1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Quick honorable mention the twenty thirteen Marcos Madonna Adrian Broner 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 1: brawl that aired on Showtime in one of boxing's best 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: years in recent memory. Don't overlook this one. This was 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: boxing Twitter's biggest win of all time because ab Adrian 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Broner was calling himself the next Floyd and was so 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: flamboyant that people just they wanted to see him get served. 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: And Marcos Madonna turned out to be the perfect foil 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: in San Antonio and dropped him twice early. But then 9 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: Brunner didn't go away and figured out after trying to 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: quit midway through by following that he might be able 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: to dig in and fight. And that was a great 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: forgotten fight. And obviously the Israel of Aasquez Raphael Marquez trilogy, 13 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: the third one coming in two thousand and eight, it 14 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: could be in the top five of anybody's best list 15 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: of the last twenty years. Luke and I went deep 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: on these three fights. It's a four fight series, but 17 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: it's the trilogy first that really matters. For the morning 18 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: combat pandemic Showtime classics that I think you can still 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: find on YouTube right now. So always a great trilogy. 20 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: Brutal shit. But in some ways it's like they were 21 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: almost too perfect for each other, Like there's so little 22 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: contrast between them, like style wise or anything else that 23 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 1: it's like it's it's a really great taste, but it's 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: a lot of that taste and it's classic though. And 25 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: if you're talking about sort of off the beaten path fights. 26 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: Two thousand and six had this French War between mayhar 27 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: Manchaport and Som Sachs Chichiwal. Yeah, that's a mouthful. It 28 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: became the fighter of the Fight of the Year globally 29 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: and in part because formerly a ESPN Dan Rayfield really 30 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: pushed it on a high level to get people to 31 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: take notice. It's just a savage, savage, twelve round war, 32 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: just two Southpaws that in France, and they're just I mean, 33 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: it's just it's insane. It's really insane. So check that out. 34 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: Also in the top ten BC fights, I was their list. 35 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: Forgot about this one. It's got to be mentioned. The 36 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: first chuckle tot you know, srisaket Rung, the side Fight 37 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden Comaine to Triple G versus Danny Jacobs, 38 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: Bloody Chuco Latito was the Poffer Pound King coming in 39 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: in that perfect window. Floyd had gone away, Clitchko had lost, 40 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: andre Ward had just retired. There was an opening there. 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: Chuco Latito filled it on the back end of his 42 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,679 Speaker 1: career and then this was a razy war. So check 43 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: that shout out. You know, I love Shane Moseley versus 44 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: Oscar de la Hoya one from two thousand, one of 45 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: my favorite fights of all time, high speed chess at 46 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: its finest. All right, here we go ten fights for 47 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: an MMA fan to crossover. You must see boxing wise 48 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: to get a little taste of what we do here 49 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: on this side. Number ten. It happened in two thousand 50 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: and eight in the welterweight division. Miguel Coto Antonio Margarito 51 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: Part one. They were on a collision course to fight 52 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: each other for a while, and this was really banging 53 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: the drum to be like, you know, Koto's a star, 54 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: but this is like hardcore fight fans dream. At the 55 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: same time. Margarito from Mexico, and he's just like he's 56 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: the bad guy in the movie. He's just a motherfucker, 57 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And he loves being that guy. 58 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: But he'll take all the punishment you got. You have 59 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: no idea how he can make weight in this weight 60 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: class and just doesn't stop coming. And Coto's the unbeaten 61 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: star and he's and he's a great boxer, but you know, 62 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: going to the body, going to the liver with the 63 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: left hook, this is like when Codo used to go 64 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: after it and Puerto Rico Mexico. I mean, it had 65 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: everything right and then the fight was unbelievable and Codo 66 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: dominated the first half. But you're watching the it's like 67 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: you're watching the Titanic slowly sink. You're like, oh crap, 68 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: Margueritto's like he's still coming, Like he's still coming. Is 69 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: he gonna break the will eventually? And eventually he does, 70 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: and it's a great, all time great fight. But of 71 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: course it's stained to a large degree by the fact 72 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: that Antonio Margarito, you know, not too long after against 73 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: Shane Mosley in that knockout loss, was caught in the 74 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: locker room beforehands with the plaster of Paris, with the 75 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: loaded wraps, with you know, with the cement in his hands. 76 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: And then you look back at Margarito's run to that point, 77 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: you know, the Carman Centron fight and the punishment he 78 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: took against Paul Williams, which was an amazing war and 79 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: you're like, man, you have loaded gloves in those two 80 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh, the Codo beating he I mean, 81 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: Codo's face afterwards is it's a it's a car wreck. 82 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, that rivalry between them. Because 83 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: of this, it fueled so perfectly into that rematch, and 84 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: it was Codo win at Masison Square Garden in twenty eleven. 85 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: I was in the area. That was incredible. It was 86 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: just a scene. But you know, Margarito was a little 87 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: washy by then. But this fight, if you can understand 88 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: with the probability of the loaded gloves for Margarito, which 89 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: which it does change the way you watch it, it 90 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: really does. But it's a great fight with a lot 91 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: of that energy in the building in Las Vegas of 92 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: like nation versus nation. Man, man, you know, I mean, 93 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: it's it's it's good ship. It's good ship, all right. 94 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: Number nine is a is a classic middleweight championship out 95 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: that feels like it could have come out of the 96 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: nineteen forties. It happened in two thousand and seven, and 97 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: it's the ghost Kelly Pavlock in part one of his 98 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: two fight series against Jermaine Taylor. Taylor was a midway 99 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: champion of the world. You know, he had fought Bernard 100 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: Hopkins twice and and it was really damn good and 101 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: he was well rounded, and he hadn't yet it hadn't 102 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: yet fallen apart for him. And when it fell apart, 103 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: it was it was crazy, but he was still the guy. 104 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: And Kelly Pavlock is this white dude with with with 105 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: no hairline from Youngstown, PA. And and he's you know, 106 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: he's mma factory town tough like he's he's factory there's 107 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: no question. I mean, he's hard, scrabble as shit and 108 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: he can punch. But as you're watching him, each time 109 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: he's taking another step up, you're like, Okay, it's cool, 110 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: but like he's going to get flatten at the highest level, 111 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: like you know, like you have sometimes with the white guy, 112 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: you have that sort of built in like he ain't 113 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: that good, right, And this was the fight that you're 114 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: probably gonna find out that he ain't that good because 115 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: he came in with so much fanfare and he got 116 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: to this point and you know, the fight before for 117 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: Kelly Pavock, he was in a war and I mean 118 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: he took away Edison Miranda and he near it was Kelly. 