MMA Fighting - Canelo vs. Crawford & Noche UFC Post Show | Reaction To Terrence Crawford's Masterpiece, Diego Lopes' Big Finish

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

Terence Crawford was absolutely brilliant over 12 rounds of boxing against Canelo Alvarez in the main event of Canelo vs. Crawford on Saturday night in Las Vegas, while Diego Lopes delivered a brutal knockout of Jean Silva in the headline act of Noche UFC. What is your biggest takeaway from the doubleheader of combat sports action? Following Crawford's undisputed super middleweight championship victory over Alvarez, MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Jed Meshew react to a loaded day and night of fights, where Crawford sits currently, where "Bud" goes next, and more. Additionally, they recap Lopes' wild finish of Silva that led to two post-fight bonuses, other highlights from the main card, the pretty rough preliminary slate, answer listener questions about both fight cards, and more. Follow Mike Heck: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@m_heckjr⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jed Meshew: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@JedKMeshew⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe:⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/dYpsgH⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our full video catalog: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/u8VvLi⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit our playlists:⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://goo.gl/eFhsvM⁠⁠⁠⁠ Like MMAF on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://goo.gl/nOATUI⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to the Vox Media Podcast Network. All right, everybody, we are back. What a day it has been. What a night it has been. One of the longest nights of our careers. We went through a Noce UFC event that seemed like it was, it took a decade. But the main card ended up picking up and it was good. Incredible main event.

And then we shifted over to the world of boxing, the leached stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada, where Terrence Bud Crawford just continues to add to his incredible resume, his incredible legacy. He goes out, wins a unanimous decision against Canelo Alvarez, disappointing the Las Vegas crowd, the 70 plus thousand people in the record-breaking attendance at Elysian Stadium, and is now the undisputed super middleweight champion of the world. And thank you for joining us on this post-fight show.

I am Mike Eck. That is Jed Mishu. And Jed, you know, we just wrapped our watch party, a sort of makeshift show that we put together on like 48 hours notice.

And Bud Crawford goes out there and just delivers an incredible performance. I scored it 10 rounds to 2. Some people had it all over the place, but I think everybody across the board scored this fight for Terrence Crawford and the judge has got it right. Your initial reaction to this.

How highly do you rate what Bud Crawford did today? Tanch Crawford, I was pretty clear about this coming in. I thought that he was the best pen, phone fighter in the world. I've thought that for quite some time. You can always make the case for Usik. You know, I just feel like he is the best and has been for a hot minute. And this is solidified.

I don't think there's any human being on earth outside of the moon. most contrarian take artists out there who are going to be like, I mean, in a way, is fighting this weekend, but like it's just not, nope, he's not going to do that.

He is, Bud Crawford is the best fighter I've ever seen fight live. He is the best boxer I've ever seen compete live. I am not a super deep boxing historian, you know, like I don't think anyone's seen Harry Grabb actually box or, you know, I'm not talking about Sugar Ray Robinson or the best fighter I have watched compete live is Bud Crawford.

That was an incredible performance. I scored at 8.4 Bud could have easily been 10-2 Bud. I am happy that they didn't rob him, though. Boy, did they try to. They let him know, right? Mike, they sent the shot across the bat, like, hey, man, you just squeaked this out. we couldn't rob you, but we wanted to try. And yeah, like my big takeaway is like,

again, we were talking on the watch party, like, what's the funniest outcome? Because the funniest outcome for that fight was Bud winning because Canello handpicked this fight like for years he, as Jose Young said in the buildup, for years, Canello was dismissive of this fight. He wasn't interested in it.

And basically transparently took it because it was a lot of money. And I was like, yeah, I'm way bigger than I'm going to win. So the funniest outcome is, of course, bud winning. Bud winning that fashion is so impressive that no one's going to really even talk. The conversation from this will not be about Canello. It will not be about is, you know, is Canelo paying the price for not fighting like great opponents the last few years? Has just long tenure in the game caught up with him.

