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Got a great show lined up for you this week. Eddie Hearn, the promoter of record for this weekend's Lee Wood fight against Josh Warrington over in the UK joins me to talk about that fight. Plus, Eddie always has a few opinions on everything else that's going on in the world of boxing. We'll get to that a little bit later. But it was a busy weekend in boxing. Canelo Alvarez successfully defended his 168 -pound titles. What's the future for him? What's the future for Jermell Charlo, who quite frankly didn't show up in this fight? I thought it was an embarrassing performance by Jermell Charlo who talked a good game, made us believe or made some people believe he was going to win or at least compete, and then just moved around the ring for 12 rounds to survive a decision. We'll talk about that and much more with Keith Idec, senior writer with BoxingScene .com. He was out in Las Vegas. Keith, let's just start there. Compare your expectations for Canelo Charlo with how the fight played out. Chris, what did you think of the way that fight played out in the ring? Chris, I'm not in any way surprised that Canelo Alvarez won. Of course, Charlo was moving up two weight classes. Canelo, although he hadn't looked all that great in his previous three fights, said repeatedly that he would look better because his surgically repaired left wrist was now 100 percent. He could train with it, et cetera. So I felt like Canelo would win the fight. But I did think honestly it was going to be a competitive fight. And the thing that really surprised me more than anything, Chris, which I think you just alluded to, is Jermell Charlo simply did not come to win this fight. He seemed to come to go 12 rounds with Canelo to avoid getting knocked out. And the reason that surprised me more than anything, Chris, is because that's not who Jermell Charlo is. That's not who he has been throughout his career. He has fought and promoted his fights and done interviews with a chip on his shoulder that never goes away. And it has served him very well because he's always been defiant and disproving sometimes imaginary enemies. But, you know, he has always used that to motivate him. And in this case, he really didn't. I thought that he would be able to flip that switch on fight night, although throughout the promotion he sort of behaved the way that he behaved once the bell rang. Like he didn't really believe that he could win the fight and that, you know, this might have been too much for him in the sense that he was moving up two weight classes and fighting a big puncher and a dangerous guy. And that's the way he approached the entire fight. You know, Derek James was on him between rounds. Hey, you're losing this fight. You need to do more. You need to pick it up. And he just never really responded to that. And again, I can't really emphasize enough, Chris, how surprised I am that he didn't try to win. Because, you know, this is a very prideful guy. This is a guy, again, who has repeatedly proved people wrong or tried to prove people wrong and used that as a way to drive him to great heights. Because, Chris, he's the undisputed 154 pound champion, the first one of the four belt era. He has avenged the two blemishes or the two previous blemishes on his record. He's avenged both of those. He knocked out Tony Harrison in their rematch. And although in his first fight against Tony Harrison, I didn't really think that he lost. It was a very close competitive fight. Didn't necessarily think that he lost. But he came back and avenged it with an 11th round knockout. You could certainly argue that he'd lost his first fight to Brian Costanio. But then came back and knocked Costanio out as well in his rematch. So he had taken care of the two blemishes on his record. This is just something that's just going to, you know, it's a blemish on his record that is never going to go away. And it might, unfortunately, be for him, the fight that people remember him for most. Because he just did not come to make this a competitive fight. And there's really no excuse for that. Unless he was hurt and he's not using that as an excuse. Unless his left hand really wasn't 100%. Because it was his first fight since he broke two bones in his left hand last December. Unless that was a factor and he's just not using that as an excuse, which would be commendable to hide that if that is the case. Just didn't look like he came to win the fight. And there's really no two ways about that. I don't really see how you could have seen that any other way. I spoke to Tim Zu yesterday. Did an interview with him for his upcoming fight with Brian Mendoza. And he echoed, we basically agreed on everything that Tim Zu said. And he felt, he was less harsh on Charlo than I thought he was going to be, honestly, because they have this rivalry. But he said the same thing. He was just surprised that we didn't get the A -level Charlo that we've gotten in most of his fights. And the kind of, you know, tenacious, ferocious guy that we usually see. Yeah, Charlo wants credit for going the distance. He doesn't get it in my book. He wants credit for not getting knocked out. He doesn't get it in my book. If you take on a challenge like this, I don't care if you move up one -way class, two -way classes, three -way classes. You have an obligation to try to win. Like, people are paying money to see you try to win. People are buying, spending 85 bucks on pay -per -view to see you try to win. He didn't do that. And I agree with you. When his career's over, you know, if it's corrected tomorrow, this would be the fight he's remembered for. For going up two -way classes and, quote, challenging Canelo Alvarez, but not really challenging him. I'm not surprised that Canelo dominated. I'll say that, Keith, because I've been saying that since that fight was made. I never believed Jermell Charlo could compete with Canelo because, and I say this about every Canelo opponent. To be competitive or to beat Canelo Alvarez, you have to throw with him. You have to be willing to let the right hand go. And since like 2018, when Canelo became this sort of middleweight and above destroyer, only two fighters have done that. Gennady has Golovkin done it, and Dmitry Bivol has done it. Both those guys have been willing to throw punches with Canelo. They have not been fearful of the artillery that was coming back. But every opponent other than that, that I've seen Canelo go up against, whether it's Callum Smith. Billy Joe Saunders had a different game plan, but eventually Billy Joe kind of succumbed to it. And now Jermell Charlo, they just, you know, they were trying to, Caleb Plant, I put on that list as well. They were just trying to jab and, you know, move and try to outbox him from the outside. You can't do that. You can't beat Canelo Alvarez unless you're willing to throw something big back against him. And, you know, Jermell Charlo was kind of an oversized example of that. You know, just the way he fought was just, I thought, just awful. Just a really weak performance from Jermell. But a kind of a continuation of guys that, you know, show up believing they have a game plan to face and beat Canelo Alvarez. But they just don't. And that kind of brings me to my next question, Keith, of who does at this point? You know, I think we'd all agree David Benavidez, at least on paper, is the most competitive option for Canelo Alvarez. I don't know if he's a realistic option for May of 2024. Terrence Crawford's out there saying he wants a piece of Canelo. I love Terrence Crawford. I think it's a marketable fight. But you're not going to convince me Terrence Crawford's going to stand in the pocket and trade with Canelo Alvarez. I just don't believe it. Jermell Charlo, don't get me started. There's no market for a Jermell Charlo -Canelo Alvarez fight. Less so after watching Jermell, the smaller brother and the more active brother, lose to Canelo. What is realistic right now for Canelo Alvarez as we look to the second fight of this PBC deal? Chris, the last time we spoke about this on the podcast, I remember telling you that the people who wanted to see him fight Terrence Crawford next, better hope that the Jermell Charlo fight is at least competitive, because then how do you sell a fight against an even smaller opponent in his next fight? And here we are. I'm not saying Terrence Crawford won't go in there to win. He certainly, based on everything that I know about Terrence Crawford, yet I also thought similar things about Jermell Charlo. I would think Terrence Crawford would go in there with a real attempt to win the fight. He's got a lot of pride. He's a very talented guy. He's one of the best pound -for -pound fighters in the world, coming off an incredibly dominant, career -defining win. But like you said earlier, Chris, when you get in there and you fight Canelo and he starts touching you in the beginning of the fight, people tend to realize, well, this is going to be harder than I thought. Canelo said that throughout Fight Week last week. He said watch when the fight starts and then you'll see Jermell Charlo realize that he's in there with a guy that he hasn't, the type of guy that he hasn't been in the ring with before, and that obviously played out. The same thing could be true of Crawford. Now, it is a marketable fight, Chris, and I think the public reaction to it, to me, has been somewhat surprising because it's been relatively positive. People want to see this fight. I can't stress enough. This guy would have to move up 21 pounds to fight Canelo because Canelo has repeatedly said, I am not doing this in a catchweight. It's not going to be at 164, 162, something where you might then think that Terrence Crawford has more of a chance to win. I really don't see as great as Terrence Crawford is, and as much as I commend him for wanting this challenge, I don't see this as a fight that he can win.
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"All right, on Saturday, a 126 pound title is on the line when Lee Wood defends his WBA belt against Josh Warrington at Sheffield Arena. That's a fight you can watch live on Dazone. The promoter of that event is the ubiquitous Eddie Hearn. Eddie joins me on the show. Eddie, you're... What? The what? Ubiquitous. Love it. Don't know what it means. Sounds unbelievable. I mean, I'm a writer first and foremost, Eddie, and ubiquitous means everywhere. You're everywhere. All right, okay. I'm going to use that this week. I loved it, Chris. Thank you, thank you, yeah. All good, mate. All good. Looking forward to a great fight. I mean, it's a massive fight here in the UK. You know, you've got two British world champions, really. I mean, Lee Wood reigning. A two-time world champion. Josh Warrington, a two-time world champion, trying to become a three-time world champion. You know, we have a city called Nottingham and a city called Leeds. They're about an hour apart, an hour and a half apart. And Sheffield's in the middle, and that's where the fight's taking place. So an arena divided on Saturday. Just a really, really great fight stylistically as well. Yeah, and Lee Wood coming off a terrific performance against Mauricio Lara. I want to get into that as well. I want to ask you first, Eddie, for your thoughts on your former fighter, maybe future fighter, Canelo Alvarez, beats Jermell Charlo out in Las Vegas this past weekend. A pretty disappointing fight for everybody that was involved. Did you expect more from Jermell Charlo in that fight? Yeah, weird. I mean, I don't know whether, you know, it's like these guys turn up without any real desire to roll the dice. You know, I mean, I actually looked at him in the changing rooms and I thought he looked, he didn't even look in decent shape. Now, is that because he's a 154 going up to a 168? I don't know, but he looked fleshy. His body language just wasn't really at the races. And in the ring, he never tried to win the fight. Once. You know, and I know that Canelo's a beast, and he is. And I really feel like, and I said in the interviews before, Canelo will be back to more of himself in this fight. But I think even Canelo would be surprised at the lack of desire from Charlo. It's just weird and disappointing that, you know, what should have been a mega fight, if you like, really sort of the talk. Like, you know, I don't know, it's just, I don't understand mentally what was going on in there that night. And, you know, a disappointing fight, I think, has to be said. Do you think there's anybody between 154 and 168 that can compete with this version of Canelo? Because now we're hearing about David Benavidez and how dangerous a fight he is. I've always said, Eddie, that to beat Canelo, you have to throw with Canelo. And only two fighters I've seen do it. Gennady Golovkin did it over the course of three fights, and Dmitry Bivol did it a year and a half ago. You've got to be willing to throw right hands against Canelo. And Benavidez has looked great up until this point, but it's one thing to throw right hands against Caleb Plant, it's another thing to throw them when Canelo Alvarez is standing in front of. Do you think anybody can compete with this guy between 154 and 168? Yeah, I think Benavidez will. I think Benavidez would come to win. And that's what Charlo didn't do. You cannot say Charlo came to win, because he just didn't. But Benavidez would come to win. And I think it would be a compelling fight. I guess the plan was for Canelo and Charlo to have a great fight, and then the other brothers step in and, almost like Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa style in Russia, get revenge. But that fight is unsellable now, after that performance. So I don't know who they're going to look to next. I know there's a talk of Crawford, I don't really see that materialising at 168. I think they'll make Benavidez against Andrade and then look to make Canelo Benavidez next May, perhaps. But who will the September fight be? I don't know. It's hard to sell a competitive fight with Canelo vs anyone at the moment. But outside of Crawford, of course, because of the fascination, Benavidez is definitely a guy that would sell extremely well. And maybe that's the fight they look to in September. If they make Benavidez vs Andrade, Eddie, don't make any plans. Don't make any plans for Benavidez Canelo. I will make sure you have to commentate that night in America.