119 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: Pavock was nearly the Fight of the Year during Fighter 120 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: of the Year during the stretch. But he he's in fights, man, 121 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: he gets hit. I mean, he's fighting, he's a fighter. 122 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: And Taylor gave it to Pavlock early and dropped him, 123 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, the fight's over. I've seen this, 124 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: and Steve Smoker had one of the all time great 125 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: knights as a referee, a fight friendly referee, a fighter 126 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: action fight friendly. He was like, go ahead, you know, 127 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: he lets to keep going. He's in there in the 128 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: right situations. And Pavlick turns that corner. I believe this 129 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: was in Atlantic City and the crowd was going ape shit, 130 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: and when Pavlock rallies to finish him late, it's just 131 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: one of those like swings in momentum so perfectly painted 132 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: that you know, it's it's like an old time movie. 133 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: It's like an old classic fight and the roar from 134 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: the audience and the oh god, he is for real, 135 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, holy shit, this kid. 136 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: It's one of those moments you know, catches you off 137 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: guard number eight, you know, one of the all time 138 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: great heavyweight slugfests of all time heavyweight boxing title on 139 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: the line, and it was this weird fight in two 140 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: thousand and three that wasn't supposed to happen. It was 141 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: Lennox Lewis the last fight of his pro career, and 142 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: he was gonna I got I got dead wrong for 143 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: this when I referenced this a couple of weeks ago. 144 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: Was not Kevin Johnson, who was the guy he was 145 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: supposed to be fighting somebody else who You're like, Okay, 146 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: Lynx Lewis is gonna blow that guy away. And then 147 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: that guy falls out and Vitelli clitch Goo comes in 148 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: at the last minute. And this is before Vitali Klitchko 149 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: had permanently cemented his Hall of Fame all time great resume, 150 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: and he had been a champion before and had but 151 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: that loss he had to Chris Bird when people thought 152 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: he quit because of an injury to his shoulder, and 153 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: people were like, oh, you know when it going gets 154 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: tough again. A non puncher, but a great fighter in Chrispurer, 155 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: but a non puncher, you're gonna quit, by the way, 156 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: they would find out in the medical exam like years 157 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: later when it went public that like he was that 158 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: close to his shoulder permanently falling off and having to 159 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: like probably be amputated like he was, like it was 160 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: one of the most disastrous physical injuries inside the ring, 161 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: and so but Tali Klitschko had like something to prove. 162 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: Only he's like crazy Mayor of Kiev like he is 163 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: today saying I'll go to the front lines of the 164 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: row against the Russians if I have to, Like he 165 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: went after Lennox Lewis, and it was like Lennox Lewis, 166 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: who was like the detail into Lenniz Lewis Lewis's career, 167 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: there was always that little fear te Lenslus's chin, by 168 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: the way, got knocked out twice, but came back to 169 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: knock out in the rematch both of those guys, and 170 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: those are the only two he ever lost. So Leon 171 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: s Lewis is one of those rare all time great 172 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: fires that says I beat everybody I stepped into the 173 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: ring with. But because he had been stopped twice, there 174 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: was always a little bit of fear that like, Okay, 175 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: maybe that chin isn't isn't great and you can't get 176 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: to it. We've seen it twice. And there was also 177 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: that fear that like the tail end of his career 178 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: is he tried in his heart he had filmed that 179 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: Ocean's eleven movie or whatever and didn't wasn't fully trained 180 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: coming into the uh Hassim Rockman first fight and he 181 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: got stopped in South Africa and it was, you know, 182 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 1: this wild upset and he got him back and he 183 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: got him back. By the way, if you haven't seen 184 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: Lennox Lewis's knockout of Hasim Rockman in the rematch, he 185 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: got him back in like the most vicious fuck you 186 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: way ever. I mean that's just not like laid him out. 187 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: But there was like that fear of like, well, what 188 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: if he doesn't show up tonight, and like, fully, what 189 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: if he's not motivated? Dude. Klitchko wanted to prove that 190 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: he was like the most grimiest assassin of all time, 191 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: and he put on a pace on Lenox Lewis in 192 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: the first half of this fight. I think I only 193 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: went six rounds. In the end, he put a pace 194 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: on Lennox Lewis. That was like, I'm gonna find out 195 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: right now if I could be the heavyweight champion and 196 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: you're all gonna find out that my balls are made 197 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: of brass and I would never quit in a fight, 198 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna show you who I am right now, 199 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: and you can tell it. Lenox. It's like, you know, 200 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: it was like, oh, nobody told me this wasn't an exhibition. 201 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 1: I mean he had that like, oh shit, I gotta 202 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: fight my way out of this now till Lennox's credit 203 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: fought his way out of it the best he could. Now, 204 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: Like there's times you can watch that fight and almost 205 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: support Larry merchants sort of like jabs he was throwing 206 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: out Lenox in the postfight interview of like, hey, you're 207 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: kind of lucky the fight got stopped right and then 208 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: but then there's also times you can go back and go, nah, dude, 209 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: Lennox adjusted and put it on this guy. Either way, 210 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: Lenox put it on this guy so much that Vitali's 211 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: face was falling off, is falling off. I mean, it 212 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: was just disgusting, and they they stop it and he 213 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: goes nuts and he's all pissed off. But the pace 214 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: of that war for two not only elite have youweights, 215 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, Hall of Fame, like almost like almost top 216 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: ten have you I mean fatalit's probably not top ten, 217 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: but like he's right there, right, I mean these are 218 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: to just go at it at this I mean it's 219 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,439 Speaker 1: a it's a sick fight. And you wanted to reimagine 220 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: Lenox Lewis way to the year and then retire, didn't 221 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: not you know, I don't never ended up getting the rematch. Er, 222 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, Lenox never fought Vlad Klitchko, his brother, except 223 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: for in that Ocean's Eleven thing that they filmed. Yeah, 224 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: it's we called it the last great heavyweight fight for 225 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 1: a long time until really we finally got a j 226 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: Anthony Joshua against Clitchgo in twenty seventeen, and and then 227 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: since then we've had Wilder Fury three. But uh classic, 228 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: uh number seven is It's just it's just a joy 229 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: to watch this slug fest. Two thousand Junior middleweight unification 230 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: Felix Trinidad, unbeaten from Puerto Rico against unbeaten Fernando Vargas 231 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: representing Mexico and just a young, brash badass in Vargas 232 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: who just is like, you know, I'm I'm I'm coming on, 233 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: Like I mean, he's fucking coming on, bro, He's coming on. 234 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: Every second of his career for the most part, but 235 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: especially before that first loss and the it was so huge. 236 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: I mean, it was a monster pay per view for 237 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: non heavyweights in it right off the start just delivered 238 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: and they both get knocked down. And you know, Vargas, 239 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: as he also did in his knockout loss to Oscar 240 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: de la Hoya a few years later. You know, when 241 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: he would lose at the highest level, he'd lose spectacularly. 