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00:00Okay, guys, we went over the instructions earlier.
00:04As a reminder, obey my commands at all times, protect yourself at all times.
00:08Touch your gloves, good luck.
00:09Toe los cuantos.
00:09Bueno, suerte.
00:12Mr. Gary Russell Jr. goes back to his brothers in the corner,
00:17and when their father passed away, he said he left a legacy of honor and integrity.
00:22So we help each other out.
00:23As a matter of fact, Gary Russell Jr. trained his brother Gary Antoine Jr.
00:29when he won the WBA World Title March 1st of this year,
00:33becoming the lead trainer to win a world title at just 36 years old.
00:37But tonight, he's not training.
00:40He's fighting once again.
00:41What are your expectations, Abner, of this version of Russell?
00:45I want to see the first, second round from Gary Russell.
00:49Obviously, he's been out for three years.
00:50The thing is, as he lost his step, right now he's showing that he's not.
00:54He's so accurate, so perfectly timed right now.
00:59I mean, you see that age of 37, but Gary Russell has always had among the fastest hands
01:04we've ever seen in boxing, still retaining that speed.
01:07And look, he's a veteran of long layoffs.
01:10He lives in the gym, whether he's training or whether he's fighting.
01:14And you can see early, whatever he's throwing is hitting the front of the face of Castaneda.
01:19Look, Castaneda's no defensive genius, but I like the aggressiveness with which Gary Russell Jr. is coming out.
01:26And to me, he told us in the fighter meetings, if I'm throwing my left hand and it's good, I'm back.
01:32Let me tell you, he's back then, because he looks good so far.
01:35It's landing.
01:36And he's starting fast.
01:37I would think that he was going to take this round of, you know, get a field out for a second round.
01:41But no, he came out, guns blazing.
01:43He wanted to see where his accuracy was.
01:45And it's there, so far from Gary Russell.
01:47And look, he was honest.
01:48He said, we're going to take this one fight at a time.
01:50He doesn't know if this will lead to a busy comeback.
01:53He is a full-time trainer.
01:54He's running the family business, so to speak.
01:56And he does a great job at it.
01:57But so far, he looks comfortable despite a layoff of 1,274 days.
02:03And oh, by the way, the fight before was a more than 700-day layoff.
02:07You want me to give you what the layoff total is for the last seven fights?
02:133,500 days.
02:15That's amounts to nine years, 150 days, 151 days if you had a leap year.
02:21That's a long time.
02:22But this is a guy that stays in the gym, you know, one way or another.
02:26He's training, constantly training his brothers.
02:28I'm sure he's training himself.
02:30Again, he sleeps, eats, sees boxing every single day.
02:35Talking about Gary Russell.
02:36You see it tonight, landing every shot.
02:39Nice combinations from Gary Russell Jr.
02:42I mean, you can see he came here to fight tonight.
02:45He didn't come here to box.
02:46He didn't come here to look pretty, to show everybody what he's capable of doing.
02:50He came in here to say, I want to take the figure out.
02:53And the one thing, if this does lead to a comeback, he's had sort of soft online beefs with many a fighter and many different weight classes in recent years.
03:02He said he's not afraid to move up to welterweight if he had to.
03:05It's just good, though, to see him back.
03:07He knows what the loss of the father meant to his family.
03:11He's trying to fill those roles.
03:13He actually took custody of three of his nieces and nephews after his other brother passed away.
03:22Gary Derrick Russell back in 2020.
03:25My house looked like a Chuck E. Cheese nowadays.
03:27All those kids running out.
03:28He took custody of all three of those children, bringing the total of eight children in the household of Gary Russell Jr.
03:34Well, tonight, he is the man inside the ring.
03:38Let's listen in to his brother.
03:48Pull our cup.
03:50Pull it out.
03:52Now hold it.
03:56Get him up.
03:57Where's the spit bucket?
04:00Spit bucket.
04:02Shit.
04:03You spit on me. It's okay. It's okay.
04:04Motherfuckers. It's swag, bro.
04:05It's swag. It's dick won't offset everything.
04:07But you gotta go through the J's.
04:09You know what I'm saying?
04:09I need to double the J's.
04:11Here we are.
04:12What you guys are witnessing right now is that we did fast forward this.
04:15This is actual speed that we're seeing right now from Gary Russell.
04:21Four punches landed back to back.
04:22He got there before he even thought about throwing up.
04:24This guy's been gone for three years.
04:26It doesn't seem that way.
04:29He said, I don't think my arm will ever be 100%,
04:32but it's good enough for him tonight.
04:35And he's letting it go, which is what you want to see, Brian,
04:37after a surgery, after therapy, after a long recovery process.