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"Welcome to another edition of Convo Over Cigars. I'm your host, Derrick Andre Flemming. Um, let's talk about Country Wayne, Wayne Coley. I've always talked about my respect for this man because he comes from humble roots and he's very transparent about that. He talks about, you know, being a dad, you know, raising 10 kids, things like that. You know, just what he's going through in his life. The fact that he was absent of a real father during much of his life. He talks about things like that. And I think that's what makes Country Wayne, Wayne Coley so amazing. But I'm here to basically give an honest review of Country Wayne's Netflix comedy special, A Woman's Prayer. Wayne Coley, the comedian who got his start on Facebook, he recently released a Netflix stand -up comedy special entitled A Woman's Prayer. The stand -up set is about life as a dad of 10. How to know if a woman likes you and why he keeps it real with Jesus. He also talked about his HIV -positive uncle cooking in the kitchen. Wayne has had unparalleled success and has amassed over 8 .3 million followers on Facebook. The 35 -year -old comedian is very transparent about his life struggles and that's what makes him great in my opinion. I also love his catchphrases, Jesus is popping and help is on the way. But the one hour long, something like that, Netflix comedy special was absolutely horrible. That's my honest opinion. I'd give it a one and that's being generous. Real comedians, people like Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Mike Epps, they are naturally funny. We're talking demeanor, their delivery, their stories, the way they narrate their comedy, they're just naturally funny. Country Wayne and I watched the entire comedy special, he looked like a guy who struggled to be funny, the entire set. The jokes did not land, the reaction of the audience was mediocre and it just was not funny. Funny is one of those things that's like, I guess chemistry in a relationship, it's either there or it's not. This Netflix comedy special was not funny and though some people say, I liked it, it was good, he did okay, it was his first time, hey, give him a break. Yeah, but the thing you have to realize is comedy is one of those things where there are different types, his skits to me are very relatable and they're very entertaining. He shows a little bit of everything, his relationships, relationships of other people, people like Mike Bless, they help the skits out, he's had Derek Jackson on there. I think his skits are amazing, I think they're wonderful, I think they're well planned out, they're well scripted but I don't think stand up comedy is Wayne's thing. I don't think that's what country Wayne should do. I just don't think he's a stand up comedian. I think when you look at guys like Lavelle Crawford, people like Chuckie, you remember Chuckie Ducky, people like Bernie Mac, I mean Dave Chappelle, Mike Epps, there's so many people, Cat Williams, that are just naturally funny. Stand up is not for everyone. Eddie Murphy, he was a great actor, you saw him in Beverly Hills Cop but you saw Delirious, you saw Raw, he was a comedic genius on that stage. His timing, his jokes, the level of comfort, country Wayne just didn't have that. So my honest opinion, I give the Netflix comedy special a one and like I said, that's being generous, I just thought it was absolutely horrible. That's just honest. You guys have been locked into another edition of Convo Over Cigars, I want you to check out his Netflix comedy special. We're talking about Wayne Coley, The Woman's Prayer. A lot of people say it sounds like a movie or something a little bit more dramatic but no, it's a comedy special. Want you guys to check it out and I wanna hear what you guys think. Guys have been locked into another edition of Convo Over Cigars, I'm your host on a Friday, Derek Andre Flemming, take care guys.
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"Shakur Stevenson said the other day when we had an open workout with him in Las Vegas, and he told a couple of really good stories about underestimating Terrence, or at your own peril, underestimate Terrence Crawford. He said he saw him spar a heavyweight one time and kind of made the heavyweight take a knee. I'm not saying those things didn't happen. I'm just saying that when you get in there with 10-ounce gloves and no headgear against a guy who can crack the way that Canelo can, and a guy who now apparently is the 100% version of him that we hadn't seen in a couple of years really, it's a very tall order. Although they're the same height, it's a very tall order for Terrence Crawford. But I do think, unfortunately, that as much as I don't think that this fight will be competitive in the way that some people might believe it will be, I do think that's going to be the next fight for Canelo Alvarez because I do not think, assuming David Benavidez beats Demetrius Andrade, and that's not an easy fight for Benavidez, but I don't get excited. I do think that David Benavidez will win and then would obviously be in position to fight Canelo in what would be a massive event on Cinco de Mayo weekend. Canelo already said that he's coming back May 4th of next year. It would be an enormous event, but that would be the second of his three-fight deal. And it's my understanding that the Benavidez fight, assuming Canelo keeps winning, would be the third fight of his deal with PBC, again, assuming that David Benavidez keeps winning. And then Benavidez is kind of in a weird position because let's say he beats Demetrius Andrade on November 25th. Does he then want to wait almost nine months or ten, I guess it would be ten months, yeah, ten months before he would fight Canelo? And that's, again, assuming that Canelo continues to win, you know, a lot of factors, a lot of things could go wrong and screw that up. We've seen that many times, but I do think at this point, I'm not sure that Crawford fights Spence again because if he demands, as he has done so far, if he demands that their fight is at 147 pounds, that rematch probably won't happen because Errol Spence cannot safely or smartly make 147 pounds because it just takes too much out of him and I don't think he wants to do that again. If they fought at 160 pounds, I think Terrence Crawford wins decisively. It doesn't really seem to matter. But if that rematch is not at 154 pounds, it might just go away and then Crawford would be free to fight Canelo next. And that very well could be the way that it plays out. Let me tell you something, Keith. You were skeptical of my opinion that Crawford, sorry, that Charlo against Canelo was going to be completely uncompetitive. I didn't believe that. I said it many times over and over. I want you to believe me when I say that Dimitris Andrade beats David Benavidez. If David Benavidez, this fight sounds like it's a done deal, if David Benavidez fights Dimitris Andrade at 168 pounds, he is going to lose. He is going to lose that fight. He's going to have to rematch Dimitris Andrade and we are no longer talking about Benavidez against Canelo. Andrade is going to be the one that is talked about fighting Canelo in May of 2024, a fight that Andrade has been chasing for the better part of the last five years. He's going to get it because he's going to beat David Benavidez. Calling my shot right now, October 3rd as we record this, Andrade over Benavidez unanimous decision victory. Well, I hope Adam keeps this one in the archives. Look, Dimitris Andrade is not an easy guy to fight, of course. You know, Dimitris is an elite level, from a skill perspective, is an elite level fighter. Benavidez is a big strong kid. I would expect him to win the fight. It's not going to be easy, but I do think he'll win the fight. And if Andrade wins, yeah, he would then be in line to fight Canelo and Canelo would have no reason, of course, then not to fight him because he beat the guy that everyone wanted to see him fight. It's bad for business and this is no knock on Dimitris Andrade. He's a very good dude and deserves his big fight and all that kind of stuff. But it's bad for business if he beats Benavidez because Benavidez, Canelo or Canelo Benavidez is the fight that everyone would want to see in that division with the guy who is still and will continue to be the biggest star in American boxing. So interesting fight on November 25th, for sure. You know, he's a talented guy, man, but he's a little he's on the back end of his career. He's a little older now. Say Benavidez is more of a natural 68 pounder than him. So I don't expect it to be easy for Benavidez. But if he wins, he's got a lot of incentive to win the fight because there's a big bag of money awaiting him if he does fight Canelo, assuming that's where he would go after that. But I don't know, Chris. Look, we'll bet some dinner on that, I guess. Big mistake, David. Big mistake. You and Samson Lukowitz are making a huge mistake booking this fight with so much on the line. You should have taken any other fight but Demetrius Andrade. Demetrius Andrade, yes, he has been a long time 160, but you know this, Keith, he's a huge 160. He's going to be I don't think the size disparity is going to be that big between David Benavidez and Demetrius Andrade at their weight. And on Fight Night, I don't think it's going to be that big. I think Andrade is a big dude. And yeah, they're basically the same height. I mean, Benavidez seems taller than I think he's really only 6'1", but he looks bigger than that. They're around the same height. I mean, Andrade might be a tinch smaller than him, but they're around the same height and Demetrius has filled out well. An interesting fight. Like I said, Chris, I mean, it's not a gimmick in no way, shape or form for David Benavidez. So I look forward to that fight on November 25th. If I just think he's whatever happens November 25th, I think he's fighting Crawford, even if Benavidez wins, as I expect him to win. I do think there's a lot of momentum for this Canelo Crawford fight, as much as I don't really think it won't be. It won't be Canelo, Charlo, because I really think that Crawford will come to win the fight. I really can't, Chris, I know I've said this already, but it's really just perplexing to me on the Tuesday after the fight happened that Charlo performed the way that he did, because that's just not the way he's built. I don't get what happened there. And he really, you know, he got out jabbed in this fight by Canelo and his jab is one of his best weapons. And, you know, he flicked it out there at all. But Canelo out even out jabbed and went to his body, you know, stalked him the entire fight, put him on his back foot. There was just no point where I saw over the course of 12 rounds that Jermell Charlo that I've seen for the better part of the last, you know, nine years or whatever, eight, nine years, I just didn't see that guy. Even in the, I wanted to bring this up, Chris, even in the post-fight press conference, when he lost to Tony Harrison, again, it was a close fight that could have gone either way. Jermell Charlo cried in that press conference because it meant so much to him that he lost his WBC title and it got to him so much that he suffered his first professional defeat. He cried during the press conference. During the post-fight press conference on Saturday, he was laughing and joking around. And look, I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy seeing a different side of Jermell Charlo and, you know, he was easier to deal with and all that stuff. But the guy who was edgy and would tell you to F off if you asked him how he was doing, that we needed that guy to fight Canelo Alvarez. And that guy was nowhere to be found for the last two plus months. It was bizarre.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt eats two croissants so he is not limping around and suggests to grab some nuts!! Rich and Cindy Crawford were working for the same company at the same time but they got separated! Episode #404 August 3rd. 2023
"Hello Divine People, August 3rd, 2023, episode 404, just starting with Rich on this side and Matt on this side. You used to be like Rich on this mic and Matt on this mic. I'm trying to confuse you sometimes. Well, you know, now I'm on my game now. You were thinking for a second, what are you going to say? I had a couple of croissants. Oh, you did? Yeah. I promised you one. You promised me one and you gave me two. Yeah, because you know what they... It's delicious. You know what they say in our country? If you're drinking shots of vodka or something, then you do one in a friend's house or something. He's going to say, take another one because you're going to be limping. That's for the other foot. Excuses. People find excuses. You drink one shot. Excuse to get another shot. So you'll be limping, right? So the problem is, men actually don't have only two feet. Do I have to think about maybe two and a half shots? Yeah, it was delicious. So you got two croissants, so you were not limping. It had chocolate in it and all kinds of nuts. I promised you one with nuts and chocolate, Belgian chocolate. That's what we do. Belgian chocolate, croissant, nice, crispy, fluffy, and just the best thing. And now you'll have to listen to me complain. I already started complaining. I mean, I was blessed with a croissant. It tastes great. And now I'll go, oh, it's going to bloat me a little bit. And I'm going to have salt retention and a little extra water weight. So I'll cry baby about it. And then in another 12 hours, I'll be back to normal. If I look into your body, those two croissants already lost their... Your body doesn't even know that you have been there two croissants visiting. They were delicious. I just want to recommend people to, you know, we said, well, we have 30 different croissants. 70 different croissants. Yeah, but I meant like the dessert one, 70 dessert ones. No, 30. Yeah, I thought my number was right. Yeah, you're right. So anyway, I just want to encourage people because man, they are just tasty. They're so crisp and hot. And you gave me me right away and I was on the run. You know, I was busy, right? And I had that thing next to me as I was driving around. Yeah. And I thought, well, I'll just wait till I, you know, get where I am. Not first intersection, mate. It was open by then. I know it. And then I ate one in the middle because I know that's where the best stuff is, right? And then I said, oh, this is too good. And so started nibbling on the ends. Yeah. You know how I get to the ends are a little smaller. The crispiest. Yeah, but it doesn't have all the stuff. Because I want to save the middle. My favorite's the middle with everything. I mean, the whole thing's good. So I started nibbling the ends and I probably didn't get more than a mile, mile and a half down. Yeah. They were gone both. You wore it like a hammer. Hammer is the gas guzzler. They went down the hatch and they were gone. But anyway, come on out and try one of our croissant, dessert croissants at Divine Naples Coffee and Wine Bar. You said it right. It's on 4th Street. Again, wrong. 4th Avenue. I did that on purpose. 4th Avenue South. Yeah, right. 851, right? 851, yes. 851. What is 858? That means 851. But anyway, come down and check it out. Have one and a nice cup of coffee. Good job. You know what? Number one. What? I see you here. That means you didn't win the lottery. I played by Chinese cookie numbers though. And number two, I always hold my promise, right? Yeah. Guess what I got for you today? Cookies. Oh no, what is this? A Ding Dong? Oh, it's an ice cream. You're really good. Oh my God. Describe what you're getting. Oh, it's a pink ice cream. Yeah, that's just your color. It's my color. Hey man. You like pink, huh? Oh my gosh, with some nice. Didn't you say cookie ice cream? Yeah. There you have it. We did a show on that. Yeah, that's why I told you I'm going to get you one. Yeah, that's yours. So now, since you're quiet, I have things to do, things to say. First of all, you have to use the moment. Yeah, use it wisely. I'm still getting words in with my mouth open. Music is provided by Julian Bruce. Thera Quitarra. That's the music on the beginning and whole show, so please support them. See them on Facebook, Thera Quitarra. Give them high fives or thumbs up, whatever works for you. And if you want to purchase their CD, available on our coffee shop. Our sponsor of this show, Beachesos .com, which is the only service here that delivers food, drinks, alcohol, sandwiches, salads, even baby wipes and Advil to the beach with our stylish fire truck that is mini size with maxi size of the light on. And the last thing I want to mention, if you want to print some money, some valuables, something that you can see our value in your home or somewhere where you go, you can find that at divinapels .com forward slash discount dash coupon. I'm just thinking. Divinapels .com forward slash discount dash coupon. Five hundred dollars available. Now, don't forget, there's a wellness month in August, so support your local businesses. We would like to see you more often in our spa. Divine Spa, best rated spa here in that divine Naples or Naples, Florida. And here you go. That's my official list right here. I have some more things, but there you go. Hey, there you go. Yesterday was 78 in the evening. Really? Yeah. It was nice and breezy. I'd like to know what it's going to be. Oh, you're going to eat one now. Yeah. Now it's your turn.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
