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[00:00:08] Welcome back to Combat Talk. Found at combattalk.fm. My name is Leicester. I'm your host. We're going to talk about our week, upcoming week of boxing and a couple of events on deck. The vast majority are on ESPN Plus or Sky Sports for the UK fans.
[00:00:22] But to go through those, let me cover a little bit of things that happened over the past. So then Cryon Garcia and Devin Haney had their press conference. It was an absolute clusterfuck of a press conference. Cryon is clearly, people speculated he was coked out.
[00:00:36] I don't think it was coked out. I think he was, the pressure is getting to this guy. You can see he was visibly sweating. Some people said that's evidence he was drinking maybe because he openly said he did it alive and he said,
[00:00:46] I'm addicted to drinking. I'm addicted to smoking and I'm young and I'm just that and the other. Yeah. All right. Just like that song, whatever. I forget the damn song. The song with a young wild and free at that garbage.
[00:00:57] So then so he says, I'm proud of this and whatever I'm young. I'm living life in this and that. It's not going to stop my performance in this. Now, you know, I questioned drug testing. If he's doing that, people are like, yeah, but it's weed.
[00:01:08] You don't understand. There are some states that ban you state associations that will ban you for weed that having the key Sean Davis back in October. So I'm telling him, I don't know what's going on with crying, but I speculate it's the pressure.
[00:01:19] I think the pressure is getting to the dude and he's kind of in over his head. He knows he needs to win. This is a big fight.
[00:01:24] He knows the Devin Haney is a big threat. He knows that. And just for the backstory, these guys are even in the Ams. They fought six times. They're three in three. So the pressure's in multiple places.
[00:01:34] You got the pressure from the amateurs and trying to win that rubber match. You got the pressure from the fact that Devin Haney, he was a unified champion and then he comes up and dominates Regis pro grace.
[00:01:43] And clearly he's getting better. Clearly he's stronger than what he was. So all of that together plus crying was off. He got knocked out by tank in a fight. He should have never taken here. His weight's normal.
[00:01:55] So he doesn't have that excuse. I'm saying that I think the pressure is getting to cry. And I don't think he's coked out. He might be, but I don't think he is. I think he's just got pressure on his shoulders and he can't really deal with it.
[00:02:05] Separate news then. Jermil Sharlo gets stripped of his final title. There was a WBA title. So he was obviously he was no longer undisputed because when he fought Canelo, which was a mistake,
[00:02:14] but Canelo gets blown out completely blown out, doesn't have try and was getting stripped of titles for even accepting the fight. He got stripped of one before he got in there and then you got stripped to some of the other ones after taking a dominant L.
[00:02:25] Just got the loss of his last title hasn't been seen since we know what's happening. Jermil came out and he was talking about, yeah, we can fight Crawford. Crawford's like, I'm done with you. I'm not going to fight you.
[00:02:35] Of course Crawford's ducking boots and it's in continues to do so boots. Go get your belt back with the IBF still has that, but then was called a mandatory for Cody Crowley. So then NSB in other places claim that boots was chasing Cody Crowley.
[00:02:47] Boots was not chasing Cody Crowley. Cody Crowley is a mandatory as a mandatory boots is compelled to fight Cody Crowley. A less Cody Crowley pulls out of the fight. Cody Crowley has never called for that fight.
[00:02:58] And I think Cody Crowley is terrified to fight boots, but it boots fights him kudos for him for defending the mandatory unlike what Crawford didn't want to do, which is he didn't want to defend the mandatory, which was boots prior and then Crawford gets stripped.
[00:03:10] So if boots does not fight Cody, you'll hear me call him out the same way as ducking Cody Crowley. Assuming Cody Crowley does not pull out prior to that. Let's get into our week of boxing.
[00:03:21] 12 rounds of featherweight action. Again, this is ESPN plus in the U S sky sports in the UK. Audubet, Koma tall fighting Raymond Ford really solid fight almost even on the books. Ford is a South obviously, but heights the same reaches the same.
[00:03:37] They're both young guys in their mid twenties coming off dominant, you know, win streaks ever most recently. A coma talk is a knockout artist, but he's got skills. So don't go off the power.
[00:03:47] He's a, he's a quality guy. Ford is a quality dude. This is a really good fight. If you get to fight, see any of these. This is for WBA on featherweight.
