Wilder v. Fury, WNBA Finals + Making Rugby More Diverse

Takeline

Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week on Takeline, Jason and Renee wonder if the boxing industry would have preferred for Deontay Wilder to beat Tyson Fury (00:38) and discuss game 1 of the WNBA finals (33:26). Plus, Frank McKinney, one of the first African-American college Rugby coaches joins (16:04) to talk about his new documentary Scrum.

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0:00.0	So flying commercial as a professional athlete and a professional athlete for many of these ladies who are, you know, 5859, 510, 61, 62, how do you stay fresh and where do you sit like how does that work do they block off a large
0:16.9	portion of the cabin like how does that work? Yeah that works that I could be 12 A and Jason, you could be 12 B.
0:24.1	So that's kind of how it works. Today we had the third and likely final fight of the biggest heavyweight boxing trilogy of recent times on Saturday,
0:46.0	Wilder versus Fury.
0:47.2	Yes, sir. Tyson Fury knocked out Deontay Wilder in the 11th round with a mule kicking right hook can analyze the
0:56.7	fight all day but let's talk about this boxing has been playing catch-up to
1:00.6	MMA particularly the uFC now for the last two decades, much of that coming
1:05.6	from the lack of a kind of all-encompassing star, Allah Mike Tyson. Wildersfriery certainly has brought back big interest into boxing but
1:15.1	we think that it would have been better for boxing if Deontay Wilder won bringing another
1:19.1	American heavyweight to the pinnacle of popularity instead of the very charming gypsy king Tyson Fury.
1:27.0	Listen I was there for Deontay I'm gonna just that. That's why I was there. I, you know, it's a great fight though. You have to like,
1:39.1	boxing has been very controversial lately for so many reasons Jake Paul being one of the 99 of the 100 reasons
1:46.7	But it's controversial because a lot of people are like do we want the celebrity boxing that's not real boxing or do we want the real heavyweight?
1:54.5	Give them people what you want.
1:56.5	Give the people what you want.
1:59.8	Is that Gallagher too?
2:01.1	Yeah that is Gallagher.
2:02.3	I'm showing right now a picture of myself and
2:04.6	Jason Gallagher at the Emmys winning an Emmy standing with the Dante Wilder
2:08.9	who is making me look like a Hobbit and he was a fantastic he was a really super nice guy and really cool to meet. He was just back there.
2:17.6	And you barely made the cut of the photo. I he you know he I did see there they listed him
2:25.2	at six six I believe so yes understandable that I wouldn't have made the photo either at his height but to that point Deontay Water is like a personality that you want to find more of and in boxing
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