(no music) #1439 Boxing Schedule - Let me bore you to sleep - 25th September 2025

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Let me see. Let me bore your pain away. So look, it's got, it's got search, but it's got no weird.

What's that all about then? So searching, I want to search for something. I'm clicking on it, but nothing's happening. Let me bore your, nope, let me bore.

Maybe you'll do it by, according to this, nothing's happening. 1435, 1434. So the search bar isn't not working.

That's weird. I wonder why that is. But everything else on there, oh, it is working.

It's just taking its time. The internet is very slow today, for some reason. I wonder why? Hmm.

Oh, website error. So I click on refresh, see if that does anything. I think it's because the website's a little baby at the moment.

It's, you know, it's the same old domain name, jasonnewland.com. But I'm using a different service. And it's probably going to take a little while to get used to itself. Which is okay.

It's fine. Right, so that's all up and running. About the host, Jason Newland.

Oh, I wonder who he is. And that's it really. I quite like this website.

I don't know why. I don't really know why, but I don't know. So we've got two new people in the building.

So both of the empty flats are now filled. And I've met one of them. And that person seems nice.

The other person's I've not met yet. This, listen to this. Why is it squeaking though? I don't know what part of the desk is squeaking because it's a little bit.

It feels, I don't know, maybe something needs oiling. A bit of Vaseline, maybe. Because Vaseline can be quite good for stopping squeaking, for loosening things up.

And I use Vaseline on the door handles, I think. Was it Vaseline or was it? It might be, you know, that oil you use, you can use sort of spray oil, like olive oil or whatever. I think I use some of that on the hinges of the doors.

Unless it was Vaseline, I might have put Vaseline on. Either way, it did the job. Also, apparently, you can use furniture polish as well.

That seems to do it as well. So it's got a bit of lubrication. So if you need something lubricated, furniture polish can do the job.

Depending on what it is you need lubricated. I mean, it's not good for, you know, you've got to keep away from human skin. But things like hinges and stuff.

The Internet's going really slow today. This weekend. So what's happening? Boxing schedule.

I don't know. Is there any boxing on this week? Saturday, because what is the date today? So 25th September. 27th of September is Ben Crocker and Sean McComb.

Okay. Blimey. That's weird.

Marcus Brown versus Marcus Brown is a different person. So that's the first. So that's this weekend.

I don't really know who that is. Ben Crocker, Sean McComb, Tycee Gallagher and Ellie Halliwell. It's not saying anything about it.

So I'll skip that. Irishman Sean McComb is hoping victory over unbeaten Ben Crocker on the 27th will move him toward a junior world title fight. So that'll be Saturday.

It's in Sheffield. So that'll be kind of in the like, probably seven o'clock or whatever. That'll start.

Then the G Lopez. I don't know what that is. Brought to you by Pro Box TV.

No, I don't have Pro Box TV. Another one is Sol Kudos against Kim Clavell in Canada. It doesn't seem to be.

It's not. I'll tell you what, it's not giving very good information about the fight. So I'll go somewhere else.

Box live. Let's box live. I want to see kind of what belts they're fighting for.

And you know what, what the point is, what the reason, you know, don't just a name. This person's fighting this person. It's like, okay, great if you know who the people are, but I don't know who the people are.

So not all the people. I can't know everyone. But now Box Live has got an advert come up and I can't get rid of it.

Skip ad. Go away. Crocker.

Laurenti against Collins. Right. Is it the same? Oh, no, that's October the 4th.

View fight info. Maybe that's I don't know if it's for again, adverts. Blimey.

Stop it with adverts, man. Stream Laurent versus Collins in the US and worldwide. UK Saturday, 7.30pm. US 2.30pm. I wish it was the other way around.

Because it maybe not. It just be you know, we our start at 7.30 in the UK. And America starts at 2.30. So either way, America gets they get a good so they'll start at 7.30 in the evening, which is like two o'clock in the morning here.

I could handle either in the evening or in the afternoon. Like Saturday afternoon, that'd be fine. But have to move to America to do that.

And I can't go to America. Because it's too far to travel to watch boxing. Too far.

Okay, let's go back see what's on. There is some good fights coming, carrying on coming up rather subhead. It's another I gotta get rid of this another advert coming up.