[00:03:55] If you get to see any fight this weekend, this is the one that you want to check out is coma tall versus Ford. You heard it here first. This is the fight that's worth your time. I know some people don't like the younger guys or the smaller guys.
[00:04:06] I'm telling you, this is a fight that's going to be worth your time. I'm telling you, both of these guys are going to be there all night long. They're undefeated. Both Ford has the one draw, but bottom line, they're undefeated both and they're both highly skilled.
[00:04:18] So if you get to check out a fight, check out coma tall Ford. It's a toss up fight. I'm leaning ever slightly towards Ford only because I think that Ford is his ring IQ is up there.
[00:04:29] Coma tops quality. This is not against Koma top just Ford's ring IQ is up there. Brilliant fighter in the ring. And I think he has enough to be able to counter what's coming at him from coma.
[00:04:39] Tov where coma tov if he's not going to get, get opportunities to land on you with the power. He falls a little bit short. So I think Ford smart enough to stay away from the power long enough to get the W at the end of the day.
[00:04:51] I suspect it goes to a decision leaning towards Ford in a close. I think it's a close decision. That's my call on that one. Undecarded that same event eight rounds and well to wait action. This is another really good fight. Rohan Palanco fighting to read Zyna.
[00:05:04] The reason I say it's a really good fight is because again, they're both undefeated guys. Zyna has the one draw, but they're otherwise roughly equal mid twenties young guys, roughly same height, roughly same reach,
[00:05:16] both orthodox fighters, both coming obviously off dominant wins, roughly the same rounds in the books. They're both boxers. I would lean a little bit more on Palanco as a boxer puncher, but arguably they're both boxers.
[00:05:29] So you're going to see skill on skill in this fight. Really good fight to watch. Hard to call this one. Absolutely hard to call this one. My heart speaks Palanco. My gut speaks Zyna. I think I'm going to lean more towards Palanco for one main reason.
[00:05:42] And that's that Palanco strikes me as more posed, more composed. He goes in and he seems like he maintains his composure under fire a little bit better than what I saw of Zyna ever most recently.
[00:05:54] That's not Ding and Zyna. He's excellent quality. I just think composition matters in when you're equal like this. It's going to be who can hold it together longer to basically out hustle the other guy. And I'm leaning Palanco ever slightly on this one in a close decision.
[00:06:10] Now we're going to switch to the zone ever briefly. I want to talk about this one. This may be interesting to you, but I've got more respects. I shouldn't say that, but on the zone in US and UK, eight rounds at Cruiserweight action.
[00:06:21] Jake Paul's back in action. He finally had his first loss obviously against Tommy Fury and then I think he's coming off a win.
[00:06:27] Yeah, two wins that he was his get back after the Tommy Fury fight. So he's on back on a win streak and oh man, Ryan Borland. So Ryan Borland, I watched a couple of his fights and I was not impressed at all.
[00:06:41] I think listen for Jake Paul because he had the loss of these trying to rebuild. I got it. But Jake Paul, the one time, the one time the man stepped up, he got beat. He took it out.
[00:06:52] So I would have expected Paul to build up not back down. I think Borland is a step down and that's not dismissing Borland. Generically, you know, generically, I just think that Borland's a step down from the kind of test that Paul needs.
[00:07:08] If Paul's serious about it, I think Paul needs more of a test, not less of a test. Tommy Fury was the bottom barrel. Okay. If you watch that fight, they were basically equal in terms of skill and in terms of what they were doing in there.
[00:07:20] So I would have expected Jake Paul to step up because he's already had two fights of guys and he dominated them. So he's dominated everybody except for Tommy Fury. What does that tell you?
[00:07:30] That tells you those guys were beneath Tommy Fury's level. I think Borland is beneath Tommy Fury's level and I would want to see Jake Paul step up a little bit.
[00:07:39] Like I'm almost saying at this point, Jake Paul and it's KSI would actually be more of a compelling match if it could physically be made, you know, weight by weight.
[00:07:50] If it could be made, that would be a fight that would be compelling because KSI is even more skilled than what I saw Borland.
[00:07:56] Now we shouldn't be at that level. We shouldn't be where I'm saying KSI who sucked when he fought Logan Paul that he's actually now more skilled than Borland, but he is. Borland is not Borland is not the level. I think Jake Paul needs to be at.
