight against
01:09:35.649 --> 01:09:37.989
Armando Resendiz. There was like some moments
01:09:37.989 --> 01:09:39.750
there late in the fight where it looked like
01:09:39.750 --> 01:09:42.569
Resendiz could have stopped Caleb Plant, actually.
01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:46.739
And that kind of says that there's not that much
01:09:46.739 --> 01:09:48.899
behind the punch there for Caleb Plant right
01:09:48.899 --> 01:09:52.319
now. And I don't know if it's something with
01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:55.579
conditioning or whatever it is. He had a little
01:09:55.579 --> 01:09:58.880
bit of issue with that too. And changing trainers
01:09:58.880 --> 01:10:01.859
here at this point in his career, it might not
01:10:01.859 --> 01:10:05.619
be a good look. He's got his ass kicked. But
01:10:05.619 --> 01:10:08.420
you know what? To me, this is the one fight in
01:10:08.420 --> 01:10:11.189
boxing that does not need any buildup. We all
01:10:11.189 --> 01:10:13.949
sort of slap her around the world. They need
01:10:13.949 --> 01:10:16.710
to see each other. We all want to see it, you
01:10:16.710 --> 01:10:19.250
know. And when Huey gets into the next fight,
01:10:19.449 --> 01:10:22.250
you'll see how it all links
up. Go ahead, Huey.
01:10:22.430 --> 01:10:24.710
Absolutely. So the next bout we have is between
01:10:24.710 --> 01:10:27.310
Hector Berlanga and Armando Resendez being a
01:10:27.310 --> 01:10:31.590
PBC bout. Do we think that PBC could rehab Berlanga's
01:10:31.590 --> 01:10:35.420
career? No, but they could get some money out
01:10:35.420 --> 01:10:39.060
of it. Ezra did the real -life Magic Johnson
01:10:39.060 --> 01:10:44.060
meme. I ain't going to be here. It's like the
01:10:44.060 --> 01:10:45.300
toothpaste. You know when you start rolling up
01:10:45.300 --> 01:10:47.220
the toothpaste to make sure you get all of it
01:10:47.220 --> 01:10:49.159
out of it? That's what they're doing with Berlinga
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:51.239
right now. Make sure they get all the juice out
01:10:51.239 --> 01:10:55.859
that they can. Yeah, look, Berlinga's not going
01:10:55.859 --> 01:10:58.649
to win that fight. It's a fun fight. Style -wise,
01:10:58.770 --> 01:11:00.949
it's going to be fun. It's going to be a nice
01:11:00.949 --> 01:11:03.069
little build -up, I think, to it. But yeah, Presentes
01:11:03.069 --> 01:11:04.310
is going to win that fight. It's going to be
01:11:04.310 --> 01:11:06.130
too much for Berlinga. Berlinga is coming off
01:11:06.130 --> 01:11:09.449
of getting just an obvious beatdown. Respect
01:11:09.449 --> 01:11:11.090
to him to get him back in there with a guy that's
01:11:11.090 --> 01:11:13.710
a serious guy. Not doing the tune -up route or
01:11:13.710 --> 01:11:15.130
anything like that. Getting in there with a serious
01:11:15.130 --> 01:11:17.550
guy. It makes sense. If he were to pull off this
01:11:17.550 --> 01:11:19.649
fight and he can fight the winner of Charlo Plant,
01:11:19.850 --> 01:11:21.810
that's good business. But maybe we get to the
01:11:21.810 --> 01:11:23.529
spot where I want to be, Charlo versus Presentes.
01:11:23.789 --> 01:11:27.050
So I think this is... Good story building. This
01:11:27.050 --> 01:11:30.449
is good matchmaking. And we go from there. Excellent
01:11:30.449 --> 01:11:34.170
story building. Excellent matchmaking. Huey,
01:11:34.170 --> 01:11:44.430
hit my music. Hey, listen. Word on the street
01:11:44.430 --> 01:11:50.260
is that if all goes to plan. These two fights
01:11:50.260 --> 01:11:54.119
will be on the same card, and the winners will
01:11:54.119 --> 01:11:59.539
face off against each other. Now, if that happens,
01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:02.720
I'm rooting for Charlo, and I'm rooting for Belanga.
01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:06.779
That's what I need. Oh, come on, man. The genius
01:12:06.779 --> 01:12:09.439
in that, too, is the build -up. All these guys
01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:10.920
are going to talk trash to each other. That's
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:12.899
the genius of it. It's like you get those four
01:12:12.899 --> 01:12:16.220
guys on a stage together, everyone's going to
01:12:16.220 --> 01:12:19.210
be talking trash to each other. This is perfect
01:12:19.210
--> 01:12:20.909
build -up to me. That's good. That's good stuff.
01:12:21.010 --> 01:12:25.789
Yeah, and everybody hates Berlanga. Oh, shit.
01:12:28.689 --> 01:12:30.390
Charlo and Berlanga, I get why Matt would want
01:12:30.390 --> 01:12:32.210
that. That's an entertaining build -up. It's
01:12:32.210 --> 01:12:35.550
probably a good fight. No, you know, Huey, I
01:12:35.550 --> 01:12:37.069
got to tell you, I don't like the tone of your
01:12:37.069 --> 01:12:42.560
voice right now. No, no, no. Hold on. What? I
01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:44.739
think the better outcome would be for Charlo
01:12:44.739 --> 01:12:46.680
and Resendez to win. You would have them match
01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:48.359
up, and then you can get that Plant Berlanga
01:12:48.359 --> 01:12:50.380
match up as well because they have history, and
01:12:50.380 --> 01:12:51.880
they've been talking a lot about fighting, too.
01:12:53.439 --> 01:12:58.800
Hey, listen. Hey, what did I say last week? PBC's
01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:00.460
playing Moneyball. Let me tell you, they're making
01:13:00.460 --> 01:13:02.180
some interesting moves out here. They are making
01:13:02.180 --> 01:13:05.979
some interesting moves out here. Hey, let me
01:13:05.979 --> 01:13:07.460
tell you something about Canada Plant's career.
01:13:08.260 --> 01:13:10.939
I don't know if you guys are horse racing fans.
01:13:11.710 --> 01:13:14.369
But if Caleb's playing career was horse racing,
01:13:14.590 --> 01:13:20.569
and down the stretch they come. It's almost over.
01:13:21.109 --> 01:13:23.289
It's almost over. I thought it was over. I thought
01:13:23.289 --> 01:13:31.789
it was over. It's almost over. You might be saying
01:13:31.789 --> 01:13:34.770
the same thing for Berlanga, especially if Armando
01:13:34.770 --> 01:13:38.630
Resendiz or Armandiz will put Berlanga in the
01:13:38.630 --> 01:13:41.750
dirt. I don't think that fight is going to go
01:13:41.750 --> 01:13:43.170
to me. I think it's going to go hard. I think
01:13:43.170 --> 01:13:46.590
Berlanga beats him. Resendez might be a star
01:13:46.590 --> 01:13:49.449
at the end of this. Honestly, playing Berlanga
01:13:49.449 --> 01:13:51.670
and if he gets Charlo, might be a star at the
01:13:51.670 --> 01:13:56.010
end of this. This is quite a little move he could
01:13:56.010 --> 01:13:59.810
make. A little run he could go on. Matt, you
01:13:59.810 --> 01:14:01.789
got anything to put a bow on this before the
01:14:01.789 --> 01:14:05.850
next topic? Yeah. I'm looking forward to it.
01:14:05.949 --> 01:14:08.050
I hope it all gets finalized. My best guess,
01:14:08.130 --> 01:14:10.710
and this is just... This is just me spitballing.
01:14:10.909 --> 01:14:13.710
I think that if this fight gets finalized, both
01:14:13.710 --> 01:14:17.409
of them, that it'll happen in April on the same
01:14:17.409 --> 01:14:21.090
card. Yeah, I think it'll happen in April on
01:14:21.090 --> 01:14:23.470
the same card. And then you'll probably go from
01:14:23.470 --> 01:14:27.130
like April to October or April to September with
01:14:27.130 --> 01:14:29.670
the winners. That's good stuff. That's good stuff.
01:14:29.810 --> 01:14:31.350
And like I said, put the losers against each
01:14:31.350 --> 01:14:32.970
other. That was a good idea. Put the losers against
01:14:32.970 --> 01:14:36.300
each other. Good stuff, you. Next up, Artur Betterbeev
01:14:36.300 --> 01:14:38.960
is in negotiations with IBA Pro. I am a bee -balled
01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:40.680
out in Russia. What are our thoughts on this?
01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:43.779
Ezra, you go first. You know, Ty said, if we
01:14:43.779 --> 01:14:46.060
went for Turkey, we wouldn't have got Bavold
01:14:46.060 --> 01:14:48.479
Bechebev. Apparently not. You know what I mean?
01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:50.380
Apparently not. Apparently we get it with another
01:14:50.380 --> 01:14:51.800
promoter right here. We're going to get another
01:14:51.800 --> 01:14:55.479
promoter right here. I don't know. Like I said,
01:14:55.579 --> 01:14:59.710
Bavold Bechebev. Both fights I've really enjoyed.
01:14:59.949 --> 01:15:01.829
If they make a third one, I'm not going to complain,
01:15:01.989 --> 01:15:04.729
but I really want to see Benavidez get one of
01:15:04.729 --> 01:15:06.850
these guys. So we'll see how that plays out.
01:15:08.270 --> 01:15:11.109
Yeah, I think if they do a fight, they need to
01:15:11.109 --> 01:15:14.670
do this fight by March for the latest. Let's
01:15:14.670 --> 01:15:17.310
get this fight done. Dimitri Bivol obviously
01:15:17.310 --> 01:15:19.890
is out of traction right now. He's walking upright.
01:15:20.390 --> 01:15:24.109
So let's get this fight done. I heard that...
01:15:24.300 --> 01:15:26.699
That was the reason why the Dion Nicholson fight
01:15:26.699 --> 01:15:28.539
got canceled. Remember, Viterbo was supposed
01:15:28.539 --> 01:15:30.939
to be fighting in two weeks. And then you heard
01:15:30.939 --> 01:15:33.300
speculation that Top Rank pulled him from the
01:15:33.300 --> 01:15:37.500
card. And it turns out he wasn't even with Top
01:15:37.500 --> 01:15:43.479
Rank no more. So it's just interesting how that
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:49.840
goes. IBA CEO, President Al Siesta, he's very
01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:52.909
interested in making the fight. He wants to make
01:15:52.909 --> 01:15:56.909
the fight in Russia, probably Moscow. And I hope
01:15:56.909 --> 01:15:58.470
he can get it over the finish line. This would
01:15:58.470 --> 01:16:01.689
be a huge event, a huge event in boxing. And
01:16:01.689 --> 01:16:03.649
you might actually have people show up to watch
01:16:03.649 --> 01:16:06.109
them fight this time. That's crazy. A guy from
01:16:06.109 --> 01:16:08.510
Canada and a guy from Oxnard in Russia. Who would
01:16:08.510 --> 01:16:13.869
have thought? In Russia. Oh, man. You got anything
01:16:13.869 --> 01:16:19.579
to say on this? Hey, you know. As they say, man,
01:16:19.659 --> 01:16:22.579
the
third fight between the two hopefully leads
01:16:22.579 --> 01:16:30.199
to the winner facing David Benavidez after this
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:34.380
November 22nd fight. Benavidez, of course, mentioned
01:16:34.380 --> 01:16:36.939
that he would be involved in these real season
01:16:36.939 --> 01:16:40.579
events for these next few fights. So after this
01:16:40.579 --> 01:16:42.579
fight with Yard, I don't know if he's going to
01:16:42.579 --> 01:16:45.340
get another fight in the interim while this one
01:16:45.340 --> 01:16:48.619
takes place. I guess it would kind of like do
01:16:48.619 --> 01:16:52.539
that in getting prepared for the winner. Maybe
01:16:52.539 --> 01:16:55.899
he will, but I have a feeling that David Benavidez
01:16:55.899 --> 01:16:59.460
will be back with PBC in time for Cinco de Mayo.
