1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: So yeah about last night. Wow, what a time to 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: be a boxing fan. Welcome on man, Hey Morning Kombat. 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: Well time, no talk. Right, It is Friday, February ninth, 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four year looking at me. The Brian Campbell, 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 1: one half of this award winning partnership might be on 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: hiatus more or less right now. But we did tell 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: you ahead of the huge relaunch we've got coming up 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: in March, that we would still be jumping in and out, reviewing, previewing, 9 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: or reacting to what goes on in the world of 10 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: combat sports. And last night, super late on the East Coast, 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: we did get something to react to along with a 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: fight announcement overnight. So here's the breakdown. We got Tayo 13 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: Fimo Lopez Junior edging out Jamaine Ortiz last night Thursday 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: night in Las Vegas, Super Bowl Week, a top rank 15 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: card on ESPN, A defense the first time of Tayo 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: Femo's WBO one hundred and forty pound title, and talk 17 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: about a disputed decision, talk about a a little bit 18 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: of a horrible fight to watch, at least aesthetically, at 19 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: least entertainment wise, and let's talk about the fallout that 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: comes with that. Now. The good news is that these 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: two topics I'm gonna hit are related because this is 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: the one hundred and forty pound division, which in the 23 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: past year has really become boxing's deepest and sexiest south 24 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: of heavyweight, really taking that mantle from welterweight. And what 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: we have announced April twentieth, Good Gosh does his own 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: pay per view. It will be Devin Handy defending his 27 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: WBC title at one against Ryan Garcia. So a lot 28 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: to get into. My voice keeps breaking on me, but look, 29 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: welcome back. It's been a long time, guys since we've 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: rock and rolled in these MK parts here. You know, 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: it hasn't been easy. It's never easy to sit around 32 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: and waits as the future gets built right in front 33 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: of you. But things are going well. Appreciate all the 34 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: shoutouts and the support and the dms for the those 35 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: just checking in on your boy BC a little bit 36 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: of a wellness check. I appreciate that things are going well. 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: Controlling what I can control, putting my nose to the 38 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: grind as always, and pumping out the content that you 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: combat sports fans deserve. So that's what we got going 40 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: on here on Morning Combat Luke Thomas, of course, my 41 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: partner in crime. You do see a lot of him 42 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: on the interwebs, and we will be back next week, 43 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: of course with our UFC two ninety eight Morning Combat 44 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: previous to stay tuned for that. Let's get into it. 45 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: Thursday night was the continuation the next chapter and what 46 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: has become the best reality show in television in boxing 47 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: for better or worse, and that's the life and career 48 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: of Tayo fi Ma Lopez Junior, twenty six years old, 49 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: arguably the best one hundred and forty pound fighter in 50 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: the world, or at least that's what we thought and 51 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: learned from last June when you went to Madison Square 52 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: Garden took on lineal champion Josh Taylor, the former undisputed king, 53 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: and in the midst of the hype of worry, of 54 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: doubt about Tao's mental space, about everything going on in 55 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: his personal life that divorced the custody battle, and how 56 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: that has played into his transition to one hundred and 57 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: forty pounds after already such an up and down run 58 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: in recent years, which saw him upset Vasilli Lomachenko to 59 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: become unified lightweight champion and one of the pound for 60 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: pound top Stars and then lose the title in his 61 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: next fight, his first defense to George Campbosis Junior, which 62 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: was an implosion. Of course, he did have that very serious, 63 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: life threatening in a situation there with his chest and 64 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: the organs inside that, the ESOTPA jeal, tier and tear 65 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: and everything that went with that, and then we just 66 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: got a couple of flat performances at one hundred and 67 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: forty pounds for Tailo Fema after moving up the Kampa fight, 68 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: the Sandor Martin fight, where he looked in the camera 69 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: and said, do I still got it? Unfortunately, what happened 70 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: Thursday night is par for the course in the Tale 71 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: Femo experience. We were hoping that Josh Taylor was the 72 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: proof along with Lomachenko, that when this guy has dialed in, 73 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: he's among the most dynamic fighters in the sport, and 74 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: that's still true. He has a great boxing IQ, but 75 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: as we found out against Ortiz last night, maybe not 76 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: great enough. He has sublime athleticism. Roy Jones very early 77 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: on compared too Femo to himself. But styles do make fights, 78 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: and while Thursday night was certainly in a disputed win 79 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: for Teo Fimo Lopez a unanimous decision in a fight 80 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: which most people visually watched him get out boxed. It 81 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: survive in advance, but it feels like another step step 82 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: back now historically it won't matter. It's like the Nakatani fight. 83 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: The Nakatani fight for Teo Fimo, which was the final 84 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: fight before right before entering into the real unified title 85 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: picture and taking on Lomachenko and pulling that upset. The 86 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: Nakitani fight, if you remember, was the title defense at 87 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: one thirty five, where Teo Fimo was arguing with his 88 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: family backstage right before walking to the ring where his 89 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: then fiance which was not approved by his wife, by 90 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: his mother and sister. You remember that story. That fight 91 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: seemed like its own aberration in the middle where we 92 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: had a certain level of doubt for Tayo Femo because 93 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: he was out thought, out boxed that night, but still 94 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: rallied and just barely pulled off that decision. That fight 95 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: felt like the aberration because he was able to come 96 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: back out the next time right against Komy, the early 97 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: knockout against Lomachenko and just completely turn into a different fighter, 98 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: which has made us believe that He's a product of 99 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,679 Speaker 1: his own circumstances fight to fight, and those circumstances typically 100 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: involved the outside of the ring chaos that often follows 101 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: Tayo Fimo into it. The difference is the early model 102 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: version of Tao Femo, the twenty two to twenty three, 103 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: twenty four year old who first burst on the scene 104 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: and announced that he was next. I mean, now we 105 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: look back in his upset of Lomachenko, it's like we 106 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: accept that as matter of fact, but don't forget in 107 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: the fights leading up to that, there was all this 108 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: talk that Teo Femo's father and trainer, Tayo Fimo Lopez, 109 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: who they called Junior is his nickname. I don't get 110 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: it either. There was this idea that maybe he's not 111 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: the best, maybe he's not the best protector of Tao Femo, 112 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: and that he ran him into that Lomacheko fight. But 113 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: what Tayo Femo did that night was just the same 114 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: thing he did against Josh Taylor last year. Amid all 115 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: the chaos, all the questions, he rose to another level 116 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: when the lights were the brightest. The lights were pretty 117 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: darn bright on Thursday night, right, it was the Super 118 