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Speaker 1: I mean, it's already the month of May, but what

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Speaker 1: of boxing main events this evening. Wow Wow Build is

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Speaker 1: the biggest women's fight of all time. Katie Taylor and

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Speaker 1: Amanda Surrouno put on an instant classic and then some

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Speaker 1: in New York's Madison Square Garden, contentious decisions and all,

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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas in unbeaten one hundred and thirty pound

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Speaker 1: title unification in which Shaquer Stevenson makes the leap from

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Speaker 1: in your top ten pound for pound right Frickin' now. Wow, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're direct, we're local, we're late breaking. It is your

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Speaker 1: these bonuses that get me fired up and tonight, you know,

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Speaker 1: even though Serrano in reality is the bigger fighter. So

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Speaker 1: It really let's give full credit to the promoters, to

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Speaker 1: was you know, looking back, does it hold up well

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Speaker 1: as one of the best fights of all time from

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Speaker 1: an emotional and romanticized standpoint. Yes, you go back and

430
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: you watch that bral, You're like, this is the fight

431
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: that saved the UFC financially and all that stuff. But

432
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: that fight's a sloppy bral. This Taylor Serranto fight was

433
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: was it was perfect. It was an educated brawl. It

434
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Speaker 1: was a technical, skilled bral. And the love that the

435
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: crowd and boxing in general showed for these two afterwards deservedly,

436
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: and the class that these two showed for each other afterwards, like,

437
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: that's some pure, wholesome perfection right there. And we are

438
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Speaker 1: in a combat sports climate and I feel that because

439
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: I love that shit. When e Conor McGregor, or you know,

440
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: even like a Patty pimblet or you know, anyone in

441
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: boxing coming through talking that issu, you love it. You

442
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: want the fights to feel real, like as if people

443
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Speaker 1: are mad at each other. But what Taylor and Serrano

444
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: showed us was like, you know, the pinnacle of sportsmanship

445
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: you know, Serrano afterwards didn't complain about the decision, said

446
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: she thought she won, a lot of people thought she won,

447
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: said I want to do a rematch, you know Eddie

448
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: Hearn saying afterwards, I can't let Katie K. Taylor's career end.

449
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: And by the way, Hern's been there from the beginning.

450
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: I can't let bend the beginning of when she turned

451
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Speaker 1: pro excuse me in twenty sixteen. I can't let her

452
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Speaker 1: career end with going back to Ireland. And of course,

453
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: you know boxing has wanted to put a massive combat

454
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Speaker 1: sports fight in what is it Croke Park? Is that

455
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: the name of the soccer pitch there in Ireland that

456
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 1: I know. You know, Carl Frampton had wanted to box

457
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: a big one there for years. I know he ended

458
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: up fighting locally there but didn't get you know, the

459
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: big match up. And you know there was a stretch

460
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: where we thought maybe Connor McGregor would be the one.

461
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: I think you got to put this rematch in a

462
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Speaker 1: soccer stadium in either the UK or in Katie Taylor's

463
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: home of Ireland there and I wouldn't be surprised if

464
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: we need a third one. And that's like wishful thinking,

465
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: hopeful thinking, but it's also kind of realistic thinking. These

466
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: two were made for each other. I think they were

467
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Speaker 1: made in this moment, maybe like Cyborg in Gina Carona

468
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: were way back then for Strikeforce. They were made in

469
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: this moment to lift this sport and show how great

470
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: they can be. And they're, you know, thirty five and

471
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Speaker 1: thirty three years old, respectively, but still at the pinnacle

472
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Speaker 1: of their games. And to see them, you know, they've

473
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: been through so much. I mean Serranos especially, you know,

474
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: she turned pro before this boom and toiled on undercards,

475
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: off TV, low TV, you know what I mean, just

476
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: just sort of low purse is just toiled for her

477
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: to come out and put forth this good of a performance.

478
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: But yet afterwards be like, no, Katie Taylor's great, She's

479
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: a real champion. And Serrano went on to say, you know,

480
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: women's they say women couldn't draw, and who knows that

481
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: any better than Amanda Serrano. I mean, you know, this

482
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: fight was talked about a couple of years ago before

483
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and you know, Taylor's team said it was

484
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: Serrano's team being too crazy and aggressive in the negotiation table,

485
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: but it fell apart. And even to be fair, if

486
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Speaker 1: this fight would have happened back in early twenty twenty,

487
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Speaker 1: which I think was their original hope, I don't think

488
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Speaker 1: it would have had this type of attention, the Jake

489
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Speaker 1: Paul factor, the Amanda Serrano fighting on Jake Paul pay

490
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Speaker 1: per view undercards. But we got here and they freaking delivered,

491
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: And now it's like, how big can this rematch be?