01:17:00.739 --> 01:17:04.180
Oh, wow. That's a good spot for him. I don't
01:17:04.180 --> 01:17:06.340
know who you'd fight, but. Yeah, it would be
01:17:06.340 --> 01:17:11.640
possible. Yeah. There's a matchup on Cinco de
01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:14.489
Mayo that I think makes a lot of sense. And that
01:17:14.489 --> 01:17:16.510
is Zerto. That is Zerto Ramirez. I think that
01:17:16.510 --> 01:17:18.409
if you could get that fight, think of the mile
01:17:18.409 --> 01:17:23.550
for Zerto. Did Zerto come down to 175 again?
01:17:24.050 --> 01:17:26.329
Come on, man. What are we doing here? I don't
01:17:26.329 --> 01:17:29.529
want Benavidez going up. Going up? You know,
01:17:30.869 --> 01:17:33.670
I'm just saying, he's got to get creative. If
01:17:33.670 --> 01:17:35.109
he's not going to get below Benavidez, that way
01:17:35.109 --> 01:17:37.420
you got to start getting creative. Bro, once
01:17:37.420 --> 01:17:39.460
Benavidez goes up, he's not coming back down.
01:17:40.020 --> 01:17:42.939
That's fine. Then you could eschew the Baterbiev
01:17:42.939 --> 01:17:45.199
or Bavol fights forever. No, maybe they'll go
01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:49.819
up. Money happens to make people do interesting
01:17:49.819 --> 01:17:53.140
things. Okay, okay. All right. Hey, listen, they
01:17:53.140 --> 01:17:55.060
offered all that money to Canelo to fight Benavidez,
01:17:55.119 --> 01:17:57.500
and he still didn't want to do it. That's because
01:17:57.500 --> 01:17:59.779
he had too much money. That's because he had
01:17:59.779 --> 01:18:03.609
too much money, though. All right, so... This
01:18:03.609 --> 01:18:06.449
week we had the PBC virtual press conference
01:18:06.449 --> 01:18:11.670
for the upcoming card here, including Ramos Jr.,
01:18:11.670 --> 01:18:14.130
Mosley Jr., but most importantly. December 6th.
01:18:14.229 --> 01:18:18.590
December 6th. The December 6th card. And most
01:18:18.590 --> 01:18:22.109
importantly here, though, we had some moments
01:18:22.109 --> 01:18:25.430
between Stephen Fulton and Oshaki Foster started
01:18:25.430 --> 01:18:28.869
by our very own Matt Brown. We're going to cut
01:18:28.869 -->
01:18:31.149
to that clip now. Matt, do you want to set the
01:18:31.149 --> 01:18:35.789
stage? Well, listen, December 6th, live from
01:18:35.789 --> 01:18:41.130
Frost Bank, San Antonio, Texas, Oshaki Foster,
01:18:41.529 --> 01:18:44.430
Stephen Fulton, Ezra will be in the building.
01:18:44.829 --> 01:18:50.000
Play the damn clip. That Stephen Fulton had to
01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:54.279
move mountains to get this matchup on December
01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:59.279
6th. What happened with that? How did this fight
01:18:59.279 --> 01:19:04.590
come about on this date so soon? Because, I mean,
01:19:04.630 --> 01:19:08.170
honestly, moving mountains is crazy. It don't
01:19:08.170 --> 01:19:10.409
even make sense to me, honestly. The fight was
01:19:10.409 --> 01:19:12.729
being supposed to happen. It ain't like my purse
01:19:12.729 --> 01:19:15.630
got bigger or smaller. It's like, move mountains
01:19:15.630 --> 01:19:18.850
for what? The fight was already secured, you
01:19:18.850 --> 01:19:21.710
know, like, I don't really get it, you know.
01:19:22.720 --> 01:19:25.420
They're going to have to explain why. I made
01:19:25.420 --> 01:19:27.760
it happen on this date. Bro, I didn't need this.
01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:30.220
Bro, what was going to happen was, to be real
01:19:30.220 --> 01:19:32.619
with you, I was going to move on anyway. Like,
01:19:32.619 --> 01:19:34.840
if this ain't happen, so it ain't nobody making
01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:37.220
no accommodations for me, bro. I made it for
01:19:37.220 --> 01:19:40.279
myself. Well, say that for yourself. Say it for
01:19:40.279 --> 01:19:42.819
yourself, not for me. Not for me. Ain't nobody
01:19:42.819 --> 01:19:44.859
gave me no extra bread or nothing like that,
01:19:44.939 --> 01:19:47.739
bro. They're acting like accommodations. Because
01:19:47.739 --> 01:19:50.680
you're talking like you just made some shit happen,
01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:52.680
bro. You ain't made nothing happen. on this dick,
01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:54.659
bro. I made the fight happen on this dick. Well,
01:19:54.659 --> 01:19:57.020
I appreciate you, my G. But don't go on there
01:19:57.020 --> 01:19:59.899
talking like you just did some extra stuff for
01:19:59.899 --> 01:20:02.479
it. Like, come on, bro. When have I said something
01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:04.920
like I did some extra shit? Man, I'm talking
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:09.399
about Pete, whatever, you know, man. I'm just
01:20:09.399 --> 01:20:11.659
letting y 'all know. Ain't nobody move mountains
01:20:11.659 --> 01:20:15.779
for nothing. Man, I'm just letting you know.
01:20:15.859 --> 01:20:17.119
I don't give a fuck what you're trying to hear.
01:20:17.300 --> 01:20:19.159
I don't care what you're trying to hear. I'm
01:20:19.159 --> 01:20:20.659
just letting you know. Ain't nobody move mountains
01:20:20.659 --> 01:20:24.239
for me, boy. Like, ain't nobody need that. Ain't
01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:27.250
nobody need that. I don't know what you... We
01:20:27.250 --> 01:20:29.489
made this happen, boy. We pushed for this fight
01:20:29.489 --> 01:20:31.869
to be before the end of the year. Let's be real.
01:20:32.069 --> 01:20:34.210
We pushed for this fight to be before the end
01:20:34.210 --> 01:20:36.430
of the year. Y 'all, you wanted to go to January
01:20:36.430 --> 01:20:39.609
and February, boy. Who the fuck I didn't want
01:20:39.609 --> 01:20:41.710
to go to January and February? That's not to
01:20:41.710 --> 01:20:42.949
tell you. I don't know what you're talking about,
01:20:43.010 --> 01:20:48.010
bro. You just be talking, bro. I'm in negotiations.
01:20:48.149 --> 01:20:50.289
I know what's going on. I ain't behind the scenes.
01:20:50.529 --> 01:20:53.350
They must be fucking lying to you. Ain't no way.
01:20:55.490 --> 01:20:57.170
Everybody already know. I ain't asking no January
01:20:57.170 --> 01:20:59.449
nor February. They was going to try to push it
01:20:59.449 --> 01:21:01.550
to January or February if it wasn't for me stepping
01:21:01.550 --> 01:21:03.630
the fuck up and keep making phone calls. I don't
01:21:03.630 --> 01:21:04.970
know what the fuck you did on your end, but I
01:21:04.970 --> 01:21:06.770
know what I did on my end. If it wasn't for you,
01:21:06.850 --> 01:21:08.449
bro. I know what I did on my end. I don't know
01:21:08.449 --> 01:21:10.289
what you did on your end. You so cool. I know
01:21:10.289 --> 01:21:11.550
what I did on my end, though. You got it cool,
01:21:11.649 --> 01:21:13.470
boy. I know what I did on my end. You feel me?
01:21:13.510 --> 01:21:15.010
I know what I did on my end, though. You got
01:21:15.010 --> 01:21:16.750
it cool, boy. I don't know what you did on your
01:21:16.750 --> 01:21:18.350
end to make this shit happen, but before you
01:21:18.350 --> 01:21:22.329
even say it, I was trying to make it happen January,
01:21:22.449 --> 01:21:25.029
February, and these niggas lying to you. Nobody
01:21:25.029 --> 01:21:26.550
wild as fuck when I try to push it for January,
01:21:26.569 --> 01:21:31.029
February. So you're the only one trying to push
01:21:31.029 --> 01:21:32.369
it to make this happen? I don't know what you
01:21:32.369 --> 01:21:35.270
did. I'm speaking up to my son. But you're speaking
01:21:35.270 --> 01:21:37.310
on me as if you know I was just trying to get
01:21:37.310 --> 01:21:38.989
a fight happening. I'm just letting y 'all know.
01:21:39.090 --> 01:21:40.689
I'm just letting you and everybody know. Ain't
01:21:40.689 --> 01:21:42.750
nobody move mountains for me, boy. Ain't nobody
01:21:42.750 --> 01:21:45.050
say move mountains for you. That's what I'm saying,
01:21:45.149 --> 01:21:48.510
bro. What are you talking about? You moved mountains
01:21:48.510 --> 01:21:50.409
for yourself to make this fight happen. For the
01:21:50.409 --> 01:21:54.260
car. For the fight to happen on this car. Oh,
01:21:54.260 --> 01:21:56.199
January, February, shit, bro. I ain't never been
01:21:56.199 --> 01:21:59.699
with them. Fuck, I need extra months for it.
01:21:59.739 --> 01:22:02.119
People need to be more specific when they say
01:22:02.119 --> 01:22:04.800
stuff. Nah, ain't nobody lying to me. People
01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:07.539
need me to be more specific when they say something.
01:22:07.880 --> 01:22:11.680
Yeah, but that ain't happening over here. That
01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:16.189
shit don't happen over here, bro. That is great
01:22:16.189 --> 01:22:19.109
stuff. That is great stuff. I'll be honest with
01:22:19.109 --> 01:22:21.170
you. These guys are still in that card. I got
01:22:21.170 --> 01:22:23.949
to be honest with you. These guys, we were talking
01:22:23.949 --> 01:22:27.489
about animosity. Generally, you want to see these
01:22:27.489 --> 01:22:29.909
guys in the ring fight each other. That's good
01:22:29.909 --> 01:22:32.329
stuff, man. You can't get better than that. I
01:22:32.329 --> 01:22:37.090
have a prediction. The weigh -in or press conference
01:22:37.090 --> 01:22:39.069
fight week is going to get physical between them.
01:22:39.630 --> 01:22:46.609
I think so. I think so. I cannot wait for that
01:22:46.609 --> 01:22:49.210
fight. That is going to be good stuff. Listen,
01:22:49.350 --> 01:22:53.590
man, I done got that refund for Miami. I actually
01:22:53.590 --> 01:22:58.869
had a question about that. But listen, if that
01:22:58.869 --> 01:23:01.649
didn't tell you that you can't miss that fight,
01:23:01.850 --> 01:23:05.350
I don't know what could. Ain't nobody move no
01:23:05.350 --> 01:23:13.760
mountains for me, boy. Oh, my God. I said this
01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:15.880
could have a potential to be like fight of the
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:19.119
year, man. This buildup is like top notch, man.