[00:08:08] I envision a knockout here and I don't like to see that, but that's what I envisioned happening. And it just, I don't know. It makes me sick personally. I'm not. I'm not down on the fighter. I know it sounds like I am. It's not about him.
[00:08:20] It's about Paul. Jake Paul should be stepping up. He's not. So it's a disgusting match as I see as a mismatch undercard of that same event. 12 rounds of junior flyweight action. Jonathan Gonzalez fighting.
[00:08:30] This is a pretty decently qualified. I wouldn't say it's a great quality fight, but it's a decent quality fight. They're matched numerically. They're matched really evenly. They're in the 30s, you know, reasonably young guys.
[00:08:43] Gonzalez is a Southpaw that will play in. Gonzalez is coming off a win streak. They both have the three losses on record. Again, when I say it's a decent quality fight and not a great quality fight, here's the story I saw.
[00:08:56] The story I saw is that Gonzalez, good boxer. He really is, but he makes mistakes. He's, he leaves himself open at times where he gets caught and clipped. And then when you look at Garcia, Garcia's, his sole strategy is to catch mistakes.
[00:09:10] So if I had to lean, I'm going to lean towards Garcia because I see where Gonzalez will be tailor made for him.
[00:09:17] If Garcia shows up on the night of Garcia shows up, I think I'm catching Gonzalez with something and getting him out of there, possibly by a straight up knockout.
[00:09:24] If not to stopage, most people disagree with me. They think that Gonzalez is going to completely out box or knockout Garcia. I'm sorry. I personally don't see that maybe that happens, but Gonzalez is not a knockout artist. Gonzalez doesn't go for knockouts aggressively.
[00:09:38] Gonzalez is a boxer. So if he gets a knockout on Garcia, it would be impressive. I don't see that happening. Garcia is more likely to get a knockout if there is going to be a knockout.
[00:09:48] If there's going to be a decision, I think that leans towards Gonzalez because I don't see that Garcia doesn't feel like a 12 round fighter or a 10 round fighter.
[00:09:56] He feels like he's, he's really, I need to get you out of here so I can go home kind of mentality. That's the pattern in his fights. And he's only had just to be in all fairness. He's only had like what 15 some odd fights.
[00:10:07] So he hasn't had a lot of fights in the books. So that plays in, right? He hasn't had enough fights where he's gone the distance. He hasn't. Whereas Gonzalez, he's gone the distance quite enough time.
[00:10:19] So I, from an experienced perspective, if it's going to go the distance, I say it's Gonzalez. If it's going to get a knockout, I say it's Garcia.
[00:10:25] That's my call on that one. And I'm leaning more towards Garcia getting a knockout on that fight just based on what I saw. We're going to switch back over to ESPN plus and Sky Sports for the other entry 12 rounds at featherweight action.
[00:10:39] Luis Alberto Lopez fighting Ray Ab Abe. Sorry. Wow. I'm, I'm disappointed in this fight. I'm not saying I'm disappointed as in it's a terrible fight or it's not that when I see Abe, right? I'm, he's, he's a mystery. He's, he's real mystery. Okay.
[00:10:57] So stylistically, he's good. Okay. He's a South Paul. He seems like he's really quick, right on the punches. But it feels like he doesn't use his technical advantages. It feels like he doesn't, like he should be blowing guys out.
[00:11:11] He should be dominant, destructive. And for whatever reason, he kind of coasts at times and then he may get a W, right? Cause he's not, you know, been dominated from my eyes. He hasn't been dominated, but he may take an L or he may take a W,
[00:11:27] but it feels like he coasts. It feels like he doesn't put more of the energy that I would expect given his advantages. That's, that's what frustrates you on the fight because otherwise they're equal numerically, you know, a number of fights in the books,
[00:11:39] when lost records are roughly equal rounds, pro rounds are roughly equal, but Abe doesn't feel like he shows up cause if he did this would be a blatant mismatch, but it's not. And so I'm leading Lopez Lopez has been very impressive to me.
[00:11:54] He had the one showing a couple of fights back where it went close other than that. He's been dominant and I've really enjoyed watching him in the ring and I'm leaning towards Lopez on this one just because again, Abe just doesn't feel like he shows up for whatever.