492
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: Can you do it in front of ninety thousand a

493
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: soccer stadium? You probably could, because that's your advertisement. Go

494
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: back and watch these ten rounds of fury here. The

495
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: pun not intended there with Tyson, but like that's your advertisement.

496
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: How great can women boxing be? How great are these

497
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: two historic forces here? I mean, these two are gonna

498
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: end up going down in this, you know, somewhat short

499
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: and small history as two of the greatest. And if

500
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: they can end up, you know, with a trilogy, wishful

501
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 1: thinking or two incredible fights, you're doing nothing but creating legends.

502
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to see them get paid. I was

503
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: so happy to see Amanda Serrano be so afterwards, like

504
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: we did this together. You know. It was the It

505
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: was like the extreme opposite of when con McGregor and

506
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather hugged at the press conference after their their

507
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: boxing match, which was like it was like two bank

508
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: robbers being like, man, we pulled this off, right, you know,

509
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: this wasn't that. This was we showed the world. And

510
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: you know what I have bet you know, even up

511
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: to today, you know, I'm a I'm a shirker Stephenson guy.

512
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: This Oscar Valdes fight was was one of my super

513
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: Bowls as a boxing fan, right this was one of

514
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: my one of my like damn, you gotta make this

515
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: fight and on the same night. I'm you know, I mean,

516
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot to talk about with Sir Krs Stevenson's performance,

517
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: but I can go an hour two hours on this

518
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: on this Katie Taylor Amanda Sourrouanto fight, because it was

519
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: that great the action, the heart, the pride, the preparation,

520
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: the long road to get here in the crowd, I mean,

521
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: that was something special right there. You know, that'll go

522
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: down as one of my great regrets in life. Not

523
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: going to that fight. I'm serious, you know, and I've

524
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: been to you know, I mean, I've been lucky to

525
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: have been to some great action fights and you know,

526
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: in all of combat sports. You know, I was in

527
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: the building when Andy Ruiz knocked out Anthony Joshua and

528
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: upset that and that was a that was a moment.

529
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: You know. I was in the building of Montreal when

530
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: Bernard Hopkins won that world title at forty six or

531
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: whatever to break the record, and you know, doing push

532
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: ups in the ring against John Pascal. You know, I've

533
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: seen some shit, right, I should have saw this. I

534
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: should have been here for that. And wherever they go

535
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: from here, if I can physically make it there, I

536
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: gotta be there. And I think you, as a viewer,

537
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: wherever both of them go from here together or eventually apart,

538
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: you gotta be there too. Because this was a transaction.

539
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: You watched it in front of you. Will the will

540
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: the dividends pay immediately, probably not, but long term viability

541
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: of women's boxing on television, women's boxing selling tickets, women's

542
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: boxing creating personalities and rivalries. You needed this, and it happened,

543
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: and it was freaking better than advertised. Damn. You know,

544
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: that's a win. That's a big win. And I'm really

545
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: glad that this many people cared about this fight that

546
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: aren't intimately familiar with this obsession addiction that is boxing,

547
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: the same obsession addiction that spoiler alert tends to break

548
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: your heart and your wallet more often than producing this feeling.

549
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: But tonight it did so, so savor that flavor. It's

550
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: the biggest win of both of Katie Taylor's career by far.

551
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: I think the performance by Serrano and defeat is arguably

552
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: among her greatest. You know, she had to put on

553
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: you know, she had to endure a cut in swelling

554
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: as well. And you know when you go back and

555
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: watch those replays and I did after that fight, I

556
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, they ran a long package. It's like Surroundo

557
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: took some big shots as well and stood in there.

558
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: So you know, BC, you're just gonna come out here

559
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: and just down trodden, you know this mono happy but

560
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: mono tone late at night voice and just speaking circles

561
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: about how great these women are. Yeah, I think I will.

562
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: I think I did. I think probably will keep doing it.

563
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, what else do you want for me?