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: Bowl Weak Special edition showcase opportunity, although not a Showcase 119 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: opponent of course in Jamaine Ortiz, and we learned a 120 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: lot about Ortiz once again in a close defeat here. 121 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: But maybe this night, maybe this fight which turned out 122 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: to be a poor style matchup for Tao Fema, maybe 123 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: this was a situation where the lights weren't right enough 124 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: to bring out and and and channel that very best 125 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: pomper pound version of himself. Or maybe this is just 126 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: who Tayo Femo is in what his career will now 127 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: always be hit or miss, very hot or very cold. 128 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: That seems to be dictated usually by the things going 129 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: on outside the ring and the challenges to his own 130 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: mental health, which seemed to often have him on tilt. 131 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: When he comes into many different interviews, you kind of 132 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: don't know what he's going to say. He's almost entering 133 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: into a Tyson Fury level of that where you're not 134 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: really sure if he's playing you. He admitted that in 135 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: the build up to this fight that he played us 136 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: all ahead of the Josh Taylor fight, made himself seem 137 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: more crazy than he is in order maybe to raise 138 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: the concern level, raise the interest level in his fights, 139 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: only to come forth with that performance that he had 140 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: against Josh Taylor. Maybe it's just that, or maybe in 141 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: this fight, Jermaine Ortiz took the blueprint of what Sandor Martin, 142 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: a light hitting but very skilled defensive boxer, did in 143 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: further developing the blueprint of what style, if there is one, 144 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: that could be kryptonite to Tao Femo. So that's a 145 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: long winded setup of saying Thursday nights fight was survive 146 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: in advance with a close unanimous decision, a very close, 147 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: a very disputed one. But it also may have further 148 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: opened up the idea that there's key parts of Tayo 149 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: Femo's boxing game, of his IQ, of his game planning, 150 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: of his adaptiveness that still aren't fully there on the 151 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: elite level when the style matches up perfectly to bring 152 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: out what he does best, and of course we're mentioning 153 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,559 Speaker 1: the Lomachenko. When the tailor win, you can see Tayo 154 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: rise to a level where you're like, I'm not sure 155 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: there's ten guys better than him in the sport. But 156 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: styles make fights. In the style that Jermaine Ortiz put 157 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: out last night, opening up at Southpaw and staying there 158 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: for the entirety of the twelve rounds for a normally 159 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: orthodox fighter who does switch sometimes, this was full on 160 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: off the start. We're gonna give you a different, difficult look. 161 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: It was a problem for Tao Femo. He's lucky to 162 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: have won this fight in advance. So let's get first 163 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: into the scoring on a larger macro view one seventeen 164 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: one eleven from Steve Weisfeld, who, as Joe Tess said 165 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: after the fight, excuse me on ESPN, might be the 166 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: best judge in the sport at this moment, might have 167 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: the best reputation, the best amount of experience. Yet this 168 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: was the most controversial card by far. Seventeen eleven. You 169 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: had two judges that scored at one fifteen, one to thirteen, 170 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: and of course you had a lot of booze throughout 171 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: for the lack of two way action. Then you had 172 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: a lot of booze for the result of those who 173 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: felt that Jamaine Ortiz was screwed. And then really you 174 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: had a lot of booze for what became a bizarre 175 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: post fight interview from Tayo Fimo where you're trying to 176 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: peace out what's real, what's him trying too hard? Out 177 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: of maybe embarrassment or whatever, or what's really going on here? 178 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: How did I have the fight scored one fourteen, one 179 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: fourteen even a draw. It's not a bailout score, because 180 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: here's really what happened. It sounds weird to say, hey, 181 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: Jermaine Ortiz out boxed him but deserved to have lost. 182 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: I'm not going to get fully on board with that, 183 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: but here's what really happened here. Jermain Ortiz exposed Tao 184 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: Femo by being so difficult and elusive and defensive. Yes, 185 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: to some degree he did. It was a brilliant game plan, 186 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: but a brilliant game plan up to a point. Ortiz 187 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: turned South Paul off to start. Like I mentioned right away, 188 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: that takes away too Fimo's jab. In fact, Lopez attempted 189 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: only twelve jabs throughout the entire twelve round fight, which 190 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. That not only lowered the output of 191 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: Tao Femo, it made his offense very predictable. Every time 192 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: He's looking to jump in against the South Paul with 193 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: the lead right hands. But these right hands are not 194 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: set up by feints, by jabs, by anything, or cheese 195 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: can see that coming them all away. There's two things 196 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: Ortiz seems to really have at an elite level. It's 197 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: got great size for this division, even though he just 198 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: recently moved up to one forty himself. He's got a 199 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: great motor and as an incredible shape as you can see, 200 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: and his footwork when put in practice and fights like 201 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: this can't be sublime. At times, Orties was brilliant in 202 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: constantly circling away, in making Tao Femo chase, and then 203 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: just as Tayo fema would catch up, you'd see or 204 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: Ties with the defensive jabs, get out of trouble, roll 205 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 1: away and really make Tao Femo look bad. So Ortiz 206 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: succeeded with his style at making Femo Lopez look frustrated, 207 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,959 Speaker 1: visually frustrated, created chaos in his corner as Tayo Femo's 208 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: father was urging him multiple times, combination son not more 209 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: than not one punch at a time. But the problem 210 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: in the end for or Tees was, even though he 211 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: greatly succeeded at limiting Tayo Femo's attempts to largely one 212 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: punch at a time, he himself, or Tees was also 213 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: only throwing one punch at a time. So you ask yourself. 214 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: If our eyes showed us that he outboxed Teo Femo 215 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: somewhat clearly, how can he lose this fight comes down 216 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 1: to boxing scoring, And I don't say it comes down 217 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: to box scoring as a way to overinflate how flawed 218 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: the ten to nine system is. You've got to be 219 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: offensive enough to leave no doubt in close fights. And 220 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: in this case, Ortiz fought very well defensively, but he 221 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: also was landing counter jab here, counter jab there. He 222 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: would come in with combinations, but Tao Fimo had very 223 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: good defense. You saw in those slow motion replays of 224 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: some of those mid round sequences when Ortiz did put 225 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: himself in a good position to punch attempted combinations and 226 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: the head movement of Tao Femo, the high guard, his 227 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: willingness to welcome Orties into the corner with him hoping 228 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: that will spark action. It's actually good defense from Lopez 229 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: in the end. So Ortiz's biggest problem was he built 230 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: a repeated pattern that worked the constant circling away, making 231 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: Tao Fimo look bad and chase him. But there wasn't 232 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: a point where that backpedaling turned into meeting him in 233 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 1: the middle and leaving no doubt offensively in the judge's minds. 