242 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: You know, he'd have his moments, but he would he 243 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: he took a beating to end this fight. And it's 244 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: a war and it's crazy. It's got one of the 245 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: best intros ever when Vargas is just like an Aztec 246 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: warrior and there's this fake mountain of like boxes and 247 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: he just you know, like a temple and he just 248 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: kicks it over. I mean, it's just it's just what. 249 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: It's wacky, and it's awesome and the and it's Trinidad 250 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: survive in the storm and showing exactly who the hell 251 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: he is. And you can always look back on Fernando Vargas, 252 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: who ended up having a you know, a very great career, 253 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: but you're like, man, was it too much too soon? 254 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: Could he have been Could he have sustained it better 255 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: and been better, you know, taking this foot off the 256 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: gas just a little the way he made amazing great fights. 257 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: Number six on this list of you know, MMA fans 258 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: guide to which boxing fights they should watch. You talk 259 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: about a great trilogy in the middle two thousands. It's 260 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: Manny Pacio versus Eric Morales, but it's the first chapter 261 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: of that. I got serious, serious back into boxing in 262 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and four. I had still been watching the 263 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: big fights, but I had taken a few years off 264 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 1: of hardcore level for sure. And I mean the NBA 265 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: is on fire. You know. Of course in the late nineties. 266 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: Before that, we all had to run in pro wrestling, 267 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: you know, everybody did it. And but I came back 268 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: because I started sparring in late two thousand and four, 269 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: and you know, you get get knocked around, and you know, 270 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: learning the craft of it for the first time, and 271 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: my hunger for rewatching old fights just became out of 272 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: this world. I mean, that's the pre YouTube last chance 273 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: for if you can can I heard all these vhs 274 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: and sell them online. You can make good money. And 275 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: there's people charging a lot of money for these fights. 276 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: And I'm just buying people's whole career collections. And then 277 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm getting so hardcore into this. What's 278 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: the next big fight? Because I got to get myself 279 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: fired up. And I remember talking to this tape collector 280 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 1: guy in Mexico in California. I'm sorry, I'll be a 281 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: Mexican guy and he was a huge Eric Morales fan, 282 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: and he's like, dude, Eric Morales is fighting Manny Pacio 283 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: at one hundred and thirty pounds. Pacio's moving up and wait. 284 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: It's like, this is the fight. This is the one, 285 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: This is the one that we're all been waiting for, 286 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: all of hardcore fans, like, this is the fight. And 287 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: you know, Pacquio had blown away Marco Antonio Berrera in 288 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: San Antonio and been like, you know, tell me how 289 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: my ass tastes basically to the boxing world. We're like, 290 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: oh my god. You now he's moving up and wait. 291 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: And you know, Morales had been through the trilogy with 292 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: Marco Antonio Brera and he had lost the last two 293 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: fights in that trilogy and he wasn't washed. But you're 294 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: still like, is he gonna be set up to be 295 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: blown away by this hurricane? Forced win. That is Manny 296 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: Paccio in the small weight classes, and this is just 297 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: prime Pacquiao finally figuring out what to do with his 298 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: right hand. Remember, you know, for a while it was 299 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: he's got this right hook. It's his secret. It's called 300 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: Manila ice, and it took him a while to become 301 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: a two handed fighter. But this is when he's putting 302 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: it together. And this is twelve of my favorite rounds 303 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: in boxing history. Eric Morales gets a close decision win 304 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: in the end because he cut Pacquiao, and Pacio in 305 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: his early half of his career didn't like that he did. 306 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: He was a different fighter when he was cut and hurt. 307 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: And this is like the perfect setup for Eric Morales, 308 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: who who I think is the all is the He's 309 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: my favorite badass in boxing history. I mean, he's my campion. 310 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: That's why anyone who used to listen to my boxing 311 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: podcast on CBS Sports knows how I would camp be 312 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: own my heroes in Las Vegas when I'm drunking off 313 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: the clock at big time fights with my you know, 314 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: media friends, and it's just like, Oh, I love that guy. 315 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: Let's go up to him, Let's accost him, Let's tell 316 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: him that. You know, he had no business getting up 317 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: from that. You know, I'd be like, you had no 318 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: business fighting my Donna with your eye closed, you know, 319 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: the way you got It's just it's humbling, you know. 320 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: And I've done that to a few of my heroes, 321 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: you know, cast of my Orge, all cast of my 322 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: Org did that to him too. I've can't be owned 323 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: a few of them. There's a reason why, because Eric 324 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: Moreles is a badass, and when you hit him, he's 325 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: the best I've ever seen at the elite level of 326 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: boxing or mma, where he gets so hurt and offended 327 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: and you can see the emotion in his face that 328 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: you landed such a big shot that he's like, oh no, 329 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: and he comes just like drops everything and comes back 330 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: and just instantly lands big shots in return. And there's 331 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: a sequence in this first round pat Ye against Morreles 332 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: that's just beautiful to watch of exactly that happening. A 333 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: great fight. But this fight what makes this all time 334 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: great and what makes the Hey Morales is a badass 335 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: thing real. Why you would want to drunkenly accost him 336 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: in public to celebrate the size of this man's waivos 337 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: is in the twelfth round, Morales turns south paw for 338 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: no other reason then because he's a badass, and went 339 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: to war with Pacquiao standing both in the center of 340 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: the ring and not moving and just throwing bombs, and 341 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: Morales got lit up, like he got lit up, and 342 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, it's getting knocked out. And 343 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: he survived it and fired back too, and and gets 344 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: the close decision when and you're just like, oh my god, 345 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: this guy's such a badass. And then in the after 346 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: in the interview afterwards with Larry Merchant through the translator, 347 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: he's like, you know, did you like that? Yeah? Yeah, 348 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: Like yeah, Larry, you know, because this is what I do, 349 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He would go on to 350 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: the trilogy is great to rewatch. The second fight was 351 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,719 Speaker 1: a it was on the way to being a classic win. 352 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: And then the third fight is most known for the 353 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,479 Speaker 1: fact that Morales got steamrolled and he kind of had 354 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: a no Moss moment. He got dropped for the third 355 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: time and he sat up against the ropes and he's 356 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: just like referee was like, you're getting up. He's just like, nah, 357 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. I'm good. He was like, it's 358 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: like I'm too smart to take this beating moving forward. 