564
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: Eddie heard quickly did talk after the fight. You know

565
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: that we could be looking at at a rematch here

566
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: to close the year. I think we will, think we should,

567
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: barring any injuries and I hope the anticipation levels for

568
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: this from you know, across all metrics right ticket sales,

569
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: TV interviews and opportunities, the rest of combat sports turning

570
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: its eyes to there. And that's the thing. It's like,

571
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: you know, forget about how many MMA fans this women's

572
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: fight created for boxing, you know, brought over or casual fans,

573
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: Like it can't be said enough. You know who hates

574
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: women's boxing more than anyone else? Usually the people in boxing.

575
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: Not tonight, not anymore. I really feel like this is

576
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: the beginning of something. And it's not that I didn't

577
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: predict this would be a great fight, but I did

578
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: I predict we'd all have this feeling afterwards. No, Nah,

579
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: that's because of two special individuals, Amanda Serrano Katie Taylor.

580
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: And so Katie Taylor six rounds to four on my scorecard,

581
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: she won seven rounds to three on two of the scorecards.

582
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,479
Speaker 1: One of the judges I mentioned giving her a ten

583
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: eight round, so that so it was a little bit closer,

584
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: saying that she had lost around five to ten eight.

585
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: And then of course that third judge had it the

586
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: same score as me, but in the direction of Serranto

587
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: of six rounds to four, so we'll do it a

588
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: second time. I think both fighters, you know, can win.

589
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: I think Serrano can if anyone can fight better from

590
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: the first one, I think Serranto has a bright, larger,

591
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: broughterer ceiling of potentially making adjustments. But with that said,

592
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: I did enough previews for this fight where each time,

593
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, in the end it's like, you know, I

594
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: add it up in my head, and Serrano is the goods.

595
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: I think she can beat Katie anywhere this fight goes,

596
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: and I believe that. And Katie Taylor came out and

597
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: showed me she's even better than I thought she was.

598
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: So I think we'll enter that rematch with that same

599
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: feeling of fifty to fifty, anything can happen. They're gonna

600
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: pour it out in the ring, you know, the center

601
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: of the ring, as they did tonight, so you know, Ireland,

602
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: the Moon, Dubai, on a helipad, wherever they want to

603
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: put this. I'll be ready. That was one big story tonight,

604
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: the second top rank on ESPN. And by the way,

605
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: thank you for not making this a pay per view

606
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: bowt it could have been. I mean, it is two

607
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: undefeated champions at one hundred and thirty pounds. Oscar valve Dez,

608
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: the Mexican brawler turned into crafty potshotter, a still aggressive

609
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: fighter against Shakher Stevenson, both two division champions. Stevenson thought

610
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: for a long time Valdez was Duckingham. They finally got

611
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: it done, and boy boy, I mean, you know the

612
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: feels we got from Taylor surround, do we get those

613
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: same feels in this main event? No? You would have

614
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: been let down if you watch both back to back

615
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: and didn't know the storylines and just wanted entertainment. But

616
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: Stephenson said it best himself afterwards, when teed up by

617
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: Bernardo as soon a the next great boxing superstar was

618
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: born tonight. Only you know, you know he didn't pop

619
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: out of the womb fully formed. You know, if you'd

620
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: been watching him win the silver medal at the twenty

621
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: sixteen Olympics. You know, put on flashes of brilliance as

622
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: a pro. But you know, sometimes some some snoozers. But

623
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: the eye of the tigers there now for Shakur Stevenson,

624
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,479
Speaker 1: and I think he found it in that Jamel Herring

625
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: one sided beat down in stoppage to win his title,

626
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: his WBO crown coming in, so he comes in with

627
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: that belt, Valdez comes in with the WBC. We knew

628
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 1: that Shakur was a wide betting favorite because the skills

629
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: are so damn sublime, but even what he did in

630
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: winning a wide unanimous decision against Valdez, It's like, again,

631
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: I predicted it would be easy. God, I predicted he

632
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: to them, and yet even watching it play out as

633
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: easy as it was, I'm still somehow even more impressed

634
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: than I thought i'd be coming in and it's You're

635
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: not gonna see me jumping up and down I told

636
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: you so, or getting all giddy and dance, and maybe

637
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: I maybe I saved all that for for for the

638
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: first fight, you know, the Taylor Serrano brawl. I and

639
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: I you know, again poor words based on a women's fight,

640
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: but shot my load as a fan, if you will,

641
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: of excitement. But watching this surgical dismantling from this twenty

642
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: four year old softball, you don't see talents like this

643
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: every day, every year, and has sure up to this

644
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: point he's now eighteen and oh nine, KOs has her

645
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: Stevenson showed us everything that he's about, meaning, you know,

646
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: a battle tested chin, the ability to come back from

647
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: behind and all that. He hasn't had to do that yet.