01:23:19.260 --> 01:23:21.100
I'm telling you, ever since like that initial
01:23:21.100 --> 01:23:23.760
press conference, you know, it had like Oshaki
01:23:23.760 --> 01:23:26.920
had a chip on his shoulder to be like, yo, this
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:31.140
ain't, you know. Fulton versus Foster, Foster
01:23:31.140 --> 01:23:33.500
versus Fulton. I'm the champ. I'm the defending
01:23:33.500 --> 01:23:36.979
champ up in here. Y 'all treat me like I'm second
01:23:36.979 --> 01:23:40.020
feeling something. I'm like, yo, he going in
01:23:40.020 --> 01:23:42.579
there like, hey, he got something to prove to
01:23:42.579 --> 01:23:45.300
everybody. So yeah, this is going to be a firefight,
01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:48.579
bro. I can't wait for it. I cannot wait for that
01:23:48.579 --> 01:23:53.289
fight. All right. Next up here, we have Xander
01:23:53.289 --> 01:23:56.470
Zayas hosting a press conference on November
01:23:56.470 --> 01:23:58.670
12th. He's going to announce his first title
01:23:58.670 --> 01:24:00.890
defense. It's going to happen in Puerto Rico.
01:24:02.130 --> 01:24:04.649
Reportedly, Matt, who is he going to face on
01:24:04.649 --> 01:24:08.149
this date? Well, reportedly, according
to the
01:24:08.149 --> 01:24:11.329
interwebs, he's going to be facing Abbas Barrao
01:24:11.329 --> 01:24:17.569
in a WBA -WBO unification bout. That's a great
01:24:17.569 --> 01:24:22.029
bite. I like the way Xander moves. Yeah, I like
01:24:22.029 --> 01:24:23.810
the way Xander moves. I've got to be honest with
01:24:23.810 --> 01:24:27.609
you. I like the way Xander moves. I don't know
01:24:27.609 --> 01:24:30.090
if I'm the highest on his ceiling on what he
01:24:30.090 --> 01:24:31.569
could be in the division or anything like that.
01:24:31.609 --> 01:24:33.210
I don't favor him against a lot of tough guys.
01:24:33.569 --> 01:24:36.590
But this is a dude that is really trying to find
01:24:36.590 --> 01:24:38.350
out who he is and really thinks he is that guy.
01:24:38.850 --> 01:24:41.130
And that's great. Like I said, they were not
01:24:41.130 --> 01:24:42.149
trying to give him this fight. They were trying
01:24:42.149 --> 01:24:43.949
to give him something that they felt was easier
01:24:43.949 --> 01:24:45.930
or something a little lesser. And he said no.
01:24:46.359 --> 01:24:48.159
And you got to respect that. Supposedly, they
01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:52.640
were trying to give him Giovanni Centelion. Yeah,
01:24:53.100 --> 01:24:56.359
Centelion. And not saying anything to Centelion.
01:24:56.380 --> 01:25:01.020
Like, he's a good fighter. Not good enough for
01:25:01.020 --> 01:25:03.800
you to know his name? Centelion, that's his name.
01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:07.960
Like I said, this is like Zayas. He's not playing
01:25:07.960 --> 01:25:09.800
around. He wants Fundor. I believe it. When he
01:25:09.800 --> 01:25:11.579
says, some guys say they want all these fights.
01:25:11.859 --> 01:25:13.939
I'm not really sure how much I mean it. How much
01:25:13.939 --> 01:25:16.039
they mean it. He means it. When he says he wants
01:25:16.039 --> 01:25:18.140
his fights, he wants his fights. This is good
01:25:18.140 --> 01:25:19.600
stuff. This is good stuff. This is stuff to get
01:25:19.600 --> 01:25:21.140
excited about. This is what we need in boxing.
01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:24.039
We need hungry guys like this in boxing. And
01:25:24.039 --> 01:25:28.899
this is good stuff. Well, not only that, I think
01:25:28.899 --> 01:25:34.960
it's very funny and ironic that when Xander Zayas
01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:40.079
wanted to fight Virgil Ortiz and Virgil or his
01:25:40.079 --> 01:25:43.600
team or whoever turned down Xander Zayas, Virgil
01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:46.449
said, get a belt, then come talk to me. Well,
01:25:46.489 --> 01:25:50.550
now he's fighting for two belts mere months later.
01:25:51.409 --> 01:25:55.029
And Virgil still hasn't fought for a belt yet.
01:25:55.310 --> 01:25:59.689
So I do find it's funny how sometimes in boxing,
01:25:59.989 --> 01:26:02.609
sometimes the rabbit got the gun and you're out
01:26:02.609 --> 01:26:05.390
here looking crazy. So now, hold on, hold on,
01:26:05.390 --> 01:26:08.619
because
when Xander Zayas - When he big bros
01:26:08.619 --> 01:26:11.680
or big boys, Virgil Ortiz, I don't want to hear
01:26:11.680 --> 01:26:13.760
nobody claiming that Xander Zayas is trying to
01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:16.640
duck Ortiz. No, it's just turnabout fair play.
01:26:17.520 --> 01:26:20.039
I got to be honest. We got to go for that Virgil.
01:26:20.319 --> 01:26:23.060
Same thing with Fundora. I mean, I've seen him
01:26:23.060 --> 01:26:26.439
at Fundora's fight. I've seen that there. He
01:26:26.439 --> 01:26:28.000
was calling him out. I mean, there's really no
01:26:28.000 --> 01:26:31.079
reason why we couldn't get that fight. Same thing.
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:34.270
Like I'm saying, to me, I... I don't favor him
01:26:34.270 --> 01:26:35.649
in any of those fights. I gotta be honest with
01:26:35.649 --> 01:26:36.750
you. I don't favor him in either of those fights
01:26:36.750 --> 01:26:38.270
we're talking about. But he seems like the guy
01:26:38.270 --> 01:26:40.149
that wants him more than the other two guys talking.
01:26:40.369 --> 01:26:48.050
That's kind of odd. Well, I mean, given the situation,
01:26:48.329 --> 01:26:50.609
one, I think this is something for top rank,
01:26:50.710 --> 01:26:54.850
being able to make that move to get this unification.
01:26:55.310 --> 01:26:58.430
First style defense for both, and then unification.
01:27:00.109 --> 01:27:03.399
So that's one thing. Second, You know, on the
01:27:03.399 --> 01:27:07.840
thing with Zayas and Fandora, Fandora for the
01:27:07.840 --> 01:27:10.439
money, you know, with the Zoom rematch, I don't
01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:13.680
blame him for that. But, you know, Zayas, you
01:27:13.680 --> 01:27:15.319
know, wants to challenge himself. That's why
01:27:15.319 --> 01:27:18.399
he turned down the Santillón fight, you know.
01:27:18.520 --> 01:27:21.380
So now he's going up here against Abbas Barado.
01:27:21.920 --> 01:27:26.960
And the thing with Virgil Ortiz Jr., you know,
01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:29.979
it's an interesting situation because. On one
01:27:29.979 --> 01:27:32.340
end, they're saying after his fight that he had
01:27:32.340 --> 01:27:34.600
against Israel Majumov, we're going to take a
01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:38.760
break, take some time off, injure his hand and
01:27:38.760 --> 01:27:41.460
this and that. And then all of a sudden, now
01:27:41.460 --> 01:27:44.460
he's ready to challenge everybody. He's ready
01:27:44.460 --> 01:27:46.140
to challenge Xander. He's ready to challenge
01:27:46.140 --> 01:27:49.220
Boots. He's ready to challenge Sebastian Fandora
01:27:49.220 --> 01:27:53.560
as the WBC interim champ. But you said something
01:27:53.560 --> 01:27:56.159
completely different earlier. So I found that
01:27:56.159 --> 01:27:59.140
to be a real interesting situation. But for Xander,
01:27:59.260 --> 01:28:03.479
it'd be about 22, 23 years old. And to potentially
01:28:03.479 --> 01:28:06.520
be a unified champion, 154 pounds, that would
01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:08.859
be a really big move for him. And for top rank,
01:28:08.979 --> 01:28:12.500
they could really build him as far as being a
01:28:12.500 --> 01:28:14.920
star if he gets that done over in, well, they
01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:17.399
say reported it could be in Puerto Rico. Now,
01:28:17.420 --> 01:28:22.350
what do you make of people who are - Saying that
01:28:22.350 --> 01:28:25.649
Xander Zayas hasn't fought anybody or they're
01:28:25.649 --> 01:28:27.930
upset with his level of competition, even though
01:28:27.930 --> 01:28:29.729
he has a belt and he's fighting for another belt.
01:28:30.229 --> 01:28:31.909
I mean, he's fighting the guys that he can get
01:28:31.909 --> 01:28:34.189
in the ring. That's what I feel like about it.
01:28:34.609 --> 01:28:38.149
Yeah, that's one. I mean, he fought a former
01:28:38.149 --> 01:28:40.850
world champion, was able to get a winner over
01:28:40.850 --> 01:28:43.229
a former world champion, former WBO world champion
01:28:43.229 --> 01:28:47.729
at that. So, hey, I think as they say, they were
01:28:47.729 --> 01:28:50.229
building him up since when he was like 19 years
01:28:50.229 --> 01:28:55.750
old. Yeah, one thing I find interesting is if
01:28:55.750 --> 01:29:00.130
Xander Zayas would have fought Charles Conwell
01:29:00.130 --> 01:29:04.449
and beat Charles Conwell for the vacant WBO belt,
01:29:04.569 --> 01:29:08.829
and then he was about to fight Yohannes Tellez
01:29:08.829 --> 01:29:12.090
in the unification, would we be complaining about
01:29:12.090 --> 01:29:14.350
his competition? No, they would be really high
01:29:14.350 --> 01:29:18.250
on it. But is it his fault that Charles Conwell
01:29:18.250 --> 01:29:21.460
couldn't make it? No. I don't think he fights
01:29:21.460 --> 01:29:28.539
guys. You get in the ring. Yeah. Right. Wherever
01:29:28.539 --> 01:29:31.239
you get in the ring, he's going to get in the
01:29:31.239 --> 01:29:32.579
ring. And sometimes you got to believe it because
01:29:32.579 --> 01:29:35.020
they do it. And that's what we, listen, we all
01:29:35.020 --> 01:29:38.079
agree that one 54 is one of those divisions of
01:29:38.079 --> 01:29:40.300
boxing where we feel like anybody could be anybody.
01:29:40.779 --> 01:29:45.100
Exactly. So just mix and match. If Charles Conwell
01:29:45.100 --> 01:29:48.199
couldn't be the last man standing. Oh, well that's
01:29:48.199 --> 01:29:54.640
on him. It is what it is. Exactly. Now, Matt,
01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:58.640
we all know I got a hard out there. Can we get
01:29:58.640 --> 01:30:01.479
to the breakdown real quick for Virgil and Lubin
01:30:01.479 --> 01:30:04.300
tonight? We'll skip the last item in news and
01:30:04.300 --> 01:30:07.720
notes, Matt. We'll let you talk about that on
01:30:07.720 --> 01:30:09.960
your own. We'll go to the Ezra breakdown right
01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:13.060
now. Ezra, so Virgil, Ortiz, Erikson, Lubin happening
01:30:13.060 --> 01:30:16.899
tonight.