[00:12:06] Why ever that is. I don't know. I don't have an answer on that one. I'm saying that from what I saw, I am disappointed in this young man, Abe, and I don't know what's going on there. So anyway, 12 rounds at featherweight action. This is women's action.
[00:12:21] This is out in Puerto Rico and San Juan. Amanda Serrano makes her return against Nina, Mikey, and then this one has a lot of chatter on social media
[00:12:29] just because Mikey's perceived as a threat for Serrano. They're both South Paws. So you might see a headbutt on this one and Mikey's young. She's she's not, she's not been in the business very, very long, but she's also young by age. She's only her 20s.
[00:12:44] Really, really good girl. I like her a lot. Serrano is of course the legend of the business and Serrano's highly skilled. So I see it as a test for Mikey and I'm most people feel like Serrano is going to blow Mikey out.
[00:12:57] I think Mikey's going to surprise some people. Mikey doesn't have any power. She doesn't have any power, but I think she's going to surprise some people with sort of performance, just general performance.
[00:13:05] I think she's going to go in and perform at a level where she's going to expose some holes and the fact that Serrano, you know, she's just up there. She's been in the game a long time. She's fought a wars over time and there's,
[00:13:17] I think you're going to see a little bit of a decline. Do I think Serrano wins? Absolutely. But I just think that Mikey's going to show a couple things at points that are going to surprise some people.
[00:13:26] And I'm, you know, I'm cheering her on to get the shocker win because it would be a shocker win. I don't see it for multiple reasons. I think that Serrano is just too highly skilled.
[00:13:36] Speed is going to be to her disadvantage, but I think that Serrano is just too highly skilled and it's going to overwhelm her to a decision. It's my gut speaking there. ESPN Plus Sky Sports 12 rounds at Walter White Action.
[00:13:49] Brian Norman Jr. fights Janderson Boca Chica. Of course, I am people know him as Boca Chica fan. He's coming off a loss. He lost very recently.
[00:13:57] He's, he's been upping the pace of numbers of fights and I'm impressed that he's doing that because at a point he was only fighting like twice a year. And he's tried to step out the number of fights per year, which I think he means that Norman Jr.
[00:14:09] You know, I hadn't heard of this guy before this way. I know it's kind of weird, but I had not heard of the guy and I wanted to do a little bit of digging on him. And I was pretty impressed what I saw. He's a really solid boxer.
[00:14:20] I wouldn't say he's at the top echelon or any of that kind of stuff, but really solid guy, really good fundamentals. Power is a little lacking. He's, you know, he's, he's a knockout like stoppage.
[00:14:31] I should say shouldn't say lacking, but he's a stoppage force stoppage kind of guy. He's not like he's just one punch knockout. None of that. It just seems like he has the ability to force a stoppage. I guess I should say in his wins.
[00:14:43] He's not going to just completely put you comatose, right? He'll make the ref jump in there and stop. Now to be fair, his record is arguably padded. He's fought a lot of guys. I think this was down in Mexico for the most part.
[00:14:57] He's caught a lot of it's kind of like Devin Haney fought a lot of guys, regional and some of these were just joke records. And so he has a little bit of a padded resume to him.
[00:15:08] The only notable, notable name that I even saw on the guy was Ben Whitaker. I'll give him that one. That was a stoppage. He beat him. Hey, this was compost.
[00:15:15] He beat him by decision and the problem with compost fight, that one concerned me with this guy because there was a headbutt.
[00:15:22] And I think the headbutt swayed a lot of what was happening with the judges in my opinion, because that could have gone out of the way otherwise and then Quentin Randall. And then Quentin Randall, I thought was a really good performance from this young man, Mr. Norman.
[00:15:35] So I again, I'm not digging on him. I think yes, he's undefeated yet. But I think that he just, he's got a padded record. This will be a huge test for him because Boca Chica is solid.
[00:15:48] Although he's been kind of on a little bit of a slide with the two fights prior. He's a solid fighter in his own right. So it's going to be a good test. Most online think that Norman's just going to completely dominate Boca Chica.
[00:16:00] I don't see a dominant. I see that Boca Chica may lose. That is very strongly probable because when he took the first loss, seemed like everything went downhill for him. And he's a good young man. It just, when he took the first L, everything went downhill.