04:41That's exactly what you want to see.
04:43And you want to see if he has the timing,
04:44which it looks like he has so far.
04:46It's that lifestyle in the gym.
04:48And let's also keep in mind,
04:49he didn't take a lot of punishment in the prime of his career.
04:51At times, he was inactive.
04:53He had great defense and speed to jump out of the way,
04:56as he did right there.
04:57Oh, that's right.
04:58Look, Laz and Casaneda's down.
05:01One, two, five, six, seven, eight.
05:07Okay?
05:09You better be okay because Gary Russell Jr.
05:13is coming for the finish here in the second round.
05:16They have another left hook for Gary Russell Jr.
05:20And he says, call me mister, but call me winner instead.
05:23Ten, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho.
05:30Okay?
05:31You have four hooks.
05:32Okay.
05:34Now, Seneda's been down against Galeras,
05:36against DJ Samora three times,
05:38but tonight he's in against a former world champion,
05:41making his debut at lightweight
05:43and making himself look good.
05:46And look how he's taking his time.
05:48This is a master of the boxing.
05:50He is taking his time.
05:51He is thinking before throwing a punch.
05:54He's not going there, guns blazing.
05:56He doesn't want to finish him quite yet.
05:57It seems like he wants to get the rhythm.
05:59He wants to get in some rounds.
06:01I don't know if I'm seeing that.
06:02You guys are seeing that, guys,
06:04but it doesn't seem like he wants to finish him right now.
06:07Look, they say power's the last thing to go.
06:09This guy's still got that speed, the timing.
06:11That first knockdown was explosively quick.
06:14Two-punch combination.
06:15But he didn't go for the kill.
06:16Listen, he's still there.
06:17He's making work of Castaneda.
06:19You know why?
06:20I might not be back in here for another year.
06:24Give everybody their money for it.
06:26Give me at least three rounds.
06:28Come on, Gary.
06:31But, I mean, that's about as impressive a run
06:33as we've seen out of Gary Russell Jr. in years.
06:39And then you might talk about the opponent
06:41that, you know, his defense is not all the best.
06:44I'm not going to play this.
06:45He stands right in front of you.
06:46But Bulevi is not as easy as it looks.
06:49It's hard to hit a fighter.
06:51Also, even if he's standing right in front of you,
06:52especially with the barrage of punches that Gary Russell,
06:55Mr. Gary Russell is there.
06:57Not lead right.
06:58Right hook.
06:59With that accuracy, that speed.
07:01You hardly ever see this boxing nowadays.
07:04And at one point, he was the baddest man on the planet
07:09until he met another guy with those same qualifications
07:12in Vasily Lomachenko.
07:13But you've got to say it, though, to Russell's credit,
07:16he showed an incredible chin in that fight,
07:18an incredible will.
07:19Never stopped coming forward trying to win that fight
07:21down the stretch.
07:22It was a battle between two highly schooled fighters
07:26who had Olympic pedigree.
07:28Obviously, Gary missed out on that opportunity
07:31due to injury, but qualified for the Olympics.
07:35But tonight, it's a different fighter that we're seeing.
07:39Perfect round, Gary.
07:41That was a perfect round.
07:43Way to relax on the inside.
07:44Rodrigo Mosqueras worked 31 fights with Gary Russell Jr.
07:48As we'll take a look at how he was so dominant in this round.
07:53I got you.
07:56This is how those knockdowns came about.
08:01The quickness from Gary Russell Jr.
08:03Step back.
08:04Here comes my left.
08:05And I finish with the right hook.
08:08It was more with the forearm, but still, he got him.
08:11He hurt him.
08:12And here's the second knockdown.
08:13A flush left hand.
08:15And again, follow one shot after the other.
08:18I mean, if God does not fall in love with his power,
08:21he knows that his speed is power.
08:22And you can see his brother, the world champ, Gary Antoine Russell Jr.,
08:27going sick in the crowd there in that replay.
08:29This is the combination that you want to do in a video game.
08:33When you play a video game, you're pressing on those buttons for the guy in front of you
08:39to throw those punches.
08:40And Gary Russell, he does that, man.
08:42He's so fast.
08:43Was that an eight-punch combination on that second knockdown?
08:46And that was a nice straight left from Gary Russell Jr.
08:50And you see how effective he's been connecting on 43 power punches through three rounds
08:55compared to just 10 for Castaneda.
08:59Like, he was outclassed against G.J. Zamora,
09:02a younger fighter undefeated in his last fight on April 5th.
09:06This is a different level.
09:07And Gary Russell Jr. proving that, you know what?
09:10His power is carrying to the lightweight division.
09:14He definitely is.
