What is up, Five fans, and welcome to an all
new edition of the Scrap Report.
I am, of course, the tribal chief of New York
MMA,
Jason Burgos, and with me,
as always, is the herald of hate.
The Count of Compton, the one and only Anthony Walker.
Senor ABW, how are you doing today?
I'm doing pretty good, my man.
I'm, I'm actually happy to see you today.
We had we've had a,
you know a nice little pause between episodes.
So it's good to catch up with you talk some
fights and I feel a little less hateful today.
A little slightly maybe got some cool stuff going on
in the personal life.
So I'm happy about it.
I mean that that could be old age.
But you know, I mean,
I know I can't stand the hate.
I need the positivity. But you know,
that's the this show is really the balance 'cause,
yeah, I want positivity in life.
And then I come here for the hate.
No, no. Oh, there. There's plenty of hate to be
spread today.
Looking at the outline, there's
there's some some vitriolic statements I'm sure I will make
when some of the news is going on.
So yeah, you'll have plenty of hate to serve you
into the next episode Sir.
So we have a lot to talk about on this
podcast.
We're going to be talking a little bit about
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul,
the two press tour stops they made this week.
We're going to talk a little bit about that UFC
heavyweight division
name of Jon Jones is not in the this heavyweight
title fight that's coming up,
even though he's probably ready.
We're going to talk to Anderson Silva.
Floyd Mayweather. They got comeback fights,
Habib number met off. He's got some tax issues going
on.
Darren Till is coming back but not in the UFC
and not in BKFC and of course so Conor Gregor,
BF BFC. But first let's go to Mike Tyson versus
Jake Paul.
The press tour I was there for the stop in
the Apollo,
it was it was. I mean I have to say
it was the the longest line I've ever been on
for a press tour.
Like getting there. Like the press tour,
the the media line was like almost half as big
as the Lion outside the in front of the Apollo
downtown in Harlem
and it took a little time,
wasn't as smooth as it is with the UFC.
But then again this is a big demand.
A lot of people were there.
Biggest take away is as a person that's lived in
New York that hasn't gone to the Apollo and knows
how historic it is.
It's way smaller than I ever thought it would be.
Radio City getting Music Hall I was at for Nirmika
Meadow and the McGregor press conference I think is gigantic.
The Apollo is very small but still rich with history.
The folks at MVP promotion,
I thought they did a very good job.
I was entertained. I felt that there was a couple
of
plants in the questions and there was 1 little kid
who was foul mouthed as all heck
and I think he had to be completely planted.
But you know whatever it was entertaining and that's the
goal is the goal is to bring interest.
And Speaking of that what are your thoughts?
I mean we we the New York
press tours ended the Dallas one was a couple days
ago
or yesterday where as we recorded this.
What do you feel? Do you feel it's brought any
added interests now that we've seen Mike and Jake Paul
not in the hype video face to face actually talking
to each other. Do you feel any more interest less
what do you feel it's going to this fight now
in July.
Well, first I want to address the the the young
man with the with the foul mouth right there.
The only thing that should have been planted in that
audience was a belt planted to his ass.
OK, I can't imagine me getting away with that when
I was that age.
Like, oh,
and it was like 1211 years old.
Ask about body counts. Like,
get out of here. I was ashamed of my fellow
New Yorkers,
though. Yeah, I was like,
dude, he's a little kid.
This is this is embarrassing.
He's embarrassing somebody. He ain't even hit puberty yet.
What you talking about? Body counts.
But anyway, yeah, anyway, and like
as far as I did not watch any of the
press conferences,
like I saw a couple clips from the circulating online.
Maybe it's because I'm jaded.
Like I've been to a Paul Brothers fight before.
Yeah, you know, I've, I've,
I've interacted with Mike Tyson.
I've, you know been around legitimate fights and also
I've kind of seen the whole rigmarole before.
So I think this fight,
sure it can it can drum up the same level
of interest that
I think any other sort of stare off and those
those weigh in pictures,
all that stuff will will generate.
But this is sort of a thing where if you're
interested,
you're interested already. You don't necessarily need it maybe you
just need a reminder that it's happening.
