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Speaker 4: Yeah, I look, I know, I'll get to you in
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Speaker 3: I'll get to you in a moment. Let me get
Speaker 3: the date out, March the fourteenth. What's coming up this weekend?
Speaker 4: Ac race cars? Race cars? Oh man, sorry for my excitement.
Speaker 5: I can't help me. So this is Christmas to me,
Speaker 5: It really is, and the things that Christmas going to
Speaker 5: occur every couple of weeks to receive.
Speaker 3: I would never dampen your enthusiasm about the sport that
Speaker 3: is so dear to your heart. I know how long
Speaker 3: you've been a motorsport fan of listened in to your
Speaker 3: many hundreds of interviews about motorsport this past couple of decades,
Speaker 3: and look, I can understand it. You know, a keiw
Speaker 3: in a full time Formula One seat, this is worth celebrating,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: So. Look, we'll talk about it later on in the piece,
Speaker 5: I'm sure, as well as some other issues in the
Speaker 5: Sporting Day, But coming out. Interview wise, we're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Dean Long again about this chaos between WBO
Speaker 5: and IBC and IBF and X y Z and blah
Speaker 5: blah blah where it changes every half an hour. There's story.
Speaker 5: So you reckon, Dino knows what's going on, blood you hope.
Speaker 3: So well, if someone does, he will know, or if
Speaker 3: he doesn't know, he'll at least be able to give
Speaker 3: you some entertaining comment about the alphabet soup of boxing
Speaker 3: belts that we find it sells in.
Speaker 4: The middle of at the moment. So that's enough of
Speaker 4: us rambling on during the intro. Let's get into it
Speaker 4: in other news.
Speaker 3: Let's start by checking out some of the big sports
Speaker 3: stories around today. Six rookies and radically changed teams highlight
Speaker 3: the new Formula one season. Only two of the ten
Speaker 3: teams have kept the same driver lineup from last season.
Speaker 3: Four time defending champion Max the staff and feels like
Speaker 3: he's driving into the unknown of it. I know that
Speaker 3: we are not the quicks at the moment, but as
Speaker 3: a very long season so a lot of teams can always,
Speaker 3: you know, change quite quickly. In Formula one Super Rugby,
Speaker 3: Pacific's boss andsts. Initiatives like the Kids Superhero Round are
Speaker 3: important to expose the sport to a wider audience. The
Speaker 3: five New Zealand franchises have selected a character each from
Speaker 3: the Marvel universe to represent them via their jerseys this weekend.
Speaker 6: Some people might go on, you know, why are they
Speaker 6: wearing different jerseys? But we can't stand still. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: really infused and excited for the clubs to try stuff.
Speaker 6: And if we try stuff and learn, that's great for
Speaker 6: the competition and we can go forward from there.
Speaker 3: And Warriors halfback Luke Metcalfe trying to massage out any
Speaker 3: fan panic heading into tonight's Round two NROL match against
Speaker 3: Manly at Mount Smart.
Speaker 2: We just got to get back for what we know
Speaker 2: wind this game.
Speaker 5: It's a pretty easy fix from us, boy, so no
Speaker 5: one's really too worried.
Speaker 2: We know what we need to do to turn it around.
Speaker 1: Dissecting the sporting agenda, It's Sportsfix with Jason Vain and Darcy.
Speaker 2: Walder Gree Everyone.
Speaker 5: Welcome to the Sports Fix podcast. To former manager of
Speaker 5: Joe Parker, boxing aficionado mister Dean Lan again, get a
Speaker 5: Dino dars here, brother, I'm doing very, very well, really
Speaker 5: excited about what may or may not happen with the
Speaker 5: Joe Parker in the future. They're not too distant the
Speaker 5: long term. I don't know. You, of course, spent a
Speaker 5: lot of time in the shady world of boxing at
Speaker 5: the heavyweight level. Can you explain to us in simple
Speaker 5: terms what's going on now with Dubois, Parker and Usik,
Speaker 5: because it seems to be changing with every passing minute.
Speaker 7: It's pretty simple, really, Joe has been the WBO interim
Speaker 7: heavyweight champion for some time, so effectively in the number
Speaker 7: one position and or just above the number one position.
Speaker 2: He's been made.
Speaker 7: Mandatory right now by the WBO. Now that's fantastic us
Speaker 7: for Joe. So that means that Ersk has to fight him.