Fresh update on "crawford" discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"The volume. Just a reminder that you can catch me recording this podcast live on AMP. AMP is the new live radio app that lets you call in and chat with me in person while I'm recording. Get the app on Apple's App Store and make sure you follow me at Chris Mannix to get notified when I go live. This is Boxing with Chris Mannix. I heard somebody punch him in the face. Anthony Joshua is a composed and ferocious finisher. Watch this. Andy Ruiz is the heavyweight champion. Hosted by S.I.'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. This is Boxing with Chris Mannix, part of the Volume Sports Podcast. Now we're going to welcome in everybody listening live on AMP. You can always get the first listen of this show and all the volume shows on AMP. Make sure you subscribe to the volume feed on AMP. Subscribe to my feed on AMP at Chris Mannix as well. Got a great show lined up for you this week. Eddie Hearn, the promoter of record for this weekend's Lee Wood fight against Josh Warrington over in the UK joins me to talk about that fight. Plus, Eddie always has a few opinions on everything else that's going on in the world of boxing. We'll get to that a little bit later. But it was a busy weekend in boxing. Canelo Alvarez successfully defended his 168-pound titles. What's the future for him? What's the future for Jermell Charlo, who quite frankly didn't show up in this fight? I thought it was an embarrassing performance by Jermell Charlo who talked a good game, made us believe or made some people believe he was going to win or at least compete, and then just moved around the ring for 12 rounds to survive a decision. We'll talk about that and much more with Keith Idec, senior writer with BoxingScene.com. He was out in Las Vegas. Keith, let's just start there. Compare your expectations for Canelo Charlo with how the fight played out. Chris, what did you think of the way that fight played out in the ring? Chris, I'm not in any way surprised that Canelo Alvarez won. Of course, Charlo was moving up two weight classes. Canelo, although he hadn't looked all that great in his previous three fights, said repeatedly that he would look better because his surgically repaired left wrist was now 100 percent. He could train with it, et cetera. So I felt like Canelo would win the fight. But I did think honestly it was going to be a competitive fight. And the thing that really surprised me more than anything, Chris, which I think you just alluded to, is Jermell Charlo simply did not come to win this fight. He seemed to come to go 12 rounds with Canelo to avoid getting knocked out. And the reason that surprised me more than anything, Chris, is because that's not who Jermell Charlo is. That's not who he has been throughout his career. He has fought and promoted his fights and done interviews with a chip on his shoulder that never goes away. And it has served him very well because he's always been defiant and disproving sometimes imaginary enemies. But, you know, he has always used that to motivate him. And in this case, he really didn't. I thought that he would be able to flip that switch on fight night, although throughout the promotion he sort of behaved the way that he behaved once the bell rang. Like he didn't really believe that he could win the fight and that, you know, this might have been too much for him in the sense that he was moving up two weight classes and fighting a big puncher and a dangerous guy. And that's the way he approached the entire fight. You know, Derek James was on him between rounds. Hey, you're losing this fight. You need to do more. You need to pick it up. And he just never really responded to that. And again, I can't really emphasize enough, Chris, how surprised I am that he didn't try to win. Because, you know, this is a very prideful guy. This is a guy, again, who has repeatedly proved people wrong or tried to prove people wrong and used that as a way to drive him to great heights. Because, Chris, he's the undisputed 154 pound champion, the first one of the four belt era. He has avenged the two blemishes or the two previous blemishes on his record. He's avenged both of those. He knocked out Tony Harrison in their rematch. And although in his first fight against Tony Harrison, I didn't really think that he lost. It was a very close competitive fight. Didn't necessarily think that he lost. But he came back and avenged it with an 11th round knockout. You could certainly argue that he'd lost his first fight to Brian Costanio. But then came back and knocked Costanio out as well in his rematch. So he had taken care of the two blemishes on his record. This is just something that's just going to, you know, it's a blemish on his record that is never going to go away. And it might, unfortunately, be for him, the fight that people remember him for most. Because he just did not come to make this a competitive fight. And there's really no excuse for that. Unless he was hurt and he's not using that as an excuse. Unless his left hand really wasn't 100%. Because it was his first fight since he broke two bones in his left hand last December. Unless that was a factor and he's just not using that as an excuse, which would be commendable to hide that if that is the case. Just didn't look like he came to win the fight. And there's really no two ways about that. I don't really see how you could have seen that any other way. I spoke to Tim Zu yesterday. Did an interview with him for his upcoming fight with Brian Mendoza. And he echoed, we basically agreed on everything that Tim Zu said. And he felt, he was less harsh on Charlo than I thought he was going to be, honestly, because they have this rivalry. But he said the same thing. He was just surprised that we didn't get the A-level Charlo that we've gotten in most of his fights. And the kind of, you know, tenacious, ferocious guy that we usually see. Yeah, Charlo wants credit for going the distance. He doesn't get it in my book. He wants credit for not getting knocked out. He doesn't get it in my book. If you take on a challenge like this, I don't care if you move up one-way class, two-way classes, three-way classes. You have an obligation to try to win. Like, people are paying money to see you try to win. People are buying, spending 85 bucks on pay-per-view to see you try to win. He didn't do that. And I agree with you. When his career's over, you know, if it's corrected tomorrow, this would be the fight he's remembered for. For going up two-way classes and, quote, challenging Canelo Alvarez, but not really challenging him. I'm not surprised that Canelo dominated. I'll say that, Keith, because I've been saying that since that fight was made. I never believed Jermell Charlo could compete with Canelo because, and I say this about every Canelo opponent. To be competitive or to beat Canelo Alvarez, you have to throw with him. You have to be willing to let the right hand go. And since like 2018, when Canelo became this sort of middleweight and above destroyer, only two fighters have done that. Gennady Golovkin has done it, and Dmitry Bivol has done it. Both those guys have been willing to throw punches with Canelo. They have not been fearful of the artillery that was coming back. But every opponent other than that, that I've seen Canelo go up against, whether it's Callum Smith. Billy Joe Saunders had a different game plan, but eventually Billy Joe kind of succumbed to it. And now Jermell Charlo, they just, you know, they were trying to, Caleb Plant, I put on that list as well. They were just trying to jab and, you know, move and try to outbox him from the outside. You can't do that. You can't beat Canelo Alvarez unless you're willing to throw something big back against him. And, you know, Jermell Charlo was kind of an oversized example of that. You know, just the way he fought was just, I thought, just awful. Just a really weak performance from Jermell. But a kind of a continuation of guys that, you know, show up believing they have a game plan to face and beat Canelo Alvarez. But they just don't. And that kind of brings me to my next question, Keith, of who does at this point? You know, I think we'd all agree David Benavidez, at least on paper, is the most competitive option for Canelo Alvarez. I don't know if he's a realistic option for May of 2024. Terrence Crawford's out there saying he wants a piece of Canelo. I love Terrence Crawford. I think it's a marketable fight. But you're not going to convince me Terrence Crawford's going to stand in the pocket and trade with Canelo Alvarez. I just don't believe it. Jermell Charlo, don't get me started. There's no market for a Jermell Charlo-Canelo Alvarez fight. Less so after watching Jermell, the smaller brother and the more active brother, lose to Canelo. What is realistic right now for Canelo Alvarez as we look to the second fight of this PBC deal? Chris, the last time we spoke about this on the podcast, I remember telling you that the people who wanted to see him fight Terrence Crawford next, better hope that the Jermell Charlo fight is at least competitive, because then how do you sell a fight against an even smaller opponent in his next fight? And here we are. I'm not saying Terrence Crawford won't go in there to win. He certainly, based on everything that I know about Terrence Crawford, yet I also thought similar things about Jermell Charlo. I would think Terrence Crawford would go in there with a real attempt to win the fight. He's got a lot of pride. He's a very talented guy. He's one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, coming off an incredibly dominant, career-defining win. But like you said earlier, Chris, when you get in there and you fight Canelo and he starts touching you in the beginning of the fight, people tend to realize, well, this is going to be harder than I thought. Canelo said that throughout Fight Week last week. He said watch when the fight starts and then you'll see Jermell Charlo realize that he's in there with a guy that he hasn't, the type of guy that he hasn't been in the ring with before, and that obviously played out. The same thing could be true of Crawford. Now, it is a marketable fight, Chris, and I think the public reaction to it, to me, has been somewhat surprising because it's been relatively positive. People want to see this fight. I can't stress enough. This guy would have to move up 21 pounds to fight Canelo because Canelo has repeatedly said, I am not doing this in a catchweight. It's not going to be at 164, 162, something where you might then think that Terrence Crawford has more of a chance to win. I really don't see as great as Terrence Crawford is, and as much as I commend him for wanting this challenge, I don't see this as a fight that he can win.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Matt eats two croissants so he is not limping around and suggests to grab some nuts!! Rich and Cindy Crawford were working for the same company at the same time but they got separated! Episode #404 August 3rd. 2023
"Hello Divine People, August 3rd, 2023, episode 404, just starting with Rich on this side and Matt on this side. You used to be like Rich on this mic and Matt on this mic. I'm trying to confuse you sometimes. Well, you know, now I'm on my game now. You were thinking for a second, what are you going to say? I had a couple of croissants. Oh, you did? Yeah. I promised you one. You promised me one and you gave me two. Yeah, because you know what they... It's delicious. You know what they say in our country? If you're drinking shots of vodka or something, then you do one in a friend's house or something. He's going to say, take another one because you're going to be limping. That's for the other foot. Excuses. People find excuses. You drink one shot. Excuse to get another shot. So you'll be limping, right? So the problem is, men actually don't have only two feet. Do I have to think about maybe two and a half shots? Yeah, it was delicious. So you got two croissants, so you were not limping. It had chocolate in it and all kinds of nuts. I promised you one with nuts and chocolate, Belgian chocolate. That's what we do. Belgian chocolate, croissant, nice, crispy, fluffy, and just the best thing. And now you'll have to listen to me complain. I already started complaining. I mean, I was blessed with a croissant. It tastes great. And now I'll go, oh, it's going to bloat me a little bit. And I'm going to have salt retention and a little extra water weight. So I'll cry baby about it. And then in another 12 hours, I'll be back to normal. If I look into your body, those two croissants already lost their... Your body doesn't even know that you have been there two croissants visiting. They were delicious. I just want to recommend people to, you know, we said, well, we have 30 different croissants. 70 different croissants. Yeah, but I meant like the dessert one, 70 dessert ones. No, 30. Yeah, I thought my number was right. Yeah, you're right. So anyway, I just want to encourage people because man, they are just tasty. They're so crisp and hot. And you gave me me right away and I was on the run. You know, I was busy, right? And I had that thing next to me as I was driving around. Yeah. And I thought, well, I'll just wait till I, you know, get where I am. Not first intersection, mate.