But that's kind of it like
you know as far as like the line that you
said like the media line to get in
it's it's going to take the boxing.
Media of course has to be a part of this
because Mike Tyson is a legend.
All right, the the new school of media is going
to be interested because Jake Paul is involved and he's
a social media star.
Then you're going to have the traditional outlets that are
just there because there's a show,
there's a circus in town.
So they're going to show up.
The MMA outlets are going to show up because these
this is sort of the the fringe of boxing that
MMA media likes to,
to tack its own itself on to also.
So
if you're not interested, a stare off between those two
is not going to make you interested.
It's still a near 60 year old man fighting someone
who is yet to to be 30 years old.
So it is what it is.
And despite whatever anger that Tyson had to show to
that reporter that asked a very obvious question,
Yes Sir, this is a gimmick fight.
You are participating in a gimmick fight and that's fine
but let's just call a spade a spade.
I think in in the end all these places all
these kind of things do it.
I think it serves a unique purpose and if service
purpose for something that goes down Jake Paul's alley and
this is to create social media clips because there's still
I think a segment of of of people that have
maybe heard about it.
You know maybe don't fully follow the sports don't follow
Paul
didn't maybe even know Tyson Ford a few years back
and maybe just took completely out of the loop and
and it's a chance to see them interact and like
what's going on and and just create a bunch of
social media clips that can go circling around for the
next month and maybe you pull in some buys and
interests and stuff like that.
That said you covered a story this week on on
ringside Intel great
doing very well huge huge story
that it is it
talking about
gametime.com a third party ticket seller and how they're
prices for the fight that's going to be an AT&T
stadium the the home of the Dallas Cowboys have declined
a little bit and this came a day or so
after the New York press conference.
What are your general thoughts you covered in the story
does is the prices going down a sign of bad
things is it Not really maybe prices were too ridiculous
anyway for such a big venue.
What are your overall take on on possible price decreases
with this fight
I think we're we're talking about a pre sale so
you're you're getting a lot of people who are behind
the scenes that are counting money before it ever hits
their hands. So they're a little excited they're they're just
overestimating what this is going to bring and when the
tickets actually went on sale I think it was just
a check by the free market.
Just say hey you're going to get a lot of
people interested
if you're going to feel Cowboy Stadium.
I don't know. I I I wouldn't say that.
I don't know what the configuration is going to be
as far as what how many seats are available total
in comparison to what is there for a a Cowboys
game or whatever. But
this is, this is market correction,
that's all. And it's there's still
decent price tickets like you.
You don't want to price people out,
right? Especially for something like a Jake Paul fight.
Yeah, he commands top dollar as far as being the
head of his MVP promotions,
but you got to look at who his audience is.
His audience is going to be kids.
It'll be kids. They're they're going to be
12 year old, little foul mouthed
jokers that is asking dumb questions at at at the
presser.
It's going to be, it's going to be 15 year
olds that follow YouTube and TikTok and whatnot.
Those are not people that have the disposable income to
drop,
you know, a few $100 on Nosebleed seats,
you know, and their parents are probably not going to
be willing to shell that out either.
So you got to have a price point that you
can make money.
But also you don't just exclude everybody,
especially your core audience.
And I think I think it's the beauty of this
fight in that Jake Paul and Tommy Fury and and
some of these fights Jordan interesting Paul versus Anna.
So they they they connect with certain audiences,
but this really is a fight.
It's complete freak show, complete circus fight,
but it does grab a a
it it it tries, it casts a wide net on
fans because you have a huge fan base that's like
you know, our age into their 50s and stuff like
that.
They were Mike Tyson fans that they saw him in
his prime.
Then you have this fan base that's like,
you know, our age, a little bit younger and then
down to like 12 year olds that are Jake Paul
fans.
So it's it casts a huge net.
There's a lot of people and it's honestly,
I don't know what it's going to do ticket sales
wise,
but I think the fact that it's on Netflix without
any extra pay is a a great sell.
I mean, that'll alone, even if they only sell 10,000
in the arena,
they're they're gonna get probably 50 million watches on Netflix
just because it has such a huge audience.
