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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Best resume box now us the best. If the other two fights don't happen, then yes, if by September, we don't see us fury or Crawford Spencer in a way Fulton, then yes, you got Canelo back at number one. I think by May tenth or whatever it is of next year after his may fight, Canelo Álvarez is number one pound for pound again. I believe vegetables $400 I just gave you. You bet the $400 now twice. Now twice. What is this triple or nothing? Last thing for you, you mentioned turns Crawford and for the last few weeks there have been negotiations. Oh God, stop. I'm trying to get for two years. We've been talking about this for two years. I've been telling you. See, this is why you have to let me finish. I'm not talking about Spence. I'm talking about Alexis Rocha. The last few weeks, there have been negotiations for a mandatory title defense against Alexis Rocha. I was told this week that the mandatory period or the negotiation period had expired and I was told by Rocha by his trainer Hector Lopez that they are going to push for the purse bid for that fight because there's a belief that Crawford's still out there negotiating with Spence behind the scenes, trying to get that fight done. But Rocha wants his opportunity, wants his shot, wants that belt. That WB O title, which he's earned the opportunity for. So if your Crawford right now. And that fight goes to a purse bid. And the number is not going to be obscene and a perspex, it's just not, because golden boy doesn't have the kind of guaranteed money to offer Crawford that BLK prime did. And frankly, doesn't have the kind of money that top rank did. Like, Tom brake was paying Crawford really well over the years. Yeah. BLK prime gave him a big number. Golden boy doesn't have it. So if a purse bid comes with a number of a few million bucks, right? Total. Now you have to split with Alexis Rocha. If your Terrence Crawford, do you fight him for a lower number than you want, or do you give the belt? Give him the belt. Give him a ha ha. Dude if it's to pry that belt out of your cold dead. Let me tell you something. You give up that belt because you're gonna get a assassinated by the critics if not physically, but in the media, you're just gonna get torn down if you're a Crawford, the number one fighter in the world right now, if you go and fight on Alexis roach and now if you're Alexis Rocha and his trainer at the Lopez absolutely, go for that bell. Go for the purse, but go for a Crawford you want all the belts. You want the fire, you want the heat. Great. That's if you're Rocha, you're young and ambitious, not if you're an older in your mid 30s, number one fighter. You're looking for that big payday. You're looking to go down in the history books. You don't go backwards, man. No. You give up the belt and you call keep calling out Spence. That's what you do if you're bud Crawford. Wrong. Is the short answer for that. Spence is going to fight. Expense is fighting Keith Thurman, Sergio. Sometimes you have to make mandatory title defense. Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride and wait, wait until your opponent is free. And at least you did your part. But if they keep going back and forth, it's just gonna be a dance between both of them, then one Spence is ready to fight, Crawford's gonna be able to fight. Then an injury is gonna pop up, then more. Why are you would you ever tie yourself aerospace? Why wouldn't you want to continue your career? Take fights, make some money. We made them tie himself to aerospace. These are the two best welterweights in the world, or at least they're, they were. But now that they're just go back this though, you would never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up your belt. Ever, ever, ever. If it's to make a historic fight, you can't make it Spencer's gonna fight Thurman, so it's either sit out until the fall and hope you can make a spend of what happened or stay busy. Alexis Rocha. Because if you sit out, you're actually showing and proving to the world and putting pressure on spend saying, look, I'm gonna swallow my pride. I'm gonna stay enacted to wait for you. 9 years old. He should stay inactive. How does that work for older? To make this fight, yes, if it, but in other sense of the word, no, or else I'll repeat myself like I have for the next two years, or else we'll never see this fight. Taking the fight with Rocha or not taking it, has no impact on the spend fight. In fact, it probably makes the spend fight a little bit less marketable because it wouldn't be for the undisputed championship. And you act like roach is going to be a walk in the park for Crawford, which is a big welterweight roach's team will tell you. Big welterweight. They're a big underdog. He gets hit a lot. He does. Yeah, but he's going to be getting hit by a smaller fighter. Okay, you want to tell me no spider. You're telling me that the guys that Alexis roach has faced before are bigger. And I just don't think it's going to be an easy as a fight as you think. It'll be a physical one sided one. You see what David had an aesthetic look like after David Adams, he's a big hitter. Do you see what he looked like after the fighting Crawford? In his back. He doesn't have the defense several chairs. He doesn't keep his hands. He doesn't go to his hand. He keeps his hands up. You got hit. George ashy hit him a few times in that last fight. If he gets hit by Crawford, the way George ashy hit him, it's gonna be a problem for Alexa. I like this roach who went and banged without that. Don't you ever talk about bud Crawford and George ashy in the same breath again? You're all over the place with all this. I think Crawford, if it goes to a purse bid, and it's not a number he loves, it'll probably still be a chance for him to make $2 million. Take the $2 million, fight Alexis Rocha, stay sharp and then push for that fight in the fall against Darryl Spence because Sergio, we don't even know if that fight's gonna happen. And if it doesn't happen, at least be sharp for the next big fight, which would probably be the winner of Virgil Ortiz versus standing on us. That is a significant fight in the by the end of the year. We're living in a parallel universe manic. You are, because once again, for the third time during this podcast, you would never in a million years give up your belt. You love that belt, you drained yourself for like a week and cut 7 pounds in a week to keep that belt. You could have kept. You could have given it up, but you didn't, because you love that belt. And I lost that belt for my pride. You know what I should have done? Relinquish that belt and just not make weight. I would have been the smart thing. But you should have done is gone to Caesar's palace for two months and stayed there. That too, but we can't go backwards. I just think, right now, at this point, if Crawford is not chasing Spencer Spencer's not chasing Crawford, we're never going to get that fight the only way to get that fight is if that bell gets pushed to the side. Because his name is his belt, his name is the championship. Getting that fight. That fight is never going to happen. Throw it on the scrap heap of all the great fights we have never gotten. We may not even get us versus fury. We are back once again in the boxing universe, where all we get is second tier fights. And there is the pessimist, I'm accustomed to hearing. And when we come back, former 168 pound champion, David Benavidez. The NBA season is coming down to the wire and now is the perfect time to download FanDuel. America's number one sports book because new customers get a no sweat first bet up to $1000. 