Speaker 7: Now Here's what's interesting is that in the world of boxing,
Speaker 7: a unification fight trump's a mandatory right, So Ersek if
Speaker 7: he chooses to fight Dubois, we'll see Joe wait until
Speaker 7: the next fight around, and then you'd have to think
Speaker 7: the winner of Dubois versus ERSK will fight Joe Parker
Speaker 7: because they want to unify and become the undisputed the
Speaker 7: heavy eight champ of the world. Or you know, like
Speaker 7: I don't know exactly where the WBO are going to
Speaker 7: sit on this. They could potentially, you know, this week's
Speaker 7: up the IBF would do, but they the bodies do
Speaker 7: agree on this because they want a unifight champ, you know,
Speaker 7: so if he fights one or the other, one of
Speaker 7: them can get stripped, you know, and you end up
Speaker 7: fighting for the vacant title.
Speaker 2: But more than likely Ers will fight Dubois because.
Speaker 7: That's where the big money is, and they'll probably do
Speaker 7: that fight older thought in England to be bluntly honest,
Speaker 7: because that's going to drive a whole lot of paper
Speaker 7: view revenues for the Saudi's out of England.
Speaker 2: And then I think Joe Parker will get his chance.
Speaker 7: But whatever whatever happens, and whenever it happens, I can
Speaker 7: guarantee you this, Joe Parker one hundred is going to
Speaker 7: fight for the heavyweight title of the world, and more
Speaker 7: than luckily it'll be for the undisputed the heavy at
Speaker 7: title of the world, which is exciting stuff. If he
Speaker 7: gets to fight Dubois for that, I believe you wins
Speaker 7: that fighters a bit tougher because Joe, you know, has
Speaker 7: struggled a little bit with south Pauls over at the
Speaker 7: course of his career, and Ersik might be one of
Speaker 7: the greatest South Pauls that have ever boxed, have ever boxed,
Speaker 7: But you know, Ers's only got two more fights left
Speaker 7: in him, and Joe Parker might be one of them.
Speaker 7: Regardless of what happens next fight up, josenh for a
Speaker 7: massive payday and well deserved and I think you know
Speaker 7: at some stage you're going to see Joe become the
Speaker 7: world hippyweight champion again and maybe undisputed it.
Speaker 5: So let's roll the clock back a wee bit. If
Speaker 5: he decides sick that he doesn't want to take on
Speaker 5: Joe park and he wants to go to Dubois, will
Speaker 5: he be stripped of that wb O belt? Will that
Speaker 5: be given straight away to Parker? So he receives that
Speaker 5: belt by default, So if he does fight.
Speaker 7: That's not how it happens what happened. What happens is
Speaker 7: if a champion does get stripped of the belt because
Speaker 7: he didn't fighter is mandatory. What happens is the the
Speaker 7: champ will fight, or the number one will fight, or
Speaker 7: the man if we will fight the number one on
Speaker 7: number two contender, right'll be for what's called a vacant title.
Speaker 7: But because the championship bodies, the IBF, the WBO, the WBA,
Speaker 7: and the WBC all agree that it's advantageous to have
Speaker 7: a unified title, you'll find that they don't if they
Speaker 7: if they fight for another title to help you fight,
Speaker 7: they don't have to fight their mandatory. Off the top
Speaker 7: of my head, now they've got all sorts of different rules,
Speaker 7: and they'll be all sorts of different discussions going on,
Speaker 7: and Joe might get paid step aside money.
Speaker 2: It's going to come down to what the ruling bodies think.
Speaker 7: But I think you'll find that this is just my opinion,
Speaker 7: is that he is that Ersek will fight Dubois because
Speaker 7: there's more money in that, and then will fight Joe
Speaker 7: and that.
Speaker 2: Will be the end of verse x career.
Speaker 7: He's only got two more fights left and I don't
Speaker 7: think I don't think they'll strip him. But you know,
Speaker 7: for not facing his mandatory, because he is facing he
Speaker 7: is unifying the titles.
Speaker 5: But it can happen if they wanted to.
Speaker 7: Look, the sanctioning bodies are fascinating, you know, and they
Speaker 7: make all sorts of the only one that I found
Speaker 7: was truly consistent to their rules was the IBF. And
Speaker 7: the reason for that is go back fifteen twenty years
Speaker 7: and make the most corrupt and crooked of all, and
Speaker 7: a lot of them ended up on the verge of
Speaker 7: going to jail and in court, and as the result,
Speaker 7: they stick to their rules like glue.
Speaker 2: And I found the IBF great to deal with with.
Speaker 7: The other with the others, it's a combination of the
Speaker 7: relationships that you have and the springs that you can
Speaker 7: pull them, what have you.
Speaker 2: But my gut.