648
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: So you're gonna still have some critics that are gonna say,

649
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: until I see that, right, until I see that, But

650
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: what have we seen? I mean, Oscar Valdez is no

651
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: slow footed, slow handed brawler, right, He's made that evolution.

652
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: He's quick, He's got Eddie Renoso in his corner. He

653
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: had nothing, he had nothing for Shakers Stevenson. It began

654
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: and ended with Stevenson's control a distance which was brilliant,

655
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: his balance, his ability for not being known as a puncher,

656
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: just nine knockouts in eighteen fights, his ability like Floyd

657
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: to be fair to sting you. And he's not a

658
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: big puncher, but he's quick and he's accurate, and there's

659
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: combinations and there's uppercuts, and there's perfect placement that even

660
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: when Valdez was committed to standing behind the high guard,

661
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 1: Stevenson's lighting him up through and around that high guard

662
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: so often that those red blotches are popping out early.

663
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: Stevenson was so on point on this night that even

664
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: as Valdez is mounting up these these you know, desperate

665
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: attempts at at just trying to get inside and there

666
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: was a few things, by the way, I like what

667
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: Valdez did. Obviously Eddie Renoso's a genius, but you know,

668
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: the lead double right hands to try to get across

669
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: on the st paul, A couple of things you like,

670
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: but there's so few and far between. And Stevenson was

671
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: having such incredible success, uh picking him apart, cutting him

672
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: below his right eye after round five that he started

673
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: to not only control that distance perfectly, but get closer.

674
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: And once shack her, Stevenson smelled blood. And I really

675
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: thought it began after round six once he started to

676
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: smell blood. It's like he's getting closer and closer, and

677
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: Valdez's just not doing anything to discipline them, to get

678
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: him to take a backward step. And you know, for

679
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: those single placement shots, and felt does a good puncher,

680
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean sent Miguel Burchelt to to uh, you know,

681
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: the deep down darkness to the point where he may

682
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: have forever changed Burchell's career. We just lew Burchill get

683
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: hammered out by Knakota Chakourage just I mean, he's just

684
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: closing in and everything he got hit with it was

685
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: like shake it off. Nothing there. This kid's a problem.

686
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,959
Speaker 1: This kid's real and like, do you realize how flt

687
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: Mayweather was so so I mean just say it bc

688
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: so fucking great that we don't compare him to others.

689
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: We don't, you know, the next time somebody comes up. Okay,

690
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: maybe Adrian Broner willed it upon himself. Maybe when Spence

691
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: first came out, even though Spence is a different game

692
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 1: than Floyd, we were like, oh god, this guy especially

693
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: could be but we don't do that a lot. Like

694
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: for as great as Terence Crawford is, and he's arguably

695
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: the best boxer in the world. Seriously, Terrence Crawford's freaking great.

696
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: Nobody's like comparing him to Floyd. Shaker Stevens is the

697
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: first guy I remember. We're like, oh that there's some

698
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 1: Floyd there. You got some Floyd on you and only

699
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: that pressure is not gonna be too much for you

700
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: to handle. Now, he's a southball, he's different than Floyd,

701
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned a lot in the show, if

702
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: you watch it, he's much more comparable to the younger,

703
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 1: pretty boy Floyd of the lower weight classes. But shak

704
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: Shaker Stevenson is I mean, it's it's timed technique it's speed.

705
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: It's just an IQ to know how to just adjust

706
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: and pick you apart and avoid and come back. And

707
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: you know he's got a little bit of nastiness to him,

708
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: you know, not the same nastiness as the Terrence Bud Crawford.

709
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: But yet again they're in the same camp and they

710
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: spar with each oiler all the time, and Shakur's like

711
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: a mentor, you know, mentee to the mentor Bud. He's

712
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: starting to learn that edge to him. And it was

713
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: that same edge he used against Jamel Herring, who that

714
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: was a tough fight for him as a title fight,

715
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: was the biggest fight. She curs grip, that's like his friend.