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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Best resume box now us the best. If the other two fights don't happen, then yes, if by September, we don't see us fury or Crawford Spencer in a way Fulton, then yes, you got Canelo back at number one. I think by May tenth or whatever it is of next year after his may fight, Canelo Álvarez is number one pound for pound again. I believe vegetables $400 I just gave you. You bet the $400 now twice. Now twice. What is this triple or nothing? Last thing for you, you mentioned turns Crawford and for the last few weeks there have been negotiations. Oh God, stop. I'm trying to get for two years. We've been talking about this for two years. I've been telling you. See, this is why you have to let me finish. I'm not talking about Spence. I'm talking about Alexis Rocha. The last few weeks, there have been negotiations for a mandatory title defense against Alexis Rocha. I was told this week that the mandatory period or the negotiation period had expired and I was told by Rocha by his trainer Hector Lopez that they are going to push for the purse bid for that fight because there's a belief that Crawford's still out there negotiating with Spence behind the scenes, trying to get that fight done. But Rocha wants his opportunity, wants his shot, wants that belt. That WB O title, which he's earned the opportunity for. So if your Crawford right now. And that fight goes to a purse bid. And the number is not going to be obscene and a perspex, it's just not, because golden boy doesn't have the kind of guaranteed money to offer Crawford that BLK prime did. And frankly, doesn't have the kind of money that top rank did. Like, Tom brake was paying Crawford really well over the years. Yeah. BLK prime gave him a big number. Golden boy doesn't have it. So if a purse bid comes with a number of a few million bucks, right? Total. Now you have to split with Alexis Rocha. If your Terrence Crawford, do you fight him for a lower number than you want, or do you give the belt? Give him the belt. Give him a ha ha. Dude if it's to pry that belt out of your cold dead. Let me tell you something. You give up that belt because you're gonna get a assassinated by the critics if not physically, but in the media, you're just gonna get torn down if you're a Crawford, the number one fighter in the world right now, if you go and fight on Alexis roach and now if you're Alexis Rocha and his trainer at the Lopez absolutely, go for that bell. Go for the purse, but go for a Crawford you want all the belts. You want the fire, you want the heat. Great. That's if you're Rocha, you're young and ambitious, not if you're an older in your mid 30s, number one fighter. You're looking for that big payday. You're looking to go down in the history books. You don't go backwards, man. No. You give up the belt and you call keep calling out Spence. That's what you do if you're bud Crawford. Wrong. Is the short answer for that. Spence is going to fight. Expense is fighting Keith Thurman, Sergio. Sometimes you have to make mandatory title defense. Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride and wait, wait until your opponent is free. And at least you did your part. But if they keep going back and forth, it's just gonna be a dance between both of them, then one Spence is ready to fight, Crawford's gonna be able to fight. Then an injury is gonna pop up, then more. Why are you would you ever tie yourself aerospace? Why wouldn't you want to continue your career? Take fights, make some money. We made them tie himself to aerospace. These are the two best welterweights in the world, or at least they're, they were. But now that they're just go back this though, you would never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up your belt. Ever, ever, ever. If it's to make a historic fight, you can't make it Spencer's gonna fight Thurman, so it's either sit out until the fall and hope you can make a spend of what happened or stay busy. Alexis Rocha. Because if you sit out, you're actually showing and proving to the world and putting pressure on spend saying, look, I'm gonna swallow my pride. I'm gonna stay enacted to wait for you. 9 years old. He should stay inactive. How does that work for older? To make this fight, yes, if it, but in other sense of the word, no, or else I'll repeat myself like I have for the next two years, or else we'll never see this fight. Taking the fight with Rocha or not taking it, has no impact on the spend fight. In fact, it probably makes the spend fight a little bit less marketable because it wouldn't be for the undisputed championship. And you act like roach is going to be a walk in the park for Crawford, which is a big welterweight roach's team will tell you. Big welterweight. They're a big underdog. He gets hit a lot. He does. Yeah, but he's going to be getting hit by a smaller fighter. Okay, you want to tell me no spider. You're telling me that the guys that Alexis roach has faced before are bigger. And I just don't think it's going to be an easy as a fight as you think. It'll be a physical one sided one. You see what David had an aesthetic look like after David Adams, he's a big hitter. Do you see what he looked like after the fighting Crawford? In his back. He doesn't have the defense several chairs. He doesn't keep his hands. He doesn't go to his hand. He keeps his hands up. You got hit. George ashy hit him a few times in that last fight. If he gets hit by Crawford, the way George ashy hit him, it's gonna be a problem for Alexa. I like this roach who went and banged without that. Don't you ever talk about bud Crawford and George ashy in the same breath again? You're all over the place with all this. I think Crawford, if it goes to a purse bid, and it's not a number he loves, it'll probably still be a chance for him to make $2 million. Take the $2 million, fight Alexis Rocha, stay sharp and then push for that fight in the fall against Darryl Spence because Sergio, we don't even know if that fight's gonna happen. And if it doesn't happen, at least be sharp for the next big fight, which would probably be the winner of Virgil Ortiz versus standing on us. That is a significant fight in the by the end of the year. We're living in a parallel universe manic. You are, because once again, for the third time during this podcast, you would never in a million years give up your belt. You love that belt, you drained yourself for like a week and cut 7 pounds in a week to keep that belt. You could have kept. You could have given it up, but you didn't, because you love that belt. And I lost that belt for my pride. You know what I should have done? Relinquish that belt and just not make weight. I would have been the smart thing. But you should have done is gone to Caesar's palace for two months and stayed there. That too, but we can't go backwards. I just think, right now, at this point, if Crawford is not chasing Spencer Spencer's not chasing Crawford, we're never going to get that fight the only way to get that fight is if that bell gets pushed to the side. Because his name is his belt, his name is the championship. Getting that fight. That fight is never going to happen. Throw it on the scrap heap of all the great fights we have never gotten. We may not even get us versus fury. We are back once again in the boxing universe, where all we get is second tier fights. And there is the pessimist, I'm accustomed to hearing. And when we come back, former 168 pound champion, David Benavidez. The NBA season is coming down to the wire and now is the perfect time to download FanDuel. America's number one sports book because new customers get a no sweat first bet up to $1000. 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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"There's very good talent at the top, but there's a gap once you get past the top names. I think I don't think it's fair to ask him coming off the injury and some time off to take off the toughest opponent at the top of the list. You know, it's clearly not going to be a domus or someone like that. But I think it would be a credible fight. And I'd look to see a meaningful fight, maybe a domus or something like that as the next fight before the end of the year. Well, if he's goes to one 68, Stephen, there's a former two division title holder, just hanging out in the PBC universe now. Undefeated American trash talker, you know? Let's see. I'm checking my watch. What are we 7 minutes into the Intel? This is a record. You waited 7 minutes to bring up Demetrius Andre. I did. I've kind of, you know, he's just been so off for so long too. I mean, these guys, they could just, they're so enacted. Just get back in there and fight. Well, look, for once, I agree with you. For once there was a backhanded compliment. So much, obviously, we've got a big fight with Benavidez plant. Canelo seems to have other plans for the foreseeable future. Maybe secures the people quite the fall maybe he doesn't. Let's assume he's true to his word and he does that. Then the rest of the guys, look, you throw the names in the hat. Benavidez, plant, Charlie, if he goes up there morel and Andre. You know, there's plenty of talent. There are plenty of good fights. I don't see why not only on trade, but everybody else in that pool can't do high level fights even without can in the mix. Yeah, I think that actually is a great opportunity for somebody this year to separate and go into 2024 as the only choice for Canelo to fight in May because like you said, all that talent is there. It's all under the same kind of umbrella, you know, Benavidez, probably the most talented guy of the bunch, plant though, pretty accomplished Android pretty accomplished if somebody comes out of that with like two quality wins. There's going to be a mandate