They're going to have a huge push behind because it's
one of the few
live broadcasts ever doing. So in the end,
it's still going to be a success in terms of
just people watching it and stuff like that,
which is great. Moving on from that heavyweight fight,
heavyweight fight to another heavyweight fight in the UFC and
that is
this one, completely went under my radar as well as
Patty Pimblet getting his fight.
I had to do our
update on Sports dot Next Finance called Completely Mix It
and
he's fighting Bobby Green who I've suggested that's who he
should probably fight for a while.
My boy going to them up to.
And that's who Bobby Green should be fighting.
Not Max Holloway.
Tune that boy. I just want to see.
I want to see him tune them up.
That's all it is. Don't even start the Bobby Green
hate,
man. We don't have time for that.
The facts say everything for me.
Tom Aspinall. He gets books versus Curtis Blades,
not Jon Jones. It's going to happen at
UFC3O4IN England as the Co main event.
Wow, Blaze is 3 and two in his last five.
Not bad. But it's like
this isn't like like the
it's not the most exciting kind of thing.
Like Pavlovich when he was on a hot streak Aspinall
was Aspinall was on a hot streak other than the
injury loss.
Like it like days going into it hot.
I mean it's a Co main event John Jones pass
on the opportunity.
The rumors are he's probably going to
face Stipe who he's just got a semi for just
to fight him because he probably knows his win on
ball and just as it helps his history,
he's probably going to have in November in Madison Square
Garden when I've already left.
I can't get to see it.
I know you've got a lot to say about this
and the floor is yours because I know you have
some deep thoughts on John Jones's decision.
You know
I'm OK with champions taking a year and some change
off because they've been injured.
Like, totally OK with that.
It's happened several times. And he did rightfully earn that
belt.
You can call it the
undisputed title if you want to.
We all know Francis Zingano is the true UFC heavyweight
champion,
but that's that's for another day.
But what I'm not OK with is this very explicit
plan
to duck the interim champion.
You know, and maybe maybe Duck is too harsh of
a word but
you're not fighting. I don't think it is.
I think it's a a fair word.
Yeah. I mean yeah. It's like you're not fighting him
and that and that's then that's the thing here like
the way the way Jon Jones has been sort of
defending his belt on Twitter has been a master class
in APR torpedo disaster.
Like I I I swear he must have the same
PR team as Diddy at this point
because it's just it's madding like like bro,
you're not. He's told my like,
like there's not a way to find out who the
best heavyweight in the world is.
You are two fighters and a fight promotion
holding championship belts. Gee whiz,
how do we determine which one of you is better?
Jason, do you have any ideas?
Do you have the slightest clue how we solve this
problem with two fighters saying that they're the best and
us not being able to figure it out?
There's got to be a way,
right? There's got to be a way that this multi
billion dollar fight promotion
that has made its name and this and this huge
fortune promoting fights
between 2 individuals will have a way to solve out,
to solve the the Riddle
of who the best fighter is.
There's got to be a way.
Jason, I'm not the one to answer these questions right?
I'm not the one to answer these questions.
I'm just a guy sitting in in my in my
little Home Office with all my comic book props behind
me.
I don't know anything. Maybe you can shed some light
on this,
Jason. I don't know. I will say this,
that Curtis Blaze and Tom Aspinall is a fantastic fight
to put on their Their original fight left a lot
to be desired.
It ended in an injury in like
1516 seconds or something like that.
So of course there are question marks surrounding that,
but we must be losing our minds if we think
it's OK to have a reigning heavyweight champion not fight
the other guy with the belt
like
it it would. I will respect it so much more
if Jon Jones just jumped up and said,
hey, this is about legacy at this point and that's
all it's about.
Tom Aspinall's doing whatever he's doing,
but I just want to fight Stipe because it means
more to me before I walk out of here.
Just say that. Don't try to downplay Aspinall for winning
a belt,
you know. Don't try to play
Tom Aspinall for stepping in when he couldn't
to fulfill an obligation to to put a body in
the Octagon.
