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All right, so we are back on the way concept presented by The Ring Magazine.

I'm still in North Carolina.

Spoiler alert, I will be going to New York this Thursday for the press conference for Edgar

Berlaga versus Hamza Shiraz and Shakur Stevenson versus Williams-A-Peda.

Don't miss that one live in New York.

I'll see you guys there.

But today we are talking about the bizarre world that boxing just exists in.

Because in a moment's notice, things can happen that revive the sport like the Ring Magazine

coming into boxing and putting on some pretty awesome

fights even though the fighters themselves didn't necessarily perform the matchups were cool

and you're getting to see events that are star studded and have a lot of thought put into matchmaking

and x y and z and then we have you know the other side of things the crossover boxing space

and you know the ks i's and and the Jake Pauls and all those things.

And they kind of all exist in their own little framework to a degree.

And then out of nowhere, the WBC decides they want their welterweight champion Mario Barrios to defend his belt against Manny Pac-Yau.

And about seven to eight, maybe nine, ten years ago, I would have said hell's yeah.

If we had a Manny Pachiao championship fight.

But man, he's been retired for four years.

He's 46 years old.

His last fight was in 2021 and he lost to Ugas in a unanimous decision.

I watched his exhibition bout against the kickboxer guy in Japan. That didn't

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