GARCIA - REDKACH WEIGH IN SPECIAL

Published Jan 24, 2020, 8:18 PM

Paulie Malignaggi, Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell are recorded live from the Danny Garcia - Ivan Redkach weigh in. This post-weigh in analysis gets you ready for all of the action taking place Saturday night, January 25th live from The Barclays Center in Brooklyn. You can watch it at 9pm eastern, only on Showtime.

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All right, we are back here Showtime Championship Boxing Official way ins for Garcia and Red Catch just happened behind us, everyone made weight. Welcome everyone, Luke Thomas, Pauli Malanaji, Brian Campbell. All right, let's start now we have a little bit of time to lay into these fights a little bit.

Paully.

Our main event, Garcia, a man you faced, taking on Ivan Red Catch. Let's start with an overarching question. What is the biggest question center around this fight?

You know, I think people are wondering if this is just a tune on for Danny, how he's gonna look and whatnot. But I really think I like the attitude of Red Catch. Red catches. Seems he's always a guy that comes to fight, no matter what way class he's fort He's always been a guy who's looking to change punches, throw down and fight. So I don't know if this is gonna basically be a Kamakazi mission against the guy like Garcia who's looking for you to come in crazy, because he is Garcia. What he does best is he punches with you and catches you while he's while you're coming in. But I do think that the combination of the two styles makes for an exciting fight. I do think that red catch is unintimidated by Garcia's revucation. I think he's unintimidated by the whole fact of this whole situation here, and he knows this is his big chance. And I think he's gonna come to fight. And Garcia is always focused. He's never an unfocused fighter, no matter who the opponent is. So I do think that the combination of the two styles will make for an exciting fight.

It's gonna be compossible. You're gonna see action here because that's what Ivan Redcotch does. You gotta knock him out to beat him, to finish him. We remember his war with John Lena Junior two years ago, a Fight of the Year contender. And when Ivan Redcotch made the move from one to one forty seven last year, he told me I only did it for the money. They called me, they said, do you want Devin Alexander. Well, he walked in there, knocked him down three times, knocked him out face first, down to the canvas. He likes what this weight class does to his body. He heard him mental up there. He's only focused on being the best he can be. Danny Garcia had a strip down to make this weight class. Look, Garcia is definitely the rightful favorite here, and talking to his camp, they said, well, we don't struggle to make the way we sacrificed to make it. But as much as Danny Garcia is the rightful favorite, Redcotch is going to make it a war and that's the only way to go.

I mean, I keep in mind, I mean he was thoroughly out boxed by Kevin Farmer. If you wait classes, this is very good. This is not the same style though, Tevin Farmer is not only very good, it's a different class. It's a different style of matchup as well. Garcia is a more flat footed guy. He's more He's a guy who's more apt to throw that kind of power. So great Tech will come in throwing his big shots, but Garcia is gonna have opportunities to throw his own big shots, which is what he likes to do.

Let me circle back to you if I can, Paulie, Let's talk about him moving up in wait, he had to win over Alexander, which was really nice. I guess what I'm wondering is when you move up and wait, what are all the benefits that can be conferred extra power punching. Does it make you also better at taking punches?

No, I don't think it makes you better taking punches because you're gonna be taking shots from bigger guys. So I don't know where that whole thing came from. Probably when guys were I hate to say, doping, and then they're taking better shots. But you don't take better shots when you go up and wait and go up, get get get hit by bigger guys. But what you do have is les less wait strouggles. So maybe you have a more energetic style to you. I will give you that you'll so you'll be able to maybe have a higher punch output. Uh and and maybe have better legs. And also just mentally you're not stressed. When you're not stressed about the making the weight, you're gonna come in kind of care free and then be able to train that way every day and bring out your best.