Like I don't the the the the thought process or
lack thereof is is mind blowing.
I just. I just can't understand it.
Like and and and thing is Jon Jones has earned
the right
at this point. He is the greatest MMA fighter of
all time in my opinion.
Possibly the the best combat sports athlete to ever have
lived.
You could you could throw that title on him he
deserves it
but that does not take away from the fact that
there is a guy who clearly has disputed his title
and if you want to hold on to said title
you got to answer those questions and you don't do
that via Twitter
and and it's really not much I can add to
that I mean and it's it just
it's disappointing and
I tell you man he John is is a like
you say he's a great
all time and made but he's very much like the
category of how Barry Bonds is an MLB in that
he's in the go conversation but there's all these asterisks
around them Floyd Mayweather's maybe in the boxing go conversation
but these all these just terrible person not entertaining fighter
the elements he's that kind of guy that he has
these knocks against him because there's these asterisks because of
what he's done in sport.
How great would it be for him and you just
nailed it if he was just like look
I have been this for a long time I'm going
to be winding down this is going to be my
last fight.
I want like you just said I like I want
to fight Steve but he's to me he's the greatest
heavyweight all the time.
I want to face him and then
when that fights over. The winner of Aspinall versus Blades
or whatever or whoever won that fight is the official
champion.
They I'm gone. My belt,
they're official. I think a lot of people would live
with that.
They'd like you know what,
that's OK because we get
we know this is John's last fight so we got
to appreciate it.
It's still a fun fight.
We're not going to get what we thought but whatever
we get 2 gun fights.
This title is kind of for the the real official.
This one's unofficial people. People would be fine with it.
But he's not the smartest person in the world.
Smartest. A brilliant genius fighter,
but not a smart person.
And he's making another poor decision and just a final
note in it
that he's then he's not only is he not fighting
time aspinal,
he's suggesting he be open to the Alex Paheda fight
if Alex Paheda moves up.
So you won't fight a real heavyweight,
but you'll fight a guy who was a middle fight,
a middle weight. It's ridiculous.
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Jake Paul press conferences, moving on from there,
talking about legends. And I've just brought him up too.
This week. Anderson Silva and Floyd Mayweather both booked their
next fights.
Anderson this is expected to be his grand finale final
fight.
It's going to be in boxing.
It's going to be against jail,
sudden of all people, which makes it all the the
more fascinating interest because it's his greatest rival but has
become kind of become a friend.
Also it's going to be in Brazil,
no shock of there, but it's going to supposedly reportedly
be in a smaller venue that's maybe just going to
have 600 people VIP experience,
very unique in that kind of way.
It's just I guess friends and family and that kind
of thing.
While Floyd is going to continue his exhibition tour,
which he's been doing last few years,
but instead of just fighting a joke or a Gambino
child or not,
or gaudy child and all the nonsense he's been doing,
he's actually going to fight Victor Ortiz and that name
sounds familiar.
Victor Ortiz, the same guy that head butted Floyd and
then when the referee broke him up,
Floyd hit him with a hook,
knocked him out before you know he wasn't protecting himself.
So we're going to get a rematch of that
in a 41,000 seat arena in Mexico.
If you can be there in person for either fight
which one would you rather be?
The small venue VIP experience of seeing
Casona evict and Ortiz have both got to lose his
fight.
You know they're they're there to take an L but
do you want to see Silver versus Sun in three
in a small venue for Anderson's last fight or is
the peagle of Victor Ortiz in a mad a Mexican
crowd rooting against Floyd Mayweather
41,000 possibly deep appeal to you more
by far chill and and Anderson by far.
Like it's not even close.
Like
it almost feels like these two should be switched as
far as the venue.
Because I I'm just. And not because like Floyd Mayweather
and Victor Ortiz in this day and age would be
like some marquee event that deserves a black tie and
like, like catering. It just you might get 500 people
that care
and their probably last names are Mayweather and Ortiz.
Like, it's just, it just sounds like a bad idea.
It was a fight that sucked when it first happened,
when you know they were both in their prives.
It wasn't a good fight then.
It was it ended in a very stupid fashion because
of stupidity.
