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"Mandatory as long as he beats Anthony young. He's not going to get away with fighting someone like Blair cobbs. I certainly hope that's not next. No, and I speculate, could he fight Virgil Ortiz? I mean, he could, but I do think for when everything I was hearing, we're going to get Virgil rescheduled in July, maybe. That's exactly right. So that seems to be on paper or penciled anyway. And it comes back to the same debate we had before, Jake. Who does Crawford work with? Like, he's obviously not going to work with PVC. He's not going to work with top rank. Golden boys kind of the only game in town, matchroom's got nothing unless you want like a B level. I mean, I want to go to Connor Ben. I mean, I guess, but that's probably not going to happen. He's low on options at this point. And we could be back to bud Crawford once a year guy. Right. So, I mean, do you think that Spence Thurman makes still on the table? In your mind? No, absolutely not. I would think Juneteenth weekend. You would see that fight, yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, I mean, again, not a bad consolation prize. Again, blood feud there. Expense 8 Thurman with the fire of a thousand suns and August Thurman kind of dismissed him years ago as a future opponent. So not that. The only thing I will say on that is if the rumors are true, then supposedly by next weekend at the tank, you know, Ryan Rossi fight, we should get clarification, if not a full blown announcement on who I fell for that once before too. I follow for some of that stuff before. Don't lose see me. Don't Charlie brownlee on this one. Last thing for you. Anthony Joshua, and I wish he had done this a couple of days prior when matchroom was in the U.S. and you and I were there to ask about it, but he goes on Instagram on Monday.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"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
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I was even telling them, it's like a broner Rolly fight has to happen. If there's any chance of rolling whatever, if he doesn't have anything going on a PVC right now, that has to happen. I don't know if that's a name that's in the mix. I haven't read cash's name, keeps popping up, which I don't even know if they think they could even sell that. One name I've heard and I was told he's a free agent now. Golden boy is not confirmed this to me. Blair cops. An agent brought a black cops fight, that would be at least a fun promotion. I don't know. I think it would even be a competitive fight. Yeah, I haven't heard that name. Blair at one 47, which is where 47, yeah. Right, everything we've seen from him, yeah. Yeah. That's pretty good. I'd probably favor Blair because he throws more punches, but Blair can also get caught and still got some deceptive speed, but although he hasn't shown much power at one 47 and above. I could sell that. I don't think red catch is sellable. I think Blair cobbs is sellable to the boxing people. I think roller Romero would be even more sellable because they both just kill each other at these press conferences. It might be a goofy fight, but they'd kill each other. Yeah, there's a possibility of broner, but you know, you start doing red catch bad pro grey terrible idea. Terrible idea. You're three fight deal with Adrian Bruno go out the window if that was the brother would never be in boxing again if he fought his program at that point. So but proceed. It's a good mention though. Yeah, no program is a good mention because obviously Sam is involved. So, you know, why not? And I have joked, Regis has been on every other platform. It just seems like the natural course of progression will wind up on be okay. You know, he's what everywhere else. Yeah, and I hope he gets some money out of it. You know, him being lost in the wilderness. I did a podcast last week and I talked a lot about pro gray and kind of why people weren't signing up. I got some calls from promoters who had mentioned that top rank being one of them had mentioned that there was an off from top rank for Regis program a couple of years ago. He turned down just a reminding that, you know, it's not just promoters ignoring program. Obviously, match room two, you know, was in the pro gray business sort of when they were trying to make that hooker fight a couple of years ago, but yeah, it'd be good to see pro gray get a decent fight. Now he's got a belt, he's at least got the possibility of some of these good matchups actually happening for him. All right, let's move on to the fight we ought fight we got this weekend. Daffy mopes against sandor Martine at Madison Square Garden. Martine, a late replacement, but a pretty good one. It was just last year that Martin beat Mikey Garcia in a big upset. Now he gets a chance to potentially secure a second one.