What do you got? It's similar to Wardley,
01:30:16.979 --> 01:30:19.119
Parker. It's on the main event tonight. Okay,
01:30:19.119 --> 01:30:20.460
it's all the main event, but it's a damn good
01:30:20.460 --> 01:30:22.039
main event. It's a damn good main event. I think
01:30:22.039 --> 01:30:24.500
if people, and myself maybe included, sometimes
01:30:24.500 --> 01:30:26.300
you get down on guys, you remember something
01:30:26.300 --> 01:30:28.539
in your image of Lubin, you know, all beating
01:30:28.539 --> 01:30:30.699
up against Pandora, right? You can't get that
01:30:30.699 --> 01:30:32.199
in your head. You think of Charbel knocking him
01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:33.819
out, and you think, oh, man, he might be done.
01:30:33.979 --> 01:30:36.079
But you know what? Lubin's been damn good outside
01:30:36.079 --> 01:30:38.100
of that. And I know that I'm one of the few guys
01:30:38.100 --> 01:30:39.720
that thinks he beat Jesus Ramos, but I think
01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:41.260
he beat Jesus Ramos. I think y 'all boxed Jesus
01:30:41.260 --> 01:30:43.779
Ramos. I really do. I think when it started,
01:30:43.779 --> 01:30:45.140
it was a little rough for him. But once he found
01:30:45.140 --> 01:30:46.979
the distance, he found the timing, and he started
01:30:46.979 --> 01:30:49.000
hitting him at distance. He looked damn good.
01:30:49.140 --> 01:30:51.079
He's also a southpaw, and he's fighting Virgil
01:30:51.079 --> 01:30:53.079
Ortiz, orthodox, and that's going to favor him
01:30:53.079 --> 01:30:55.539
in that matchup, right? Because Virgil Ortiz
01:30:55.539 --> 01:30:57.260
is going to have to come forward and get past
01:30:57.260 --> 01:30:59.739
that front foot. That's not easy. That does make
01:30:59.739 --> 01:31:01.640
it a little bit easier for Lubin to be able to
01:31:01.640 --> 01:31:03.659
keep distance and time, Virgil, as he comes in.
01:31:03.779 --> 01:31:06.119
Now, Virgil, as he stepped up in class, you got
01:31:06.119 --> 01:31:11.739
Bolchuk and you got Majumov. Although, you know,
01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:13.380
I think he won both those fights. At first, I
01:31:13.380 --> 01:31:15.680
wasn't sure about the Bolchuk fight, but then
01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:17.699
when I got to watch it, I thought he won. But
01:31:17.699 --> 01:31:21.199
I did feel the change of level in class. It wasn't
01:31:21.199 --> 01:31:23.760
to me like Boots versus Danny Onus where it felt
01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:25.340
like Boots was doing exactly what he did to everybody
01:31:25.340 --> 01:31:27.939
else. He did to a top -level guy. That's what
01:31:27.939 --> 01:31:29.560
it felt like to me. You know what I mean? But
01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:31.960
Virgil, I did kind of feel like, hey, this is
01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:33.720
a different level of class of fighters. And I
01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:35.340
kind of feel it. I could kind of feel it in this
01:31:35.340 --> 01:31:39.479
game. In this fight, it's obvious that Virgil's
01:31:39.479 -->
01:31:40.800
going to come forward. And it's obvious that
01:31:40.800 --> 01:31:42.680
Lubin's going to look to box. Lubin has not been
01:31:42.680 --> 01:31:45.739
as aggressive. And if you look at... Lubin's
01:31:45.739 --> 01:31:48.739
last fight against Holmes, it wasn't the most
01:31:48.739 --> 01:31:51.159
impressive performance. It didn't stand out to
01:31:51.159 --> 01:31:53.659
you, but also Holmes is a very negative fighter,
01:31:53.760 --> 01:31:56.119
a counterpuncher, and Lubin's more of a counterpuncher.
01:31:56.420 --> 01:31:58.060
Go back to Rommel's fight, though, that opened
01:31:58.060 --> 01:31:59.840
up Lubin's game because the guy was an aggressor.
01:31:59.920 --> 01:32:01.319
He's a batter just waiting for someone to pitch
01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:03.060
to him. That's what he's going to have tonight.
01:32:03.159 --> 01:32:05.359
He's going to have a guy pitching to him. Do
01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:06.699
you guys hear something in the background, or
01:32:06.699 --> 01:32:14.369
am I tripping? Okay, I must be tripping. And
01:32:14.369 --> 01:32:15.369
he's going to have his own pitcher in the book.
01:32:15.510 --> 01:32:16.909
He's going to be able to counterpunch. He's going
01:32:16.909 --> 01:32:18.369
to be able to pick his shots. That's where Lubin's
01:32:18.369 --> 01:32:20.270
at his best. I think he's going to open up his
01:32:20.270 --> 01:32:23.529
game, and he's going to be to do the stuff he's
01:32:23.529 --> 01:32:28.350
really good at. I still think that Virgil, pressure,
01:32:28.770 --> 01:32:32.350
his offense, and everything will weigh down Lubin
01:32:32.350 --> 01:32:34.670
over time. But I expect success from Lubin early.
01:32:35.010 --> 01:32:37.550
And I think that over time, when he gets stuck
01:32:37.550 --> 01:32:38.649
against the ropes, because he has to have to
01:32:38.649 --> 01:32:40.350
get stuck in the ropes, and just depending on
01:32:40.350 --> 01:32:43.260
a high guard, I think that... Virgil's going
01:32:43.260 --> 01:32:44.859
to find the offense. I think this is a really
01:32:44.859 --> 01:32:47.680
tough fight. Hold on, hold on. Real quick, real
01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:50.300
quick. We had a comment from one of the listeners.
01:32:51.640 --> 01:32:53.819
He said if he went the distance with Fandora,
01:32:53.840 --> 01:32:55.399
he's definitely not quitting or stopping with
01:32:55.399 --> 01:32:58.399
Ortiz. A good bet in my opinion. I hate to break
01:32:58.399 --> 01:33:00.899
it to you. He ain't going the distance with Fandora.
01:33:01.239 --> 01:33:02.500
Yeah, he ain't going the distance with Fandora.
01:33:03.199 --> 01:33:04.960
People don't remember that fight, but he didn't
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:07.579
go the distance. I don't think Lubin remembers
01:33:07.579 --> 01:33:11.350
that fight. But Virgil's pressure, and when he
01:33:11.350 --> 01:33:13.810
gets against the ropes, Lubin's defense is a
01:33:13.810 --> 01:33:15.329
little bit too one -dimensional against the ropes
01:33:15.329 --> 01:33:17.649
that I think that Virgil will be able to capitalize
01:33:17.649 --> 01:33:19.270
on those moments. I think that Virgil breaks
01:33:19.270 --> 01:33:21.229
him down late. I think it's a close fight. He
01:33:21.229 --> 01:33:23.029
might even be down on the cards, but he will
01:33:23.029 --> 01:33:25.130
eventually get to Lubin. He will eventually drop
01:33:25.130 --> 01:33:28.109
Lubin, and he will eventually stop Lubin in this
01:33:28.109 --> 01:33:29.949
fight. I think we're in for a very good fight,
01:33:30.109 --> 01:33:32.609
and we're going to be seeing if Lubin can handle
01:33:32.609 --> 01:33:34.890
the second half of this fight. Can Lubin hold
01:33:34.890 --> 01:33:36.649
up the second half of the fight, and is Virgil
01:33:36.649 --> 01:33:39.090
going to feel that level of class change again?
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:40.960
Because like I said, I felt it in all the last
01:33:40.960 --> 01:33:42.979
two fights. I'm waiting for that performance
01:33:42.979 --> 01:33:45.699
where he puts, solidifies, like, hey, I'm different.
01:33:46.100 --> 01:33:47.859
Separate myself from the class. I haven't seen
01:33:47.859 --> 01:33:49.720
that yet. Maybe it's tonight. I'm going to pick
01:33:49.720 --> 01:33:51.560
Virgil. I think it's a tough fight. I think it's
01:33:51.560 --> 01:33:53.279
a good fight. I think it's a fight worth watching.
01:33:53.859 --> 01:33:56.319
And please. Well, not only is it a fight worth
01:33:56.319 --> 01:33:59.079
watching, I think that this is one of those fights
01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:00.579
that might not go the way people think it's going
01:34:00.579 --> 01:34:03.279
to go. It could go that way. Now, I personally,
01:34:03.420 --> 01:34:07.060
I'm going with conventional wisdom, and I'm picking
01:34:07.060 --> 01:34:11.199
Virgil. Because I just think that Lubin might
01:34:11.199 --> 01:34:14.319
be too shopworn. He's been through so many wars
01:34:14.319 --> 01:34:18.760
in his career, man. How much more can I take?
01:34:19.220 --> 01:34:21.659
You know, he might be on his Tyrese shit, man.
01:34:22.079 --> 01:34:24.779
Fucking around with Virgil. The only thing I'm
01:34:24.779 --> 01:34:27.140
100 % sure about in this fight is that somebody's
01:34:27.140 --> 01:34:30.729
put on the ass. It might be Lubin. It might be
01:34:30.729 --> 01:34:34.649
both. Someone's going to put their ass in this
01:34:34.649 --> 01:34:37.449
fight. Because both guys leave themselves open
01:34:37.449 --> 01:34:40.630
to some counter shots. And we've seen both guys
01:34:40.630 --> 01:34:43.369
down in their career. This is one of the very
01:34:43.369 --> 01:34:45.189
best fights in all of boxing. I'm glad that this
01:34:45.189 --> 01:34:48.510
happened tonight. But I will say, I'm disappointed
01:34:48.510 --> 01:34:50.789
that you're basically calling this a one -fight
01:34:50.789 --> 01:34:53.909
card. Because there's another fight on this card
01:34:53.909 --> 01:34:57.560
that has... a chance to steal the show. And I'm
01:34:57.560 --> 01:35:00.420
talking about Darius Fulgham versus David Stevens.
01:35:01.140 --> 01:35:07.000
That is going to be a banger. Guaranteed banger.
01:35:07.239 --> 01:35:10.260
So look out for that fight. The thing with Fulgham,
01:35:10.439 --> 01:35:11.659
and I get why you're saying that, and it does
01:35:11.659 --> 01:35:14.279
feel like the matchup is pretty good, but Fulgham,
01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:17.140
his last fight was really entertaining versus
01:35:17.140 --> 01:35:22.180
Big Beck. But - Back to Bobby. You know, I'm
01:35:22.180 --> 01:35:24.960
a person - You know he calls him - I call him
01:35:24.960 --> 01:35:30.239
Satchmo. But like I said, that fight was really
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:32.159
entertaining. Before that, Fulcrum's not really
01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:33.920
that much of an entertainer of a fighter. I don't
01:35:33.920 --> 01:35:35.359
think he wants to be in that type of fight again.
