UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO
Hey guys, welcome back to Total Boxing. This is the Tris Dixon Daily and it’s take two because I recorded this and it just disappeared. Anyway, I just wanted to talk a little bit about last night’s fights and a bit about the week ahead. Chris Billum-Smith was obviously stopped by Shev Clark. Chris, who I do know well,
I don’t know if it was too soon after the Riziki fight or if he’s just had too many hard fights, but he couldn’t really get out of the way of that Shev Clark right hand and paid the price. And Shev Clark buzzed him in the seventh round. I think buzz was Chris’s word afterwards.
And he never really fully recovered, even though Shev Clark missed with a lot of the follow-up shots, you couldn’t really argue with the stoppage. Obviously with my background with damage and everything else, I’d be inclined to say, The stoppage was fine, but I could see why Chris was disappointed at the end
and obviously probably subsequently heartbroken today with the defeat. He’s been on a hell of a tear, really, with the side to the loss to Zerdo Ramirez and, you know, people call him an overachiever and everything else. But whatever he is, he’s had a fantastic career and done extraordinarily well. I’ve got nothing but respect for what he’s done.
And you could take the same thing to Shev Clark, who’s probably been written off by just about all and sundry over the last two, three years. And look what he’s done. I think I remember my son was working for Boxer at a Eubank Ben show in Wembley.
And it was probably the night where maybe Bill and Smith fought Brandon Glanton and Shev Clark. Lost, I think to Vidal Riley and you imagine Bill and Smith was on to bigger things and Shev Clark maybe thought it was the end of the line and now look how the roles are reversed.
I mean, that’s boxing, doing boxing things. Interesting. I mean, I, I’ve just recorded a video with Tundi Ajayi and you can go onto the Total Boxing YouTube channel. I’ll drop a link in the notes shortly. And, um, It’s interesting how boxing works. And one thing I said is, you know,
I could see Chris Billum-Smith coming back against Jack Massey to renew the amateur rivalry in Shev Clark fighting Ryan Riziki in a doubleheader. But whether or not that happens, I don’t know. There’s a sort of zoo for planning that I could see. But we’ll see. Also on that, Bill Denzel-Bentley.
Defeated Shane Mosley Jr. A good fight, fight of the night award from the Zufa show. And Denzil dropped Mosley early in the first couple of rounds and then managed to see out a decision which was close on the cards. It was always going to be close.
Mosley’s a good fighter and he’s been on a good run of form, especially when you factor in the Boachuk win, which was probably a huge shock at the time, I would imagine. But onwards and upwards for Denzel, who’s talked about fighting Carlos Adames and Aaron McKenna, both world champions who are now under the Zufa banner.
And there was a bit of back and forth with Connor Ben there last night and Ben saying that he would welcome a fight with Bentley. So we’ll see how that works out. I’m sure Ben would prefer a money spinner against Manny Pacquiao in Q1 as Zufa are calling it, but we’ll see how that shakes out.
Up in Manchester, and this is mostly what Tundi and I talked about, obviously, Joshua Boazzi and Willie Hutchinson fought for the WBC £175 title. And Willie Hutchinson became only the third fighter from the UK to win that belt, following on from John Conte in the 1970s, Dennis Andrees in the 1980s. And they fought some biblical fights.
Obviously, Conte won the title against Jorge Armuda and fought the likes of Matthew Saar Mohammed. And then Dennis Andrees had that great rivalry with Australian Jeff Harding. And now Willie Hutchinson is up there and he can call the shots. Anthony Yard got into the ring afterwards and they spoke about possibly fighting next.
But obviously, Anthony Yard has also been mentioned by Ben Whittaker and his team. And I saw Frank Warren on a huddle. Interview last week where he was saying that he thought that the winner of Boatsy Hutchinson could go into a fight with Ben Whittaker. So we’ll see how that goes. That will be of interest to me.
I think on Tuesday when I’m at the ratings meeting at the WBC convention in Acapulco, when they start to talk about 175 pound division, because Willie Hutchinson is now the world champion. And Ben Whittaker is the WBC Silver Champion. So it’ll be interesting to see how they talk about who fights whom next.
And just before I leave you, and the first version of this was a little bit longer, it’s fair to say, but I’ve been sent some interview times for this week. And unfortunately, my times for Roberto Duran were in about an hour from now, and I’m leaving the house in about an hour and a half from now.
Maurizio Suleman, William Zepeda and Pitbull Cruz are lined up for the morning before I even arrive. But then on Monday afternoon, I’m due to speak to Julio Cesar Chavez, Tuesday, Katie Taylor, Wednesday, Oshaki Foster, and a few more in between. I’m also hoping to get Robert Garcia and Lester Martinez, but we’ll see how it goes.
It’s obviously a bit of a crapshoot, but Hopefully the ones that I miss today and early tomorrow can be rescheduled. We’ll push them back. If you have any questions for the brilliant Julio Cesar Chavez, let me know in the comments because I will put some great questions to Julio Cesar Chavez, which I’m looking forward to doing
because I’ve never done anything proper with him before. If you’ve seen my top 20 countdown memorable moments, you’ll see that I have done stuff with Duran, but I’m excited to do more. And I will speak to you on the other side from Mexico.