So I don't think we really need to see it
again.
And I don't
41,000 people to to watch that,
just that that sounds ludicrous.
That sounds absolutely ludicrous. I expect this undercard to be
loaded up with all the people that would be more
interesting for Floyd Mayweather to fight at at this point.
Now chill and Anderson Silva,
it's it's interesting because it it,
it feels like a a real full Silk Road moment,
right? For this very heated rivalry,
the term very personal that now these two guys seem
to be friends and Shell Sudden was like Public Enemy
number one in Brazil
and like had to be escorted in and out of
all these venues with security and and whatnot because like,
they just wanted to rip his head off that much.
And now he's going to have this sort of,
you know, for all intents and purposes of like a
friendly sparring match with his greatest rival in his home
country.
It's really cool. It's it's really cool and having having
interacted with both of them and seeing like their personalities
and how like it just it just seems cool.
It seems appropriate. It seems like a good,
classy way to send off 2 guys who who've meant
a lot to to combat sports and have done a
lot of cool things
and and this then this feels like it feels like,
you know, like a like what a Legend Tour should
be.
This this is right. I like it.
I I was amazed. Just to give a a little
reveal on how the sausage is made right.
I'm, I was going to ask you
in our in our internal Slack chat about making a
Floyd Mayweather Evergreen right.
Because I'm like I guess he's finding it maybe we
should just have an Evergreen just in case.
And then I see as I refresh the site oh
you already made one.
Cool. Done. And then and then when I refreshed again
for
for looking for something else,
I saw Anderson Silva. Like what
Anderson Silva. I hadn't heard about it at all until
I read the article.
So you know he broke some news,
buddy.
Well, you're welcome and we will be doing some some
lists.
I'm short evergreens on both men as they get close
to their fight.
But
I agree. I agree 1000%.
I think you hit the word perfectly.
That was in my mind classy.
It's a small event. It's a goodbye.
It's a the the little history between them and how
they become friends and how they
gained so much respect and admiration for each other.
Like in a way, this is,
and I have a lot of respect for Chael for
what he's,
despite what he's done. He's juiced himself up over the
years,
but she's completely owned up to.
He's going into this pretty much like a WWE fight
and he's going to go in there,
take the L, do the job and do the honors
because that's what's going to happen.
He's not going to win this fight.
You know, he wasn't the better fighter and he's definitely
not going to be the better fighter in boxing.
He's in there to take an L and he's completely
fine with it because he knows how important this man
has been to the sport,
how important he's been to his career.
Chair son is nobody without having to taunted Anderson Silva
for years and getting two matches with them and nearly
beating him in the first one.
I mean it's. I respect what he's doing.
It's just it's just so classy.
It's such a great thing.
I hope it's on somewhere that can be viewed at
the details on that aren't out there yet but because
I'd like to see it and it just he
just a much more respectable person.
Well Floyd, while you can make a case the Victor
Ortiz fight,
it might be more competitive because 10 year age difference.
Victor Ortiz not 40 yet.
Maybe it's more competitive and you got a crowd that's
behind it but
not interested. I'd rather see Anderson Chao and the the
fun
elements that could come from that and just what it
means for for both men.
You know that are it just more important and especially
for our fandom and how we've covered the sport and
it's just huge figures in it.
But Speaking of another huge figure in the sport,
Habib Navratov,
you cover this on ringside for us,
tax issues for the Eagle.
You know, I'm going to let you take this away,
break it down for us.
But people maybe missed the story what's going on with
Habib and his taxes and why couldn't maybe it opens
the door to a possible UFC return and going against
Mama's wishes to never fight again.
And so just to keep a Long story short for,
you know, purposes of of broadcasting
the the Russian federal government,
they
came across some information about Khabib
Nurmagomedov's finances. They looked into
bank accounts for several of his businesses.
He started apparently a lot of businesses after retirement
beyond the Eagle FC promotion.
There's some sort of charitable foundation.
And I think he's, he does like supplement endorsements all
sorts of revenue streams that
Khabib was bringing in. And now it looks like that
some of his money that was supposed to go to
taxes for the Russian government went outside the country to
fund other investments in Istanbul and well the whole country
of Turkey.
