EP. 566: Andre Ward Talks Canelo v. Crawford! Noche UFC Betting Picks and Ray Longo on UFC Paris 🥊
The Anik & Florian Podcast
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
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Andre Ward Talks Canelo vs Crawford! Noche UFC Betting Picks and Ray Longo 🥊 | A&F: 566
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🤼♂️ IN THIS EPISODE: We're diving deep into the headlines, getting critical coaching analysis from the one and only Ray Longo, and then sitting down with boxing legend ANDRE WARD to get his expert take on the Canelo vs. Crawford superfight!
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- (00:00:00) - Show Open & Welcome presented by DraftKings
- (00:03:43) - Today's Top Headlines presented by @josecuervo
- (00:22:56) - SPECIAL GUEST: Boxing Hall of Famer Andre Ward on Canelo vs. Crawford
- (00:32:06) - UFC PARIS RECAP
- (00:40:06) - DRAFTKINGS OFFER
- (00:42:06) - MORE UFC PARIS & BOXING
- (00:47:00) - The Ray Longo Minute: Technical Breakdown of the Weekend's Fights
- (01:09:00) - MANDO
- (01:11:00) - Main Event Challenge: Noche UFC & Boxing BETTING PICKS presented by DraftKings Sportsbook
- (01:30:00) - Canelo v. Crawford
- (01:35:00) - PLACE YOUR BETS
- (01:38:00) - Show Wrap & Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | The John Anick and Kenny Florian podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | John Anick and Kenny Florian. |
| 0:14.9 | I love him. |
| 0:16.3 | I can't get enough of them. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's hear that boss tonight. |
| 0:19.0 | That jab there from Duffy and Frank Nearest Hartney. Right. My wife. Ducky. She's hear that boss tonight. They're a couple of absolutely self-in-lawed here is heart now. Right on. She's not. She's not. The mayor does it again. That's a lot of sock of Redmond here. Oh, my goodness. I can't believe there are a couple of absolutely self-involved artists. Here are your hosts, John Anick and Kenny Florian. It is not. |
| 0:37.9 | You know what it is live on a Monday as usual? |
| 0:47.3 | Ken Floh wearing the Annik and Florian podcast hoodie. |
| 0:49.5 | I actually almost went hoodie today for perhaps the first time ever for me on the show because we're here |
| 0:56.7 | in Connecticut, a little chilly turned the heat on today for the first time. Yeah, me too, man, |
| 1:00.2 | a little chill in the Florian household right now. And look at you with the UNC Chapel Hill |
| 1:05.6 | represent and Bill Belichick. I'm not sure he's too liked right now after Saturday. Was it Saturday that they have again? |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah, they're one and one now. So pretty good response by the defense over the weekend. But yeah, |
| 1:17.4 | shared a little wrinkle today. Nothing we can do about it. It's clean, though. I promise you with clean. |
| 1:22.8 | And hopefully everybody out there is fresh and clean. It monday september 8th 2025 episode 566 |
| 1:31.1 | of the annaic flooring podcast today's episode brought you by draft kings draft kings the crown is |
| 1:36.1 | yours big weekend flow canelo versus crawford 67 000 plus already confirmed at a league and |
| 1:43.3 | stadium saturday night that is live on netflix and most of you pay for Netflix, so you're all systems going, ready to go for Saturday night. I'll miss my UFC comrades. They'll be at Noce UFC. We got a UFC show to recap, but needless to say, Kemplo, we got a lot of, a lot of things to get into today. Dude, crazy. So much to talk about it. Are you getting nervous? |
| 2:02.5 | I'm excited. Do you get nervous anymore? You probably don't. Just for the preparation. Just for the |
| 2:08.6 | preparation, right? Like to my right here, I just have mounds of paper here to my right. And I'm working |
| 2:14.5 | through a research packet. But yeah, excited to step outside of my comfort zone. |
| 2:18.9 | And I've been using every recreational minute that I have to prep boxing when I'm not |
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