[00:16:13] And so is it possible that Norman just completely dominates Boca Chica? It's possible. I don't see it likely. I think what happens more is that it's going to be a close decision win for young Norman,
[00:16:23] unless Boca Chica shows up. So if Boca ever hears this again, I'm a fan of you dude. But if you ever hear this, you need to go after him because that's going to be the way that you're going to upset him is you need to go after him.
[00:16:35] You've got to get him out of his comfort and get him out of his groove and get him out of the zone and make him uncomfortable. That means you have to go after him quote Mexican style, but you know, you're not Mexican, but you know what I'm saying.
[00:16:45] So go after, go after. Don't sit on your laurels. Don't box. Don't move. Don't do that shit. Go after him. We know what you are stylistically go after him as in do that pressure constant pressure.
[00:17:01] I know that the knockout percentage might have you a little bit skittish about doing that. But far as I can tell, that's just, it just happens to be that he can force stoppages.
[00:17:11] It's not necessarily that the power is doing it. It's really they can force stoppages because he's able to catch you with a shot that you don't see. Every fighter can do that though. Every fighter can catch you with shots that you don't see.
[00:17:21] I don't see that that makes this guy any more dangerous than the guys that you fought. You've fought a laundry list of absolutely hard hitters and you came out perfectly fine.
[00:17:29] The only time you've lost is cause you got out boxed, which is why I'm saying you can't let this guy box you because if he out boxes you, then yes, he's going to dominant.
[00:17:37] That's why you got to get him unsettled. Get after him. Keep yourself safe, but get after him and just be smart right when you go forward and you go in after him. Just make sure that you're constantly moving your head. Don't go straight up. Don't go backwards.
[00:17:52] And if you do have to go backwards for some odd reason, don't lean back.
[00:17:55] Go down if you have to to evade punches coming at you. I would also say target the body and I'm saying that not just specifically because of him, but because speed is going to be a factor with this guy.
[00:18:06] He's a young kid. He's going to have speed coming at your way and you're going to need to slow him down. If you slow him down, you can easily take him out in the latter half of the fight.
[00:18:15] That's my call as a fan, a passionate fan of Boca Chica. You know, if he ever hears it, I would, I would go after this guy because I think you have more than he has to deal with him.
[00:18:26] Far as Norman and I'll say this cause I want to be fair. Far as Norman, it's easy to beat Boca Chica. If you are able to stay composed, if you stay composed, you're going to beat him because all you have to do is what you normally do, which is to evade what's coming at you
[00:18:42] and throw right hit and not get hit. That's really all you have to do fundamentally. You have the fundamentals to be able to pull that off.
[00:18:49] It's really just not about not getting caught by Boca Chica at the end of the day. So if you can pull that off, then yes, you have a shot. I'm just telling you for what I did see of you young man.
[00:19:00] I see tendencies to make mistakes when you lose your composure. I see situations where you're getting you're going close when you shouldn't. You're getting caught when you shouldn't. You're getting cut, you know, you're causing cuts rather off of your head and whatever.
[00:19:14] And I'm concerned with that because I don't know if it's intentional. I'm not accusing you. I'm saying I see a pattern of head butts and that's a concern, but that could simply be that some of these guys went after you and then head butts naturally happen because they were South Paws or whatever that is.
[00:19:29] Okay, let's let's say that's what it was. Let's say it's just I thought it's out. Pause. What is you guys are both Orthodox? I shouldn't see accidental head butts. If I see a head button this fight, I got to start asking questions about whether it's intentional.
[00:19:40] So if you force a head clash, let's say I'm putting in quotes. Let's say there's a head clash that happens. All you got to do is box to a decision. Right. That's all you really have to do because that's what you've been doing.
[00:19:50] That's your pattern. That's the only strategy I think you have is to get to a decision, get to that, get to the bill and get your hand raised if that happens. Otherwise, you just have to evade what's coming at you because if you evade what's coming at you, I just think that's going to be easy win for you.
[00:20:05] But my heart, I'm sorry, has to lean towards Boca Chica on that when I'm cheering for him to get a W he needs to get back. He's a young kid and everybody bounces back.
[00:20:15] And this is an opportunity to show that you can bounce back against somebody who at least on the paper has a decently strong record. Although it's kind of padded.
[00:20:24] The big one I'm going to talk about this is on disowned pay per view. So not just regular disowned but on the pay for you 10 rounds of heavyweight action. This is the big one out in Saudi Arabia, Anthony Joshua fighting Francis Nagano.