I'm not sure if it was just specifically the Istanbul
Turkey and and the United Arab Emirates.
So yeah, he's he's under a bit of scrutiny right
now.
Now, one thing I didn't try to get into in
the article,
and this would take a lot more time than that,
would totally destroyed our deadline to to get things published
in a timely fashion.
But I know that there is a lot intertwined as
far as the Russian Ukraine war and where
some factions in Dagestan lie and all of this.
So there's there's a lot of mixing and meddling and
conspiracy theories and and everything surrounding it.
But Long story short, Khabib is in a little financial
trouble right now.
They estimate his debt to be somewhere north of
$3,000,000 US and obviously that's not a a
small amount of money. We know Khabib is one of
the the top earners in the sport's history.
I think I wrote something about where his place was
among UFC fighters of what what they had earned
total. But I know he was high up on the
list.
He was definitely in the top ten.
I want to say he was even top five.
So he's made a lot of money,
doesn't mean that. And if it's liquid,
that doesn't mean that that was
pretext or post tax or whatever there.
There's a lot to uncover in this.
I imagine we're not hearing the end of this story,
but if you ask me to check the temperature,
I do think this means that that Khabib is going
to find his way back in into
into the cage. We've seen this happen with a million
fighters time and time again.
It's a tried and true story.
Boxing and MMA, kickboxing have all seen,
you know, a legend walk away and come back because
they need the money.
We've seen Chuck Liddell do it.
We saw James Toney try fighting in the UFC because
of it.
We've we've seen a lot of iterations to this and
it never quite ends well.
We'll see what happens man but I would bet my
money on could be fighting in the UFC in the
near future
and you in your piece you you throw out several
options and I'll add another one in there,
suggested McGregor obvious that's a
for sure Leon Edwards at welterweight Max Holloway especially Max
stock is so high right now and there's always been
talk of of the George Saint Pierre fight.
That's the fight that his father wanted.
It was kind of in for discussion and it just
didn't pan out and George I think recently said that
he,
you know his his health issues are behind him and
you know so maybe there is a possibility of that
of those four what
what is your preferred option and then what is the
one you think is most likely.
I think the most likely one is Leon Edwards.
If he gets past Bilal Muhammad,
you know the UFC probably doesn't want him to still
be champion.
You know that's kind of the sense we we all
get like he is no one Now that Al Joe
was no longer champion he's now the UF CS least
favorite champion. So I, I I'd imagine that would be
their way of trying to get him up out of
there,
most likely. But the one I'd like to see the
most?
None. You know what I I
I guess GSP. But GSPI,
I I love where GSP is right now.
Like he's last saying that he doesn't.
He's not intending on coming back and fighting at all.
He's enjoying life as a commentator,
occasional MCU appearances and just being like this,
this this nice personality that's attached to the sport that
hasn't turned into the scumbag
that a lot of a lot of our fighters devolve
into at some point.
I just want him to stay there.
I want to preserve my my precious George Saint Pierre
in this, in this angelic state of of happy post
retirement life.
So, but that would probably be the most competitive one
because he washes McGregor. Even with the layoff he washes
McGregor and quite honestly he probably washes Holloway too 'cause
that is a horrible,
horrible style match up for for Max Holloway.
I think another name that that might be thrown out
there I I consider throwing in there was was Nate
Diaz.
They actually have like a history
of conflict with one another.
I believe they got into some brawl at a World
Series of Fighting event
some years back and there was some trash talk between
them,
but once again he gets washed too.
So I don't I don't want to see this happen.
I really don't Yeah I honestly the the the one
I think
I I pretty much agree
the GSP is the the fight I probably would want
to see the most I mean but that said I'm
kind of both want to see and likely would I
think would happen is Edwards fight.
I think it's just it's it's
Habib's attempt at what GSP did when GSP left for
a while came back for middle weight against Michael Bisping.
Although Leon Edwards is far better welter than Bisping was
a middle weight,
just the historical implications of it.
