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Boxing with Mannix and Mora

A (Heavyweight) Star is Born

Boxing with Mannix and Mora

Boxing with Chris Mannix

News, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Mannix and Mora talk Moses Itauma's one-sided win over Dillian Whyte, what could be next for Itauma, Nick Ball's title defense against Sam Goodman, Filip Hrgovic's win over David Adeleye and Raymond Ford's win over Abraham Nova. Plus thoughts on the back-and-forth between Xander Zayas and Vergil Ortiz, the fight Ortiz is really targeting, a different plan for Boots and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One is a respected writer.

0:02.5

I see we're just throwing the word respect around willy-nilly now, huh?

0:05.9

The other is a former world champion.

0:09.2

This is boxing with Manix and Moron.

0:12.6

The fighter.

0:13.5

Just how many times did he get punched in the face exactly?

0:16.0

Versus the writer.

0:17.2

It's a cacophony of great analysis and insight.

0:20.4

It's true. I said cacophony. It wasn't my best moment.

0:24.1

Follow. Rate and review. Five stars all day. And now, here's Chris Mannix and Sergio Moron.

0:34.9

All right. We are back. Happy Monday, everybody. Hope everybody had a great weekend. I watched a lot of boxing this weekend. Some Saturday afternoon boxing in Saudi Arabia. Went to a club show in Boston on Saturday night. Still love going to this club show, Sergio. I can't get it off. I'm sure you didn't love fighting on them back in your day. Maybe you did, actually. Maybe you did like fighting on club shows. But I always find the action on club shows to often be considerably better sometimes than the action on the quote-unquote major shows that some promoters put on. So I got to see a good club show in Boston. Kid named Anthony Vieira looked good on that club show. Saw Cordell Booker. Remember Cordell Booker? Fought Sebastian Fundore's last time out. He got a win over Patrick Alate, someone else we're familiar with who lost to Jaime Mungia. Those two guys fighting on a club show in boston so that was my

1:28.6

weekend sergia what about you debauchery chris manix debauchery and a lot of a lot of uh

1:37.6

that's not getting too that but anyway yeah i wish i could i could have gone with you club shows

1:42.5

because my life is terminal right now

1:45.6

let's not get you're just about to get deep were you just about to go deep with the podcast audience

1:51.8

hey listen uh i wish i can go take it back to those club shows i know what you're talking about

1:55.5

because club shows is where the hunger's at man we only get paid $500 a fight and uh that's where your bones are made, man. You're actually, you know, learning the vibe of the crowd. You're learning what it is about the boxing business. And then you sometimes fight tougher fights unexpected, you know, so you don't know, you're making your bones in those four and six round club shows, man. And it, it takes it back, man. People like U.S. fans enjoy them. People like me and the boxer that went through them, it's like, yeah, and it takes it back, man. People like you as fans enjoy them, people like me and

2:18.2

the boxer that went through them, it's like, yeah, they were great looking back, but you don't get paid much in those shows and you bleed them. No, it's a right of passage, right? Like, you know, a lot of these guys fighting on club shows hope to one day get to a world level, but a lot of these guys are never going to fight on the world level. They're just going to be, you know,

2:35.9

domestic area fighters, regional fighters. I know that the Massachusetts championship in multiple weight classes was on the line at the show I was at on Saturday. So it's just, it's a lot of fun to watch. And I encourage people all the time. If you want to see fun boxing at a low price, go to a club show in your area. There's a ton of them that are up. I just said it again, Massachusetts state title. You know, uh, Latinos have a hard, well, this Latino has a hard time saying that word, you know, my Latin tongue won't let me say Massachusetts. Massachusetts. I don't know. I emphasize it. The H-E-U. Chew. Yeah, whatever. I can't say it. That's part of the problem being Latino, man. But I speak to languages. That's a good part. That's true. You can't speak two languages. I can't speak. One of my great regrets in life is not learning Spanish early on.

3:25.9

What I could have used it for in the current profession that I'm in would be a valuable

3:30.6

language to know. All right. We're going to talk about a bigger show that happened on Saturday.

3:36.9

And that was the card over in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, headlined by Mos Zetauma, who knocked

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