09:16I mean, and again, his power is the speed.
09:19It's the accuracy.
09:21The way he sets up his punches.
09:23Short, that counter right hand was.
09:26Look at that flurry of shots.
09:28Gary Russell Jr.
09:31Will Manny Pacquiao be able to turn back the clock
09:34as Gary Russell Jr. has been doing here
09:36in our final fight of this undercard?
09:39That's a perfect example right here, Gary Russell,
09:43that, you know, it's just the number, 37.
09:46He's been out for three years,
09:47and yet he's showing the accuracy.
09:48He's showing the power.
09:50He's showing the speed.
09:51Would Manny Pacquiao be able to do that tonight?
09:53We will find out.
09:55Well, he's also back to showing those bad intentions
09:57after it looked like he was not caring,
09:59but allowing Castaneda to survive at the end of last round.
10:03He's come out with a new attitude here in round three.
10:06I still feel that he's working on things right there,
10:09like, you know, the putting up his hands, the defense.
10:12This is a type of fighter that you can do all that.
10:15Castaneda.
10:21Confidence-building fight for Gary Russell Jr.
10:24So far, that left shoulder is looking,
10:29if not 100%, pretty explosive.
10:35Nice counter left and then the right
10:37over the ear of Castaneda,
10:41who complains of a rabbit punch.
10:44Just lightning-quick counters.
10:46Castaneda's not the quickest guy.
10:48Let's just put it out there, but still.
10:52Russell seeing the shot
10:54and landing the shot like he does there.
10:56An errant headbutt there.
10:58Oh.
10:59Time, time, time.
11:01No cut.
11:06Harvey Dock.
11:06Time in.
11:08Making sure both guys are okay.
11:10Russell wants to tap gloves.
11:11Castaneda, let me tap you to the body instead.
11:13Harvey Dock Long,
11:18one of the most respected referees in this game.
11:23There's a bad intention right there from Russell.
11:25Made a miss.
11:26He wanted to make him pay,
11:27but didn't get there on time.
11:31Tonight in our co-main event,
11:33we will see a rematch.
11:34Sebastian Fundora granting Tim Zhu a rematch
11:38after winning the unified Super Weltaway titles.
11:40Our Jim Ray catches up with the chat.
11:43Sebastian, this is what it's all about.
11:48It's the belts that you're fighting for,
11:50and you bring them with you,
11:51and you want to take them home.
11:52Absolutely.
11:53We've trained very hard to become world champion,
11:55and now that we are champion now,
11:57we plan on being reigning champion as well.
11:59You said silence is violence.
12:02Final interview before this fight.
12:05On the day of the fight,
12:06the hour before the fight,
12:07the moments before,
12:08does anything change mentally?
12:10No.
12:10As soon as we get into Vegas,
12:12we clock into work.
12:13And that's how the mindset stays the same.
12:15Now these final hours going into the ring,
12:18this is just the last act of work job.
12:20Said he's going to rush you.
12:21Said it's going to be different than the first fight.
12:23What are you expecting?
12:24I do expect that,
12:25and I expect the best Tim Zhu for this fight.
12:28But just like there's the best Tim Zhu,
12:30there's the best Sebastian Fundora,
12:31and we plan to win.
12:33Best of luck,
12:33and we'll talk to you afterwards.
12:34Thank you so much.
12:36It means truth.
12:37That's what he has on the front of that sweatshirt.
12:41He was just accepted.
12:42The world champion has been accepted to Harvard
12:45for a six-year engineering program.
12:48A renaissance man,
12:49and tonight he defends that belt
12:50against the man that he took it from
12:52in a bloody fight.
12:54Fight of the year candidate for 2024,
12:57I believe,
12:57and here we are with that rematch tonight.
12:59Round four of a scheduled 10-round bout.
13:02Russell looking like old times person.
13:06He is.
13:07Quick hand, accurate.
13:09And the accuracy is there,
13:12the timing,
13:13the fast jab,
13:14taking his time,
13:16breaking down the fighter,
13:17and he's always been known by that.
13:18He's not a fighter,
13:20but yeah, no,
13:20he's a killer.
13:22He's a killer.
13:23But again,
13:23he's carrying Castelleda in this fight.
13:25He want to get in those rounds,
13:27especially if this is not the only fight you want to do.
13:30I'm guessing.
13:31I think that Russell wants to get his feet wet.
13:34He's got him wet.
13:34The look from Castelleda is like,
13:37what are you doing?
13:39Get the feel of boxing,
13:42as he's lying for a world championship fight.
13:47You have to wonder
13:48if the phone will start ringing for Gary Russell
13:50after a performance like this in a new division.
13:55Plenty of another rabbit punch is Castelleda.