Speaker 7: Feelers, you know, just Joe's in a fantastic position. It'd
Speaker 7: be brilliant if he could get to Fighter sick. But
Speaker 7: we'll just have to wait and see if that's what happens,
Speaker 7: and I'm sure there'll be people moving right now. I
Speaker 7: think I think Joe's being promoted by Queensberry, which is
Speaker 7: Frank Warren, And though we working hard to make sure
Speaker 7: that they get their piece of the action, having said that,
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure that Frank Warren does du bois as well.
Speaker 7: So they're in a no new situation.
Speaker 5: Why would the WBO make this announcement though, that they
Speaker 5: want to see usc fight Parker with that WZO? Why
Speaker 5: would they bring them?
Speaker 7: Really, that's a really, really, really good question. And what
Speaker 7: I would do is I would written the WBO and
Speaker 7: I have a discussion with them, or indeed, you could
Speaker 7: bring George or Frank Warren and Mate, I'm sure I
Speaker 7: can give you both of their phone numbers and you
Speaker 7: can ring them up and find out because Mabe, you
Speaker 7: never know what goes on behind the scenes with these organizations.
Speaker 7: Maybe it was just the fact that the thing is duing,
Speaker 7: this is what it says in their rules, or maybe
Speaker 7: it's not.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 7: So sometimes they can be quite interesting in the decisions
Speaker 7: they come with. But Joe's been sitting there for a
Speaker 7: very long time as the as the interim champion. This
Speaker 7: is well deserved and I really look forward to Joe
Speaker 7: getting his chance at the big time again and made.
Speaker 7: He's in for a massive heyday, you know, so good
Speaker 7: luck to my hope it goes well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we love watching him fight. He's really improved under
Speaker 5: his new coach, nutrition everything. And one last thing for you,
Speaker 5: Dan Lodgan is always sayings very much for your time, WI.
Speaker 5: Its great to catch up. How in flunch of Saudi
Speaker 5: Arabia being in this.
Speaker 2: That's a really good question.
Speaker 7: I would have thought that the Saudis are probably sitting
Speaker 7: the one side and the WBO make their own rulings
Speaker 7: and their own just let the IBF.
Speaker 2: Do you know, because they like to think that they're independent.
Speaker 7: But you know, I can't stand here and say that
Speaker 7: the money hasn't crossed people's palms.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 7: And really there's only three or four people make these
Speaker 7: decisions there would they might have had it just a
Speaker 7: straight out committee meeting of the WBO and they sat
Speaker 7: around the table and decided this was There was a
Speaker 7: whole lot of decisions made, and obviously this is one
Speaker 7: that affects one of our national heroes, and all of
Speaker 7: a sudden, it's all over the newspaper, all over the news.
Speaker 7: So I'm a little bit distance from it, but I
Speaker 7: do understand the nuances, and all I can tell you
Speaker 7: is this, Joe Parker is an absolutely brilliant position and made.
Speaker 7: He's looking forward I guess to cashing in number one
Speaker 7: but two getting to be the heavyweight championship.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks Dena, thanks for joining us here on the
Speaker 5: Sports Fixed podcast Sports Fact Sense Sense.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm not a huge motorsport fan certainly like my
Speaker 3: podcast co host Darcy, but you can't help but be
Speaker 3: swept up in what is happening this weekend in Melbourne,
Speaker 3: a keiw with a full time Formula One drive and
Speaker 3: a Red Bull car alongside the four time world champion
Speaker 3: Max for Stappin the sentence itself seems crazy, but here
Speaker 3: we are. Liam Lawson has long been talked about as
Speaker 3: a tremendous prospect. Greg Murphy told us four or five
Speaker 3: years ago that he was one to watch, but for
Speaker 3: him to actually get to where he is one of
Speaker 3: only twenty Formula One seats is incredible. It's hard to
Speaker 3: tell rarely from the outside, but it feels as though
Speaker 3: Liam Lawson is taking it all in astride. He looks
Speaker 3: calm and the media situations I've seen this week doesn't
Speaker 3: look like he's being swept up in it all and
Speaker 3: is ready to fulfill a dream he's had for a
Speaker 3: long time. This is where he's always wanted to be.
Speaker 3: This is where he seems destined to have ended up.
Speaker 3: He had a crack last year, of course as injury cover,
Speaker 3: and then the musical chairs began at Red Ball and
Speaker 3: everybody wondered who'd have a seat when the music stopped.
Speaker 3: It always felt as though Liam Lawson was in the
Speaker 3: mix and so approved, and so this weekend Liam gets
Speaker 3: into that full time seat for the first time. There
Speaker 3: are many metrics being thrown around as to what success
Speaker 3: looks like for him in Melbourne this weekend. Just finishing
Speaker 3: is one. Top ten is being talked about. Getting within
Speaker 3: three tenths of a second of Max Forstappin is another.
Speaker 3: It feels to me like just being there is a
Speaker 3: success because very very few from these parts have ever
Speaker 3: done it. And this is just the start. Let's not
Speaker 3: forget that this isn't a one off. This is the
Speaker 3: beginning of what could be a very special motorsport career.
Speaker 3: All eyes on Melbourne from five o'clock Sunday as twenty
Speaker 3: drivers start their engines and one of them is one
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 1: The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 4: Into the Chamber we go.
Speaker 3: Well, as I've just said on the podcast, I'm not
Speaker 3: a massive motorsport fan, but I've been swept up by
Speaker 3: the whole Lillam Lawson thing. As you said at the
Speaker 3: Top Race Cars, it is for you across this weekend.
Speaker 3: Let's actually get to the nitty gritty of it. What
Speaker 3: do you predict for Liam Lawson on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 5: I think that the only acceptable result for Liam Lawson
Speaker 5: is a top ten finish, and even then it's a stretch.
Speaker 5: He'd probably be looking at top six, but I'd say
Speaker 5: top ten. Keep it on the ash, felt, don't stick
Speaker 5: it into the scenery. That's a bit. He's got to
Speaker 5: bring his car home. They're very valuable and we know
Speaker 5: if you keep pushing them into the side of the track,
Speaker 5: you're going to lose your drive eventually. So for him,
Speaker 5: they sayero point three seconds slower than maxfish Staff and
Speaker 5: so that that's a key. But he needs to finish
Speaker 5: in the top ten at least that's my expectation. You
Speaker 5: know what, Piney, I found out something quite interesting on
Speaker 5: Friday afternoon, twenty six degrees over in Melbourne. Apparent it's
Speaker 5: thirty six toes on Saturday, and you know what's going
Speaker 5: to happen on Sunday. It's going to rain.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Well this.
Speaker 5: Is great because we and Liam Lawson first got on
Speaker 5: an F one cart when he deputized for Daniel Ricardo.
Speaker 5: As he broke his hand. It was over in Zandvord
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago. It hoes down and he
Speaker 5: drove really well because kiwis love driving in the rain,
Speaker 5: all really good at So that in itself excites me.
Speaker 3: All right, I've written that down, laws and good in
Speaker 3: the wet I've written that down also that that's the
Speaker 3: old adage. And you talked about it about getting around
Speaker 3: the race track. I mean to finish first. First, you
Speaker 3: have to finish, right, It's an old adage in all
Speaker 3: sorts of racing, bed, motorsport, horse racing, or even just
Speaker 3: running around a track. So okay, let's let's and I
Speaker 3: hope we don't have to go down this track. But
Speaker 3: if things don't go well for Liam on Sunday, he
Speaker 3: either has a DNF or finishes nearer the back of
Speaker 3: the field. It's only the first one, isn't it. So
Speaker 3: what do we read into success, failure or otherwise this
Speaker 3: week in such a long season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'll give them plenty of rope. I don't see
Speaker 5: them drop kicking after a couple of bad results at
Speaker 5: the start of the season. You also remember that Liam's
Speaker 5: never had any experience at Albert Park before. It's never
Speaker 5: driven there, which might count for something. There's a number
Speaker 5: of other rookies. If you was five other guys who've
Speaker 5: not driven before. You know, he's got a couple of
Speaker 5: races under his belt. But I think they will give
Speaker 5: him some wiggle room, possibly even four races before they
Speaker 5: start going, well, you're not doing too well because they're
Speaker 5: not afraid Red Ball of drop kicking people. They've done
Speaker 5: it before and they'll do it again. So pressure makes diamonds,
Speaker 5: as they say when you're talking about cliches.
Speaker 3: Jason, that's another good one. Well, okay, I won't worry
Speaker 3: about Liam. I am a bit worried about the Warriors
Speaker 3: if we can segue to them tonight at go Media
Speaker 3: Stadium up against the Sea Eagle, so I thought were
Speaker 3: terrific last week and beating the Cowboys forty two twelve,
Speaker 3: the Warriors off the back of their less than perfect
Speaker 3: opener in Las Vegas. Should I be worried about the
Speaker 3: Warriors tonight, I'd say, And this has been very generous
Speaker 3: around the Warriores, even the Warriors.
Speaker 5: The Warriors, I've been told to be patient, which we've
Speaker 5: talked about this, so I flatly refused to be It's
Speaker 5: not on my makeup, but I would say that tonight's
Speaker 5: game represents the proper start to the season for the
Speaker 5: one he's in on Warriors. This is where it really starts.
Speaker 5: I think that Las Vegas was a gimmick. I wasn't
Speaker 5: entirely happy with it. I'm still not. I don't think
Speaker 5: it means anything. Yeah, competition points on the line. But
Speaker 5: now two weeks after that and they've been slapped in
Speaker 5: the face, They've had that away experience. The season starts
Speaker 5: tonight at home, and so when they get the win,
Speaker 5: or if they get the win, I think we're in
Speaker 5: a much better position to judge where the Warriors are at.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, Yeah, that's well, that's good analysis. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm least worried about the Warriors now, Okay.
Speaker 5: Ken to make you worry about something.
Speaker 3: You're worried about the Hurricanes, Hurricanes Islanders tonight. Please give
Speaker 3: me some hope that the Hurricanes actually look I looked
Speaker 3: at the odds for this before we came to wear
Speaker 3: a dollar eighty seven h ta B can't split them
Speaker 3: coin flip for them. You've got no skin in this game,
Speaker 3: Hurricanes Orhighlanders.
Speaker 5: I like the Highlanders for this, but the unpopular Highlanders
Speaker 5: who always seem to be looking up to the ward
Speaker 5: the top of the ladder, but never up there themselves.
Speaker 5: I don't think they've got anything to lose in the
Speaker 5: way they played the game, and I think the pressure
Speaker 5: on Clark and his men is enormous in what we've
Speaker 5: seen so far from the Hurricanes, they ain't handling that
Speaker 5: very well, like the Blues and the Canes basically sitting
Speaker 5: at the foot of the table. This is bizarre. But
Speaker 5: what one eight seven apiece? How good is this for
Speaker 5: super rugby? That we've got two New Zealand teams and
Speaker 5: you can't split them And this is fantastic for people
Speaker 5: without any skin in the.
Speaker 3: Game, and absolutely and look and no we neither of
Speaker 3: us have skin. And tomorrow Knights game Chiefs Blues. You
Speaker 3: talked about the Hurricanes needing a bit of a confidence
Speaker 3: boost and not being where they should be.
Speaker 2: What about the.
Speaker 3: Blue They could lose to the Chiefs tomorrow night easily
Speaker 3: and they could be what will that be?
Speaker 4: One end four to start the season.
Speaker 5: And I think that their Chiefs are much better possession
Speaker 5: because they got beaten last week. But it's nigh on
Speaker 5: impossible to have beaten Dura in their own backyard. But
Speaker 5: that's probably the punch in the nose they needed, not
Speaker 5: that they needed one. They're playing very very well, but
Speaker 5: they'll return to regular service come that game. It is
Speaker 5: in Hamilton as well. FMG Stadium is the Battle of
Speaker 5: the Bombays. And again we go back to the pressures
Speaker 5: exerted on teams and how they're dealing with them. At
Speaker 5: the moment the Hurricanes and the Blues aren't dealing with
Speaker 5: them as well. But that can all change in the
Speaker 5: space of eighty minutes.
Speaker 3: Right it can. Indeed, all right, Well, my brow is furrowed,
Speaker 3: but you know what, there's nothing I can do from here.
Speaker 3: All I can do is watch tonight my Hurricanes against
Speaker 3: the Highlanders, the Warriors against the Sea Eagles when out
Speaker 3: of his skin in the game, the Blues against the
Speaker 3: Chiefs tomorrow night, and the race Cars on Sunday desk.
Speaker 3: And I just say, as I said at the start
Speaker 3: of the podcast, I know how much this sport means
Speaker 3: to you. I know how long a relationship you've had
Speaker 3: with Liam Lawson and his family. It was great to
Speaker 3: hear his old man on with you yesterday. Look, I
Speaker 3: just hope you enjoy it. I hope you are able
Speaker 3: to enjoy it without getting too tense and clenching the
Speaker 3: sides of your couch too much.
Speaker 5: It's hard to watch Formula One hiding behind the back
Speaker 5: of the couch. I'll tell you that I'm in it
Speaker 5: for the joy. I'm in it for the color and
Speaker 5: the noise and the sound. When lose come off the track,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. I'm buying into this one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: The tenth New Zealander. Man, he is there. I'm so
Speaker 5: so so so calm.
Speaker 4: Race cars. Out of the chamber, we go.
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Speaker 5: Looking forward to that one. Piney, You enjoy your weekend,
Speaker 5: because I certainly certainly will see you bro.
Speaker 4: See you bro.
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