359 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: This guy's got my number. But the first fight, Morales 360 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: taking a stand. We should get some beers together and 361 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: watch that together. I mean, that'd be great. Number five 362 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: on this list. Could could you not go wrong? In 363 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: the Eric Morales Marco Antonio Barrera all Mexican all man 364 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: rivalry in the lower weight classes. The first one in 365 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 1: two thousand is my favorite, and just so people know, 366 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: the rematch was great. Trilogies often do have like a 367 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: stinker of one of the three where it's just not 368 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: a great fighter, not action. The second one is this, 369 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: It was very boxing sent, you know, Barrera made the 370 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 1: adjustments and it was very boxing heavy. The third one 371 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four is just, hey, we might 372 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 1: as well meet a third time and just brawl, and 373 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: it was great. But the purity of this first one, 374 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: I mean, these guys like had brawled at press conferences 375 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: before the fight, Like these guys heeded each other, and 376 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: it's like the badass like villain at the end of 377 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: the movie. Morales just putting his you know, testosterone up there, 378 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: and Barrera's like they call him the baby face Assassin, 379 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,239 Speaker 1: but he's he's the guy who, like hell, he can 380 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 1: brawl with you, but he kind of wants to be 381 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: a boxer, and he should be a boxer. It's smarter 382 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,239 Speaker 1: for him. And the reason why this matchup between these 383 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: two is so great is Morales would lure him into 384 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: a war, and sometimes Bret would lure Morales into a 385 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: war and try to counter him, and and they're just 386 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: they would have It's it's akin to listening to either 387 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: jazz or like, you know, jam band rock and roll, 388 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 1: which of course is you know, influenced in a lot 389 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: of ways by the free form improvisation of jazz, but 390 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: in those great jams, you know, whether you listen to 391 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: Fish and the Dead or you're listening to you know, 392 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: Miles Davis and by the way, Oh God on the 393 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: Corner by Miles Davis. I don't talk a lot about 394 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: Miles Davis because I'm trying to do it right. I'm 395 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 1: trying to take my time. I'm trying to really really, 396 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: you know, I want to speak out of turn, and 397 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: you know, I'm really you know, if you're coming on, 398 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: I'm coming on, Miles Damn. That that that blend of 399 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,919 Speaker 1: funk and rock fusion is insane. But there's moments in 400 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: those jams obviously, you know Fish does a great job 401 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: of peekin. You know all one brothers as well. Were 402 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: they just they're out of control, They're just it's beautiful. 403 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: It's another world level. Morales and Berera would have those 404 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:10,199 Speaker 1: same sequences of just your just fury and it's just 405 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,959 Speaker 1: a sight to behold and it's beautiful. And the spite 406 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: they had for each other in the ring, it's it 407 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: was like that special sauce on top. So the first 408 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 1: ones from two thousand, you'll love it, You'll love boxing, 409 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: you'll love Mexico, You'll love everything about it. Uh. Number 410 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 1: four is the greatest example of a Rocky movie fight 411 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: actually playing out at the highest level, at somewhat highest level. 412 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: And I cannot believe if you haven't seen Timothy Bradley 413 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: Junior versus Russan Pravadnikov from twenty thirteen, I mean really 414 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: drop everything and just go find find the footage, because 415 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: it was supposed to be Tim Bradley the Great Champion, 416 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: you know trilogy with Manny Pakiao, and it was supposed 417 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: to be him like blowing away this contender, but like 418 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: attraction in Rus Lampolvagen. He's a brawler. He comes head on, 419 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: but probably he's gonna blow him away. And Bradley had 420 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: so much motivation to like say f you to boxing 421 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: because he goes in there and fights Manny Pakia in 422 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: the first fight, and he fights through two serious injuries 423 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: like you know, ankle and his leg and he wins 424 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: this very controversial decision. And you know, he didn't score 425 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: it that way, the judges did, right, but he fought 426 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: his ass off. So of course he's like, well man, 427 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: you know, no, I I you know, I'm not gonna 428 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: apologize for getting to win here. And the the boxing 429 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: public just like villainized it. And he took that shit 430 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: to heart. And he was of a mindset that, like 431 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: he told his dad as trainer, who's a trip. If 432 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: you ever watched the you know, the pre fight documentary stuff, 433 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: it's just a i'm his dad just questions his son's 434 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: manhood constantly. It was like, well, what's that, what's that? Smile? Pussy? 435 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: And you know, just you know, just ridiculous things. You know, 436 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: he told his dad before I'm gonna kill this kid, 437 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,239 Speaker 1: meaning Ruslan p Ravodonkov. You know, I'm gonna shut everybody up. 438 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: Those are the best ever setups for like great fights 439 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: for somebody in the NBA scoring you know, fifty and 440 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 1: like an FU game. But I'm boxing is pretty damn 441 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: violent when it's fueled by that kind of spite. And 442 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: Bradley just went in there was like, you know, I'm 443 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: just gonna blow this guy away. And that's what Ruslan 444 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: Provodnikov welcomes. That's the spider web. But there's no like tricks. 445 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: He's not like he's just sitting here saying, dude, I'm 446 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: gonna get it, like I'm gonna go life or death 447 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: with you. And these two went life for death with 448 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: each other. And Bradley got knocked the hell around and 449 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: kept getting back up, and you know, there's some rounds 450 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: that he's actually boxing from distance, which is what he's 451 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: supposed to do, and then the next round just gets 452 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: monstrously concussed again and he's fighting when he should beholding. 453 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: And it's just a example of how do you want 454 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: to say the human spirit, like Julana pain, you upsetting 455 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: a man in newness is like the human spirit coming through. 456 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: I mean, this is just like the human will. This 457 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: is just too stubborn. People just saying like in Provodocaus's 458 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: face is a mess, but he's still coming on and 459 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: there's questionable scoring on the ruling of a knockdown, and 460 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: Bradley ends up winning a very close decision. A lot 461 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 1: of people saw it the other way and Bradley, to 462 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: his credit with springboard from this fight, go fight one. 463 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: Manuel Marks on pay per view right after Marc has 464 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: knocked pack you out ot cold and like out box 465 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: him in a thriller, Just a great tactical, technical fight. 