14:00Switch momentarily for the southpaw stance.
14:05Body work,
14:06but you've got to protect yourself.
14:07That's what reminds him of that here is Castelleda.
14:11And the question is,
14:12how will you take a lightweight punch?
14:14So far,
14:14so good for Russell.
14:16Beautiful left hand.
14:19Again,
14:20twice.
14:21Got to be careful.
14:21He's got to get off the front.
14:22It looks very comfortable.
14:24It looks very comfortable.
14:24It's a hot shot in here.
14:25Oh, man.
14:26That left hand is just finding a target.
14:29It's a heat-seeking missile to the face of Castelleda,
14:32who continues to bleed from the nose now.
14:36The crowd is getting hyped.
14:37When was the last time you heard applause
14:38on the Gary Russell fight?
14:39That's a good point.
14:41That's a good point, brother.
14:43But you're hitting many fights.
14:44But again,
14:45the aggressiveness,
14:47the accuracy,
14:49the power shots,
14:49people love that.
14:50It reminds me a bit of Manny Pacquiao.
14:52This was early
14:56Gary Russell Jr.
14:58where he was just
14:59running through guys.
15:02And I like how he just stayed in there.
15:04He took those shots
15:04from Castelleda.
15:05He said,
15:05all right,
15:06you landed two,
15:07but guess what?
15:07You're not going to land at third.
15:08Four, four,
15:09or fifth.
15:10Here come my shots.
15:11And Gary Russell was really accurate.
15:14Castelleda needs to focus on the body
15:15because he's not touching up top
15:17that well.
15:18That creates opportunities
15:19for Russell to just pot shot.
15:22And Huntin,
15:24Malad, Castelleda,
15:26and Russell definitely seen that.
15:43Muy buen round,
15:44muy buen round.
15:46Ya ve,
15:47ya ve cuando usted es el tigre,
15:49usted es diferente.
15:50Ese es el tigre que ocupo ver.
15:52Ese es el tigre que ocupo ver.
15:55Okay?
15:56Echele ganas.
15:57Él ya está sintiendo su pegada, mijo.
15:59Él ya está sintiendo,
16:01ya está sintiendo el peso.
16:03Él ya está sintiendo la diferencia.
16:05Pero te quiero bien vivo.
16:06Ve la importancia de repetir los golpes.
16:08I'm sure Castelleda
16:11did not expect
16:12this kind of hand speed
16:13from a 37-year-old.
16:15I didn't either,
16:17to be honest.
16:18So fast.
16:20So accurate.
16:21Oh, my God, I'm loving the performance from Gary Russell tonight.
16:25It's fun. It's entertaining.
16:28It's like a slap fight in the corner.
16:32Made a miss, make them pay.
16:33Come back with the same shot.
16:35Okay, well, I got the same shot for you.
16:38Round five, Bernardo Osuna alongside three-division world champion Abner Mades.
16:45We've got Ryan Campbell in the house.
16:47And behind the mic, Hall of Fame reporter Jim Gray as well.
16:53One thing I really like about this Gary Russell comeback, excuse me,
16:56is that he's doing it on his own terms.
16:58One quote he told us in the fighter meetings was he felt like after his father died,
17:01he was doing everything for everyone else instead of taking care of me, he said.
17:06Now he said he likes that.
17:07He took the bull by the horns.
17:09He's got the family where he needs to be.
17:10Now he wants to come out and see what he has left.
17:12As we keep mentioning, he's got a lot left in there with these power shots he's putting together.
17:17Yeah, and in this round, it's the right hook that's landing for Gary Russell Jr.
17:21It's almost like he's a scientist in there working on something different every round.
17:25Now, I think, you know, just to finish what you said, your thoughts, Brian.
17:30And perhaps the three years that he took off, it wasn't, you know, mental.
17:35Those three years, you know, a lot happened in his life.
17:37His father passed away, his brother.
17:39I mean, he had so much going on training his brothers.
17:41And now, like you said, taking time for himself.
17:44And it seems like he really is enjoying himself tonight.
17:47Look at that.
17:47Just walking around the ring.
17:49He missed that.
17:50Me as a boxer, I missed that.
17:51Just being up there and being able to do what you want.
17:55Sometimes your head, I remember my fight when I came back after four years.
17:58My mind's telling me one thing and my body's telling me another thing.
18:01Everything's working.
18:03He said that there's some unfinished business in his career.
18:05He didn't like the scoring in the Max Idol fight.
18:07He felt like he won that easily with one arm, so this is really him coming back and finding out, seeing what's left.
18:14And what's left seems to be a lot as it continues to pour on here against Castaneda.
18:18And it's not serendipity, right?