That won't be what anyone was talking about because it's just going to be like, holy shit. Terrence Crawford is the best fighter of this generation. How does he stack up historically? That is those are the conversations Terrence Crawford is in now, is where does he rank historically? Because he just did something that's never been done before. And that is unlikely to be, you know, replicated many times over, an incredible fighter and a privilege to watch.

Yeah, unbelievable performance. I was just blown away. He had Canelo fingers. it out literally from the opening bell knew exactly what was coming he had canello frustrated pretty quickly into the fight uh probably by like round four you could really start to see it a little bit round five it's almost like he took a little bit of a round off and let canela i gave canela round five that was like the one i felt best about and then right after that crawfer was like eff this like i literally took a round off and let him hit me with everything he could and he didn't do anything

to me and you could see the confidence rise you can see the frustrations rise in canelo side just an unbelievable performance and we're we sort of touched on this before we getting we wrapped up the watch party is like what do you do now if you are bud crawford because this was your big money fight this was the biggest fight he can have and sure there are boxing fans and pundits who would love to watch bud crawford fight david david benavides but that fight doesn't make a ton of money it's just like a fun, hardcore fans fight. It's Islam Makachep versus Armand Sarukian, where it's like, oh, this guy's good,

he's fighting the number one guy, but it's not going to do great on pay-per-view or anything like that. If you're Bud Crawford, are you entertaining the Benavita's fight? Or at this point in your career, are you just, is this just all about being a prize fighter? Let's just take the biggest payday we can get,

which in my opinion is probably a rematch with Canello. I mean, I think bud should absolutely, this is the time to cash in. The, I mean, we're just done. Like there's, there's nothing to, he can't, I mean, it's preposterous to think he could add to his legacy by being like, all right, I'm going to go fight Usik. Like, that's obviously an insane thing. But I guess maybe it's not. It's fucking about Crawford.

I don't know that he can't like he could do anything apparently. I just don't know how he builds on the legacy right like he just became the first ever male three division undisputed champion and again like I mean I guess he could be four because again he jumped up weight classes right so he could just go back to middleweight or junior middleweight and pursue those and like if he just is trying to capture undisputed championships like their infinity stones and he's stano. or some shit. But like, there's, there aren't any other major legacy fights out there waiting for him. This was the one. That's why it was built towards this for so long. And he did it. He did the damn thing. And so, you know, if he goes out and beats Kinello again, that maybe even adds a little juice to the legacy. And it certainly adds the most dollars to his bank account. I would think that would be sort of the primary driver for him. But I don't,

I don't know what the fuck else to do, man. But I don't, honest to God, I have no idea how he improves on his career. Yeah, I just think, yeah, go get the rematch,

win it again, and then cash that check and be done. I think that's, that's the way to go. And I think Benavitas would be, obviously, at this point in their careers, the tougher style.

realistic matchup for him. But again, it's, the legacy is set, right? Like him beating Benavius is like a great win for those who watch the sport. But at the end of the day, like, that doesn't, like, you've already done it. Like, the legacy is cemented. Go get that bag. And I think, honestly, the bag is a rematch with Canello. Maybe you do it again on Netflix and actually have a co-main event worthy of a fight like

that, which we did not get tonight. But that's another story for another day. One thing I wanted to bring up, and then I want to talk about Notchia UFC, take a few questions to get out of here because we ain't staying around for an hour and a half. It's just not happening. Casey Liden, our friend, posed a very interesting question, and you had a very interesting answer to this question. And we'll see what folks in the chat think of this as well, since this is M.AFighting.com. And it's a great website, and this is an MMA site. We do cover boxing as well.

Here's what Casey asked on Twitter 14 minutes ago. And I won't give his answer away or his follow-up question. question. What is the MMA equivalent of Terrence Crawford beating Canello Alvarez? Jed, what is the MMA equipment of what we just saw tonight? I actually think he nailed it in his, I don't know if it's in the same tweet or a follow-out tweet, but he is like Jose Aldo beating prime George St. Pierre. And it's not quite good, like, the Canella's not his prime. I wouldn't say anymore, certainly, but I'm also not entirely sure Bud's in his prime. He's 37.