466 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: But he some people think he got a gift here, 467 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: and I think I scored a draw and I didn't 468 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: hate the judges giving it to Bradley, although you know, 469 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: the scores were a little little funky in some ways. 470 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: But uh, the punishment Bradley took, I mean he got 471 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: like he was fed up after this fight physically, you know, 472 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: like deep concussions and realcity, you know, like long. I 473 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: remember he was. He did an interview with Max Kellerman 474 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: on like la ESPN radio after that fight, and he 475 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: was like telling Max. She's like, you know, I told 476 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: my dad, this is your fault. You created this killer 477 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: with no off switch. This is your fault. And he's like, 478 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: you know, I was in like dark, dark places, you know, 479 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: physically and mentally after that that fight, and uh, just 480 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: a psychope. This guy's just a psychopath. That's why I 481 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 1: love Timothy Bradley Junior so much. By the way, he's 482 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 1: a great commentator, and he's a great got an interview 483 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: always has been, always been an all interview team because 484 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: he just tells the truth with passion. But uh, you're 485 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,239 Speaker 1: talking about the human will and the humans. I mean, 486 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: this guy like he had to go to it. It 487 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 1: wasn't just hell right, it was like, Okay, I'm in hell. 488 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: I see the back room, you know, let's see the 489 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: pipes of this place. Uh, unbelievable. I'm humbled even telling 490 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: you about this fight. If there's anyone still watching right now, 491 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: I'm humbled to tell you how great that fight is. 492 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: Number three on this list is uh, you know, it 493 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: might be the great like sometimes you know, usually in boxing, 494 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 1: like some fights are meant to be great fights, but 495 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: it's like action fighter versus action fighter. But we love 496 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: the best is win a great fight between pound for 497 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,959 Speaker 1: pound grades and all time grades in this case turns 498 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: into that great all time action fight. In like, turning 499 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 1: into that is a great ending, right. We love it 500 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: when they turn into action fights. Sometimes it's got to 501 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: be technical and tactical for a while. No, this was 502 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: Manny Paciol versus One Man Will Marks Part four, and 503 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: this turned out to be one of the greatest fights 504 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: in boxing, one of my favorite fights, one of the 505 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:36,199 Speaker 1: most emotional fights. They're they're both still they're old, and 506 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: this is the fourth time they're fighting. And let's not 507 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: forget there was customer fatigue, like a lot of it. 508 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: If people saying, I don't need to see this matchup again. 509 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: I saw the first three and most people thought Mark 510 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 1: has got a raw deal on most of the scorecards. 511 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: Mark has never thought he lost any of them four. 512 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: By the way, he's probably never thought he lost a 513 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: fight in his life. He's, you know, notoriously stubborn in 514 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: that regard. But these guys were at the end of 515 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: their career. But Marquez was going through his is he 516 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: on Ryd's or is he just drinking jet fuel period 517 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: where he bulked up to welterweight and it's just suddenly 518 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 1: this force and he's old too, but yet there's still 519 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: like two and three in the pound for pound top ten, 520 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: and they're both future Hall of Famers and this is 521 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: their fourth meeting, but we all kind of came in 522 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: there going, okay, it'll be fun. Right. The third one 523 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: was like a thriller when Manny made that comeback to force, 524 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 1: you know, the close scorecards, and you know, the first 525 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: two were just incredible for so many great dramatic reasons. 526 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: I thought the fourth one was gonna kind of stink 527 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: but just be fun because it's them and they're old. 528 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: I didn't expect like a blood and guts almost Barrera Morales, 529 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: fuck you type pace to this fight of just like 530 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: I hate you, I'm coming after you. And this is 531 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 1: like street fight rules, right, This is like Rocky five 532 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: when Rocky took Tommy Tommy Gunn to the to the 533 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: to the to the alley. You know you, oh you 534 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: push your on polikumudo as my dad would say endlessly 535 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: after that, after we saw Rocky five, that shitter in 536 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 1: the theater. This was incredible. Pacio gets straight up dropped 537 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: early and you're like, oh and he got it was 538 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: a looping right hand and Pacchio went down hard and 539 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: you're like, oh shit, I don't think i've ever seen 540 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: Patio knock down before. Actually, and you know what Pactio's 541 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: he He's such a force. I don't really think I've 542 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: ever seen like crazy hurt like I saw him bleeding 543 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: against Morales. I saw him in you know, certain shootouts 544 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: against Marquez, but like never hurt like that. And they 545 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: and you had Marcuz just fighting like like you stole 546 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: everything I worked for in my life, and I am 547 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: here at the end of this action movie to gain 548 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: my revenge because you know, Mark, it was the all 549 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: time greatest revenge when Marquez legitimately feels like he was 550 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 1: screwed on the scorecards against the more marketable fighter at 551 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: every fight, every single fight, including the first one when 552 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: he got knocked down three times in the first round 553 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: and yet still forced to draw because he came back 554 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: and he's like just the demeanor of I'm going to 555 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: kill you. But then Pacchio puts it on him in 556 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: this rally and it's like old Pacio again. It's like 557 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: the Pacchiao who used to womanize and gamble and like 558 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: that pak Yo, no fear, like trunks, dyed hair with 559 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: the blonde bristles, that many Pakia. You know that guy. 560 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: He was back that night and that's what led to 561 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: him getting knocked the hell out in the most vicious 562 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: manner ever. But how sweet is this for Marcus, Who's 563 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: basically like, I'm going to take out all my anger 564 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: of how my career went on you right now. And 565 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: he is almost stopped the round before the knockout happens. 566 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: His nose is a broken, bloody mess, and he's getting 567 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: battered and he's walking through him, but he's getting There's 568 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: a price he's paying for it, you know. And then 569 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: he uncorks the deadliest counter shot of all time with 570 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: that right hand that flatlines many Pacio to a level 571 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: that it is not hyperbole. And I'm doing I think 572 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: I was doing a live blog on ESPN dot com 573 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: at the time, doing like constant play by play typing it. 574 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: And so I'm watching this and I'm in this fight 575 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: right and I'm going I'm texting everybody in between, go 576 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: how sick is this fight? There's a war? And then 577 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: it's over, and it's over in the most thuddingly violent, 578 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: emphatic way ever. That for the fifty five seconds that 579 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: Manipacio was down, out cold and not moving before they 580 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: revived him, during that fifty five seconds, they're showing his 581 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: wife screaming crying, climbing up the apron and they're showing 582 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: Bob Aaron trying to comforting her but looking in his 583 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: face like like his son was just murdered or something. 