18:20There's a reason that Max Idol was at the opener tonight.
18:22Looked good.
18:23And now we got Gary Russell Jr. looking spectacular against Hugo Antigre Castaneda.
18:29He's wiping the stripes off of the Tiger off here in the fifth round.
18:37With flurries of speed and power.
18:41Nice right hook.
18:43Nice shot.
18:44Look at the Dease buckle of the Castaneda right there.
18:47Yeah, it did.
18:48When you start dancing around like that, Abner, you're trying to get the feeling back in your legs.
18:53Yeah, they're probably numb right now from that shot.
18:56Wake up, Dease.
18:58Just a great little performance right now with Russell.
19:05Locking him into shots here in the fifth round.
19:08But hey, Castaneda's game.
19:10There's a reason they call him the Tiger.
19:13He's also the cousin of Nestor Antigre Garza, the former world champion out there in Texas in McAllen.
19:18Boxing runs in both families, but deeper in the veins of all the Russells.
19:27And for all the kids, all the young amateur fighters watching this fight right now, this is how you implement great boxing.
19:35Working your opponent, not letting the opponent work you.
19:38That's what Gary Russell is doing.
19:39Good job.
19:46I got it, I got it.
19:51Bro, listen.
19:53You will be mindful about too many hands and shots, bro.
19:56You want rest?
19:56Rest with your dick.
19:57Or rest with your fucking dick.
20:01So this is Castaneda frustrating Gary Russell a bit, letting his hands go, trying to land something.
20:08And he pushed his hands down, trying to open up the guard because nothing's landing.
20:12It's frustration from Castaneda.
20:14But here comes Gary Russell, beautiful left hand, buckled his knees.
20:20I don't know how Castaneda still stood from that hard shot that Gary Russell landed.
20:26If the hands of the body is going to be there, motherfuckers, you should have said it.
20:29Second job.
20:30Second job.
20:35Back up, back up, back up.
20:37There we go.
20:38Back up, back up.
20:39There we go.
20:40After a fourth round that our unofficial scorer, Larry Hazard, gave to Castaneda, it was back to the dominance of Gary Russell Jr.
20:51Saying, call me mister when I step into that ring.
20:54Now you see the scorecard on the screen, 49-44 in favor of Gary Russell.
21:02Two knockdowns in round two.
21:04It looked like the fight could be over any second after that, but Russell's really given himself a few rounds to continue to work himself back into the rhythm, the timing, and get a chance to explore his entire game.
21:16And again, Castaneda, he's that type of style that lets you work.
21:26Oh, nice counter, left of the right, up, and come from Gary Russell Jr., and that may be it.
21:34What heart this young man has.
21:40He sells hats on the side.
21:42He designs that good thing.
21:43He has a secondary business going because this boxing thing against an elite fighter like Gary Russell Jr., it's a hard business.
21:57And again, Russell's taking his time, not going for the kill.
22:01I love this.
22:03Again, as many rounds as you can get, Russell.
22:06Go ahead.
22:07By all means, this is entertaining.
22:09I'm just happy to have him back.
22:10Remember all those years?
22:11We wanted to see him fight two times, three times a year.
22:14Yeah, exactly.
22:15One time a year I would take at some point, you know?
22:18He's trying to make up for those years that he was out.
22:21I mean, look at the counter speed and the legs of Castaneda are completely gone.
22:26Harvey Dock's really going to have to take a look at it because the body language, the just discombobulated left hooks that he's throwing at this point.
22:35There's nothing behind it, but there's something behind the left of Gary Russell Jr.
22:39You could hear that left hand reverberate around the arena from that popping sound.
22:43That mouth is open from Castaneda.
22:46I think he broke his jaw, honestly.
22:48That was a really hard shot, that draw of Castaneda.
22:51And even the corner, I hope that, you know, they consider stopping this fight because he's just taking a punishment.
22:56Unfortunately, Abner, I heard him say, you're Mexican.
22:59Go do this.
22:59That is like the worst thing I want to hear.
23:00That does echo what Castaneda said this week in the undercard press conference.
23:04I'm from Mexico.
23:05We're badasses.
23:06I want to show everyone what Reynoso, Mexico, is all about.
23:11I hope the corner takes care of him.
23:13That's what my hope is for this fight because it's starting to get out of hand.
23:17And look, I understand Russell wanting to carry him, but it could get him to the point of danger zone for Castaneda.
23:25No doubt.
23:25As much as we're enjoying the Pines, the beautiful boxing from Russell, it's another man taking the punishment.
23:31And I hope that, you know, the corners realize that.
23:34Or even the referee.
23:40Let's listen.
