11/06 Boxing: Mayweather's circus, Usyk-Bellew preview, Saucedo stops by
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Brian Campbell and Rafe Bartholomew react to Floyd Mayweather's announcement of a comeback fight on New Year's Eve in Japan against a 20-year-old kickboxer. Will the fight be real? Under what rules? Should we care? The guys also provide a detailed preview of the weekend action including the Oleksandyr Usyk-Tony Bellew cruiserweight title bout and boxing folk hero Neeco Macias' return against Jesus Soto Karass. Plus, unbeaten junior welterweight Alex Saucedo previews his Nov. 16 title challenge against Maurice Hooker and talks about how he deals with comparisons to being the next Arturo Gatti.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:24.6 | We're back. |
| 0:25.2 | That's us. |
| 0:25.8 | We are definitely back. |
| 0:27.3 | The one, the only, the CBS Sports Boxing podcast, back on your menu and offering you that one. |
| 0:36.1 | That one. |
| 0:36.9 | The one. |
| 0:43.5 | The one. That's Canella Floyd. the one, the only, the performance enhancing audio. |
| 0:54.2 | The Brian Campbell, your guy, that guy, the man, the name on the marquee, that's definitely who I am, back with my boxing bestie, the one, the one again, Wow, I've got to get new catchphrases there. |
| 0:56.3 | The Rafe Bartholomew, the world-renowned author, |
| 1:00.6 | protector of cruiser weights, and boy, do we have a cruiserweight Super Bowl this weekend |
| 1:05.7 | that we cannot wait to get into. |
| 1:08.2 | One day this guy's books will be touching ms along with himself but for now you're |
| 1:12.9 | just going to have to hear one of his many theme songs let me lick you up let me lick you |
| 1:19.0 | turn up let me lift you corner what happened to her name and so what's all my guest called east end plus your name What's our |
| 1:27.5 | podcast called? |
| 1:30.0 | ESPN plus |
| 1:31.1 | counterpunch. |
| 1:33.4 | What is the name of all of our shows now, Brian? |
| 1:35.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:36.5 | Maybe we'll call it the Rafe Bugs Hour. |
| 1:38.1 | Wow, what an awful intro. |
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