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ALL ACCESS RECAP: Floyd Brags, Flashes Cash, Shops, Hypes Foe, More

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ALL ACCESS on Friday night kicked off with a look back, at Floyd Mayweather’s six fight deal signing, and the present, a Sept. 12 clash against Andre Berto.

The last time we will see “TBE,” we heard…

Do you believe it? Time tells us…

Floyd’s kids cavort and look at old photos, with dad, who chuckles at old pics on this Showtime docu-series.

He brags, that no one has done it like him, as he’s on a jet.

His time in the ring is drawing to a close, the narrator says.

Berto, Floyd says, is the guy who can bring the best out of him. Berto isn’t in boring fights, it is noted…but Floyd makes ’em look boring, because he makes it one sided, Berto notes.

Next, Berto says that he darn well deserves the opp. They do a staredown, for a promo shoot and some Floyd and Berto people jaw and beef mildly.

Floyd discusses his plan to get to here. Talk smack and back it up…

We see him at his boxing gym, and we hear him rap pathetically, great god it was horrid.

He brags about eating like crap and hanging with chicks and notes that he’s still unbeatable. He needs to just six weeks to train to win, he says. He says he whups whoever the media and fans clamor for him to fight…so they can stop that.

Guess that means no Golovkin, then…

He has a great work ethic, though, we hear. He holds a parcel of cash while working out, for motivation,and acolytes chuckle. Then, he shops. He also says he’s growing closer to his kids, and he’s now happier. “I’m not sad at all that this is my last show,” he says.

A daughter says she will be happy to spend more time with him. Then he talks about ending the in ring work. He just wants to spend the rest of his life, every day, with his kids.

Then Berto says he’s been getting a crazy amount of texts, hearing from old galpals. He musta thought I was one, as he ignored three of mine when I heard he was getting the gig. And he’s a guy I’ve talked to for a long time, and someone I lauded for backing the cause after Mike Brown was murdered. Whatcha gonna do?

We hear about his rise to the top, to a path to Mayweather. But he lost to Victor Ortiz, and Ortiz got the lottery ticket. He said he didn’t train right for the scrap. He then hooked on with Virgil Hunter, and that has helped him improve, it is said. “When I first met him, his confidence wasn’t high,” Hunter said. Berto wasn’t dialed into training, the trainer said.

Then, we see a non boxer sparring at Floyd’s gym. And he gets knocked down. Acolytes giggle and mock the guy…

Floyd next talks about Boston Celtic Isaiah Thomas; he brags he taught him how to play basketball. They play some pickup…

Next, Berto runs against bands. This is his first fight as an underdog, he says, so he will work twice as hard. His speed coach Aaron Thigpen says it will be a “completely different Andre Berto.” Yeah, we tickin’ all da boxes, lol…

Berto’s diet is better; he has a live in chef cooking healthy fare. Berto busts on the chef for eating with him, now that the camera is there. The chef has a dog that Berto doesn’t like or pretends not to like.

Then, we see Floyd’s Uncle Roger getting an award from the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, and we see Roger looking a bit out of it. It’s complications from diabetes, says Floyd, but he has said Roger sometimes doesn’t know who he is, and wanders away from places, and people need to hunt for him, which sounds like a dementia situation. Nothing pleasant about that, no matter if you are a fan of the man or his family or any of that.

Mayweather next says he took from the greats, and took some from each, and says it’s no disrespect to call himself TBE, at that Hall ceremony.

Historic upset or historic record, that’s what we get Sept. 12, we are told.

All told, nothing new, really, to see here. It was what it was, maybe interesting to someone coming to TBE from out of the cold. You get one or two interesting nuggets from these, after all this time. This time, there was no reefer smoking session, sadly.

Next ALL ACCESS runs Friday, Sept. 4.

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Skavynskyi and Bustillos Win on a MarvNation Card in Long Beach

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Skavynskyi and Bustillos Win on a MarvNation Card in Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Ca.-A cool autumn night saw welterweights and minimumweights share main events for a MarvNation fight card on Saturday.