01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:37.279
So we'll see what happens there. The guy you
01:35:37.279 --> 01:35:39.000
have to pay attention to on this undercard is
01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:41.079
Joshua Edwards. I mean, are you talking about
01:35:41.079 --> 01:35:44.020
American heavyweights, who we have really no
01:35:44.020 --> 01:35:45.680
one to really be excited about? This is a guy
01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:47.840
you get excited about. Good speed, good power,
01:35:47.939 --> 01:35:50.819
and to me, a good size for heavyweight. I think
01:35:50.819 --> 01:35:52.760
that this guy's someone to watch. This is Golden
01:35:52.760 --> 01:35:55.260
Boy's chance to build the next superstar for
01:35:55.260 --> 01:35:57.359
them. I think this is really the highest potential
01:35:57.359 --> 01:35:59.079
superstar that they could have on the roster
01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:00.880
right now. And I'm saying that with Ryan Garcia
01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:02.859
and Virgil Ortiz on the roster. I think this
01:36:02.859 --> 01:36:05.760
guy has more ceiling, is way higher a star potential
01:36:05.760 --> 01:36:07.899
than those guys because he's an American heavyweight.
01:36:08.119 --> 01:36:10.199
All right, well, give the people your parlay.
01:36:10.979 --> 01:36:14.220
My parlay, boxing -wise, not great, not great
01:36:14.220 --> 01:36:15.840
stuff today. But I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:19.199
take - My God. Yeah, let me go. Virgil Ortiz
01:36:19.199 --> 01:36:23.859
by KO or TKO. Then you got to go across two other
01:36:23.859 --> 01:36:26.100
sports. Los Angeles Lakers tonight against the
01:36:26.100 --> 01:36:29.279
Hawks. Moneyline. LA Rams versus San Francisco
01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:31.979
49ers is a payback game. The Rams are hungry
01:36:31.979 --> 01:36:34.960
for this. They're not going to let the 49ers
01:36:34.960 --> 01:36:36.039
think by it. They're not going to get surprised.
01:36:36.180 --> 01:36:39.000
They are hungry for
this rematch. Moneyline.
01:36:39.140 --> 01:36:42.100
And this three -leg parlay. Virgil, stoppage.
01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:46.279
Lakers, Rams, Moneyline, plus 279. It's so funny.
01:36:46.869 --> 01:36:49.770
All we got to do for your parlays is put a box
01:36:49.770 --> 01:36:52.210
intake and then whatever LA teams are playing.
01:36:52.670 --> 01:36:54.789
It's the same shit. And it always hits, man.
01:36:54.930 --> 01:36:58.050
Hey, it always hits. It always hits. Ezra, one
01:36:58.050 --> 01:36:59.829
more thing before you got to leave. Tomorrow,
01:36:59.949 --> 01:37:04.350
today. I think tomorrow, today, with Virgil Ortiz,
01:37:04.430 --> 01:37:06.810
because I think this is going to be a tough fight.
01:37:06.909 --> 01:37:09.149
I think this is going to be a tough fight. I
01:37:09.149 --> 01:37:10.750
think that people are going to say, I don't think
01:37:10.750 --> 01:37:12.630
he's ready for boots. I think that's what the
01:37:12.630 --> 01:37:14.369
look is after this fight. Because I think that
01:37:14.369 --> 01:37:16.420
people are going to see. I think you might see
01:37:16.420 --> 01:37:19.119
a little bit even more patient Virgil today,
01:37:19.239 --> 01:37:22.140
more or more boxing Virgil today. And I don't
01:37:22.140 --> 01:37:23.560
think they're gonna see the destruction that
01:37:23.560 --> 01:37:26.199
maybe they're expecting early on, right? I don't
01:37:26.199 --> 01:37:27.600
think they're gonna see that devastation early
01:37:27.600 --> 01:37:28.899
on. I think it's gonna be a tough fight. And
01:37:28.899 --> 01:37:30.779
I think people are gonna say, hey, I think Boots
01:37:30.779 --> 01:37:31.979
is favored in this fight. I think we walk away
01:37:31.979 --> 01:37:34.319
saying Boots is the guy to win that fight. I
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:37.300
think if Lubin wins, right? If Lubin wins, it's
01:37:37.300 --> 01:37:39.739
still gonna be the story on Virgil, right? Lubin
01:37:39.739 --> 01:37:41.899
wins, you're gonna say, hey, Lubin maybe is gonna
01:37:41.899 --> 01:37:43.699
be a rematch for Fedora, right? He's in this
01:37:43.699 --> 01:37:45.199
interesting spot, but you're still gonna say,
01:37:45.899 --> 01:37:48.500
that Virgil got exposed. And I think there's
01:37:48.500 --> 01:37:50.300
going to be a lot of complaints about, oh, Virgil
01:37:50.300 --> 01:37:51.899
should have went up in weight and all that, which
01:37:51.899 --> 01:37:53.439
we usually have. If someone loses, I think they're
01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:54.539
going to hear a lot of that if Virgil loses.
01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:57.159
All right, last thing before you get out of here,
01:37:57.239 --> 01:38:00.000
for real this time. Okay. We got to have a talk
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:01.500
with your wife, man. This is getting out of hand.
01:38:01.619 --> 01:38:03.979
It is. It's a lot of events. I didn't realize
01:38:03.979 --> 01:38:05.859
it was so busy. But you know what she said? You
01:38:05.859 --> 01:38:06.819
know what she says when I tell her anything?
01:38:07.039 --> 01:38:09.300
San Antonio. That's what she says. And I'm like,
01:38:09.439 --> 01:38:13.970
you know what? You know what? You know what you
01:38:13.970 --> 01:38:15.710
should say to her whenever she says to you? Say,
01:38:15.829 --> 01:38:23.569
why I oughta. To the moon. But the biggest ticket
01:38:23.569 --> 01:38:28.029
sellers in boxing. Okay. Okay, because first
01:38:28.029 --> 01:38:31.149
of all, people talk about who sells, who's this,
01:38:31.289 --> 01:38:33.390
who's that, who's the face of this, who's the
01:38:33.390 --> 01:38:36.289
face of that. But I think people not understand
01:38:36.289 --> 01:38:40.270
who really moving weight in boxing. So who are
01:38:40.270 --> 01:38:42.649
your biggest ticket sellers in boxing? Okay,
01:38:42.689 --> 01:38:44.550
this is my list. I think you want this list for
01:38:44.550 --> 01:38:46.970
a certain reason. Tell me why. I don't think
01:38:46.970 --> 01:38:50.090
I got there where you wanted it. Why do you think
01:38:50.090 --> 01:38:52.270
I want this list? I think you want to prove a
01:38:52.270 --> 01:38:53.470
point that Clarissa Shields is one of the biggest
01:38:53.470 --> 01:38:55.010
ticket sellers in the box. She just signed a
01:38:55.010 --> 01:38:58.760
big deal. No, this is my idea, Ezra. No, he's
01:38:58.760 --> 01:39:01.000
lying to you. I asked Matt to do this. He's lying
01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:06.920
to you. I was actually in the space when this
01:39:06.920 --> 01:39:09.739
came up. TY came up with the idea for this. I
01:39:09.739 --> 01:39:11.779
know you, Matt. You're from Brooklyn. I didn't
01:39:11.779 --> 01:39:13.979
say anything. What I was about to tell Ezra was
01:39:13.979 --> 01:39:17.319
he was wrong because this is Todd's idea. But
01:39:17.319 --> 01:39:22.550
you ruined it for me. Thank you. Jesus. You're
01:39:22.550 --> 01:39:24.170
from Brooklyn. I can't trust you. I'm a little
01:39:24.170 --> 01:39:25.829
faint from prospect. I don't trust you dudes,
01:39:25.850 --> 01:39:29.390
man. All right, I'm going to go with my list.
01:39:30.029 --> 01:39:33.470
At number 10, top 10 biggest ticket sellers in
01:39:33.470 --> 01:39:38.590
boxing, Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury at number 10.
01:39:38.710 --> 01:39:44.909
At number 9, Jake Paul. At number 8, David Benavidez.
01:39:45.750 --> 01:39:53.000
At number 7, Manny Pacquiao. At number six, Terrence
01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:58.260
Crawford. At number five, Anthony Joshua. At
01:39:58.260 --> 01:40:02.560
number four, Inouye. At number three, and now
01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:04.779
this one hasn't really been proven yet, but in
01:40:04.779 --> 01:40:07.199
another sport, he was a huge ticket seller. I
01:40:07.199 --> 01:40:09.039
think he's going to become a huge ticket seller
01:40:09.039 --> 01:40:12.960
in this sport. Tenshin Nakasawa. At number two,
01:40:13.960 --> 01:40:17.359
Tank Gervonta Davis. Wait, wait, say his name
01:40:17.359
--> 01:40:20.779
again. Tenjin Nakasawa? Or is it Naku? Nasakawa.
01:40:21.380 --> 01:40:26.359
Nasakawa, there you go. Number one, Canelo Alvarez.
01:40:26.760 --> 01:40:29.439
Canelo. The biggest ticket seller of the sport.
01:40:30.199 --> 01:40:35.420
Canelo. I think the order, obviously, is fucked
01:40:35.420 --> 01:40:39.539
up. But it's interesting. Very interesting. I'm
01:40:39.539 --> 01:40:42.119
surprised that Devin Haney didn't make the list.
01:40:43.760 --> 01:40:46.460
Really? Yes, Devin Haney is one of the best ticket
01:40:46.460 --> 01:40:49.520
sellers in Boston. Okay. I'm surprised that Clarissa
01:40:49.520 --> 01:40:52.880
Shields didn't. That's why I think you were expecting
01:40:52.880 --> 01:40:54.579
me on the list. She was an honorable mention.
01:40:55.319 --> 01:40:57.720
Here's the thing. When I think of ticket sellers,
01:40:58.020 --> 01:41:02.220
I think of guys that can move weight no matter
01:41:02.220 --> 01:41:06.739
who the opponent is. I get you. So when we talk
01:41:06.739 --> 01:41:10.439
about Canelo, Canelo can fight me or you. Yeah.
01:41:10.500 --> 01:41:12.640
He'll sell a certain amount of tickets. Tank
01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:14.779
can sell a certain amount of tickets. Yeah. Anyway.
01:41:15.300 --> 01:41:18.579
Yeah. I don't think I heard you say NUA. He was
01:41:18.579 --> 01:41:20.760
number four on my list. Yeah, I don't know why
01:41:20.760 --> 01:41:22.840
you had Tenshin ahead of him. Because Tenshin
01:41:22.840 --> 01:41:26.659
in MMA, in kickboxing, sorry, sold $25 million.
01:41:27.000 --> 01:41:30.520
Correct, correct. But NUA sold $5 million in
01:41:30.520 --> 01:41:33.039
the US. I get you, I get you. But I think that
01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:35.560
Tenshin is going to be a massive, massive gate.
01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:38.500
We'll see. Yeah, we got the next fight. Yeah,
01:41:38.500 --> 01:41:42.380
we'll see, we'll see. But NUA, obviously, I do
01:41:42.380 --> 01:41:47.119
agree with you on Tenshin, Nasukawa. on Hashitashi,
01:41:47.260 --> 01:41:53.800
as you call him. Fury's retired, okay? Joshua,
01:41:53.819 --> 01:41:58.640
I agree, he sells tickets. I think Shields bumps
01:41:58.640 --> 01:42:01.060
Fury from that top 10, though. Okay, that's fine.
01:42:01.140 --> 01:42:02.340
She's right there. I mean, she's right there.
01:42:02.359 --> 01:42:04.699
She's number 11, so that's fine. I think it's
01:42:04.699 --> 01:42:07.100
very interesting that a woman would even be in
01:42:07.100 --> 01:42:09.760
consideration. That just shows how big time she
01:42:09.760 --> 01:42:15.920
is. Is she as Doja Rotteness? No. Yeah, Jaron
01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:18.159
Ennis has two examples of being a ticket seller.