He's old, though obviously he looked incredible. Like, this is that, right? Like, this is 145 or jumping up to welterweight and be not even like jumping up to lightweight and we're like, screw it. I'm Josie Aldo. I will jump up to Walterweight and I will beat the George St. Pierre who just beat Johnny Hendricks, right? Like, that's it.

Like, that is, if that's the equivalent, um, it's just preposterous. Like it is, it's a ludicrous thing to do. And it is a testament to how un, like, gen. We say generationally talented a lot, but Crawford is a generational talent. Um, and yeah, like that, that's the, the best, the best comp I have is that for, for MMA folks, which is, maybe, again, maybe is it perfect. right like canelo is not the best fighter of all time which is what george st pierre probably is but like we're in the ballpark of that you know we're we're in the neighborhood of that and so it's it's

absolutely christ an incredible accomplishment uh taking a look at the cards uh the official score cards tim cheatham max deluca steve weisfield uh were the judges uh after eight rounds uh steve wisefield I believe was the only one who had it in favor of Terrence Crawford. He had it five, three. The two other judges threw eight rounds, had it tied four rounds apiece. And then Crawford pulled away down the stretch to win the fight, winning three of the last four on all three of the cards. And all three of the cards were completely different. Tim Cheatham gave Crawford rounds nine, 11, and 12.

DeLuca gave Crawford 10, 11, and 12. and nope, Weisfail had the same as Cheatham, 9-11 and 12 for Crawford. So it seems like down the stretches were really won him the fight, and only one judge had Crawford up heading into round nine.

So yeah, close fight. Great performance from Crawford. I mean, it was competitive for a while, and then Crawford did pull away, and I think it was, everyone felt fairly confident that Bud Crawford was going to get the nod. And luckily, that's what happened,

and the judge's, did the damn thing and got it right. So the rest of the main card, if you guys missed it, Callum Walsh, who was obviously Data White's guy, wins a unanimous decision 99, 91, 9991, 100 to 90. Christian and Billy, Lester Martinez,

incredible fight, should have been the co-main event. It ends in the split draw. And then Muhammad Alachi versus Travis Crawford was a glorified sparring match. and it was pretty awful. So, Jed, did you have anything else you want to add before we go to Nocho UFC? I just, no one is here to shit on Alexander Usik, who is the greatest cruiserweight of all time, the greatest heavyweight of this generation, you know, a top 15 heavyweight of all time.

I want to hear to shit on Nowe anyway, who fucking is probably the coolest fighter on the goddamn planet of earth. This is just not the same. Like, God love Usik. Again, greatest cruiserweight ever. A top 15 heavyweight of all time. Probably better. But, like, heavyweight has been around for a lifetime and has so many good ones. Like, awesome run.

Not what Bud has done. It's just not the same. He's the best pound fighter in the world. And, like, you can just be like, I like Usik better because he fought big dudes and I know those dudes. Like, I know who Dubai is. And that's awesome. I'm not shitting on Usik. Give Bud his flowers.

He is almost any rational argument, the top pound for pound fighter in the sport right now. And the best fighter of this generation. It's incredible. Unbelievable performance. Congratulations to Bud Crawford. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list?

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officially become a thing in 2026, which is not really a huge announcement. We kind of saw that coming anyways. But how would you grade Dana White's? I mean, this is a Turkey-A-Lishique promotion all the way. Dana just became kind of the face of it. But this is something the UFC had their hands all over. This felt very UFC-ish, this entire build. Everything about this fight week was very UFC-ish, from Media Day to the press conferences, to how they did weigh-ins, even the main event.