Ukraine’s Eduard Skavynskyi (15-0, 7 KOs) experienced a tangled mess against the awkward Alejandro Frias (14-10-2) but won by decision after eight rounds in a welterweight contest at the indoor furnace called the Thunder Studios.

It was hot in there for the more than 600 people inside.

Skavynskyi probably never fought someone like Mexico’s Frias whose style was the opposite of the Ukrainian’s fundamentally sound one-two style. But round after round the rough edges became more familiar.

Neither fighter was ever damaged but all three judges saw Skavynskyi the winner by unanimous decision 79-73 on all three cards. The Ukrainian fighter trains in Ventura.

Bustillo Wins Rematch

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In the female main event Las Vegas’ Yadira Bustillos (8-1) stepped into a rematch with Karen Lindenmuth (5-2) and immediately proved the lessons learned from their first encounter.

Bustillos connected solidly with an overhand right and staggered Lindenmuth but never came close to putting the pressure fighter down. Still, Bustillos kept turning the hard rushing Lindenmuth and snapping her head with overhand rights and check left hooks.

Lindenmuth usually overwhelms most opponents with a smothering attack that causes panic. But not against Bustillos who seemed quite comfortable all eight rounds in slipping blows and countering back.

After eight rounds all three judges scored the contest for Bustillos 78-74 and 80-72 twice. Body shots were especially effective for the Las Vegas fighter in the fifth round. Bustillos competes in the same division as IBF/WBO title-holder Yokasta Valle.

Other Bouts

In a middleweight clash, undefeated Victorville’s Andrew Buchanan (3-0-1) used effective combination punching to defeat Mexico’s Fredy Vargas (2-1-1) after six rounds. Two judges scored it 59-55 and a third 60-54 for Buchanan. No knockdowns were scored.

A super lightweight match saw Sergio Aldana win his pro debut by decision after four rounds versus Gerardo Fuentes (2-9-1).

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Tedious Fights and a Controversial Draw Smudge the Matchroom Boxing Card in Orlando

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Matchroom Boxing was at the sprawling Royale Caribe Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida tonight with a card that aired on DAZN. The main event was a ho-hum affair between super lightweights Richardson Hitchins and Jose Zepeda.

SoCal’s Zepeda has been in some wars in the past, notably his savage tussle with Ivan Baranchyk, but tonight he brought little to the table and was outclassed by the lanky Hitchins who won all 12 rounds on two of the cards and 11 rounds on the other.  There were no knockdowns, but Zepeda suffered a cut on his forehead in round seven that was deemed to be the product of an accidental head butt and another clash in round ten forced a respite in the action although Hitchins suffered no apparent damage.

It was the sort of fight where each round was pretty much a carbon of the round preceding it. Brooklyn’s Hitchins, who improved to 17-0 (7), was content to pepper Zepeda with his jab, and the 34-year-old SoCal southpaw, who brought a 37-3 record, was never able to penetrate his defense and land anything meaningful.

Hitchins signed with Floyd Mayweather Jr’s promotional outfit coming out of the amateur ranks and his style is reminiscent in ways of his former mentor. Like Mayweather, he loses very few rounds. In his precious engagement, he pitched a shutout over previously undefeated John Bauza.

Co-Feature

In the co-feature, Conor Benn returned to the ring after an absence of 17 months and won a unanimous decision over Mexico’s Rodolfo Orozco. It wasn’t a bad showing by Benn who showed decent boxing skills, but more was expected of him after his name had been bandied about so often in the media. Two of the judges had it 99-91 and the other 96-94.

Benn (22-0, 14 KOs) was a late addition to the card although one suspects that promoter Eddie Hearn purposely kept him under wraps until the week of the fight so as not to deflect the spotlight from the other matches on his show. Benn lost a lucrative date with Chris Eubank Jr when he was suspended by the BBBofC when evidence of a banned substance was found in his system and it’s understood that Hearn has designs on re-igniting the match-up with an eye on a date in December. For tonight’s fight, Benn carried a career-high 153 ½ pounds. Mexico’s Orozco, who was making his first appearance in a U.S. ring, declined to 32-4-3.

