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THE W.A.D.E. Concept - WEEK IN REVIEW - Jake Paul VS Tank CONFIRMED, Canelo Vs Crawford news and Rampage Jackson's son DRANA...
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John McCarthy
All right, folks, it's real.
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John Ramdeen
I that's the only thing I can think of to say right now. It is real. Breaking news. Jake Paul is fighting gerVonta Tank Davis November 15th in Atlanta, Georgia. This is reported by the Ring Magazine and we have to talk about it. What just happened? The fight that I couldn't believe, that was too insane and honestly just baffling to think would be a real fight in 2020. Remind you that combat sports are the craziest sports on the planet. And if boxing is the entertainment business or the circus or however you want.
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John McCarthy
To look at it, slap a red.
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John Ramdeen
Nose on this one because this takes the cake and it's got me scratching my head and wondering why? Why do this, but I think I have the answers. What do I mean?
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John McCarthy
The breakdown.
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John Ramdeen
Let's go. Okay, so real quick. I had to cut in. I'm sorry. News is updating as this video is being recorded and edited. I'm trying to get it out as soon possible for you guys. Jake Paul has just confirmed that this is real. No if, ands or buts about it. Jake Paul will be fighting Gervonta tank Davis on November 14, 2025. That's a Friday, not a Saturday. That's usually how the Jake Paul Netflix partnerships work. They fight on Fridays because Netflix has deals with college football in the fall and even the NFL around the Thanksgiving time frame. They did the Mike Tyson fight on a Friday night. I'm pretty sure they did the Katie Taylor and Minaserano3 fight on a Friday night. This makes a lot more sense. As to the kind of cryptic tweet that Nikisa had earlier today about sources coming out and saying they had it right when they had it wrong. He meant the date. It was the wrong date by one day. It'll be on November 14th. But it's official now. There is no if, ands or buts about it. There is no reason to speculate this fight is happening now. Let's get back to the video where I break all the things down about it. But just keep in mind, every time I say November 15th, I actually mean November 14th. Because now it's made official. Jake has posted it on his Twitter, on its Instagram. There is no speculation left. It's going down, Jake. Tank, let's continue talking about it. Guys, real quick. I need to stop the video to tell you one thing. I know we're all buzzing about what is going to be the fight of the year that is right September 13th. Canelo takes on Terence Crawford for all the belts at 168 pounds. And you're gonna wanna see this with the best experience possible. I'm talking about being on location in Las Vegas. On location is the fight of the year's official VIP provider and they've got the ultimate all access package to all the action. From the best seats in the house to exclusive meet and greets and even getting your picture ringside. This is how you do fight night right now, guys. VIP ticket packages are already almost gone. So what I want you to do is cl click the link in the description to secure your spot in your all Access passes your VIP package to Canelo Crawford. Or you can visit on locationexp.com Once again, on locationexp.com you don't want to miss this historic night of fights. Thank you to On Location for sponsoring this video. And now let's get back into some breaking news again. November 15th, Atlanta State Farm Arena. It's an exhibition. Keep that in mind on Netflix, sources confirmed the Ring magazine. So, again, a couple more things to cover. One, this is an exhibition. And when this was rumored to happen months ago, and I was saying it was a nonsensical fight for Jake to do. I still think it's a nonsensical one from a boxer perspective, from his goals in boxing perspective. But again, if it makes dollars, it makes sense. And we've seen that Jake will kind of bounce in between doing these entertainment fights and then, you know, trying to push toward his goal of. Of, you know, ingraining himself in the sport of boxing and kind of does both of them. So it's kind of a. It's kind of a weird place to be because he wants the respect of the boxing fans and the boxing hierarchy and hardcore boxing people. But at the same time, he'll gain some of that and then lose some of it. It's like a seesaw of his fights, like one fight, and be like, okay, that's a real. That's a real fight, or that's a real fighter. He'll go and he'll win the fight. You know, Julio Cesar Chavez, real fighter, maybe past his prime, whatever. But Jake goes and wins that fight pretty easily, and then gets a lot of respect, gets a lot of the boxing, hardcore love. And you have these talks about him fighting Anthony Joshua, and that was going to get even respect more. People were like, that's fucking crazy. What are you doing? Myself included. That seemed like a massive risk, but a lot of people were like, okay, fair play. Anthony Joshua, that's a real heavyweight. Jake wants to fight him. He's a psycho.
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John McCarthy
But fair play.
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John Ramdeen
And then you announce this one and it's like, well, that's the same thing people have been saying about Jake for years. So it's a weird spot to be in for him, for sure. But I talked about this not being the first choice, and I don't think it was because Scopinger reports next that talks for Jake Paul to face Anthony Joshua collapsed over network issues. Now, we had all heard the talks, and they were pretty public. From Eddie Hearn, from Jake, Nikisa Bedarian, Jake's manager, was over in the UK on, I think, Sky Sports, talking about the fight and saying how it was a real possibility. And they were really starting to work on it. And now Mike Toppinger says that the talks for Jake and Joshua fell apart over broadcasting issues or network issues. And that leads me to believe that Jake's team and Anthony Joshua's team, Nikisa and Eddie, couldn't agree on what platform the fight would be on. I assume that Nikisa and Jake wanted Anthony Joshua to fight on Netflix probably here in the United States, which would have been massive, no doubt about it. But correct me if I'm wrong. Comment section I'm pretty sure Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn are not only both signed to Dazn, but also own a part of the Zone or have some sort of ownership piece in Dazn and would make more sense for them to fight on the Zone. So that was probably the big hang up, which is crazy by the way. They were only a network broadcast away from actually making that fight. And honestly, out of the two of these, I'm gonna be dead honest. I would have loved to seen Jake as risky, as insane as it was. I don't think I would have ever advised Jake to fight Anthony Joshua, but I definitely as a viewer would have been like, okay, I'm watching that. I mean, I'm watching this too. But the point, I think that the Anthony Joshua fight would have done more for Jake from a fan perspective, but also probably left him in far worse shape. So it's, again, it's another one of those. Just, it's a weird one. Jake fights are just weird because I don't even know how to like describe them. It was insane to think he was going to fight Anthony Joshua, but as a fan kind of respected the idea that he would do it. Coppinger went on to add on to his first report saying when Floyd Mayweather faced Jake's brother Logan in an exhibition in 2021, Mayweather couldn't weigh more than 160 pounds while Logan was capped at 190. Would expect some similar exhibition rules for weigh in here and obviously much larger gloves. Now I don't remember there being a cap on how much Floyd could weigh. I don't remember that. I don't even think Floyd weighed 160 pounds. I think he came in at like 154. That would be an odd thing to have for an exhibition for Logan to be like, he can't weigh more than 160. I'll have to double check him on that one because I truly don't remember if that was a part of it. But I do remember there was a weight clause on Logan because that's. It would be insane for Logan to Weigh in at, you know, some ridiculous number like, I mean, 190 to 160 is already ridiculous, but 210 pounds or something. Right. And that, that made sense because of, you know, the nature of just trying to make that fight. And it being an exhibition obviously makes things more allowable. And we didn't talk about this yet, but yeah, this being an exhibition for Jake and Gervonta is the only thing and the only reason this is even possible because I saw some people talking about, well, what weight's it going to be at? What weight's it going to be at? It's, it's like Mike Coppinger said, it's probably going to be one of these, you know, contracts where Jake has to be a certain weight out on weigh in day, maybe even a rehydration clause in it just to make sure the fight can happen. But it being an exhibition means there doesn't have to be a set weight, there doesn't have to be a catch weight. You weren't getting Jake to come down past 190 pounds or 185 at the very least. I know he said he'd do 185 for Canelo. I don't know about doing that for Gervonta Davis, but there's just not a physically possible way. Jake is getting to like 175 or 170. And Tank, whatever he walks around at, whether it's 150, 160, whatever, he's not jumping up to like 180 pounds to fight Jake. So they had to make it an exhibition. That's the only way this, this even takes place. So I saw some people online talking about what weights are going to be at. It's going to be at whatever allowable weight Tank will let Jake get to and that'll pretty much be it. Like Jake gets to weigh this much, Tank, weigh whatever you want. That's pretty much, I think how this is going to go. But again, exhibition. So you probably. Yeah, I would say, you know, Tank usually fights in what, 8 ounces, Jake usually fights in tens. You're probably going to get a 12 to 14 ounce glove in this fight. And again, I don't know how much of a difference that'll make when a 200 pound person like Jake who does know how to throw punches, if he's able to crack Gervonta with a shot. That's going to hurt, that's going to fucking hurt. But it will definitely. I wonder if it's one of those Things if we're doing exhibitions where like Tank gets to wear eights and Jake gets to wear like 14s, I don't know that that, I mean again, this is kind of the circus. So if we're doing it, we're going to offer each of them whatever advantage they can have. Or are you going to give Tank a bit more of an advantage or is his advantage his boxing skill? I don't know, but I assume they'll both be in like 12s or 14s. Now again, this fight had already been in talks and I think was pretty much already a done deal right around the Tank versus Lamont Roach fight. And I'm pretty sure Jake was in the crowd to do some sort of formal announcement of the Jake vs. Gervonta fight. Should Gervontae have won? I think Tank even said it in the post fight presser. He was like, yeah, I was supposed to fight Jake, I was going to announce it. He was being like kind of coy about it. But the point is they already had parameters set up for this thing. And Jake went on the Area Hawani show, I think you know, a couple weeks after and he said this about kind of how this fight's gonna look if you do fight. What weight would it be at?
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John McCarthy
195.