[00:20:35] And some people were looking at this and saying, okay, is this going to be a wash for Anthony Joshua? Is Anthony Joshua just going to dominate this dude? What's the point of having to fight and all this other stuff just so you have the the deets on this one?
[00:20:48] Okay. So this is happening next Friday. This is going to happen next Friday, not today. I'm talking about it today because I may not be able to be online on Friday to talk about it then.
[00:20:57] So that's happening next Friday. And this whole narrative around Joshua and Nagano, you might be surprised at how the gun was able to perform against Anthony Joshua for one main reason.
[00:21:06] Nagano is so Joshua has the one advantage to be able to fight Nagano that Tyson Fury didn't have I think, which is style and the way that he fights Joshua fights Tyson Fury for whatever reason he fought Nagano as if Nagano was taller than he is.
[00:21:25] And as if Nagano had weak legs, like he fought Nagano like he fought Wilder, which made no sense. Wilder has bird legs. So it was easier for him to lean on him and do all this stuff to wear Wilder down.
[00:21:36] None of that was going to work on the gun or the gun. Oh, just he's stocky. He's just, you know, bull. He's stocky.
[00:21:42] So that kind of strategy wasn't going to work, but the kind of strategy that might work is actually playing really strong into Joshua's favor. That being, if he's able to just stay at range and pop Nagano to track to cause him to come in and get clipped on something.
[00:21:57] Now you're taking the gun out of his comfort zone because it's not gotten hasn't got a train for that. Remember, Nagano was training for Mike Tyson.
[00:22:04] Tyson had always struggled with guys who had the range and whoever pop and jab him and keep them at range like a holy field. Right.
[00:22:11] And even Mitch blood green at points, not all the way, but at points had Tyson a little bit fluffered and so on. Anybody, you know, Larry Holmes, anybody that had a good jab and was able to keep Tyson back and off of him was able to give Tyson at least some problems, even if they eventually lost.
[00:22:28] You weren't seeing them get knocked spark out. So think of the style clash here. I wouldn't be surprised to see Joshua basically stay on the end of the jab, keep the guy away from him and then the guy will get frustrated comes in and Joshua clips him with something.
[00:22:42] I think a lot of people are banking on Joshua mentally breaking down in the ring, which could happen. It could happen because if you look at who's given Joshua trouble.
[00:22:51] Andy Ruiz Andy Ruiz gave Joshua trouble because Andy Ruiz, his fight style. He just was, he was aggressive, right? He was an aggressor. He would just go after and just throw throw throw throw on the inside.
[00:23:03] So what did Joshua do? He said, I'm not going to go inside. I'm going to stay out here and run essentially and keep you at the end of the jab.
[00:23:10] So again, look at that and then compare that to what Nagano physically could do. And you're going to see, I think a very similar clash where the gunner just stays because he can't get inside because Joshua is keeping him at the jab.
[00:23:22] And does Joshua continue just to run? Maybe I don't think so. I think Joshua's going to keep him at the end of the jab. And then if the gunner gets frustrated and tries to come in, just gonna pop him with something possibly get a knock down.
[00:23:34] I don't think it's going to see a stoppage, but people say there's going to be a stoppage. I don't think it's going to be a stoppage. I think it goes to distance.
[00:23:40] I think Joshua is going to get his hand raised. That's my gut speaking on Nagano side. What can he do right against somebody? The Santhony Joshua easy pressure pressure is Joshua's weakness.
[00:23:51] If you go after him, he doesn't really have a plan B. He's banking that he's can keep you on the end of the jab.
[00:23:56] So you got to figure out how to get inside that jab. The one thing you can say about Tyson is that essentially he can get inside like he did against Mitch Bloodgrey.
[00:24:05] He can get inside and then the question is, is that fighter good enough to do something once they're in the phone booth?
[00:24:10] And I'm not sure that Joshua's got that. I think he may break down and fall apart, especially because I think the Nagano's power may play into factor. So to me, it's Joshua. Keep you at the end of the jab all night long period.
[00:24:21] Close to a decision from the Gano. It's figure out how to get past that jab and then just attack and then just nonstop pit bull attack. You know, this one's hard to call. I'm leaning Joshua by decision. That's my call on it.