AP News Radio
Lives immigrants built in Texas town shattered by shooting
"People in a Cleveland Texas neighborhood say their community has changed forever following a mass shooting. It was April 28th at police a neighbors told a man firing off a gun in his yard that his shooting was keeping a newborn baby awake, and angry Daniel or a pesa allegedly went to the infant's home with an AR style rifle, and shot and killed the baby's mother, 9 year old brother, and three extended family members or friends, neighbor Sean Crawford lives two houses down from the family of Wilson Garcia, where the shootings happened. He was just always happy go lucky Wilson, him and his family. Crawford says Texas governor Greg Abbott's describing the 5 victims as quote illegal immigrants now have residents scared. This neighborhood is already changed in the time that this is taking place because you see nobody out with their families. And that was an everyday thing. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
Giants' bullpen comes up big in 5-0 win over Dodgers
"The Giants even up their series against the Dodgers shutting out LA 5 nothing. Jock Peterson with a two run double in the first and the Giants added three more runs in the 8th. Brandon Crawford went deep and David VR with a two run blast to center. It's been a monkey on my back. I've been thinking about it for a while and I was like, man, what am I gonna get my first one at home? So now that one's good, I mean, hopefully it's just clearly clear skies from here on out. The Dodgers mustard only three hits and we're over 8 with runners and scoring position leaving 11 on base, Dustin may pitch 5 and a third innings allowed two runs and struck out three but took the loss. Ryan leong, San Francisco
AP News Radio
Doval escapes in the 9th as Giants hold off Yanks 7-5
"San Francisco Giants bounced back from their opening day loss at Yankee Stadium taking the second game in the three game series 7 to 5. The Yankees picked up run in the first time error by giant starter Alex Cobb and another in the third on Giancarlo Stanton's line drive Homer, leading Cobb to find solutions when things were unraveling. The clock is ticking, you know, and when you, things are unraveling a little bit and you're kind of trying to find a decent group you gotta slow it down and you just have to do it another way. The Giants answered with home runs by Jack Peterson and Brandon Crawford in the fourth, but the Yankees tied in the 5th, leaving Lamont wade and Travis Estrada to break it open the 6th RBI singles. Matt mankiewicz New York
The Paul Finebaum Show
"crawford" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"And welcome back and really great to say hello to Brad Crawford from 24/7 as he looks ahead way too early order of finish and a preview of the upcoming college football season. It's never too early. It was spring practice opening around various camps. Some will come as the month of March unfolds. Brad, great to have you back with us. Thanks so much. Always good to have you on and I know some of this is pretty obvious. But tell us what you've dug up here as you are doing what all fans want to do and let's look ahead to the upcoming season. Yeah, thanks for having me, Paul. It's hard to believe Georgia won its second straight title only a few weeks ago and here we are talking about spring practice, but 2023 season has unofficially begun. I'm looking forward as an SEC media member to just see several of these cornerback competitions. We have the obvious one at Alabama between Jalen Miller. Ty Simpson with Notre-Dame OC Tommy Reese coming in there. We have an interesting situation at old miss with Jackson the incumbent for lane kiffin and now he's being pressed by Oklahoma state transfer Spencer Sanders, who's a four year starter in the big 12, by the way. And there are several others too. So I'm looking forward to seeing if any of these quarterback situations get solved over the next few months. Yeah, you mentioned the one at all mess and that's a good one just to dig into because everyone loves what lane kiffin has in that quarterback room and there's another one that dropped by as well. How do you think that will play out? Yeah, it seems like the writing is on the wall for Jackson dart to sort of lose his job this spring if he doesn't have a good 15 practice and then play well in the spring game there it'll miss. Obviously Spencer Sanders has a ton of numbers he's a guy with I think 85 or more touchdown passes out Oklahoma state ran a similar offense under Mike Gundy for the cowboys in the big 12 and he's the guy who is a plug and play and in the transfer portal call, especially at quarterback, you have to get someone who get there in early and early during the spring can instantly come into your quarterback room and give you QB one reps. And I don't think there's any kind of offense issues that spinster sand is going to have to learn. He's a guy who lane kiff and hand pick also have walker Howard there. So the O miss quarterback room for the next couple of years, especially 2023, is set in stone and if I'm Jackson dort, facing some pressure here going into spring practice. Another quarterback room that is interesting because it seems like it's been forever since there has been a debate. I guess the last time was literally when Alabama had Jalen hurts and to a tongue of our love, but what do you make out of the Alabama situation where they need to pick the right quarterback? That's the biggest key, taking the right quarterback. Tommy Reese is ultimately going to have that decision alongside Nick Saban. Things Jalen Miller and Paul showed us several times last fall that he's a dual threat guy. Maybe he's not as polished as a passer as bam was offensive staff would like to see right now, but he's going to get a chance. I think Melrose is going to enter Alabama spring practice as QB one and Tuscaloosa, ty Simpson based on the sources outspoken to there. He's a guy who obviously has a howitzer for an arm. And he's a former 5 star guy that Nick Saban knew would be an eventual store in Alabama. And I think it was very interesting is Saban was obviously confident in his quarterback room because he did not tap the transfer portal to get a Sam Hartman or someone like that, spends for Sanders. Those guys went elsewhere. So I think Sabin likes the two guys that he's going to sort of unleash during the spring and if I'm a betting odds maker right now, I go Jalen muro but ty Simpson is not far behind. Brad Crawford with us from 24/7. Brad, a lot of our guests at this point, a lot of people have varying opinions. Have surprised me because I mean, I can't remember the last time, even when LSU had Joe burrow that someone dared go against Alabama, but you seem to be holding holding firm right now in terms of picking the SEC west. Give us your reasoning why Alabama over LSU. Yeah, I think both of those teams right now have comparable rosters, but I'm just not sure LSU with pressure this time around is going to be able to put together an encore performance that's better than last year sending for finish. Jayden Daniels back in the back, they have Garrett nuss Meyer. He's a guy who might even press Jaden for some quarterback one honors. Now you have Harold Perkins, former financial linebacker who is my FrontRunner for STT preseason player of the year. However, you still have to go through Alabama to win the west. We've seen Nick Saban lose the SEC west before, come back the next season with a vengeance. I think a lot of us myself included were maybe too high on Alabama last season. I know we spoke at SEC media days last July and everybody assumed bamboo was going to be 15 and the greatest team on paper that we've seen in a decade plus and that just didn't happen. So I think you're going to see a motivated bunch in Tuscaloosa and as we see in the past as a dangerous scenario when Nick Saban has actual bullets and board material that he can feed into that crimson tide. Yeah, and Brad, most of that hype was coming from there because people close to that program said flat out. This might be, of course, we hear that a lot this might be Nick Saban's best team. And there was no reason not to buy into it. And I think when the draft comes around in 8 weeks, we'll start to look back and when there's an Alabama player taking one and maybe three will go what happened. But let me move on to Georgia. I think it's a foregone conclusion. They're the favorite to win the SEC, but the Bobo hire has drawn a lot of ire from some of our callers and our guests. How did you view it and do you think it's enough to keep Georgia from winning a third national championship? Yes, to me, it looks like Kirby smart sold has come. It may be a year and a half ago when Todd munk and his former OC first owned flirting with some of those open NFL positions, I think that's when he brought on Mike Bobo from auburn to be an analyst in Athens. And he just sort of shoehorned him in, like you said, to that OC role. I think Toyota is going to be fine based on how easy that schedule is, I was talking to some of the other day and I don't even think George is going to play a top 25 opponent until they go to Knoxville in November. So we're going to see a Georgia team that's really not battle tested to the first 8 to ten weeks of the season outside of maybe the gamecock game early against South Carolina between the hedges, but Jordan the team that right now is obviously no longer flying under the radar with back to back national titles and entering 2023 with the nation's longest winning strength, but the quarterback room right now is a question Carson bank was QB two behind steths and bat last year. I think he's the guy who's going to assume first team reps, but man, if anything goes wrong during spring camp or maybe he's not as good as advertised. As George is probable starting quarterback, then obviously brought Vande Griff another 5 stars. They're loaded there. He's a guy who's probably going to get some reps and get a chance to. I still like Georgia coming out of the SEC as a guaranteed layoff thing. Brad, before
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Our aerospace too, so we don't matter. Yeah, you know, I've heard you say before that you wanted standing on us. Wasn't about fighting an opponent, the caliber of standing on us was the fact that he had a secondary title. Why did you want that fight specifically? I feel like that was the best next option because he was trying to keep thurmond and he wasn't available. And you know, standing on a great fire, you know, why not first thing you notice you got a belt, you know, you know, putting on a beautiful show, you know, for the fans, you know? And shine and show these guys that I'm the real deal. You know, I'm sure like most of us, you started to believe for a while, the Crawford Spence was going to get done. When it fell apart in late October, what was your reaction? I didn't know what this, but honestly, I don't know. I was like, they probably won't ever fight. If they didn't fight this year, but I don't hopefully do fight next year and I may have not, you know, an opportunity for me to fight one of them, you know, you know, hopefully, you know, we can make that happen. So what do you think deep down though? You're fighting for the IVF interim title, which presumably would mean that Errol Spence if he doesn't fight Crawford would have to fight you in order to maintain that title. I personally boots. Don't really believe either of those guys will fight you 'cause you're too talented and the risk is not worth the reward. I think Spence and or Crawford were more likely to move up before they face you. Realistically, do you think either one of those guys would get in the ring with you? I mean, a two grown men.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"All right, Jerome boots Ennis is an undefeated 147 pound contender on January 7th. He will attempt to win an interim title when he takes on Quran shuka Jin. I hope I said that close to correctly. That's a fight that will take place on the undercard of javonte Davis's lightweight fight against Hector Luis Garcia and Bhutanese joins me on the show. For the uninitiated boots, the nickname, where does it come from? My nickname was originally us. My mom gave me that nickname. When I was little and then, you know, when I was going to the gym, you know, playing around. Everybody thought my dad was like seeing like boots like the shoes, we just kept and stuck with it. So, you know, I wound up turning out good. Little did your mom know she was giving you your boxing nickname for life at that time. Not your first time training for a fight over the holidays. I know you did it a couple of years ago for a January fight. How do you feel though about having to kind of watch your weight over Christmas? I mean, I feel great. I'm still eating. I'm still eating it doing everything I'm supposed to be doing. It doesn't change, you know, I know how to get my weed all right, you know? The right way. So, you know, I'm not too worried about the holidays. I still eat. Is there something though on the Christmas dinner table that you're like, you know, if I wasn't training, I would have this nah, I'm Ian. I'm eating. I gotta eat. You gotta eat the loose week. I'm Ian. It's nice to be in your mid 20s. 'cause that's nice. I'm curious for a guy like you. Favorite Christmas movie to watch over the holidays. And any home alone. That's good. That's good. That's a different generation. That's even a generation almost before me. That goes way back. Yeah. On the home alone, I think they're good. I love them. What got you into home alone? Oh, and I think one day I just turned it on, it was on. And I ever said I just been watching all the home alone all four of them. Oh, no, not all four. You watch two and then stop. Once I call it Balkan exits, then you're out. Yeah. Now I saw, well, I still like the other ones too. They need not too bad. That's dedication, man. I can't bring myself to watch one of them without my colleagues. That's tough. That's tough for me. We're wrapping up 2022. And you'll only have one fight this calendar year. 2020, you had three, 2021. You had two this year. You were down to one. What is this year been like for you? How would you describe what it's been? I mean, this year I've been great, even though I only got, you know, a long fight in because, you know, you know, Crawford and we try to figure out what Crawford, especially it's gonna do, you know, it was holding it up a little bit, so I mean, but it is what it is, you know, one fight this year, but we're gonna be able for three next year, so that's the goal. So, you know, I've heard you say that before the Crawford Spence held things up for your father say it before. But what does that really mean? Has it been like, you know, if you were kind of hoping it either happened or one of them would vacate a title, how did it hold up your career? Like, just basically hoping they would fight or whatever, you know, see what was going on.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"You know, Spence has been a welterweight his entire career Crawford obviously moved up from lightweight in one world titles at 35 and 40 before he got to a welterweight. So he hasn't been a welterweight for his whole career or anything, but you can't, you know, it's got to be hard for el Spence, particularly because he's made the mistake of blowing up and wait between fights. It can't be easy for a guy who's 32 going on 33 years old to make that weight. He's 5 9 and a half, 5, ten, whatever he is and, you know, it can't be easy at that point. So hopefully sooner than later, they would that fight would happen. Let's just hope they keep winning and at least there's the possibility of that fight because I would favor Ennis, of course, but a fascinating fight. Virgil Ortiz is a beast. Offense. A lot of offense out of Virgil Ortiz offense and skill out of Jerome and it's an unbelievable fight for both those guys. Credit to your point, credit Spencer, being able to make welterweight this long. Guy fought the Olympics at one 52. He's been at one 47 for his entire pro career. Yeah, I don't blame him at all for wanting to move up and wait. So I do think by the middle of next year, last quarter of next year, winner of Ortiz standing onis will be the full title holder there, boots will be a full-time IVF and then hopefully saner minds can prevail and we're not doing this all over again at welterweight. All right, let's finish with the fight you're at. Terrific fight. Frank Martin, Michael Rivera, two guys undefeated. Martin is what, 27, Michael Rivera is 24. They're both contenders. Surprised we're getting this fight. This is a great fight for people like you and me that watch these guys coming up. It doesn't have the broad mainstream appeal. It's the kind of fight that to borrow a bob arum phrase that promoters would let marinate under different circumstances. Let me ask us, why are they fighting? I don't want to, I'm not poo pooing it because I'm glad it's happening, but why are these two guys fighting right now at this stage of their career?