23:42If they have a conscience over in the corner of Hugo Castaneda.
23:45Ask him how he feels, and if he wants to continue.
23:54Ask him.
23:57If he wants to continue.
23:58Ask him.
23:59If he wants to continue.
24:00If he wants to continue.
24:01If he wants to continue.
24:02Of course, yes.
24:03Let's go.
24:04Let's go.
24:05Let's go.
24:06Let's go.
24:07Let's go.
24:08Let's go.
24:09Three knockdowns in this fight.
24:11This was the last one, Abner.
24:12Yeah, this is a look of a knockdown.
24:14Beautiful step back.
24:16He missed the left hand, and he landed with that right hook with the timing, everything.
24:21I like this from a softball.
24:23Mostly softballs, they throw a single left hand straight, and they miss, but no, not Gary Russell.
24:27He missed with that, and he comes back with that right hook.
24:30That's the right hook that I think hurt, obviously hurt, but I think broke Castaneda's chin.
24:36And you saw how his mouth was completely open.
24:40Yeah.
24:41Well, it did look like the ringside doctor was giving a very close look to Castaneda in the corner.
24:46No further action was taken here as we continue in round seven.
24:51And I want to talk about that left hand that most of these softballs had.
24:57They fall in love with this sometimes, and they throw it constantly left, left, straight,
25:01overhand, and they don't throw that right hook.
25:05The one that used to throw it a lot and did a lot of damage, Juan Manuel Lopez, all the time,
25:09and got many knockouts with it.
25:11Because the fighter, me as a right-hander, I'm expecting that left hand, but guess what?
25:16I'm not expecting the right hook.
25:19Great analysis.
25:21After breaking down.
25:23Ooh, no.
25:24Castaneda wants to give Russell a little bit of, remember the push down a couple rounds ago?
25:29A little bit of intimidation.
25:31Frustration.
25:32Yes.
25:37A little bit of both.
25:39When you're frustrated, you're trying to intimidate.
25:41How intimidated by the performance that Russell's giving tonight.
25:54Oh, nice right uppercut, left hook for Russell.
25:57This could be it.
25:58It should be it.
25:59Here in the seventh round.
26:01And this is Russell with his back to the corner.
26:04Still outlanding and hurting Castaneda.
26:07There's some good body work here.
26:10I mean, the only thing you would think is like, all right, you want to toy around?
26:15Go, Castaneda.
26:16Let's see what you got.
26:17That's exactly what Gary Wilson's doing today at this moment.
26:22Just toying with Castaneda.
26:23Letting him go and land those shots.
26:25They're all arm punches.
26:27Nothing flushed the face or body.
26:29That was flush.
26:30The left hand from Russell.
26:32You see Russell's throwing some off-speed shots.
26:36Just touching the face of Castaneda as he looks probably to set up
26:39a big power shot that maybe could bring an end to this fight.
26:42He's walking him into it, Admiral.
26:44Yeah, no, that's another thing that Russell does.
26:46He changes the speed up in the air.
26:48Like mid-punch, he changes the speed, and that's why you don't see the punch.
26:52You see the advantage there for Gary Russell Jr.
27:05Excuse me, a total punch is landed.
27:07It has been one-sided.
27:08That has not deterred Castaneda from continuing to come forward.
27:11Ooh, that's a nice right hook from Russell.
27:15That was punishing.
27:16But Castaneda's just got too much heart to go down again.
27:23And this is probably the worst thing for Castaneda.
27:25Yes, I was just thinking that because now he's gonna feel that he's in the fight when he's not.
27:30And the corner's gonna believe he's recovered.
27:33And the referee Harvey Dawkins is saying like,
27:36Oh, he's still got something left.
27:43And that's what we wanted to see is what they're yelling.
27:46You see?
27:47Don't let your mentality defeat you.
27:51You're greater than what you believe you are.
27:53You're bigger than that.
27:55That has to be your mentality.
27:58You're a winner.
27:59That's what you are, a winner.
28:01Don't let your self-esteem go down.
28:05Get up.
28:06Just like you're doing.
28:08Hit him hard.
28:10Downstairs, you can stop him.
28:12We've been telling you for a long time.
28:16We wanted to show off the double fit.
28:19Box.
28:20Make the shit easy.
28:21Make him run of this out.
28:22Okay.
28:23He's stupid.
28:24Put his mouthpiece in.
28:25He's about to do this.
28:26Box.
28:27He's fucking stupid.
28:28Let's go.
28:31Let's go, coach.
28:34You get a guy getting hyped up in the other corner and you know that it's a false sense of security.
28:41Oh, yeah.
28:42He's gonna start making mistakes now because he's gonna believe that he's in the fight.