to face Canelo next year. One other thing on a potential fight, you mentioned Crawford. It sure looks like as we tape this that he's trending towards some kind of deal with golden boy that involves Alexis Rocha, his mandatory golden boy also has Virgil Ortiz if he can beat standing on his at the end of April. On the subject of Spence Crawford, if right now, ten being your overwhelmingly optimistic that that fight's gonna happen one being hell no done, bury it 6 feet under. Where are you right now on Spence against Crawford? As the next fighter ever, ever, really. You know kind of the logistics, so ever I would say 6 and a half. Okay. I think it happens. I'm more optimistic than not that it does happen. I know they're still interested. I know they're still desire on the spend side. I believe Crawford when he says that he's interested as well. So no one, as long as no one has given up and I don't think anybody has. There are certainly obstacles out of the sanctioning body order being one of them. But I still I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give up until either one of them or both of them are retired. Do you think Spence has done at one 47? You know, it's difficult, I understand it's difficult for him to make the weight. It's not impossible. He can continue to do it. I think the question is, okay, you know, Crawford Thurman and his, you know, those are all good opportunities at some point in the future. Beyond that, I think it's as much as wanting a new challenge as it is just a difficulty with the weight. I want to ask you about some inner boxing type of stuff. PBC's got some interesting things happening right now. You've got Adrian broner recently left the company. Deontay Wilder is declared himself and open agent whatever exactly that is. Andy Ruiz sort of did too, though he said he's no longer with Tom Brown, but still without him, and I'm not sure what kind of a distinction without a difference. BBC is still a considerable presence, obviously, in boxing, you work closely with them. But they have a large stable of fighters and now with Fox effectively out of boxing one network, which is yours to work with. What do you know about the direction PBC is taking and is planning on taking in the near future? Well, I think you can look at a lot of the schedule, which it's not exclusively PVC, but a lot of it is and take a cue there. I mean, through the first 6 months of the year, we've got 14 live events owners on our calendar. That's as busy as 6 month period as I can recall since I've been here in the last 12 years. And that does not include possibly another fight or two being layered in and children. So look, I think they are going to remain active. We're going to have to pick up some of the slack. I think you're seeing a lot of good fights streaming some big names and other places simply because there isn't necessarily room for everybody and that I think is going to not necessarily it's going to result in some higher level fights. At this point, the market is such that it feels like there's a bit of a contraction going on a little bit. At least back from where we were three or four years ago where we had four and sometimes 5 different platforms really active in the U.S. and domestic U.S. boxing and that has pulled back a little bit. And I think with fewer outlets and to be spread across, I think some of these bigger fights are more likely to have. Is you have a multiyear contract with PBC. Is this the final year of that contract? No, we extend beyond this year. Okay. Obviously the schedule shows a pretty strong commitment to boxing from showtime. Everybody read about the restructuring over there, paramount plus the emphasis more on streaming as everybody seems to be going in that direction. What if any impact will that restructuring have on showtime boxing? So far, there's nothing that we heard that changes any of our plans. In fact, we've been called and given the green light to continue doing what we've been doing. And I think we've established ourselves as the market leader and that's the plan to continue going forward. Obviously, there's a lot going on in the media industry. I think there's a larger correction in sort of the content business generally, as well as the greater make macroeconomic conditions. So we're susceptible to that like everybody else. The integration with paramount, I think, is a result of two things. One, you know, continuing the merger that was started two years ago. And probably more directly, consolidation. I think we went from a period of time where everyone was really excited about streaming. Now there's a million apps out there. And now I think it's going to start rebounding the other way. So I think consulting with impairment plus makes sense. I think Disney is probably the best example of being able to maintain several brands within one app. And that's the move that's being done. And I think it's an opportunity for boxing to support each time boxing. Because being packaged together side by side on the app in viewing access to all the great sports audiences that are already on paramount plus and CBS from NFL through soccer through NCAA tournament. I think that's a great marketing opportunity. I think we have an opportunity to better market the sport and maybe draw on some of that
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Their port. Yeah, and Cory, I think it's great to see at least the possibility of guys bouncing from promotional companies to network. There's no real downside to it. I mean, like Ada Ruiz made it clear he still working with Al hayman. Deontay Wilder is still working with Ali, but alien will be involved in negotiations for their next fight. Wherever it is on whatever network it lands on, like Eddie Hearn has some kind of relationship with Middle Eastern countries, maybe that could be what gets a wilder Ruiz fight done, which is ultimately all that matters. We just want to see those two guys get into the ring. And, you know, look, Ryan García tank Davis is happening because Ryan García and golden boy are doing a deal where the fight is going to land on showtime pay per view. Like this kind of should be how it works where maybe we can slowly start to break this mold where exclusivity is all that matters. I mean, it's to a lesser set, but I was reading on boxing scene, you know, Joe markowski at the zone, you know, writing or saying to a reporter like we're open to all promoters. You want to bring a fight to us, you got a good one, come over here, pitch it to us. Like, who knows if they will, but if, you know, if there aren't, if PPC doesn't have the options that it once did, specifically, it becomes the networks, two of them that would put on fights. I'd love to see them start working with other companies, other networks, just to try to get some of these big fights done. Yeah, and maybe some of this is out of necessity. I mean, obviously, to a certain degree, it must be. But maybe some of it is just them deciding, okay, this is the best course of action. I have no special insight on what's happening. I come to you guys that the capital R reporters to learn some of these things, as far as Jake and the capital are. I'll go lower case. Okay, yeah, yeah. I do not have an R at the beginning of my job title to whatsoever. But I will, I would say this. I think there's a tendency when we talk or when people, not we. When people in boxing talk about PVC and Al hayman, there's a tendency to lead with skepticism and I am quite the opposite. And as someone who also loves the music industry and knowing kind of Al's history and what he did, the landscape as we know it of the music industry and the live event industry, the ticketing industry, Al hayman is extremely crucial to a lot of what we know as the modern foundation of how things in modern promotion and I mean event promotion period and how they work period. So there's a degree of trust that I have in the decisions that he makes that they will be good ones for his clients and obviously monetarily for himself. So I don't necessarily know what's going on, but what I do know is that the two fights that we're most excited about by and large involve PBC fighters crossing over to fight someone else right now. So my feeling right now is that whatever is happening is something that's probably going to benefit the fighters right now. And I just generally have trust that Al hayman is going to make a good decision. Look, I think it is a good decision not to guarantee huge sums of money for a wilder Ruiz fight because as compelling as the three of us find that fight, I don't think it's going to have the mainstream appeal that will justify 5 million a piece more perhaps in potential purchases, pay per view buys. So you got to do what you got to do. I've often