Like, it took forever for the guys to walk, but we didn't get the national anthems. We didn't get the pomp and circumstance. We didn't get 35 minutes from the walkouts to the actual first round starting. But how would you grade the Zufa boxing debut, so to speak? It's hard, because I don't know how much of this is me. trashed on it because I'm so used to it. How much is me trashed on it? Because it's 2.30 and I'm a little grumpy and tired.

I think it was bad, bro. And the fact is no one's going to care because the main event is so important and so significant and so incredible that that's going to flatten out the criticism and sort of wash over the rest of it, right? The last thing that happened tonight was something that has never been done before and that will remember for a generation, right? And so that'll smooth over the many rough edges. But they didn't start fighting until one, which was insane. The Callum Walsh was the comane.

That was terrible. The fight was okay. But like putting his coming was obviously ludicrous. And it just sort of back, like didn't work personally. And this is the one where I'm the. the most open to criticism on. I hated the whole fight week because it felt like a UFC fight week. Now, other observers, other fans might have liked that.

Maybe that is a new experience for them because they're not big UFC fans and they enjoyed it. Maybe they're just UFC fans who liked it. But I hated that this felt like, well, we're just going to plug this into the UFC system and go because that just was not appealing to me. the pace was awful. It dragged for that card, man. You know, I think it'll all come out in the wash because the main event, it'll come on the wash because Terrence Crawford is an all-time great fighter and he saved it.

But I would say not a strong promotional debut for Zufa boxing. I mean, you can only debut once. So I think they'll learn from this hopefully. but yeah if we're looking at this if this event was put on trial in the court of public opinion the UFC is guilty of not doing everything they could have here um this again i'm i'm with you this just felt very ufcish it felt very dry it felt like something we see every saturday and every fight week um obviously was in a bigger stadium so that was like a different kind of a in a different kind of a flow, but I think the choice of having Callum Walsh is the co-main event.

Anybody who watches boxing and you saw them belly fight not being in that co-made event spot, people were scratching their heads and they questioned it and they knew exactly what this was. And I think that that played out and I think it rubbed people the wrong way. And I actually think it kind of took away from Crawford's moment a little bit too, because people were so pissed about that. You could not avoid it on social media. You could not avoid it on Twitter. People just shit all over that, man.

And it was tough. So we'll see. Hopefully they bounce back and we can build these cards correctly. I think MMA card placement isn't everything, but I think in boxing, it is much more important. And I think that showed true tonight. So, but the story is Bud Crawford. It should be Bud Crawford.

And we'll see what Dana say at the press conference. Apparently he's going to be there. and I'm sure he's going to get a ton of questions, and we'll see what happens. So we'll get into the super chats in a minute. Real quick, how do you grade Noce UFC, Jed? We touched on a little bit during the watch party.

It was capped off by Diego Lopez and John Silva having nine of the craziest minutes of fighting we have seen this year, an incredible finish from Diego Lopez, just battered Jean Silva, the fighting nerd story continues to be a fascinating one. They were on top of the MMA game. They were on top of the world. And now three of their best fighters have lost fights in a seven-day span with Mauritio Huffy, Kyle Bajalio, and then John Silva getting finished by Diego Lopez today.

But this is the Diego show. He looked like a fucking superstar out there. San Antonio treated him as such all week long. And then he goes out and gets the win to cap off a sort of a roller coaster event, Jed. Your thoughts, your reaction to Noce UFC, Part 3. Like a C plus. I mean, it was an F for the first, the prelims. The whole prelims were terrible.

And then the main card, things got turned around. We talked about it sometime on the watch party, right? Like, the prelims were so bad that the Kelvin Gastilum doesn't stole for its fight, which was objectively, like, pretty fun. It wasn't like the best fight of all time or anything, but it was a fun fight. and the crowd was dead because they had just been dead all night long and they were like they couldn't like oh I'm allowed to have fun I forgot that fun was allowed because the prelims were so bad

and so that I mean that really buried the card credit to all the main card fighters who helped drag it out of that and again there will be a little bit like the main event was memorable and cool and fun round of the year almost certainly right now the round of the year's second round of that fight terrific performance Diego Lopez got over in a major way it's super popular guy already

and so like people will be more kind to this in their memories but living it it was 14 fights and it it felt every bit of 14 fight card 100% agree we were on the road

for a while of that being the worst UFC card in a very long time. Luckily, Santiago Luna changed everything with his finish. And then it was just kind of a weird main card. But great moment for David Martinez. Obviously, incredible main event. Wild shit happened there. Definitely the worst Noce UFC on paper.