Boxing schedule BBC so hopefully, but this one isn't let me it's not saying what it is. It's not saying what the titles are for. Oh, it does a little bit.

Okay, so September, let's click through. September, September, September. Blimey, it's been a lot of fights on in September.

But it's not going any further than 28th of September, which is a no good for me. Although if I click on October, yeah, probably be a bit better. Nothing I want to watch on the fourth of October.

And really, it's only one fight I want to watch the whole of October. And that is Sebastian fund or against Keith Thurman on 26. I was pretty sure there was a big fight in October.

Maybe we got it wrong. So let's have a look at November. Now they've just not put all of the ones on there.

So you got November 22nd of November, David Benavidez against Anthony yard and multiple fights. It's a really big, big, big bill in Saudi Arabia. So that's the biggest fight of that firm.

November. So December. So Inouye is fighting on 27th of December.

You know, I'm pretty sure he fought around the same date last year. Now this is going to be a strange thing, but I'm going to search or maybe it was the what do you see Vinnie? Vinnie see something that he's trying to catch. All I can hope is it's a fly.

It's all right. Please. So I'm going to look at news about Inouye.

Inouye now, no, yeah, no, yeah, Inouye. So last year, so he's fought three times this year so far. So we four times last year.

No, I know what happened. He was due to fight at the end of December. I don't know what it is.

He's found. I don't know what it is. He's trying to catch something.

I think he was supposed to fight the end of December and it was put off until January. I can't see what it is he's going for, but he's trying to find something trying to catch something. Anyway, so I don't understand why.

Bearing in mind October. Where's the it's just American fights. Or is this these fights are going to show on BBC? I don't think so.

No, they won't be showing the Inouye fight on BBC. Sebastian Fundora, unlikely they're going to be showing that. Why have they done that? Why'd they missed out? Because there's fights I know 100% they've missed out on.

Boxing News upcoming fights. So. So Dave Allen, 11th of October.

It didn't have that. I knew that was coming up. So Dave Allen 11th of October in Sheffield.

That's one I'm looking forward to. So that's definitely a night in to watch. And then Ennis is that the 11th or 11th? Yes.

So in the evening or the next morning, Jaron Ennis is or Boots Ennis is fighting defending his world title. So that'd be great. I watched that as well.

So that's the 11th of October. Then the following Saturday. Of course is good.

So Saturday, the 11th and then the following Saturday, which is the 17th. No, two weeks after so two weeks later, Joseph Parkin and Fabio Wardley. And that's in London.

So that's in the UK. So that's be a night in. And then in America, so the next morning, early hours, Sebastian Fundora against Keith Furman.

Another one I want to watch. And let's have a look. So there's nothing that I'm kind of shouting out at me so far.

Until the 15th of November, Chris Eubank versus Conor Benn, again, number two. So I will be watching that. 100%.

I hope. What is that? Okay, so that's the 15th of November. And then the following Saturday.

So yeah, two Saturdays. No, that's brilliant. I'm very happy about that.

In fact, four Saturdays in a row, three Saturday in a row, because you've got yeah, Chris Eubank, Jr. and Conor Benn, the 15th of November, David Venabetes versus Anthony Yard, the 22nd of November. That's in Saudi Arabia, which means it will be on normal time. I hope.

And the following week on the 27th, oh, that's not the following week, it's the following month. There's only one fight in December, the 27th. So what 25th is Christmas Day.

26 is Boxing Day. And 27th is the day that's the day when Inouye is defending his world titles. So let's have a look unless he's going up a different weight as possible.

Inouye and Junto Nakatani look to steer up the biggest fight in the history of Japanese boxing as they share a bill in Riyadh. In the main event, Inouye faces unbeaten Mexican Alan David Picasso. I've never known a Mexican called Alan before.

As he sort of standard Mexican name is Alan. You're right, Alan. Alan.

As he attempts to become the first undisputed champion of the four belt era to make four defences within a calendar year, whilst Nakatani takes on Sebastian Hernandez-Reyes in the co-main. A slip up from either man could prove extremely costly as fans around the globe hope that both men come through their respective contests unscathed. Why? What do they want to fight each other or I don't know? Who knows?

So Inouye and Picasso.

Mind you, David's not very Mexican name either, is it? Alan David. Picasso, Picasso, isn't that? Italian, kind of Italian name. Picasso.