01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:21.220
I think his last event, and I do think that it
01:42:21.220 --> 01:42:23.560
really gonna depend now on the opponent. Now,
01:42:23.579 --> 01:42:25.340
I think that he needs to get some fights right
01:42:25.340 --> 01:42:26.500
there. But I
do think he has potential to be
01:42:26.500 --> 01:42:28.319
a big ticket seller. No, no, no, no, no, no,
01:42:28.319 --> 01:42:31.479
no, no. Jaron Ennis has proven that he could
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:33.960
sell tickets no matter who the opponent is. Twice,
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:37.359
he did that twice. Yeah, but he did that with
01:42:37.359 --> 01:42:40.579
less than stellar opposition. I get you, I get
01:42:40.579 --> 01:42:43.060
you, I get you. And he did it three times. That's
01:42:43.060 --> 01:42:45.600
fine. So he's in close. I mean, would you play
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:48.800
Tyson Fury with him? I would put him ahead of
01:42:48.800 --> 01:42:51.420
Tyson Fury because his gate was bigger than Tyson
01:42:51.420 --> 01:42:54.479
Fury's without another guy. Remember when he
01:42:54.479 --> 01:42:59.939
fought Otto Wallen and Schwartz, both of those
01:42:59.939 --> 01:43:01.920
did under a million at the gate. Yeah, no, I
01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:03.800
get you. But if he's in the UK, is he doing under
01:43:03.800 --> 01:43:07.060
a million at the gate? No. Who knows? Why didn't
01:43:07.060 --> 01:43:08.819
they put him in the UK? Because they're trying
01:43:08.819 --> 01:43:10.560
to build him a star here. They thought they had
01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:13.579
something there. And then he got banned. Shout
01:43:13.579 --> 01:43:18.659
out to Daniel Kinahan. Wow. Matt, you got a list
01:43:18.659 --> 01:43:23.060
before Ezra takes off? No, I just want to critique
01:43:23.060 --> 01:43:25.279
his list. Yeah, I realize that you give me these
01:43:25.279 --> 01:43:27.739
things, right? And I want people to know, I heard
01:43:27.739 --> 01:43:29.579
about this two minutes before the show started.
01:43:29.699 --> 01:43:33.859
No, no, no, no, no, no. Ezra, Ezra, I texted
01:43:33.859 --> 01:43:36.239
you well before that. That's not true. That's
01:43:36.239 --> 01:43:41.100
not true. Now, and I build this list. And then,
01:43:41.140 --> 01:43:42.579
you know, you have the nerve to say, oh, it's
01:43:42.579 --> 01:43:44.020
not in the right order. It's like, hey, I only
01:43:44.020 --> 01:43:45.840
had about two minutes to think about it. And
01:43:45.840 --> 01:43:47.619
that's a pretty damn solid list for two minutes.
01:43:47.720 --> 01:43:48.880
I mean, really, you only have one complaint.
01:43:48.960 --> 01:43:51.899
You're like, oh, Fury. Now, I want to say one
01:43:51.899 --> 01:43:52.939
thing, because I know you're going to talk about
01:43:52.939 --> 01:43:54.000
this. You can talk about this when I leave. I
01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:57.100
got to get going. But I will say this. And congratulations
01:43:57.100 --> 01:43:59.399
to Carissa Shields. She's made herself into a
01:43:59.399 --> 01:44:01.380
big name, a big star in boxing. I've seen her.
01:44:01.399 --> 01:44:03.399
She's even interviewing podcasts with Stephanie
01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:05.659
McMahon. I think that's really big for her. I'm
01:44:05.659 -->
01:44:07.939
actually happy for her. Carissa Shields, I thought,
01:44:07.979 --> 01:44:09.800
was very disrespected during the Olympics. I
01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:12.180
thought that she should have been really on the
01:44:12.180 --> 01:44:15.199
cover of everything. As an only boxer to get
01:44:15.199 --> 01:44:17.479
a gold medal at that point. Does it twice. I
01:44:17.479 --> 01:44:20.140
think that she should have been a bigger star
01:44:20.140 --> 01:44:21.300
at that point. I thought that everything was
01:44:21.300 --> 01:44:22.779
against her and she still became a big star.
01:44:22.960 --> 01:44:25.140
She did smart moves. I got a lot of credit for
01:44:25.140 --> 01:44:27.239
her. And I'm glad she got the money. I just,
01:44:27.300 --> 01:44:29.380
honestly, though, this decision was boring to
01:44:29.380 --> 01:44:31.640
me. I gotta be honest with you. I was expecting
01:44:31.640 --> 01:44:35.159
to be more excited about this decision. I wasn't.
01:44:35.180 --> 01:44:36.800
I gotta be honest with you. That's where I stand
01:44:36.800 --> 01:44:38.340
on it. I don't know. She's getting her money.
01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:40.800
I'm happy for that. But it's just not, doesn't
01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:44.020
excite me as I thought it would. Hey, can you
01:44:44.020 --> 01:44:47.340
do me a favor? What do you need? Can you add
01:44:47.340 --> 01:44:52.420
as well? You blocked. You as dumb as hell. You
01:44:52.420 --> 01:44:55.979
blocked, man. Thank you. I knew that was going
01:44:55.979 --> 01:44:59.420
to happen. Thank you. It was some big names.
01:45:00.420 --> 01:45:03.779
It's your name. Which one? You had guys like
01:45:03.779 --> 01:45:08.939
Tia Fimo, Shakur. No, I'm not saying names, like
01:45:08.939 --> 01:45:12.380
Ryan Garcia. No, no, Ryan Garcia sells tickets.
01:45:12.659 --> 01:45:17.539
When and where? Ryan Garcia sells tickets. What
01:45:17.539 --> 01:45:23.270
about Virgil Ortiz? I said Shakur. So, Shakur,
01:45:23.270 --> 01:45:26.250
all right, all right, take a seller. Probably
01:45:26.250 --> 01:45:28.930
in the top, you know, 10 to 20, right? In the
01:45:28.930 --> 01:45:30.390
right market, probably, but I don't know that
01:45:30.390 --> 01:45:33.229
we've seen it outside of it, so maybe not. How's
01:45:33.229 --> 01:45:35.529
the event going tonight? How's the virtual event
01:45:35.529 --> 01:45:37.850
going? This is, no, not looking good. Not great,
01:45:37.890 --> 01:45:42.369
not great, not looking good. All right, guys,
01:45:42.470 --> 01:45:45.550
I love you guys. Great show, excellent stuff.
01:45:46.200 --> 01:45:48.439
Whatever happens after I leave, remember, that
01:45:48.439 --> 01:45:51.500
can only, like I said, that can't hurt my brand.
01:45:51.859 --> 01:45:54.460
That's not in the show here. Let's say right
01:45:54.460 --> 01:45:55.739
now this is what the show is. Now the show might
01:45:55.739 --> 01:45:57.579
continue, right? There might be something that
01:45:57.579 -->
01:46:00.119
happens after I leave, but what we had here was
01:46:00.119 --> 01:46:03.420
special. I really believe that. All right. Tell
01:46:03.420 --> 01:46:09.000
your wife we said hello. Wow. You're crazy, man.
01:46:09.800 --> 01:46:17.359
You know how you're going to tell. What's up?
01:46:17.399 --> 01:46:19.880
That whole thing with Clarissa Shields, make
01:46:19.880 --> 01:46:22.600
sure you bring it up next time you communicate
01:46:22.600 --> 01:46:26.500
with the boxing academic. Yeah, no doubt, no
01:46:26.500 --> 01:46:29.939
doubt, no doubt. But Tom, who do you think are
01:46:29.939 --> 01:46:31.260
some of the biggest ticket sellers in boxing?
01:46:32.539 --> 01:46:34.460
I think your name, though, really. Your name,
01:46:34.500 --> 01:46:37.300
though. I mean, I always name guys, you probably
01:46:37.300 --> 01:46:39.979
thought that, no, that's why I named Virgil,
01:46:40.100 --> 01:46:43.140
Shakur, those type of guys, but. I don't know
01:46:43.140 --> 01:46:44.800
about detention type of guys. I'm not going to
01:46:44.800 --> 01:46:47.859
fraud, but when we talk about in the space, I
01:46:47.859 --> 01:46:49.380
would be talking about American guys. You know
01:46:49.380 --> 01:46:52.159
what I mean? Because we're talking about Clarissa
01:46:52.159 --> 01:46:54.159
Shields and she's doing over a million dollar
01:46:54.159 --> 01:46:56.600
gates. When a guy do a million dollar gate, you
01:46:56.600 --> 01:46:58.159
know what I mean? We ready to make him a superstar.
01:46:58.460 --> 01:47:02.399
You got to think. Last year, when Keyshawn did
01:47:02.399 --> 01:47:04.520
a million dollar gate, we ready to make him Roberto
01:47:04.520 --> 01:47:07.819
Duran. So yeah, Clarissa do it all the time.
01:47:08.260 --> 01:47:12.569
Yeah. Now, I will say a couple guys that I think
01:47:12.569 --> 01:47:15.270
he missed, not purposely, but because they don't
01:47:15.270 --> 01:47:17.930
box no more. Errol Spence is a ticket seller.
01:47:18.489 --> 01:47:23.210
And Jermell Charlo is a ticket seller. I agree
01:47:23.210 --> 01:47:25.689
with him. Yeah, those guys are tickets sellers.
01:47:25.909 --> 01:47:28.609
And that's why when we talk about the health
01:47:28.609 --> 01:47:31.090
of the sport, especially in the United States
01:47:31.090 --> 01:47:33.550
of America, it's because these guys are not fighting.
01:47:34.949 --> 01:47:39.050
These guys are not fighting. When I said Matt,
01:47:39.819 --> 01:47:41.619
I'm all for, like, I'm all for, we talk about
01:47:41.619 --> 01:47:43.680
you, I'm all for the older guy, older cast fighting,
01:47:43.779 --> 01:47:46.500
man. Let them dudes fight, man. I'm for a Charlo
01:47:46.500 --> 01:47:50.180
versus a Spence. Like, no, we was hyped for Keith
01:47:50.180 --> 01:47:52.119
Bama versus Front Door. Like, what you say, he
01:47:52.119 --> 01:47:54.039
comes through the front door, right? Yeah, yeah.
01:47:54.359 --> 01:47:57.000
Home invasion. Straight through the
front door.
01:47:57.180 --> 01:48:00.140
Straight through the front door. Straight through
01:48:00.140 --> 01:48:05.869
the front door, man. Go ahead, Yuri. I was going
01:48:05.869 --> 01:48:07.289
to say, do you want to go back to the Clarissa
01:48:07.289 --> 01:48:09.229
Shields deal or after this you want to move forward
01:48:09.229 --> 01:48:13.890
into quick hits? Well, we could put Clarissa
01:48:13.890 --> 01:48:17.010
Shields into quick hits. All right. Well, then
01:48:17.010 --> 01:48:18.770
let's start with that. Clarissa Shields signing
01:48:18.770 --> 01:48:22.170
a historic two -year, $8 million base multi -fight
01:48:22.170 --> 01:48:23.890
deal with win records and Salido promotions.