234 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: The biggest problem for Teas was in the championship round 235 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: on the blueprint was set on how to beat Lopez, 236 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: but he's stuck too firmly to that defensive blueprint. And 237 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: when you are backpedaling repeatedly in the championship rounds while 238 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: the champion is looking to chase you, push the force 239 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: to fight on you and put that pressure on you, 240 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: it can be hard and very close fights to guarantee 241 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: that you get your hand raised. It's no different than 242 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: the criticism in Mma I gave Israel at a Sonya 243 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: for his very close victory over Joel Romero, where you're like, 244 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: how much are we going to credit Romero for slowing 245 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: down the pace, for landing that big strike on a 246 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: Sonya in round one to kind of discipline him, and 247 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: for basically making a Asiannya look kind of human the 248 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: rest of the way. Ultimately, the judges scored against him, 249 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: although it's a different sort of scoring criteria, the same 250 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: thing against Ortiz. There was never a moment in that 251 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: fight where Romero turned it back into full on offense 252 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: to leave no doubt. So the three judges at ringside 253 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, all very credible and well known. By 254 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: the way, what they saw visually, this close and in 255 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: front of them was a tall femal that was at 256 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: least constantly pushing the pace, even though he rightfully got 257 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: criticized on the broadcast by Tim Bradley, who I thought 258 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 1: continued to do a tremendous job. And there's not universal 259 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: Tim Bradley fans across the board. Let me say, first 260 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: of all, the Hall of Famer Tim Bradley one of 261 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: my favorite fighters to cover an interview in my history 262 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: in this game, because he's so raw and honest. I 263 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: love the way his raw, honest takes are overwhelming in 264 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: some ways this Top Rank broadcast. The reason why that 265 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: matters is because what has been the criticism of the 266 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: ESPN Top Rank broadcast in recent years, the constant screaming 267 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: of the accolades of the fighters. Tysher Furry six foot nine, 268 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: Vassili Lomacheco's the pumper for pound king until next week 269 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: when we have Terrence Crawford and he'll be the pound 270 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: for pound king. Right there's been all commercial, commercial, commercial 271 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: Tim Bradley cuts to the core of that he's giving 272 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: the analysis like he's on HBO twenty years ago, right, 273 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: He's giving the analysis that cuts underneath the promoter network 274 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: relationship and just gives you straight truth. And his truth 275 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: constantly was right about Tayo Female about that he was 276 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: not cutting off the ring, but he was coming forward. 277 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: He was pushing the pace. And when these judges are 278 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: forced to judge very close rounds in which first of all, 279 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: nothing is really happening. Second of all, Ortiz, although outclassing 280 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: in certain key parts of the scoring criteria, is just 281 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: not putting that exclamation point offensively. Then if the punch's 282 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: stats are very close per round, and if the larger 283 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: impact of the bigger shots is probably still Lopez the 284 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: rare times he's able to break in and break through 285 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: Ortiz's guard, that mental image of watching Ortiz constantly circle 286 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: away as the crowd is booing that's eventually going to 287 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: go against him in some very close rounds, and I 288 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: think that explains the scoring in this case. It's in Oh, 289 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: the a side got protected, the pretty boy, the promoter's dream. Now, look, 290 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: they did set up Lopez not to fail. They put 291 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: him on super Bowl week and a big Thursday night 292 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: card and I love that idea. I love the Thursday night, 293 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: week night special attraction feel. It's a little different than 294 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: the Tuesday monning breakfast at Wimbledon. Niowa Anue feel of 295 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: like six am in Japan, but it's special. They billed 296 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: him as the entertainer, the what was the show stopp 297 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: or the got the exact word that they used, but 298 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: it was all circus related. You saw the circus freaks 299 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: come out in an inventive walkout. You saw Taaloe Femal 300 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: come out in the ring master outfit. Yes, he was 301 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: the a side, the guy that they were propping up 302 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: in hopes of all the fights that he's trying to 303 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: link himself with a cling Terrece Crawford, by the way, 304 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: could come to fruition. But at the same time, Tayo's 305 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: got a somewhat tenuous relationship with wob Bar and top Rank, 306 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: all going back to the Cambosas fight, in which Tao 307 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: pushed to force that fight to a purse bid, which 308 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: meant that that allowed his own and Eddie Hern to 309 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: come in and sort of buy the rights to that fight. 310 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: It was messy. It was a headache for Tao female 311 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: so I'm not saying that this score set of scorecards here, 312 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: while disputed, are because of oh that's boxing, that's BS, 313 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: that's business, or tease deserved it. Teas fought very well, 314 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: but he just enough to leave those doubt in the 315 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,959 Speaker 1: close rounds that in the eyes of judges. It reminds 316 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: me so much that I got the poster on my 317 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,959 Speaker 1: wall right here. One of my favorite fights I ever covered. 318 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 1: April thirteenth, twenty thirteen, I believe is the date, and 319 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: it was Donair versus Riggandau, and it was when Nonino 320 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: dna Air was on the top of the world. He 321 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: was the twenty twelve Fighter of the Year, so it's 322 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: the year after that, right, he's numbered three pound for 323 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: Pomby behind Manny and Floyd and Riggandell came in there 324 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: and put forth one of the more brilliant sort of 325 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: technical displays. But that fight was wildly disputed and how 326 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: it was scoring. I specifically remember those on the broadcast 327 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 1: side of the ring, the HBO table, the Max Kellerman's, 328 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: the late Herald Letterman. They all had the fight wide 329 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: for Griggandau, and that created a sort of debate on 330 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: air for those watching who were watching it through their eyes, 331 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: through the eyes of Letterman and Kellerman, going wow, you 332 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 1: know this fight is closer than maybe it should have been. 333 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: Now in the end, the right guy won. Geirro Riggandall 334 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: won a close decision. From that side of the ring, 335 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: it looked like he won it wider from the media 336 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: side of the ring. And by the way, this was 337 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: a very unique venue, Radio City Music Hall on the stage, 338 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: the media was set next to the ring. Michael J. 339 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: Fox in the front row. I mean it was a 340 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: hardcore fans dream type night of boxing, even though the 341 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: fight had extremely boring stretches. But the extremely boring stretches 342 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: were what made it so hard to score. Those sitting 343 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: on the media side of the ring all had Riggandau winning, 344 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: but by a very close margin. There were a group 345 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: of rounds in which Riggandou full time went into defensive 346 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: make you missmode, not dissimilar or tease. In this fight 347 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: against Lopez. It was constant circling. It was constant I'll 348 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: step this way and step away and make you miss. 349 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: But what Riggandau didn't do in those close rounds was 350 