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"To get the big names, but he didn't specify that it was Spencer bust. That's kind of what it's got to be. I mean, I don't know what turns Crawford would do. At least not at one 47 after this. Does he look for the winner of Virgil Ortiz standing onis? Does he challenge boots Ennis? Like, I don't see those as being the kind of money making fights that Spence will be. Do you foresee it being difficult to restart those talks and get past whatever it was, they needed to get past the last time. I do see it being difficult Chris and the reason primarily that I see it being difficult is because of the way Terrence Crawford went about finalizing this deal with avenging. Had he gone to Al hayman, and I understand the flip side Al hayman is the most secretive guy in he never speaks to the media. People don't know what's going on behind the scenes. People are mistrustful for whatever reason about what's going on with PBC and such, but PBC is the tractors. I mean, so I understand they're going to say, well, why does he owe that to Al hayman? I just think it would have been better business for Terrence Crawford to have told Al hayman look. I told you from the beginning I was getting in a fight this year, for whatever reason, this fence fight is not happening this year, I am going to fight before the end of December. I have this deal for the fight David avenue for an enormous amount of money based on what type of opponent he is. I'm going to move forward with this fight. Hopefully we can revisit the negotiations after I go beat him up, but he didn't do that. He, Al hayman didn't really know that he was fighting David avene until a couple hours before anyone else knew. So that's not a way to build trust within what's already from Crawford's perspective, a mistrustful partnership, so to speak. You know, I just don't, I don't know how they go, I'm not saying they can't. But it won't be easy because now Heyman is going to be very mistrustful of Crawford. So, and Crawford clearly is mistrustful of Heyman. So I don't know. I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's going to be just as easy as Errol Spence fights.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I just don't see it being competitive. But Avicii and is an aggressive fighter and at some point he's going to walk into something huge and something he didn't see coming and he's going to get dropped and he's going to get hurt and bud's going to win. I guess the only question I have is, you know, bud's been off for over a year. He's 35 years old. He was hurt, you know, a couple of fights ago against agus kavanagh's. Is there anything, has he been diminished at all at this stage of his career? But if he's the bud Crawford, we're used to seeing and he claims he is, he doesn't have a ton of miles on his tires because of the way the last couple of years have gone. I just don't see aven being able to hang with him. God, I generally don't weigh in on pay per view numbers or anything like that, but good luck with this one. The promotion has been such just an abject disaster. It just has. And if the pro gray is a paid a fight was a bad pay per view and I've been told it was pretty catastrophic. I don't know how much better this one is going to be because nobody nobody's going into this fight believing it's going to be competitive and as compelling as bud Crawford is, like, you're just, you know, no one's paying 40. The money being a little bit lower is good. That's a positive for pay per view. More people try that. But nobody's really paying for an appearance fee. We're a fight like this. I just don't see it at this point. So I don't know. I'm with you. It's just been such a bizarre promotion. Like you said, and just the whole thing with like wanting transparency in the Errol Spence fight, but yet not getting any of it with the BLK prime people.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"I just don't see it being competitive. But Avicii and is an aggressive fighter and at some point he's going to walk into something huge and something he didn't see coming and he's going to get dropped and he's going to get hurt and bud's going to win. I guess the only question I have is, you know, bud's been off for over a year. He's 35 years old. He was hurt, you know, a couple of fights ago against agus kavanagh's. Is there anything, has he been diminished at all at this stage of his career? But if he's the bud Crawford, we're used to seeing and he claims he is, he doesn't have a ton of miles on his tires because of the way the last couple of years have gone. I just don't see aven being able to hang with him. God, I generally don't weigh in on pay per view numbers or anything like that, but good luck with this one. The promotion has been such just an abject disaster. It just has. And if the pro gray is a paid a fight was a bad pay per view and I've been told it was pretty catastrophic. I don't know how much better this one is going to be because nobody nobody's going into this fight believing it's going to be competitive and as compelling as bud Crawford is, like, you're just, you know, no one's paying 40. The money being a little bit lower is good. That's a positive for pay per view. More people try that. But nobody's really paying for an appearance fee. We're a fight like this. I just don't see it at this point. So I don't know. I'm with you. It's just been such a bizarre promotion. Like you said, and just the whole thing with like wanting transparency in the Errol Spence fight, but yet not getting any of it with the BLK prime people.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"My guest today is one of my favorite NBA people, certainly one of my favorite players I ever covered on a daily basis, which I did during my years as a Knicks beat writer. Oh yeah, he's also a three times 6 man of the year and simply one of the most creative and entertaining scores of all time and he's got a new gig as you might have heard Jamal Crawford joining the NBA on TNT Tuesday night crew, where he'll sit and gab alongside Shaq, Candace Parker, and my buddy Adam lefkoe. Jamal replacing Dwyane Wade, who has moved on to other endeavors. Jamal's perfect for this role, great hire by Turner. He's always been great at breaking down the game, talking about the game, you won't find a player who's more passionate about the game. Plus, Jamal's just really easygoing. They kind of need somebody to bring some chill to the set when Candace and Shaq start getting heated with each other, so I think he'll be a nice balance there. Jamal will be very busy with Turner. He's gonna be a featured part of the NBA TV studio shows as well, including center court, which airs weekly on Thursdays, as well as NBA game time. He will make his debut this season on opening night, October 18th with an NBA Twitter live show. So be sure to check that out as well. We'll discuss the new gig, how he knew it was time to hang up the Jersey, his thoughts on the upcoming season and a whole bunch more before we get to that. Quick plug, SI and triumph books have a great new book out, commemorating the Lakers 75th anniversary. It's called the greatest show on earth. I had the honor of writing the introduction. It's now available for pre order with a 30% discount, go to triumph books dot com, search for greatest show on earth. There's also a direct link to that in the summary of this podcast or you can type in a Bitly link BIT dot LY backslash Lakers 75. When you get to checkout, use the discount code Lakers 30. Again, it's triumph books dot com discount code Lakers 30 for a 30% discount. Okay, my conversation with Jamal Crawford is coming up next, so stick around. This is the crossover, an NBA show hosted by Sports Illustrated's Chris mannix and Howard back. It's a whole new level for you and me, Chris. This relationship. Like and subscribe for the best weekly NBA content these two are capable of. What does that mean? Could be the best duo ever. I don't see how you can beat that. Here they are. Chris mannix, and Howard back. Now please to welcome the pride of Seattle. Three times 6 man of the year. Soon to be Emmy winner, pretty sure. Definitely TV star. Jamal Crawford, JC, how are you, sir? I usually love introductions, but that last part was pressured back. Come on, you just throw me in the car. Well, this show, I believe, has won many Emmys, so. I mean, you just got to do the like, I guess what I'm saying is just don't mess it up. That's the goal right now. Just don't mess it up. Don't mess it up. Don't try to be a hero. Just stay right nice pocket. A nice window. They got a pretty good formula there. I think they know what they're doing. Everybody deserves a lot of credit for sure. No, it's a great crew there. I've had the pleasure of hanging out in the Turner studios a few times. And they're all fantastic down there. So congrats on the new gig, NBA on TNT Tuesday nights. We'll get into all that in a second. I wanted to just start here because I mentioned the 6th man of the 6 men of the year trophies right out the gate that is obviously a massive part of your MBA resume. And I was going to ask you where they were and we had to change your setup for our production purposes here. But they were right behind you. So the 6th man of the year trophies, you've got them on display in your house. Is that your, is it a trophy room? Is that do you have all your jerseys there? Like what's the setup? So it's just my office actually. And my wife deserves all the credit she set the whole thing up. I have two judges in my whole, I guess that are mine in the house. I have other people's journeys. But of mine, I have the Knicks and I have the clippers, those are my two favorite places to play. So I have those two and then she has the 6 man of the year Trump. She's like, when you do your interviews, do anything, do them in front of these. Okay, I spent a lot of time said this whole thing. Now I'm joking. She made the office a complete vibe and that's what we're doing. Nice. It's funny. I was going to ask you about because you had, let's see, it's 9 teams total, right? Accounting that very, very brief stint with the nets in the bubble. So you have all the jerseys, but the only ones you display are Nixon clippers, those with two favorite cities, two favorite experiences in terms of your career. I would say two of the most interesting experiences. I think I spent more time with those two teams. I played with Chicago four years and explore and a half and the clippers 5 years, but I feel like when I was in New York, I was on stage performing. I really believe that I made myself believe it. There was always somebody famous in the crowd, somebody always there rooting you on, so I feel like in the court was kind of dark and stands regarded the court was kind of, you know, like, you're on stage. So that was kind of like my performance piece and then the clippers I feel like was the best team. I ever played on and had a chance to actually do some special things. So yeah, those two are really, really special to me. And obviously, the two greatest media contingents in New York and LA, and I'm not saying that because I covered you for all these years. Not saying just because I spent all those years in LA cover the Lakers and then you cover in the Knicks. No, I like the rationale there too. And the rest of the jerseys are just in a box somewhere, I guess. Yeah, they're just in a box. Yeah. I mentioned Seattle too, so I did want to hit this real quick. There was a preseason game there this week, exhibition game, clippers, and blazers, which got everybody all stirred up again about the NBA returning to Seattle. I know that's near and dear to your heart. Did you go to the game? Did you watch the game? Does it stir anything for you when you see basketball in Seattle? I did go to the game. And it actually stirred a lot, even before we got to the game, just the city's excitement, seeing how much energy was around the streets, people were like, it was obviously, you know, the clippers versus blazers, but in a weird way, it's kind of like a sonic celebration as well. You know, seeing Gary Payton and Sean camp in debt laugh at Sam park was in coach Carl, like being in the building, being in that reign where they created so many memories, you know? And obviously it's a different name when they were playing, but still the same place. And you saw so much green and gold there, right? It was amazing because you looked at the player's faces, but the clippers and what the blades were seeing Daniel's face. You see in Kauai and Paul George, and they were taking it all into a team needs to be back here at some point. Growing up here, no one has sonics and how they played a role in my life and a lot of people's hearts and minds growing up. It's just especially back in there. Yeah. I think everybody who's been associated with the NBA players coaches definitely the media because we all loved it. Like everybody's really eager to see Seattle get a team again. Manics and I talked about this on the pod earlier this week. I'm kind of anti expansion. I think it would dilute the league too much. I'm more like, you know, move somebody there, which gets sticky because then you're offending fan bases and team officials and media and other cities, but I would love to see basketball back in Seattle. The NBA back in Seattle. I'm just not sure 32 teams make sense. I'm not there yet. 30 more players. It's great for you guys. Jamal, like obviously if you were still part of the players association, they'll be all for it. It's more jobs. I'm not sure there's enough talent in the league to support 32 teams at a high level. I think the quality of play
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"And now we turn the page towards what does Demetrius Andrea do next. He is an undefeated middleweight champion Sergio. He is 31 and 34 now. What is it? 34. He's undefeated at this point. He is a middleweight title holder. He has real money behind him. The top fighters in the 160 pound division need to face him. I'm talking about Gennady Golovkin. I'm talking about Jaime mcghee. And most importantly, Sergio, I am talking about Jamal Charlotte. Demetrius Android versus Jamal Charlotte is the biggest fight that can be made in boxing point blank period. End of story. You're standing up, you're walking away. I don't care. Android Charlotte, biggest fight in boxing, hands down. No doubt about it. I want to see that fight more than once the any other fight that could be made in boxing today. There are two unbeaten middleweight champions in a sexy division. The middleweight division, 160 pounds, they're in their prime. In their 30s, they need to face each other early next year. There is no other reason that this fight can not happen. Forget networks. Forget promotional affiliation. There are no other opponents for these two guys to fight but each other. Give me Andre charlo Sergio early next year or give me nothing else. I'm going to leave this room. I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe being in this room. Our design producer bob torn's is here. Can I answer that question, bob? I want to ask mannix the question. How does Anthony Joshua versus usic not be a bigger fight Anthony Joshua versus adjacent is a good fight? It's a rematch, Tyson Fury versus the winner of Joshua's is excellent. I'm all for that. I understand in the aftermath of this fight, people want to see Errol Spence against Terence Crawford. I don't care. I want to see Android versus Charlotte. It is a massive, massive matchup in a weight division that has long been one of the best in boxing Sergio. You and I are talking to each other. Yes, I told you. Hold on. Hold on. You and I are talking to each other in New England. The home of Marvin Hagler. Maybe or one of the greatest middleweight champions in boxing history. We need to see middleweight unification fights, and there is no better fight than Android against Charlotte for a 160 pound supremacy..