01:48:25.670 --> 01:48:27.670
Where do you want to talk about this, Matt? Where
01:48:27.670 --> 01:48:30.989
do you want to start with? Hey, I love Clarissa
01:48:30.989 --> 01:48:35.680
Shields. I'm very happy for her. Very, very happy
01:48:35.680 --> 01:48:40.600
for her. The album is coming. She's going to
01:48:40.600 --> 01:48:43.699
drop her album. She's going to drop her album.
01:48:44.420 --> 01:48:48.479
The album is coming. The album is coming. Is
01:48:48.479 --> 01:48:51.420
Papoose writing the album? No. She writes her
01:48:51.420 --> 01:48:54.979
own rhymes. Come on, man. Come on. So this is
01:48:54.979 --> 01:48:56.300
a coincidence. All of a sudden, she's a Papoose.
01:48:56.340 --> 01:48:57.619
She's a rapper. That's all I'm saying, Huey.
01:48:57.699 --> 01:49:00.199
That's all I'm saying. I ain't got no bars for
01:49:00.199 --> 01:49:03.289
the Papoose. She used to do music before, Ty.
01:49:03.590 --> 01:49:05.329
Rappers want to be athletes. Athletes want to
01:49:05.329 --> 01:49:08.069
be rappers. You know how it is. When she started
01:49:08.069 --> 01:49:09.529
talking about the alphabet backwards, don't say
01:49:09.529 --> 01:49:11.430
Pat went writing it. It's all I got to say. Come
01:49:11.430 --> 01:49:16.329
on, man. Come on. Listen. Hey, man. What's up?
01:49:17.750 --> 01:49:20.869
Is she going to go double uranium with this album?
01:49:21.050 --> 01:49:24.010
Come on, man. Come on, man. She going diamond.
01:49:24.270 --> 01:49:26.750
But here's the thing, right? With this deal that
01:49:26.750 --> 01:49:29.289
she signed, I'm glad she's getting her money.
01:49:29.989 --> 01:49:33.170
As long as... She fights the people we want her
01:49:33.170 --> 01:49:35.609
to fight. I don't think it matters where the
01:49:35.609 --> 01:49:38.350
money comes from. Who do we want her to fight?
01:49:38.710 --> 01:49:44.829
I want to see her fight Shadesha Green. I want
01:49:44.829 --> 01:49:48.149
to see her fight Lauren Price. I want to see
01:49:48.149 --> 01:49:52.689
her fight Michaela Mayer. And I want to see her
01:49:52.689 --> 01:49:59.670
fight Christine Cyborg. Michaela Mayer is an
01:49:59.670 --> 01:50:03.970
interesting one. Yeah. Do you think that'll be
01:50:03.970 --> 01:50:10.390
a 160? Either 154 or 160. Hmm. Did she make that?
01:50:10.529 --> 01:50:13.970
Yeah. She said she was. She said she's interested
01:50:13.970 --> 01:50:18.029
in the fight. She's a killer. Well, here's the
01:50:18.029 --> 01:50:19.949
other thing that's interesting with this deal.
01:50:20.489 --> 01:50:23.550
Since it was under a Salida promotion, so she
01:50:23.550 --> 01:50:28.029
was able to get the initial, I guess you said,
01:50:28.130 --> 01:50:30.899
renegotiate with Salida. And then get a new deal.
01:50:31.560 --> 01:50:35.500
And when that happened, there was a certain fighter
01:50:35.500 --> 01:50:38.159
that was a little bit bothered by that decision
01:50:38.159 --> 01:50:41.060
when that happened. Because she recently signed
01:50:41.060 --> 01:50:43.260
with Salida Promotions. Who are we talking about?
01:50:45.579 --> 01:50:48.159
Franchon Cruz. So she was bothered by the fact
01:50:48.159 --> 01:50:52.420
that she was resigning? Not resigning when she
01:50:52.420 --> 01:50:55.640
announced that she was ending the deal with Salida
01:50:55.640 --> 01:50:58.760
Promotions. What was her contract? Because she
01:50:58.760 --> 01:51:02.170
didn't know. Remember, yeah, but she didn't think
01:51:02.170 --> 01:51:04.689
that or she didn't know that if she was going
01:51:04.689 --> 01:51:06.890
to re -sign with Salida Promotions, though, at
01:51:06.890 --> 01:51:11.369
the time. Okay. So with this new deal, now I
01:51:11.369 --> 01:51:14.029
want to see if that fight could be resurrected.
01:51:14.510 --> 01:51:20.329
And the other thing, too, with this deal, with
01:51:20.329 --> 01:51:23.550
Clarissa getting this amount of money that, as
01:51:23.550 --> 01:51:27.729
they say, increases the value of the - deal that
01:51:27.729 --> 01:51:30.149
the opponents will get. So that's going to really
01:51:30.149 --> 01:51:34.649
be real good for women's boxing on that front.
01:51:35.250 --> 01:51:37.569
Yeah, yeah. But those are interesting matchups
01:51:37.569 --> 01:51:42.050
too. Yeah, but I don't think she's fighting Fran
01:51:42.050 --> 01:51:44.810
Charm. She didn't say it to me outright, but
01:51:44.810 --> 01:51:48.430
the sense that I got from her is that there's
01:51:48.430 --> 01:51:52.149
a little issue that maybe Fran Charm was talking
01:51:52.149 --> 01:51:56.920
out of school and that might affect. That might
01:51:56.920 --> 01:52:01.840
affect her willingness to get French on that
01:52:01.840 --> 01:52:08.359
fight. Because she already beat her. I mean,
01:52:08.380 --> 01:52:14.039
she already beat her. But, you know, Roy Jones
01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:16.560
already beat Bernard Hopkins and they still had
01:52:16.560 --> 01:52:20.180
a rematch. Which sucked. Yeah, that's not a good
01:52:20.180 --> 01:52:25.939
example. One, one, one. It was one, one. I don't
01:52:25.939 --> 01:52:28.819
care what y 'all say. It was 1 -1. They want
01:52:28.819 --> 01:52:32.000
to do the trilogy. It's 1 -1. What else you got
01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:35.439
for us? We saw Floyd Money Mayweather receive
01:52:35.439 --> 01:52:37.899
another award, but this time outside the ring
01:52:37.899 --> 01:52:40.579
for the Republican Jewish Coalition's World Champion
01:52:40.579 --> 01:52:43.800
for Israel Award for his undying support of Israel.
01:52:43.899 --> 01:52:45.899
Matt, what are your thoughts on Floyd's newest
01:52:45.899 --> 01:52:49.659
accomplishment? I don't have any thoughts. I
01:52:49.659 --> 01:52:51.300
just wanted to put this on the rundown, just
01:52:51.300 --> 01:52:56.550
to put it on the rundown. I like to thank all
01:52:56.550 --> 01:53:01.949
of those guys. Those are hell of a guys. I support
01:53:01.949 --> 01:53:06.250
Israel. I know what's going on, but that's where
01:53:06.250 --> 01:53:13.710
I rock with. Legendary rapper Cameron is going
01:53:13.710 --> 01:53:16.210
to be doing some collaborations with PBC for
01:53:16.210 --> 01:53:18.310
an upcoming event. Matt, do you have any more
01:53:18.310 --> 01:53:20.310
details on this? And do I need to hit your music?
01:53:23.119 --> 01:53:25.539
It's not really a boxing rumor, so not hit the
01:53:25.539 --> 01:53:29.100
music. But I know there have been questions about
01:53:29.100 --> 01:53:30.739
whether or not this is going to be some sort
01:53:30.739 --> 01:53:32.359
of musical performance or something like that.
01:53:32.399 --> 01:53:33.899
No, this is not going to be a musical performance.
01:53:36.020 --> 01:53:39.140
From all indications, because you know I keep
01:53:39.140 --> 01:53:43.119
my ear to the streets, they're going to be hosting
01:53:43.119 --> 01:53:48.819
basically Fight Week for PBC, if that makes sense.
01:53:49.100 --> 01:53:50.960
That's what the discussion is. They're going
01:53:50.960 --> 01:53:55.279
to be hosting Fight Week. interviewing the fighters,
01:53:56.159 --> 01:54:00.380
maybe interacting with the fans. They're going
01:54:00.380 --> 01:54:02.239
to be doing some cross promotion where it is
01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:06.239
what it is and PVC. I think this is a big deal,
01:54:06.239 --> 01:54:09.140
man. And this is something for the culture. And
01:54:09.140 --> 01:54:11.539
I'm hearing that this could start as soon as
01:54:11.539 --> 01:54:15.579
the December 6th fight in San Antonio, which
01:54:15.579 --> 01:54:18.300
I think will be pretty cool. Yeah, I think that
01:54:18.300 --> 01:54:22.039
would be pretty cool, especially for Fulton versus
01:54:22.039 --> 01:54:25.460
Foster because, you know, that's our fight, okay?
01:54:25.539 --> 01:54:28.500
That's our fight. That's our audience. That's
01:54:28.500 --> 01:54:33.939
Canva's audience. And if you could introduce
01:54:33.939 --> 01:54:38.819
Fulton and Foster to that audience, oh, man,
01:54:38.939 --> 01:54:41.380
I think that would be huge for both guys, you
01:54:41.380 --> 01:54:44.619
know? So I'm hearing this is that I did like...
01:54:45.500 --> 01:54:49.640
They gave a shout out to KB, Kenneth from PBC.
01:54:50.239 --> 01:54:55.539
I posted the video. I posted the video. There
01:54:55.539 --> 01:54:58.300
was a real funny part of the video that I cut
01:54:58.300 --> 01:55:03.319
out. I want you guys to go to talk with Flea.
01:55:03.739 --> 01:55:06.800
his podcast, and go listen to the extended version
01:55:06.800 --> 01:55:09.920
of the video. And then you'll know why I say
01:55:09.920 --> 01:55:11.899
it's a funny part of the video, all right? But
01:55:11.899 --> 01:55:15.380
yeah, that was fire. That's fire. I think it's
01:55:15.380 --> 01:55:19.079
a great idea. It's gonna bring PBC fighters to
01:55:19.079 --> 01:55:22.180
a different market. And you just see PBC continue
01:55:22.180 --> 01:55:25.199
to try to expand their reach with their fighters.
01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:29.500
Now we just need more events. We need more events.
01:55:30.359 --> 01:55:36.720
We need more events. Yeah, they did have that
01:55:36.720 --> 01:55:40.279
great back and forth with Gillian Wallow. And
01:55:40.279 --> 01:55:42.880
now you add this thing here with it is what it
01:55:42.880 --> 01:55:46.899
is. That gives more of these fighters more exposure.
01:55:47.260 --> 01:55:50.800
And shout out to PBC on that front because you've
01:55:50.800 --> 01:55:53.699
seen it, at least with a couple of examples here,
01:55:53.800 --> 01:55:56.399
with what happened with Tate versus Ron Rhodes
01:55:56.399 --> 01:55:58.880
Jr. So you've seen those multiple media outlets
01:55:58.880 --> 01:56:01.979
kind of be part of that and build up to that
01:56:01.979 --> 01:56:05.430
particular fight. And now you can see that more
01:56:05.430 --> 01:56:08.729
so with more of these PVC events. So I'm looking
01:56:08.729 --> 01:56:12.369
forward to it for fight week for San Antonio.
01:56:12.569 --> 01:56:14.789
And I'm looking at them tickets, man. They got
01:56:14.789 --> 01:56:17.210
a couple of nonstop fights. So I might just go
01:56:17.210 --> 01:56:21.289
ahead and try to make that trip. Yeah, listen,
01:56:21.569 --> 01:56:24.890
that's a great fight, a great event. And I'm
01:56:24.890 --> 01:56:27.670
looking forward to seeing how this collaboration.