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: put the exclamation point, leave no doubt. Statistically, leave no 351 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: doubt in the image of what you take away exiting 352 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: the round. There were the judges who were sitting on 353 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: opposite sides of the ring, and at least two of 354 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: them echoed the scorecards that the media had on that 355 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: side of the ring, which was even though Donair is 356 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: not super in these slow and boring rounds in which 357 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: Riggan Dau is making him miss, he is the fighter 358 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: pushing the action. He is the fighter backing up the 359 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: other fighter. That's ring generalism, and he's mixing in enough 360 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: jabs to keep it close. That's why that fight was 361 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: so close and disputed in many ways, with also a 362 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: group of people thinking Riggandau should have won widely. But 363 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: the difference and why I think Riggandaw deserved getting his 364 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: hand raised was he did have the moments where he 365 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: did turn it up, especially when Donair reached over that 366 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 1: line of pressure when he went for it. It was 367 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: in the first three rounds, but specifically round one when 368 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: Riggandell landed some really hard left hands to give Donair 369 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: the idea that look, you cross this line, I have 370 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: the power to make you pay. And then also let's 371 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: not forget down the stretch in the championship rounds. What 372 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: did Riggan dau do? He scored a keen knockdown late, 373 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: a very key knockdown, which is that flagpole on top 374 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: of your performance that says, I know it's close. I 375 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: know this can be interpreted in different ways, but what 376 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: about this right here? What about this ten to nine 377 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: round right here? We didn't get from morties And when 378 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: you leave it open to interpretation like that in very 379 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: close rounds, judges have their own strike zones. It's no 380 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: different than Major League Baseball. There's no different than knowing 381 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: a certain umpire is going to call that borderline strike. 382 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: There are judges that prefer the guy making the fight 383 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: pushing it, and I do think if you read the 384 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: scoring criteria closely, you certainly could support that. So whether 385 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,959 Speaker 1: you buy that, whether you said watching it, whether you're 386 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: scoring around by round or you're just drinking a beer 387 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: and watching Twitter and you know, picking up the takes 388 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: of others and trying to mix it with your own, 389 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 1: which is how a lot of us watch these fights. 390 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: Just because I'm okay, even though I scored it a 391 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: draw with Lopez surviving and advancing, given that long breakdown, 392 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: I just gave you doesn't mean it's not a step 393 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: back for his value, for his pound for pound ranking, 394 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: for his at twenty six. This whole idea of can 395 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: he keep the train on the tracks long enough with 396 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: the constant distractions going on to put forth the very 397 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: best of him? I don't know, you know, and to 398 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: some degree, styles still do make fights. It's why that 399 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: is such an enduring cliche. It was a bad style 400 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: matchup for Lopez in the end because Ortiz came out 401 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: so confident, because he's stuck to that game plan so well, 402 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,479 Speaker 1: because he had the size, speed and footwork to really 403 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,959 Speaker 1: expose the areas of Tao Fimo's pure boxing game that 404 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: are not up to code. That's cutting off the ring, 405 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: that's being able to establish a jab consistently, to set 406 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: up his right hand when the plane's of his attack 407 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: aren't working. Those things still aren't there. We've seen flashes 408 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: of that from Taeo Femo where he wasn't quite there 409 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: in those areas, but he's been able to overcompensate with 410 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: the explosiveness that he typically brings. And I was waiting 411 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,479 Speaker 1: this fight as his dad's urging him on in the corner, 412 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: wondering if he was going to get that late knockdown 413 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: that might just save the night for himself, where he 414 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: finally would time the moment, leap in and land it. 415 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: It wasn't there because Ortiz fought brilliantly, but he also 416 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: fought negatively. But in fighting negatively it may have cost 417 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: him the fight. It did not cost him though, exposing 418 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: Tale Femo. So where do we go from here? Who 419 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: is Tayloe Fema Lopez Junior? Right now? I know he's 420 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: a sublimely talented guy who won the style matchup makes sense, 421 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: and when his mind is right, he can be so 422 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: much better than you thought he could be. He proved 423 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: that against Lomachenko and Taylor. But I don't think Thursday 424 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: Night's fight was a result necessarily of the chaos in 425 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 1: his life. I've been interviewing Tayo Fema Lopez since he 426 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: was a you know, like ten to o prospect in 427 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: the folks, the pr folks at Top Rank would say, hey, 428 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: BC for your podcast. I know it's early, but we 429 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: got this guy called himself the takeover, could talk your 430 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 1: face off. Has these you know, poor poor man's Muhammad 431 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: Ali type of feel of how he grabs a microphone 432 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: and grabs the moment and brands it. Not forget tale 433 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: Femo when he was twenty three twenty four was giving 434 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: you those one punch knockouts, then doing backflips and doing 435 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: Fortnite dances, long before your boy BC dad over here 436 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: jumped into the Fortnite game. By the way, Aaron Bromstetter 437 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: on Fortnite now trying to get me to share my 438 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: name things so we can still playing against each other. 439 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: I'm willing, Hey, Bron, all right, I do weird stuff 440 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 1: like that in the Evening's okay, that's all. I'll get 441 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: down on the eighth row. But back to boxing here. 442 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: I felt Tayo Femo from an armchair psychologist standpoint, having 443 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,959 Speaker 1: interviewed him to varying degrees over the years. We've always 444 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: had a very good rapport, But Theo Fimo's wild. Sometimes 445 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: he gives you reasons to believe he's crazier than he is. 446 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: Sometimes you can tell he's trying to hold it in 447 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: and it's still shooting out. Whether it's the you know, 448 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 1: tumultous relationship he seems to have with his dad and 449 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: trainer in the corner, although yet at the same time 450 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: his dad seems to become a source of comfort from him. 451 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: Don't forget too Femo's now divorced. But when he had 452 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: that short marriage and went into the wedding, most of 453 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: his family was so against the pairing of him meeting 454 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 1: this older woman falling in love right away. I mean, 455 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: maybe not dissimilar from the late Kobe Bryant Vanessa and 456 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: how his family weren't in support. But you know, his 457 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: dad was the only person that went to the wedding 458 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: to represent the family. So there is sort of this 459 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: anchor that his dad brings, but also so chaos. But 460 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: I felt Tao Femo this week was being the maestro. 