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"How I'm going to react in how I'm going to fare against one of the other top welterweights in the division. So, you know, it's a lot of talk going on about how terror is going to look how it turns react towards Sean aggressiveness and how, you know, strong shine is and how hard I punch you. You know, there's a lot of questions to be asked, you know, can't Fight Night all the questions will be answered. How do you think you're going to fare against that style? I think I'm gonna do good. Like I always say I'm adaptable to any style. You know, I feel like Sean Porter, you know, he's a tremendous talent, you know, and whatnot, but I just think I'm just a better all around fighter. You know, everything that he does, I can do too, you know? But I don't think he can do everything that I can do. You know, I think I'm a better smarter, you know, fighter at the end of the day. He has a way and it's his style, as you've seen to make it physical in there in the ring. He is coming at you. He'll wrestle with you. He'll brawl with you. Have you faced that type of style before? And what's the key to kind of handling that type of opponent? Well, listen, you know, Jeff horn was a rough rugged fighter, you know, ray Beltran was a rough brilliant fighter, you know, feel like a Diaz was a rough regular fighter. So, of course, you know, John Molina, you know, so being in the ring with those type of fighters, I didn't seen it on before. You know, Sean might have a little more of this or a little more of that. You know, but it's nothing that I haven't seen before. This is a cross promotional fight, John Porter, affiliate with BBC. You, of course, with top rank. Did you think the day would come when we'd see that happen for you where you get across promotion against the top welterweight? Well, it's not a cross promotion, you know, this is a fairly, you know, one promote promoter promotion R 5. And that's ESPN taught rank. You know, I don't know if those two could have came together, like they did with Deontay Wilder Tyson Fury and I made the fight across promotion. But then that, you know, the WBO has demanded to fight, you know, I think, you know, that was the best thing that could have happened. How did you feel about that Terrence, like the WBO stepping in and mandating that this might happen? Well, at first, I was just like, okay, you know what I mean? I'm wearing whatever, you know, but then, you know, the 60 40 split, you know, I was like, okay, you know what I mean? But I probably got the bad shake of that deal being that, you know, the numbers, you know, don't add up. But it is what it is, you know, we hear now. And, you know, we both making a lot of money. We're going to put on a great show coming November 20 of. Do you feel like or do you hope this is the first of many, maybe you're right, it's not a cross promotion necessarily, but the first of many fights where you fight some of the guys that everybody wants to see you fight. Yeah, for sure. You know, this is the stepping stone. You know, this is what everybody been waiting on. And this is what everybody doesn't call them for. And so have I, you know, I particularly probably haven't been calling for Sean Porter and direct. But all the other guys in the PVC are very colorful and, you know, this is the start of, you know, a bright end of a career. It's been widely reported terrance that this is the last fight of your top ranked contract. What do you think your future is in 2022? Well, my future is bright. Like I always said, you know, I'm not thinking about, you know, too much or anything right now, but how important, you know, he's my top priority, that's on my mind and everything else can wait to other this fight. Do you feel like you can get what you want under your current circumstances? Like I said, you know, this is something that we're going to discuss after the fight. You know, we're going to map everything out and see what's best for terms Crawford. So last question for you. How obnoxious is Beau Mac going to be at the way in for this fight? What are we going to hear from him yelling in the corner at Sean Porter in this fight? I don't know, you know? Is this moment, you know? He's unpredictable. Yeah, awesome. He might not, you know, we gotta watch and see. It's kind of weird watching him yell at Stevenson, given how much he likes shiko Stevenson. That was a weird that was a weird situation there. Hey, you know it is what it is. You know, trying to mail to the best of Jamal ability and, you know, see if you can get that victory. You're a guy that's moved up and wait several times. What did you think of Shakur at one 30? I know you and him are have a good relationship as well. It was nothing that I wasn't telling everybody about Shakur in the past. You know, like I told everybody, you know, he's gonna be the next superstar unboxing. I don't see nobody being right now. I thought he filled out really well. I mean, that happens, of course, it's happened with you as well, but like going up and wait, he looks stronger than he did at one 26. Yeah, for sure, for sure. And he's capable of going up to one 35 and one 40 as well. Yeah, that'd be fun to see a lot of good fights for him at both those weight classes. Starts. Good to talk to you, man. We will see you on the 20th in a huge fight against Sean Porter, you can catch on ESPN pay per view. Thanks for joining me man. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. That's it for this week's episode by thanks to Sergio Mora and Terence crop for join the show. As always, subscribe, rate review this podcast on Apple podcast, Spotify, wherever you download podcasts. 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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"crawford" Discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Porter in this one? You talk about Sean Porter. You're talking about a man that's only lost to champions and by split decision, majority decision. Now khal Brooke, I think it wasn't a close fight, but it was still a competitive fight in those early in his career. Anything or anyone that weighs a 147 pounds shampoo can beat or compete against, including Terence Crawford, who is arguably the best fighter pump for pound in the world. And the reason he'll do it not only because he has that manhandling style, but the switching back and forth from lefty to righty won't throw him off because Sean Porter does that. He does it in a wrestling fashion. Errol Spence said he struggled not struggled, but he called them a Street Fighter. He called them a tough guy in a Street Fighter. That's what you need against a style like butt Crawford. Whenever you have perfection, you beat it by being imperfect. You know, you need imperfection to beat someone that's so just unflawed and clean and mean like bud Crawford, so you need a tough guy a wrestler, a mall or a brawler. You need a champ Porter. I think this is gonna be just another one of these Sean Porter type fights where he will hurt Crawford. He will get his respect. Crawford will probably win, but after the fight Crawford likes Spence will say, man, that was a lot tougher than I thought. This guy is a real deal. And that's why Porter is always excited to watch. I think that's the key, right? Can Porter muck it up in the same way did in the losses to key Thurman to Errol Spence and the same way he did in wins over what Danny Garcia was a big one for him. Can he make it the kind of wrestling match he needs it to be to win this fight? Or is Crawford's so good and so technically proficient that he catches them on one of those rushes? That's how I'm very correctly. And I think as good as Spence is great with the jab uses his size, Crawford faster. And I think Crawford's more explosive with some of these shots. So I think coming in, that's a big risk for Sean poor. He's got to be real careful. He doesn't walk into a bomb. But if he's able to wrestle with Crawford and maybe tire him a little bit, he's gonna be the physically bigger fighter in the ring. He's a career welterweight, basically. And I think he was at middleweight. He has a middleweight Danny Jacobson, it's a big guy. So you don't think. So I think if he's able to do that, he's gonna give himself half a chance. I just think Crawford's so good, man. Like Crawford is so, so talented that as long as he hasn't lost a step that what we saw against the likes of meme machine, where he got dropped, even though it wasn't called. As long as he's at the peak of his power, I think he's going to catch on board something big. I think this fight ends at a stoppage with Crawford winning. Can you really imagine anyone stopping a Mack truck like pulled out? I don't think anyone stops him. I won't 47. No one stops. No one stops at shampoo at one 47, including Crawford's Crawford moving up in weight if you look at them. I moved up and wait what three years ago? And cropper was telling me Trump was not a big guy. He's not the thin, very strong fighter. I mean, I see him in person. Right. And he's more muscular than I thought. It's not the same, but you remember how Crawford won his title against Jeff horne. Jeff horn tried to make it a street fight too, Crawford had any of that. He was battered him around towards the end. Jeff horn is no shit. He's not Trump orders league. I get that. But he tried to make it physical. Jeff horns successfully did that against Manny Pacquiao. That's how he won his title over in Australia. He's been able to do it at a reasonably high level. Crawford wouldn't let him. Crawford's too good. Too great, choose your words right. You don't want great. Okay, butt Crawford is we're watching greatness. I mean, what he does is so hard to do. And he does it so effortlessly. And the way the way they've been letting them be himself, you know, just whatever style he wants from whatever position whatever stands, he's a mean, mean fighter, and he can box and sit back and pick you apart. But Porter makes guys like that. Look human. So shampoo definitely has a chance to mock this up like you would say, but to win, I think that's a little bit out of his reach. We know what Sean Porter is on the lead level with the thurmans and the spences. And this is just another one of those fights. So this is Crawford's last contracted fight with top rank. If you or him, what would you do? I already told you this on jabs on our show. I told you everybody listens to or they should watch it every Tuesday. Well, listen. I'll repeat it. I'm gonna regurgitate exactly what I say on that show. I'm not sure if that's kind of the right word. I'm not sure if that was a word. But I'm going to throw me off. I'm going to repeat what I said on the show. Third time's the charm. Any great fighter, everything all the great fighters in the past 20 years that have made the most amount of money have ventured off from being champions with a promoter to making their own promotional company. Golden boy promotions will also the lawyer Mayweather promotions with Floyd Mayweather. Coda did it in his own fashion as well. I think that's what book Crawford needs to do while Canelo, of course. But promotions, that's what needs to happen when he becomes a free agent. But promotions and association with whatever promoter they're going to work with. And then that's how he makes the money he wants. That's how he still has the control and he still has the finger on the button, and that's how he gets paid and makes that pound for pound money that he's looking for. But promotions. And he's 34 years old. He's at that point where he should be doing that. He should be going fight by fight or no more than a two fight contract. Canelo Álvarez is proof that it works. And before that, Miguel cauda did it successfully in the twilight of his career. A lot of fighters have done it. Not as many as they should. Not there haven't been many successful fighters that are coming to try promoting. No sugary letter actually was trying to promote sugar juniors a promoter, but successfully. Roy Jones junior for a while tied himself to HBO and like, you know, that's basically the same as tying yourself to promote. I think these fighters the top ones should be as free as they could possibly be. You know what young guy's doing it that I love? Boots Ennis. Boot status is not tied to anybody. Smart. And he's fighting regularly on showtime. He's getting paid. He's rising the ranking. So he was going to get a title shot no matter what. Boots and his is if he stays the course on this, is going to put himself in position where he can ping Pong between matchroom, top rank, PBC, wherever those big fights are. I take some balls to do that, Sergio, because there's guaranteed money you're leaving on the table. When you don't sign any great business decision ever made was scary. And that's how you, that's how you maximize the money that's on the table by taking chance to take risks. Any billionaire will tell you that. You need risk and balls. You would know you come from money once again. I don't come from a privilege. 9 months. Well, I don't come from generational Boston generational Boston wealth. Maybe you should have thought about that before you signed a rematch clause with forest, okay? Maybe that's what you thought of. I'm incorporated land snake promotions. That's my corporation bras. No. All right, let's finish with Demetrius and raid against Jason quickly. You heard Sergio at the fighter meeting, Android. He blames everybody for his lack of notable fights. He has been the middleweight champion for over three years now. And he has yet to have a signature fight. His last fight a win over Liam Williams was broadcast in the afternoon on Saturday. This coming to provide against Jay quigley, very good fighter, one loss on his resume coming off the biggest win of his career of Shane Mosley junior, but it's not the marquee fight against Gennady Golovkin against Jamal Charlotte against hybe mongia. Answer this question, why has Demetrius Android had such a.