Inouye. So yeah, I look forward to that because that he is something else. Let's go back to, nope.

Let's go back to the, you got Joshua Baratzi and Zack Parker. So I will watch that as well. It's just you got Virgil Ortiz as well.

He's unbeaten, so that'll be good to see him. But I suppose the two that I'm looking forward to most really. Three.

Well, the one I'm looking forward to most for like the biggest event will be David Benavidez against Anthony Yard because there's so much going on on that night. Unfortunately, it's not giving me any of the information on here. It says Anthony Yard challenges for world honors for a third time as he takes on undefeated Mexican David Benavidez.

Maybe David is a Mexican name. I don't know about Alan, though. Alan.

Alan. It's like Roger. It's Roger.

Alf. Anyway, and so David Benavidez who attempts a first defense of the WBC light heavyweight title. Atop a blockbuster undercard, can Anthony Yard finally get his hands on a belt? Or will Benavidez tee up a shot at Dimitri Bivol with another eye catching display? And yeah, I think it's going to be a really good fight.

However it goes. It's look at this. Frazier Clark versus Jimmy Takei TKV headlines boxer debit on BBC.

When is that? When is that everyone? Anyone? Anyone? The return of boxing on the BBC now has a date and a main event following today's announcement from boxer. Their new broadcast partnership with the free-to-air television giant begins on October the 25th. Live on BBC two from the Valiant live arena in Derby.

Maybe that's what I was looking at earlier. It was the BBC schedule. Their new broadcasts, okay, headliners, headlining boxers first show since Callum Smith's European super middleweight title victory over Ivan Zuko in June will be a vacant British heavyweight title fight between Frazier Clark and Jimmy TKV.

And the British public love nothing more than a big heavyweight tear up and this fight is set to deliver maximum entertainment value said boxer founder and CEO Ben Shalom. It's impossible to call between Frazier and TKV. Both men are warriors with everything at stake and the nation watching.

I'm ever so excited to welcome a new generation of fans to the sport who've grown up without boxing or free-to-air TV and will now on free-to-air TV and now gets a chance to experience it on the BBC for the first time. Now Clark versus TKV will be shown on BBC two in a Saturday night primetime slot between 8pm and 10pm. The full undercard yet to be announced will also be streamed live on BBC iPlayer.

Wow, so that's good. It is good. It's nice that a terrestrial TV channel has taken boxing because BBC, was it Channel 5 has had the occasional fight but it's you know the BBC, ITV used to be the places for boxing in the 70s and the 80s even in the 90s and then Sky kind of took over.

So the, you know the Frank Bruno fights, yeah, even if that was in America they might like re-show it on a Sunday morning or they might show it live. I watched quite a few fights during the 90s that were live in America, Lennox Lewis and things like that, Vander Holyfield and the main fight would start at like 4.30 in the morning. I remember those times.

I just, I've, well I just mentioned it so I must remember some of it. I just remember getting home from being out, maybe being out to a club or comedy club or something like that and I'd get the night bus back from Trafalgar Square or Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus or wherever it was, Liverpool Street and I'd get home just in time for the boxing event to start.

So they'd have, they wouldn't have the whole undercard on but they'd probably have the last three fights.

So it'd start about maybe two o'clock and if the fights went on for 12 rounds each fight it would be a bit of a drag, bit of a, I used to find myself feeling very tired and I'd be sitting up in my bed and quite often I'd wait, I'd fall asleep and I'd wake up halfway through the main fight that I was actually waiting to watch because I just couldn't keep awake.

Clark, 34, has endured mixed fortunes since turning professional in February 2022. The Burton-on-Trent heavyweight left behind a decorated amateur career that cultivated in a bronze medal at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Well it was 2021 wasn't it? Why call it 2020 Olympics when it was in 2021? That's going to be very confusing in a thousand years. Trying to explain to people the concept of time and dates in years, that's the one blip, it's like yeah but it doesn't work, it can't work because the 2020 Olympics was in 2021 therefore numbers isn't working. Dates isn't, it's just not, it's just not, it doesn't fit together.

I've always dreamt of winning the British title, he said, I'm so hungry for this fight, so eager to get in there and finally make it mine. The fact it's happening live on Primetime BBC makes it even better. I'm going to be ice cold in there, I've travelled the world as an amateur, I've had my ups and downs as a pro, I've learned from it all, I'm seasoned, I'm hardened, mmm and I'm more focused and determined for this fight than ever before.