461 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: He was being the puppeteer. He was sort of playing 462 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: us in certain areas. He was developing this mini trash 463 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: talk thing with Keishawn Davis on the stage of the 464 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: of the media day press conference thing they had. We'll 465 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: get to Keisha on in the second because he boldly 466 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: called out Tayo Femo after scoring the biggest win of 467 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: his young career. But I thought we had a styled 468 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: in Tao Femo who knew what needed to get done. 469 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: I don't think this poor performance from Tayo had anything 470 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: to do with that we're normally, especially you know, coming 471 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: into that tailor fight, when all the interviews from Teo 472 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: Femo were all over the place, when we know about 473 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: the divorce, the bitter custody battle, you know it was 474 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: coming out in interviews. Taylo Fein was leaking sort of 475 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,479 Speaker 1: information that year. He was almost unsure if he wanted to, 476 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: but he but he was because he lives his life 477 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: always very open. I think this was just a poor 478 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: style matchup and a huge wake up call to team 479 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 1: Tao Femo that again, when the style matchup benefits them, 480 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 1: when their speed and explosiveness like it was against Josh Taylor, 481 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: along with a very smart game plan, is just too 482 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,239 Speaker 1: much to counteract. He's gonna look spectacular, He's gonna look 483 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: pound for pound. But every style, every fighter inevitably has 484 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: a kryptonite, a a formula that could get them if 485 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 1: that person has the requisite survival skills to stay in there, 486 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: a chin or in the in Orchesus case, that quickness 487 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: in elusiveness to be able to avoid getting tagged by 488 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: the big punch. I mean, let's be honest, Lopez was 489 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: outlanded in this. According to compy box eighty to seventy 490 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: eight overall, so it was a pall. It was a 491 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: horrible fight, to be fair, entertainment wise, was it was 492 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: ten set of times, but it was largely a horrible fight. 493 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: Lopez is only outlanded by two rounds, but his output 494 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: was way down, just way down in this fight. There's 495 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: still some major things that they need fixing if the 496 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: style matchup is not in that their favor. And even 497 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: though I think Lopez deserves full credit for the Woema chankupset, 498 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: of course he does, but let's also don't forget two things. 499 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: Lomachenko started very late in that fight, too late. He 500 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,479 Speaker 1: essentially punted the first half of it and allowed Lopez 501 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: to bake bank rounds. Where when Lomachenko made that inevitable adjustment, 502 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: the same adjustment he made to Jermaine Ortiz two years 503 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: ago in Ortiz's biggest fight today, which also came in 504 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: a losing performances only loss coming in where Ortiz fought 505 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: so well early, pushing a Lomachenko who was not that 506 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: far removed from wartime in Ukraine. But when Lomachenko makes 507 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: that second half rally, he takes over. He made that 508 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: rally against Devin Hainey in a very close loss which 509 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: I thought Lomachenko won. He made that rally to edge 510 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: out Jermaine Ortiz late, and he almost edged out tail 511 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: Femo late. The difference was Taeo Femo landed those big 512 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: punches in round twelve to kind of put that exclamation 513 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: point on anyone who thought that fight was super super close. Now, granted, 514 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: when you go back and look, those scores were wider 515 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: than I think the fight we saw. I think we 516 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: largely saw seven rounds to five win for Tail Femo 517 00:26:54,560 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: in that one. But when the fight stylistic is not 518 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 1: favoring it, he's got to be able to make these 519 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: adjustments better. Tim Bradley's right, he's got to be able 520 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: to cut off the ring. I mean Tim Bradley was 521 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: getting in arguments with Joe Tess and Mark Kriegel on 522 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: the post fight show that they have on the app 523 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 1: there and aggressively emotionally pointing out all the things that 524 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: Tayo Female is not doing right technically that cost it 525 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: or could have cost him, or maybe should have cost 526 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: him in this Yes, it's a survive in advance, but 527 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: if he doesn't get those technical things figured out, You're 528 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: not gonna beat Terrence Crawford. You might not even be 529 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: competitive with Terrence Crawford. And let's look in your own division, 530 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: not gonna be Devin Haney, who is the master at 531 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: distance control, the master at hit and not get hit. 532 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 1: There's only two fighters today. I'm in three if you 533 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: put Terrence Crawford in there, And maybe Terrence Crawford should 534 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: be number one in this conversation. But I always say this, 535 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: I don't like comparing people to people of the past. 536 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: I don't like saying, who's the Floyd Mayweather today? Because 537 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: Floyd is so damn special. It's give him his flowers. 538 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: I know I've been a long time critic of certain areas, 539 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: but obviously Floyd's the frickin' man. What have I been 540 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: doing during the m K break a lot of Delta 541 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: eight jhait sit and watching every Floyd Mayweather fight over again, 542 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: from beginning to end, just marveling at the brilliance of it. 543 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: Terrence Crawford certainly shows you a command and a nastiness 544 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: that can be Floyd like at times, although even Floyd 545 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: wasn't that nasty. But I reserved the whole idea of 546 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 1: who looks like Floyd today at only two people. And 547 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: I've said it before, I say it again. It's Shack 548 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: Kur Stevenson, who really from the South past dance seems 549 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 1: to own the ring in a Floyd way. It's Devin Hainey. 550 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 1: It's Devin Hainey. It's that precise technique, knowing where to be, 551 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: knowing where not to be, just everything about that. Tayo 552 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: Femo's going to struggle with those guys if he doesn't 553 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: figure it out because that plan ain't even that Plan 554 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: B is not going to be enough. So lessons learned. 555 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: But this wouldn't be the first time in this case 556 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: that somebody with a lot of fanfare had sort of 557 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: a flat tire survive in advanced situation. And that's what 558 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: Lopez has there, because in hindsight, you'll just look at 559 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: that as a close win on the you know, you'll 560 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: might remember the circumstances, but it will just go down 561 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,479 Speaker 1: as a win. So Lopez and company need to go 562 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: back to the gym and figure out some of this 563 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: because the names that they were calling out I mentioned 564 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: he was all over Crawford coming in. It's not gonna 565 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: help him. So let's talk about one name there that 566 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: uh that he doesn't want to fight, and that's the 567 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: comin event on this evening. If you don't know Keshan Davis, 568 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: he was one of the bigger amateur prospects in the 569 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: US in recent years. One silver at the twenty twenty 570 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: Olympic Games, of course, that happened in twenty one in Tokyo. 571 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: He is dynamic as a young boxer, showing us such 572 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: a technical command but also showing us some fire in 573 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: the key moments. It doesn't have huge power, but can 574 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: be a finisher because he's so precise. Yes, he took 575 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: on a thirty five year old Jose Sniper Padraza, who 576 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: of late has become more of an opponent in a 577 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: name to guys either at the title level or about 578 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: to be. Yes, this is the second half of it. 579 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say that that's prime sniper, it's not. 580 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: In fact, it was an older gentleman coming back down 581 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: to one thirty five, which may have compromised him, but 582 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: he also wasn't a corpse. Fully out there Padraza constantly 583 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: pushing the pace and trying to make it a rough 584 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: fight inside to try to compensate for the lack of 585 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: speed and technique disadvantage that he had against Kishan. But 586 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: Kishan was sublime on this night. For such a young 587 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: fighter to come in and to just it looked a 588 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: little bit like young pretty boy Mayweather against Arturo Gotti. 