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Giants Get 4 in 9th to Beat Rockies; 1st Team With 90 Wins
"The giants are forty games over five hundred after putting together a four run nineteen to seven four victory at Colorado the Rockies lead for three until lamonte Wade junior lined a two run single and scored on Evan Longoria's two run double Brandon Crawford homered and branded delta three hits for the NL west leaders who were the first major league team with ninety wins Tyler Rogers help San Francisco get its fourth straight victory working a scoreless eighth to move to six and one Carlos Estevez took the loss at least Diaz doubled twice to put the Rockies ahead for three with a sixteenth home run I'm the ferry
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Marmolejos, Mariners Score 4 in 9th, Avoid Sweep by Astros
"The mariners avoided a three game sweep by scoring four times in the ninth inning of an eight five win over the Astros Jose marmalade host hit a tiebreaking two run single with two outs in the ninth before JP Crawford slammed a two run Homer the mariners trailed most of the game before tying it at four on a two run double by Jared Kalanick with two out in the seventh recently signed Marwin Gonzalez hit a two run Homer and Jose out to they had a solo shot for the AL west leading Astros Houston starter Jose or kiedy permitted four hits and two runs in three innings his second start since coming off the injured list I'm Dave Ferrie
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Duggar Triples, Giants Hold off Dodgers 6-4 for NL West Lead
"The giants defeated the Dodgers six to four to regain the NL west lead by one game over Los Angeles Steven Duggar hit a tie breaking two run triple after being called up earlier in the day extremely fortunate to get an opportunity tonight to help this team win and a pretty big game Sunday night baseball and and this this incredible rivalry in tonight the guys came out on top Brandon belt homered and Brandon Crawford added an RBI double a San Francisco beat Walker Buehler for the first time in eight decisions the giants tag dealer for a season high six runs on seven hits over three innings pitcher Albert Pujols made it interesting with a two run blast in the ninth his six hundred seventy eight career home run I'm the ferry
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Giants Beat Dodgers 3-2 in 11th on Error, Take NL West Lead
"Brandon belt scored on a throwing error by Trey Turner in the eleventh inning completing the giants three two victory over the Dodgers Los Angeles challenged the call to no avail allowing the giants to move one game ahead of the Dodgers atop the NL west Chris Taylor's RBI single in the ninth forced extra innings for the Dodgers who went ahead on Turner sacrifice fly in the tenth Brandon Crawford's RBI single in the bottom half extended the game the giants received a strong performance from Anthony DeSclafani who limited the Dodgers to two hits over six shutout innings I'm Dave Ferrie
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Giants Turn 5 DPs, Get Alonso With Bags Full to Top Mets 3–2
"The San Francisco Giants became the first team in MLB this year to clinch a winning season by beating the Mets three to two the giants have a come from behind to win their eighty second game York held a two to one lead entering the seventh as Taijuan Walker giving up just one hit a solo home run by Kris Bryant and thereby Johnson the aren't a bloop single by Alex Dickerson to start the seventh was enough for Lewis Ross to remove Walker for Erin loop who probably gave up a two run go ahead double to Brandon Crawford that stood up in any situation whether whether we've got a lot of hats and you know it's a nine to ten gamer or it's a big data entry to Canada it's it feels good either way the fading that's about lost ten of their last twelve games Tom Mariam New York
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Bryant Homers Twice, Giants Beat Tired Mets 7-5
"The giants out slugged the Mets to beat New York seven of five Kevin Johnson got the win he pitched five innings allowed five hits and three runs with seven strikeouts Brandon Crawford at four hits and Kris Bryant homered twice the Mets got a two run Homer from Jonathan V. R. but we're just one for seven with runners in scoring position rich hill went only three two thirds innings giving up six hits and two runs the loss dropped New York back to five hundred and R. three and a half games behind the Braves for first place in the National League east Riley Aung San Francisco
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Bryant Homers in Giants Debut, San Francisco Tops Houston
"Kris Bryant homered in his giants debut as they took the rubber match of their three game set with the Astros five three Brian was greeted by chants of K. B. K. BK B. when he trotted onto the field for pregame warmups and received a standing ovation during his first at bat I played you know giants for six years and always been impressed by you know how smart intelligent fans are and how into it they are and it's really cool for them to be cheering for you this time Karen Ross had three hits including a home run and two RBIs Brandon Crawford and Donovan Solano each added two hits the giants still lead the NL west by three games over the Dodgers the Astros are four and a half up on the aids in the AL west I'm the ferry
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Crawford Back With 2-Run Double as Giants Blank Dodgers 5-0
"The giants leading the NL west is back up to three games following a five nothing win over the second place Dodgers Brandon Crawford doubled home two runs in his first at bat since returning from a left oblique strain situation you know the crowd describes into it already there in the first they're excited you know to be able to do something about them not about which was pretty fun Wilmer Flores Austin Slater Lamont Wade junior also drove in runs for San Francisco which took the rubber match of the three game set winning pitcher Johnny Cueto earned his first win since June twenty fifth yielding four runs over five two thirds innings the loss what to David price who is reached for three runs over for the third I'm Dave Ferrie
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Crawford blasts 18th home run, Giants thump Nationals 10-4
"The giants are majorly best fifty six and thirty two and won three straight after they blew out the nationals ten to four six singles and two sacrifice flies gave San Francisco in eight nothing lead in the sixth Brandon Crawford hit his eighteenth Homer of the season the center Anthony DeSclafani got his career high tenth when pitching six innings allowing only three hits and struck out six Washington's Jon Lester was chased after two and two thirds innings giving up nine hits and eight runs taking the loss Ryomyong San Francisco
Tha Boxing Voice
"crawford" Discussed on Tha Boxing Voice
"But it got. It got postponed to yoko august. Ceo call allegedly cova. Do you believe that there is this. I really worry about that right now. but I do think. I do pulse so does ever shy It oh definitely has a lot a lot of openings that no you can take a hold of But not oh definitely coming to fight. He's always he's always been prepared for the worst situation. So it's still the undisputed lightweight champion. Not not yet. He's the unified in your. Yeah yeah. he has to fight on deb. Haney for that right. Yeah yeah he does. He does he. Does i love to see that fight. Also so would i get some work with haning. No we might have to set that up. Get you on the vegas man. Listen we want to thank you. Obviously for jumping on. Let me refreshing case. Any people slid in any last ones before we let you go but we do appreciate you coming on. And obviously they did slide in a few more. I got young diga. Who says thoughts on crawford's hundred and forty seven pound resume and his next opponent not being a top hundred and forty seven pound fighter again. The rumor is jose. Ramirez off that loss. To josh taylor joseba or regis program all hundred and forty pounds all people in your division i.
Catch my Killer
"crawford" Discussed on Catch my Killer
"It was freezing in there regarding the air conditioner. I would say that. Whoever killed josh mess with it to cover up evidence in possibly slowdown the smell of decomposition. There are killers that place murder victims and freezers for this same type of reason. It makes it hard for authorities to determine the exact time of death. I also wanted to ask you about your time. Commitment to solving josh's case it sounds like you've spent many hours working on this. Do you do this alone or do you have family members helping you. I am the only person that's working on my son's case out of the whole family that i have and when i get into josh's case it gets so draining it literally just exhausts me. I work on josh's case. I do Media every year. I'll take a lead. And i'll i'll search it and get as much information as i can but i'm the only one that's working on josh's case my final question for you is for anyone listening to the podcast. If they have any information about your son's case what would you say to these individuals please. Kalemie don't be afraid. Come to me tell me what you now and then i can be able to tell if it's true or not. I wanna know where his keys are. His telephone is get taller. Why would you brutally murder my son. What was the reason for that. I wanna know why. Why would you hurt josh. Why would they do that over. Money drugs what is it. What was reason in that concludes the story of joshua crawford. Although josh was perfect he didn't do anything to deserve to be so brutally murdered. He was loved by.