Jimmy is a solid all-around fighter but I know the level I'm at and the work I've been putting in at the gym and he won't hear the final bell. I'm a much more complete fighter now than I've ever been and with that comes knockouts. My mindset is simple, go in there, get the win and make a statement.

I don't get it wrong, I'm not looking past Jimmy but I will go straight through him. Go straight through him, wow. Clark's only appearance in 2025 so far was a first round stoppage win against Ebenezer Tete which came six months after Fabio Wardley stopped him in the opening round of their Riyadh rematch.

So I'm thinking right, they get a lot of, I mean TKV meanwhile got a second, gets a second shot at the British title after losing to David Adelaide in controversial circumstances in April. The 31 year old Londoner is confident Clark cannot withstand his pressure. Yeah, I think Fraser's going to win that.

The thing is with boxing and it is slightly, it's a very fickle business, the fans are very fickle it seems sometimes and they're happy when the boxer's doing well but once, you know, the boxer maybe has a loss, the amount of people that seem to just write that boxer off like, never was much good to start with. It's like, wait a minute, no he's still the same person he was before and they've done that with Clark because Clark got knocked out by Fabio Wardley.

But Clark is an Olympian with years and years and years of amateur success.

That's not nothing. He's very skillful. Maybe the reason he got beaten by Fabio is because of how good Fabio is, because that seems to be the mentality sometimes is a boxer gets beaten, therefore they weren't very good.

What about giving props to the other boxer? Maybe they got beaten because the other boxers really good. You know, it doesn't have to, it's like going on the negative side. Did they say that about Muhammad Ali when he lost the first time? Oh Muhammad Ali, he wasn't very good anyway.

It's weird isn't it? They say that in sales, you're only as good as your last sale or you're only as good as your last success. Which I find is very, a little bit sad really, a little bit shallow. So that should be quite a good fight I reckon.

And that's on the, what date was that on? 22nd? No, did they give me a date? Anyone? Do you remember? You didn't know you were going to get tested did you? Oh no, what day is it? They didn't give a date. Why didn't they give a date? Hasn't got, they did say it's got a date. Right, I'm trying to find it now.

The return of boxing on BBC now has a date and a main event. So it's got a date. October 25th, I'm thinking it's October 25th now, but it's September 25th.

So October 25th, so I'm going to be watching that. See I like him. I like Fraser Clarke and just because he got beat, he's still a huge man and still got skill and he's still an Olympian.

I think he's just passed one. Oh, another one I'm really looking forward to is David Allen against Alsanbek Makudov. And that's on the 11th of October.

So when's the, yeah, that's the first one. That's the next one to watch really. For me, that I'm excited about, I mean, that I'm, you know, can't wait.

And that will be the 11th. Oh, so it's two weeks this Saturday. And then you got, yeah, that weekend you got Bootsiness as well.

So watch him. And then the 25th, so the 11th. No, keep doing it, don't I? Then the 17th, so two weeks later, Joseph Parker and Fabio Wardley.

So they're the two main fights I'm looking forward to. David Allen and Makudov on the 11th of October. And on the 25th of October, Joseph Parker and Fabio Wardley.

They're the two, pretty much the two British fights. And Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn II, which is the 15th of November. So they're the three UK fights that I'm looking forward to.

Then American fights, what have we got? I would say Boots Ennis, 11th of October. Sebastian Fundoro, 25th of October. Probably Virgil Ortiz, 8th of November.

David Benavidez, 22nd of November. I mean, that's like a massive, massive, massive bill. You got Inouye on the 27th of December.

So what I'm going to do is if I look on this, I wonder if it's going to go through who else is on the bill. I can find out though. I could tell you the full, full, full bill.

That's really silly. You know, you stood this boxing videos on YouTube showing the full fight. It's not even happened yet.

It's weird. Where? Why? Let's have a look. So I'll go on to the zone.

Maybe that will show me who's on. It's a really big, packed bill. So what we got is, there's even more than what's on there, which is weird.

So you've got David Benavidez, Anthony Yard. That's the main fight. Then you've got Brian Norman Jr. versus Devin Haney.