28:45And he did something in that last round, which he did.
28:48He threw a lot of punches.
28:49Guess what?
28:50None of them landed.
28:54Ebner, what do you make of Gary's older, his brother Gary Russell, Gary Allen Russell III, the trainer for this fight, telling him to box now.
29:02When he does let his hands go, he's been dropping or hurting Castaneda routinely.
29:07Again, I think they probably planned this while they did this fight and they're just practicing right now.
29:12This is a fight where they're using the entire ten rounds to do different things.
29:17And this is the nine round.
29:18All right, I want you to box now.
29:20Abner, he did throw 86 punches in that seventh round of the fight.
29:24I connected 26 for 30%.
29:26So he actually outlanded the 55, the 60 to 55 for Russell, but it's the type of punches that he landed.
29:33It's what he did or didn't do in terms of damage.
29:36And this is what makes this family so great.
29:39Speaking of the Russell family, Russell could have finished this fight in the second, third round, but he chose not to.
29:46This is the ninth round.
29:47I'm sure he's going to carry him all the way to the tenth, but he wins more than anything.
29:52It would have been a spectacular knockout, yes.
29:54People would have been excited, yes.
29:55But guess what?
29:56He didn't get much experience.
29:58He didn't let his punches go.
30:00He's a guy that's been out for three years, so he's getting a lot more of these nine, ten rounds that we're seeing from Gary Russell.
30:07But I would think that his corner, his brother was telling him, hey, go get him out of there now.
30:12He's going to walk into something.
30:14I think this is the time where you say, I'm back, guys.
30:17And how do you do it?
30:18With the left hand.
30:19If it's the left shoulder surgery that took you out last time, that's what you do.
30:24Put the cherry on the top.
30:26Yeah, and Castaneda's going to walk into something.
30:31Because if not, Abner, people are going to say, they're going to watch it.
30:35Maybe they didn't listen in.
30:36They're going to see, like, he went ten rounds with this guy?
30:38Isn't this the guy that got blasted by Devler Zamora, a 15-year-old fighter, just a couple months ago?
30:44Yeah, I think, yeah.
30:46And any fighter that doesn't know boxing, I get it, Bernardo.
30:50But anyone that knows boxing, we know that Gary Russell is carrying Castaneda.
30:55That's the context of it that sometimes you don't get.
30:57Of course, yeah, yeah.
30:58When you look at BoxRec or when you look at...
31:00Understood, yeah.
31:01You know what I mean?
31:02It's like, that's why, to me, you got to put a stamp on it.
31:04You got to come in here and say, look.
31:05You're right.
31:06And maybe you will do it in the tenth round.
31:12Castaneda trying uppercuts this round, really trying to find something that will turn the momentum in his favor.
31:18Oh, there's a bodywork right there from Castaneda.
31:26And it feels like Russell's fine with that.
31:27He wants that one perfect counter shot off the ropes that can bring that spectacular ending.
31:41Castaneda giving you everything he can tonight.
31:43Tim Su will do everything he can to become a champion once again.
31:47Our Jim Gray caught up with the former champion.
31:50Tim, you've had a long time to think about this rematch.
31:53What do you have to do differently?
31:56Just got to stick to the game plan, be able to be present in each round, not lose my mind, and stay consistent.
32:04How do you not lose your mind when you're in the middle of a brawl like this?
32:07It's hard, but I think experience plays a big part, and over the years you get better and more comfortable.
32:16You said something really interesting to us the other day.
32:19You said that the defeat has freed you up of the fear.
32:22Can you explain that?
32:24Yeah, I think a big fear of mine back in the days was, how am I going to react to my first loss?
32:29Now that it's all gone and done and dusted, it's made me a different person, and now I've got this new level of hunger.
32:40It's going to be interesting to watch.
32:41Everybody's looking forward to it.
32:42Appreciate your time and we'll talk to you afterwards.
32:45Jim Gray getting deep into the soul of what a fighter is feeling before he steps into the ring.
32:53And look, this is a rematch.
32:55There's a lot of adjustments that need to be made.
32:58Who will be able to make the right adjustments?
33:01Fandora retain his belt.
33:03Orzuda regain it.
33:05Here, right in front of our eyes, Gary Russell Jr. is regaining his status as a quick, dangerous, power-punching fighter.
33:12He's shown the speed, the explosiveness, the footwork, the great variety of punches.
33:19And he's really been dictating the terms.
33:24If he's in the corner, it's because he wants to be.
33:27Yes.
33:29I mean, 47%.
33:32Any time on the CompuBox numbers you approach 50%, you should be knocking him out.
33:37You know what I mean?
33:38Look, we talked about it.
33:39Yes, he should have.