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John Ramdeen
Oh wow. So he would go all the way from 40 to 95?
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John McCarthy
Yeah, I mean it would be an exhibition.
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John Ramdeen
Okay, okay. I was gonna say Jake doesn't mean that they will fight each other at 195 pounds. This is what I was saying a second ago. Jake will be £195. And again that's another weird kind of weight for Jake to be because he's shot up to 200, he's gone past 200, he's come back down to 200, he can easily make 195. But the point is it's an exhibition bout. So Tank's gonna weigh whatever he wants to weigh. Jake just can't weigh in over 195 pounds. I have no idea about what happens after weigh ins. If Jake can get up to like 210 or whatever he normally walks around at. I don't know, but that's the first part, here's the second. Does that mean, is that, is that three minute rounds? Yeah, 10 three minute rounds. And when you say exhibition, like are, what are the restrictions on that?
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John McCarthy
No restrictions, just the fact that like.
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John Ramdeen
We couldn't actually get it professionally sanctioned. So there you hear it, ten three minute rounds. I have no reason to think it would be any different this time it wouldn't be a title fight so there's no reason to go 12. But 10 threes is, I mean it is, it's an exhibition, but that's a normal fight time for a high level boxing match that isn't a title fight. And then Ariel asks about, you know, other restrictions. He doesn't say anything about the gloves there, but I'd have to assume because you're not getting a license. I don't know about the 10 ouncers and especially with Tank being the 135 pounder, I don't think he'll want Jake in 10 ounce gloves. So like I said, I'm going to stick with the 14 ouncers there. But let's, let's talk about what this means for Jake, for Tank, for the sport, for everything. Because when this was going to be happening the first time I thought it was nonsensical for what Jake wanted to do, for what he was saying he wanted to do, which was be a boxing world champion. Right. And I say this for Jake because I'm not even we're going to get to Tank and how just he's done right, he's done at a high level. Tank is no longer should be and even in the conversation of a pound for pound, best in the world, none of that. Not because of his skills, but because of this choice. When you do this, even as an exhibition, you're saying and signaling to the sport of boxing, I am done fighting at the highest level. Not because he can't still fight at the highest level, but that's what happens when you forego a rematch with Lamont Roach to do this. I don't have a problem with it if you're just saying I'm done. I'm not worried about that anymore. I'm not going to be fighting for titles. I'm done at the highest level. But if you're still trying to do that and you're doing exhibitions with Jake on the side instead of fighting at the highest level, that's where I have a problem with it a little bit for Tank, like figure out what it is you're doing. You said you were re motivated to box after the Lamont Roach fight. I know there was the domestic abuse situation and I'm not sure, I guess that got worked out. What you signal to the world when you do this, not because it's Jake, not because whatever, but because you are avoiding fighting the do rematch with Lamont Roach and avoiding fighting the big names and the title challengers at 135lbs. You're just saying that you're done doing that, that's fine. But everybody needs to understand that's what this is for Jake. Yeah. It's a little confusing for what he says he wants to do as a boxer. Right. Because, you know, in a sense, fighting a world champion could get you ready for a world championship fight. But when the size difference is this big, I think it does take away a little bit from what you're trying to do and how you're trying to prepare yourself for the toughest challenges at the weight class you want to be a world champion in. Like there were talks about Jake fighting Zoro Ramirez after the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Fight. Talks to him fighting Badu Jack for the WBC World Championship. And again, I don't think Jake has near enough experience yet. I still want to see him get better, still want to see him grow as a fight, all that. My point is that seemed like the direction they were trending and then the. The Anthony Joshua fight. Yeah, okay. Entertainment fight. But it still blends, that amount of risk. That still blends, that amount of okay, Jake's trying to do something better. Jake's trying to work himself into a harder competition level space. Right. That. That kind of satisfied a little bit of both entertainment aspects, competition. So my thing is this is the fight making any sense on a boxing ability standpoint, on a sport boxing standpoint? Absolutely not. This is insanity. It's the circus, it's buffoonery, it's whatever you want to call it in terms of like competition level and weight classes mattering and world championship aspirations or just having a world championship, if you're Gervonta Davis, one that does need to be settled in a rematch and you're clearly ducking out of that's insane. It makes no sense. But when you take it for what it is, and as long as you call it what it is, which is Gervonta Tank Davis forgoing any conversation of him being the best in the world at his weight class or any other pound for pound, any of that, and Jake not fighting the fights necessary, in my opinion, to get him to the promised land of being a world champion, not taking the road he needs to take and he should take for the sanctity of boxing to become an actual world champion. If you say that and you accept this for an exhibition as an agreement of both fighters to step away from competition and fight each other in an unsanctioned bout, then have to kind of accept whether people are going to have a problem with it, which I know people are, of course it's like a pros versus Joe's type of feel for sure. But at the same time, what else can you really say about it? It is what it is. I think they should be fighting other people, but they're not. And I'm still going to watch this. I'm still going to be locked into it. And I haven't even talked about the fight itself. Like how do I even start to break down a Tank Davis vs. Jake Paul fight? Tank, you know, a massively powerful fighter at 135 pounds, but his punch output is among the lowest in the sport. Jake has a pretty decent punch output for a guy that's 200 pounds. He hits hard in his own right, but doesn't have the the skill and capabilities anywhere close or the feet or the hand speed or the eyes anywhere close to Tank Davis, but has a power that Tank Davis has probably never felt. And that's not because Tank hasn't been hit by hard punchers, but just because Jake is naturally 70 pounds bigger than him. Right? So 10 rounds, three minutes. Who starts to show the wear and tear first? I know if Tank touches him on the jaw, it's probably not going to be feel like roses. Regardless if he's 135 or 150 or whatever he steps in that night, he's still a Tank and it still put guys down as he's gone up in weight. But Jake is just so much bigger. How much will the power that Tank has at the lower weight classes affect him? How much will Jake's power affect Tank if he can't touch him? Right. Jake hasn't fought anyone near the skill level of Tank Davis, at least not in their prime. So there's just so many things that are going to come out of this and we have a lot of time. We'll report on anything that breaks. But as of right now, I'm coming to you guys with the news that Jake Paul will be fighting Tank Davis. Again, no official announcement from Jake or Tank. There was again a leaked announcement from Netflix and the Ring magazine, among others, reporting that this is going down. And I already know the comment section is going to be on fire, so light it up down there. Let me know what you think about this fight, about Tank's career, about Jake's career, about this whole thing about the sport of boxing. What happens next? I don't have those answers, but guess we'll find out. All right folks, so we are back on the way concept presented by the Ring magazine and we are just weeks away from the fight of the year, Canelo Crawford. If it's not the biggest fight of the year, which it probably is going to be, it is definitely the most important fight of the year for the sport of boxing. And today Canelo Alvarez held a media workout that gave a little bit of insight into what he's working on for this fight and potentially exposed either a massive weakness or a massive strength, depending on how you look at this fight. I want to show you what potentially could be the biggest difference maker for or against Canelo and give you a little bit of background as to why I'm leaning the way I am with my pick for this fight. I'm not waiting until fight week to give a little light prediction, so let's do it here today. So let's take a look at this leaked media workout footage that Canelo dropped today. Just a couple of weeks out, and I have a feeling, knowing the veteran that Canelo is, knowing the experience, experience level he's at, this footage doesn't get out or the media doesn't get a hold of it unless he wanted them to. So what's this media workout mean for Canelo Crawford? Well, the breakdown. Let's go. All right, so I'm gonna mute a lot of this because there's like music blasting throughout, but Canelo held an open media workout today and some of this footage is from Fight Hub. So shout out my guy Marcos for being on top of it. One of the best in the game he's getting some of. And other media outlets were there. But as we go into this footage, remember Canelo is the undisputed champ at 168. Terence Crawford coming up from really 147, but he had the fight at 154 with Madrimov, so sure, two weight classes. More like three, though. And the big narrative going around this fight is how does Crawford handle Canelo's power at 168? How does Canelo get back to Canelo old ways of moving his feet and utilizing his jab and working on more of just his upper body movement and his defense to offense transition and not just throwing power punches. And can Crawford be able to fight like the counter puncher he is and still make Camillo miss and make him pay like he has at the lower weight classes? And also, how does his body hold up at 168? Those are the questions, but Canelo's open workout may provide some of the answers. Let's take a look. First we see him shadow boxing circling to his right which in this case would be away from the southpaw stance of a Terence Crawford, but just basic stuff. And you see one of the big things that Canelo does. And listen, I'm not a professional boxer, I'm not a fighter, and I don't think in any way, shape or form I should have any position to critique and criticize Canelo. But one of the things that he's gotten in trouble with in the last couple of fights, I wouldn't say trouble, more so just him working against himself is him being able, or I guess not being able to cut off the ring. You know, you go to the Williams skull fight and you watched him chase William Skoll around and around and around that ring. And yes, William Skoll was running from him. That was pretty clear to see. He was on his bike, utilizing his. But you didn't see Canelo cut him off. You didn't see him move laterally to be able to stop a lot of that running or stop a lot of that circling around the ropes, which is his responsibility if he's going to take the front foot and look to establish himself offensively. And when I watch Canelo here, he's gotten away with this pretty much his entire career. But I watch him cross step a lot. And you see it right there where he goes from circling, he rolls under the right hand, and instead of moving laterally, replacing his back foot with his front foot, he L steps and then crosses over, which instead of just moving laterally and shifting, like I said, shuffling to his right, off of the L step off of the reset, which would allow him to be ready to go and ready to fight again. It takes him that extra beat to get back into fight stance. A couple of reasons for this may be, you know, listen, he can gain a lot more ground by taking that lead leg and stepping it across and resetting. It just. It feels to me like it takes too much time. And when you are spending time taking the lead leg, crossing it over, and there's a guy in front of you that does want a counterpunch, like a Terence Crawford that does want to be a bit more mobile here and not stand in the pocket with Canelo, because why would he do that? Exchange power punches with Canelo Alvarez, don't use your feet. Not to say that Terrance is a runner because he never has been, but to try to reset and cut different angles, you don't want to be stepping all over your stance and having to reset and reset and reset instead of being ready to fire. When Terence Crawford eventually does Change angles eventually does circle out or eventually does go from southpaw to orthodox. If the Canelo is trying to L step and step over himself, that's just wasted motion. And a guy that's coming up in weight that does maintain a bit of his speed could potentially take advantage of. I see it time and time again with him. It's not a massive deal because that L step and walk can absolutely reset you. As long as you come back with a feint or come back with something to put your opponent on the back foot. It's not the worst thing in the world by any means. It's just, it feels like for the things that Canelo has struggled with in his last couple of fights, you may want to see something a little different there. Maybe a little, a little bit more of a shuffle, but we move on. Let's take a look at Canelo on the bag. This is courtesy of Sports Illustrated. He's on the heavy bag at some UFC gym here and he's just doing a little bit of work. Right hand, left hook, head movement, right hand, left hook, bang, bang. Now again, do I think that Canelo is going to throw this way necessarily in a fight?