And as much as it's great, Luke just starting to interrupt you, that we can say, I love Redcotch your style. I love his attitude. I love that he feels he's being overlooked and all that what the potential problem for him is as you mentioned with Danny Garcia's counterpunching is for him to win this fight, men, he Redcutch kind of has to make it a war, kind of has to make it ugly. Yet you're playing into that spider web of what Danny Garcia does. Good a plus chin, great counterpuncher, maybe the biggest puncher in the welterweight division. So that combustibility is and Garcia, that compussibility is gonna bring us action. But there is going to be constant danger for Red.

And I'll tell you what makes it exciting too. You know, we're running along the same point. Yes, Garcie's a CounterPunch, but he's a gawn of punch in a much different style than most counterpunchers, and most count of punchers are on the back foot Garcia. Garcia is almost a weird kind of counter puncher. He holds his ground and just punches with you. You know, some times he'll say he's not even looking. He'll just kind of bend this chance because what he's looking at is for your commitment, and he's gonna punch with you. He doesn't care, he doesn't even care if he's putting himself in the line on fire. Half the time, you know, because he's just confident that if he punches with you, he's gonna have your full commitment, and that means he's all the power he can lay into you is gonna land fully. So a guy like Red catch fully committing, right, Garcia looking for that kind of thing and throwing his own bombs. Garcia putting himself in a position by holding his not to be hit with Red catching shots. I think for however long unless it's a good fight.

Now, the interesting part about this, of course, and why Garcia took this fight, is for one reason in activity.

Right.

The guy has, I point this out, has not had a back to back win since twenty sixteen, had I think one fight the Granados fight, which you look great in last year.

Paully.

I'm not sure what I make of the inactivity. He had thirty three fights before he's lost. He's thirty one years old, he's a veteran. None of this is new to him. How much does the time off benefit him by not being overly damaged through camps and fighting, and how much of it is a little bit of rust he has to deal with here.

You know, he's the kind of guy who stays in the gym, even if he's taking time off. So I don't know how much of that is rust really, but I do think you preserve yourself a little bit better as you get older. He's been in a lot of He's faced a lot of big names. I mean, Garcia has faced a lot of big games. I don't remember ever since before he was champion, he faced guys like Nate Campbell and Kendall hull To were ex world champions, and and and Danny Garcia not yet fall four world title, was already fighting guys like that. So he's put a very tough schedule, I think, contrary to what many people believe if you followed his whole career thoroughly, so I put Cherry's on his Instagram as well. Yeah, exactly so. But but I will say that, but I will say that I think a little bit of preservation is good. He's he's lost two times in the last few years, but change a couple of rounds here and there, and the guy's undefeated.

And it wasn't like he was fighting chumps either, No, it wasn't.

Donally was even not fighting chumps. But like I said, you change a round or two here and there, and this guy's undefeated right now, we're talking about him in a level of greatness, which I still think he's a great fighter, but I think he gets underrated in that conversation.

Mentality is gonna be so key in this fight right already identified the mentality for Redcotches. Nobody me, I'm coming in there. I'm gonna try to knock you out. How about this for Dandy Garcia? Though we're going through a renaissance welterweight era. But when you talk about the biggest names right you're here in Spence, Pacquiao, Porter Crawford. Sometimes Danny Garcia's name falls out of that conversation when it shouldn't. Some of that is the inactivity. He thought he was getting Thurman last year, he thought he was getting he.

Thought he was getting Spenced today, so he.

Thought he was getting a pack Mikey Garcia last fall as well. This is his opportunity right here to certainly make that statement, to get back in there. We all know who could be out there for him when you're talking about the names like Spence in Pacquio. But it's no secret why Redcotch is a south paw and it's the perfect sort of lead up opportunity for him. But back to magnitude in you know, the mental state. I think Danny Garcia has just much motivation to remind you exactly who he is, a guy who's that close to being undefeated and like I said, in my opinion, the biggest puncher in this division.

And you know what, also timing confidence that kind of thing. They're both coming off very good performance. They say what you will about the Garnado's fight. Garnado's always a guy who's talked a little good against whether you win or beat him or not or not beat him, and he's been robbed a lot of times too. Garcia thoroughly beat him and then stopped him, So that's that's very rare to be Adrian Garnados in that way. So he's coming out a very good performance regardless and red catch off that win over Devin Alexander, ex world champion, probably the biggest one of his career. So confidence wise, both guys are coming in with a bit of a head esteem here, regardless of the inactivity of Garcia.

