1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Really really dogs look at us now, tip to tip. 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: This is our life, this is our passion. That's the 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: spirit we've bring to this show. I'm Luke Thomas, I'm 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: Brian Campbell. Is this this Morning Combat? Oh? Yeah? Can 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: you feel that? I mean, do you hear that? You 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: hear the sound of my voice? That means it's Friday. 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: You ain't got shit to do. It's time to get 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: a little artsy here. Sorry that I may have, you know, 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: pastied my skin with the light white shirt. My wife 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: always tells me to wear dark so that I don't 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: look as pale. But you know, what can you do 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: when you've been blessed with such palety? Hey, my name 13 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: is Brian Campbell, one half of the most fantastic, most 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: electrifying combat sports show that they ever created. Yes, you're 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: here Inside Morning Combat, Friday, May twenty six, twenty twenty three. 16 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: Not live at the moment, just always, always honest, always 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: up front with the people. It's a holiday weekend, it's 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: a long holiday weekend. We will have a bonus show 19 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: for you Monday, answering your mail mail bag questions. But 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: I pre recorded this solo show today for you because 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: Luke Thomas a little bit under the weather. My normal 22 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: co host here every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, so I wish 23 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: him well, hopefully get some time with the family and 24 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: this non combative combat sports weekend. Yeah, we got a 25 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: little bit of boxing over there overseas, we got some 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: we got the debut, the debut Most Valuable Productions Jake 27 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: Paul Prospect card onto his own as well, a couple 28 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: other things going on, but mostly a time for you to, 29 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: you know, enjoy some time with the family, celebrate those 30 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: that we've lost on the battlefield. Yes, Memorial Day weekend 31 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: upon us, but we had a force of show here 32 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: because not only do we love to give the people 33 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: at the end of the day what they want, we 34 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: also we also came across some big news in the 35 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: past twenty four to forty eight hours. We're going to 36 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: do that shortly. Thank you so much for joining me 37 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: here BC. You can follow us on the social channels below. 38 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: Please like and subscribe on YouTube to this fantastic show. 39 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: I do want to thank I think a milestone do 40 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: we hit like one hundred and forty nine thousand YouTube subscribers, Like, 41 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: that's just that's just you people being awesome. Okay, so 42 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: shout out to all of you. Whether you're a p 43 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: one and you're making fan subs every day or maybe 44 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: you know, longtime listener, no time caller, we appreciate you 45 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: just the same one fifty K Mikey Mormal, our CBS 46 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: producer on the Ones and twos letting me know, look, 47 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: that's a big deal. Congratulations to us. But it's you 48 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: guys that always do this. You get us these awards, 49 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: you get us these clicks. You put shoes on two 50 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: ky's feet. Really at the end of the day, okay, 51 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: you paid for my kids braces. Thank you very much 52 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: for your patronage. I just got off the HQ chair 53 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: over there at CBA Sports because of the big breaking 54 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: news in boxing. We'll get to that, but quick housekeeping. 55 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: Of course. Showtime one of those great labels that pay us. 56 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: You can get a Showtime dot com free thirty day 57 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: subscription right now. By going to Showtime dot com. You 58 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: can stream Showtime wherever you want, your phone, tablet, TV, whatever, 59 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: watch some boxing, some belt where I'm gonna make some 60 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: of the most fantastic documentaries you've ever seen scripted television. 61 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just fantastic. It's called showtime. Enjoy it, 62 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Pound sand on the back end 63 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: of that batch. All right, yeah, wow, already lose on 64 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: turn four. Like I'm sorry, I promised the middle of 65 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: America I would no, I would no longer make Dale 66 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: senior jokes. So you know, rip to the to the intimidator. 67 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: Right there, we have merch. I'm not wearing it at 68 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: the moment, but you know we got plenty of it. 69 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: Our j dunkle Maker has been a big part of this. 70 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: There's rumors he might return. I don't know. Well, we'll 71 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: see what happens there. But you can go to Morningcombat 72 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: Dot store right now and get your hands on just 73 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: some just sub tremendous T shirt and they're very tight 74 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: on you and you're gonna love the way they feel. Okay, 75 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: I guarantee it. Thank you? All right, all the bs, right, 76 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna put that in its own box. Step step one, 77 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: open the box, right, you know, I'm just all right 78 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: there we go. Let's get to it. Let's get to 79 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: it on this Friday. I really hope you guys do 80 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: have a great weekend. Unplug a little bit, you know 81 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: what I mean, get together with the cousins, the auntie, uncles, 82 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: the friends, and just you know, be joyous. And if 83 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: you're not in the States and you're wondering why we've 84 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: taken this weekend off, we're memorializing those who are who 85 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: have been lost in the battlefield. All right, Pat Tillman, 86 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. Thank you very much. The biggest 87 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: breaking news our topic one. We've teased it, we've talked 88 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: about it, we've debated it, we've frustrated over it, we 89 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: may have even castrated over it. But it's on. It's here. 90 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: It's actually going to happen. No more Coppinger reports, no 91 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: more debunked Coppinger reports. It has been presented by both 92 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: fighters as Saturday, July twenty ninth of this calendar year 93 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: tea Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. You see the names 94 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the screen unbeaten welterweight champions Aerol 95 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: Spence Junior, Terrence Crawford. They're gonna crown the first four 96 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: belt undisputed champion in one hundred and forty seven pound history. 97 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: They are going to be fighting, not just to keep 98 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: their unbeaten records alive, not just essentially to put the 99 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: flag down on top of the Mountain that says, this 100 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: is my walterweight era and the post Mayweather Pakiao, this 101 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: is my time I was best in show right, same 102 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: thing we're trying to do up at heavyweight with Fury 103 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: and Usic if they can get their sheat together. These 104 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: two walterweights finally did. And I'm not telling you that 105 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: you can't have I don't want to say negative knee 106 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: jerk reactions to this. I mean it's in house. By 107 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: the way, Showtime pay per View. Shout out to Steven 108 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: Espinozen company for getting this done. Al Hayman, all those 109 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: on the PBC side. This wasn't easy. This negotiation fell 110 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: apart last year. It went through a guess would be 111 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: the best word. Disappointing, sad, he said, He said, back 112 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: and forth, but you have to admit something here. All 113 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: that shit is is water under the bridge, like it's 114 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: gone now now we're talking about the fight. But I 115 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: did want to say, like boxing hasn't been boxing is 116 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: this is actually building up to potentially be a very good, 117 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: if not great, boxing year. You wouldn't know it from 118 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, especially if you were very 119 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: upset with the HAINI Lomachenko scoring even though I told 120 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: you to back off on that, or if you're still 121 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: lingering from the Roly Romero decision. You know, Boxy don't 122 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: get it wrong a lot. They got it wrong for 123 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: four to five years and not making Spence Crawford until 124 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: right now. So if you want to do the I've 125 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: already lost interest in this. Okay. If you want to 126 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: do the hey man, aren't they old? Well, Look, Spence's 127 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: thirty three years old. Crawford is thirty five. The great 128 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: you know the knee your comparison in so many ways 129 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: as Mayweather pak Yo. This fight won't do the same 130 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: business that will do, but you could argue it's it's 131 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: just as important to its own era, meaning not just 132 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: the welterweight history of this era, the current pomp for 133 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: pound rankings we could produce. I mean, the winner of 134 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: this is probably gonna be the new pound for pound 135 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: king as long as there's no controversy in this fight. 136 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: So the stakes are so huge that I think a 137 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: lot of us have gone through this roller coaster of emotions. 138 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: We try to tell ourselves last year that we don't 139 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,119 Speaker 1: care about this fight anymore. I'm done with it. Spence 140 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: go to one fifty four if you want. And then 141 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: you started hearing the teas and and the rumors that 142 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: it might actually happen, and then you got all excited 143 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: again the same feelings, the same reasons you did originally. 144 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: Is it okay to do the whole man? I hope 145 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: this is better late than ever. Yeah, you can have 146 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: that those questions. But I think we're gonna be fine here. 147 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get a great fight. And I 148 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: think the best news out of what we've heard of 149 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: the reporting done, and my Coppinger was ahead of a 150 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: lot of these things from ESPN, so let's give him 151 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: that credit. But they have signed a bilateral rematch clause. 152 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: Terrence Crawford has signed a according to my Coppinger, two 153 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: fight deal with Al Hayman and the PBC. So all 154 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: those years we didn't get this fight was understandable if 155 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: you understand the BS of boxing politics. Two guys on 156 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: the opposite sides of the street. Crawford used to be 157 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: with the ESPN and top rank. We all know how 158 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: disasterously that fell apart. Obviously, once Crawford got free a 159 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: year and a half ago. I wish this fight was 160 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: made the next day. It wasn't. But I don't think 161 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: it's too late. And that's not just optimism BC talking. 162 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: I know they're thirty three and thirty five and Many 163 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: and in Floyd were thirty six and thirty four. Was 164 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: Many and Floyd too late? Yeah, not financially, not in 165 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: terms of it still being a monster event, the all 166 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: time biggest fight in the history of combat sports. It 167 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: did the most pay per view buys, right. I know, 168 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: Mayweather McGregor came close in a lot of categories, and 169 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: according to Dana White edged it in some other financial categories. 