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John McCarthy
No.
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John Ramdeen
Number one, his feet are very flat. And again, Canelo has made a living off of being able to stand in front of guys and utilize big time power and be a little flat footed. Right upper body movement, head movement and then throwing shots behind it. Being defensive and then transitioning back to his offense has been a strength of his, especially as he's gone up in weight where he hasn't had to utilize as much energy, right where he's fighting bigger guys that he needs that power punch to put away, even though he hasn't put anybody away since Caleb Plant. But that's another topic for another day. You see him very flat footed, throwing the right hand lead bang, left hook behind it, head movement, jab, right hand, left hook, and then right hand bang, left hook. And you notice the way Canelo throws his hooks. It's almost like there isn't a lot of winging to it. It's almost like a shovel hook or it's almost like an up jab where you get over that lead leg and bang the up jab. Except he's. He's kind of throwing it as a hook, but it's, I don't know, it's hard to really describe, but it's not like a normal hook. He's stabbing that in there. It's not like a come across and slap hook. He's really trying to damage. And Canelo, one of his best shots over the years has been that lead hook into the backhand, rear uppercutter, that lead hook into the big right hand over the top. And he really starts to. And I think he took some of this from Triple G in their fight. He really chops down with stuff as he sits down on punches here. But again, one of the big question marks around this fight is what would Canelo do a little bit defensive, like, what would he do a little different than he has, you know, per se in the Dimitri Bivol fight? Because as much as people want to believe that the only reason Dimitri Bivol beat Canelo Alvarez was because he was bigger, I disagree. And I think that if people do believe that they're in for a rude awakening if Canelo continues to just stand more plotty and flat footed and look to throw just, you know, pot shots and power punches without the jab set up up and without the the same level of output. Because Terence Crawford will expose that, I think, in a way that Dimitri Bivol did when, yes, Bivol's size allowed him to take some of those power shots that we don't know that Bud Crawford will. But look at the style in which Dimitri Bivol fights. That Soviet, Eastern European bladed stance boxing style. It's not what Bud Crawford does, but it allowed him to land a lot of volume and a lot of in and out movement. And he kind of walked Canelo down and put Canelo on the ropes in that fight. And again, completely different fighter than Bud Crawford. My point is, I don't think Canelo can do what he's done to a lot of the 168 pounders and just stand there in front of them or walk them down and be flat footed and throw his combination big time power the entirety of the fight. I think later in the fight after he's established a bit in the beginning and you start to do that and break a fighter down, I could see a Caleb Plant style overwhelming. I could see a little bit of the Billy Joe Saunders thing. But you're gonna have to set things up. Terence Crawford's too good with his eyes, he's too good with his counter punching and he doesn't have to run away from you to use his feet and cut angles. I don't see Canelo just standing there and looking to just throw power punches all night. I really think for him to be successful, that jab has to be working. And I say all that because when I look at him on the heavy bag there. I don't see him putting a ton of effort into the speed and power. I don't see him putting a ton of effort into moving around the bag. I, I see him working specifically on a combination that he likes off of some head movement and using that to maybe set up something else that he has a little bit more powerful in the bag. Here's him working on the mitts with Eddie Reynozo. Double jab. And then you see that stick of a right hand, double jab, touch, touch, bang, right hand. And again, Canelo just decides, I'm going to go for a walk, right? And he just takes off. Now, again, Eddie Reynoso is standing southpaw here, and I don't know if that's a purpose when he's holding these mitts because Terrence Crawford will probably be in a more southpaw stance. And we know that in the past, Canelo has, you know, somewhat struggled with southpaw fighters, but that could just be Reynoso just holding the mitts a certain way. But you see, even there, Reynoso goes southpaw and he's simulating an attack here from Terence Crawford. I'm trying not to take too much away from this, but it's the only footage we've seen, mitts wise or otherwise, of Canelo in this lead up. But when you do fight a southpaw as an orthodox fighter, one of the first things that a lot of the game plan is tailored around is getting this lead foot on the outside of your opponent's lead foot, because it opens that lane for your right hand, in this case, for Canelo being the orthodox guy, for his right hand to come straight down the pipe, should he want to set it up with his lead hand. And then look to this laser beam one down the middle right here. Eddie Reynoso has the outside track and he's holding the mitts. But then as we go back and watch, watch how Canelo manipulates the space, touch, touch with the jab. And then he steps on the outside straight, right hand down the pipe. That is a good right hand versus a southpaw because it's very much manipulating the speed and the distance and the angle all in a couple of punches. I like that because it's. It's layered. And again, I could be making a mountain out of a molehill. But you watch Canelo go from the inside track with his foot to just pepper in that jab out. Touch, touch, step outside, then right hand. So you don't give away the tactic of trying to get that outside foot, but you set it up with the lead hand. Look at what I'm doing here. Step outside, bang. I like that. Very interesting. And again, you see Canelo getting under the lead hand after finishing his combination and trying to protect himself by stepping to the outside, cutting the angle. And then Ernozo wants him to go left and then circle back with the right hand. So there's a lot that you can take away there. Number one, big time right hand from Canelo.
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John McCarthy
Bah.
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John Ramdeen
Stuck in that there. And then again that cross step, which I do not like him rolling under. Kind of a lazy left hook to throw a right hand left hook over the top. And again, I'm trying to look at it as Reynoso playing the role of Crawford out of southpaw. And there's a couple of things that I like, some that I don't out of Canelo. But then again, it's just a drill and I'm probably making way too much of it. But again, it's, it's. It's all I have to go off of, so I have to take it for what it is. And those are the only clips that came out today in regards to Canelo's meaty workout. So what do we see there? We see a little bit of what he wants to do to take advantage of a right hand southpaw matchup. Get his lead foot on the outside, bang, the right hand down the pipe, set it up with the jab, and maybe even fire that jab at the lead hand of Crawford to just get it touched. Touch, step outside, right hand down the middle. We saw Canelo doing a lot of cross stepping, which is, I think, a bad idea versus someone who has good angle manipulation like Crawford does. Right. Every wasted movement is going to be a capitalization for Crawford to try to fire back on it. And Canelo is going to be there to be hit with some counter punches. Make no mistake about it, Canelo will stand in the pocket. Yes, he'll try to make Crawford miss, but sometimes he'll even eat a couple so that he can be there behind that high guard taking punches to look for one of the big ones on his own counter shot. So that can be a little bit of the gamesmanship too. That can be a little bit of the chess game going on is who's going to land the bigger counter punch and how many of those can Crawford take? Moving up to 168 versus Canelo, who has been there and is fighting a.
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John McCarthy
Guy that has fought at a lot.