Say what I like about the pole something if you agree, and I'll say what I like and dislike. I like the fact that he does not have to take this fight in Danny Garcia, he doesn't really need it, so to speak. It's probably beneficial to him in certain ways, but I like that he's getting out there, giving an opportunity to, like I say, a lesser guy as a person, but as a boxer. I think it's probably a fair statement. Here's what I'm just not clear about. Okay, I want to fight a South Paul because I might have to fight Pacia or some other South Paul down the line. What kind of benefit is do you really get from fighting one South Paul whose style is radically different from another South Paw.

Oh, I just think you're just starting to I think it's not so much as the opponent, but also the training camp. You know, you're starting to see South Pois. You know, you're starting to prepare for South Pois. If behind the scenes that we don't know behind the scenes, if there's the pack yat conversation is happening behind the scenes, If that is happening behind the scenes, it's not just about Red Catch Team Garcia's and I'm not no disrespect to Red Catch, but this has been the conversation the whole time. Team Garcia is kind of looking at pak Yo taking the right catch up a fight as an opponent to one off for al sal Pole. But also you're taking the training camp as a warm up because if you fight a right hander, you're gonna be sparring right handers. So you start to get the looks of sal poise. Then you fight a salt Poil. Then the next camp, but you say you get you say you get through Red Catch, which is not gonna be a pushover, but say you get through Red Catch. You have another training camp full of Salpais, and then you get the Pacquiao fight. Then you you kind of get the preparation mentally and physically with the South.

And another fair point is Dandy Garcia doesn't have a big history against South paus just two times right zab Judu who came off care right and Robert Guerrero, who had moments where it looked like I don't think he hurt Danny, but he was in that fight for certain windows before Danny was able to get decisions in both fights, sometimes you got to get that experience.

I want to talk about Garcia's known strengths and known weaknesses. Let's start with the strength the left hook, how is the left hook going to be a factor against the south Paul like this?

Oh, I think it's a factor, but I think both hands, and I think both both hands or something. Garcia carries power, and we saw we saw him knockdown zab Judah with the right hand as well. You know, so Brandon Riosi put away and the right hand exactly, great point, Brandon rio The knockout came with the right hand as well. So I think Garcia's left hook is definitely vaunted. It should be talked about. But I think the powers in both hands, I think it comes both. I think that power comes into play just with the commitment of red catch. Great catch I think is gonna laying shots on on Garcia because Garcia holds his ground when he's looking for these counteries, and sometimes he mistimes them and he takes clean shots. We even saw him take a big shot from Lucas Matiez I remember back in the day. So he's got a great chim mouth flying, so he's got a he's got a great chin, but he's also a hit able in his own in this very the very same thing that makes him dangerous also makes them susceptible and that's why he can be exciting, and that's why in a point of like Red Catch, with the enthusiasm, with the will to win, and the determination and just the right moment right now that he's feeling himself, I think makes for a fun fight tomorrow.

Now, I want to talk to you about the weaknesses. You and I spoke about this again. Credit to Garcia never been knocked down, right, certainly, this is a guy who has never been knocked out. Obviously, this is a guy who could hold his own both on the offensive and defensive side. If there is a weakness, Brian Campbell, something you have talked to me about is perhaps nothing. He has bad footwork, but against guys who have really quick feats that compose a problem for him. To what extent is Red Catch potentially one of those guys.

I think that's I've in Redcotch's problem. If there's a path to not victory but staying in a fight against Danny Garcia, I think there's four guys that un pulled it off. It's certainly Lamat Peterson and Mauricio Herrera who didn't get the calls on the scorecards, and it's the two losses to the very elite Sean Porter and Keith Thurman. They were able to expose maybe I don't want to say his lack of lateral quickness, but they had speed and footwork and vantas they darted in an out polic You had some moments against DSG as well.