170 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: But this fight isn't that big. But that fight ended 171 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: up being a little bit too late because if they 172 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: had fought back in twenty eleven, like they should have 173 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: for twelve or insert any other year until finally we 174 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: got that in twenty fifteen, I think it would have 175 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: been a better fight. I think it would have been 176 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: more competitive. I don't think it would have ended up 177 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: being sort of the points battle controlled by Floyd with 178 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: Manny's injured shoulder, with all that that went around that, 179 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: And it wasn't a bad fight in the end, it 180 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: just wasn't what you expect in paying one hundred bucks. 181 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: And if that fight was the only boxing fight you 182 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: watch in a five year span, right, you didn't get 183 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: what you wanted. I don't think there's I don't think 184 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of reason to believe that we 185 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: won't get what we want here. These fighters are a 186 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: little bit different than Manny and Floyd. Are they as 187 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: great historically? No, but we are looking at two all 188 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: time greats here. There's so much on the line. There's 189 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: the potential, as I mentioned with the rematch Calus for 190 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: not only the potential of two fights this year. If 191 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: the first one is close and viable and either man 192 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: you know, moves to get the rematch, you could also 193 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: see a trilogy for all we know here. And when 194 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: you match these two up in the contrast and all 195 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: that that we talked about the other day, it's time 196 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: to come back and be excited again. Nothing of boxing 197 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: is ever perfect. The journey here was not great, but 198 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: it's here. We got this and I'll get to it 199 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: in a little bit, but I teazed the early boxing 200 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: does have a chance to really impress you this year overall, 201 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: with the number of events, the big ones that could 202 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: come through, and it's been two pretty damn good years 203 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: of boxing in a row, right, going against the old 204 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:30,839 Speaker 1: every other year plan that we used to see for 205 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 1: the last ten fifteen years. I've decided to be really 206 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: happy about this fight, and I think you should too, 207 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: because it's fantastic and it's historic in some ways. And 208 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: let's get into how we found out about this now. 209 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: Both fighters were allowed to release on their own terms 210 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: on social media. They put out tweets, Instagram posts, whatever 211 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: you want. We got a video from Terrence Crawford announcing it. 212 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: T Mobile Arena, July twenty ninth. Let's here from Bud Crawford. 213 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Then? Wait is over? 214 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: His game time Aero Spence Terrence Crawford, July twenty ninth, 215 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Nevada. Everybody come out, show support or watch 216 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 2: me Friday's fish. 217 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: The fry of the fish comment is part of the 218 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 1: trash talk back and forth that led to the fight 219 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: falling apart last year, when Spence has long called himself 220 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: the big fish, you know in this division of this era. 221 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: So good for Bud to come back, you know again, 222 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 1: if you're still lingering from the man, we should have 223 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: saw this last year. Why didn't they get it done. 224 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: It just took time. Bud Crawford needed that one fight 225 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: in between to make a ton of money apparently against 226 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: David Eveneese. And I'm kind of happy in some ways 227 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: that Spence didn't rush back and fight Keith Thurman on 228 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:43,719 Speaker 1: pay per view at one fifty four in a fight 229 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: that wouldn't have really meant a lot, especially not with 230 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: the titles at stake. This fight means so much, so 231 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Spence's three world titles against the WBO 232 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: title of Terrence Crawford to produce that four belt champion. 233 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: Let's go over to Spence. He didn't put out a video, 234 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: but he put out in interesting scrum of photos on 235 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: both Instagram and Twitter. First the fight announcement. There's the 236 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: poster there, you go right there, get yourself fired up. 237 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: Second and artists rendering of what Aerol Spence believes is 238 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: the inevitable outcome of Terrence Crawford. They're down on the canvas. 239 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: You can make the predictions for however way you are leaning. 240 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: And then finally talked about the trash talk between them. 241 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: That's Bo mag that's Brian McIntyre, that's Terrence Crawford's trainer, 242 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 1: I believe his manager as well, with a Cheetos bag backstage. 243 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: There's some weight jokes built in there, Spence getting after it. Look, 244 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: I don't want them to be closer friendly. I want 245 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: to have, you know, a not a forced angry or 246 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: trash talk filled build. But there's so much at stake here. 247 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: There really is. I mean, like it was early on 248 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: in both of their rises and careers as unbeaten champions 249 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: that spent you know, we started to say, man, we've 250 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: got something super special here. We have the potential to 251 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: have two all time grades operating this division at the 252 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: same time, like we had with Floyd and Manny. What 253 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: heard it along the way, of course, was was Crawford 254 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: was on his own island over there with top rank. Yes, 255 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: Crawford fought career defining names and big wins at one 256 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: thirty five where he was a decorated champion, at one 257 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: forty where he became the first four belt and disputed 258 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: champion there. The problem was at welterweight in recent years 259 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: it felt like Bud's cross. But Crawford's career has been 260 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: on hold. Right, there's there's you know, I mean, you'll 261 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: give him respect for winning the title from Jeff Horn 262 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: at that point, who had beaten Manny Pac Yaw. But 263 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: you're not gonna You're not gonna get a lot of 264 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: love for wins over faded American, faded Kilbrook. You know, 265 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: mean machine did drop him, but that wasn't a fight 266 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: people were clamoring for. Jose Ramirez, the brother of David, 267 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: was coming off a long layoff, an injury and the 268 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: bullet in the leg and all that. We didn't get 269 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: to see Bud against the very best in this division. 270 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: Yet it had already been pre established that like Spence, 271 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,719 Speaker 1: were looking at an all time great somebody who's a 272 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: Virtualso Bud Crawford can switch stances at will, can box 273 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: just as well as you can fight, but has the 274 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: nasty backbone that he's willing to fight when he needs to. 275 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: But I think that step down in matchmaking allowed Spence 276 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways to catch up as he 277 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: tried to clean out his division, which was you know, 278 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: largely under the PBC banner. And we got big fights 279 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: from him in big career defining one hundred and forty 280 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: seven pound wins from the shutout in the boxing brilliance 281 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: he put on against Mikey Garcia, to the brawl with 282 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: the high level brawl with Sean Porter that he survived, 283 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: to you know, taking out Danny Garcia by decision and 284 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: dominating him. And obviously the early victories at Walter Waite 285 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: including kell Brook, Lamont Peterson just dominant you know victory there. 286 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: And I think the Kelbrook is really the defining one 287 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: in which Spence really met a prime version of kel 288 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: and as we know, persevered through that on the road 289 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: and won the title. But to truly put them in 290 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: the history books, to truly identify whose era of this 291 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: well has, he got to have them fight each other. 292 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: So thirty five and thirty three in terms of ages 293 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: ages is better than not at all. It is better 294 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: than late because I think both still have it and 295 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: I think ultimately, when you look at this style contrast 296 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: both they're probably gonna have the ability to push the 297 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: other one into a kind of you know, into the 298 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: a kind of breakthrough perform. Like I think this is 299 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: going to be an action fight. I think it's gonna 300 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: be highly skilled. I think there's gonna be elements of 301 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: chest and adjustments, just like we saw in Haining Lomachenko. 302 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: But I really believe that at the end of the day, 303 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: these two are dogs. And it's not that it's not 304 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: that Floyd and Manny weren't. But we know where Floyd 305 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: was in the second half of his career, high above 306 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: his natural way. You know, he always had the hand issues, 307 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: his ability to stay so dominant on top later in 308 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: his career. It needed the adjustment he made in his 309 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: game from going from pretty boy Floyd to money Mayweather 310 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: and being more of a pot shotter and controlling the 311 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: terms of the fight. That look, at the end of 312 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: the day, Floyd was in there to collect that huge 313 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: check and win that fight. I just think the person 314 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: of these two stakes in this one everything that goes 315 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: with it. The era that we're in, where as we 316 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: talk about it, a lot American fighters just seem to 317 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: be more willing, these young ones to go after it, 318 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: to seek tough matchups, to let it go more inside 319 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: the ring like the eighties and early nineties used to. 320 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: You know, we did have to go through a lot 321 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: of shit to get here, but this is still at worst, 322 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: you know, the first or second best fight you can 323 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: make in this sport. For a reason, and you know 324 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: how many heavyweight division is always up and down. It's 325 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: always you know, throughout history, it's always up and down. 326 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: But in this modern pay per view era of the 327 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: last twenty to thirty years, welterweight has been the sexy 328 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: money division. And you look at the super fights that 329 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: have defined eras going back to you know, Sugar Ray 330 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: Leonard rallying to stop Thomas Hearns in nineteen eighty one 331 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: two to one beatens in Felix Train, of that in 332 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: Oscar de la Hoya in nineteen ninety nine, and in 333 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: the controversy that came out of the scoring there and 334 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: really the stakes in that one, considering