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John Ramdeen
Smaller weight, that hasn't seen the power like we talked about, the narratives being built that Canelo brings at point 1, 168. Even now, all those things will come into play. I think a big, big important part of this fight is just how much Canelo utilizes his lead hand. Because I'm telling you, it's going to be the most important thing in this fight. I really think if Canelo is back on his jab and is able to mask some of the stuff that he loves to do, which is that lead hook to the body, smashing hook on the arms, on the body, on the shoulders. If he's able to hide it just a little bit and then hit you with that timing, that Canelo Alvarez timing, that's been perfect. That put down Amir Khan, that put down Billy Joe Saunders, that found the button on Kovalev. Those punches, that timing, it's not just speed, it's not just power, it's the throwing in between. It's finding the right shot. Those things can make all the difference in the world. Because I would almost bet everything I own that if Canelo lands clean on Crawford, it's going to have far more of an effect than Crawford landing clean on Canelo. And that's not even because both guys don't possess power. Crawford possesses power and he's put a lot of guys down. But Canelo, we've seen, has an iron chin. And I watched Crawford get rocked by by Gamboa. Again, different time period. I get that. But I don't think that as you get older and even as you go up in weight, that somehow makes you more readily available to take flush punches. Right. Usually those two things, the combination of getting older and going up to a weight that you didn't naturally fight at, tends to not actually help out your chin tends to make you a little bit more vulnerable to getting hit with big punches, Especially when you're not someone that cuts a ton of weight to begin with. I don't think Crush Crawford was cutting a ton of weight when he was at 140, when he was at 147. So him now trying to bulk to get to 168. It's definitely going to have a factor in the fight. It's definitely going to mean something when he gets touched with a shot from Canelo, who's not, by the way, a natural 168 in his own right. But still that power carries for him. We still don't know if it will for Bud Crawford, but it's not just about the power and making this as simple as Canelo's power versus Terence Crawford's skill. We take out so many factors, like Canelo Alvarez's skill, like Terence Crawford's timing, like Canelo Alvarez's manipulation of your guard and your defense, and Terence Crawford's angle switching and leaving you in bad positions with your footwork to not be able to answer when he fires off using your own momentum against you as you try to walk him down. And then he steps in with his lead foot, pivots out and he's at a 90 degree perpendicular and you're looking over your shoulder like, what the hell was that? These type of things, I think, are going to be more interesting than just saying, well, if Crawford can handle the power or, well, if Canelo can find his chin, those things matter. But let's talk about the intricacies of it. Let's talk about the nuance that those things both imply, which is that Canelo is going to fight differently than he has as of recent of 168. Almost a style of like, I'm gonna big bro you, which it feels like he's done to everybody at 168, but as of recently, hasn't been able to stop some of those guys. And for Crawford, it can't just be him sitting there and letting Canelo walk him down and put him on the ropes and land whatever he wants at will just because he doesn't want to open up versus a 168 pounder. Or he can't be someone that's uncharacteristic of himself. He can't go out there and throw a ton of volume, right? He can't be out there looking like Dimitri Bivol. That's not how Crawford fights. He has to be able to get some respect early on from Canelo, to be able to draw Canelo in and make him pay when he does get a little overconfident, when the hands do go up in that high guard and he just wants to walk through everything, or when he starts winging out those shots and not seeing, setting it up with the jab, or when he cross steps and gets his feet tangled up and gets himself out of position. Crawford, unlike William Skoll, unlike Edgar Berlanga, unlike Jaime Munguia, who didn't make him pay for those things, Crawford has to. And he has to do it with some authority. Because honestly, the way I look at this fight is that it's very difficult for me to see Terence Crawford winning by knockout. Not to say it's not possible, because it definitely could be But I think the path to victory for Crawford is to be able to counter Canelo with when he comes in with lazy footwork or when he stands flat footed or when he only throws one or two at a time and Crawford can throw three, four, five back. I don't see him walking Canelo down, even though he said that at the press conference, how he walked Canelo down, he's going to walk him down because Canelo is supposed to be the bigger man. But we'll see about that. And trust me, I've seen the pictures of Terence Crawford. He looks like he's filling into 168 just fine. But that looks great on camera. It does. It looks amazing. And still shots, it looks good when the muscles are glistening and he's all flexed up and he's tired from his workout. But what happens when you have to fight at that weight? And I'm not talking about Canelo's power, I'm talking about body physiology. A weight that Terence Crawford's never fought at, a weight that he's not used to going rounds at, at least not outside of just the gym. We're talking about a stadium full of people, 60,000, 70,000, whatever. It's going to be at Allegiance and your first time at the weight class and it potentially could go 12 rounds. And oh, by the way, you need to win more of those 12 rounds. And I'd argue that the only path to victory for Terence Crawford is a decision win. That's just the way I see it. Doesn't mean it's true. Whereas Canelo can get down on those cards early and look to just beat Terence Crawford up and make him adjust to that weight class by going deep into the fight and trying to maintain a style that I don't know his body is ready for and that no one knows his body is ready for. So there's a ton of things still to come. But I wanted to make this video because finally we get some camp footage from team Canelo. Crawford's been pretty open, at least in bits. His about camp footage, right? He has shown some footwork, he's shown some shadow boxing, he's shown some MIT work. He's not been super shy. It's all on Crawford's YouTube channel. And when I get back home, we'll probably watch a lot more of that because we'll have two weeks to get ready for one of the biggest fights ever. But as we sit here, I just wanted to get a, a quick update on Canelo Crawford and what I think are some of the Biggest strengths that Canelo is working on and some of his biggest weaknesses. Comment section, let me know what you think down below. Who wins this fight? What are you thinking from what you've seen in just the small clips out of Canelo's training and some of the stuff from Crawford's training? I don't the answers as of right now. I know which way I'm leaning. Which right now, logically I think it just makes more sense to lean Canelo. But maybe my opinion could switch or maybe it won't. I don't know yet. But. September 13th, the fight goes down. Presented by the Ring Magazine, His Excellency Turkiella Shake. Tko Boxing, Dana White. They just announced the broadcast team. It's John and it gets Max Kellerman. I'm pretty sure I saw Andre Ward on there. It's the who's who of fight commentary broadcasters and reporters. Michael Buffer will be in attendance. It will be a night none of us will ever forget. But the real question is, what happens in that main event when Canelo steps in with Terence Crawford? I don't have those answers, but it's only a matter of time. Less than a month away on September 13th when they step in, what happens then? I guess we'll find out. Find out. Oh, my goodness, folks, we are back on the way. Concept presented by the Ring Magazine for one reason and one reason only. Yes, I missed you guys. I know it's only been one day, but have a little bit of separation anxiety. And two, Canelo Alvarez just brought a pound for pound high level fighter that just so happens to be someone that Terence Bud Crawford wanted to fight and has a lot of similarities in his fight style. His nickname is another word for putting feet in protective wear and using them to stomp out the competition. Canelo just brought Jerome Boots Ennis into his camp and this, ladies and gentlemen, could change everything. What do I mean?
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John McCarthy
The breakdown.
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John Ramdeen
Let's go.
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John McCarthy
So earlier today it was reported that.
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John Ramdeen
Jaron Boots Ennis has joined the camp of Canelo Alvarez. I don't know if this was for a day. I don't know if this was for the rest of the week. I don't know if he's been there for a bit. But this is a big deal because not only did he come in and train with Canelo, it looks like some sparring went down. As you can see here. Posted by the Ring Magazine, Canelo and Boots Ennis standing there together. By the way, Boots Ennis looks bigger than Canelo in this picture and we all know that Canelo is not a massive 168 pounder. But Boots Ennis at 147 was having trouble making the weight. Still is going to 154. Just so happens to be the two weight classes that Terence Bud Crawford just came from 147 to 154. Boots has a fight coming up soon for his debut at 154. You have to think sooner or later he's going to be grabbing a belt because he's in a title eliminator coming up anyway. But again, it's very interesting because we all know how good Boots Ennis is. And it's interesting for a couple of reasons. Number one, you look at this picture and Boots Ennis is a monster. I can see him going to 160 pounds and still doing very well. I think he's going to do great at 154. But the question you have to ask yourself is why? Why would Canelo bring in Jaron Boots Ennis? And it's not just because Ennis is a great boxer. It's not just because Ennis fought at the highest level of 147 and is going to be at the highest level of 154. So he's a smaller guy that Canelo can use in camp to see how a smaller guy of this era moves as Canelo has maybe not had as much experience with that since moving to 168. Usually he's the smaller guy fighting some of the bigger guys. But that's not all this is. This is a message that Canelo is looking to replicate exactly what Terence Crawford has in his arsenal has in his tool set. Because everybody is one of the wanted to see The Boots Ennis vs Terence Crawford fight because it's a stylistic matchup that is very interesting. Both guys fight out of both stances. That's right. Boots will fight out of southpaw and orthodox. Both guys are very good using their defense to create offense. Boots, one of the best at Philly, shelling, catch countering, being able to do it out of both stances. Has a beautiful check hook out of southpaw as orthodox fighters throw their left hook. He comes over the top with his. And why would Canelo be be looking for someone that could throw a beautiful lead hook and a backhand as a counter punch. Rolling with their defense back to their offense. Oh wait. Because that's what Terence Bud Crawford does so well. Boots is explosive. He's got great counterpunch timing. He's got good awareness. His feet are good. He can walk you on to punches he can lead the dance going first, not just looking for his counter punches, but underrated, I think, in his aggression to lead the exchanges. This is a perfect get for Canelo and I'm not even trying to play the one side or the other. Canelo fans, Crawford fans, you're going to think whatever you want to think, but the reality is getting this kind of sparring is a massive deal for Canelo. It's going to give him probably the best look you could get for Terence Bud Crawford outside of sparring. Terence Bud Crawford. I, I, I can't understate how important even just a couple of days working with Jaron Boots Ennis is going to be for Canelo just to see a bit of the tempo, a bit of that switching of stance, because let's be honest, there's not many guys that Canel that have fought out of both stances and done it as fluidly as Boots Ennis or as Bud Crawford will do in their fight. So yeah, I can't understate how big of a deal this is. And I even saw people online today, again, I don't like to play the whole back and forth fan thing, but you saw people, even Terence Crawford fans, admitting that this makes them a little nervous. And we just came off the back of me breaking down some of Canelo's training footage from a couple of days ago. And now that I look back on that, you know how many boxers are going to put out footage that they don't want people to see? And as much as Canelo is just going to do whatever he wants, like he puts, he doesn't clearly doesn't care what goes out if it's something that can be controlled. He's obviously not showing sparring, but like MIT work and other stuff like that, he doesn't care. But did Canelo sandbag me a little bit and everybody in that media workout to show just what he wanted us to see without really giving any big time details, because off the back of that media workout where he showed a little bit of kind of some methodical movement and kind of plotty flat feet and cross stepping and his