Certainly the worst in execution outside of the main event. But hopefully, maybe not, maybe don't do no JFC at the same time as your boxing events. Maybe we could make it feel big and make it feel important because it just seemed like they coddled this one together. Luckily, that main event banged and we knew it would. So there you go. Let's go to the peeps for a little bit here. I mean, there's certain little things. Go back and watch the watch party to get like specific thoughts on things.

But we'll answer a few questions. and I will do some matchmaking tomorrow and on to the next one. So we'll talk about the followout of this event and much more. So Spencer kicks us off with the super chats. Hell of a day, boys. Hard to be a boxing great with how old sport is, but fair to say, Bud and Usik, our highest ranked pound for boxers all time from this generation. Yeah, I think you can put them both in the discussion.

Sure. Sure. I mean, in a way, a little younger. But so I don't really, that'll be a question of where he lives. generationally, but yes. Sledo, thank you, my man. Shortest 14 fight card fight time was UFC fight night Smith versus Span,

two hours, seven minutes, two seconds. This noche car was also exactly two hours, seven minutes, two seconds fight time. Crazy. I truly felt like this is the fastest front to back broadcast for 14 fights you've ever had. That is not the experience I had. I didn't feel that either.

Happy you had that experience. I'm glad if you had a good time. I did not. I had a good time once the main car kicked. Main car was really fun. That felt like it flew by a lot faster. Yeah, the eight fights to get there. That took some time.

Yeah, there was one point where I was watching and I was like, holy shit, we still have like three more fights. it was right after the gas film fight. I was like, oh my God, we still have three more of these. I thought we were going right into David Martinez and Rob Font. And I was like, oh, yeah, we still got Raffa Garcia and Jared Gordon. I was like, we have three more of these. This is crazy.

It got sloggy for sure. The prelims were pretty bad. Even the fights, obviously like Don Chalachian. Hanko had a great finish to kind of kick things off. He's going to be one of those fun guys. Korea at the Costa. We had a towel throw. A team threw in the towel today.

That was like the highlight of it. Yes. The Rendon, Alice Pereira fight was bad. Dumas gets kicked in the balls, 51 seconds into the fight. That was tough. The flyweight, Aguilar, A gruelly fight, not great. Silva Pueyes was okay.

Dusko Tadorovich, Jose de Medina was, you know, just great placement because Jose Medina is just a dude who just gets run over every time he fights. But man, Tatiana Suarez, Amanda Lemosch was the biggest letdown of this entire day. Just one of the worst fights of the year. One of the worst fights of 2025. It wasn't particularly enjoyable. She's very far away from a title fight. I'm not even confident she should have won she just did win yeah so which I'll take but yeah Tatiaz four we talked about on the watch party Tatyana Suarez needs to add some wrinkles to her game

she's been figured out and uh you know she can still beat a lot of people with this based purely on physicality frankly but limoche is obviously very physically strong fighter as well and that gave her a lot of problems and we saw what happened with Zhang, you know, other physical specimens will similarly be difficult. She's got to add some stuff. Yeah. I left UFC 312 feeling like, all right, if Zhang and Tatiana fought a bunch of times like I think Tatiana could win a couple. I left today feeling like they could fight a million times and Tatiana would not win a single fight. She would she would go zero in a million again, it would. It would, it would be a high number of them.