that was the 335 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: first blockbuster pay per view not involving heavyweights in boxing 336 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: history up to that point, I mean blockbuster. And then 337 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: you know, you look no further, of course than Patiel 338 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 1: versus Mayweather back in twenty fifteen. I'm ready, I'm fired up. 339 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: I love the idea that we have a great chance 340 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: of seeing this again so soon. And you know, if 341 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: you read Coppinger's report leading up to this, there's the 342 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: intention here that the winner would go on move up 343 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: to one fifty four and seek an opportunity there to 344 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: become an undisputed champion as well. A little bit harder 345 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: obviously because Ery Spence Junior is in the same camp 346 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: as Jermel Charlow, who's currently the undisputed junior welter junior 347 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: middleweight champion excuse me, and has pushed off twice now 348 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: the fight with Tim Zoo due to injuries. That could 349 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: change if Tim Zoo wins the titles. And obviously we 350 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: know the trash talking in recent years when Crawford and 351 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: Spence wasn't happening, but Jamel Charlow and Terrence Crawford have 352 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: been exchanging beef. So you not only have a lot 353 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: a great fight to look forward to, the easy potential 354 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: of a rematch, maybe even a trilogy, and then the 355 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: potential of the winner moving up. I mean maybe the 356 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: winner moves up to goes to one fifty four and 357 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: the loser faces Geron Bootsennas. You never know what's going 358 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: to happen here, but any bit longer it was going 359 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: to be a disaster. Not always there when you call 360 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: boxing's biggest fights, and not even always on time job rule, 361 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: but sometimes sometimes it just hits the mark at the 362 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: right time. I think we got reason to believe, we 363 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: got reason to be excited here in so many ways. Glad, 364 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: it's that T mobile, the big one this summer. This 365 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: is gonna be it, It is gonna be And what's 366 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: interesting is that's a big UFC night. That's UFC two 367 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: ninety one the same night July twenty ninth, Pourier Gaichee 368 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: two in a loaded card up and down. Interesting. The 369 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: last time the BMF went up against a big boxing 370 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: match that was more of a debacle in the fall 371 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 1: of what was that twenty nineteen when Canela Alpharez and 372 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: Cergekoveleft sat back on the couches there as I sat 373 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: in MGM Grand Garden Arena and we all watched the 374 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: UFC BMF fight on the big screen. You remember that 375 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: decision by his own Wow. I don't know what it's 376 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: gonna look like come July twenty ninth, when this goes 377 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: head to head with a very good UFC pay per 378 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: review card in Salt Lake City. But look, you get 379 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: a chance to make it, you make the fight. We 380 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: were talking for a bit in recent weeks about the 381 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: July twenty second target date. Turns out July twenty ninth. 382 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: Is it so circular? Your calendars? Get ready? This is it? 383 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: This is it? Thank you, thank you for being here, 384 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: and I wanted to extend this talk to I mean, 385 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: I know you guys got upset about with me over 386 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: the HAINI lomo reaction, and I always take your criticism seriously. 387 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: Believe me, you know, don't let me be the last 388 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: to know that I'm the one standing on top of 389 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 1: the mountain with the shittiest take. But you know, I 390 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: still stand by the reaction to that. It wasn't a 391 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: perfect fight in terms of the scoring, but it wasn't 392 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: a robbery. And it's not enough in my opinion to 393 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: take that and loop it with the roly outcome, which 394 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: was BS. Let's be honest, whether Tony Weeks was off, 395 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: whether twenty weeks has a loaded envelope in his pocket, 396 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 1: or whether twenty weeks was thinking too much about the 397 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: recent fight he didn't stop with morell in urbiscinality that 398 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,719 Speaker 1: ended in such you know, dangerous health situations. I don't know, 399 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: but it's not enough in my opinion to take those 400 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: two weeks in a sport that, like I'll acknowledge, doesn't 401 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: always get it right, sometimes rarely gets it right. But 402 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: why does this sport have such staying power. It's not 403 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: the sport of kings anymore, right, It's not like number one. 404 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: You know, in the nineteen fifties, it was horse racing, 405 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: baseball and boxing, and that was it. And people stopped 406 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 1: what they were doing and turned on the radio and 407 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: put their ear to it because Joe Louis is fight 408 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: and smelling a second time and the winner wins World 409 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: War Two. I mean, you know there were times where 410 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: that But why is boxing still matter though? When it matters? 411 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: Because it's fucking great, you know what I mean. It's great. 412 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: It's great. You build the big one with two fighters, 413 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: you get invested in the storyline, you have to see 414 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: what happens in it. This calendar year still has the 415 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: opportunity to deliver in huge ways. In a quick little recap, 416 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 1: we've had three major fights so far. We've had the 417 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: pay per view with Caleb plant and David Benavitez, which 418 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: was not only a great fight build, but really produced 419 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 1: in the outcome, the continuation further coming events of the 420 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 1: potential of Benavidez and Canelo fighting later this year or 421 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: early next year. Then we get the Tank Davis versus 422 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: Ryan Garcia fight, which broke a lot of boxing's rules 423 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: of crossing the street and making a difficult fight, and 424 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: then you know, over exceeded from the standpoint of expectations 425 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: in terms of live gate and pay per view, And 426 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 1: now we've got this fight and in between, by the way, 427 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: we've got Tayo Fima Lopez and Josh Taylor in June 428 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty pound title. We're hoping we're 429 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: getting Tim Zoo and Jermel Charlo this summer for all 430 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: four belts this summer. We are definitely getting the pound 431 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: for pound king right now, Niowa in a way moving 432 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: up in wait and taking out on beating unified champion 433 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: Stephen Fulton Junior. But what about the other big ones. 434 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: You're here in the same rumor as I am. I 435 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: get that we should take nothing, almost nothing that Tyson 436 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: Fury says as fact. He's all over the place every 437 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: other day, but he's now posting the daily videos. Yeah, 438 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: most of them seem to be aimed still at talking 439 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 1: trash to John Jones and saying I'll fight you in 440 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: a UFC ring. But no, I was kidding. I mean 441 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: only with boxing, like like who cares? Get that out 442 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: of there. But we are seeing recent Tyson Fury videos 443 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: saying hey, hey, Usik, why don't we do it anyway? 444 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: And and Fury's still blaming Usik, I think unnecessarily. Look, 445 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: I don't I never know with Tyson Fury, is he 446 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: ultimately is he scared of Usik? No? Does he want 447 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: to delay it though? Did he did? He did he 448 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: inquire about attempting together other people in the ring first, 449 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: including Anthony Joshua, maybe even including at some point, you know, 450 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: frances I Ganu or whatever. Yeah, he might. He is 451 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: an opportunist. He does want to make big money. I 452 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: think Tyson Fury knows that he's probably not going to 453 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: hang around a long time. But the fact that he's 454 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: getting out on video and bringing this up again, I 455 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: think is big. Usik did just have a purse bid 456 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: for his mandatory fight against Daniel Dubois. A big part 457 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: of Fury in that video was saying, look, we all 458 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: know Dubois not on our level here, Usik, so let's 459 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: make this fight. Whether we have to do in Usik 460 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: versus Dubois fight first, we still this calendar year could 461 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: get a fight that is arguably just as big in 462 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: terms of the historical senses. Here of two undefeated champions, 463 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: Tyson Fury with one belt and the lineal crown and 464 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: Alexander Usak, the former undisputed cruiserweight champion with three of 465 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: four belts. Could you imagine if we add that fight 466 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: on top of what we already have here, and then 467 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: you got Canelo coming back this fall, maybe in a 468 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: rematch with Dmitri Beeval, which we a lot of us 469 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: don't love or feel is you know, a necessity, but 470 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: would be an interesting fight, would be a big fight. 471 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: Or what if Canelo says, you know what, I'm going 472 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: back to one sixty eight and I'm fighting David Benavitez. 473 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: All I'm saying is this, you hang around boxing long enough, Yeah, 474 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: they'll they'll test your patience. It's a it's a it's 475 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: a sport that's not always connected all the way business wise, 476 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: that's not always connected all the way in terms of 477 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: making the best long term decisions. They'll let you down. 478 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: There will be a bad scorecard here, There'll be a 479 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: questionable stoppage there. There'll be more talk about business than 480 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: than you know what's going on in the ring at times. 481 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 1: But we do have a not only the most amount 482 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: of unification, undisputed title fight opportunities that seemingly we've ever 483 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: had in this four belt era, and the willingness and 484 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 1: the out and the sanctioning bodies not standing in the 485 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: way like they used to, which is like, if you 486 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: try to take that four belt fight, I'm gonna strip 487 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: you of your title like that. Like, we're not seeing 488 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: that as much right now, and we're also seeing a 489 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: young generation that wants the freaking smoke and wants it now. 490 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: And even though in the fallout of all things Davonte 491 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: Tank Davis versus Ryan Garcia that the talk was, look, 492 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 1: Ryan Garcia is going to regroup, he's got a new 493 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: trainer in Derek James, and he's gonna officially move up 494 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: to one campaign there. And then we thought, probably we're 495 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:31,239 Speaker 1: gonna see Tank Davis rematch Isaac pit Bull Cruise. And 496 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: you know, look, the first fight was a last minute 497 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: changing opponent. Pit Bull Cruise pushed him on the scorecards, 498 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: made it a tough fight. It was a close decision win. 499 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: I'm not saying we need that rematch right now, but 500 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: for all the talk that that rematch was a slam 501 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: dunk for next I'm not sure everybody's been reading all 502 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: the fine print as close. Can I just drop in 503 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: another moment of potential inspiration here, another moment of potential 504 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: boxing might have around and give us everything we wanted 505 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: this year and some bullshit, right, and some absolute bullshit, 506 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: and the kind that questions your own sanity, right. Okay, yeah, 507 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: they do that to you. But how about this Tank 508 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: Davis's co trainer, let me line this up right here. 509 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: He was talking to boxing stcene dot com and his 510 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: name is Kenny Ellis if you're wondering the lead trainer, 511 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: Calvin Ford. Of course, they were talking about the kind 512 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: of fights that we all want next for Tank. They're 513 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: talking about Devin Haney and they're talking about Shaker Stevenson. 