footwork not really being super crisp and the punches not being super fast off the back of that, right, just sandbagging a little bit, he drops this freaking bomb on us with Boots Ennis and them training together. Like I said, it can't be understated. What we're going to do now is we're going to take a look at this video to see what the work looked like. Again, keep in Mind, Canelo is going to show us what he wants us to see. And the people around Canelo, the boots in his camp which this video comes from, are also going to do the same. They're not going to disrespect him by putting out footage he doesn't to want people to see. So let's take a look at this and, and we'll see how Canelo looks and if there's anything we can take away from it. Beautiful. Canelo on the cobra bag looking just fluid, looking a little more bouncy there, his steps looking a little bit more crisp. And then they go to boots out of the orthodox. I mean boots is just, he is huge. For 154 pounds. That dude has to be walking around at 170 to 180 pounds. He's massive. I understand now why he can't make 47. I get it. So there you go. Ennis Lima. That's pretty much the only footage we got out of the cam. And again, this isn't an indicator as to how this fight's gonna go at all. It's all still speculation. And what type of Canelo shows up and what type of Bud Crawford, mainly on the budget Crawford side like I again will, will stay by what I think Canelo needs to do, which is get active with his lead hand and obviously use his feet more in this fight to play defense to offense versus just bending at the waist and standing flat footed in front of Bud Crawford. But really the questions are going to come from Bud Crawford in that camp. What can you do to make the difference coming up to weight classes, fighting at a weight you never have against the best guy Bud Crawford has ever fought and Canelo has fought everybody. But this is clearly the biggest test for Bud Crawford and obviously the size is a part of that. The weight he's going to fight at the power at that weight. We've talked about all that. But then you look at also who's being brought into Terence Bud Crawford's camp. And also we're going to go back to a little bit of a side by side here to kind of show you the difference in size. Again, I don't want to make too much of a big deal about it, but it is important to talk about. But just a couple of days ago you heard Shakur Stevenson who is obviously very close with Bud Crawford. He was in camp talking about what they were doing and basically saying, listen, the power is carrying for Bud Crawford at 168. And you can see them here training together. And someone posed the question, which was better to have in camp for either guy. Was it better that Bud had Shakur Stevenson in camp? How much work could he get from a guy that's 135 pounder to replicate Canelo or just to give him a look and give him any sort of work compared to having someone that isn't necessarily a one by one carbon cutout of Bud Crawford, but does do a lot of the same things. Him and Boots have a similar style of fighting. And I think Boots may even be a little bit more well versed out of both stances than Bud is. Bud will, I think, switch stance, but mainly wants to operate out of southpaw, especially against Canelo. I have to say it to me, as much as I love Shakur Stevenson for this fight specifically, the best work that Canelo could get really out of anybody you could bring in that I'm thinking of is Boots. This is probably the best work you could get to, to prepare for Bud. And when you see a stand side by side, you see two thick boys. I know, full pause. But look at this man. Canelo jacked up, boots even bigger jacked up. And then we go to the next page and you see Terence Crawford, who again is building into the weight class, but doesn't necessarily. And maybe this picture is not one that's representative of how much muscle he's put on to get at 168, but doesn't look like his frame is holding the same type of weight as these two guys standing side by side. He looks a little more slender. And again, that's not a bad thing. I don't want you guys to misread what I'm saying here, but it could give some answers as to what kind of Bud Crawford is coming in. A more mobile Bud Crawford, one that's going to look to outbox Canelo. And that's really the road to victory for Bud Crawford. If he is able to get a stoppage in this fight, that would be incredible. That would be historic because of Canelo's chin and because of the way Canelo fights. But I do see that the clearest method to victory, yes. You know, having to fill up and be able to take some of the power of Canelo by adding some weight and obviously going to 168. You're going to have to keep some weight on regardless. But being more agile than Canelo, being able to use his feet more than Canelo, is clearly the way to go.
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John McCarthy
So.
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John Ramdeen
So a more slender frame may help with that. But man, this, this is getting interesting. And for all the people that thought this was going to be Bud Crawford's too skilled, too slick, and Canelo's somehow too old. To people, they're like, ah, Canelo's. He's too old.
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John McCarthy
He's past it.
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John Ramdeen
And because he hasn't stopped anybody at 168, because, yes, his performances have not looked as great over the last two, three, four years as they had in the previous years and throughout his career. But Terence Crawford's older than Canelo ALVAREZ. Terrence is 38. Canelo's 35, I think. And listen, Bud Crawford has been dominant throughout that stretch. It's. It doesn't look like age has caught up to him much. Maybe the Madrimoff fight, if you want to go there, but the narrative has kind of been like, ah, Canelo's not got enough skill, whatever. And then I watched as. As the online community today, which maybe I shouldn't be reading too much of that, but they flipped, or at least they went, wait a second, he brought in Boots Ennis. Okay, now this may change my mind a little bit because of course that's a massive bring to camp. But also it shows you that Canelo isn't just going into this fight saying, I'm going to be Canelo Alvarez, that I've been over the last two, three, four years. That's going to walk into this thing, try to walk my opponent down, throw almost exclusive power shots, try to tire you out and then knock you out late, which hasn't happened. Right. He dropped Berlanga, couldn't stop him. He dropped Munguia, couldn't stop him. He hurt Ryder, couldn't stop him. Like lost to Bivol for trying to do the same thing.
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John McCarthy
That hasn't worked as far as what.
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John Ramdeen
Canelo usually does, which is get him out of there. Sure, he's continued to win fights, but fighters are starting to get hip to it. William Scole just ran around it didn't stand still. So Canelo couldn't really get those power punches off. So he thought Canelo was just stuck, stubborn and saying, okay, well, I'm just going to keep doing it the way I've been doing it because it's easy work, blah, blah, blah. You're wrong. There's clearly a renewed motivation in both Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez and this move for Canelo to bring boots in his in and at least get a day's worth of work just to get a look at someone switching stance just to get a look at someone being able to protect themselves and counter and be just as good as an orthodox fighter as the are as a southpaw. A guy that does represent 154 pounds and is going to have agile feet, can walk you onto shots, can get aggressive with you, can cut angles. I mean, you can't ask for much more than that. And that is why I am fired the fuck up for this fight. Because a remotivated Canelo Alvarez, a guy that has done everything in this sport. Like, I don't question the motivation of Terence Crawford and I really shouldn't question the motivation of Canelo Alvarez, but when you started to hear him wanting to fight Jake Paul and then the William Skull fight was like, that didn't look like the best version of Canelo. And then they announced this. I needed to see a switch. I needed to see him tune back into the Canelo that still was on a mission, coming to £160 and even to £168 trying to become an all time great. Now he's already an all time great and you wonder what else motivates him to keep going into sport. Hell, I asked him that question right in front of his face. Why keep doing this? You've done done everything you need to. And again, it may be me overstating things, but when I see this, as much as we don't know going into the fight and fighters are going to keep things as much of a mystery as possible, not just so the public can speculate on it, not just so we have something to wonder about and to tune in to see, but because they don't want to give up more to their opponents because they don't want their opponents to know more than they're supposed to. But again, how did I start this video? Canelo Alvarez is going to show you what he wants you to see. Terence Crawford is going to do the same thing. But I don't question the Terence Crawford motivation because this is the biggest fight of his career. This is the historic fight for him. Becoming three division undisputed is the story for Canelo Alvarez. He fought everyone. You beat most of them. You became world champion in so many different divisions. What's the point? What is it still? And today with this picture with Jaron Boots Ennis, if you had any questions about his motivation. Netflix awesome. Allegiant Stadium great. Terence Crawford, pound for pound, awesome. If you needed just a little bit more of a boost to say, oh, Canelo is taking this as serious as I've seen him take a fight since maybe the Caleb Plant fight and the way, that fight got personal. That and the Billy Joe Saunders fight, they got very personal and Canelo took it very personal. And those performances showed that today, him bringing in Jaron Boots Ennis as a sparring partner, as a training partner, as someone to replicate Terence Crawford. Yes, it shows that Canelo is taking Terence seriously. It shows that he's concerned for sure about the different qualities and attributes that Terence Crawford has. It shows he's preparing himself the best way possible. But more than anything else, it shows me that Canelo Alvarez is taking this as serious as he's taken any other fight in his career and that he's re motivated to prove something. And that makes for a very scary Canelo. And again, and I'm not just trying to beat the drum of Canelo in this video, but this is major news, so we had to cover it. Make no mistake, I think Terence Crawford is working his ass off right now. I think Terence Crawford will be in the best shape of his career and most prepared of his career. Having to fight against a ton of odds, moving up in two different weight classes, doing so against a guy younger than him, that has more accolades than him, that has more experience in big fights than him, that has fought everyone and done everything in this sport. All things are against Terence Crawford here. So don't get it mistaken. I do believe Terence Crawford, Crawford, if he's able to win this fight, this is a more historic victory for him than of course, it is for Canelo. But it's also why I don't question anything about what Terence Crawford's doing. It's also why I know he's getting prepared for what Canelo brings. I just wonder if it'll be enough because you guys know my prediction. Right now I'm leaning Canelo via a late stoppage and him training with Jaron Boots Ennis almost makes me more convinced that sooner or later, in between the switching of stance, in between a little bit of those angle changes, changes and Canelo trying to track him down, at some point, Canelo will find his target. And if Bud can't stay mobile and like I said, looking as slender as he is, stay active and stay on his feet and keep the respect of Canelo Alvarez. I do think Canelo can stop him. And that would be a first for Canelo in a very long time. Since the last time I thought he took a fight personally all the way back against Caleb plan. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. I'm just feeling something watching all this stuff stuff play out. But you guys let Me know in the comments below. Am I, am I crazy for thinking this is a massive deal that Boots Ennis links up with Canelo and that Canelo gets a firsthand look at probably the best switch stance boxer in the sport right now. A guy that could replicate what Boots wants to do, maybe even do it better out of both stances and a bigger body, yet still agile. I think it's a big deal. So I want you guys to let me know, Canelo fans, you got to be hyped about this. Tell me why in the comments. And Bud fans, are you sweating a little bit? If so, if not, tell me why down below. But what happens on fight night? Will this link up with Boots this close to the fight mean that much for Canelo? Could he figure out Boots in this spar? Will he be able to figure out the puzzle that is Terence Crawford on fight night? And can Crawford defy the odds, move up in weight and secure an historic victory? I don't have those answers yet, but folks, I am pumped and it feels like day by day by day, this fight fight gets bigger and bigger and bigger. What happens on September 13th live on Netflix from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada? I don't have those answers, but guess we'll find out.