584 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: You know, they massacred my boy. I mean like he 585 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: had that face and you thought Manupaca was dead. No 586 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,959 Speaker 1: one talks about that enough, like you know, you know, no, 587 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: you you were like, no, he's he's dead. Like that's 588 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: the most I mean for that to happen in the 589 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: in the fourth and you know, that's the greatest rivalry 590 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: of the modern era without quiet, and it was already 591 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: going to be one of the best, but to have that, 592 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: that's your send off. And in Morale and Sorry Marquez, 593 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 1: you know, blood everywhere, jump up on the corner turnbuckles 594 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: and the Mexican fans going sick in Las Vegas. You know, 595 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: I remember doing that live blog and Karen mulvaney, who's 596 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: host of the Showtime Boxing podcast right now with Eric Reskin, 597 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: and I love Karen. I've been up and down the 598 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: road with him forever, been his editor a lot of times, 599 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: all that stuff. He was ringside and when Pakias down 600 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: for fifty five seconds, when you're doing a live blog 601 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: a guy was for ESPN. You gotta constantly pump that 602 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: thing with what you're seeing and everything. I mean, you're 603 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: you're telling the story for those that didn't buy it, right. 604 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: I didn't type anything for like ninety seconds, two minutes 605 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: because my jaw was like down to here. But as 606 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: soon as I wrapped up what I was doing and 607 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: you know, put up the story that just whatever I 608 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: had to do as an editor, I texted Mulvane and 609 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: I think he texted me and he was like, oh 610 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe I just witnessed that. And 611 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: I tech and I was just like, I think I 612 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: was like, tell me what it felt like, tell me 613 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: what it smelled like, Like tell me what it tasted like, 614 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: Like you just experienced like you were in the movie, 615 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: you know. And he goes, hey, do you mind if 616 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: I call you right now, and like I'm in the 617 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,959 Speaker 1: first floor of the house I'm renting, My kids are 618 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: small and upstre sleeping, my wife sleeping, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah, dude, 619 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: call me right now. And we proceeded like giddy schoolgirls 620 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 1: to be like, oh my god, I can't believe I 621 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: just watched that. Oh my god. And I'm sure I 622 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: just screamed to the microphone and woke a lot of 623 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: you up. But like, that's as amazing as this sport 624 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: can get when it's got the storyline and the fourth 625 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: fight of the rivalry and they hate the shit out 626 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: of each other and the guy that kind of screwed 627 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: throughout is able to land the final blow and just 628 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: be like yeah, and you know, and there's questions if 629 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: he's on the stuff and and uh, I can't believe 630 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: Pacyao rebound from that and was you know, still the 631 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: fighter that he was the rest of his career. It 632 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: might still be. I do think he's coming back, by 633 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: the way I do, But you know, not eighty percent 634 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: of fighters who would take that kind of knockout loss 635 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: at that age that backyard did they mean they're they're 636 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: not fighting again, Like that's the end of your career, 637 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: that's the end of that's the extinguishing of all that 638 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: invincibility that allows you to believe you can do this 639 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: at this level, you know, And and I mean it 640 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: was it was out And credit to Pakia on the 641 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: post fight interviews after they rewoke him, and he's calming 642 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: down his family, but like damn damn that there's there's 643 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: nothing you can't like you I don't feel that watching 644 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, you know what I mean. And I've 645 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: been I've been a I've been a monstrous sports fan 646 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: my whole life in every sport and you know, and 647 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: I've worked the front page of ESPN dot com and 648 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: you know where you're you gotta know everything and every 649 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: I mean, I've lived this, and you know, I've been 650 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: a part of some great moments watching as a fan 651 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: like you have, you know, like Landon Donovan scoring that 652 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: goal in the World Cup and like you know that 653 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: kind of like I've seen some fun stuff, you know, 654 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: MBA moments that are just Shakespearean. Nothing ever made me 655 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: feel like Pacquio Marcus for and like the forget one 656 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: hour afterwards, like the next day, Like that's just like 657 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: that's real life. I mean, that is wow. I mean, 658 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: hope I hope you feel like that after watching the 659 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: MK documentaries. I doubt it. I hope that's my you know, 660 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: that's my working plan and my goal, all right. Number 661 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: one and two are you pick your your flavor, whichever 662 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: one you like better. One's definitely better than two in 663 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: terms of better fight but these are the two defining 664 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: not defining rivalries. Although Mickey Ward versus Artro Gotti was 665 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: a great rivalry and is one of the best rivalries, 666 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: but these two were, like, I mean, these are fights 667 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: that brought people back as boxing fans again. These two, 668 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: These are fights that in some ways, like how does 669 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: it like I say this sometimes I say this once 670 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: one like I don't know any real boxing fans of 671 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: my day to day life for the most part, A 672 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: couple of dads around town that know a little bit, 673 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: and we have some nice talks and all that, and 674 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: that's fun and I treasure that. But like, you know, 675 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,240 Speaker 1: I'm talking to my brethren in this game, the other journalists, 676 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 1: you know, the race Bartholomew's or the you know, great 677 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: fans that I've come to meet and even getting like 678 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: DM or text relationships with because you're just super fight fans, right, 679 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: And these are like, these are the type of fights 680 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: that build the resolve in you as an addicted super 681 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: fan to put up with all the ridiculousness that this 682 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: sport makes you financially, uh, in terms of your patients, 683 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,439 Speaker 1: in terms of you know, everything. It's fights like these 684 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: two one and two that I mean, you know they're there. 685 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 1: It's the what is Hagler? Hearns to a generation of people, 686 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 1: you know, everything rightfully, so you know, it almost defines 687 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: the reason why you watch and the feeling that it 688 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: gives you. And number two, it's my favorite fight of 689 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: all time. It's the first Mickey Ward Arturro Gotti fight 690 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: two thousand and two. Their trilogy is insane. Shout out 691 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: to HBO. Their their documentary about that trilogy is also 692 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: very well done. But they're like they're paired together as 693 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: sort of two journeyman action fighters on the way out. 694 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,839 Speaker 1: Who Hey, wouldn't it be great if these two ever fought, 695 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: So hey, let's just do it now and they'll both 696 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 1: get a good payday out of it. And yeah, and 697 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 1: obviously gott he had a brighter ceiling at that time 698 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: and was still you know, and largely in title contention, 699 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,879 Speaker 1: Gotty would have Arturo Gotty was. I mean, he lived 700 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: like a living your life quarter mile at a time, 701 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: like fast and furious, like that was his life, dude. 702 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: I mean, I actually just recently talked to somebody who 703 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: who had partied with him, and he was an MK fan, 704 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: and I was talking to who who was in close 705 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: to that circle at one time, and he's like, dude, 706 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: nobody went harder than It's not even like nobody went 707 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 1: that hard, you know what I mean, And I mean, look, 708 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: he lived fast, he died hard, and it's how he 709 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: died is just you know, it's unsolved to say the least, 710 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: and still just ridiculously said. But he had a brighter 711 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,239 