01:56:28.810 --> 01:56:32.109
with it is what it is and PBC goes. I'm definitely
01:56:32.109 --> 01:56:34.869
looking forward to seeing that. Hopefully it
01:56:34.869 --> 01:56:38.789
comes across well to the audience because I like
01:56:38.789 --> 01:56:41.909
that PBC is thinking out of the box on how to
01:56:41.909 --> 01:56:45.850
promote their fighters and their events. Mm -hmm.
01:56:47.250 --> 01:56:49.810
And then, I'm sorry, Matt, you had something
01:56:49.810 --> 01:56:52.189
else to say? Yeah, I was going to say, so much
01:56:52.189 --> 01:56:54.840
for PBC being broke. If they could afford Cameron
01:56:54.840 --> 01:56:57.479
Mason and Stat, baby, they must not be going
01:56:57.479 --> 01:57:02.420
broke, you know? Shit. Right. Must not be. And
01:57:02.420 -->
01:57:04.539
then, Matt, before you close out the show tonight,
01:57:04.640 --> 01:57:06.220
again, I know you opened the show with this,
01:57:06.300 --> 01:57:09.960
but, you know, yourself, Ezra, the entire Brunch
01:57:09.960 --> 01:57:12.100
Boxer community just wants to extend our sincerest
01:57:12.100 --> 01:57:14.239
condolences to Al Bernstein on the passing of
01:57:14.239 --> 01:57:17.439
his wife, Connie, this week. And, Matt, I'll
01:57:17.439 --> 01:57:18.680
turn it over to you if you have anything else
01:57:18.680 --> 01:57:21.300
to say on that before we close out. No, I have
01:57:21.300 --> 01:57:23.840
nothing to say on that. You know, Alex Bernstein
01:57:23.840 --> 01:57:28.779
is a great guy, friend of the show, love and
01:57:28.779 --> 01:57:33.119
light to him and his family. And that was all
01:57:33.119 --> 01:57:36.359
that we had here for today. JBZTY, you want to
01:57:36.359 --> 01:57:40.460
tell the people where they can find you and your
01:57:40.460 --> 01:57:48.520
content? Jeez, struggling. Go ahead, Ty. Ty,
01:57:48.619 --> 01:57:51.239
you're on mute. Oh, you're on mute. Oh, my bad,
01:57:51.279 --> 01:57:53.500
my bad, my bad. Sunday morning sermon, we'll
01:57:53.500 --> 01:57:55.300
be there tomorrow morning. You know what I mean?
01:57:55.840 --> 01:57:58.739
And we're going for two in a row on next Friday,
01:57:59.100 --> 01:58:00.939
RNS podcast. You know what I mean? We're going
01:58:00.939 --> 01:58:04.460
for two in a row. Gotta keep on undertaking a
01:58:04.460 --> 01:58:06.180
streak of life. Hey, let me ask you a question,
01:58:06.300 --> 01:58:09.859
Ty. What's up, man? Do we have more episodes
01:58:09.859 --> 01:58:13.100
on the RNS podcast or more PBC boxing events?
01:58:16.750 --> 01:58:20.670
I might go PBC. Do we count the half episodes?
01:58:21.590 --> 01:58:26.029
No, we do not. They like EPs. No, they don't
01:58:26.029 --> 01:58:32.649
count. Did anybody want to talk about the Ryan
01:58:32.649 --> 01:58:37.010
Garcia, Mario Barrios potential fight? Interesting.
01:58:37.550 --> 01:58:41.510
It was on the rumor mill, posted on the rumor
01:58:41.510 --> 01:58:44.689
mill on the Boxing Source website some time back.
01:58:47.210 --> 01:58:50.989
What is it, Oscar De La Hoya is kind of like
01:58:50.989 --> 01:58:53.489
a little bit bad on keeping that under wraps
01:58:53.489 --> 01:58:58.130
because he wouldn't necessarily say it with Marcos
01:58:58.130 --> 01:59:01.949
Villegas. But yeah, that looks like it's going
01:59:01.949 --> 01:59:06.489
to happen on that front. As far as like me, like
01:59:06.489 --> 01:59:09.329
I said, the Buy Source podcast, Sunday, 7 .30
01:59:09.329 --> 01:59:13.630
p .m. Eastern time. TBS trading cards in development.
01:59:13.869 --> 01:59:16.770
People are... Well, fighters are, you know, really
01:59:16.770 --> 01:59:20.090
feeling it. So we're going to see if we can expand
01:59:20.090 --> 01:59:25.069
the series. So I'm working on that. Yeah, man.
01:59:25.149 --> 01:59:27.789
And listen, I want to give a shout out to all
01:59:27.789 --> 01:59:31.550
of our listeners. Shout out to Koda Kid, the
01:59:31.550 --> 01:59:34.050
homie. Shout out to you. Shout out to Trill.
01:59:34.449 --> 01:59:37.529
Shout out to N Conquest. We see you down there
01:59:37.529 --> 01:59:40.609
in the comments. Shout out to my guy, Cam J Network.
01:59:40.869 --> 01:59:44.360
Make sure you guys go subscribe to Cam's. YouTube.
01:59:44.360 --> 01:59:47.680
I had the honor of being on his show this past
01:59:47.680 --> 01:59:50.899
week, so shout out to him. Shout out to the most
01:59:50.899 --> 01:59:53.739
dangerous man in boxing, J -Ro. Shout out to
01:59:53.739 --> 01:59:57.039
my man, Big Boss, a .k .a. Mandalorian. Shout
01:59:57.039 --> 02:00:02.260
out to Teach. Gritty was here. KB from PBC was
02:00:02.260 --> 02:00:06.000
here. Shout out to him. Who else was in the building
02:00:06.000 --> 02:00:09.319
today? I see my man. Sibi was here and I actually
02:00:09.319 --> 02:00:10.920
did want to, I started one of his comments from
02:00:10.920 --> 02:00:13.039
earlier. He said he needed some brunch boxing
02:00:13.039 --> 02:00:18.500
gear for his fighters. If they win, if they win,
02:00:18.699 --> 02:00:28.159
if they win, if they win, they got to win. Yeah,
02:00:28.220 --> 02:00:30.520
we're not giving out no. Listen, this ain't no
02:00:30.520 --> 02:00:33.640
third world country where we send over stuff
02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:37.260
to losers. All right. We need them to win. They
02:00:37.260 --> 02:00:40.279
got to win. If they win, me and Mike will sort
02:00:40.279 --> 02:00:44.479
that for them. Shout out to Johnny. I saw you
02:00:44.479 --> 02:00:49.359
were here, Johnny. Who else was in here? Stringer
02:00:49.359 --> 02:00:54.699
Basquiat. That bitch ass nigga. Fuck him. Who
02:00:54.699 --> 02:00:56.880
else was in here? My guy, Neutral. Shout out
02:00:56.880 --> 02:00:59.520
to Neutral. Red Corner Boxing. That's my guy
02:00:59.520 --> 02:01:04.260
right there. My guy, Blair, was in here. Brunch
02:01:04.260 --> 02:01:07.939
Boxing, COO. The Mexican Alhambra Mike was in
02:01:07.939 --> 02:01:10.260
here, so shout out to him. I see my guy, Old
02:01:10.260 --> 02:01:12.659
Marty Martin. Shout out to my man, Rosebud Ice
02:01:12.659 --> 02:01:16.039
Cream. Rosebud Ice Cream. That's my guy right
02:01:16.039 --> 02:01:17.479
there. What do you mean? That's the name of the
02:01:17.479 --> 02:01:20.800
ice cream company. My man, Sean Muller, was in
02:01:20.800 --> 02:01:22.640
the building. Gotta give a shout out to that
02:01:22.640 --> 02:01:26.090
man. Another Martin was in there. Shout out to
02:01:26.090 --> 02:01:29.050
him. Everyone has an opinion. Make sure you go
02:01:29.050 --> 02:01:32.149
subscribe to his podcast on all streaming platforms.
02:01:33.350 --> 02:01:36.789
He was in here. Virgil versus Red Lubin tonight.
02:01:37.550 --> 02:01:41.710
Yeah, yeah,
yeah. And listen, I see my girl Karma
02:01:41.710 --> 02:01:45.989
was in here. Shout out to Karma. Jab Queen Boxing.
02:01:45.989 --> 02:01:47.869
Shout out to Jab Queen Boxing. She was in here.
02:01:48.090 --> 02:01:50.649
She was on the show with me with Cam J earlier
02:01:50.649 --> 02:01:54.739
this week. Bruce Gass, boxing was in here. Brandon
02:01:54.739 --> 02:01:57.100
Nass was in. Yo, we had some luminaries up in
02:01:57.100 --> 02:02:01.279
here today. Okay, okay. We might be doing okay
02:02:01.279 --> 02:02:04.539
for ourselves. But we're going to be back tonight.
02:02:05.159 --> 02:02:08.380
We're going to be back tonight. YouTube or Twitter?
02:02:09.739 --> 02:02:11.300
Depends on what the people want. If the people
02:02:11.300 --> 02:02:13.619
want YouTube, I'll do YouTube. I know how to
02:02:13.619 --> 02:02:15.699
boot up the stream now. So if y 'all want to
02:02:15.699 --> 02:02:18.220
do YouTube, we can do YouTube to talk about the
02:02:18.220 --> 02:02:20.989
fight. You know, it's up to y 'all. You know,
02:02:21.130 --> 02:02:23.770
I don't really care. I think it's going to be
02:02:23.770 --> 02:02:25.369
like... We'll see if I have time to figure that
02:02:25.369 --> 02:02:28.329
out throughout the day. You know, I ain't the
02:02:28.329 --> 02:02:31.069
one with the hype, but this is going to be a
02:02:31.069 --> 02:02:32.489
good fight tonight. This is going to be a good
02:02:32.489 --> 02:02:35.909
fight. It is. It is. I think Luba could win,
02:02:36.010 --> 02:02:43.329
man. Philly Wi -Fi. Or Luba by decision. Like,
02:02:43.329 --> 02:02:48.770
niggas act like fucking virtualists. Chavez,
02:02:49.130 --> 02:02:54.789
like, calm down. Calm down. Calm down. But we'll
02:02:54.789 --> 02:02:58.189
see, man. Listen, support Brunch Boxing. Make
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So look out for that. Me and Mike are going to
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02:03:50.720 --> 02:03:54.699
We do this for the people. Look out for some
02:03:54.699 --> 02:03:56.939
articles I got coming up. I got some articles
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on the website now, but I also have some articles.
02:03:59.470 --> 02:04:01.069
that I'm going to be dropping throughout the
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02:04:12.810 --> 02:04:19.750
.com. But it is time that we say goodbye. This
02:04:19.750 --> 02:04:22.649
was a great show. Appreciate everybody for joining
02:04:22.649 --> 02:04:25.970
us. But this has been another edition of Brunch
02:04:25.970 --> 02:04:30.229
Boxing. He is our COO, the Mexican Alhambra Mike.
02:04:30.630 --> 02:04:35.430
He is our host, Ezra Boxen. He is our super producer,
02:04:35.729 --> 02:04:40.369
the one, the only Huey P. I am Matt. We are Bunch
02:04:40.369 --> 02:04:42.569
Boxen, and we are out.