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John McCarthy
All right, so we are back on the way concept presented by the ring and today I'm not here to talk to you about high level fighters. I'm not here to talk to you about, you know, big time matchups or interviewing a fighter or I'm going to show you any training that I did with, with a fighter or anything like that. Today I'm here to simply talk, talk about one of the worst things I think I've ever seen on a live camera involving a combat sports athlete. And I don't even, I don't even want to call this individual that because the story I'm about to lay out for you guys doesn't describe an athlete. It doesn't describe someone that is well adjusted or has a responsibility to be a combat sports athlete in all phases of life. What I'm about to show you is someone looking to take advantage of the fact that they're trained in combat and their short temperature, terrible judgment skills and decision making all wrapped into one incident that damn near killed someone. And had it gone the way of the person perpetrating the attack, they probably would have. That may sound harsh and you guys don't have to believe me, but when we're done looking at some of this footage, some of which I can't even show you because we're on YouTube, I think you'll agree. And what I'm talking about is Quentin Rampage Jackson, former light heavyweight champion in the ufc, former Pride champion, has a son named Raja Jackson. And they have been streaming on Kick, and Raja is apparently trying to become a professional MMA fighter, has a wrestling background. I think he's 01 as an actual pro fighter. And they have been interacting father and son and, you know, training and all this. And I don't know much about Rajah Jackson other than the fact that I can clearly see now that he's not well adjusted and his critical thinking skills do not apply almost in any case. And that he's got more than one fucking screw loose for. Because last night he almost killed someone. And I don't even know as I'm recording this, where the health of the other individual stands. But Riser Jackson was at a pro wrestling event somewhere in Los Angeles. And what started as a pretty innocent kind of misunderstanding, one that probably shouldn't have happened. And I'm not gonna excuse that, but also the response to it was so out of control that I can't even describe it without showing it. So let me get into this entire story and we'll talk about it. But Raja J. Jackson attacks a pro wrestler live in an event and almost killed him. And honestly, in my opinion, Rajah Jackson needs to serve jail time. Like, this is not a. An innocent mistake of a young man. This was a premeditated attack that almost murdered someone. And there's no excuse for it, but let's get into it. So, like I said, I'm not even going to be able to show you all this attack. Leo. I guess I'm going to. I'm going to play the video, but we're going to have to blur what happens when we. We get to the attack portion. But here is how everything started. Roger Jackson rolls up to a pro wrestling event, a small local pro wrestling event. This isn't the wwe. This is a local citywide wrestling event, I think put on by Rikishi. And we're going to get back to that in a second because there's going to be some liabilities involved with how this thing actually happened and how it was allowed to potentially happen. That's not going to just involve Raja Jackson, but it's also going to involve the promoter of this event and Rakishi, whose event this is, his pro wrestling company that puts on these events. But here's how everything started.
- [57:04]
John
Know me. Hell no. Yeah.
- [57:07]
John Ramdeen
Hey, I think that's.
- [57:12]
John
Easy. He's not a worker.
- [57:14]
John Ramdeen
Bro, calm down.
- [57:15]
John
Yeah, what. What the was that? What the was that? You don't sell it? No, he's not a browser. The was. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I don't play that, bro. Sorry. No, I will. I know. I know you will. We're good. I will him up, bro. I don't play that. Sorry about that. No, I will him up.
- [57:37]
John Ramdeen
I know you will.
- [57:38]
John
I got you. I did not play that at all. Good know me.
- [57:47]
John McCarthy
So, as you can see here, if you're not familiar with the pro wrestling business, this. You see this individual with his shirt off in the beer belly, and you see the guy behind him with the cowboy hat? These are pro wrestlers, right? It's not amateur wrestling, which is an actual live combat sport. Pro wrestling is a bit of theater. It's what we call sports entertainment, meaning there isn't an actual competition going on. People aren't actually fighting each other. It's simulated combat for the fans to see their favorite stars, especially in the wwe, like a John Cena or Randy Orton or the Russian Rock, go out there and put on a performance right? At the local level. It's a little bit sloppier. It's a little bit less kempt. And obviously the people involved are not the smartest, brightest, and best of the pro wrestling business. This individual in particular, what I assume happened here, was the guy on the right who apparently is a former soldier and has PTSD and wrestles to help him with his PTSD after going overseas. He is, I guess, assuming that Raja is another pro wrestler there because he's backstage with the other pro wrestlers, right? Or in the parking lot with the other pro wrestlers. Like, you can clearly see everybody around is. Is a wrestler, and he is, I guess, assumes that either Raja understands what pro wrestling is and he's there as a wrestler, or that he's a fan that's back there trying to mingle with the wrestlers. And this guy takes a liberty, which he should not have done, and the guy cracks what's clearly a worked can. That again, the pro wrestler should not have done. I'm not gonna condone the guy hitting him with the worked can, but it was clearly an empty can where he was trying to go to Raja and be like, oh, you don't know me well, check this out, right? Like a little bit of a fake punch, like they do in pro wrestling. Oh, yeah. You want to see something? Huh? And it's. And he expects Raja to react like a fan or react like a pro Wrestler would. Where they stumble and, oh, my goodness, goodness, you hit me with something. Okay, we're working together, brother.
- [59:52]
John
He's not a worker, bro.
- [59:54]
John McCarthy
Calm down. So you hear his buddies around him, and again, you see more context for this kind of being the pro wrestler area. And the guy may be thinking that he was just. Raja was a pro wrestler, maybe trying to make a name or just one that he didn't know and they didn't know each other. So that's the way you communicate with the other wrestlers, brother, you gotta show me that you know how to work. And the guy with the shirt off says, oh, you're not gonna sell it. So again, it's clear he thinks that Raja knows what that means. He thinks that Raja either is a pro wrestler or knows what selling is because he hits him with a can. And Raja just stands there like, what the are you doing? The guy clearly up not knowing that Raja didn't understand any of the pro wrestling stuff, and he shouldn't have hit him with the can to begin with. But the context of what's happening is simple. The guy thought Raja was a pro wrestler. Wrestler. And Raja obviously had no fucking clue what was happening.
- [60:41]
John
What the fuck was that? You're good, you're good, you're good, you're good. What the fuck was that?
- [60:45]
John McCarthy
You don't sell it even there. To see him put his hands on Raja, again, not something that he should do, but it's a head collar tie up that a lot of pro wrestlers will do as either a greeting or as a way to see if you're about the business, see if you're a worker. And again, Raja has no idea what this guy's doing, so he's like, get your hands off. So at this point, that's all we know. And Raja hasn't done a thing wrong yet. And the wrestler, again, made a mistake thinking that Raja was a wrestler and went a little too far with the can, crushing and putting his hands. He shouldn't have done that. But again, this is the point we're at. Now, I'm giving you this for context, because what happens next is very important. So that video cuts off, but where it picks up is this right here.
- [61:35]
John
I appreciate it. I didn't know Working out well. He gonna come out on your match. It was. I know you keep thinking we're working. We're always working. I get it out now. You on. You know what I'm saying? I was always working.
- [61:53]
John McCarthy
So there you hear it. The guy with the beard, the. The war vet, Scott Ptsd, he said, listen, I don't. I didn't know you weren't a worker. I'm really sorry. Apologizes twice there to Raja. Apologizes twice. Twice is, hey, I saw the camera, saw you, thought you were a worker again. Worker meaning thought you were another pro wrestler. Thought you were, like, maybe doing a skit and I was gonna, you know, with the camera there. I wanted to do a skit, too. And it's just one of those things if you think someone's a pro wrestler and they come up. It's that little line that gets blurred between real and fake all the time in the business. But the only people that are supposed to be blurring the lines between real and fake are the people actually wrestling because they know that it's not real, and they're trying to convince other people that it is. That's what this guy, this pro wrestler thought. And then you hear the guy in the middle say something like, hey, you know, we're going to have him come out during your match. O. Because we're working. You think we're working. We're always working. So that's the first inclination that they were going to try to make something out of this in the ring, which obviously, in retrospect, was a terrible idea because you're dealing with someone. And this is why I will put a little bit of this on the promotion, Richi's people or whoever decided to set this up. These pro wrestlers are like, oh, yeah, we'll just do something as a part of the match to make it up to you. Right? As an act of good faith. Raja is not a worker. He has no idea that this is supposed to be worked, or at least he doesn't want it to be worked. He's still clearly pissed about the whole thing. So to include him in the match is a terrible idea. A guy that doesn't have any pro wrestling experience, I don't care what his dad did at TNA or wherever else, and is clearly not well adjusted, doesn't care about this fake shit and is looking to hurt someone. So, again, I just wanted to give you broader content, context. This wrestler apologizes multiple times to Raja. It's like, hey, I didn't mean anything by it. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry. I apologize. I thought you were a pro wrestler. You're clearly not. I thought the camera was, like, you doing your thing. That's not the case. I'm sorry. So that's what we call ending it, right? It should end right there. Roger should have no other reason to do what he's about to do, there is no excuse for it at all. Now, with that being said, this show decides to put Raja in a match, or at least in a spot of a match. He is going to be in the match with the guy, at least in some fashion, which again, is a terrible idea. But here's him at least explaining what was told to him, and I'm going to have some push back on.