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Yeah, and so I was even telling them, it's like a broner Rolly fight has to happen. If there's any chance of rolling whatever, if he doesn't have anything going on a PVC right now, that has to happen. I don't know if that's a name that's in the mix. I haven't read cash's name, keeps popping up, which I don't even know if they think they could even sell that. One name I've heard and I was told he's a free agent now. Golden boy is not confirmed this to me. Blair cops. An agent brought a black cops fight, that would be at least a fun promotion. I don't know. I think it would even be a competitive fight. Yeah, I haven't heard that name. Blair at one 47, which is where 47, yeah. Right, everything we've seen from him, yeah. Yeah. That's pretty good. I'd probably favor Blair because he throws more punches, but Blair can also get caught and still got some deceptive speed, but although he hasn't shown much power at one 47 and above. I could sell that. I don't think red catch is sellable. I think Blair cobbs is sellable to the boxing people. I think roller Romero would be even more sellable because they both just kill each other at these press conferences. It might be a goofy fight, but they'd kill each other. Yeah, there's a possibility of broner, but you know, you start doing red catch bad pro grey terrible idea. Terrible idea. You're three fight deal with Adrian Bruno go out the window if that was the brother would never be in boxing again if he fought his program at that point. So but proceed. It's a good mention though. Yeah, no program is a good mention because obviously Sam is involved. So, you know, why not? And I have joked, Regis has been on every other platform. It just seems like the natural course of progression will wind up on be okay. You know, he's what everywhere else.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" 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.
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"blair cobbs" 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..
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"blair cobbs" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"The Alexis roach a method depends upon continuing to win and win and win and win, and he doesn't get any shortcuts because he doesn't talk the way the Blair does outside of the ring. So they're two very different personalities, but inside the ring, I think this could be a really explosive fight, because both of these guys, when they do get to the inside, really like to go for it. I know that people think of Blair as kind of a pure boxer. He's kind of more of an ambush fighter, like he has good mobility, but when Blair wants to go in and bang, you can see his facial expression just changed. And he goes for it. And wrote sure I think composes himself a little bit better on the inside than Blair does, but players a little bit more athletic. You know, he's a little bit more explosive, a little bit more unpredictable. Yeah, I could see these are the types of guys that could trade knockdowns and give us one hell of a main event. I'm really excited for this one. Yeah, I think my early read on this. My biggest question is what does Blair cops chin look like? Because he's been hurt. He's been down. He comes in high with that chin a lot, like really high. And he's working with Freddie roach and I'm sure Freddie is well aware of that. And is doing everything he can to adjust that. But that's his biggest liability. I think he does have a big athletic advantage over Rocha. His speed, I think, is going to be equal to or better than a road trip. But Rocha, to your point with his backstory and kind of coming up with the amateur ranks, he's a disciplined guy. And if he sees an opening with a guy coming in chinhai, he's going to wait for it, and he's going to clip him. Like that's the thing to me, like the biggest question. Can a Blair keep his chin down enough to build a lead on the scorecards and land what he wants to land because I mean, I just see too many times and coming in wide open for some of these things. Yeah, and I think that that that defensive tick is kind of tied to him getting really emotional in the ring. And I don't necessarily mean that in a bad thing, but you can sense when Blair cobbs gets excited during a fight. And he starts going a little bit wild and he starts booing at his opponent and he starts throwing that sweeping left hand. That's when the chin comes up. And a lot of people who a lot of fighters are really fancy themselves as punchers kind of have that habit because they like to stand up tall and get as much leverage as they want and the chin comes up as well. So when you combine that with a guy that can get a little bit fired up in the ring, yeah, like