Speaker 1: ceiling to still be a title contender, but he would 712 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: have so many highs and lows and dips and partying 713 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: too much and injuries like he would he would crash 714 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: and burn a lot in his career where you'd stop 715 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: taking him seriously as a like legitimate fighter, like title 716 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: contending one, and just attraction, a guy who had authored 717 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,000 Speaker 1: some of the most absurd come from behind all action, 718 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: blood and guts wins in this history, to the point where, 719 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 1: like artural, Gotti became one of those weird, rare franchises 720 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: where he had his own fans and they followed him 721 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 1: wherever and when he you know, they rightfully would gave 722 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,800 Speaker 1: him a home there at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, 723 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: and there was like a rock concert when he fought, 724 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: you know, coming out to thunderstruck by you know ac 725 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 1: DC's just like the you know, it's it's the chef's kiss. 726 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: It's perfect. And you know he he lived up to 727 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: that reputation time and again. But he's fighting old as 728 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,839 Speaker 1: Mickey Ward here, who you know, like tried his best 729 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,640 Speaker 1: to become a real title contender but never quite got there. 730 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,239 Speaker 1: Like you know, had some bit the Shane Ary win. 731 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,719 Speaker 1: I love it. They built the Mark Wahlberg movie The 732 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: Fighter was really built around the run Mickey had against 733 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: the odds Stephen getting that Shanery fight, which was for 734 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,280 Speaker 1: like a IBU title, like one of those not real titles, 735 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: but like whatever. But Mickey had been the all action 736 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,839 Speaker 1: B side guy, you know, and and he'd had great 737 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,399 Speaker 1: comfort behind wins. But and he's had great action fights. God, 738 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,279 Speaker 1: the Emmanuel Augustus fight, Emmanuel Burt and Augustus, God, that's 739 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: a great fight. But when you put these two together 740 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: and said use you know, use your powers, you know, 741 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 1: like you've met your equal, That's what they both said, 742 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 1: I want to meet my equal ahead of this fight. 743 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,240 Speaker 1: They met their equal. There's a reason why these guys 744 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,399 Speaker 1: became brothers after this trilogy, to the point where Ward 745 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 1: was started training Gotti for those last couple of fights 746 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 1: of his career. It's it's almost spiritual this fight. It's 747 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: weird to say that, but like in it. The reason 748 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,800 Speaker 1: why I put Corrals becausetill ahead of it is because, 749 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 1: and you have to put it historically too, this fight 750 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 1: wasn't for a title. It was just for like you know, 751 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 1: action fighter pay day. But it took a while to 752 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 1: kind of get serious. You know, it's a couple of 753 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,040 Speaker 1: rounds feeling you out. But when it turned, I mean, 754 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 1: it's it's got The round nine is a round nine, 755 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 1: my favorite round in boxing history, and it's got one 756 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: of the most insane rounds of all time, really the 757 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,359 Speaker 1: most insane, like couple round package of like seven, eight, nine, 758 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,880 Speaker 1: ten in a row. It's you know, I consider for 759 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: an hour and tell you how why that fight is 760 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: so great. But I think ultimately the reason why it's 761 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,000 Speaker 1: it clings to certain boxing fans' hearts more than Corrals 762 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 1: Castillo is the human emotion that was shown by both 763 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,279 Speaker 1: in it and overcoming so much. And the same thing 764 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: happened to crals Caristio, no question, but like got he 765 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 1: making that like Grimace when he got dropped by that 766 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: body shot and here's no freaking business getting up from 767 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: that body shot. Mickey Ward knocked out so many. Mickey 768 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: Ward had that outpitch, he had the you know forkball 769 00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: that no the say it, Mariano the cutter, he had 770 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,680 Speaker 1: the damn cutter that you couldn't hit, and you know 771 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,440 Speaker 1: you couldn't stop. He'll find a way to get that 772 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,839 Speaker 1: left hook to your liver and he'll stop you. And 773 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,919 Speaker 1: he hit Artrogotti with one of those. And God, he's 774 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: like trying like hell to be like, nope, I'm I'm 775 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 1: I'm the biggest badass you ever met. Man, I fight 776 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,719 Speaker 1: through this shit. And he's like and it's not letting him. 777 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: And he finally gets to his feet, and you know 778 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,479 Speaker 1: the beating he takes after that, Like, thank god, Frank 779 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,760 Speaker 1: Cappuccino was so stubborn and old as a legendary referee 780 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,919 Speaker 1: at that point that he's just like, you know, because 781 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: Jim Lampley, the famous you know announcer, was yelling into 782 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,879 Speaker 1: the mic, you know, you gotta stop this fight, Frank. 783 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,400 Speaker 1: You know, to stop this fight. You can stop at 784 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:43,359 Speaker 1: any time, and you know, seeing him overcome that and 785 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,840 Speaker 1: then flip it back on Mickey Ward and that's the 786 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,320 Speaker 1: same thing of what made the first Riddick Bow Evander 787 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: Holyfield fight so great, and that incredible round ten is 788 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: because it had that same thing where somebody's on the 789 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: verge of this dominant stoppage and then it turns in 790 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,320 Speaker 1: a Brockolesner Shane Carwin type way, and it turn turns 791 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: fast and quick, and the back and forth of the 792 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 1: final two and a half rounds here is just savage. 793 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,520 Speaker 1: And you know their whole trilogy was. The second one 794 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: is the stinker of the three. I have a soft 795 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,319 Speaker 1: spot four. The third round is is among the best 796 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,239 Speaker 1: rounds of the rivalry between these two, but it was 797 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,280 Speaker 1: one sided. Gott He boxed like he always should against 798 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: this guy. Uh. The third one's wild man, you know, 799 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: Gotti Uh building a big league but then hurt in 800 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,200 Speaker 1: his hand and he can't throw his right hand suddenly, 801 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,879 Speaker 1: and then he gets dropped and and that's a wild 802 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 1: ass fight. Gott He wins it, and he was the 803 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,319 Speaker 1: fresher fighter. But they put their they put themselves through 804 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: like life altering hell with these thirty rounds. And the 805 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,719 Speaker 1: first one is just an emotional journey that you know 806 00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,959 Speaker 1: you're not gonna fight forget sports You're gonna find in life. Really, 807 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,480 Speaker 1: it's just it's it's an incredible ride to get there. Uh, 808 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,239 Speaker 1: the final one number one. You know, it's not out 809 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,280 Speaker 1: of line to call this the greatest fight in boxing history. 810 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,240 Speaker 1: And like the old like the real old timers really 811 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,880 Speaker 1: tried to like not do that after it happened and 812 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,560 Speaker 1: be like, Okay, it's among that, it's all time great, 813 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 1: but like hold on, let's I mean, is it really 814 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,080 Speaker 1: the best of all time? It might be the best 815 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,040 Speaker 1: of all it's the best of this era, like with 816 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 1: a bullet, and it's two thousand and five, it's at 817 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and it's a lightweight 818 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:14,880 Speaker 1: title unification Diego Corrales against Jorge Luis Castillo. There's not 819 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,160 Speaker 1: enough amazing things, and it was just really, you know, 820 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,359 Speaker 1: was it two years ago? Was the anniversary of this fight? 