- [64:09]
John
It is not scripted, bro. I don't know when this match is. No, they didn't tell me to fake him. They said I can hit him for real. Yeah, they allowed me to hit him for real. If he hits me back for real, I don't give a. I want him to.
- [64:34]
John McCarthy
So Raja is saying that the promotion said you can go in there and hit the guy during his match.
- [64:40]
John
So you guys did. They told me to hit him and just leave. Somebody who pulled me off of him will leave. I'm telling you, I'mma hit him as many times as I can watch.
- [64:51]
John McCarthy
And then you hear Roger say, I don't give a. If he hits me back. I want him to. This, this is where I have some pushback. There is no way, as a pro wrestling fan, as someone who is trained in the business right here in Orlando, Florida, down at Team 3D gym with some of the badder dudes in the industry, at least the guys that understood the line between real and fake, that pushed that line. I'm talking team 3D, Bubba D, Von Billy Gunn. There is no shot in hell that these people told a trained professional MMA fighter that he could walk into their ring and punch one of their wrestlers for real until someone pulled them off. Rikishi, someone that worked in the business at the highest level, would not allow his guys to get hit their shit kicked in by an MMA fighter for absolutely no reason. All because of whatever incident happened outside and was very quickly resolved and apologized for. Here's where I think one of two things is happening. Either Raja heard him say that we're going to work with him, you in this match, we're going to have you do a little work thing in the match. And he took that to mean I get to do whatever I want and punch this guy for real, or he heard we're going to allow you to work in the match. And Raja heard enough there and went, oh, they think it's going to be a work. They think it's supposed to be fake. I'm going to fuck this guy up for real. Because people got to quit disrespecting Me and people got to quit playing with me. This is where things turn very badly, because he did what's called in the business, taking the liberty. A guy that is a trained MMA fighter, a guy that understands he is a danger to everyone around, around him, if he so chooses to utilize the skills he's learned and to use the aggression of his chosen sport in a simulated combat zone. And again, while this entire thing is stupid, to even include him in a match, that's absolutely ridiculous, and the promotion should be held liable for thinking that was a. A thing they should do. I don't know about waivers or anything else that was signed. That's completely asinine to think, oh, yeah, this guy just had a little bit of a. An issue with our guy outside. So we need to work it into a match, brother. He's. That's Rampage Jackson's son. He's. He's. He's going to bring the eyeballs. No, that's fucking stupid. You're talking about someone that doesn't understand pro wrestling, and he's going to get in there and you can't control it. What honestly, really was probably said to Raja was, hey, get in the ring, take our guy down, and, you know, really throw some worked punches at him, like, make it look like it's something, but don't actually fucking kill him. And we'll let you stand up, get your hand raised, and look like the big tough guy that you clearly fucking want to be. Now, again, I'm getting a little fucking fired up because of what happens next. Here is the actual video of Raja doing what he did, getting into the ring, which again, apparently was told to him, he was allowed to do by the promotion. Absolutely stupid. But then he takes it a step further, takes liberties with everybody in there that is not looking for a fight, that is not looking to defend themselves from a fight, because it's been agreed upon, apparently, that he's going to come in and do some works, even though Raja is trying to explain it like, no, I can really go in there and assault, Assault this guy. Because when's that ever been the case? Raj is 25 years old. I don't want to hear, stupid kid making mistakes. This is not acceptable in any walk of life where you just get to go, yeah, no, the company said I can go in there and beat his ass. There's clearly a up from the company allowing him to even get into the ring. But it was obvious that he was not supposed to murder the guy, throw a couple of work punches, stand up and look like the tough guy you clearly wanted to be, but that's not what happened. Instead. Instead, Raja took things into his own hands and acted like a complete psycho. And I'm gonna play this video, but we can't even show most of it, Leo, so, like, we're gonna have to blur a lot of this, but just know that he jumps into this ring and damn near kills someone. So right away, single leg. This guy's knocked out cold. He's out cold just from the takedown. Now, again, just look at everybody around you. This guy standing up at the commentary booth, he realizes that takedown was not a worked takedown. He realizes this is already gonna go out of control because Raja slammed this dude on his fucking head. And he proceeds to throw 20, 20 unanswered haymakers at this fool while he's already unconscious. And the severity of violence balance, and the lack of understanding to stop and get off of this guy. And by the way, again, the referee, the other wrestlers probably being a little shell shocked that this is real. No one's stepping in, no security stepping is. Is another complete up by this company. Was it knockouts, knocks? What's this company, Knox Pro Wrestling? A complete up all the way around from them, but a lack of fundamental understanding to say, I'm going to kill this person if I don't stop or. Or to have the want to continue beating on an unconscious man until he is dead is what you see here from Raja. No thought to stop. No thought to hold up. This guy's gonna try to stop him. Which makes this even worse, because even in Raja's own words, he said, I'm gonna throw punches and someone's gonna pull me off? Well, here comes the guy to pull Rajah off. And what's he do if he knows that this is supposed to be how it's going to go and guys are there to pull him off? What's he do? Nope, just keeps throwing. Just keeps throwing. Go try to get again. Look, he tries to shove the guy off again. And keep throwing. This guy comes to get him, he tries to let go of him and get back to it. Then, obviously, all chaos breaks loose, and they try to hold on for dear life while their buddy is laying there completely and utterly unconscious after being attacked. Mercilessly attacked. Now, that video, as much as you guys could have seen of it, again, I don't think I can show it all to you. You just know that he slammed this guy on his head. He was out cold immediately there. He landed 20, maybe 21 unanswered punches. Where the guy's body is convulsing on the floor, whilst again, Raja said, oh, I'm going to throw some punches and their guys are going to pull me off him. That's the, that's what we're doing. Who in their right mind would think that means throwing actual punches? And I don't even know if that was the actual agreement as to what was supposed to have happened. This is all just from Raja himself, which clearly his decision making isn't the greatest in the world world. He's clearly not well adjusted upstairs, so I have a little problem trusting what he's saying at all. But if that was the case and they tried to pull him off him and he throws them off and goes back for more, you're an absolute fucking scumbag that has no ability to fucking think or whose ego is so fragile from what happened hours beforehand where he had an empty can kind of swung on the side of his head very lightly, I might add, and again was immediately apologized to when the situation was revealed that he was not a part of the show or the festivities or pro wrestling at all and apparently was squashed in that moment to then go and do that shit on live camera. What the fuck was he thinking? He wasn't thinking. I mean, I don't even know why I'm asking that question. I know what he was thinking. He was thinking, I'm gonna fucking murder this guy. I'm gonna hurt this guy to where no one can play me anymore. No one can make me look like a bitch anymore. And that's not me. Exaggerating rating. This is what Raja said right after he committed full on assault and probably attempted murder.
- [72:13]
John
Playing with me, bro. Real one of them a and bit me. I'm tired of everybody playing with me and think I'm always playing and call me and not no bro. At the end of the day, I' ma stand up for myself because I'm tired of everybody playing with me, bro. We'll see.
- [72:37]
John Ramdeen
Come on, man, we leaving, man. We walking away, bro. That's not telling. Let's go.
- [72:40]
John
Come on, Roger, let's go.
- [72:42]
John Ramdeen
Let's go, Roger.
- [72:42]
John
Let's go, Roger. Let's go. Roger, I'm telling you, let's go. You listen to me. Listen to me, Roger, you need to listen to me right now. Roger, let's go. I don't give a you guys try.
- [72:53]
John Ramdeen
To jump me and let's go.
- [72:54]
John
You ain't going to do to me, bro. You can't do to me. You can't with me Bro, let's. You can't fuck with me.
- [72:59]
John McCarthy
I'm. I'm. I'm shocked how genuinely fragile Raja Jackson's ego is. I mean, this is a real life look into someone who legitimately thought that beating a helpless man senseless, being a guy who thought at the very most, you guys were going to do a little worked kind of situation, beating the shit out of him until you almost kill him was a way of saying, I'm standing up for myself. I'm not a bitch.
- [73:28]
John Ramdeen
What?
- [73:28]
John McCarthy
And then he yells out, well, y' all jump me. Y' all jump me. No one is fighting but you, you moron. There was not supposed to be any fighting going on. Talking about jumping this and jumping that. Y' all gotta quit playing me like I'm a bitch.
- [73:42]
John Ramdeen
Who.
- [73:42]
John McCarthy
The only person that made themselves look like a bitch here, the only person that made themselves look like an absolute moron, who made themselves look completely unhinged and like they need to be ridiculed and honestly put behind bars for aggravated assault and potentially more, is Rajah Jackson. Like, he's living in a different reality than what is actually happening. No one jumped him and no one treated him like a bitch. There was a situation that shouldn't have happened earlier on in the day. It was a misunderstanding and one that was quickly resolved, apologized for profusely. That, I think, in my own opinion, Rajah Jackson used, when he heard they were going to allow him to be a part of the pro wrestling match, he took advantage of that situation to be like, oh, you punked me on my stream. Hit me with that can on my stream, that apology. I'm going to hit you back, and I'm going to try to hit you until you stop moving. Scumbag. And again, I don't see how he's not charged here. I really don't see how he's not charged. And I'm not even trying to make this, like, how could you do this to this former veteran with ptsd? But this is the guy that Raja attacked, bro.
