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Steven "So Cold" Nelson stopped by #SwayInTheMorning to talk to the #BridgeBizness team about everything boxing! He had to set the record straight on the state of boxing currently.
Do you agree with his take?
Check the full interview on #SwaysUniverse https://youtu.be/kKuLLRR6EIA
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the state of boxing now. What do you Is
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it championship boxing or is it just get
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the bag and go?
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>> No, it's uh champion especially with um
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Turkey Ri season. They're trying to
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change the whole landscape of boxing
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back to like the old school days where
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people was actually competing and not
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just coming for a bag and going and
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people picking their fights. He's making
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people fight.
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>> But you don't see champions fighting
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champions no more. That's what I'm
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saying.
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>> That's what he's bringing back. If you
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notice, the last shoot 10 cars he's
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thrown have all been championship
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fights. You see fights with three title
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fights on it,
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>> you know, and big fights. All the big
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fights where it be guys that we've been
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want to watch fight, it's be because of
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Turkey
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>> because it seems like Bud can't fight
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the best in his division. He have to
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move up three weight classes to fight.
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>> But this fight wouldn't have happened if
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it wasn't for him. Him putting that
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money up like
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>> So, like I said, it's not championship
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boxing. is back to the purse.
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>> No, like he's using that to to make
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people who we want to see fight.
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>> Okay.
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>> Like cuz it's like that's been an excuse
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for fighters not fighting in the past 15
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20 years like, "Oh, no. Ain't enough
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money. Ain't enough money for that." But
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now he's like, "Oh, okay. You won 50
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million. All right. Got it."
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>> So, you think that Bud So, so Bud's
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fight is bigger than Benvdz and and and
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Canelo. You think that would have been
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>> um in a way because um it's
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pound-forpound.
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>> Okay.
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>> Uh Benvitz has been um a big a big
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monster in the 168 175 division
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>> and people been want to see that with
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Canelo.
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>> But when have you seen pound-for-pound
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one two fight each other?
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>> Not in the same weight division. Never
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really. But I'm saying this is three
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different this is two different weight
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divisions. That's what I'm saying. You
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got Mayweather about to fight Tyson. You
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got so many different
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>> That's what I was going to ask. Yeah.
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exhibition fights like Tyson and
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Mayweather. What What do you think that
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this waters down boxing a little bit?
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Just these exhibition [ __ ] fights
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like Tyson and and Mayweather like what
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the [ __ ]
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>> I look at it like kind of like the
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All-Star game,
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>> okay?
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>> Or the celebrity basketball game. Miss
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refine.
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