589 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: It really did. It was just a dismantling. You knew 590 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: the stoppage was inevitable. So Kishan Davis gets this huge 591 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: moment against the first really big name on his career 592 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: where you're like, man, can he go? Can he be 593 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: in a potentially competitive fight for the full twelve rounds? 594 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't competitive. It didn't matter. His offensive onslaught was 595 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: just chef's kiss. And so was the postfight interview, which 596 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: was the opposite of the postfight interview we got from 597 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: Tayo Fema what you'll get to in a second. In 598 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: the postfight interview, you get a Kishan Davis who aggressively 599 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: comes out and says, Tayo Femo, you talk some game, 600 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: you talk some shit lately. I'll come up to one forty. 601 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: Let's do this. First of all, what balls he has 602 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: as Cheech and Chong One's famous that he said that 603 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: love that. Also, he's got a style matchup potentially against 604 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: Tao Femo that if Jermaine Ortiz was able to do 605 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: that against him by being quicker, slicker, negative at times, 606 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: you don't want to. I don't think you want to 607 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: face somebody who can box this well. And I think 608 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: if you go now to the post fight interview of 609 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: Tao Femo Lopez, which was all over the place. In 610 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: one sense, he's praising Jesus, says King, well done, well 611 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: done in my personal editorials stake, But then the sentence 612 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: before that, he's dropping a A you know, kind of awkward. 613 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to repeat what he's saying, but you 614 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: know there was you know, you got all you critics 615 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: can s a D no h mo. I mean, just 616 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: stuff that that shouldn't be in the postfight interview. Just 617 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: just sort of an immature thing. But what I hated 618 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: even more was his even more immature response to when Bernardosuna, 619 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: who did a good job at jumping in the postfight 620 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: interview and trying to interrupt Tayo because tale's all over 621 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: the place. He's talking about quotes that the Egyptians said 622 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: when building the pyramids that didn't make a lot of sense. 623 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: He's dropping odd historical notations in there, but Bernardo cuts 624 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: to the chase and O soon as a veteran, I 625 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: love that guy. By the way, outside the cameras love 626 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: that guy. He says, Look, what about what about moving forward? 627 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: What about Kishank calling you out? Here's the quote from 628 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: a verymo seemingly jazzed up and fired up Teo Fimo, 629 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: who I did feel was sort of using that thing 630 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: where he's being extra defiant, maybe to try to hide 631 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: his own sort of not embarrassment, but his own understanding 632 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: that that fight was a lot closer than maybe it 633 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: should have been or that he expected, and that maybe 634 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: he pulled one off on boxing, maybe he was lucky 635 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: to survive in advance. But here's his quote. Come on, 636 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: we're talking about a lightweight over here, Lopez said, when 637 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: referencing Keishon Davis. He hasn't done anything. It's just Likelima 638 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: Chankell told me, if you want to fight me, go 639 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: get a title. If you want to fight the king, 640 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: go get the world title. I'm not going to give 641 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: it to you. Guys. Everybody wants it easy. The only 642 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: thing easy here are my skills. Lopez also was just 643 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: aggressively chastising Ortiz for running. I mean it wasn't It 644 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: wasn't running because Ortiz was making Tail look bad, and 645 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 1: because there was just enough offense for Morties to have 646 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: a have a say in the dispay the debate of 647 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: this disputed decision. But as we established, in my opinion, 648 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: it just wasn't enough offense but to come out and 649 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: just throw everybody in the category of runner, and then 650 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: to so blatantly just be like, oh, key Sean, you 651 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: got to earn it first, man, I'm not gonna deal 652 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:34,959 Speaker 1: with you until you win a world title art. Well, 653 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: he might just go he might just move up to 654 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: one forty and do that. Okay to me, he might 655 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 1: just do that, especially if if he's not going to 656 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: be set up to be paired against Shaker Stevenson, who's 657 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: still at one thirty five but has teased himself major 658 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: move ups. That just made Lopez look bad, straight up, 659 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: be honest with you. That just made him look bad, 660 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: made him look like he's now trying to duck that guy. 661 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: And all the talk about Crawford, I'll meet you up 662 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: in a catchway, he said afterwards. Crawford just just just 663 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: dropped the deuce on him. Onto or just you know, 664 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: as did a lot of fighters, and I think they 665 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: had the right there because Tayo Fema was presented as 666 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 1: the show man and he is. He's given you the 667 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: crazy interviews at times that are making you question things, 668 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: and then he came out with a very flat performance 669 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,479 Speaker 1: in which his dad needed to get in his ear, 670 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: and I thought his dad, actually, who's been maligned at times, 671 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: thought his dad had the right analysis for him at 672 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,520 Speaker 1: the right times, telling him to get away from that 673 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,439 Speaker 1: one punch out of time style, telling him to try 674 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: to throw more combinations. Either Tao wouldn't commit or he 675 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: just couldn't get Ortiz to stay put. But again that 676 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 1: goes back to his inability to cut off the ring. 677 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: And that's why I loved Tim Bradley again cutting through 678 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: any potential conflict of the promoter network exclusive relationship and 679 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: just giving you real, raw, honest analysis. It was spot on. 680 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: It's a weird night for Tayo Femo Lopez, a very 681 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: weird night. There were a bunch of things said in 682 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: that postfight interview that again make you kind of question 683 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: his sanity, But I think his sanity right now is 684 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: actually fine. I think he's just got to round out 685 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: this game because some there have been certainly some elements 686 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: along the way of Lopez relying on his explosiveness and 687 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: his athleticism to bail him out in key spots. You're 688 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: not going to do that against the truly amateur trained, 689 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: sublime boxers who know how to use distance to make 690 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: you look bad. If you can figure out that hole, 691 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,240 Speaker 1: if it's gonna be if he can learn to box 692 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: off of his jab when needed, even against the south paw, 693 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 1: even against the south paw. I think, you know, there's 694 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: lou I made comparisons to this Ortizes Lopez fight to riggindout. 695 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: Donare there's looser comparisons to Dala Hoya versus Parnell Whitaker. 