That's for the WBO worldweight title. Abdullah Mason versus Sam Noakes for the vacant WBO lightweight titles. Jesse Rodriguez against Firmando Martinez for the IBF, WBA and WBC super flyweight fight titles.

So it's one, two, three, four world title fights. Now what they haven't added, which is ridiculous, I don't know why. There's another fighter on there.

Guess who that is? And I can't remember. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

See if this will show it. Boxing schedule. It's not showing.

Oh, yes, it is. More exciting fights. No.

Okay, I've got a way of doing this. According to this, Artur Beterbiev is to fight new KO artist in next fight. In next as Dmitry Birol trilogy on hold.

So this is going to be Beterbiev will be facing a new opponent next time on November 22nd Riyadh, which is the date of the David Benavidez fight. It's part of the stacked ring fight that features David Benavidez and Anthony Yard is the main event. I mean, this is ridiculous.

The first time in over eight years that he's been in the ring without a major title on the line. And he's not even according to this, in the first five fights, like the he's not even in the any, any billion. Like he's a warm up fight.

One of the biggest fighters in the in the world of boxing. Artur Beterbiev. I personally think no matter who is fighting, whether it's for a title or not, he should be second billing.

He shouldn't be top billing ahead of, you know, the, the world title, the big world title fight, Anthony Yard and David Benavidez. But Artur Beterbiev, how can they not have him on as the co-main event, regardless of if it's for a world, you know, whatever title is him. He's a superstar, he's a boxing superstar.

I find it very strange. I really do. I really, really do.

Apparently here it says here Terence Crawford offered new title fight by most avoided champion in new history chance. So I'm not I'm just going to guess who that is. I'm going to say I'm going to say So has he gone to super middleweight? Could go up to cruiserweight? Yeah, but that he said he wouldn't anyway.

So I'm going to guess upper tier. All right. But I guess I bet he won't.

He already said he's not going to go up that high. Super middleweight is as high as he's going to go. I bet you it's upper tier.

Bet you. Let's have a look. No, it's not.

Terence Crawford has been called out by Janibek Alimkanuli, who is willing to meet the undefeated star for his hundred and sixty pounds title. Crawford is arguably the hottest property in boxing right now after completing extraordinary feat by moving from 154 pounds to 168 pounds to dethrone undisputed champion Kenelo Alvarez, but has completed it all and made history by becoming undisputed champion in three weight classes. The first male boxer to do so in the four belt era.

But now his future is up in the air. It's only been two weeks, leave the man alone. And a move to 160 pounds to be discussed internally by Crawford and his camp.

How do you discuss something internally? How do you even hear each other? Should he choose to move down eight pounds and enter a new division? Current unified IBF and WBO champion Alimkanuli believes a fight makes perfect sense. He tweeted in a social media call out. If Crawford agreed to fight me, I would gladly face him.

Probably the money helps as well, I'm guessing. The thing is, at the moment, middleweight isn't a, it's not a big. Because middleweight used to be one of the top weight classes.

Welterweight, middleweight, heavyweight. They seem to be the real big ones. Especially with, you know, Hearns and Duran and Leonard, all being kind of welterweight and moving around different weights.

Hagler being the king of the middleweights. And then Golovkin being the king of the middleweights for quite a while as well in sort of this kind of era. Well, you know, previous.

As well as other people, but like middleweights being big. But now super middleweight over the last, I don't know, 20 odd years, it seems to have become a more, I don't know, like a more glamorous division than middleweight. And it's like four pounds.

I think it's four pounds difference. I mean, I lose that much just by walking upstairs. I'm gonna sweat that is.

And I just flap my ears and the sweat goes off over all the windows. I say sweat, probably cellulite, but hey. And because super middleweight is a much, much more sought after position.

Middleweight is kind of, it's just, it's not dormant. But it's almost, it's just there. Doesn't get a huge amount of limelight.

And the same was pretty much the same for light heavyweight for quite a while. And then, you know, you get a few people kind of went up to light heavyweight. And this, it seems to be more recently with, what's his name? Beterbiev being the knockout king.

Turned light heavyweight into a really big, kind of like, it got eyes on that division. And then, what's his name? And what's his name? And what's his name? Beterbiev. Right, okay.

Bivol. And Bivol comes along. He doesn't come along, but Bivol's kind of also there.