said this, I don't believe there should be anything more than minimal guarantees in pay per view. That's the whole point of pay per view. You are paid per view. If you don't get the views, you should not be paid because you didn't get them. Like, I'm not trying to be pro promoter here, a pro adviser, but these networks and promoters should not be left on the hook to pay up a big Bill just for the right to get these fights on their network. So I like that and I like the idea of cross promotional stuff because these guys Jake, they gotta be busier, man. You can't build a career fighting once a year. You just can't. No matter how big that fight is, you gotta fight minimum two times, and if there's an opportunity, fight three. I understand injuries happen tough fights, take some extended time off, but the fact that Deontay Wilder who had a one round fight against Robert alenius back in what, November, whenever that was October, is now we're looking at what June, July, maybe for his next fight, like you gotta, these guys gotta get back into it and be active. Maybe this chick is a way that it can happen. Maybe and again, we're sometimes too optimistic about what boxing can do, but like maybe this is a way that we get guys busy, 'cause that's what will help the sport more than anything. Yeah, no, I agree a 100%. And you know, I do applaud that, you know, they're not, you know, for people say like, Al hayman is this control freak that, you know, everything has to happen under his tent or whatever, you know, allowing them to branch out, so to speak. I do have to applaud that. You know, it's your point, like if guys don't want to settle for like, okay, well, this is the only date that showtime has available. This is the budget they have available. They need to get in the ring as often as possible. So yeah, I can't agree more with that point. Yeah. Another potential move that we have for this year is Terence Crawford, who seems to be trending towards a deal with golden boy. I saw Crawford at the creed three premiere of both, you know, movie stars as you guys know. And you know, it does seem like the Alexis Rocha flight one way or the other is going to happen at the wbo recently ordered that fight Corey, you know, I've said to you before on air. I'm fine with that fight. Crawford's a massive favorite, but you got to defend your title against the mandatory. Alexis Rocha is the highest ranked guy. If he knocks him out, big deal. You got to test yourself at some point. And for bud Crawford, it goes back to the thing about activities. Once a year fighter for like the last three and a half, four years. Like if you can get an opportunity to get right back in in April or May probably may, and fight an Alexis Rocha, don't you just have to do it and see if you can build some momentum back yourself? Yeah, a 100%. Now, is this obviously the ideal scenario or the one that everyone wanted? No. But it is also the position that we're in. Like, could better decisions have been made that would have resulted in him facing aerospace? Yes. But the position that Crawford is in right now, he needs to link up with somebody to start making fights because he can't just fight on BLK prime and be able to fight the caliber of opponents or the frequency of them that he would like or that fans would like for a top level fighter. So it's obviously second to Crawford Spence, but if we get Crawford Rocha as a potential trampoline towards Crawford versus Virgil Ortiz, that to me is very positive. And also, you know, we called Alexis roach at George ashy and you ask, wrote to the question, you know, like, do you think you're ready for Terrence Crawford? And he also isn't trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. He said, I don't know. I guess I'll fucking find out when I get in there. We'll find out. And so he's willing to test himself, Rocha isn't saying, I demand this fight, you know, I a 100% deserve this fight. He kind of recognizes that, yeah, he's been fighting the George ashes, but he is positioned within the rankings to get a Terence Crawford fight. So of course he's going to challenge himself and take it. So I think that this is the type of fight that is good for Terrence Crawford right now and also not one that anyone needs to lie about in terms of what it is. Roach I think I saw the odds today is a plus 600 underdog. That's fair. That's what this fight is and it's a potential appetizer for Crawford Virgil Ortiz,
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"And Buenos Aires. Ten years after Lou de Bella said absolutely not her Sergio Martinez gets get out of golf and maybe they would make it. If you ever want to have some fun and you're a boxing fan, check out the WBA's monthly rankings. I remember doing this when when Alexis Rocha was going to fight George ashy and as she was the late replacement for roach, I started thinking like, who is ashy? I'm doing my research on him. And I look at the WBA rankings in December and George Ashe, who had zero fights as in the full 147 pound division. He fought above one 40 once, but he fought a guy that was in the one 50s, making that fight officially a junior middleweight fight. Zero official fights at a 147 pounds, he was ranked. I think 13th by the WBA in their rankings and Alexis Rocha, a career long welterweight was not ranked in the WBA rankings. Like, how are these put together? Just pulling names out of a hat? Like, I just, I can't. I can't. Surgeon Martinez. Number two, at one 60, Sergio Martinez, despite fighting a succession of stumble bombs in his return to boxing. Great. Bring on golovkin Sergio Martinez for the WBA middleweight title in Buenos Aires. I'm just saying, if there's someone in Argentina willing to pay for it, what either of us be surprised that eventually wound up. Even if even if glove can doesn't have the title, I mean, it's much more meaningful for Martinez if he does, but I don't want to see it. And for the health of Sergio Martinez, even against a 41 year old golovkin or 42, whenever it might happen, it's not a good idea, but that doesn't generally stop them. You probably got the exact same phone calls I did from Lou de Bella back then when golovkin was chasing Sergio and Lou would say, absolutely not, I'm not putting my guy in with that guy. No chance on earth, it would be fitting Keith that with both guys well past 40 to see them finally square off. And Lou's not involved in Sergio Martinez's career anymore so he's not there to put a stop to that. Nope. I don't know if I want to see that. Keith, enjoy covering the fight this weekend from the comforts of home, I assume you're not going to be jumping on Amtrak or anything like that. No, sir. Try to make your way to Minnesota. Always appreciate the time, my friend. You're welcome, Chris, good to see you man. And when we come back, this week's picks brought to you by FanDuel. Recently, a new client called me and started by saying mister Morgan, I really need your help, but I'm just a nobody. Those words stun me and I immediately called him back and we're now helping him and his family after a terrible accident. I'm John Morgan of Morgan and Morgan. Everybody who comes to our firm at their time of need is a somebody. I grew up poor, but my grandmother was like a queen to us. At Morgan and Morgan, our goal is to level the playing field for you and your family at your time of need. 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"Start making every moment more. This is boxing with Chris Manning. Now somebody punch him in the face. Anthony Joshua is a composed and ferocious finisher. Watch this. Hosted by SI's Chris mannix. That was my moment. Now with interviews, analysis and everything going on in the world of boxing. When you have talent, you are given another chance. Here's Chris mannix. Due to this nonstop onslaught from Rocha. What a shot. Alexis Rocha. That is the voice of Corey erdman on the disowned broadcast last weekend, Corey was with me in Los Angeles at the YouTube theater where we saw Alexis Rocha, pick up a spectacular knockout win over George Ashe and Corey is joining me this week on the podcast from where exactly are you, Corey. I am in lovely and very snowy Montreal right now. I'm here to call Eric bazin, Alan tes Fox tour on night on ESPN+. Now we're talking. I'm in New York where it is not snowy, but it is bone chilling cold at the moment. It's expected to be really cold all weekend long. The Amanda Serrano Erika Cruz fight is on to zone this weekend. So Corey, not to get too deep into the Roche wind. He did what everyone expected. I mean, credit ashy for winging punches until the end, but this was a 140 pounder moving up against a full fledged welterweight with some pop. I want to talk about what's next here with Alexis Rocha. Golden boy, we