- [74:44]
John
In 2009, I had just got out of the military, probably about six months earlier, I got out of the military. I joined knoxpro, you know, because I needed something to focus on. I needed something to help me adjust back into civilian life. You know, a lot of veterans, it's hard for them to readjust into civilian life. Coming from the life of the military. I'm an American soldier that suffers from ptsd. Being in front of a crowd, it doesn't give me as much anxiety and aggression as I thought it would like.
- [75:13]
John McCarthy
This guy clearly does pro wrestling as his way of coping with what he's gone through overseas. But the way that Roger Jackson treated this guy, this whole situation is just unbelievable. Now the last thing that I want to talk about is Rampage Jackson's response to his son doing this on live stream number one. I want to say this Rampage had nothing to do with this. And for me to act like I know the situation of Rampage, his family life at home, I'm not going to do that.
- [75:38]
John Ramdeen
I don't know.
- [75:39]
John McCarthy
Rampage was on stream as well with Sneako and found out about it live. They up ended, ended the stream and this is what Rampage had to say about the entire incident after he said I wanted to clear up the misinformation about my son Raja. First off, again, we'll get into what he actually says, but probably the worst way you could start a tweet about your son maliciously and viciously assaulting someone to the point where they were out cold and did not wake up for a very long time. Apparently. According to the to the pro wrestlers that were trying to to get Psycho Stew is the name of the wrestler trying to get him to wake up. Apparently it took a very long time and maybe even till he got to the hospital for him to wake up. And I don't even know what his status is currently. But starting off on a terrible foot here, Rampage, talking about the misinformation about your son, we saw him on camera beat a man senseless. Anyway, I've been confirmed that the wrestler Stuart Smith, AKA Psycho Stew is awake and stable. Rajah was unexpectedly hit in the side of the head by him moments before before Smith's match and Raja was told that he could get his payback in the ring. I thought it was a part of the show. Now again we have the footage to show that yes, Raja was hit unexpectedly with an empty can on the side of the head in a very worked way. It wasn't a full swing of that can. There was nothing in that can to hurt him. And it was clearly done as a way to be a part of whatever skill skit Stu the wrestler Psycho Stu thought Rajah was doing with the camera and the live stream and him thinking that Raja was a pro wrestler. What Rampage is not saying here, and it's a bit disingenuous for Rampage to do when we have all the footage, is that not only was this not just before the match, this was immediately followed by a profuse apology from Stu and the other pro wrestlers around that did not know that Raja was a worker that did not know Raja wasn't a pro pro wrestler, and the whole situation was resolved right there. He then goes on and says Raja was told he could get his payback in the ring. And then there's a comma. I thought it was a part of the show. So if Raja was told he could get his payback in the ring, which again, I assume he is getting from his son, telling him that that's what the pro wrestling company told him and them, meaning Rampage and Raja legitimately thinking that that meant Raja could go into that ring, pick up this wrestler, slam him on his head, and throw punches at him continuously until the guy died, that that's what they thought the payback in the ring was. Rampage knows better. He's been on movie sets. He has worked in pro wrestling before. He knows what a work is, and that's not it. Bullshit. Now, again, Rikishi's company, this Knox Wrestling company, they're gonna have some fault involved here as well for even proposing the fact that Raja should get in the ring with their pro wrestling wrestlers because he's not trained, he clearly doesn't understand the business. And even if you tell him it's supposed to be fake, even if you tell him to go in there and not throw real punches, you can't control what he does. As a guy that's not well adjusted, as a guy that's still clearly pissed off, has a temper issue, has a fragile ego, and is looking to hurt people, that's on them too. It was bad judgment and a work that went wrong. Yeah, no, that's bullshit. Raja was not working at all. Raja was not faking any of that. He was looking to go in there and hurt that guy again. Rampage, this is all. Dude, this is all bad. Terrible, terrible, terrible response. Raja is an MMA fighter, not a pro wrestler, and had no business being involved in an event like this. True. I don't condone my son's actions at all. He suffered a concussion sparring only days ago and had no business doing anything remotely close to physical contact. Okay, yeah, I mean, sure, him suffering a concussion and sparring days ago. Okay, yeah, he shouldn't be involved with any physical activity because concussions are a real thing. But trying to use that as the way to say, oh, my son was. Was suffering concussion symptoms and that's how this potentially could happen. Like using that as a defense in some way is again, just a terrible look for Rampage. If that's what he's trying to do there, then he goes as a father I'm deeply concerned with his health and the well being of Mr. Smith. That being said, I'm very upset that any of this happened, but my main concern now is that Mr. Smith make a speedy recovery. I apologize on his behalf and to Kick for the situation. I mean, yeah, Rampage is trying to protect his son, but you, you just can't, you can't say some of this stuff. You can't come out right away. And I'm sure whatever legal representation they're going to try to get, because there is going to have to be some legal representation like the amount the lawsuit, if they're, if not for criminal charges that are going to get pressed, the lawsuit itself is going to hit Rampage in his wallet. To start this tweet off by saying, I want to clear up the misinformation. It was a work that went wrong. He was told he could get his payback in the ring and he puts payback in quotes. They better have that in writing or in voice form somewhere. But that, that's just a bad, bad response from Rampage for what potentially can happen legally in this situation. And this entire, entire situation is the fault of his son. No if, ands or buts about about it. His son chose to go into that ring and make a statement to everybody else out there that he was the tough guy by intentionally trying to hurt that pro wrestler. And I only have to assume it was because of that incident earlier on that Raja clearly didn't get over that. It stung his ego that it was on live and people and his chat was probably clowning him for it and he was probably looking at his kick chat and going, oh, I'm a. Huh? I'm a. And there's a bunch of 12 and 13 year olds in his live stream chat going, yeah, going in there and fuck him up. And a 25 year old man can't make the adult decision to say, you know what, whatever is going on in this little fucking Internet chat on my phone is not worth me potentially going to jail for a very long time or worth me losing my screws and murdering someone or attempting to assault them in a way that leaves them permanently damaged. Roger Jackson didn't do that. He fed into, he allowed himself and his ego to go in there and take advantage of the situation and put a fucking beating on this guy. Psycho Stu. Roger Jackson's not an example of a kid making a mistake. He's an example of a scumbag using an opportunity to assault someone as a way to say I'm not a and y' all are gonna stop playing with me. That's an absolutely egregious, egregious use of, of combat sports and martial art experience. This is the thing that you get into martial arts for, to stop guys like Raja Jackson from doing it to people that can't protect themselves. You get into martial arts arts to be able to defend yourself from psychos like that. And the first thing you learn when a part of martial arts and training different disciplines is that you are a walking weapon. You are someone that has the means to inflict violence. But through the martial arts learn the control to not do so. Learn the discipline and the humility to not use your physical actions but instead to de escalate in all situations. And yeah man, this is just fucking stupid. And listen, I offer a lot of opinions here on combat sports, but this may be the first time where I offer the opinion that Roger Jackson should be in jail for what he did here. This is, this is inexcusable and this is no offense to Rampage or anybody else. I know that's his father, but there is no excuse. There is none. And it's not some 16 year old kid, 17 year old kid, 18 year old kid, that's a 25 year old man that made a choice to damn near end someone's life over his ego. I'll even go as far as say a little bit of clout and standing on business. I told you guys the Internet has fried people's brains and it really has. And if you're defending this, you're one of those people. Completely awful. But yeah, that's the situation. I don't know what's going to happen next here. Pray for the safety of Psycho Stu that was on the other side of this. Just complete and utter vicious assault. I hope this is a signal to live streaming entities like Kik, like Twitch and anybody that's on those platforms that you are always, you are developing a digital footprint of your actions and hopefully this is a signal to everybody looking to do the next biggest thing for Cloud, Everybody looking to press people and get in fights and everything. Ego driven and nobody being able to take a step back and take a breath and say this is not the right place, the right time. This is going to turn out badly. Hopefully this is an example of what not to do and what combat sports and MMA and true martial arts are not meant for. Complete scumbag move from Roger Jackson. And I'd have to think chargers are at least going to be pressed and filed and what happens next? I don't have those answers, but I guess we'll find out.
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John
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John McCarthy
Every case that is a cold case that has DNA right now in a backlog will be identified in our life.
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John Ramdeen
On the new podcast America's Crime Lab.
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John
Every case has a story to tell.
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John Ramdeen
And the DNA holds the truth.
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John
He never thought he was going to get caught and I just looked at my computer screen, I was just like, ah, gotcha.
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John Ramdeen
This technology is already solving so many cases. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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John
It's Black Business Month and Money and wealth podcast with John Hope Bryant is tapping in. I'm breaking down how to build wealth wealth, create opportunities and move from surviving to thriving. It's time to talk about ownership, equity and everything in between. Black and brown communities have historically been last in line. Let me just say this AI is moving faster than civil rights legislation ever did. Listen to Money and Wealth from the Black Effect podcast network on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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John Ramdeen
Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is is Ken Jennings appearance on the puzzler with A.J. jacobs. The question is what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land Jeopardy truthers believe in? I guess they would be conspiracy theorists.
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John McCarthy
That's right.
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John Ramdeen
They gave you the answers and you still blew it. The Puzzler listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you you get your podcasts.
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John
This is an I heart podcast.