Anthony Olascuaga vs. Juan Carlos Camacho, Jr. & Jalil Major Hackett vs. Elijah Dwayne Vines RBR

FFS, come on already.

 

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Jesus. Finally live.

 

And we're not even jumping straight into the action???

Grisham, Mannix and Mora just standing around yapping. Ring is empty and dark.

 

Grisham says tonight is like a pilot episode of what's going to be a monthly series on DAZN starting in January called "The Underdog", featuring some young high-quality but lesser-known fighters (contenders or, in Olascuaga's case, belt holders) without much prior TV exposure.

Basically a revamped ShoBox.

 

We're starting now with ALL five bouts listed on BoxRec. A pair each of 6- and 8-rounders, and the main event scheduled for twelve as it's for the WBO flyweight world title.

You weren't fooling!

 

Hot punk rock Asian chic in a leather vest with a giant mohawk pompadour flanked by expensive looking silver hot rods and dudes in suits & sunglasses now introducing "the 8 rules of The Underdog"...

1. You do not get to duck anybody
2. Fight your first night like it's your last
3. Matchmaking is always 50-50
4. Make the crowd love you or hate you
5. "Go viral"
6. No running
7. Take risks
8. Never leave it up to judges

I bet Turki felt so goddamn cool writing those.

 

This is her IG: https://www.instagram.com/seedaro/?hl=en

(doesn't have any pics of tonight's hairdo, though)

 

They've carefully cultivated a very specific vibe here, with the lighting/ambiance, decor, and the obvious plants in the audience dressed up and posing for the camera. Can't put my finger on it exactly but it's like a mash-up of the video game Streets of Rage, the "bad teens' paradise" Foot Clan hideout in the 1990 TMNT movie, and that ill-fated Raw Underground thing Shane McMahon tried several years ago in WWE.

 

Jamar Ara Shaqueir Talley vs. Anthony N. Hollaway, 6 rounds @ cruiserweight

 

So uh...I did some digging on Holloway scrambling to find out what the middle initial "N" stood for, and unearthed his mugshot from 2022 for battering his girlfriend.

So yeah...war Talley!

 

Talley has just three pro bouts - seventeen fewer than Holloway - but had a solid amateur run. He was eliminated from the Pan-Am Games by the great Julio César La Cruz, and won a few Olympic qualifier prelims before losing his first quota bout and turning pro.

 

Holloway violating (presumably unenforceable and completely for show) Rule #6.

 

30-27 Talley

Mora criticizing him for not being able to cut the ring off and force Holloway to fight, with all that amateur experience.

 

Talley's trained by Bomac.

Holloway, in addition to his 9-8-3 (7) record in normal rules pro boxing, is also 3-2 in TCL competing for the Las Vegas Hustle. He has two TCL victories over forty-year-old former contender Yunieski González.