know, met with Terence Crawford last week. Alexis Rocha was discussed as Bernard Hopkins told us on the broadcast. So let's kind of put it out there. Is Alexis roach in your mind a good option if your butt Crawford? Well, I think he's an option, right? I think that the appropriate option that we all agree upon is supposed to be Errol Spence. And I know that there are obviously going to be fans who are absolute hardliners who say it's that fight or nothing. I'm not watching Terrence Crawford unless it's against Daryl spent. But the real Sergio Mora, like Sergio Moore is one of those people. Sergio included. So yeah, he did not order the BLK prime pay per view last night. Last time he did not. In fact, many, many people did not order that. But would they order against Alexis Roja? I don't know. I mean, listen, Rocha is an option. And if Crawford enters some kind of working agreement with golden boy, it is a fight that within those confines makes sense. He's one of the welterweights that golden boy can offer up. And I imagine. And this is just reality. I think the roach understands this in golden boy, has said as much as well, Virgil Ortiz is kind of first in line. You know, he is taking precedence in terms of who they care about most at welterweight. And then comes Alexis Rocha. So if they're negotiating something with Terrence Crawford unless it's a one off kind of thing, I imagine that, yeah, they're offering roach a first and then maybe Ortiz or I truly don't know what they're discussing, but that's kind of what I would imagine. And, you know, if we care about what rankings do and what their mechanisms are, then roaches sits third behind him in the wbo, and he is an option that's there. Has Rocha done a ton to this point to say he's ready to face one of the, you know, let's call it three best fighters on Planet Earth, depending on how you want to arrange them. Well, I mean, his best wins are over Blair cobbs and George ashy. So the answer to that is probably no. But at the same time, in roach's own words, when you asked him, Chris, are you ready for Terrence Crawford? He said, we'll see when I get in there. So Alexis Rocher isn't trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. He understands how people view this matchup, but if the option is there and you're Alexis Rocha, of course you take it. I don't see why you wouldn't. I think if you're bud Crawford, like you're kind of running out of options here because you're not going to do business with top rank because that relationship ended badly. You're obviously not doing business with PVC at the moment. Matchroom doesn't really have anybody that's overly appealing to you. And if you're, if you're dealing with golden boy, you can construct a two fight deal that would protect you in the event that a Spence fight can't be made. I mean, Rocha, like you said, is in a position where he could be named the mandatory at some point in the next couple of months. And if your Crawford, you've got to protect that title probably at all costs. So you may have to take that fight one way or the other. Doing a deal with golden boy makes it a little bit easier. And if you beat Rocha, which many expect would expect, maybe there's a Virgil or tee shot down the line. I mean, Virgil Ortiz is going to face standing onus on April 29th. That much is known. Right now, that is forced Danny onis a secondary title. But I don't know many people, Cory, that believe that Spence after moving to one 54 to face Keith Thurman is going to come back down to one 47, certainly not to face Virgil Ortiz or standing on us. That's just, he's not going to happen. That's just not happening at the moment. So a two fight deal that begins with Alexis Rocha and ends with Virgil Ortiz is a pretty good year if your parents Crawford Terrence Crawford over the last three years has been a once a year fighter. He fought once in 2020 once in 21 and once in 22. He was saved in a way by BLK prime coming in and operating like Brewster from Bruce just millions and just throwing money at stuff. And giving him reportedly $10 million to fight that fight against David Abernathy. I don't believe that backup plan is going to be in place this time around, especially with 13 people buying Adrian broner against Michael Williams in February. So I think he's not going to get 10 million bucks to find Alexis Rocha, but maybe there's a deal that makes sense for turns Crawford where he can get paid. And he could also stay active. Like these are key years in Crawford's careers. It was mid 30s now. His days are effectively numbered in boxing. I know people dumped all over the idea of Alexis roach and I get it, but look, Rocha is number three in the wbo. He's 6 O since that loss to rashidi Ellis. He's as qualified as anyone that's available available being the key word. So why not go and do it? Get a win and then go into what could be a pretty big fight against Virgil Ortiz before the end of the year. Yeah, and I think Ortiz is key to this because it particularly if it's a package that could potentially lead to Virgil Ortiz. I would say that even the absolutists when it comes to Crawford and Spence and absolutely not wanting any other fight could be convinced to watch Crawford versus boots Ennis versus Keith Thurman versus Virgil Ortiz, like there's a handful of names that I think would be acceptable enough. And one thing that is true, you know, whether Crawford is privy to it or not. I don't know how much he's on his timeline, but he does have a little bit of a PR battle on his hands, right? And I think that both he and Spence do, but probably a little bit more on the Crawford side. I think the voices are a little bit louder in terms of his detractors, I think that anything that he can do that points his arrow towards one of those other names, at least temporarily, is good PR for him at the very least. Even if it's not spent, if it does not a guaranteed spent fight if you have golden boy saying that that is a fight that we're working towards and hey, maybe there's virtual Ortiz also. I think that that's a win for
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"He has a good fight IQ, all right? And he has a long, strong jab. It's pretty educated. He's gonna do well against better be of just like he was doing well against COVID when he had his moments and he was able to kovalev was at the back end of his career. And even though better be able to steal the crusher, steal a champion and yeah, but he had been knocked out before by a Alvarez COVID was not the crusher. That's the one? He did win. But that's kind of the problem. So what are you trying to say? He wasn't what he used to, but he still won. Yes, he still won. And that is the only example we have Anthony yard fighting at the yard is not going to bang with better. So get that out of the equation. Then he's going to come out. What I am going to tell you is yard wins that first round. Okay. Yard wins that first round. Second one might be closed. Third one, he might be close. I see him winning two out of the first 5 rounds. And then after that, it's going to start getting he's going to start getting violent and once he starts getting hit in the shoulders and he can't move as much anymore. He's getting cornered against the ropes. He's going to be he's going to be back against the ropes more than he wants to. And he can't keep the fight in the middle of the ring, that's when better be of his power is going to overwhelm him. All right, let's talk about the fight that we're calling this weekend. Alexis Rocha, George ashy YouTube theater in Los Angeles. That's a fight that's going to air on to zone. Rocha is an interesting prospect slash contender. It was just back in 2020 that he lost his first fight, a decision defeat to rashidi Alice, a legitimate loss, Ellis won that fight clean. Rocha though has come back, he's won 5 fights in a row. He's climbed the rankings. He ranks. I believe third in, I want to say the wbo rankings. He's in the top 15 in the WBA. He's got some momentum right now behind his career. Let's start here. The fighter we're going to see on Saturday. How different is he from the fighter we saw lose the rashidi Ellis? Have you seen improvements from Alexis roach over the last two and a half years? Stylistically, I think we have the same fighter. I mean, he had his moments against Ellis is just Alice was a very special talent, very fast and you have to have a game plan against a fighter like Ellie. You can't just do what you did in your past fights that were successful. So he came up short with Ellis. Okay, no shame there. Now he has 5 straight wins, you know, a couple by knockout and he's been doing it with smart pressure, not neglecting the jab once he's in the inside, he's not just loading up with the same punch.