716
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: They were a part of the same camp until until

717
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: trainer Brian McIntyre actually kicked out Jamel Herring just recently.

718
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,280
Speaker 1: Different soap opera for another day. But you know, Shakur's

719
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: got that edge, and he came out against Jamel Herring

720
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: with that you know what, like I'm gonna knock you

721
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: the hell out, like I'm gonna take you out of

722
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: here edge. I saw that in this fight. You know,

723
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't as pronounced because he had to respect what

724
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: Valdez had, but as soon as he realized this was

725
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: gonna be this type of night because Valdez just could

726
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 1: not get inside on them. He could every time Valdes

727
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: step forward to try to get inside, pieced up east

728
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: up with clean, fast, hard combinations. You know, you saw

729
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: Shaque Stevenson's confidence just go through the roof and it

730
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: really you know, after Valdez got cut in round five,

731
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: round six, uh it was the knockdown, the only knockdown

732
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: of the fight where uh Chaker basically spun Valdez around

733
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: trying to avoid punches and then caught him with a perfect,

734
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: clean sort of right hook uppercut, you know, hybrid shot

735
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: knocked him down. Valdez got up, shook it off. I

736
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, disputed it a little bit, but I

737
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: really feel like from that point on, you saw Shagarge

738
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: Stevenson just going after it. Didn't end up getting the stoppage,

739
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: but I don't think you take anything away from him.

740
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: I scored it one eighteen to one oh nine, which

741
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: is what ten rounds to two judges had it one

742
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: seventeen one ten, one eighteen one oh nine and one

743
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: eighteen one o nine. I actually love seeing Shaker getting

744
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: booty in Las Vegas because of the you know, pro

745
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: Mexican American crowd. For the native of Nogalis, Mexico, Oscar Valdez,

746
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 1: I believe grew up in uh Zona. If I'm correct

747
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: on that, you can dead wrong me on another Friday,

748
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: but uh you know, the crowd's there to see the

749
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: Mexican warrior and Shaker played with the booze, you know,

750
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: had fun with it, taunted them afterwards. I had a

751
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: number nine pound for pound coming in, and I don't

752
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: think a lot of other people did at that point.

753
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: They needed to see more. I'd seen enough to know

754
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: I'd seen too much. I've seen a lot in this fight.

755
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: He's worthy right now at twenty four to be in

756
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: the middle of the top ten. And I got news

757
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: for you, like in terms of fights, like I need

758
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: to see now. Sometimes when there's fight, you're like, hey, someone,

759
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: subc you're a big boxing guy, like, what are what's

760
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: your shortlist? What fights do you need to freaking cheep

761
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: right now? It's like typically we lean into like commercial

762
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: ones with that, or we go, oh yeah, well Spence Crawford,

763
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: which is like the obvious answer, and then Fury for

764
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: the undisputed title at heavyweight like those are like right now,

765
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: the two need your gimmes unless you want to get

766
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: a little creative and go okay, you know well Gionta Davis,

767
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: Ryan Garcia, Yeah right, any any of those elite lightweight

768
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: young guys against elite lightweight young guys. But I got

769
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: a new one for you. The next great fight you

770
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: can make in boxing. That me that for my level,

771
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: for what gets me into it as a fan, that

772
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: you could get me so damn hardcore excited that I

773
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: think about renting an RV and drive into this thing.

774
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: Is Shakur Stevenson versus Vasili Lomachenko. Wow, you said that

775
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: that fight er that foregasm along with me? That did you?

776
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: You know? Yes, j K, we're all rock hard with

777
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 1: the motion. So let me Chakos thirty four three division champion,

778
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: former you know, unified lightweight champion, just had a dismantling

779
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: of of the Japanese fighter Nishioka I believe is his name,

780
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: and then of course turned down the chance to fight

781
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: George Cambosis for three or four belts because because he's

782
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: part of the Ukraine conflict with Rushow and he's on

783
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: the front lines and shout out to Vasili Limachenko, but

784
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: Lomachenko still got it after that tail Female Lopez loss,

785
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: and he proved that last fight out and he can

786
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: still make one thirty with ease. If he wanted to

787
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: move down and fight Shiquer Stevenson for two belts to

788
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: be the man of that division, ring Magasin champion all that,

789
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: I think he's still make one twenty six, by the way,

790
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: but no one there would fight him, so he kept