514 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: And mind you, Devin Haity officially, yes, is a free agent. 515 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: There were rumors kicked around in the recent days by 516 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: Paul Malinaji that he was already resigned to top rank 517 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: privately before that Haini fight, before the Loma fight. I've 518 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: not been able to confirm that. I've not seen anybody 519 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: else report that. I'm not accepting that necessarily as fact. 520 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 1: I've seen recent interviews with Hani saying, look, the next 521 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: fight will with me, will be with a different promoter. 522 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: We'll see which one. You take a twenty four year 523 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 1: old undisputed champion right now as a free agent, you 524 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 1: throw him out there knowing that any networking promoter he 525 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: goes to, we're gonna see the potential for blockbuster fights. 526 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: That's got to get you excited. But my point is this, 527 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 1: I haven't heard members of Tanks Camp mention either of 528 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: these guys' names Haney or Shirker Stevenson unless asked, and 529 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: when they do, it's it tends to be more of 530 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: the financial posturing that we see on the pay per 531 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: view side of this game, which is, okay, well we're 532 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: the moneyman, meaning Team Tank, and by the way, Tank 533 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: is the moneyman in this division. Even though I respect 534 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: to Devin Haney as the undisputed champion, you know that 535 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: whole idea of you got to come to me, meaning 536 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to come to my network on my terms. 537 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: You're probably gonna take a big Bay cut. We're gonna 538 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: have to try to make it as hard for you 539 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: as possible. To be fair, they made it hard for 540 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: Ryan Garcia, but to his credit, he still took the fight. 541 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: He still made the rehydrated clause. Way he's still everything 542 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: was fine and he lost to fight. That is what 543 00:27:54,680 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: it is. But Ellis tanks coach. Here's what he said. 544 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: Here's the quote. Head's Devin tails Shakur and he said 545 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: it's tails. And here was his message to Shaquer Stevenson, SHAKERR. 546 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: Call your team and tell them you want Tank. Whoever 547 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: is not willing to make it happen, get rid of 548 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: the ass. You the boss, the fighter is the boss. 549 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: If Bob Aaron don't want him want it, tell him 550 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: to let you out of the FN contract. And at 551 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: the Analys would go on to say, we don't need 552 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: no more warm ups, we want Shakur next. You a champion, right, 553 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: come get that work. End quote. Now. Look, I've been 554 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: around boxing long enough to know that there's also posturing 555 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: and what Ellis is saying right there, it's not gonna 556 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: be easy tomorrow for Shaque. Stevenson if he wanted this 557 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: and wanted it now to go call up Bob and 558 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: and Top break in ESPN and be like, yeah, I'm 559 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: gonna do what Ryan just didn't jump across the street. 560 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: That's probably not gonna happen. It would probably probably have 561 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: to be a two network review. But you gotta like 562 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: that there's conversations like this going on that they're challenging him, 563 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 1: that they're saying, we would fight you, not this, Yeah, 564 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: we'll fight you one day, or or you know they're 565 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: telling him right now, I mean all right, I mean 566 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: you know they're talking about it. So you're saying, there's 567 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: a chance these are the developments we need all four 568 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: of those guys, Tank, Ryan, Devin, and Loma and now 569 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: let's throw in Chequer for five. They're all gonna be 570 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: needing a second fight this year. Let's see if we 571 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: can build our own four princes, our own four to 572 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: five kings era. Let's see if we can have these 573 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: guys start to go out of their way to fight 574 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: each other to prove in the ring who's really the best. Okay, 575 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: what if this doesn't happen, what if this is just 576 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: trash talk, And what if Hainey does re sign with 577 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: Top Rank, and what if two out of his next 578 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: three fights if he does, is a Loma rematch in 579 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: at Shaquer Stevenson showdown, and probably a mandatory in between. 580 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: My point is, is boxing a trusted mistress? Are them 581 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: poles actually loyal. No, they you know, they do show up. 582 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: They do show up what it matters, and if you try, 583 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: sometimes you get what you need. You know what I mean, 584 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: you really do. So there's your boy BC back in 585 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: the optimism chair, the American Alpha Optimism chair, telling you 586 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: that boxing ain't dead, boxing ain't broke. In the second 587 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: half of twenty twenty three could be what's that two 588 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: word term that we like to use on this show. 589 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: Both words begin with the letter B. You know what 590 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, balls bonanza. That's what twenty twenty three 591 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: in the sport of boxing has the chance to be still, 592 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: even with that roly outcome, even with the fact that 593 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: you may have thought, hey, anyone, Lomo. I thought Lomo 594 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: one too, But you know I did rewatch that fight, 595 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: by the way, closer the turnout was closer than I thought. Hey, 596 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: there we go, topic number two. Let's keep it going. 597 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: John Jones right now, some interesting rumors over the past 598 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: couple of days. Uh, Before we get into those rumors, 599 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: you all know we want John Jones versus Friend and 600 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: Frances and Ghan and you all know we're not gonna 601 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: get it right. You know what I'm saying, We're really 602 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: we're really not gonna get it unless it's like you know, 603 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: down the road and the in the circumstances of both 604 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: changed dramatically. But there's a video that got put out 605 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: overnight of John Jones and his teammate the crochet King, right, 606 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: Maurice Green, Maury Screen right, Mikey, Maurice Screen right. I 607 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: always screw that up. They were in the in the 608 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: camp there at Jackson Weeken and and the crochet Master 609 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: also fights for the PFL. By the way, let's go 610 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: to this video of John Jones and Maurice Screen fooling around. 611 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 2: Always gonna be a pussy all that muscle. 612 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: Laughing up, Johnny boy, laugh it up. Yeah, yeah, I 613 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: mean it is humorous to me at this point, Like 614 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: it's one thing when Dan because like Dana is never 615 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: gonna I don't want to say forgive might not be 616 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: the right word, but like we've been through the Dana 617 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: in Francis stuff enough, you guys are sick of it. 618 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: Dana's not gonna ben. This is who he is. He's 619 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: gonna posture and always represent the you know, the evil umpire, 620 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: the bank, the money, the promotion, and he's always just 621 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: going to probably continue to shit on Francis, But to 622 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: see John just pop up and do this, like I know, 623 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: he's just kind of stirring the pot. But you know, 624 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: it is rich when you when you look back at 625 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,479 Speaker 1: how much Francis wanted to fight during his last three 626 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,719 Speaker 1: years with the UFC warri fault once per year, and 627 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: how much they were freezing it out, and how those 628 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: three years coincide directly with John Jones having already announced 629 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: after the dom Reis fight that he was moving up 630 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: to heavyweight. So all those big muscles, Yeah, John, it 631 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 1: took you three years to put on all those big muscles. 632 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: It's just funny that we're seeing this track now, and 633 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: you know, maybe John was willing in those He probably 634 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: was in those three years. Like the thing about joh 635 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: joone's not afraid of anybody, Like, that's not what I'm 636 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: trying to say. So this is probably more on the 637 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: promotion for not getting this done because they weren't willing 638 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: to pay John Jones Deontay Wilder money, and then they 639 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: weren't willing to pay Francis consistent high level money beyond 640 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: the eight million to fight Jones. It doesn't make me 641 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: laugh though, And John, you know, continues to spike the 642 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: punch and catapul into the pool and talk this shit 643 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: when hey, John, I remember right after Francis left four 644 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: months ago and you praised him. Okay, I do remember that. 645 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: I do remember that. But a little trash talk back 646 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: and forth among heavyweight goats, I guess is interesting. Speaking 647 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: of heavyweight goats, we all thought, based on Dana White comments, 648 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: that we were headed this fall November one of the 649 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: majors in the UFC Madison Square Garden, right And if 650 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 1: you're saying BC, what do you believe are the four 651 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: majors in UFC right now? International Fight Week Madison Square 652 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: Garden November in New York, the second weekend in December 653 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 1: that they usually blow out in Vegas. That big card 654 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: used to be New Year's Eve weekend before ESPN had 655 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: them move it earlier because of college football. And then 656 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: if there's a fourth I guess you could say there's 657 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: usually a March Vegas pay per view or in April 658 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: Brooklyn pay per view that tends to be huge. But 659 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: we thought we were getting John Jones, the greatest fighter 660 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: of all time versus formerly the greatest heavyweight of all time, 661 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: step Amochich it maybe in your opinion still the greatest 662 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,800 Speaker 1: heavyweight of all time or greatest UFC heavyweight champion, you know, 663 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: and Ghano violently stopped him. That changed that conversation. I 664 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: thought Cormier had changed that conversation until Steepe came back 665 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: and won the last two. But the whole point is 666 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: whether you're like Luke Thomas and don't love Jones Miocic, 667 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: or you're like me and say, still still a big fight, 668 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: still matters, let's do it. I'm not sure it's necessarily 669 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: going to happen now. The first source on this was 670 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: Chill Son and and I think as much as I 671 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: love Chail and we all do, Uncle Chailpe, he just 672 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: says shit a lot, okay. Daniel Cormier, however, does he 673 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: just say shit, well, not really in a in a 674 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: like a hey, I don't know what else to say, 675 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say this way. And I'm not saying 676 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: Chill's comments aren't rooted to some degree in truth, but 677 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 1: DC does say company heavy handed comments. He's a company man. 678 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: I mean, look, let's be fair. He is. I love DC, 679 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: but he's a company man. So he was on his 680 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: own YouTube channel and here's the quote talking about the 681 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,120 Speaker 1: rumors that Jones versus Miochich might be falling apart, he says, 682 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: still nothing. It really just feels like we're gonna miss 683 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: this one too, and that's unfortunate. We just missing Ghanu 684 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 1: versus John Jones, one that we've waited for for a 685 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,479 Speaker 1: long time. Now we got John Jones talking to Tyson Fury, 686 00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: which Dana said will make it happen. I mean, yeah, 687 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen back to DC, but now we 688 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: got those guys talking Fury and Jones. And for the record, 689 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,439 Speaker 1: Fury is in a full on fight, has no chance 690 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: against John Jones. There's no knock on fear. Okay, that 691 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:18,439 Speaker 1: was I pulled the wrong quote. There. Clearly nobody cares 692 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,959 Speaker 1: about John Jones versus Tic and Fury. It's not gonna happen, 693 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: So let's move that. But Daniel Cormier had this echoed 694 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,319 Speaker 1: the same comments that Chail did that it looks to 695 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,760 Speaker 1: me or to them as if this fight is falling 696 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,560 Speaker 1: apart from November, and suddenly the idea of John Jones 697 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: versus unbeaten or not unbeaten, but versus Sergey Pavlovitch could 698 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: be soon sooner, like August September ish in Australia soon. 699 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: So here's when you gotta certainly identify the sources. Jail 700 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: sometimes can just stay stuff. Chaill is also connected and 701 00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: has been known through the years to share that connectivity aggressively. 702 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: But DC's on the inside. Is this merely a situation 703 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: where Stepe, who has always in recent years been I 704 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: don't know, frugal, it'sn't the right word sharp in terms 705 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: of a negotiator like Stepe is held out until he's 706 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: gotten what he's wanted. He's taken a year off from fights. 707 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: I mean, he's really only been fighting once a year 708 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 1: in recent years, and only seemingly been fighting in big 709 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 1: title fights. You know the trilogy with Cormier and the 710 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: two fights within Ganu. It takes up a lot of 711 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,760 Speaker 1: time there. But you have to believe Stepe knows this price, 712 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,799 Speaker 1: knows his history, knows this is probably his last big 713 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,720 Speaker 1: one unless he beats John and knows that we're talking 714 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 1: about Madison Square Garden, and knows that Francis just left 715 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 1: for huge money and that now would be the time 716 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: to try to argue it. This feels to me BC 717 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: as if this is the company putting pressure on Steepe. 718 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 1: And I hate when they do this dirty bs publicly. 719 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 1: If you have to do this privately, if it's part 720 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 1: of the negotiation process, if it's part of you know, 721 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 1: business to some degree, okay, life is a negotiation. Doing 722 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 1: it publicly though, it changes things. It changes the public 723 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 1: narratives and perception of things. And that's why that's done 724 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 1: on purpose, to put that pressure, like, oh, Stepe, the 725 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 1: bus is passing, the train is passing you by, because look, 726 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: Stepe is not going to come back and fight Tom asperinall, 727 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: He's not gonna come back and fight you know, Marchene 728 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 1: ty Burro. If he's gonna come back, it's going to 729 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: be John Jones for the belt. And even though I 730 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 1: don't think ultimately that that fight is like a pay 731 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 1: per view blockbuster, that fight is a quasi super fight 732 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 1: in terms of the historical nature of it, it is. 733 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 1: It really is. I get that Stepe's older and he's inactive, 734 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 1: and you know, I get a lot of that, but 735 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: we still don't know what John Jones is as a heavyweight, 736 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: Like stop acting like we do. He sat on, gone 737 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: in front, choked him, Like that's what happened, and credit 738 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: to John and he did a fat guy dance at 739 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: the end. He was all, happy, John, you deserve to 740 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: be happy. We need to stop talking about Tyson Fury, 741 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,359 Speaker 1: so let's get that out of there. He can go fight. 742 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,359 Speaker 1: He was like, please get away from us. Can we 743 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 1: come through UFC. I don't know the demands here, I 744 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 1: don't know the situation, but this screams to be another 745 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,359 Speaker 1: one of those situations where we're automatically gonna call up 746 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: the next two potential opponents. We're gonna get them to 747 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: sign on the dotted line. We're gonna have it already, 748 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,799 Speaker 1: and we're gonna show the world Stepay that you don't 749 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: want this fight. Is that this circumstance, I feel like 750 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: it has to be because why would I mean? It? 751 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: Is Pavlovich next in line by his recent performances. Sure 752 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,960 Speaker 1: you can make that argument, but as John said himself, 753 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,799 Speaker 1: I'm only gonna take that fight if, if you know, 754 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: if they make it worthwhile to me. I don't think 755 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,399 Speaker 1: the UFC is gonna go out of their way over 756 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: a few bucks to skip this Stpay versus John fight. 757 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: I do believe, as usual, they are trying to narrow 758 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,920 Speaker 1: down how much they have to pay without question and 759 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 1: aggressively and heavy handedly. If this was the consolation prize, 760 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 1: we had to be dealt Jones versus Pavlovich. I get it. 761 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 1: That's that's our You'll be a better fight than Show 762 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 1: and Step. It doesn't have the historical nature to it, 763 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,759 Speaker 1: but the unknown factor, the threat to John Joe, I mean, yeah, 764 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,800 Speaker 1: it's monster. It would be huge. It just feels like 765 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: fools gold to me at this point. So you know, John, 766 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,879 Speaker 1: we can laugh it up over Francis. But let's make 767 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: this step a fight. Let's do it. Let's do it, 768 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 1: all right, Let's go into topic three here on this 769 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,759 Speaker 1: abbreviated shortened holiday show, just to kind of give you 770 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 1: the fix, right, just to allow you to get it 771 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,480 Speaker 1: up on your on your lists, just to rub that 772 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,319 Speaker 1: MK bullshit across the gums. How about the will Let's 773 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,319 Speaker 1: react to some fight announcements, all right. UFC Vegas, seventy four, 774 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:44,800 Speaker 1: June third, Jim Miller versus Jared Gordon. Okay, okay, where's 775 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,359 Speaker 1: Jim Miller at in the UFC record book for most wins? See? 776 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,080 Speaker 1: Did he did? He? Well? I know him? And Arlovsky 777 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: swap it, they traded it out. Let's see where're at 778 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,840 Speaker 1: right now? Uh. In terms of the rundown of total 779 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,919 Speaker 1: fights in UFC history, Jim Miller first place with forty one, 780 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,399 Speaker 1: Orlovsky second with thirty nine. Seroni and Clay Gweeda right 781 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,799 Speaker 1: behind there with thirty eight and thirty five, respectively, but 782 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: win total wins as a fighter. Interesting now because Jim 783 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 1: Miller has set himself apart twenty four total wins in 784 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 1: the octagon in first place. A second place tie is 785 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,480 Speaker 1: with Andre Arlovski and the retired Donald Serni, And then 786 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: you have Damian Maya with twenty two at fourth place 787 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,840 Speaker 1: RDA and John Jones tied with both Porier and Charles 788 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:31,040 Speaker 1: Olavera with twenty one. Wow. Okay, so you have to 789 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,759 Speaker 1: believe the idea of Jim Miller on top here. You 790 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 1: hope Jim Miller, for his say, can pad this lead 791 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,600 Speaker 1: if this means a ton to him, if this is 792 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: that enduring legacy. But interesting to see if he actually 793 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,439 Speaker 1: does hold on to that, because how many more wins 794 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: does Arlovsky have left? That's certainly an interesting question. He 795 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: seems to always be packaging three fight losing streaks with 796 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,120 Speaker 1: surprising two fight win streaks or three fight win streaks, 797 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 1: but then inevitably you'll step up and get knocked out. 798 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,040 Speaker 1: How many more does he have left? Yeah, let's se 799 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,359 Speaker 1: if Jim Miller can pad that, but that group is 800 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,800 Speaker 1: aging behind him. But think about that, our da John Jones, 801 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,359 Speaker 1: Charles Oliver and Dustin Pourier are currently three back of 802 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 1: the twenty four win Jim Miller. See if he can 803 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,759 Speaker 1: continue to extend that. Let's go to June seventeenth, u 804 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:21,120 Speaker 1: CE Vegas seventy five, Pat Sabatini versus Lucas Almeida. It's 805 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 1: not necessarily moving me. We know Kevin Lee's coming back 806 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:30,879 Speaker 1: July first against Renat Fuck Reddinov. Fuck Reddinov. We talked 807 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,840 Speaker 1: about that. I'm into that. Jimmy Crup versus Alonzo Menifield 808 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,640 Speaker 1: July eighth, International Fight Week UFC two ninety Okay. The 809 00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,440 Speaker 1: following week the fight uf C Vegas seventy seven. We're 810 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:46,480 Speaker 1: getting Terrence McKinney, Nazim Sadakov. Okay, you know this, this 811 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:51,959 Speaker 1: is the is the UFC wollowing us these months? No, 812 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,400 Speaker 1: they're not. Let's go over to August fifth, sayeedn nor 813 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,040 Speaker 1: Maga madeof versus Kyler Phillips is interesting. Same night as 814 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,040 Speaker 1: Dustin Jacobi versus Kennedy and zek Wu who is coming 815 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 1: on right now, Let that be known, and that same night, 816 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,520 Speaker 1: this is what's gonna get your boy BC fired up 817 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,560 Speaker 1: because the Tatiana Suarez comeback story is in full effect. Yes, 818 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,600 Speaker 1: she came back at one twenty five and had that 819 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,040 Speaker 1: fairly dominant win across the board. Now she's moving back 820 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,600 Speaker 1: to the preferred way class of one to fifteen strawweight 821 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,120 Speaker 1: where she is a right now a sneaky title contender 822 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:26,839 Speaker 1: if she can put together some wins. They're giving her 823 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,399 Speaker 1: a tough one here Verna Jandre Roba, and I know, 824 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:35,000 Speaker 1: I know I buried that in some regard, but JANDREI 825 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,359 Speaker 1: Roba is on a two fight win streak, fresh off 826 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,080 Speaker 1: beating Marina Hadriguez, putting herself into sort of quasi contention here. 827 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,080 Speaker 1: This is going to be the next stop on the 828 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:47,400 Speaker 1: journey for Tatiana. PATCHI mix is her significant other is 829 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,319 Speaker 1: one million dollars richer. Let's see if she can continue 830 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,880 Speaker 1: on that rise. She's got to make the way. But 831 00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,759 Speaker 1: she has come back a physical force as terms of 832 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,359 Speaker 1: her and the intention seems to be there. I'm very 833 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: much looking forward to that. Let's go over to Belatour 834 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,319 Speaker 1: August eleventh. They're gonna be back in South Dakota, the 835 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: home of Logan Storley, former interim welterweight champion. And how 836 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,840 Speaker 1: about this, He's gonna headline Belatour two ninety eight against 837 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:20,239 Speaker 1: Brennan Ward. Ward just scored that big victory over Sabahu 838 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,399 Speaker 1: Maasi via knockout in that all Action affair which kicked 839 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,160 Speaker 1: off the Belatour on CBS card earlier this year, in 840 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: the Fador retirement fight, there were some questions could Brennan 841 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,920 Speaker 1: Ward be fast tracked to a title shot. He's a 842 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,919 Speaker 1: former title challenger at middleweight. He's at welterweight here coming 843 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,400 Speaker 1: off the years of inactivity, drug abuse, all of everything 844 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,760 Speaker 1: he's been through. Him against Logan story is a very 845 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:46,960 Speaker 1: very interesting fight. Storley still hasn't fully raised his striking 846 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,759 Speaker 1: up to the level where I think it can be 847 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,040 Speaker 1: five round a consistent weapon to match the threat of 848 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 1: his wrestling. Still a little bit deficient in some of 849 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,920 Speaker 1: those areas. Yet, Brennan Ward comes out and forces you 850 00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,719 Speaker 1: to get into a brawl, and that's the only way 851 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,480 Speaker 1: he knows how. It's the only thing he's tried to do. 852 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,399 Speaker 1: But obviously he's got a wrestling background too, and he's 853 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,160 Speaker 1: fairly competent on this elite level. So this is going 854 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,480 Speaker 1: to be an interesting matchup and you're gonna fast forward 855 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,680 Speaker 1: over to the same or sorry, the same night. James 856 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,160 Speaker 1: Gallaher will also return. He'll be taking on Chris LENCIONI 857 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,920 Speaker 1: that will be interesting. Some fight announcements there across the board. 858 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,400 Speaker 1: Nothing on the UFC side. I gotta say, really, uh, 859 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,359 Speaker 1: pickled my pickle as they say, I mean, should they 860 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:33,239 Speaker 1: say that? You know? I mean, you know, did you 861 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,440 Speaker 1: get your money's worth with solo BC on this holiday Friday? 862 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,520 Speaker 1: Or is this like you know, when like it's July 863 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,680 Speaker 1: fourth and Mike and Mike goes to like the fifth 864 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,279 Speaker 1: string backup announcer to fill in, you know, and you're like, oh, 865 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,239 Speaker 1: there's another go lick? Really, you know what I mean? Yeah? 866 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,120 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, But Mikey more Mile, our producer, knew that, 867 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,480 Speaker 1: you know, this thing might fall flat and we might 868 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,840 Speaker 1: have flat tires, so he has prepared an interesting video 869 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:57,520 Speaker 1: that he wants me to react to that's been going 870 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,279 Speaker 1: around the internet. Michael, could you play the bonus video 871 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:31,160 Speaker 1: and we'll get some BC in here. Let's do this, Mike, 872 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,640 Speaker 1: he don't play with my emotions. Don't you dared? How 873 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 1: dare you the beat Magomed Cherabov Scherapov is uh. I'm 874 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,440 Speaker 1: getting the feeling like he's he's itching to come back. 875 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,560 Speaker 1: I know he's been noncommittal lately about staying away. I 876 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,000 Speaker 1: know we're seeing more videos like this of him putting 877 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 1: the pads back on. I know one point he was 878 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: talking about maybe getting into boxing. Mikey's question to me 879 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,840 Speaker 1: here on this bonus video is BC, what would you 880 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,279 Speaker 1: sacrifice to the m m A gods to see the 881 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,719 Speaker 1: Beat back in the octagon. Imagine if the Beat could 882 00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 1: announce tomorrow that He was, like you're saying. That video 883 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,160 Speaker 1: is from from the Twitter post. The question was from 884 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,439 Speaker 1: the Twitter post from MMA Crash. Thank you MMA Crash 885 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,600 Speaker 1: as well for that question. Like if you told me 886 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,400 Speaker 1: that next week he's announced I'm back. I will be 887 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,160 Speaker 1: entering into the UFC featherweight division again. I will be 888 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,000 Speaker 1: making a run at the title. I am Yusada clean 889 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,520 Speaker 1: and I'm coming after it. What would BC give up? 890 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,239 Speaker 1: You know the thing you got to ask yourself is like, 891 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,920 Speaker 1: do we really need these extra two fingers? Like this 892 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,200 Speaker 1: one holds up my wedding ring right here. And then 893 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,880 Speaker 1: this is the like the horrifically broken pinky from years 894 00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,200 Speaker 1: of playing abreast of basketball and getting it jammed on 895 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,760 Speaker 1: the side. You know, remember when Ronnie Locke got injured 896 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,520 Speaker 1: and he broke his pinky. They're like, we could remove 897 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:52,960 Speaker 1: it and you could get back in and you know, 898 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,760 Speaker 1: next week and play and he's like, yeah, just remove 899 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:59,120 Speaker 1: half of my finger. When I remove this already broken 900 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,040 Speaker 1: pinky is a beat to come back at featherweight, and 901 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,919 Speaker 1: you know, and you're telling me also, that'll fight Brian 902 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:15,000 Speaker 1: or Tega in a second fight back. You know, I 903 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,120 Speaker 1: don't think I need this. I don't really think I 904 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,480 Speaker 1: need this, Like I don't think functionally, you know, Can 905 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:25,960 Speaker 1: I can I still operate? Can I still you know? 906 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:32,640 Speaker 1: I mean, am I still? Am I still the goat? Yeah? 907 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,799 Speaker 1: I think I could do it. Yeah, I give up this, 908 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,440 Speaker 1: I give up this finger. No, I wouldn't do that, 909 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,239 Speaker 1: But don't tease me like that. It's a beat, you know, Look, 910 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,440 Speaker 1: I get it with the beat. We don't know, but man, 911 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,040 Speaker 1: was he an intriguing prospect. Man, did he show I know, 912 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,759 Speaker 1: I know the Calvin Caator fight, I know the last run. 913 00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:57,000 Speaker 1: I know I saw it, I watched it. Something was 914 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,360 Speaker 1: unique and special about that. Dude. Though, maybe it's better, 915 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,560 Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's better that Kurt Kobe and left 916 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,880 Speaker 1: this world musically than when he did. I mean, no, 917 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,880 Speaker 1: it's probably it's not better, obviously, but in just in 918 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,879 Speaker 1: terms of preserving that prime memory of the music right 919 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:17,760 Speaker 1: and allowing after his unfortunate suicide to go the last 920 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,480 Speaker 1: three albums. Did we just see like one of the best. 921 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,000 Speaker 1: Did we just see like something? Did we just see 922 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,279 Speaker 1: the nineties version of the Clash? You know what I mean? Like, 923 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,920 Speaker 1: did we just see something like that? Just changed the game? 924 00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 1: Rock Wise Graena or Wise? Well, well yeah we did 925 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,080 Speaker 1: to some degree. But you know, him walking away at 926 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:37,920 Speaker 1: the or him dying at that point, did elevate the 927 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,600 Speaker 1: legend very rapidly. Same thing happened as a beat in 928 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: my mind, that's my featherweight champion. All right. Yeah, this 929 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,600 Speaker 1: was kind of a weird show. You know, I don't 930 00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,160 Speaker 1: think Luke is gonna end up watching McGregor forever, So 931 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,680 Speaker 1: why don't we close and talk about this? We tried 932 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,040 Speaker 1: to make this work. But you know, then Luke gets sick, 933 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,720 Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know what's going on anymore, 934 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,319 Speaker 1: So let's do this. It's on Netflix. It's a four 935 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:13,040 Speaker 1: part documentary series and it's essentially chronicling the last four 936 00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,520 Speaker 1: fights of the Conor McGregor experience, numbers two and three 937 00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:20,799 Speaker 1: against Dustin Pourrier, the cowboy serony comeback that led to 938 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,239 Speaker 1: the you know, abbreviated wholesome, fired up McGregor that he 939 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,320 Speaker 1: was during the you know, humble, non trash talking, bald 940 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,560 Speaker 1: headed McGregor, and then of course the entire build and 941 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,560 Speaker 1: run through of everything that involved UFC two twenty nine 942 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,960 Speaker 1: and habib Dermaga Metov. I had, like a lot of people, 943 00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,480 Speaker 1: low expectations for this when it hit my uh, you know, 944 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,200 Speaker 1: when it hit up sort of like do we need one? 945 00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,080 Speaker 1: I remember watching that first McGregor documentary that you know, 946 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:50,520 Speaker 1: really chronicled before his UFC stardom. You know, just this 947 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,960 Speaker 1: regular dude living in this tiny house and his girlfriend there, 948 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,319 Speaker 1: Dee Devlin, and you know, him looking her in the 949 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,319 Speaker 1: eyes although they had no money, and telling her, you know, 950 00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to be the biggest star in the whole world. 951 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,239 Speaker 1: And then he went out there and did it, and 952 00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:05,520 Speaker 1: it was interesting. I met the news of this arrival 953 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:10,160 Speaker 1: as this project, this mini series, this documentary as sort 954 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:14,279 Speaker 1: of like overkill. Do we need it? You know, no, 955 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,040 Speaker 1: we didn't need it. Do we want it? That was 956 00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:19,320 Speaker 1: my question. I think a lot of you have the 957 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:20,920 Speaker 1: same question of like, you know, I don't want to 958 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,319 Speaker 1: watch this guy. This guy's I mean, look, let's be fair. 959 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,319 Speaker 1: Ton McGregor is definitely overplayed. But a big part of 960 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,839 Speaker 1: that has been I think he has and look, when 961 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: you're a celebrity and you're inactive, and he has been 962 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,120 Speaker 1: obviously because of the injury. Although this seems I mean 963 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,200 Speaker 1: it's you know, going on two years now that he 964 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,800 Speaker 1: hasn't fought major injury, of course, but you know, during 965 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:45,719 Speaker 1: those two years, I don't think McGregor has been his 966 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,120 Speaker 1: best advocate from a PR standpoint. Right, It's not just 967 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,719 Speaker 1: the regular public missteps, but just a lot of the 968 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,160 Speaker 1: videos posting he always looks drunk and high in these videos. 969 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,279 Speaker 1: Let's be fair, let's be very honest and fair. And 970 00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,279 Speaker 1: you know, I'm I was saying he can't get that way, 971 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,399 Speaker 1: you can go get you know, we all turn up, right, 972 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,319 Speaker 1: we all get lit, right, But like, it's been a 973 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,200 Speaker 1: lot of overexposure. So I tuned in and watched you 974 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,799 Speaker 1: know what. I may have watched from the a throw, 975 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,160 Speaker 1: which may have you know, brought my focus at an 976 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,600 Speaker 1: intense level, and I may have been, you know, more 977 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,440 Speaker 1: into the idea of wanting to accept this than normally. 978 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,080 Speaker 1: But I have to say this across the board as 979 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,360 Speaker 1: a journey watching it, you know, is it this documentary 980 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,279 Speaker 1: like as good as like The Last Stand with Michael 981 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:31,120 Speaker 1: Juran No no no no no no no no. But 982 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:37,640 Speaker 1: was it an interesting behind the scenes ride that correctly 983 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,319 Speaker 1: summed up the narratives heading in and out of each 984 00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:47,400 Speaker 1: fight with heavy use of MMA media saying what we 985 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,760 Speaker 1: felt at the time. Luke Thomas and I our voices, 986 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,040 Speaker 1: our faces are in there. There's old school bombshelter, early 987 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,000 Speaker 1: morning combat in there, you know, reacting to things. I 988 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,160 Speaker 1: thought that was well done, just going back fight by 989 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,719 Speaker 1: fight and reliving a lot of the you know, the 990 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,279 Speaker 1: dock cameras had their own camera on the side of 991 00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,240 Speaker 1: the octagon for each Fight's here listening to the audio 992 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,359 Speaker 1: of the call while seeing the scenes from a new 993 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:17,680 Speaker 1: angle was interesting and in the end, it's both good 994 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,880 Speaker 1: and bad, but I do think it's worth your time. 995 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,640 Speaker 1: It's a very enjoyable ride. And the reason ultimately why 996 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,399 Speaker 1: it's so good and at times so great is, even 997 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,520 Speaker 1: though it's very narcissistic for anyone to essentially hire, you know, 998 00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,279 Speaker 1: a camera crew and just go just be by my 999 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,040 Speaker 1: side for four years, let's do this right. You know 1000 00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,400 Speaker 1: what I mean, Connor's willingness. I'll get to the bad 1001 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,000 Speaker 1: in a second, but let's start in the good. Connor's 1002 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:48,960 Speaker 1: willingness to allow us to see such vulnerable moments that 1003 00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,239 Speaker 1: you just don't get access to immediately in the locker 1004 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,359 Speaker 1: room after a tough loss, right like immediately when he's 1005 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,080 Speaker 1: sitting down after losing to Habib at two twenty nine 1006 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,239 Speaker 1: and maybe some oiler heavy if you care about that 1007 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,080 Speaker 1: spoilers now, and you know, kind of crying, head in 1008 00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,399 Speaker 1: the hands and Dana coming in trying to console him. 1009 00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,319 Speaker 1: And here's the best part of the whole film. You know, 1010 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,600 Speaker 1: Dana trying to be like, oh man, are you okay? 1011 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,160 Speaker 1: I know those guys, you know, Habib's boys jumped in 1012 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:18,759 Speaker 1: and fought you, and you know it's Connor, the ultimate competitor, 1013 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,319 Speaker 1: saying fuck that that's bollocks. Those are handbags, as he said, 1014 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,480 Speaker 1: those are you know, that means nothing to be the 1015 00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,360 Speaker 1: essentially saying, the only thing that matters is I lost 1016 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:32,880 Speaker 1: that fight. That stuff was the goods. That stuff was 1017 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,880 Speaker 1: the great stuff. Seeing the level of injuries he suffered 1018 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,960 Speaker 1: in camps ahead of big fights, which is you know, 1019 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,480 Speaker 1: it's the same that you're gonna see the same thing. 1020 00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,280 Speaker 1: By the way, June second, when the andre Ward documentary 1021 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,000 Speaker 1: comes out on Showtime, and it's fantastic, but there's some 1022 00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,160 Speaker 1: big reveals in there about certain injuries that you know, 1023 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:53,320 Speaker 1: war just never disclosed. We never knew about the major injuries. 1024 00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,600 Speaker 1: There's some of that in here because you know, to 1025 00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,560 Speaker 1: be fair, all big fighters, as we always say, are 1026 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,640 Speaker 1: banged up to some degree entering it big fight, right, 1027 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,360 Speaker 1: I mean, training camp is not easy to see Connor 1028 00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:07,200 Speaker 1: endure that pain and the and the uncertainty of the 1029 00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,000 Speaker 1: timing of some of these injuries that you know, halted 1030 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,840 Speaker 1: parts of his comeback. It was interesting he let us 1031 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,160 Speaker 1: see some very vulnerable sides of him cutting weight with 1032 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,759 Speaker 1: his you know, with d Devlin with her arms around, 1033 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,560 Speaker 1: kissing him, trying to help him through in his whole 1034 00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:25,800 Speaker 1: team showing some very just the the agony of defeat, 1035 00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:28,680 Speaker 1: really showing us the agony of defeat and what that 1036 00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,360 Speaker 1: looks like. You're not going to get that. You're just 1037 00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,080 Speaker 1: not going to get that unless someone's willing to do 1038 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,239 Speaker 1: exactly this and show themselves and be vulnerable. So that's 1039 00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,080 Speaker 1: where I actually give Connor a lot of credit and 1040 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,879 Speaker 1: I think this is a very interesting watch. Love him 1041 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:46,080 Speaker 1: or hate him, The negative, negative side is obviously the 1042 00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:51,840 Speaker 1: controlled message. This is there's this is four episodes, essentially 1043 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:58,680 Speaker 1: four hours of Connor McGregor propaganda. They brush on the 1044 00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,680 Speaker 1: negative stuff, if at all, very briefly, and they work 1045 00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:04,640 Speaker 1: it into the narrative. You know what I mean of him, 1046 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,560 Speaker 1: He's just such a competitor that, you know, the mcgret 1047 00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:12,160 Speaker 1: the normalga metof rivalry will never fucking end, right. They 1048 00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:16,319 Speaker 1: don't touch at all this this this, you know, the 1049 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:21,239 Speaker 1: sexual stuff, the accusations that anything should they I don't know. 1050 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,000 Speaker 1: I mean this is in the in in a way, 1051 00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:28,560 Speaker 1: their way of kind of reframing some recent history. The 1052 00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:32,400 Speaker 1: reason why I like elements of that reframing is because 1053 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:35,480 Speaker 1: it shows who Connor really is at the end of 1054 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:40,840 Speaker 1: the day. What made Connor super special. The trash talking 1055 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,640 Speaker 1: and the and the wit is a big part of it. 1056 00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:48,080 Speaker 1: The mental vision and toughness to stay the course and 1057 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,040 Speaker 1: believe is a big part of it. But the competitor 1058 00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:54,680 Speaker 1: in him is, you know, is second to none, even 1059 00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,359 Speaker 1: with and here's where it comes even here's with Here's 1060 00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,279 Speaker 1: where that competitor message became a little bit contradictive throughout. 1061 00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,040 Speaker 1: Is like every fight they're building toured and remind yourselves. 1062 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,480 Speaker 1: In this four fight stretch, Connor lost three of them, 1063 00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,560 Speaker 1: and he kind of lost all three badly. And you know, 1064 00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,960 Speaker 1: the one was he did look great against Cowboy, and 1065 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,960 Speaker 1: I do wonder if Covid hadn't hit And now now 1066 00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:18,840 Speaker 1: we know after the fact when he went Connor and 1067 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,440 Speaker 1: Dana had that war and Connor started sharing the dms 1068 00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,400 Speaker 1: from Twitter, and we all we know at that point 1069 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:29,200 Speaker 1: Connor was interested in coming back against Diego Sanchez. So 1070 00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,800 Speaker 1: anytime I tell you, man COVID robbed us from a 1071 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,240 Speaker 1: real Connor McGregor come back, it might not actually be 1072 00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,400 Speaker 1: true for all I know. But they talk so much 1073 00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,040 Speaker 1: about this guy being a competitor, and he is, but 1074 00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:41,800 Speaker 1: then it just leads you to fights in which he 1075 00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,800 Speaker 1: lost and lost one sided, and they're just sort of like, well, 1076 00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,840 Speaker 1: here he is. There's a competitor. Some of that's hard 1077 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,240 Speaker 1: to take when you're like, yeah, I can applaud his 1078 00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:53,640 Speaker 1: toughness and his gameness, but you know he's still going 1079 00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:56,440 Speaker 1: out there and gassing or getting injured or you know, 1080 00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,360 Speaker 1: there's still some you know. The one one of the 1081 00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:05,040 Speaker 1: areas that he was pretty clear about was that the 1082 00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,760 Speaker 1: build to the Habib fight, he didn't listen to his trainers, 1083 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:11,680 Speaker 1: he didn't train properly. He was so maniacal and wanted 1084 00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:13,560 Speaker 1: and this was somewhat of a revelation to see it 1085 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,320 Speaker 1: so deeply explained to you. He so badly wanted to 1086 00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,960 Speaker 1: just hurt Habib. He made it so personal that every 1087 00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,600 Speaker 1: sparring session was a fight, and he was constantly getting 1088 00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,120 Speaker 1: banged up, and he seemed to admit that there was 1089 00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,400 Speaker 1: a large degree of partying going out at the same 1090 00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,320 Speaker 1: time that essentially he tried to do the camp his way, 1091 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,160 Speaker 1: and you saw what happened. Although let's be let's give 1092 00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,920 Speaker 1: him a little bit of respect. Who fought he'd be 1093 00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:42,560 Speaker 1: better during that end prime run Connor he had a 1094 00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,160 Speaker 1: better performance in Poirier, did he had a better performance 1095 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,160 Speaker 1: than Gaichee did, although Gaichie was one calf kick away 1096 00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,480 Speaker 1: from putting Habib in peril. I've heard, so, I've heard right, 1097 00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,760 Speaker 1: But you know that played nicely in a storytelling element 1098 00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:00,160 Speaker 1: to then go into the cowboy fight and see, this 1099 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,680 Speaker 1: was a period in which he became sort of Connor 1100 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,000 Speaker 1: happy family guy again and nice guy and humble. And 1101 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,080 Speaker 1: it's not lost on me that during that same time 1102 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,360 Speaker 1: there was all of those sexual allegations against him, which 1103 00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people thought he was being suddenly this 1104 00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,080 Speaker 1: babyface turned to try to counteract that, But it did 1105 00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:17,920 Speaker 1: seem like there was a period there where he was 1106 00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:22,080 Speaker 1: very happy and it was no stone unturned in his 1107 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,760 Speaker 1: training again, which wasn't the case for a beat. Why 1108 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,640 Speaker 1: because you get to that level of the money he 1109 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,560 Speaker 1: made against Mayweather that it changes you. But then the 1110 00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:32,800 Speaker 1: film also sort of admits a lot of that went 1111 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,360 Speaker 1: away once he got injured after that, once COVID hit 1112 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,240 Speaker 1: idle hands, and he's