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"That's legit to have there. Like having not enough fighters, I don't think have that great home base that they can do. I remember covering Andre birdo for years back in the day, fighting Florida, like once every 5 years, and nobody would go. It just doesn't, there's too much emphasis on casinos and certain places that guys don't develop the famous. You have over the last couple of years. I have and I'm very blessed to have a great fan base like that support me. I gave people hitting me up that I don't even know. They're like, hey, like nice fight, when are you going to fight? We're there. I get people on my DMs telling me, I bought my ticket, I'm there. And I never heard of these people day in my life, so I'm like, damn, like I said, I'm grateful for this. So Anthony young on the 28th. Were you just like, I'll take anybody at this point? Yeah, it was presented some other fighters, world former world champions, LeMond Peterson, Bertha Machado, but they said within short period of time, they wouldn't be ready. So I'm like, all right, I understand the bull, whatever. And then they present this Anthony young. No, it's just another name. I'm not going to go in there careless. I'm not, I'm not going to prepare myself not at my very best. I'm not taking this guy lightly, but my job is to go in there and just run this guy over and go on to the next. That's a bit bigger and better things. So on that subject, on bigger and better things, this feels like the year you can get that. Like it feels like that. Like Spence Crawford is on life support at one 47. Spence is all the way up at 54. I'm skeptical, at least that he comes back down to one 47. He's a big guy who's been talking about moving up anyway. You've got Virgil and stanny on us fighting probably in April for that WBA title, which will probably wind up being the full title there. I'm sure you want all the title holders that are out there.
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"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"That's a very shitty feeling to feel discouraged and you're not a 100% confident in yourself. And I feel like it took me a good two months after the fight where I would run every night and I would just go back to the fight, we play. If I would have done this, if I should have done this, I would have put the pressure. I would have won. I kept replaying that over and over, but I'm just like, why have that? Well, I live in the past like that. The past is over. I got to keep moving forward. So I started visualizing my next opponent, whoever it may be, I was just visualizing me beating it down, chopping down the tree, knocking people out. I just started thinking about that. And then from there, my confidence started to grow. And I pretty much put all that, all that heavy stuff in a bag and I took it out of that bag. Now I feel like I'm loose. Now I feel like I'm having fun with it. Now I feel like, in other words, I'm more confident than I was before that before that loss. How different did you feel then going into the next fight? You know, after having lost for the first time, how different did you feel walking to the ring? I feel more confident going to the sunshine and maybe 'cause it's hard. No one wants to get in the ring and get hit by someone. No one wants to cut weight, you know? It sucks, but it's our profession and it's what we love to do and then I remember walking to that ring, I'm like, damn, this feels good, 'cause I remember I took about 8 months because obviously the pandemic was holding everyone back. And I remember I went to the gym. I returned to the ring 8 months later and I was like, damn, it feels so good to be back to having even crowd chew your name. And I remember I knocked the guy out in the second round, and it was a pretty nasty knockout. I remember him with a over the over left hand, knocked him out. Set him on his stomach and I was like, damn, I can't wait to make the comeback. And you've been able to stay active, which I think is really important. Over the last couple of years. Rashidi lost his last fight. He'd be the only one that could tell you, but it feels like inactivity may have played a part in that, fighting only one round in the 22 months since he fought you. You not only have stayed active. You've been seizing opportunities when presented. Obviously, everybody wants to make a $1 million. Everyone's rich. But when you got an opportunity to be a main event after Virgil fell out of the McKinsey fight, he jumped up there and you put on a career defining performance in that one. Just like this fight coming up. This date originally earmarked for Ryan García. Ryan decides not to fight. Here you are stepping in to main event in Southern California against Anthony young. I mean, I feel like you being opportunistic is going to pay off. You're getting me ready to sleep in the living room right now. Yeah, like the opportunity has to present itself and you always have to be right in the gym, but going back to being active, I wanted to be active right after that fight, but like I said, with COVID and everything the pandemic going on, how to wait a little while, 7, 8 months. I fought, and then I wanted to be right back in within two, three months later. And I think I believe I did. I was back in the ring three months later, knocked out, and then I get the Blair fight, and I'm like, all right, it's a good name.