Yep, it would not be good. Spencer agrees with Jed, Bud better pound for pound than Usik all time and been wanting to tell you all, you're definitely right. Emovof deserves, but won't get it. Try to ignore the dumb fans. Spencer just speak in truth here. Those are all almost objectively correct takes. Yeah.

Because there are takes, they can't be objectively correct, but they're pretty close. Yeah. Joseph with Volk saying he wants to fight in December who is in the catbird seat to get a title shot I think Bovzar of Loyov. I don't think you're watching the UFC very long. I know that's not true because you we talk about you're on all the shows

but they're not giving it to Movesar. They're giving it to Lorne Murphy and it wasn't automatic after beating Aaron Pico seemed like using the driver's seat but if John Silva had gone out there and finished Diego Lopez, they probably would have given it to him over Lorone Murphy, but Lorone won't huge today because Diego got the finish. So yeah, it won't be Movesar.

Hopefully Movesar is like next after Lorone gets it, but I'm not even convinced that's the case. Apparently Volk already dropped a video reacting to Noce. I assume in that video, he's just like, yep, we're fighting Lorne Murphy because, Lorraine Murphy tweeted after. Great, you know, because Laurel Murphy knew it was exactly what I said in our preview show. Jean Silva, I think Jean Silva was the leader to get the title fight.

If he had won impressively, I think he would have been the first call over Laurel Murphy, but he lost. And so Laurel Murphy deserves it, absolutely, happy to see it. It'll be a great fight. he's almost certainly fighting Volk in December. Agreed. RS 40. Crawford makes great fighters look average. Where do you rank him in the boxing greats?

Also, what do you think of Lopez's performance tonight? Was that fight of the year? Not fight of the year. It's hard, boxing grates are too hard to do. That's my official take. Because boxing's been around for 200 years. It's too hard to pick, like,

it's too hard to pick like the greatest MMA fighter and I'm much more in tune to that sport and it's been around for 35 years like boxing is way too difficult to be like this guy's the best especially when like guys that are conventionally at the top of that list like Harry Grabb

like nobody's actually seen him fight it's just like Harry Grabb one like was the welterweight and heavyweight champion of the world concurrently or some shit like that you know so all I know is that that is the best boxer I've ever seen compete live. You know, I don't know that he's better than Muhammad Ali.

Probably not. But I think he is better than Floyd Mayweather. I think he is better than Manny Pachiao, who was better than Floyd Mayweather, by the way. He's just the best boxer I've ever seen compete live. And I'm wholly impressed by Terrence Crawford, the human being. my fight of the year list as it stands right now Josh Van Brayn Roy Val is number one Yeah that's a really good one

Blah Mahama JDM is number two That is a good fight but I don't know I'm gonna pull these up Nizim Sadikoff Nicholas Mota is number three Oh you silly boy Rob Diwali Umar and Malamadam Adov is number four

Chris Duncan Matush Rebetsky is number five. Diego Lopez, John Silva's number six. Skulking out just ahead of Esteban, Rievovich, and Elvis Brenner. Honest to God. It's probably, if I'm going to be a real person and not a goon, it's probably Usman Paul Hughes one for five. Oh, yeah.

Is my number one. And my number two. or my number one, if I'm going to be a goon, is Kevin Holland, Danny Rodriguez. It's the funniest fight of the year by far. It's definitely the funny. I have that a number. Yeah, so that's the best fight of the year.

This is the funniest fight of the year by mile. Yeah, I've that number seven. That's my one and two. Really good fight, really funny fight. That's where we're at. Yes. Yeah, I got to put Euston and Hughes in there. That'll probably be number three.

Yeah. We'll see. That fight was incredible. Also, there was a great fight. Again, I think that's the best fight I've seen this year. But Van Roy Vowel was, that was only three rounds, right? Yeah. Yeah.

If that was five, that would be really hard to beat. Yeah. But yeah. No issues with your list. I mean, they're all kind of in the list there. But yeah. Great call. Yeah.

Good call on Hughes and Usen being in there. Rounding out the top 10 without. who's been in Hughes. Uri Perashka, Jamal Hill. Hill. I'll just say that's on my list. I think my five is in there.

And I actually have Jose Aldo versus Amin Zahabi. What's surprisingly fun. That was actually fun. Maybe it's just because Amin Sahavi was involved and it exceeded expectations in that regard. But yeah, there's some good ones in there. A decent little year.

Yeah. Juliana Rosa and Malki Costa was really fun as well. I have that, like, just outside the top 10. So, yeah, there's been some good fights this year. There's been some fucking stinkers, too, but there have been some fun ones without question. Take a couple more that we'll get on out of here. Did you all watch BKFC last night?

Would you think of the Perry Stevens in-ring face-off? I did watch BKFC last night for one reason and one reason only to watch you all Romero kill a man. And he did exactly that. I didn't watch that coming. I did watch the face off. The one thing that annoys me about BKFC is they're trying to be pro wrestling so badly. That was incredibly staged to a certain degree.

But it was fine. It does nothing to sell a pay-per-view for them or get an extra set of eyeballs because people are going to watch that shit anyways. because it's Mike Perry bare knuckle fighting somebody and people are going to watch it. So it was fine. I love BKFC events because they pace it beautifully.

They understand pacing at least. They get it. It's just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. We go to the next fight. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And, yeah, we'll take one more Joseph Bose. A question we'll get on out of here. No, we talked about the Dominic Cruz thing.

I'm not going to, I don't want to shit on Dominic Cruz for another hour. Does Jake Paul call a bud at some point Or is bud too good of a fighter Jake has said he will sue you If you call his boxing career fraud That's not true Jake will sue you if you say his fights are fake

Or staged You can't sue someone for calling you a fraud Yeah But if you say like hey But if you say like his fights are fixed If you try to do what Pierce Morgan did And then you really

And then you get a basically a season to sister, which I'm sure happened. And then he backpedaled on what he said and tried to quote unquote clarify it. But no, I don't think Jake Paul's calling out, bud. I don't think that happens. I mean, he's just going to call out Canella now more. He's like, oh, Connella lost. I'll knock him out.

Bud, you lost to a dude that's three-way classes smaller than you. I'm a bigger man than you. I will put you in the ground as 100% what he's going to do. Probably what he should do, frankly. Yep. All right. I think we've hit like the big talking points here, right?

I think we did. I mean, the chat is a functionally a nightmare. So I think we're okay. Yeah. People who I just aren't fans of boxing or active trolls. It's unclear which. just to get this out there

it doesn't need to be said but I'll say it anyway for my final thoughts had some friends texting me these friends do not watch boxing or MMA they don't watch fights all of them were like wow Terrence Crawford kicked his ass nobody's like he ran away cowardly

so if your take is that you're either a troll which I would just strongly encourage you to do anything more productive with your time, or you might not be in the right sport, one of those two. I don't know. Or you should probably just stop betting on fights. That could be the thing.

You could just be, like, I lost money. 100%. I was really open. I thought Canello was winning this fight. I thought that it was preposterous, frankly, that he was as small a favorite as he was. Couldn't have been more wrong, obviously. But I wasn't like, wow, Canello got robbed. What a coward.

I was like, man, Terrence Crawford's really good. my money left shames and now is the undisputed super middleweight champion and it's probably the best boxer on planet earth pound for pound right now so what a performance what a crazy day so many fights about 12 hours of fighting

that we got to see today if you watch it all and some football uh shout out to john annick i see he got a lot of praise so well done there and from what i heard he was quite strong so good for him yeah because he's a pro he's i think he's the best play-by-play in in in combat sports and dude is an absolute legend so uh you're all absolute

legends especially those who stuck with us all day long for jed missu i am mike heck if you still want to stick around and watch more fight talk press conference live on this year channel right now canello crawford e k c laden in the his house thank you very much ak and i back tomorrow for some to the next one, some matchmaking. Until then, good night, everybody. Good night, everybody.