821 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 1: What was it a fifteen year anniversary? I'm guessing two 822 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,640 Speaker 1: thousand and five to twenty twenty, And you know, we 823 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 1: did a bunch of morning combat was around. We did 824 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 1: a few fun interviews online. I think I interviewed the referee, 825 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 1: Tony Weeks. I interviewed Joe Goosen, who was famously with 826 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 1: the with the awesome dress shirt, like he's going out 827 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: to rock the clubs in the corner of Diego Corrales, 828 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,359 Speaker 1: you know, and he delivered one of the all time 829 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,360 Speaker 1: greatest lines by a trainer ever better fucking get inside 830 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:48,279 Speaker 1: on him now, like a disappointed dad, which fueled, you know, 831 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: one of the maybe the greatest comeback in a boxing 832 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,240 Speaker 1: match of all time, when when Diego Corrals turned the table. 833 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:56,439 Speaker 1: But I got a chance to talk to those guys 834 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,040 Speaker 1: about it, and I wrote a oral history that if 835 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,320 Speaker 1: you got time search CBS Sports from a couple of 836 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,919 Speaker 1: years ago, the oral History of Corrals Castile One. Talked 837 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 1: to a lot of people who were there, and man, 838 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,640 Speaker 1: that's a why couldn't I have seen the future and 839 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,680 Speaker 1: got a flight to go to that fight. So there 840 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,239 Speaker 1: was only four thousand people in the crowd for that 841 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,480 Speaker 1: fight and it was on showtime, but it was expected 842 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: by everybody to be like I talked about, like when 843 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,520 Speaker 1: Ward and God He got together, You're like, okay, it's 844 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: an important fight title unification. But like the way these 845 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 1: guys are wired and the way that they're giving interviews, 846 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,520 Speaker 1: like they're gonna they're willing to die in there like 847 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,280 Speaker 1: they're good. They are ready for the war of their lifetime. 848 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,719 Speaker 1: And it absolutely turned into that and more. And unlike 849 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,800 Speaker 1: Gotty Ward, which had a couple you know, slow rounds 850 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,040 Speaker 1: to set things up, this off the start is just 851 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,320 Speaker 1: electric and it's just both standing in the center of 852 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: the ring. And it's not what makes it great? Is 853 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: it not sloppy? It's not just some sloppy brawl people 854 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:57,839 Speaker 1: try to say, you know, Mickey Ward arterar got it 855 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 1: was just a sloppy brawl. There was a lot of 856 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,440 Speaker 1: sloppy There's a lot of great sloppiness in there. It 857 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,319 Speaker 1: was also you know, they could box too, but this 858 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 1: one corrals Castillo, is really at a higher level. They 859 00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,720 Speaker 1: are both executing their offensive plan almost to perfection against 860 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,879 Speaker 1: one another. They're making defensive counters and adjustments, so it's 861 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,880 Speaker 1: not sloppy and out of control, but they're having great 862 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,279 Speaker 1: success with with what they're trying to do when they 863 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 1: sort of take turns taking the lead and the brutality 864 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,840 Speaker 1: of the body shots and the damage that they're accepting 865 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,839 Speaker 1: that are willingly accepting to take to not give up 866 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,840 Speaker 1: that real estate, you know, like like I love football, 867 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,279 Speaker 1: I played the I played one year organized foot. But 868 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 1: I'm glad I did it, you know, because I was 869 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 1: I was not tough enough to be like, you know, 870 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:43,400 Speaker 1: high school football player looking back, but playing one, you know, 871 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,880 Speaker 1: getting knocked around, playing one one year, you have a 872 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: certain respect for it, certainly that you wouldn't have had. 873 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,840 Speaker 1: And but we all watch football in different ways, betting perspective, fantasy, 874 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:56,960 Speaker 1: or just love our favorite team so much. And but 875 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: like you talk to the hardcores, the coaches, the high 876 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,720 Speaker 1: school coach. They to interview a million high school coaches 877 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,880 Speaker 1: and they just love the battle that happens at that 878 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,719 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And there's one coach I used to 879 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,440 Speaker 1: always interviews, elite high school coach, had a great program, 880 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,560 Speaker 1: but he's the worst interview because every single time he 881 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,000 Speaker 1: would say, you know, what's what's ask him, what's the 882 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,400 Speaker 1: key to the game coming up? Is? You know, whoever 883 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,279 Speaker 1: blocks and tackles better at the line, it's gonna be 884 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: our five against theirs, and blah blah blah. And you know, 885 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:22,759 Speaker 1: and the ones that get it, the ones that lived it, 886 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: know that football to them feels like a you know, 887 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,040 Speaker 1: an alternate reality of war. And you know, the line 888 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,200 Speaker 1: and setting up and in theory in a running based attack. Yes, 889 00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 1: of course, these guys, Carles and Castillo, we're trying. We're 890 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: concocting that same battle in such a tiny little foam booth, 891 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,359 Speaker 1: and we're just not willing to get off that line 892 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: and take a back step. And the fact that it 893 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,799 Speaker 1: never sort of like turned into a wild brawl and 894 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:55,040 Speaker 1: stayed a very high level action fight kind of filled 895 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,360 Speaker 1: in any gap it would have had in an argument 896 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,480 Speaker 1: of not being this great. It was perfect, the perfect 897 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,799 Speaker 1: ending that the perfect characters that had Castillo just not 898 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,520 Speaker 1: just being a badass, and there was waves of momentum 899 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,400 Speaker 1: and at the end of the first round, Albernstein showtime 900 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 1: is just like this is like an all time great fight, 901 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: Like already, like this is just ridiculous. There's so many 902 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,680 Speaker 1: great calls that he and Steve Albert had during that fight, 903 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:23,000 Speaker 1: and uh, just Carrels has comeback. It's just you rewatch it. 904 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,720 Speaker 1: Like I'm a Mets fan. I'm not a hardcore baseball 905 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,440 Speaker 1: fan anymore, but you know I was in the nineties, 906 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,239 Speaker 1: two thousands, of the eighties, of course, but you know, 907 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,440 Speaker 1: there's a there's a thing that if I see a 908 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,759 Speaker 1: video of like you know, the Buckner play and right 909 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:40,879 Speaker 1: night rounding third and the Mets win it. You you almost 910 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:42,799 Speaker 1: get emotional. You know, it's like that's my team. That's 911 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:48,400 Speaker 1: my team. I remember that, and it's like that watching 912 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 1: Diego Carrelis has come back here, even if you have 913 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,560 Speaker 1: no connection to day to Diego Carrels at all, Like 914 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:58,240 Speaker 1: it's just it's it's what's possible when you don't give up, right, 915 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,000 Speaker 1: and it it's I mean, he spent out the mouthpiece 916 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,080 Speaker 1: to lose the point, but by time, how ingenious in 917 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,720 Speaker 1: that moment something he had just learned the fight before, 918 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,360 Speaker 1: or you know, a couple of fights before against against 919 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,719 Speaker 1: Popo Freitas a Seleno Freytas when he went in there 920 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,560 Speaker 1: and won that title to really kind of set up 921 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,600 Speaker 1: the need for this fight. And it's Joe Goose and 922 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,760 Speaker 1: yelling at him wearing that shirt, and it's the moment 923 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,040 Speaker 1: of like, oh my god, he came back from being 924 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,759 Speaker 1: down thirty five to nothing at the start of the 925 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:35,279 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, like he actually did this. Damn. Those are 926 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,799 Speaker 1: the ten fights that moved me that I think will 927 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:42,080 Speaker 1: move you to enjoy. All Right, I guess we've hit 928 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:42,359 Speaker 1: the two