He's looked. He's looked at it and looked as one
of the best fighters of all time and seen by
many as the best lightweight.
For him to come back and and and be the
guy.
Leon Edwards talent in his prime and the,
you know, 'cause that's, I think that would be the
thing.
Yeah, he wants the money,
but he wants the challenge.
McGregor he could care less about,
even if it made him a lot of money.
Holloway, you said this probably a matchup that he usually
wins.
So he had that challenge going up and wait,
trying to win a second title against a guy that's
in his prime.
I think that'd be fascinating.
But again, and wherever you're listening to this,
watching this, please, like, share,
subscribe, comment, let's know what you think of a Habib
situation.
Is he you think he'll be stepping back in the
ring because of the money following the the lead of
so many other legendary combat sports athletes before him?
I'm moving on from there.
It was in a press release where I I cover
the story for ringside.
Darren Till is finally making his comeback to come out.
Sports is obviously, it's not going to be in MMA,
it's not going to be in BKFC.
Despite Mike Perry doing a lot of work to call
him out and and make that fight happen,
which I think it makes a lot of sense.
He's actually going to be on the undercard of Mike
Tyson versus Jake Paul.
He's going to be facing
who? Your Cesar Chavez Junior,
the apple that fell really far from the tree.
What are your thoughts on this?
Is is it disappointing? Is it like,
yeah, I get it. Is it a smart business move?
That's how I see. I I feel this is
this. Yeah. It's not probably the most interesting thing for
him,
but on the business move level,
it makes sense just because of what we said.
It's going to be on Netflix.
It's going to be in front of,
you know, 50 million people or more probably you're going
to see it.
What
are your thoughts? Yeah I I think it's it's the
right business move for for Darren till like I don't.
Especially with with Bellator being absorbed into PFL and some
of the struggles that they seem to be having right
now.
There probably weren't a lot of takers on the free
market for Darren till like at least not the money
that he probably thought he could make.
You know Ryzen puts on like 2 cards a year.
Like he, you know,
he may not have gotten that call 1 championship is
doing whatever they're doing
and maybe he didn't get that call or didn't like
their offer.
And the celebrity boxing thing is,
is is going on for real and Netflix is throwing
series money at it.
So why not I it would definitely be the most
eyeballs that have been on him since like what you'll
see
2:45 or something like that.
I think
so yeah. Why not? I Now
I'll just say what I actually think about the fight
itself without the business stuff tied to it.
I'll say, like I said the moment I found out
about this on Twitter,
this is another chance for Chavez Junior to disappoint his
daddy.
This, this, this is essentially what this is going to
be like.
Daddy going to be sitting in the front row shaking
his head again.
Yeah, this probably was going to happen.
Like I
It's a smart business with the Netflix and then on
a competitive level,
it's a fight he probably could win.
I mean, this is the same guy that lost to
Anderson Silva like three years ago.
When Anderson Silva is closing on 450 years,
oh, you know, he he's a mess.
This guy has been a mess for a long time.
He showed a lot of talent years ago and he's
a part of some really good fights,
like almost 10 years ago,
but that guys gone. But he's just an absolute mess.
He's only a name. If his name was Julio Cesar
Dominguez,
he would, nobody would care about him.
But we all care about him because of who his
father was and he had a moment here or there.
So yeah, I think it's on the business level,
It's boring. I would like to see the Mike Perry
fight in bare knuckle.
That would been interesting. But yeah,
that makes sense on so many levels.
Talked about business. Our last topic for this episode,
this report was reported. Not reported,
but it was announced a couple of weeks ago.
Conor McGregor has, I don't
know how, It's not a majority stake but he has
an ownership stake now in BFC.
Well you know we we,
I interviewed David Feldman a couple of times recently.
We've covered them on on on ringside.
They they they really very much want to be in
the Conor McGregor business and they've had him at events
he's they're giving him titles to hold that he doesn't
freaking own. He's getting in the ring,
mixing up with people. He's not going to fight.
They they just feel McGregor being there makes a difference
and now he'll be there all the time as this
kind of part owner situation.