Yeah, yeah, I was a little bit moment, I'll tell you what. Also, Ashley Deafane had a good fight against him before Danny was a big with a big name fighters. Also, the good legs have also always been a bit of a kryptonite for Garcia, but have that so we.

Have to figure out Luke ultimately, does Ivan Rodcats have a legitimate welterweight power the kind necking herd An iron Chin, Danny Garcia? Or was Devin Alexander Moore on the other side of that hill and it was right?

Now, That's the other part I was bringing up earlier.

It's like, I get your point well taken about the comfortability with South pause, but Pakia if they end up making that fight after this one, he absolutely is a mover, right, He absolutely cuts angles.

He works a lot in a way that Redcats just never would. Yeah, what is he forty two one? Great legs for the forty one year olds Paul, Yeah, to take a little sword cast.

Great legs.

Yeah, maybe just a little bit.

Okay, last thing you fought Danny Garcia, What did you learn in that fight that maybe you didn't either understand or fully appreciate about his abilities.

No.

I always I had a.

Recognizance of the fact that he looks to punch with you. I thought that was very important for me to know. So I was trying to when I was finding you use a lot of fans to try to get him to commit to the punching with you and maybe uh, you know, getting throw them off a little bit. But it didn't work out. Danny's also a a smart fighter. He doesn't get credit for the intelligence in the ring. You know, he's mentally strong and that it's hard to break him, and we already knew that going in, and he's got a great chance.

We already know that.

But also he starts to I remember there was certain situations I was looking for, certain counters I was looking for, and he started to hit me with jabs on my shoulders, jabs and different parts that were kind of discombobulating my center of gravity, so I couldn't get the counter off, you know, and then of course he would look into the head shots too, but just different things. He's a much more intelligent fighter than people give him credit for. And and he closes the gap in that way and the old subtle ways. And when he closed the gap in those sat a ways, sometimes you end up panicking and throwing something crazy, and that's when he looks to punch with you and get you out of there.

Interesting, now, you also mentioned something I want to pick up on before we go to our comin event, Bryan. It's a bit of a golden era for welterweights, right and then what's interesting about it? And Tim, if you agree with this characterization. You've got some new blood, You've got some dark horses, but it's a lot. I'm not gonna call Danny Garcia old, but he's been around the division as a prominent player for a while.

The division's full of guys like that right now. It makes it hard to stand out.

It does look everyone's fighting for that opportunity, and Danny Garcia has been through this before. You remember that twenty thirteen upset of Lucas Matissa that Paully mentioned that was supposedly gonna put him next in line for Floyd Mayweather. It didn't know blantly happen by Donna upset Broner. Floyd fights my donnad twice, it happens. He knows he's sort of in a bridesmid position. Now for a possibility of back yal in someplace, it's just right place, right time, right performance to knock on that door and make that statement and draw that big name. But even if he doesn't get that fight, right, you want to talk about the names available to Danny Garcia if he gets a victory on Saturday. Even said, Look, if we end up seeing Pacio and Spence fight each other instead of against me, I want to mind going off to fifty four and remachine Thurman or Porter having them come up with an easier weight cut. This is a time to be alive at walter weight.

Lu all right, let's go down to our co main event. It is a junior middleweight. Although you saw from Jimmy Lenny Junior contracted at one hundred and fifty six pounds. Although, funnily enough, Jared Curly, let's do this. Yeah, okay, heard looked. I don't know how you guys felt. He looked way bigger to me than Francisco Santana, yet coming in as something of a somewhat lighter guy. Basically though I'm a I mean, Jared Hurd's whole style has always been when he talked about, when he needs it, he can rough you up. And if that's the direction he wants to go. What kind of a fighter is Jared Hurd when he's at his best, or.