[00:24:34] I just, I don't see a knockout. It could, but I don't see it. I think Joshua gets a decision. It's his hand raised, been in a decision. I think he looks good doing it. I think he makes it look really easy.
[00:24:43] I think he looks much more impressive than Tyson Fury just because of styles. I think Fury just had the best strategy.
[00:24:50] His strategy to try and lean on Nagano was stupid if you just kept him at the end of the day, he basically boxed Nagano like he boxed Wilder in the first fight.
[00:24:58] I think he'd have been, had a better time of it, but he chose to fight stupid. And that's what caused this situation. And then if Nagano takes an L, so let's say he takes another L, so that be his second L no wins.
[00:25:08] What's the next logical fight? It's against Wilder. And then that would be a hell of a fight to have if they, if that happens, because you can't sell.
[00:25:16] You know, if Joshua gets this W after he just got another W against Alden Vaughn. So he's writing off two W's Wilders writing off this L, a dominant L to Parker.
[00:25:28] Nagano takes an L. So then what's next for Joshua? It can be Wilder because Wilder took an L. You got to fight the two L's to see who gets another clip at the, at Joshua.
[00:25:37] And then Joshua's got to eventually step up and fight Uzik. And then we got to figure out Fury. So the heavyweight division is actually hot and heavy, but it's a lot confused right now.
[00:25:45] I actually am, I'm actually hoping that Joshua pulls out the W. Nagano takes an L. We see Wilder and Nagano because I really would like to see that styles mix.
[00:25:54] I want to see if Wilder's really toast because if Wilder gets completely bamboozled by Nagano, that tells us he's toast and he should hang up the gloves.
[00:26:02] But if Wilder is able to just basically get a body over record on Nagano, it tells us he just didn't show up against Parker. And then now what he's back in the conversation. So I'm intrigued by the heavyweights that some people are.
[00:26:13] And that's why some people miss the lonely young guys. The undercard of this then 12 rounds of heavyweight action. And we'll wrap this up here. Gile Zhang's back in action. He's fighting Joseph Parker. This is a really good fight, although we're not talking top of the division.
[00:26:26] We're talking good dangerous fighters, both Parker. He just doesn't show up at the top level and the Wilder one I think was an aberration.
[00:26:33] I think Wilders didn't show up, but it wasn't like Parker was doing anything spectacular. Wilders didn't fucking show up where Gile Zhang has been amazing in his last fights.
[00:26:40] He took the one L and other that he's been dominant and destructive. South Paul on Zhang's side, Zhang is older. It doesn't seem to matter. He just comes and he comes and he comes. And so he's exciting to watch. He really is. I think Zhang deals with Parker.
[00:26:54] I think Zhang completely takes Parker. Do I think a knockout? Maybe. I don't, I don't see it, but maybe he could. I think that if goes to a decision, I think Zhang is going to get the W.
[00:27:05] And most people online think that John's going to get the knockout. I just, I don't see knockout. I see W. I don't see knockout because Parker's if nothing else, he's just rock solid.
[00:27:15] He's been knocked out before, but with Zhang, I think it's a different story and I think Parker is smart enough to stay away from the bomb that Zhang tends to sell that gets that knockout.
[00:27:25] And the other thing that we haven't tested, we don't know yet. Zhang's knockout come early. They come before the six usually ish. If he's going to knock you out, if it takes past six, it's usually a stoppage win.
[00:27:35] Parker is a 12 round fighter bottom line, but he can get knockouts early. He chooses to. So endurance is needs to be questioned in this one.
[00:27:42] Does Parker have the endurance to last past six, which I think is his strategy last past the six, stay away from the danger up through the six round and then go toe to toe with this dude.
[00:27:52] And let's see if you can hang because I don't think he can force a stoppage on Parker. I think he can knock Parker out, but that would have to happen early in the fight. And then Parker can stay away from it up through six.
[00:28:03] I think Parker has a really good chance to get W on this one. I think if Parker makes a mistake and gets caught, yes, he could get laid out by Zhang absolutely. And that would happen sometime prior to the sixth round, which wouldn't be an upset.
[00:28:14] It just would be one of those things. The winner of this fight then would become the mandatory for the WBO for the heavyweight title. So then that puts this person in the mix for who's going to go and fight.
[00:28:26] And so if Parker happens to pull that out, the heavyweight division gets all kinds of fucked up, right? Because Parker has already fought Joshua. That was the whole situation where Joshua pulled the tape and he needed to break.
[00:28:35] And we don't want to see Parker up there again, but again, mentally I'm like, Parker could win this one. Woo, great fight for what it is worth fighting or worth paying for.
[00:28:44] I know it's pay-per-view and that sucks, you know, but if you can get, if you've never had a Dazzone account, you can get, I think they have a lot of money. They have the, I think it's like four bucks for the first month or whatever.
[00:28:54] And if it gets you to fight and then you get his cancel it off the trial. So that's something to think about on that one. Undercard to that same event, 12 rounds at Fethaway action. Ray Vargas, the legend fighting Nick Ball.
[00:29:05] I say Ray Vargas is alleged he's been in the business a very long time. He's had a lot of fights. Nick Ball's up and coming. He's in his 20s of Vargas in his 30s. Vargas took an L recently. He's trying to rebuild.
[00:29:17] They're putting Vargas in there for Ball to look good against. Ball is a good boxer. I wouldn't call him a Greek boxer. I call him a good boxer Vargas's quality. However, age is going to play in on this one. You're going to start seeing Ray Vargas's age.
[00:29:31] I do think Vargas is going to catch him with something. I think Vargas is going to expose at least some flaw with Ball. But I think Ball gets his hand raised if for no other reason than the sketchiness of the business.
[00:29:42] So I'm not saying that he could be a robbery. I'm saying that on paper Vargas should easily be able to get past Ball. But Ball is good enough to possibly weather the storm and then get his hand raised.
[00:29:55] I guess it's good enough where they'll kind of give him the nudge because he's the younger guy coming up. Same event 12 rounds is super well to a action. Israel Madrumal versus Magomed Kierpanow. Beautiful fight. Great fight for what it is. Obviously experience is kind of disjointed.
[00:30:10] Otherwise it's numerically a great fight. 20 guys in their 20s. Same height, same reach roughly both Orthodox fighters, both highly skilled. Madrumal is a boxer puncher. Kierpanow is a straight up boxer just quality fight all around really well matched.
[00:30:25] I like this fight for what it is both undefeated guys. I'm leaning a little bit towards Kierpanow. Now I'm hoping Madrumal gets to W because I think he has more long term potential than Kierpanow in my opinion.
[00:30:37] But I'm leaning towards Kierpanow this to win this one probably by decision is my guess a close decision because I don't see that. It's going to be a knockout on this fight. Great fight for what that is. 10 rounds of lightweight action. Same event Mark Chamberlain fighting Gavin Gwynn.
[00:30:54] Great fight again numerically matched well. Gwynn slightly older both from the UK Chamberlain is undefeated. I think that's going to remain the Hill State undefeated although Gwynn has he's coming off a stop. He's going to be a stoppage streak.
[00:31:09] So he may be motivated to upset the apple card against Chamberlain but Chamberlain I think has enough power so Gwynn's problem is power. He lacks power. He really does. And so if he's not able to keep Chamberlain off of him then Chamberlain is in Southpaw.
[00:31:24] If he can't keep Chamberlain off of him Chamberlain is going to deal with him and dispatch him likely by stoppage is my guess. The last fight I saw 10 rounds at heavyweight action. Justice Hune versus Kevin Lorena. Kevin Lorena is a legend in the business I would argue.
[00:31:37] I think he's out of South Africa. Good fight for what it is. I mean obviously Lorena is older but it's still a good fight for what it is. You know Southpaw on that side. I'm going to lean heavily towards Hune. I think Hune is fast. He's sharp.
[00:31:54] He punches really nice. I like the way he shoots and so I think he's going to clip and catch Lorena with something and probably force a ref stoppage. That's what we got on deck here coming for the next week of fights. Really good exciting ones.
[00:32:07] I do think that the Dazzone event is worth your money. I do think the Dazzone paper is worth your money if you do get a chance to check it out.
[00:32:13] All of them are decent good fights but the Dazzone paper you guys are really good hard hitters that I think are not. It's not unheard of that as pay-per-view. We got a lot of heavyweight action.
[00:32:22] They usually need more money so I'm not trying to sell you on it. I'm telling you that it's not like some of the other garbage paper views out there. This one is I think worthy of a pay-per-view. Throwback to the Don King here at least for my eyes.