And they both held world titles for years in the same division. And eventually they fought each other. They cleaned up the other belts and then they fought each other.

And Beterbiev won the first fight. Bivol won the second fight. And they're supposed to be having a third fight.

Now Bivol is arguably, pound for pound, one of the best boxers in the world. Along with Shakur Stevenson, or Stevens, Shakur Stevens, Shakur Stevenson. And people like Inouye, Terence Crawford, of course.

But there's a few, Boots Innes, there's a few that are just way at the top, skill wise, and what they've accomplished. I don't know about Canelo Alvarez. I wouldn't necessarily put him as pound for pound, the best in the world now.

But I would put him as pound for pound, one of the best super middleweights of all time. Or pound for pound, one of the best boxers of all time, because of what he's accomplished. He just doesn't have, he's at the tail end of his career now.

He's still better than like 95% of the boxers out there. Skill wise, he's still pretty better than most boxers. And he's probably got more skill than most world champions at the various different weights, most.

And an iron chin. However, he's not, it's not what he was. I'll tell you who I would like to see him fight.

Because this is before, this is like, I wanted to see Canelo fight Artur Betebeev, before Betebeev lost his world titles. So my personal opinion is, like so Canelo fought Bivol, and Bivol beat him on points. The same way Terence Crawford did, and the same way that Mayweather did about 20 years ago.

Now, Betebeev against Canelo would be one hell of a fight, and possibly one of the most exciting fights we'd ever see. Because both of them have got amazing chins. Both of them have got amazing power.

And I almost, I mean Canelo, I don't think he's ever been knocked down. Betebeev has been knocked down, he's got up. So it would be, I don't know why they'd not done that.

Maybe Canelo didn't want it, or maybe Betebeev didn't want it. That would be one of the most exciting fights, even if it wasn't for a title. So an ideal situation is potentially, if a belt got stripped, let's say Bivol lost one of his belts because he didn't defend it.

Let Betebeev and Canelo fight for that belt. Because they are, I've not heard anyone say this in the boxing world. I know I'm not in the boxing world, but I've not heard anyone say this.

I really do believe that would be one of the greatest fights ever. The build-up possibly wouldn't be very exciting. Because neither of them really do much in the way of trash-talking towards their opponents.

Betebeev, he just sits there. Canelo is quite happy providing his opponent is not rude, he's not rude. But come fight time, when they're in the ring, it'll be savage.

So that's what I'd like to see, that fight. Even if it wasn't for a world title. I think it might be one of those fights where people just don't want to watch it, and then regret it.

Because it's such a good fight, and then they have a, maybe they do a rematch, and it becomes one of the biggest fights ever. And it'll probably be just as exciting the second time. And that's the kind of fight people, I do believe, want Canelo to be in.

They don't want to see Canelo in a fight against a master boxer. Because he's shown that he's like a true master, as in Bivol or Terence Crawford. They can just win.

They know how to win. But they can't hurt him. They can't hurt Canelo.

But they can, they're faster. And they can get out of the way, and it won't just stand there and be a punching bag. And the thing is, with Beto BF, he will stand there and be a punching bag.

And Canelo will stand there and be a punching bag. You know, toe to toe is something that they both love doing. They can also move.

But it would be, what an amazing fight. If only I had contact with the Sheik in Saudi Arabia. I just say to him, listen, mate, I wouldn't probably say mate, but listen, sir.

Your honor, I don't know what the correct way to address him is, but I just say to him, sir, put this fight on. And it will be the biggest fight. Or Beto BF, to be fair, I would say Beto BF or Bivol goes up in weight to cruiserweight and fights Opeteyer.

Either one be a great fight. Beto BF, it will be a slug out. Bivol, different, but he's a master technician.

Absolute master boxer. In the same way, Terence Crawford is. In fact, that'd be an interesting fight.

It won't ever happen because Terence Crawford's not big enough. And, and he would never go up to light heavyweight. But if he did, if they were able to fight each other, because I would say Boots, Innes, Shaquille Stevens, and Dimitri Bivol and Terence Crawford.

Potentially the best boxers, like boxer, like everything. I tick all the boxes. Potentially the four best in the world that I can think of off the top of my head.

There are probably others. Oh, blimey. Usyk.

I forget Usyk. Usyk's different, but he still is great. So Usyk.