791
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: moving up. Or even if you wanted to do it

792
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: at lightweight, which I think you did, probably be less

793
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: likely with no title at stake. All the titles are

794
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 1: tight up right now in the George Cambosis Devin Hainey

795
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: fight coming up on his own. So but if they

796
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: end up, if this becomes the new Target fight, and

797
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: when I say Target, I mean Shaker takes a mandatory

798
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: in between, Lomachichenko gets a comeback fight from from you know,

799
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: being on the front lines there, and we build to

800
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: this thing for like first quarter twenty twenty three. At

801
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: that point it'd be twenty five year old against thirty

802
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: five year old, both from the top ten pounds for pound,

803
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: and it has that potential to be the passing of

804
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: the torch from the old you know, a wizard in

805
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: Lomachenko softpa just dynamic is shit to the new one

806
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: in Shagar Stevenson. Or it could be a humbling night

807
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: for chakor against a guy who's not freaking done yet.

808
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: Either way, this skill involved in that fight. That's one

809
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: of those where even if you can see the future

810
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: and you say it's not going to live up to

811
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: the expectations, BC, it's not going to be exciting. It's

812
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: going to be very very much chess and point heavy

813
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: and slow checkers with your grandma right, like just slow

814
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: as shit because she can't really see the color combos

815
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 1: and you're trying to be polite. You're like nine years old,

816
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: you know, but it's slow, right. I'd still want to

817
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 1: see it right now, and I'd love it. That's my shit. Okay, Look,

818
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 1: Thomas likes to see, you know, grappling tournaments for jiu jitsu. Yeah,

819
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: that's great. It's like, okay, what do you watch cinemas?

820
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: B movies too? To get off? I mean, what are

821
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 1: we doing here, bro right? I mean, you know this

822
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: is my type of chest and I love it. But

823
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 1: to even include him in that conversation and say this

824
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: fight's viable. He's special. Shaquer Stevenson is special. Grew up

825
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: in the hard streets of Newark. Yeah, he had a

826
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: hiccup outside the ring when he beat up those people

827
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: in the parking garage, but you know, he seems to

828
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: bounce back and he seems to be where he needs

829
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: to be. He's got andre Ward is a big brother.

830
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: Although I think it's weird that andre Ward used to

831
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: be the co manager of Shakur and just I guess

832
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 1: they ended that that official title, even though there's still

833
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: sort of big brother mentor thing going on there. So

834
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: now Ward's not only back on the broadcast but scoring it.

835
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: But another topic for another death thought. He did a

836
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: decent job there scoring. It was an easy fight to score.

837
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: But you know, Shaker's got James Prince's manager, He's well connected,

838
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: ESPN top rank promoting him. He's going to go to

839
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: the moon, and the fact that he can move up

840
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: to lightweight whenever he wants, and if he can make

841
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 1: those fights against any of those young guys. The Ryan

842
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: Garcia is Devin Hayne's tale Femo. Still you know Gervonte,

843
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: heck any of them. Roli Romero, I mean any of them,

844
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: and the fact that we know that, you know, at

845
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 1: just twenty four Stevenson eventually wants to move up to welterweight.

846
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Speaker 1: I mean we're looking at another Floyd or Pronell Whittaker here,

847
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Speaker 1: if he can, if he can keep staying on that

848
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: and improve, you know, and for anyone saying well what

849
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: about you know he has that big power and you know,

850
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: do we know if he has a great chin? Well, look,

851
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: we said the same thing about Floyd and Pronell Whittaker

852
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: to be fair, right, and Shaker looks to be that

853
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: that type of ilk And it's going to be really

854
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: fun watching him continue to probably be avoided by a

855
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: lot of guys, but continue to just be a nightmare,

856
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: a style nightmare for people. What a master class performance.