696 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: The fight a lot of people thought Whittaker had won. 697 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: It was a close fight. Maybe the Canelo Lara is 698 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: another comparison. I think in this case, though Teyo Fimo 699 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: wasn't or sorry, you know, Ortiz wasn't offensive enough. I 700 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,760 Speaker 1: thought Laura beat Canelo, but I understand why the judges 701 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: didn't give it to him. Canelo was coming forward and 702 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: pushing that fight, and I think in a lot of 703 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: in cases like people still look back and say, okay, 704 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: Pronel Whitaker got screwed against dale Hoya. I don't think 705 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,439 Speaker 1: he got screwed. I think it could have gone either way. 706 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: But I think dala Hoya was offensive enough, working in 707 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: the lead right hand against the south pond, kind of 708 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: using it as a jab to get in. He at 709 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: least was trying to break down or was succeeding in 710 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: breaking down in ways that Lopez just wasn't. So I've 711 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: said it so many times, Lopez is a reality show. 712 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: This is probably going to be the norm every other fight, 713 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 1: every two fights. Were questioning him when he looked in 714 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 1: the camera against Sandu or Martin and now claims it 715 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: was a setup, and maybe it was. When he looked 716 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: back at it, of saying, do I still got it 717 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 1: in his mind that was let me bait everybody, let 718 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: me bring in the big name opponents that might not 719 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: want to face me, by being humble, by being falsely vulnerable. 720 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: I don't think all that vulnerability is false. And that's 721 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,399 Speaker 1: the problem still time only twenty six, he's already kind 722 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: of into a nine lives version of his own career 723 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: and how he sidestepped things that could have derailed him. 724 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: He is a special force he is a special mind, 725 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 1: but he's got to go back and fix that. Let's 726 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: close by talking about the big fight in this division 727 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: that's really gonna happen. Mike Coppinger of ESPN all over 728 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,880 Speaker 1: this reporting, Ye're seeing multiple sources confirming here April twentieth, 729 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,399 Speaker 1: his own pay per view, Devin Hainey. I know Taoe 730 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: Femo calls himself the king at one forty because he 731 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 1: went through the lineal champion Josh Taylor, the former undisputed champion, 732 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,440 Speaker 1: who had a bunch of his belts stripped when he 733 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 1: didn't make the mandatories that the sanctioning bodies wanted. But 734 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,880 Speaker 1: Devin Hainey, on a pound for palm level, is a 735 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 1: better fighter than Tail Femo, and his resumes catching up 736 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 1: really quick too. I mean he might not, you know 737 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like he's got the lomachanko win now. 738 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,080 Speaker 1: It's dominated Ruguru to win a title at one forty. 739 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,319 Speaker 1: The rough fight for Ryan Garcia, and it's always been 740 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 1: the case. And Rai guy's been all over the place lately, 741 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,359 Speaker 1: probably to a negative level, and putting out these Instagram lives. 742 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: I watched Instagram Live last night quickly before the start 743 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,719 Speaker 1: of the Taoe Fema fight where he's just giving hair 744 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: care tips to his male audio. I mean, look, Brian 745 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,919 Speaker 1: Garcia is a handsome man. This is you know, there's 746 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: that modeling side to him, there's that influenzer side to him. 747 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:58,720 Speaker 1: But he's telling everybody about if you get a bottle 748 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 1: of Jurgins, not this, you get a bottle of Jurgins 749 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 1: and you rub it together and you know, push it 750 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 1: through your hair, it'll give it that hold in that shot. Okay, 751 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,320 Speaker 1: maybe it will. But Ryan Garcia is in the spot 752 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 1: where this dare to be great nature, which is becoming 753 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: the theme again in boxy, especially with the young American fighters. No, 754 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,320 Speaker 1: we're not quite there in the nineteen eighties where everybody's 755 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,160 Speaker 1: the future Hall of Famer and they're all fighting each other. 756 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,200 Speaker 1: Where the four Kings of Hagler, Duran, Leonard and Hearns 757 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 1: fought each other nine times in ten years. We might 758 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,359 Speaker 1: have a group of four princes, as Karen Malvaney called them, 759 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,920 Speaker 1: right theo Femo, Ryan Garcia, Tank Davis, Devin Hanian in 760 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 1: the fifth of course, to shir Kurs Stevenson who's coming. 761 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: They've only fought each other once though up to this point, 762 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: Tank Davis versus Ryan Garcia, so this will be fight 763 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: number two. But even though we want Ryan Garcia to 764 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: make huge events, it still feels too soon in how 765 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: he was so dominated by Davis to kind of run 766 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 1: back and even arguably an even more difficult fight. Tank 767 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: Davis and Devin Haney are very close in my eyes 768 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,840 Speaker 1: in terms of who's got the advantage. I'd probably favor 769 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: Haini's still in a fight between them because that length 770 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 1: and that IQ and that speed and that understanding of 771 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 1: pure boxing could give Tank issues. Although obviously takes a 772 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,839 Speaker 1: gamer thank catches up to your chin late. He'll he'll 773 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 1: find out right, but he's probably a harder fight now. 774 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: Look from Garcia's standpoint, he's got the confidence level of 775 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: having fought Hany and the amateur six times, having supposedly 776 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,480 Speaker 1: split those fights three to three. But has Ryan Garcia 777 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 1: fixed the issues that came out in the Tank Davis 778 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: fight which have been a recurring theme even though Lou 779 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,880 Speaker 1: Campbell win, which was his breakthrough, No I'm ready, I 780 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: am of this silk, I'm a real fighter. He was 781 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,439 Speaker 1: a real fighter that night. U Campbell dropped him. Ryan 782 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,840 Speaker 1: Garcia got up and he finished him off and retired 783 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,040 Speaker 1: a very good fighter, and Lou Campbell a gold medalist, 784 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 1: somebody who couldn't get over the hump and his biggest 785 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,359 Speaker 1: title fights, but a tough out. But a lot has 786 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,719 Speaker 1: happened since then, and Ryan Garcia's switching trainers left and right, 787 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 1: and we know this whole sort of drama. It's good 788 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,359 Speaker 1: for the sport that this fight is happening, and that's 789 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,839 Speaker 1: happening Gambriod twentieth, But I don't know if it's good 790 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 1: for Ryan Garcia right now. He's been trying to link 791 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,280 Speaker 1: himself with a bunch of different fights and prematurely announcing 792 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,520 Speaker 1: them before it's really true, like the Roly Romero fight. 793 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,759 Speaker 1: He seems to be at odds with Oscar de la Hoya, 794 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,799 Speaker 1: his promoter, who it seems to be almost fighting to 795 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,719 Speaker 1: try to make his own fights as promoter and not 796 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: including Ryan Garcia in the conversation. The fact that they 797 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 1: made this fight, especially with PBC now in the transition 798 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,760 Speaker 1: from Showtime to Amazon Prime in which they're not kicking 799 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 1: off until March thirtieth, and we don't know any more 800 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: fights beyond the first one. It's made the first quarter 801 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,960 Speaker 1: of this year at a little interesting as a boxing fan. Yes, 802 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: you've got the Saudi Arabia angle, and they're making the 803 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 1: big fights we need to see to first better bv 804 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: Bevall on regular ESPN, out of pay per view amazing. 