So I put Usyk in that, that list. I'm just thinking if Bivol and Terence Crawford fought each other, it wouldn't work just because of the height difference. I mean, Bivol's like six foot four, six foot five, Crawford's five foot eight, or five foot nine, something like that.

So, you know, it just, it wouldn't logistically work, especially as they're both similar kind of boxers. So it just wouldn't strategically work. I don't think, personally.

Who would I like Terence Crawford to fight? I suppose I quite like the idea of maybe him going down a weight to middleweight and doing what he's talking about doing. Maybe. Because light heavyweight, it's, it's not a huge leap for a super middleweight.

But Terence Crawford is not a natural super middleweight. If he had a bit more height on him, I think maybe he could go in against some of the bigger guys at a heavier weight. But he'll be so short compared to the light heavyweights.

But he'd also be more skillful. I mean, the only boxer, really the only boxers that have the kind of skill at the moment that I can think of that could beat Terence Crawford, or match him even. Usyk, the heavyweight champion.

At the moment, I mean, I'm told there's other people probably could, but I don't know them. And they're not world champions yet. So Usyk, hmm, Inouye.

Inouye is different though, because he just knocks everyone out. He's got, he's phenomenal. So yeah, I kind of want to put Inouye in there as well.

But he doesn't go the distance really very often. I mean, how often has he gone a different, the distance Inouye boxer? He's gone the distance. Let's have a look.

Right, four times out of 31 fights. So he's had 27 knockouts, four decisions. Ironically, his last fight was a decision.

But that was the first time since 2019. Wow. And then time before that was 2016.

And then the time that before that was 2013. So 2013, 16, 19. So every three years, and then it's been six years between the last two.

So based on that, it's either going to be another six years, or another nine years before his next distance fight. Look at this, he's married to his high school sweetheart, and has three children. He is trained by his father Shingo Inouye, who is a former amateur boxer.

He has one younger brother, Tamuka Inouye, and one older cousin, Koki Inouye, both of whom are professional boxers. I'm pretty sure Tsukuma Inouye was a world champion. Yes, he was.

He held the WBA bantamweight title from 2023 to 2024. I do believe he lost. Well, yeah, he's lost two fights.

One was fighting for the WBC bantamweight title 2019. And the other one was 2004, he lost his title. So I'm wondering.

November the 7th, 2019. I thought I saw that date. Let's have a look on his brother.

November the 7th, 2019. Yeah. Okay.

They were on the same bill. Super Arena Satayma. Yeah, they were on the same bill.

I remember watching that and seeing his brother lose and him going on. In fact, that might be the first time that I saw Inouye fight. But I'm trying to think because I think it might be because he fought Nonita Donair.

And I've watched all of his fights since then. So it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. So this December will be the 14th fight that I've watched of his.

Stephen Fulton. That was a weird one because he fought, he basically fought and won the different world titles. So he fought.

So he won the world title. I always had multiple world titles at different weights as well. Blimey.

When did he, he won his first world title in his sixth fight. Sixth fight in 2014. So he turned professional in October the 2nd, 2012.

And he won the WBC light flyweight title in his sixth fight on the 6th of April, 2014. And then in his eighth fight, he won, he went up a weight. He won the WBO junior bantamweight title.

And then in, he retained that a few times. Then in his 16th fight, he won the WBA regular bantamweight title. His next fight, 17th fight, 2018.

He retained that title. Okay. And he did the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight quarterfinal.

The next fight, he retained the WBA unified bantamweight title and won the IBF and vacant the ring bantamweight titles. And that was the semi-final. And then in the final against Nuneeta Donair, he retained the IBF and ring magazine, a bantamweight title.

Won the WBA super bantamweight. But yeah, so that was, that was cool. Carried on, retained the WBA, IBF and ring bantamweight.

Continued to hold on to them. And then he won the WBC bantamweight title in his 23rd fight. All right.

So he's still a bantamweight. He hasn't gone up. I thought he would have gone up in weight to like featherweight or something because he's flyweight bantamweight.

Maybe just taking his time. But how old is he? He's 32. So I'm confused with saying weights, light flyweight, super flyweight, bantamweight, super bantamweight.

So that is confusing to me. I'm confused. It doesn't always take too much.