Catch my Killer
"crawford" Discussed on Catch my Killer
"She's not gonna tell you the whole story but now she's lost the state of maryland. And i think because. I know so much. They have her under witness protection. And they've just you. You'll have to get that book. The snitch game and it does make sense of how he's treated josh's case and i'm dealing with. They don't wanna solve josh's case because of the witness protection and using josh to catch drug dealers. That's what they did with my son's case and they made plea deals with these drug dealers or it is connected to that all the murga and you're talking about a serial murderer. They're still pieces. That i need to find out and each year a piece comes up that much closer together for me. I always say. I'm in a valley right now. You know how you get in a valley then you get up on the mountain and you go into valley right now. Madness valley because nothing. Surfacing josh was cases low keyed right. Now i haven't heard from the cops. One of the detectives have knocked on my door. Gave me a phone call nothing. So it's very quiet down in this family. And then when. I start putting more about josh on my facebook. Then people from his past will pop up out of nowhere and the people that are dead. There was one that shot himself in his head. He had a shrine of josh. Every newspaper article was pinned up in this guy's apartment on a wall. He shot himself in the head at his dinner table. Terry told me that many of josh's friends and people he socialized with have since passed away. Unfortunately josh's friend justin who found josh's body didn't live much longer after making. that discovery. terry informed me that justin had committed suicide For this part of the story. I spoke to private investigator sam. Hanna who looked into josh's case ontarians behalf sam is a former homicide detective and spent many years in law enforcement before retiring. I will provide his website information if you would like to reach out to him. Not sure l. That mrs crawford reached out to me and ask me 'cause i i have on my credentials investigate or cases i looked at one would be looking at coal cases so he just look case and as i've looked at it and read over things she has sent me. I'm just really surprised. Solve it yet because to me there's a lot of information there to suspect may have been when i spoke to her. She gave me a lot of details about this crime. I mean of all the people that i've spoken to terry is probably done one of the best in depth investigations i've ever seen. She has names. She s statements. She's been out in the streets getting names and getting information. I mean to me. It sounds like she just put everything on a platter for the cops. I don't know why this case is still considered unsolved what they had whereas and i found this out. 'cause i've been one person as long as i was i was batak. That's like to and twenty nine years and sometimes your job is to eliminate suspects and i don't think they try to eliminate it. I just think looking at as it may be a direct case on bad. Or what have you. Because from what i'm seeing to watch. Esn they've really been working at heart. Can you tell me a little bit about your approach to this case basic. Since i live. I live out of state more. She that all. I did was just try to look at what was going on in the case for her. Read all the information that she'd sent her correspondence with law enforcement there and basically just gave my opinion..
Good Seats Still Available
"crawford" Discussed on Good Seats Still Available
"Memphis memorial stadium. It's the memphis southbound. Detroit wheels are national. Anthem is being sung on the field by debbie kinkaid tennessee. Let's see if we can pick it up Welcome to good seats still available. A curious little blood cast devoted to exploring what used to be in professional sports. Here's your host. Tim handling hello friends. It's your pal ten minutes seats still available. Yeah curious little podcasts. Devoted to what used to be in professional sports. Yeah that's what we love to roll around in here on this This little show our little exploration into teams leagues and even major events that were part of the pro sports landscape Few decades ago even maybe of a century ago depending on how far we like to go back. It just depends on where we spend the dial each week but it is the the want of this little show sort of laser in on these sort of little forgotten dust bunnies of history. And we welcome you once again to the proceedings and the clip is a bit of a tip off but just a little of what we're in store for this week. Our guest is dennis crawford. He is the author of a great new book literally just out hot off the presses and is devoted to the life and teams and story of course of john f bassett also known as johnny. Johnny f bassett maverick entrepreneur of sports. That's the title of the book. And johnny bassett is a fascinating character. We ever create a hall of fame for Things forgotten in the good seats. Still available podcast Halls of fame. If we ever create them john bassett john. F bassett johnnie. Bassett will absolutely be among the shortlist of Considered inductees for sure why you ask well He is the Three time Forgotten sports Founder and owner and actually various permutations thereafter. John f. bassett was the science of bassett family That was a well-known in toronto and canadian publishing circles. Pretty well off family for sure. And johnny didn't necessarily want to immediately or Elegantly shall we say follow in dad's footsteps. He wanted a car of his own path out and the way he wanted to do that was wait for it. Owning and running and in sticking it to the man of professional sports in these various leagues and teams and the first of which you just heard that clip from july nineteen seventy four. I don't know specifically the date. I used to know and i forgot her off the top of my head. I'm sure more than a few of your yelling. The actual date to into your devices right now. And i thank you kindly for correcting the record but july. One thousand nine hundred seventy four. That's dick palmer. On the play by play and bill haney with the color commentary and of course miss debby kincaid miss tennessee nineteen seventy-four singing the national anthem for the first ever home regular season game of the memphis. The world football league nineteen seventy four as you. Well know world football league action coming at you and of course the wheels the detroit wheels. Of course their competition and the wheels of the league Soon to fall off Later in the mid- middle middle part of the season and thereafter. It did limped to a to a. We've talked about many previous episodes. You can look those up on our our website. A good seats still available dot com of course but the memphis south mun an interesting journey just to even get to that opening day game. Johnny bassett originally had envisioned that team his first ever major pro sports effort as the toronto north men of this world football league as it was being put together by people like gary davidson and his pals and we get into some of that conversation in our conversation. Some of this specific facts that led to the team before even getting a toronto off. The ground moved to memphis for a number of reasons. Which will will delve into. But that's just a fascinating Beginnings of the journey of pro sports. Maverick nece if you will of johnny bassett who later went on to maybe not later concurrently to get involved in the world hockey association as well and yes of course there's some linkage there because Folks like our old pal. Dennis murphy and gary davidson and others were certainly part of that extravaganzas. Well we get into the story with dennis. In our conversation johnny bassett Bought the ottawa nationals Of the then fledgling. Whm move him to toronto his hometown to create the direct challenger. I guess to the toronto maple leafs at the time. The toronto toros after a couple of years. They're moving them to birmingham alabama all places where they became The birmingham bolts and fascinating stories. There as all part of that to you know sort of breaking into the south deep south and bring in pro hockey the top level. Johnny bassett was behind that and also was very involved in league activities negotiations wayne. Gretzky makes an appearance ally gold. Yes the voice of The alabama crimson tide. Football program makes an appearance in in this conversation. Yes that's where he got his real first Pro broadcasting start was broadcast in the birmingham bulls. If you can believe that and yes we've reached out to ally gold and he is declined humbly to to be part of our conversations but Maybe will convince them at some point to to come and talk to us about that year and change that He was a birmingham bulls a broadcaster. But i digress. Johnny bassett was the believer in chief. If you will of hockey in the south and was responsible for bringing the then. Toronto toro's to birmingham to become the bulls and a two year extravaganza that in the world hockey association. Now if that weren't enough and by. Golly it ought to be and we get into our conversation further with dennis. I don't think johnny was sort of in a real hurry to kind of get back into the pro sports sports ownership thing and especially in the. I guess you'd call them. Challenger leagues after kind of getting burned twice by those two. By the way i we don't get into a too much but johnny was also the owner. Wait for a world team. Tennis franchises well again. There's dennis murphy and and and his His gang the toronto slash buffalo royals We don't really get into too much of that conversation in here but that was also a dalliance of janis to so if those three teams that all sort of went kaput for various reasons weren't enough to kind of scaring away from being a pro sports owner again. Well guess what he came back for more and maybe even an astonishing achievement his His role in the usfl and the tampa bay bandits. Yes partial ownership by burt and a whole bunch of others down south in in tampa bay. The usfl tampa bay bandits was the johnny bassett football franchise of the usfl. We've talked about that and them a bit in previous episodes as well Alas.
Feast of Fun
"crawford" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Well when joan get stopped at the border to hollywood having first of all. She's mad at the young rapper guard. Wannabe rapper who will not look at her from his texting and she says that she he'd better check list again because certainly she's supposed to go to heaven not hell so he hands her his phone on which he has pulled up. Mommy dearest the book and movie which joan refers to as a couple of book and movie length biographical typos. So then this little scene ensues in which joan decides that to sorta charm con flirt maybe fillet past the guard into heaven which turns out to be probation. And she's got to come back to earth due to thanks rescue celebrity from these reality celebrities and selfie taken civilians executives bishops congressman. Whomever and bring down some of these big egos and restore true celebrity so that the plot unfolds from there and but but isn't like the celebrity culture of the golden age of hollywood was very elitist into institution. And certainly when. Welcome changes that we sort of watered-down who can be a celebrity and a lot of people of color poor people lot of minorities disenfranchise voices are now sort of and what we mean by celebrities as people who gather mass attention. I mean some people that were celebrities. They're a little misguided. Are i like to say we're famous to some but nobody's to most people but it's sort of like a microbrewery you know. It's it's a beer. That's being brewed locally for a smaller audience. But they still love it very much the same way they like that budweiser miller and so so in some ways like celebrity culture today can show argue that it's actually in better shape it's more democratic. Say and and really you make a great case. And i can't argue with it but you're arguing with joan crawford who wants stardom restored to the actual stars so are you sort of. What is a gay people. Who who believe in the royal crown of england You're a monarchist when it comes to celebrity. Please don't confuse me with miss crawford but you wrote this book and you sort of making an argument that joan crawford feels like out at times. Well obviously she's outta time. She's she's been dead for almost fifty years. It took her a while to get to the gate when the written this book. Have you thought about going back and seeing some of our older work. You like you were inspired by mommy. Dearest and that's really kind of like your focal point and that's the character that you kind of exploded in your book. Well in another interview..
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"crawford" Discussed on Main Engine Cut Off
"Well. Megan welcome to manage and cut off. This has been a year overdue at this point. An entire pandemic overdue. Maybe i'm happy that you're here talking to us. I'm really thrilled to be here. Thank you for having me anything so to start. I want everyone to meet you. Because you're awesome <hes>. So you are a member of space fund. You also have this podcast mission eve. That is fantastic. Can you tell everyone a little bit about you sure. Yeah <hes>. co founder and managing partner of space fund <hes>. Where <hes> venture capital firm investing exclusively in the new space ecosystem so very kind of targeted fund <hes>. And then i also have my podcast mission eve which <hes>. I interview the most amazing women in the space industry. It's just been a thrill and just so much fun to do. And in the hopes of inspiring more women to join us here in the space industry <hes>. So that's that's a project that's near and dear to my heart <hes>. I'm also on. The board of several nonprofits needs to do a quick shout out the space frontier foundation. The center for space commerce finance mars initiative and the earth light foundation <hes>. Spend an inordinate amount of my time helping those at nonprofits. So i think that's probably about it so we're gonna talk about a bunch of different angles on the finance side of stuff which i occasionally touch on but probably not as deeply as i should in many cases <hes> there's some fundraising that has happened. In the past year that has been particularly notable for the size <hes>. specifically spacex relativity. Been getting gargantuan amounts of money there's some acquisitions that have happened recently. And then <hes>. There's a whole trend of holding companies. That i find quite interesting as well as a trend that i find interesting and more shady. Which is this whole special purpose acquisition friend. Those are the things. I want to pick your brain about. Is there an order. would you like to start with fundraising and then get into what happens after. You've gotten a bunch of funding and actually accomplish things. What's the right order there. Yeah well <hes>. I think i'd like to start with this kind of startling statistic that that i i like to <hes>. I like to bring up a lot. Is that <hes>. One and it's it's one of the reasons that spaceman was founded. Actually is you know. Currently launched comprises less than two percents of the global space economy yet has received seven percent of the venture capital. Today right sounds crazy but it. It makes such intuitive sense to like you know somebody watches the markets but exactly crazy. Yeah that's crazy. Yeah i like it when you hear that you're like oh yeah that seems right but holy crap. That's crazy just hear those numbers right and now the one question i would have is. Does that. include any space x funding as launch. Yes that includes spacex funding and includes the you know that big relativity rounded includes all of that. So i guess that's my that would be. My stipulation is like how. How do you separate out. What of that is going to starlink. zach <unk> satellites. Then does that skew it or is it not big enough to actually skew. Anything no matter how you classify either couple billion. Yeah so you know the regardless. It's it's a huge number even if he were to try and take starlink out of the kind of the space x portion of that. They're going to be forty percent of the venture right number exactly exactly and so you know when <hes>. When my partner. Rick tomlinson and i were contemplating a founding space fund. You know this was one of the things that was really bothering us. We were kind of looking around the industry at all of our our friends and colleagues. Who are these brilliant entrepreneurs going and down sandhill road and couldn't get any funding and meanwhile while all these other. Vc's are just pouring good money. After bad into launch company after launch company because all ilan has launched company and basil's has launched company and jared. Leto is invested in in relativity space so i need a launch company. Right and base fund is currently tracking a hundred and sixty two active launch companies around the world.