805 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: Tyson Fury's bad cut postponed that Usik fight uped up 806 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,280 Speaker 1: to May eighteenth, but we're gonna getting gone to Joshua 807 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 1: in March. Now we're getting Hany Garcia April twentieth, and 808 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,480 Speaker 1: it's a huge fight. It's good for Bock, it's great 809 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:59,799 Speaker 1: for boxing. Actually even better because it's now fight number two. 810 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,520 Speaker 1: This group of four princes or five young fighters that 811 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: are poised to take over, but do seem motivated to 812 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: fight each other. It's just that it's Ryan Garcia going 813 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: out of his way to make these fights happen. That 814 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,880 Speaker 1: fight against Tank doesn't happen unless he bends to everything 815 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: Tank asks for, including the hydration clause, including joining in 816 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: his own into a co pay per view, but letting 817 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 1: Showtime handle exclusively the production. We remember that drama. I 818 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know if this is the right 819 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if Ryan Garcia can go in there 820 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: potentially take a bad l and rebound. It would obviously 821 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,719 Speaker 1: depend upon his performance. He also is quick and explosive 822 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,399 Speaker 1: enough where he makes surprise Devin Haney, not surprise him 823 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 1: by upsetting him, but maybe surprise him by making it 824 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,399 Speaker 1: a different fight than we assume. But either way, now 825 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 1: and just a few fights under Derek James as his 826 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,400 Speaker 1: new new new trainer, Ryan Garcia is going to have 827 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:54,359 Speaker 1: to make an incredible leap. I want to say as 828 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,200 Speaker 1: a complete fighter, but I don't know if he's ever 829 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,840 Speaker 1: going to be a complete fighter, even just making his 830 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,200 Speaker 1: offensive out put as dangerous as it can possibly be. 831 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,160 Speaker 1: He needs to make a leap to be truly competitive 832 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,560 Speaker 1: in this fight. But his star will make it matter. 833 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: It'll bring attention. It's another huge fight for Devin Hainey, 834 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 1: who you have to say him and his father Bill 835 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: Hanney as trainer dad manager, they have been brilliant and 836 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,000 Speaker 1: how they have financially and promotional lisa up their career. 837 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,880 Speaker 1: They're doing the thing that Miguel Coto and Canelo couldn't 838 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,000 Speaker 1: do until they were established as pay per view stars, 839 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,279 Speaker 1: that thing where it's like, no, I'm only going to 840 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: sign short term contracts. I'm gonna jumpround I'm gonna make 841 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,200 Speaker 1: the biggest fights possible. This is another one of those, 842 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,879 Speaker 1: one of the biggest fights you can make. Just wonder 843 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,640 Speaker 1: how many l's in the chamber against super elite opponents. 844 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: Does Ryan Garcia have any rebound from this? Probably could, 845 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: especially if he lost but showed out. It's gonna be 846 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:47,799 Speaker 1: a lot of questions, but it's going to be an event. 847 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,279 Speaker 1: It's going to be an event that matters, and this 848 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,120 Speaker 1: division certainly matters, and I hope this is just the 849 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: beginning of course and getting the ideas of Tank Davis 850 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,560 Speaker 1: versus Haney down the road. Would we need Saudi Arabia 851 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,320 Speaker 1: to make that fight happen. I don't know. I don't know. 852 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,359 Speaker 1: I don't really know what's going on with PBC right now. 853 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,440 Speaker 1: I'm encouraged. Their roster is huge. They've got an interesting 854 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:09,600 Speaker 1: uh uh. You know, we foundation here in Amazon Prime 855 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,319 Speaker 1: as a new distributor. They got to come through and 856 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: make the big fights. Hopefully they will. But you want 857 00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,600 Speaker 1: to see these four or five princes by one another 858 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 1: multiple times, and that's how you make Hall of Famers, 859 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,560 Speaker 1: That's how you make a vibrant era. Heavyweights are always 860 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: going to sell better and draw more attention than everyone else, 861 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,960 Speaker 1: and we've got a still we're still in the heavyweight renaissance. 862 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,800 Speaker 1: We're the twenty fifteen upset of Tyson Fury over Vladimir 863 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,440 Speaker 1: Klitschko has created a bubble that has not burst yet. 864 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,320 Speaker 1: We still need to see Fury versus Joshua and Ghanu 865 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,120 Speaker 1: versus everyone like there's matchups. Obviously, we need to see 866 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,680 Speaker 1: Fury versus News like ohs like first and foremost. But 867 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,040 Speaker 1: welterweight was always that pay per view division which held 868 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,960 Speaker 1: up the sport when heavyweight couldn't. At times, it's been 869 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,799 Speaker 1: middleweight one of the classic divisions ever, right, but one 870 00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:00,600 Speaker 1: is no longer just a you know, JV form line 871 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,520 Speaker 1: to lead everybody to one forty seven. All those stars 872 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,960 Speaker 1: from lightweight have moved up, and this is where we are. 873 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,239 Speaker 1: Tayo Fimo Lopez adding just another chapter and ripple to 874 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,440 Speaker 1: this division's lore at the moment and his own arc 875 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,160 Speaker 1: up to this point. Hey, it was it was great 876 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,120 Speaker 1: being back with you guys. Brian Campbell. Of course you 877 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,080 Speaker 1: know me, right, MK is coming back and it's coming 878 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,400 Speaker 1: back with a bang in March on a full time basis. 879 00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,640 Speaker 1: We're finalizing everything. There's a lot going on behind the 880 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 1: scenes to make the store front ready for the grand reopening, 881 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 1: and I think you guys are going to be very excited. 882 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,759 Speaker 1: Continue to support everything we're doing at CBS Sports, everything 883 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,480 Speaker 1: Luke Thomas is doing on a solo channel. We will 884 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,120 Speaker 1: be back next week Luke and BC Morning Kombat on 885 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,319 Speaker 1: this here channel, getting you ready for UFC two ninety 886 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,239 Speaker 1: eight and to see if Alexander Volkanowski can't take that 887 00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,360 Speaker 1: thirty five and overcurse and shove it right up the 888 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,879 Speaker 1: behind of old LT right you see that at least 889 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,239 Speaker 1: that commercial from Bulk. I love it you're playing on 890 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,359 Speaker 1: that stat of that thirty five and over that old 891 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 1: God commercial. Well done, right there. It's been a long December. 892 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,160 Speaker 1: It's been a lot winter right for me in the Northeast, 893 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,480 Speaker 1: not getting to do this show on the regular, But 894 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: this time will be well spent. It'll be worth it. 895 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,239 Speaker 1: We'll see you guys on the other side. We'll see 896 00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,160 Speaker 1: you guys next week. So thank you so much. Thank 897 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:12,840 Speaker 1: you as always to Mikey more Mile here of CBS 898 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,560 Speaker 1: Sports for running the show that we've got going on. Guys, 899 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,799 Speaker 1: thanks for checking in. Keep yourselves together here. Okay, look 900 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,960 Speaker 1: if you can control anything during an uncertain season, control yourself, 901 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,080 Speaker 1: control your mind, control your body, control you know what 902 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,520 Speaker 1: you have access to control during this time. That's what 903 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,279 Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. I'm getting into best shape of 904 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,520 Speaker 1: my life. All right. Shout out to my trainer, Darren Robinson. 905 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,920 Speaker 1: Shout him out. Look him up, Look him up. Okay, 906 00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,040 Speaker 1: you're over forty. You want to change your life, look 907 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,640 Speaker 1: up my guy on Instagram. Go after it, Darren Robinson 908 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,200 Speaker 1: changing my life right here, all right. One bite at 909 00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,200 Speaker 1: a time, one curl at a time. All right, that's 910 00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,160 Speaker 1: how we do it. That's it. Boxing is still great, guys. 911 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,359 Speaker 1: We're gonna have a great year. MK. Still great. It's 912 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,279 Speaker 1: gonna be an even better year. Morningcombat Dot store for 913 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,239 Speaker 1: all of your merch needs. We got a hat sale 914 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,759 Speaker 1: going on. Tell RJ THATBC sent you. We are out 915 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:00,000 Speaker 1: of here.