I'm Ken Rideau joined as always by the great Teddy Atlas.

Teddy we got a lot of boxing to discuss today. You're ready to go?

If you are you know I follow you you know you know you're my you're my inspiration I always get excited when I see those

iconic shirts the hat and Castillo fight was a good one we were just talking about

Castillo on one of these shows.

Kusteo had some interesting fights with Mayweather.

Yeah, yeah.

Very close fight, a fight that a lot of people thought he beat Mayweather in the first one.

Yup.

He was also involved in one of my favorite fights of all time against Diego Corralis.

Yeah, that was, that fight, you know, a lot of times on this show, I'll talk about how fighters from the more

modern era, a lot of them, some of them,, you can always say some of them.

But put it this way, I favor the golden error to a certain extent.

And I don't say that, I have to qualify that because I think we've watched some of really great

fighters in our generation that can stand in with any era. I mean sugary lennett

Roberto de Randi, I mean you could you know mani bacheau

Floyd Mayweather is tremendous

Beniteus I mean I'm going back a little bit to the 80s but I also I also I also I'm

going back a little bit to the 80s but I also think that there are fights that you know back in the golden era back in the 20s to 30s to 40s even some of the 50s he had regularly the best fighting the best and you had more clubs available in cities where a fighter could go in you know you could go in and there could be six seven eight clubs where there's action going on and there's more action going on more places to develop your skills to apprentice to learn to develop to grow you know it's I've said it before it's kind of like a

lawyer who doesn't get to go into a court room if he goes in a courtroom more often

he's gonna be a better lawyer.

If the doctor, if the surgeon does more surgery,

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