cops can leave himself exposed and a guy who's really disciplined and tight on the inside like roaches could be his kryptonite, but at the same time he has that game changing power and athleticism and we've seen him come back from really scary hours before in the ring. I just don't think we've seen him come back against the fight or the level of roach out. If he gets in trouble, it's different than a villa lobo. It's different than any of the guys he's fought beforehand. It's gonna be because roach will finish him if he gets him hurt. He's good enough to do that. I mean, again, good for roadshow for just getting back in the ring after the Ellis hasn't fought since then. The ring since 2020, that's wild. Now roach has reestablished himself as a player at one 47. Ellis is. And with a win could jump over Alice in terms of public standing..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" 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..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"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. All right, we are back recording this week in Los Angeles, the site of the Blair cobbs, Alexis Rocha main event on the zone. Joining me on the episode this week, you've read his stuff on boxing scene, and this week you can hear him make his debut on the zone telecast, filling in for Todd Grisham, one Cornelius erdmann. I've got a big shoes and big biceps to fill this week. Yeah, a few other things as well. We'll save that for off the air in that conversation. How you feeling about this? Good. I mean, it's kind of been a long time coming, I guess, in the sense that I've kind of been in the orbit to kind of working behind the scenes on his own and kind of calling fights for the competitors, so it's cool to actually get to do this. And you should be a decent set of fights, a fun set of fights at least. It's a fun character, the dive into with Blair cobbs, and I'm sure we'll talk about that. But yeah, I'm happy it's finally happened. Yeah. No, you know, it's disappointing that Virgil Ortiz had to take off this card with an illness, I don't know that that Ortiz Mackenzie fight would have been super competitive, but Virgil Ortiz has become an attraction nowadays in boxing, 18 wins, 18 knockouts, it's interesting. Whenever Oscar De La Hoya talks, I take it with a lick of salt because sometimes it just says stuff, right? Like he's saying Ryan García and Canelo settler beef with a fight at one 65 in a few years. Okay, ones at one 35 and one's going to find lead heavyweight title. But sure, why not? We'll let that one go..
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"blair cobbs" Discussed on The Corner
"I'm sorry, where am I talking about 26 Jesus Christ? No, but I mean, I understand because you're president stands. It's like, one 26 is open, right? Only one undefeated is never it. Yeah, they got ready to tell the beating on them. It's a beating on. His biggest hell, too. He's going to be at one 26 for a cup of milk. He got his belt, I don't see him staying there for very long. Outside of that, Kotlin had moved down to one 22. Before this fight, to try to get his bearings about him, Fulton said he'll go up. University of Fulton will help. But you have one 26 isn't like murderous role. Shakar went in there and grabbed the belt real quick. No one would fight him. He left. Kind of the same way, not never does walk him down. No, never super big. Never is too big and not very tough guy to get momentum going against. What against Conley would you get that kind of momentum because conlin is not a big puncher? And he fades late in the fight. So it's not easy. But there's a path to victory that a lot of people didn't see. And he just was trying to kind of work him over. Never it doesn't give you that opportunity because he kind of bludgeoned you with those shots. The damage piles up. So I don't know. Maybe? I'd like to see it again. It's the most money. And it's not like they make a ton of money down there. Not that they're paid horribly. But it's a good fight to run back. Leo says he's coming back. I guess that makes him the super champion. When he comes back and then Lee Woods belt is downgraded. If he does come back, we just saw Gary Russell junior lose his belt. So there's some fights there. Mark, make sales, again, we said he's fighting at the end of July. He's only underfeeding the person in the top, is it top ten? I think? Yeah. No, never a lost. It has a loss on his record. It was the only person who doesn't have a loss. Yeah. Just randomly got the belt. Yeah. And Lee would going out to Kiko would be smart. Yeah, I mean, there's this opportunity there, but he's the WBA regular champion. So that gives him a chance to fight for a title. I mean, it's a wide open division, man. Right now, either though. They're talking about gas tanks and people who can throw punches for 12 rounds, Leo's still that. I don't know what Leo ceiling is. When guys are bigger than him, like he crumbles. But at one 26, that's a tough call. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough. But again, go out of your way to watch this fight. You probably saw the highlights on social media and people are like, yeah, I already saw the knockout. No, fuck the knockout, even though it was an incredible watch the fight. The fight is fantastic. Yeah, hands down is incredible. This week, we're supposed to have Virgil Ortiz versus I forgot who he was even fighting. But nonetheless, Virgil Ortiz pulls out his fight with an illness. Thankfully they tested them for he went to the hospital earlier in the week, could have been really bad. They caught it in time. But he has to pull out his fight. This was kind of the fight set up so that he could have his mandatory challenge. I guess at the end of the summer, we don't know what Terrence Crawford is doing. But this would have put him in line to fight Crawford. I'm not sure he gets that shot now. Like any time soon. No, he's got to get back in the ring. I mean, for now the zone card has made of it by Blair Cobb versus roka, I like Blair Cobb. I know you do. He's so corny with the promos though, but that's cool. 'cause he loves it. You know, a little fun story. Blair Cobb, we were in what the hell were we? Arizona? No, LA. We're in LA for Ryan García. Or was it, ah, shit, I don't know. It was right for the pandemic. So we're in LA. We're doing fight of me. So I'm still with the zone at the time. And it's me, ty Grisham, Sergio Mora, who else was in this meeting. I can't remember. Blair cop comes in. Now, I posted a video of Blair Cobb at the Canelo fight about 6 months earlier in Triple H retweeted it. And Blair just went off about that shit. He came out 'cause Blair cop came out with Sean Michaels sexy boy music. And he told me about it and I followed him out and we ran that. So that day he has his furry vest on. He comes in to talk about the fight. Until Todd, I'm like, yo, Blair, you know, even though you know you do commentary, like Blair is a big Ric Flair fan. So what does Todd do? He calls Ric Flair. I have video of this somewhere on my phone. So in the middle of the fighter meeting, Todd calls Ric Flair, Ric Flair answers, and puts Blair on the phone and Blair almost cries 'cause he's like just losing his mind because Ric Flair is on the phone talking to Blair Cobb at a fire to me. So yes, I'm a fan of Blair Cobb. He's got a crazy life story. You guys will probably hear about it more later. He lives in Vegas now. Actually, not too far from me. But he's the main event, so he's worth watching. He's not like a big knockout punch. He's not like a top tier talent yet. But he's very fun to watch, but he's the main event. As far as Virgil Ortiz goes, hopefully he overcomes his sickness, which means we probably won't see him if you look at the boxing slate, which is insane. Probably won't see him till the middle of the summer now..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"blair cobbs" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Olympic team in kishon Davis, looks like he's got some potential to be something big. What is your strategy on kind of replenishing the ranks? You've got top headlining guys right now and Ryan Virgil, Hyman McGee, but the next generation, how do you approach kind of do you notice all those names you just mentioned? You know, they were not Olympians. Oh, your guys. Oh no, they were not a little correct. But JoJo was. There's certain guys that we look at, and we go after not all Olympia's always pan out. But they are top some of the top fighters. I mean, if you look at a champions one, 80% were Olympians or whatever. So but we really pride ourselves on looking for that diving in the rough. There is a couple guys that we're looking at, that we're considering, so we'll see. We'll see if we can be able to make a deal or not. But the thing with Olympians is that all the top promoters are after them. And it's almost like a race to make a deal with them and it just raises the price. And that's where we pick and choose. We pick and choose what we want to do. Do you have, as you look at your current stable, like the guys that are fighting on the untelevised undercards right now? Is there one that you're more excited about than another? As you look at kind of the look, I mean, look like the kid that's developed is Blair Cobb. You know, he's exciting. He's not thirsty though at this point. He's got a little bit of personality this and that, but he's due for a big fight. You know, he's getting knocked out. He's a lot of fun, man, but keeps getting knocked down. No, but we have this. We have this young kid right now that all of us are really high on..