He's a guy who mentally emphasically breaks you. You know, he's he brings a pace that's uncomfortable for you, and he stays. He's in your face the whole time, and he's making you work. And if he's not making you work, he makes you feel like you need to work, you know. And so because you don't want him in front of you, because if you see him in front of you, it's just you're in that danger zone. So he's the kind of fighters like this create errors in their opponents because they create a They sort of create a panic. You think, when you're gonna land some shots and or some counter shots or even some lead shots, you're gonna create some space and maybe get arrest here and there. But this guy, even when he's resting, he's in your face. So you feel like you can't rest because he might throw a punch at any point. So mentally it's stressing you see. That comes to mind the ARISLONDI Laara fight. Well, Larra started, well, you could just see over the year. Yeah, you could just see the sand coming out of the hour glass little by little and Laura because this guy was in his face constantly, and he makes you feel like you have to work more than you want to, more than you should, and he catches up to you in the later round.

Let's talk about the stock I mentioned, you know, the I'm a DC guy guiltiest charged Jared Hurd was making some noise because Lamat Peterson had retired not long before. Jared Hurd was kind of the city's next big boxer. He goes and takes on Jay Rock at the Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, and then loses on national television. The Redskins had made him the official ambassador. He had their logo on his trunks. I was like, oh no, Jared, such bad luck. But he ends up losing. He's now hit the reset button a little bit.

New trainer.

You know, it's interesting, it's not just the new trainer or the loss to me that sort of stands out. He said something this past week being like, you know, I've had some Fight of the Year contender fights. I don't want those anymore. I want quick wins. He talk to me about what a the loss to Jay Rock did to his stock and two where you see him now regroup.

Well, the loss of Jay Rock certainly humbled him. He'd opened up to me in interviews I had with him, and that said basically, look, I believed in my own headlines, I believed in my own clippings. I got a little bit too big for my own britches. But it wasn't just that the loss humbled him, guys, it was sort of the breakdown in his team. His old trainer, Ernesta Rodriguez, had sort of a bitter falling out between the two. You listen to him talk to new trainer Ka Kamer. We saw that in the fighter meeting this morning. It's all about that focus. It's not changing him as a fighter. It's just let's not rely on those strengths, the size, the passion to come forward. Let's try to win a little bit easier and have some kind of longevity. They don't want to add anything, as much as they want to remind Jared Hurd who he used to be, he has an amateur turning pro and who he can be if just things are a little bit more balance. You don't always have to have your foot on the gas, you always have to be eating punches just because you can. That's a scary proposition in this one hundred and fifty four pounds division, which is exciting, it's been flipped upside down by a number of upsets, from Harrison beating Charlow through Jason Rosario just last week. This is going to be interesting if Jarrett heard and be the same guy he already was in those two fights in the year Contenders. But to add those kind of wrinkles, he says, all those rumors boy him going to Middleway, that was never true, that was never him. He still makes fifty four easy. Paul, I don't know how a truck that big makes fifty four. But if he's making it easy, and he's getting better defensively and as a boxer, we could really be talking about the guy who'd be the face of this division.

When all of a sudden done interestingly here, PAULI, when when fighters make resets, when can you tell that the reset was good? And when can you be like, oh, I don't know about that reset? Is it only visible once they fight? Are there other signs you can look to to say, I like the way that they're thinking about going in a different direction.

I mean, it's hard to say the way that thinking because you're always gonna brainwash yourself, and they're thinking you made a positive impact and positive move when things change. So for me, it comes down to what's in the ring, and sometimes it's not even comes down it doesn't even come down to what's in the ring the first time, you know, Like sometimes it just you know, when especially when you change your team, it takes a fighter too to kind of get that uh camaraderie, get that chemistry together you and and and have it work in the right way. So saying the right things, you're always gonna say the right things, especially on fight week. Fighters, you know, we brainwash ourselves. You know, even if things aren't haven't gone well in camp on fight week, they've gone well in camp, you know, So so you know still.

But I guess the question is he had the two potential fight of the years, the Laura fight and then of course the Jay Rock fight again, a very difficult fight, one that he lost. He had the falling out with his trainer. It did seem like a reset was needed. Now maybe this particular choice of new trainer was we can debate about whether or not it's.