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"On him in terms of boxing, sparring sessions. Yeah, the first time I ever saw Ronny, I was probably like 14, beat the shit out of me. Yeah, I beat the shit out of me. He blooded me up and you remember he told me like, oh, bro, I love you. I'm sorry. I'm like, get away from me. He just had my ass to me. And then I started getting older, getting more experience, I was about 18, 19, and now I'm starting to use my length and start using my weight on them and keep in mind I'm 25 pounds bigger than I'm 20 pounds bigger than them. So now I'm making a mess, you can't hit me and putting my hand out, like the big brother in ha ha, you can't hit me. But yeah, we used to go add inspiration. Do you like I have a younger brother? And I remember when he first could take me. I remember when he got bigger, stronger, and he could first take me. Do you remember when you first got the best of Ronnie? Yeah, I do, I do. I was probably 19 already almost 20. And the way I was moving the way I was just using my using my reach, using my high on them, I was like, damn, this is not easy, but it's easier than it was when I was 15. So yeah. Yeah, but we've always been competitive. To any little thing, any little thing we do towards how many plates we eat on Thanksgiving, we're competitive at that, how many place we stack on when we eat sushi or whatever, to our mild times, how much we could do this in, we've always competitive, and that's what brought out the best of both of us. So when you turn pro, you know, the pro style is very different than an amateur style. And you seem like the kind of guys that takes to it pretty well that maybe you're even better as a pro fighter than as an amateur, you're powerful guy, use angles really well. How did you feel in those first couple of fights with the pro style? I feel like I adopted very well 'cause even the amateurs, like I said, wrong over Ronnie, I've always seen the professional style because when I was an amateur, he was already training professional. So I would look at him, he would give me advice. And he used a device with he would give me would be to like a professional standpoint where you got to sit on your punches, you got to knock people out, but in the amateurs, you're there to support points as many points as possible. If they're not there to hurt you or to knock you out, you just have to score points. And to me, I was like, no, I don't want to do that. I want to knock someone out and rip someone's head off. And it was easy. I would say a farewell, an easy fair transition turned into the pros. In the first couple of fights, you get to start getting the use of no headgear and then the elbows, the headbutts, because those shits hurt. Those are hurt really bad, and sometimes hurt even more than punches themselves. But the first couple of fights you have to adapt to the new style. So fast forward a little bit, you're developing into a prospect, you're part of golden boy stable. And a couple of years ago, you face for shitty Alice. Yes. And that was a prospect versus prospect type of matchup where we'd see the contender right. Yeah, exactly.
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"Districts and I one districts, one regionals, one states, one nationals, and within a year and a half later, I want to say almost two years into boxing, or maybe a year and a half into a box and I won a national tournament called junior Olympics in that place in me to go to Russia to compete with the G national team. So from there, it just like, it's probably a lot of control. I just told myself, man, I'm in a hot streak right now. What's it like for a teenager to go to Russia and compete? It's different. You feel like a whole different world when you're out there. It never hit me until we landed there. I remember I won the tournament and then Hector told me like you're going to Russia and I couldn't believe it. I was like, no way, I'm going to rush out like a highway across the world and there's no way and I remember just training for it and then a month later I landed in Russia. I spent my 15th birthday landing July 7th that landed in Russia and I was like my whole teammate wishing me her birthday and I was just like, damn, I'm really in Russia and all celebrating my 15th birthday. It's a real moment. When does it becomes your passion? When do you start to think this could be my profession? I think once I made the junior national team twice in 2013, 2014, I made it, and then I remember I wasn't struggling in school, I was a good student, but I was very lazy student because all I wanted to do was get out of high school and get out of the class and just go straight to the gym. I was just obsessing over just going to the gym to spark, to work out, I got to work on this. I got to do this. And I remember just telling myself like, damn, I want to be pro. I want to turn pro raft at high school. And yeah, I think after my junior year, senior year that would ask me, what are you going to do? And I will tell everyone I'm going to be a professional boxer. And everyone at the time was left. They were pretty much laugh at me. They knew I was good because I would miss so much time from work. I mean, from school that my principal had kicked me out because I missed a total of 60 days, so I missed two consecutive months. And from there, I was pretty much not going to pass. I was pretty much not going to graduate. So I had to get my independent studies, I had to do all that stuff, just to learn the credits to graduate. How useful was it for you to have an older brother who was doing this already to have someone kind of blazing the trail for you might be too strong a phrase, but just showing you the pathway to guide me really Ronnie. Ronnie's been this since day one. He's helped me so much. And she just taught me so much. He's guiding me so much. She's been telling me, she's been giving me all this advice since day one from the amateurs like, hey, to the waynes, when I go away in my opponents, he would tell me like these guys, these kids are going to be sizing you up to see if you're a weight class. So in the pro debut when you're like, you're going to you're going to hate the day of wanes, but when you wait, then when you weigh in, you're going to feel like a new man by the next day. So just a little stuff like that. He's always been helping me and very blessed how Ronnie is my older brother.
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"I gotta start losing this weight. I gotta start putting the sacrifices. You gotta get disciplined. I gotta put the commitment and she'd be like, oh, okay, okay, and I remember that was from like day one and then to like, so I lost the 60 pounds. She's like, man, look at you now. You're a whole new different person. What was harder to do show up to work out or cut out the foods that you needed to cut out. So this day cut off the food. I told this day I still love junk food. And I love Coca-Cola, I love my cheeseburgers, I love In-N-Out. And to go cold turkey and stop all the sodas, love all the fast food places is hard, but that was initially the first hard step was to cut all the junk food. When did you start to see results back then? When did it start? Be like, all right, if I keep doing this, it's starting to come off. Like I said, I think the third month, when I was probably around a 170 pounds, my coach put me in the spark, coach Hector. He put me in a spar and I'm Ross petrified. I was so petrified of going in that ring and then I started with the kid who was older than me. He had been there.
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"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Is boxing with Chris Manning. How's somebody punch him in the face? Anthony Joshua is a composed and ferocious finisher. Watch this. Hosted by SI's Chris mannix. That was my moment. Now with interviews, analysis and everything going on in the world of boxing. When you have talent, you are given another chance. Here's Chris mannix. All right, Alexis Rocha is here 147 pound contender on January 28th. He's back in the ring against Anthony young. SoFi Stadium, YouTube theater. Is this the first fight at the YouTube theater? I believe so with golden boy yes, but I think if I'm not mistaken to PVC fight, I didn't even know there was a theater in there. I honestly didn't know either. How do you feel about that? Like, a fight in there. It's a very grateful for the opportunity, honestly, you know, I gotta thank Robert Diaz, Eric Gomez, of golden boy, all of the zone for putting me on a good car like this. To headline something like this, it's crazy. So we are Santa Anna born, right? Saint Anna raised and we're in that Santana area right now in a gym right here.