33:41It's a desire thing here of wanting to learn.
33:45Because you're right, Abner.
33:46It's like he already got his timing back early on, which was the big question mark.
33:51How's his timing going to be?
33:52How's his left shoulder going to be?
33:54Well, it's all great.
33:55No, I hear what you're saying.
33:58This is the 10th round.
34:00And again, the fatigue is definitely in play right now for Russell.
34:04Maybe he feels that he cannot let his hand go as much as he was able to in the first couple of rounds.
34:10He doesn't want to tie around too much.
34:12But this is the last round.
34:13Yeah, you make a point.
34:14Just get him out then.
34:16And look, at the end of the day, Russell's throwing half as many jabs as he did in his previous seven fights.
34:21And he told us, he was honest, I don't ever think my shoulder is going to be at 100%.
34:27But guess what?
34:28He's making up for it with power shots with that left.
34:34He's like, if I'm gonna throw it, it's gonna be worth it.
34:36Yeah, no, and he's showing it tonight.
34:41Like that one.
34:43And look, Castaneda continues to complain that they're behind the ear.
34:46I don't know why.
34:47They're that hard that he feels it in the back of his head.
34:50Because they snap his neck around.
34:51Yeah.
34:56But what about the toughness of Castaneda tonight?
34:58Yeah.
34:59Too tough probably for his own good.
35:02Really tough, hard nose.
35:03I mean, he gave it all he could.
35:06Yeah, this is the first 10-round bout of Castaneda's career.
35:08Also the first time he's fighting a former world champion.
35:12So this will give him some much-needed experience on this level.
35:17Might also give him a headache after the amount of punches that he's taken in this fight.
35:21But still looking to pin Russell in the corner.
35:26You wonder if Russell's just kind of auditioning this position for future fights.
35:30Showing that comfort there with his back to the ropes.
35:34Ooh.
35:35That just barely missed from Pierre Russell Jr.
35:38And you just see Castaneda loading up.
35:42And that's a dangerous place to be against a talent like Russell.
35:48I need you to give me the round of your life, son.
35:51I need this third round when you became a champion as a youth.
35:56That's what I want you to go back and do.
35:57You know what he's got.
35:58You know what I bring here.
35:59You belong here.
36:00Close strong.
36:01Close strong.
36:02One more round.
36:03Not like one more.
36:04Tony, let me see the talent.
36:05Let me see the talent.
36:06Here, let me see.
36:07Here, let me see.
36:08Last one, champion.
36:09Control yourself and get over excited.
36:10Okay.
36:11Okay.
36:12Tenth and final round.
36:13The round of Castaneda.
36:14And a lot of people watching.
36:15Tenth and final round.
36:16The round of Castaneda.
36:17And a lot of people watching this fight early
36:30didn't believe we would be watching, but they'll do it as soon as we will see.
36:35He got it right now.
36:36Here, see you.
36:37You see.
36:38The last one, champion.
36:39Control yourself and get over excited.
36:40Okay.
36:41Let's go.
36:42Alfie.
36:43Got you.
36:44Tenth and final round.
36:45be watching, but here we are with an impressive performance from Gary Russell, Jr.
36:52Oh, there is a body shot with the left that sends Castaneda down, and there's no reason
36:59for him to get up, but yet he will.
37:01But did I tell you who's going to put that champion on the top in the last round?
37:05That is over because Gary Russell, Jr. was just toning with Castaneda, dropped him twice
37:12in the second round, dropped him again in the sixth round, hurt him in the ninth, and
37:16finished him in the tenth.
37:20It's safe to say, Mr. Gary Russell, Jr. still got it at age 37, a resounding comeback, four
37:27knockdowns, got some rounds in, was able to show you the full package, and he certainly
37:35got that mindset as an active trainer of world champions and the family business of boxing
37:40for the Russells.
37:42What a brilliant performance from Gary Russell, Jr., Mr. Gary Russell.
37:50My God, I loved every single round from the first round to this tenth round.
37:55And I told him he was going to put the cherry on top.
37:57And he did.
37:58Let's get the official time of the stoppage from Miguel Flores.
38:03Ladies and gentlemen, referee Harvey Dock called the stop to this contest at 26 seconds of round
38:08number 10, for your winner by TKO, Mr. Gary Russell, Jr.
38:18Knockout finish for Gary Russell, Jr. We've seen all action on the prime video undercard.
38:27We hope you'll join us on the pay-per-view, which will culminate with Manny Pacquiao taking
38:33on Mario Barrios in a welterweight title fight.
38:36The rematch between Sebastian Fundora and Tim Zhu.
38:39We'll get to see Isaac Pitbull Cruz and former champion.
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