Good after they bro don't stop there on the reset. He cut off the blonde locks and parents' house. Man is man, It looks sometimes maybe a change was needed.

Sometimes psychologically you have that too, you would you're looking to kind of change a lot of things up. Just kind of maybe turn the page over and tell yourself, Okay, you know what, I'm not done. I'm just turning the page, you know. As so you just kind of create a new image for yourself.

I did that too.

I got off the Spikes after I've lost to Miguel Coodo. Had had the Spike hare for like four or five years, the old Jersey show head cut.

You know. But but you know, thiss Man, I love this guy right so magic so so uh.

You know, with Jared doing things like that, you know, maybe psychologically for him it's his way of expressing to himself and also expressing to the people that you know what, this is a change in me. But I'm just turning the page. It's not a change to where I'm done. It's a change of me just turning the page, and I intend to go full steam ahead.

When you made the change of the haircut, did you feel like a new man? I won the world world title?

I mean, what.

Chance?

Well, then I know this fight's had a goal for.

Me to win the world title. All right, maybe you would have done it sooner.

And then we talked about Francisco Santana, Brian, he does have a winner Felix ideas, right, yeah, pick ups all right, So he's got a moment there or two where he has looked pretty good. Still, let's be clear, I think Hurt is the deserved favorite here absolutely, and in theory.

This is what I mentioned off the start, a welterweight moving up to that division, not only do one fifty four. Jared Hurt sort of fight and lobbied and won the idea of this being a one hundred and fifty six pounds catchweight. But Santana comes at him, he comes to fight, and he's so has the perfect mentality coming in here. He knows how big of an upset of an underdog he is. He knows what's at stake for him with a win in two divisions. If he can get it, he's just gonna try to be that guy sleeping underneath. He's got some of the same problems Redcotch has in that if he follows his natural instincts and tries to turn this into a war, he could end up in some kind of trouble. He's going to have to be really smart getting in and out. His team told us this morning it'll come down to that jab. If he is able to succeed with that jab, control distance, control timing, and do all those things and keep Jarrett Hurd off. It's a big ask, though, but this is going to be interesting for a guy who, as I mentioned, to be Payton the curbs by day, trying to get himself into the title picture by night here at the Barclays and Center.

He certainly has a bit of an uphill task, but he seems game for it. And as I mentioned, it is a Showtime triple header starting tomorrow right here at the Barclay Center nine pm. The opening fight. I have to tell you, I keep mentioning as a triple header, not because there are just three fights. Showtime is putting on the opening fight, and it's a matter of your mileage may vary. It might be the best of them. Super bantaway contest one hundred twenty two pounds. We just saw him make it. Two Philly fighters, kind of right, arnold hood guy from Ukraine, excuse me, has relocated to Philly, LA now he made his box wreck was wrong. Let's be honest, right, But if you look at if you look at when who fought in Philly last, it's actually gentleman fro Yes from Ukraine, which is also kind of funny, but okay, neither here nor there, of course, the sort of the whiz kid Stephen Fulton. By the way people talk about Philly fighters and it can be somebody who's a brawler, somebody who's slick, somebody who's crafty, somebody who's a power puncher. It's Philly fighter has at this point, because it's so misused, become this all encompassing term. When I ask Pauli mal Naji what a Philly fighter is, what does it traditionally mean?

You know, I just think of a gratty guys guy Jim Wars I think of when I think of Philly boxing. JA be honest, Yeah, yeah, obviously courageous fighters, but skilled fighters, skilled fighters who don't run. That's kind of how I look at it. Like skill fighters who know how to fight, know how to even give you a war, but also know how to come forward without making it an all out war. They know how to just pummel you if you're not of their level, you know, And if you are of their level, they're all They're not gonna run from you. They're gonna, you know, get in there and duke it out too, you know. So we ask the mentality, We ask.