857
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: And I guess you could have been bored by it,

858
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, especially coming off the women's brawl

859
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: before that. But this was just some some like damn,

860
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: like he's not not just you know you know that

861
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: line I love, right, Larry Merchant Hbo after Manny Pacio

862
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: knocked out Miguel Coto in the twelfth round. You know

863
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: we knew Paqiao was great. He's better than we thought

864
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: he was. I mean, it's one of the it's it's

865
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: just one of those merchant old man sort of just

866
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: little quibs, and it's just beautiful. I think she cares

867
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: a little bit better than even I thought. I'm the

868
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: guy telling you he's the next pound for punk King,

869
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: so wow. Uh And then to shoot your shot at

870
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: the end and end your post fight interview by you know, uh,

871
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 1: by asking you that your baby mam go to marry

872
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: you right there. Pretty bad ass move. It's pretty bad

873
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: ass move. You know, Jack Curry, he doesn't care if

874
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: you like if you like him or not. He'll play

875
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: the villain, He'll play the aggressor. He can go backwards,

876
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: he can go forward. I mean, this kid is something

877
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: to watch. And luckily even at one, like I said,

878
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: you look ahead at the weight classes above him, a

879
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: lot of stars and there are a lot of young stars,

880
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: a lot of great fights we could we could be

881
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: making with Shaer Stevenson in the next few years. And

882
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: you know that ESPN hype machine, which can really annoy

883
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: you if you're a serious boxing fan, because they just

884
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: beat the dead horse on things. You know, they spend

885
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: a lot of time the last few years telling telling

886
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: us all that, you know, Lil bit Chenko and then

887
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: Tayo Femo and then Bud Crawford the next big thing.

888
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: You know, Tayo Fema had a hiccup. We'll see what

889
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: happens next. Crawford's still coming into the huge fight. But uh,

890
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: they're just gonna slide your her right in there and

891
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: and tell you the same thing, only they're gonna be

892
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: right by the way. Speaking to Terrence Crawford just real quick,

893
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: I saw my Coppinger was at the fight tonight. Crawford

894
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: was there. He walked Shaker to the ring in Las Vegas,

895
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: he said, he interviewed, Uh, Crawford, Coppinger did quickly. Here's

896
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: what Coppinger said. I don't want any warm up fighter

897
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: too up fight because, by the way, there were some

898
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,959
Speaker 1: low level online rumors that Keith Thurman could be getting

899
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: a pay per view against Crawford next to set up

900
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: the Spence fight. He's like, no, I want Spence now,

901
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: and then oh, by the way, I'm gonna move up

902
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: to one fifty four and fuck up to mel Charles. Wow,

903
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: that's a that's a cigarette behind the factory. To try

904
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: to think about what that's gonna be like, yes, all right,

905
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: great night, great night for boxing. And she said yes.

906
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: By the way, she Kurs Stevens is gonna get married.

907
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: Shout out to him. But that's where we're at Morning Combat.

908
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: You can like us and follow us here at these

909
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: uh at these stream heads right here. We're gonna be

910
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 1: back Monday morning. Luke Thomas and myself Brian Campbell, uh

911
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: looking at spinning the weekend forward, set in the stage

912
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 1: for what should be a big week and by the way,

913
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: Luke and I, Luke and BC right making it look easy.

914
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 1: Gonna be back in the Jersey City Bomb shelter later

915
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:04,760
Speaker 1: this week filming some MK filming, some bonus projects, filming

916
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: some live fight post fight reaction Saturday night in the studio,

917
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: So get ready for a lot of that. It'll look

918
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: just like this, but much more professional. I'm Brian Campbell

919
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: and I approved this instant reaction. It was really just

920
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,919
Speaker 1: just me telling you about my sport and how great

921
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: it is, right, you know, like, ask me about herbal life,

922
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 1: right you ever see those bumper stickers. Hey, I'm a

923
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: a fan, ask me about boxing. Fucking great? Right, I mean,

924
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: right now, it's great, right you know, it's like we all,

925
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,280
Speaker 1: like you ever bring a girlfriend to like an extended

926
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: family party, you know, and you're like, there's uncle. I

927
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: don't even want to say the name because I have

928
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: a lot of these uncles, but you know, there's uncle,

929
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, Bob. And she's like, man, uncle Bob's so funny, right,

930
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: like we should hang out with them. And you're like,

931
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: you know that, like I respect it, but like Uncle

932
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: Bob's gonna have his shirt off and is possibly gonna

933
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: say the N word like within an hour, right, you

934
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like no, no, Bob, no, no.

935
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 1: You know that's that's boxing to the two outsiders, except

936
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: for right now, uncle Bob. He's still got his underwear on,

937
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna leave you with that. And uh yeah

938
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: inside I looked inside the box right step three, you know,

939
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty damn good. Right now, I'm gonna

940
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: savor this flavor, and I got I got two others

941
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: for you. We out, Yeah,