Major world titles. So WBC light flyweight champion, WBO junior bantamweight champion, WBA super bantamweight champion, WBC bantamweight champion, RBF bantamweight champion, WBO bantamweight champion, WBA super super bantamweight champion, WBC super bantamweight champion, IBF super bantamweight champion and WBO super bantamweight champion. So he's held titles at a hundred and eight pounds, a hundred and fifteen pounds, a hundred and eighteen pounds and a hundred and twenty two pounds.

Wow. So that's one, two, three, four different weights. That's phenomenal isn't it? Absolutely phenomenal.

Wow. So yeah, he's a lot of accolades as well like the Ring magazine fighter of the year 2023, Ring magazine fight of the year 2019. I think he got knocked down in that fight and the Ring magazine knockout of the year 2018, the Sugar Ray Robinson award 2023.

I wonder if Sugar Ray Robinson ever won that award. The BWAA Arlie Frazier award. Now they're just making things up aren't they? I mean okay Muhammad Ali trophy but Arlie Frazier award.

Why not just Frazier? Why couldn't he just a Joe Frazier award? I mean couldn't they just had, you know, I mean he's an iconic fighter. Yeah so I went out today, or did, took him out a couple of times, three times in fact. I got stuck talking about boxing for some reason.

Yeah I did have two conversations so I talked to one of my neighbors for a while and then I had a long conversation on the phone with another friend. So that took up a fair bit of time. I don't normally talk on the phone for too long but sometimes I do.

It's occasionally, it's a very rare thing. I did knock on another neighbor's door just to take Vinnie to see them but they weren't in. Well they were hiding behind the sofa, one of them.

And Vinnie was barking at a dog this morning. He had many treats there and she was giving him like, you know, some treats. And these two dogs, they're massive dogs, beautiful dogs but huge, came around the corner and Vinnie would not shut up.

And Nanny Treats goes over and gives them treats. That made Vinnie even more, I guess he was jealous. But how dare his Nanny Treats give them attention instead of him.

So he wasn't pleased with that. I was just like, come on Vinnie, just stop the barking man. I mean, you know, when I first got him, he never barked.

Not outside anyway, he barked all the time indoors. But he never barked outside. He was quiet and quite sheepish, quite shy.

Every time he came near a dog he'd be all submissive and roll on his back and show his tummy. He doesn't do that anymore. He still does it with people sometimes but he doesn't do it with dogs.

It's almost like he's, nah, something in him changed. He's just not doing that. Is it because you think you're the boss, Vin? Do you think you're the boss? What do you mean do I think? I know I'm the boss.

Do you know you're the boss? Are you gonna eat your dinner Vinnie? You've had that there all day and you're not eating it. I can't keep chucking food away. What is it you're focusing on? He's really hyper focused on something.

He's got his ears up, he's listening for something. The thing is he met the new neighbour who now lives in Uncle Sausage's flat and he was trying to get into the flat. So I had him on the lead as I always do.

I'm just coming out of my flat, just locking up and he's running towards the person that's living there because that door was open. They were coming out as I was coming out and Vinnie was squealing with excitement and I was trying to explain to her that I couldn't stop yawning because it's so late. I've not even had my dinner yet.

Yeah, I explained to her that basically Vinnie is used to going into that flat and spending time with his Uncle Sausage's and running around. So now he doesn't understand why he can't go in there. So whenever he sees that door open, because I didn't tell her this bit, but what me and Uncle Sausage's used to do is we'd open our doors and Vinnie would run between the doors.

He'd run into Uncle Sausage's and run out and run into mine for more hours and then run out again and then run into Uncle Sausage's and he just enjoyed doing that. So that's what we did. It was much easier because especially if I had him off the lead, he'd run straight into Uncle Sausage's.

Unfortunately, if I was going to do, yeah, it's really weird. Just as I talked about Uncle Sausage's, the chip van came, I could hear it going it's like grinding metal, but it's a chip van. It's just really weird that I'm talking about Uncle Sausage's and every Thursday night he'd be out there.

He was their most regular customer. At Christmas they used to buy him presents. Seriously.

Because he was here, no matter what the weather, he was always out there. Hmm, it's weird. Just hearing it sometimes just makes me feel a bit weird.

When I say weird, I don't mean horny. That would be weird. That would be very weird.

So I'm gonna go now. So thank you for listening. Remember tomorrow's Q&A Friday.

So thank you. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye.