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Speaker 1: Givante, Tank Davis brought the heat and a pay per

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Speaker 1: Morning Combat, Your boy BBC, the Big Beijuan, Brian Campbell

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Speaker 1: coming at you one half of course of the MK

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Speaker 1: you with the live show on YouTube. This is your

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Speaker 1: IA edition fresh off the Showtime pay per view Halloween Night,

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Speaker 1: Davonte Davis Leo Santa Cruz for two world titles in

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Speaker 1: two different divisions at one hundred and thirty pounds. And

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Speaker 1: while I certainly want you to pause real quick and

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Speaker 1: make sure you have liked the video, subscribed and continue

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Speaker 1: to help us make MK, I don't know, be that

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Speaker 1: thing in your life you need, you want, you just

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Speaker 1: can't avoid. You just can't. You just can't quit, right right,

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Speaker 1: that's what you want out of this show. I think

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Speaker 1: Gervonte Davis just gave you reason to keep your eyes

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Speaker 1: pinned on him whichever direction he goes next. How However

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Speaker 1: much each of that direction costs, because when you get

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Speaker 1: to the pay per view level, the expectations are higher

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Speaker 1: for you to deliver. And you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: in entertaining, scary, brutal, savage, spectacular finish. Jervonte Davis does that,

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Speaker 1: improving to twenty four to zero with twenty three knockouts,

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Speaker 1: a right upper cut from hell or was it a

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Speaker 1: left At this point, I can't even remember because what

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Speaker 1: I saw was one of the best boxers in the

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Speaker 1: world on a powerful power level. Leo Santa Cruz put

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Speaker 1: up a great fight, go toe to toe at times

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Speaker 1: the wrong time. Set up beautifully in that corner in

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Speaker 1: round six, Referee Rafael Ramos, no need to count when

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Speaker 1: view level fight, a big time fight, you typically don't

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Speaker 1: used to big time pay per views having all hype

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Speaker 1: You're paying for punching in real stakes and two guys

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Speaker 1: going for what. We got that for six rounds here

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Speaker 1: Everybody wins. Jervonte Davis lives up to all that hype

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Speaker 1: we saw a gutsy, ballsy effort and defeat from Leo

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Speaker 1: you know, you look at this fight, six hard rounds,

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Speaker 1: an unfocused Tank Davis. I think the best thing again

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Speaker 1: for boxing, for show time, for Mayweather, for Team Gervonte Davis,

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Speaker 1: You'll see inflated numbers of viewership there compared to other

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Speaker 1: big name fighters like Tank's for real. But he's different

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