Other Bouts of Note

The welterweight title fight between WBA/WBC title-holder Jessica McCaskill (15-3-1) and WBO title-holder Sandy Ryan (6-1-1) ended in a draw and the ladies’ retain their respective titles. Ryan worked the body effectively and the general feeling was that she got a raw deal, a sentiment shared by the crowd which booed the decision. There was a switch of favorites in the betting with the late money seemingly all on the Englishwoman who at age 30 was the younger boxer by nine years.

The judges had it 96-94 Ryan, 96-95, and a vilified 97-93 for Chicago’s McCaskill.

In the opener of the main DAZN stream, Houston middleweight Austin “Ammo” Williams, 27, improved to 15-0 (10) with a 10-round unanimous decision over 39-year-old Toronto veteran Steve Rolls (22-3). All three judges had it 97-93. Rolls has been stopped only once, that by Gennady Golovkin.

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Zhilei Zhang KOs Joe Joyce; Calls Out Tyson Fury

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Joe Joyce activated his rematch clause after being stopped in the sixth frame by Zhilei Zhang in their first meeting. In hindsight, he may wish that he hadn’t. Tonight at London’s Wembley Stadium, Zhang stopped him again and far more conclusively than in their first encounter.

In the first meeting, Zhang, a southpaw, found a steady home for his stiff left jab. Targeting Joyce’s right eye, he eventually damaged the optic to where the ring doctor wouldn’t let Joyce continue. At the end, the fight was close on the cards and Joyce was confident that he would have pulled away if not for the issue with his eye.

In the rematch tonight, Zhang (26-1-1, 21 KOs) closed the curtain with his right hand. A thunderous right hook on the heels of a straight left pitched Joyce to the canvas where he landed face first. He appeared to beat the count by a whisker, but was seriously dazed and referee Steve Gray properly waived it off. The official time was 3:07 of round three.

Zhang, who lived up to his nickname, “Big Bang,” was credited with landing 29 power punches compared with only six for Joyce (15-2) who came in 25 pounds heavier than in their first meeting while still looking properly conditioned. One would be inclined to say that age finally caught with the “Juggernaut” who turned 38 since their last encounter, but Zhang, 40, is actually the older man. In his post-fight interview in the ring, the New Jersey resident, a two-time Olympian for China, when asked who he wanted to fight next, turned to the audience and said, “Do you want to see me shut Tyson Fury up?”

He meant it as a rhetorical question.

Semi-Windup

Light heavyweight Anthony Yarde was matched soft against late sub Jorge Silva, a 40-year-old Portuguese journeyman, and barely broke a sweat while scoring a second-round stoppage. Yarde backed Silva against a corner post and put him on the deck with a short right hand. Silva’s body language indicated that he had no interest in continuing and the referee accommodated him. The official time was 2:07 of round two.

A 30-year-old Londoner, Yarde (24-3, 23 KOs) was making his first start since being stopped in eight rounds by Artur Beterbiev in a bout that Yarde was winning on two of the scorecards. Silva, a late replacement for 19-3-1 Ricky Summers, falls to 22-9.

Also

Former leading super middleweight contender Zach Parker (23-1, 17 KOs) returned to the ring in a “shake-off-the-rust” fight against 40-year-old Frenchman Khalid Graidia and performed as expected. Graidia’s corner pulled him out after seven one-sided rounds.

In his previous fight, Parker was matched against John Ryder who he was favored to beat. The carrot for the winner was a lucrative date with Canelo Alvarez. Unfortunately for Parker, he suffered a broken hand and was unable to continue after four frames. Tonight, he carried 174 pounds, a hint that he plans to compete as a light heavyweight going forward. Indeed, he has expressed an interest in fighting Anthony Yarde. Graidia declined to 10-13-4.

The Zhang-Joyce and Yarde-Silva fights were live-streamed in the U.S. on ESPN+.

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