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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"All right, finally, on the undercard of this show is what I think is going to be the best fight of the show. 440 pound champion going up against Blair, the flair cobbs in a welterweight fight, Sergio. This is exactly what an undercard fight should look like. You've got a crossroads fight between two guys over the age of 30 who are looking to get back in contention. Both these guys coming off knockout losses for hooker, it was a year plus ago against Virgil Ortiz for Blair cobbs, more recently, against Alexis Rocha, the winner will get right back into the welterweight picture for a big fight. The loser probably done as a high level fighter or at least a contender in the 147 pound division. What do you think of this fight? No, not probably. They are. They are because they realize not only especially if they lose by another knockout. Yeah. There's phases in a fighter's career and they're in their 30s already. They already experience what it's like to fight a formidable opponent. It's not even championship level. Alexis Rocher wasn't a championship fighter yet, but he got, it was a hell of a fight, Blair cobbs, he put on a good show, there were the main event, but he came up short and got stopped by a guy that has been proven himself on the championship level either. So you already got stopped by someone that's not that was hooker, at least got stopped by champions. He has amateur pedigree. He's already picked up a strap, and he's only lost to really hard punches. Ramirez a beast, you know? So Virgil Ortiz, a future beast, and he's proved that on the championship level 'cause he's been former champions Ortiz has. So that's why I got a favorite Maurice hooker in this fight. The technique, the long jab, the 80 inch span in order to get past that. And then the body shots for a tall fighter. Very good body. Excellent body punching. Yeah, I just think it's gonna be too much for our flare. A Blair flair because cobbs has a bad, a bad thing about leaving this chin up. And it cost him with Rocha. You know, once the fight starts getting into the later rounds, his technique goes out the window and it's gonna catch him in this fight as well.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"But I thought it was, look, it was an exciting fight. I knew when golden boy and outside fight in the first place when they were willing to put those two guys in with each other that I thought it would be a good fight just having seen both of them in the past. I thought Rocha would win the fight and all respect a Blair cobbs. You know, he is got a very, very giant personality. He wants to be seen. He comes to fight, but I don't know if his skill level is at the same level as like you mentioned the amateur background of a roach. And that is going to put you at a deficit. So, you know, cobs, I think, is sort of gotten to a certain level. I'm not necessarily sure you can ever get to the next level. Rocha, by doing what he's been doing in recent fights, particularly with that win against cobbs is showing maybe he can get to the next level. And he does have the loss to Rashida Ellis, who is also an outstanding amateur. So I'm not a 100% sold on a roach as being a bona FIDE contender, but I think what the cops fight told me is if one of the two has a chance to be a actual contender, it is, in fact, Alexis Rochelle. Yeah, a younger fighter to just 24 years old, cobbs is what 33 at this point. So he has that going for him. And look, I don't think you throw Alexis Rocha in with Virgil Ortiz in his next fight or any kind of top 5 welterweight, but he was talking afterwards about facing a Michael mckinson. And I'd be on board for that 5 McKinsey had a very, very unwatchable fight against Alex Martin. Yeah, I'm not so sure I want to see that. I want to see Alexis Rocha in with other opponents that are going to be there to fight him in. I mean, I think for Alexis Rocher though, one of the things I think he knows he needs work with is fighting slicker boxers because rashidi Ellis is a slick boxer and he was able to win on the back of that. Roach has got to know that to get to the next level. He can't just win fights where guys stand to trade with them or like with Blair club's cops stick their chin out in front of them. He's got to beat more pure boxers and McKinsey presents that type of challenge. I just sort of think there's a happy medium between that. You don't have to necessarily fight a guy that's just going to stand and stick your chin out the way you mentioned about cops. You also need to fight a guy that's so utterly negative like who's a talented boxer. I'm not going to knock him for that. But he's just doesn't make a crowd appealing fight. And Alexis Rochelle wants to make a crowd of appealing fight and, you know, it's a sport where you need to please the fans at some point. And there's other, I know McKinsey was in the rejiggered co feature because of the fact that his original opponent was Virgil, who fell out. But I don't think there's going to be any groundswell to say, we got to see roach against McKinsey. If you sit and spend some time looking at the different organizational rankings or box record or whatever, you're going to come up with some other welterweights that might be more appealing. That can also give him the type of look that you want to get him that you're mentioning about, maybe a guy that's a bit more of a fighter than a letter cobbs is. But the good thing about well, he's in a position where, you know, he's on the upswing. There's going to be opportunities. He's in a good division..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"alexis rocha" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Maybe not in the first round, right? But you will stop those guys. Not everyone is going to stop Steve roles. It takes a pretty good fight. Like top 20 top 15 fighter to stop a Steve roles. And certainly impressively. So if you do that, I think that does say something, right? Of some conclusions and boxing are kind of foregone conclusions. In a sense, but it says something about how good you are and where you rank, where you are, if you could stop this caliber of guys. So I think it'll mean something if you can get rules out there. Only been stopped by golovkin. So yeah. That would be a feather in the cap or Lange if he can do it. All right, let's talk about the main event this weekend. Before we were recording this, as we sit here in the lobby of the LA hotel, I was regaled by Blair cobbs who was, I want to say dressed like a male dominatrix. Is that, is that a thing? Yeah. It was black leather. It looked like Shawn Michaels, but in a different ensemble. It was just a very, it's very interesting. It's one of his inspirations. It's well, he would make sense. Yeah, he's got him. So the loss of Virgil Ortiz is the gain of Blair cobbs and Alexis rose, 'cause they are now main event fighters. And for the casual fan, you know, this is kind of a, I don't know, whatever was Blair cobbs, who's Alexis roaches. But I think the hardcore boxing fan knows exactly who these guys are. Like Blair has made a name for himself over the last couple of years with his compelling style in the ring and is obviously engaging personalities channeling Ric Flair every time he's he's out there and Alexis Rocha. Since that loss in 2020 to Rashida yells, he's rebounded brilliantly. It's won three fights in a row since then and reestablished himself as one of the top prospects at 147 pounds. I really like this fight. I think this is one of those fights where, you know, I don't know where both guys rank among sanctioning bodies, but the winner of this fight will put himself in a position to be considered for at the very least a Virgil Ortiz, maybe someone even bigger. Maybe if those belts fragment in the next 6 to 8 months depending what happens when they're all Spence, maybe they get a title shot down the line. So I think it's a good fight in terms of stylistically. And a meaningful one as well, which if you check those two boxes for me, I'm good. I'm good with what that fight's gonna be. Yeah, 'cause these guys are kind of, they're stuck in that moat between being a prospect of being a contender. But whoever wins this for me is a contender. You know, maybe not a top contender, but yeah, you start talking about them maybe facing a virtual or tease or someone else. That's on the plate. I think this is a fun fight storyline wise because these guys have kind of come up parallel to one another. They've often been on the same card. I think NASCAR Blair fought Brad Solomon. I forgot to roach, I'm blanking now, who wrote a same card that I thought..