What are your thoughts? Did is he,
you know, when he got on board with proper 12
and turned Proper 12 into a brand that people know,
he was at the absolute height of his powers.
He was as famous and as
relevant as he could be in the UFC.
Now he's a guy who fights once every 2-3 years.
He's doing bad acting jobs and Amazon Prime movies.
I mean, he's a star,
but he's, I mean
the new cycle goes so fast people are forgetting about
him.
Is there value to McGregor just hanging around for BKFC
in your mind or he needs to fight If he's
fighting in
BFBKFC, huge value. He brings huge attention,
but just hanging around, maybe being there for face offset
weigh in.
Does that really matter at all for BKFC?
This has helped him.
It depends on how much his his ownership stake is
like what are the dollar figures?
And that's I haven't seen any dollar figures around it.
If they got him for something relatively cheap or cheap
in comparison to what you know what,
whatever their finances are cool like he,
his presence will bring a boost to certain things.
His presence will attract a certain fan base.
They'll attract people to just watch.
Now BKFC has done a fantastic job of keeping the
train moving and the sport growing.
Like definitely growing the sport,
evolving like you watch it and it is
from event to event. The technique changes like it's it.
We're seeing evolution in real time.
Watching BKFC. Problem is, not a lot of people are
actually seeing it.
You know, Conor McGregor being there helps people see it.
It just gives it a little more visibility where that
casual fan who really only knows Conor McGregor and Ronda
Rousey and Brock Lesnar and you know,
whatever, whatever other Sean O'Malley,
whatever, fly by night star you can think of
that they might just TuneIn because hey,
it's it's on right now and I have nothing to
do.
So that could bring a lot of value to the
promotion
depending on how much the price tag was to get
him there in the 1st place.
And we were also talking about the same company that
banked there at the time.
Their biggest event, Their single biggest event their single biggest
showcase
on the the mythical sparring match between him and and
Paulie before the the Mayweather McGregor fight
like that that the company essentially was built on that
on Poly fighting Artem Loboff as like Loboff being the
the substitute for McGregor.
Like that's that was that was the the linchpin that
just did just help this thing take off So
it it feels appropriate forever how silly and useless it
might be I I guess
but it's hard to say without knowing what the exact
financials are
and and I'm a guy that's very much rude BFC
because you like you said they they they they've really
built
an old sport made a new from the ground up
and really had it's grown a lot they've done a
lot I mean especially and it's entertaining it's a great
product and it's hard to do that We've seen a
lot of MA companies come and go and be bought
up and then boxing companies come and go so the
fact that they're thriving and stuff like that but I'm
on the other side I don't see any big value
to it right now.
I just don't think McGregor fans are going to
oh, McGregor is an owner for BFC.
Let me go get the BFC app or let me
pay for the subscribe.
I just we're in a time of lazy people and
new cycles come so fast.
It's sort of like when he showed up at a
Bellator event and he jumped in the cage and he
was celebrating.
It was Bellator, it was cool for like 5 seconds,
you know because he was there and then it kind
of went away again.
He like, I I think he needs to fight.
He has to be in there fighting and that's why
like going back to the Poly Malignaggi comment,
it may be gives he a thing because it was
a a wrestling, a boxing star,
a champion going into this bare knuckle thing like it
that brought the attention,
the fight brought the attention.
Paige Van Zandt fighting, Her fighting brought the the attention
not just being there because when she was just there
it became a second secondary thing and and part of
me feels because he's become such a big fan of
the sport,
he will. I think when his UFC contract ends that
is the goal.
And you know based off of BKFC,
the Dave, Dave Feldman recently meeting with Dana Wide a
few months ago, Dana may just let him do it.
Maybe just let him go fight and because he has
a good work relationship BKFC and maybe there's something going
on with that.
But as of now I don't think it's going to
be much until he fights.
That's the only way. But
even if he loses 2 more fights,
him going into BKFC will still be so huge for
them and make such a difference and he'll hype the
heck out of it because he's making the money himself
as the owner. So I look forward more to that,
but who knows when that'll be
2025262027 at this point. Could be after international fight week
of Chandler get get to him real good.
That's true. That is true.
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