back at it. They don't go 1113 00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,840 Speaker 1: into detail, but it's clear tequila, white light and no, 1114 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,680 Speaker 1: it's clear that you know he's proper twelving and other things, 1115 00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:52,200 Speaker 1: but the propaganda is heavy. They play the you know, 1116 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:53,840 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Connor might actually be 1117 00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,800 Speaker 1: a great dad, and if he is, like that's awesome, 1118 00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,280 Speaker 1: and I hope he is. But they go heavy handed 1119 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,240 Speaker 1: on the you know, he's just a competitor who's a 1120 01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:12,280 Speaker 1: great dad and a great family man. Okay, okay, you 1121 01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,560 Speaker 1: know I don't believe you, but okay, okay, you know 1122 01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,520 Speaker 1: what I mean. It's just it's just not you know, 1123 01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,920 Speaker 1: so in that regard, you've got to swim through some 1124 01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,840 Speaker 1: of those propagandic icebergs to get to the to the 1125 01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,400 Speaker 1: broken down Titanic of him sitting in the cage after 1126 01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,160 Speaker 1: the second, the third Pooria fight, the second straight loss, 1127 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,560 Speaker 1: the leg snaps, and uh, you know, they're not even 1128 01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,240 Speaker 1: playing up that that he's such a gnarly competitor that 1129 01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:37,560 Speaker 1: he got on the mic and was making fun of 1130 01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,919 Speaker 1: Poortier's wife. Like. They left out a lot of these 1131 01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:44,200 Speaker 1: important details along the way that make Connor look like 1132 01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,640 Speaker 1: the asshole he probably should. To be fair, you know, 1133 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,160 Speaker 1: they even frame the bus attack at UFC two twenty 1134 01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,200 Speaker 1: three against a Beban company as just look, man, you 1135 01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,200 Speaker 1: put your hands on my teammate, which is funny and 1136 01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,600 Speaker 1: ironic because that teammate is the go lobove lobob who 1137 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,840 Speaker 1: Connor is now ripping constantly on Twitter and you know, 1138 01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,520 Speaker 1: potentially in a lawsuit with But it's just at the 1139 01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:08,320 Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just a lot of like, man, 1140 01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,280 Speaker 1: he's just such a competitor. This is who he is. Like, 1141 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,040 Speaker 1: that's the message they're trying to portray. They're trying to 1142 01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,480 Speaker 1: show you that you may think you know him, you 1143 01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,000 Speaker 1: may have certain opinions, they might be bad, but here 1144 01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:22,440 Speaker 1: he is. He's just a competitor and he's just a special, 1145 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,360 Speaker 1: unique athlete and personality a once in a lifetime and 1146 01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:29,720 Speaker 1: that stuff, to large degrees is true. But boy do 1147 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:33,240 Speaker 1: they brush up and clean up some of those other 1148 01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,320 Speaker 1: areas around him. And you got to ask yourself if 1149 01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,640 Speaker 1: Showtime came to you, if UFC came to you, if 1150 01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,720 Speaker 1: whoever came to you and said, you know, we want 1151 01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,320 Speaker 1: to do a we want to do a documentary on 1152 01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:47,040 Speaker 1: your life. Hey, BC, you're a rise in combat sports journalist. 1153 01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,440 Speaker 1: We want to do a documentary on all you got here. Well, 1154 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,040 Speaker 1: first of all, Showtime, you're already doing. Those documentaries are 1155 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,120 Speaker 1: called the MK documentaries, baby, But second of all, you 1156 01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:56,920 Speaker 1: know imagine if they were like, hey, BC, we're we're 1157 01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,400 Speaker 1: gonna have to show and talk about all that dirt 1158 01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,959 Speaker 1: you did. I mean, I don't know if I'm wanting 1159 01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:08,480 Speaker 1: to do that, right, I get it, but it's connor controlled. 1160 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,720 Speaker 1: It is entertaining. It's worth your time. It's about three 1161 01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,960 Speaker 1: hours and forty five minutes of your life. You can 1162 01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:20,800 Speaker 1: make that decision for yourself McGregor forever. Yeah, they got 1163 01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:22,880 Speaker 1: the message across that they were trying to get. It's 1164 01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,480 Speaker 1: up to you to figure out the rest of it. 1165 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,919 Speaker 1: That's the best hour I could produce under these circumstances. Okay, 1166 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,840 Speaker 1: Luke Thomas's LBC took you home. It's a holiday weekend. 1167 01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,440 Speaker 1: There's nothing to talk about. But we stretched that taffy 1168 01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:36,480 Speaker 1: out as far as we could. I hope you enjoyed it. 1169 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,680 Speaker 1: You can check out all of our fantastic bonus content, 1170 01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,360 Speaker 1: by the way, at YouTube dot com slash Morning Combat, 1171 01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,600 Speaker 1: where we have interviews with the voice of one Championship 1172 01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:51,160 Speaker 1: Brent Stover, also a CBS Sports college football in basketball 1173 01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,000 Speaker 1: host an announcer. So check out that. It's a great chat. 1174 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:58,480 Speaker 1: We've got this RSD this Room Service Diaries with Ray 1175 01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,400 Speaker 1: Longo I knew it was great. I didn't necessarily know 1176 01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:03,720 Speaker 1: that people are gonna be like, that's the best one 1177 01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:05,919 Speaker 1: you guys have ever done. I mean I had shout 1178 01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,360 Speaker 1: out to my guy Bogo, Jeff, my man, my best 1179 01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,960 Speaker 1: friend from home, my guy. He was even like, dude, 1180 01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:12,840 Speaker 1: I hate you know. I don't watch him, man, I 1181 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,960 Speaker 1: don't know any of these fighters, but that interview was 1182 01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,680 Speaker 1: fan ted. Thank you, Thank you folks for watching that. 1183 01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,280 Speaker 1: That's on ray. Ray fit with us. He fit like 1184 01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:22,480 Speaker 1: a glove with our humor, with our way of getting down, 1185 01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:26,880 Speaker 1: and I'm thankful for that. I love RSD. I love 1186 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:28,600 Speaker 1: two point oh. I know you guys love the first, 1187 01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,480 Speaker 1: the original version. I know you love when we chop 1188 01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:32,040 Speaker 1: it up and put our jobs on the line and 1189 01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:34,840 Speaker 1: talk about, you know, doing whippets in the back of 1190 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:38,080 Speaker 1: an Arby's. But two point zero it's my favorite thing 1191 01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,000 Speaker 1: we do. Thank you for watching that and enjoying it. 1192 01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:42,840 Speaker 1: I got a lot of great feedback on that, and 1193 01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,840 Speaker 1: I really appreciate it because those you know, there's something 1194 01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,320 Speaker 1: I told Luke when we first started this thing. We 1195 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,480 Speaker 1: didn't have an interview vehicle. Then we just had the 1196 01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:58,439 Speaker 1: bomb shelter once a week I knew something deep inside 1197 01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:03,200 Speaker 1: a your boy BC. You may not like me, you 1198 01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:06,000 Speaker 1: may not like my interview style, but I'm different and 1199 01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,760 Speaker 1: I get after it. I felt from the beginning that 1200 01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,160 Speaker 1: if we mix that with Luke, and if you can 1201 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,080 Speaker 1: get the two of us at once with somebody, that 1202 01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,240 Speaker 1: it could look and sound different than anything else in 1203 01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,360 Speaker 1: this space. That's what I was going for, and I'm 1204 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,400 Speaker 1: happy to say it's coming together. And I told Luke 1205 01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:27,800 Speaker 1: from day one MK one day will be known more 1206 01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,160 Speaker 1: for these sit down interviews than anything else we do. 1207 01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:32,760 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that day will come, you know, maybe that day, 1208 01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,520 Speaker 1: but it's it's coming across great. So thank you for 1209 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,080 Speaker 1: patronizing us. Thank you, by the way, to all the 1210 01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:41,720 Speaker 1: great listeners who have gone over to a cameo dot 1211 01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:45,480 Speaker 1: com slash Brian Campbell my only Pipes account. And you 1212 01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,040 Speaker 1: know what do you want? You want to You want 1213 01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,080 Speaker 1: to a bar Mitzvah greeting, You want a happy birthday. 1214 01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:51,320 Speaker 1: You want me to sing you a song. You want 1215 01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:53,080 Speaker 1: me to give you advice, you want me to do whatever. 1216 01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,080 Speaker 1: You know I'm here for you. It's a scam and 1217 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,600 Speaker 1: it's great and we both you know it's an equal opportunity, 1218 01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:05,440 Speaker 1: consensual scam. Unlike most paradigm Unlike most you know, Bernie 1219 01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:10,040 Speaker 1: may have made off type things. Unlike most Ponzi schemes, 1220 01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Unlike most me too situations, 1221 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,120 Speaker 1: this is consensual, Thank you very much. All Right, that's 1222 01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:18,280 Speaker 1: the show. That's all I got. You can buy our 1223 01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,920 Speaker 1: merchant Morningcombat dot store Showtime dot Com. We'll give you 1224 01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,040 Speaker 1: thirty days free. You guys all know that. But here's 1225 01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:24,760 Speaker 1: what I want you to do this weekend. You may 1226 01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:26,560 Speaker 1: be watching the boxing on his own, it's gonna be 1227 01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:28,520 Speaker 1: a good one from the UK. You may be doing 1228 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,920 Speaker 1: a couple other things, but enjoy yourself. Get out there 1229 01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:35,160 Speaker 1: in the nice weather. Unplug get the whiffle, bat out, 1230 01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,560 Speaker 1: turn on the grill, call up the neighbor to come over, 1231 01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,240 Speaker 1: hang out with the high school friends, get out and 1232 01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,040 Speaker 1: press pause on your life. And if you're out and 1233 01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:44,240 Speaker 1: if you're in the UK or Doha or wherever our 1234 01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:46,840 Speaker 1: international people are, do we have anyway from the Falkland 1235 01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:48,600 Speaker 1: Islands by the way that listens to the MK. I 1236 01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,400 Speaker 1: don't know. Reach out to me if you do. If 1237 01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,440 Speaker 1: you're out there and you don't do this Memorial Day thing, 1238 01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,960 Speaker 1: then get out, get some sun and take care of 1239 01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,640 Speaker 1: up here. All right, folks, all right, we can get 1240 01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:01,960 Speaker 1: through this, all of us, even you. Okay, Spring follows winter, 1241 01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:05,200 Speaker 1: and right now spring is beautiful, at least in the 1242 01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:07,520 Speaker 1: East Coast. So let's let's let's enjoy it together, have 1243 01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,960 Speaker 1: a great weekend, and let's come back guns blazing for 1244 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:15,640 Speaker 1: this uh late spring summer where combat's gonna kick us 1245 01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:20,040 Speaker 1: right in the asshole and it's gonna be fantastic. Steel 1246 01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:24,240 Speaker 1: told Boot right to the anus. Let's do this together. 1247 01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:27,880 Speaker 1: Crawford versus Spence, Spence versus Crawford. However you have it. 1248 01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:31,280 Speaker 1: It's July twenty ninth, it's showtime, pay per view. You're 1249 01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,880 Speaker 1: not gonna want to miss that. That's all I got. 1250 01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,040 Speaker 1: Mikey Mormel on the ones and twos behind the scenes. 1251 01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:38,880 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Luke get well because we need 1252 01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:42,880 Speaker 1: you brother, all right. And obviously you know it goes 1253 01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:44,760 Speaker 1: without saying a shout out to all the divorce moms 1254 01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,760 Speaker 1: that are watching MK because BC cares. If don't nobody 1255 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:51,480 Speaker 1: else care, we out of here. Thanks guys, thanks so much. 1256 01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,919 Speaker 1: It's great, you know, I gotta yeah,