Cool boy Steph to define it for himself what a what a Philly fighter means. He says, it's more about the mindset. It's more about that intensity and knowing what he needs to do, because look, this guy's a boxer. He can be very technical. And he said to us, you know, boxing smart is boxing easy. But he can't get dirty if he needs to. And that's the key. And you better believe, Luke Thomas that arnold hey guy is going to try to make this a dirty fighter.

I was about to say, this looks to me like maybe my characterization is wrong.

What if you guys think it looks to me like a classic boxer punch or matchup now, which isn't to say that that guy can't box a little bit, neither that Fulton can't punch. I think it's a little bit of both. But if I have this sort of a sign rolls there, that's the way I would do it. Is that the way you see this fight.

Kind of sort of yeah, you know, I just think that the entire night in general has underdogs that show up to fight. You know, these guys show up to fight and they have opponents who look to win without making the night quote unquote boring. You know, so you could see some good clashes. Doesn't mean you're going to see upstates. You may or may not see the upset, but I do see the styles meshing together for some fun fight.

That's just one thing for me to make it fast, because they're they're literally taking apart the set.

Donerald hey guy first fight with his new trainer Marvin Simodio at the Wildcard Gym of Freddie, writes Freddie Roach's disciple. They said that this new marriage kind of gives off the feels of when Freddy and Manny first got together. I'm saying, hey Guy, is Manny Pacquiao but watch for this marriage here.

There's a lot of passions. I'll throw a right back to you, Brian Campbell. We are going to be hosting this desk for the prelim stream, which starts at seven pm on YouTube very quickly. What can folks expect from some of the fights that are going to be on the undercard.

Yeah, well, Louke Thomas brought the DMV with him. When you talk about three bright prospects that we need to get to know, Patrick Harris, Keyshawn Williams and of course Lorenzo Truck. Simpson. Truck kind of sounds like Tank, right. They come from the same aria in Baltimore, same trainer of course in calvin Ford.

But it was Tank was already taken, so he took Truck there.

It is right there.

Truck is the youngest though, and he was very honest. He says, Look, I've learned from the good and bad. We've all seen this camp from from Gervante for years. You look at Patrick Harris, Loup okay, a guy, the nephew of the boxing brothers Lama and Anthony Peterson. He's gonna be a fun fighter. Watch one hundred and forty pounds he's going in there against one of your brethren, a former marine. Oh, third degree burns, so buckle up for that one.

I do like that nickname. It's a bit cheesy, but I don't know. It kind of speaks to me and the headbangers gyms are you know? You know this as well as I do. Sort of like the institution in DC for Garry Hunter in the house. Yeah, they're going to be here, so that should be sure. That will start at seven pm. Obviously on Showtime's YouTube channel will be streaming at live three fights for you, Steve Farhood on the Carl Ray Flores as well. Brian and I will be down there and of course you can catch this man Paully Mallanauji for the rest of the crew over for the Championship Boxing addition, which starts at nine pm on Showtime. All right, final thoughts here, any boys you fought in this arena? It is historic. It's a fun night ahead of us on Saturday night.

Yes.

Yeah, Like I said, I just think stylistically, you have a lot of fun fights here and.

There's something magical that happens when you put the welterweight division of the Barclay Center together. What have been the best fights at one seven in recent years. You're talking about Thurmon Porter, You're talking about Garcia, Thurmon, Garcia Porter, all everyone against each other, Hey, Paul and zeb Jude. Oh that was a box festival anyway, Expect action, expect vio and.

Of course exactly true. And then and then, of course, I don't forget.

It's about the wild upsets that happened at junior middleweight seemingly all the time. Now, all right, well, thank you guys so much for joining us. Don't forget seven pm on the YouTube stream for the preliminary card action and then we show Time Championship Boxing triple Header kicks off nine pm East Coast time on Showtime for Brian Campbell for Polymelonaji Volume Malonachi. Excuse me, bets on Hurst Royalty. I am Luke Thomas. Until next time, Enjoy the fights