when we spoke before that you put the fighters first, and I think a lot of things, uh, with, you know, social media, with you being forward-facing, it just depends on what side of the table you're sitting at to how you actually perceive what's gone on.

Well, that's what you realize.

If you look at comments, half the people will side with the promoter, half the people will side with me.

You're never gonna, you're never going to make everybody happy, but my job isn't to make anybody happy.

My job...

Uh, listen, a promoter can go out there, and this is what they're great at.

They're great at selling a fight.

But please, on The Wolf of Wall Street, I'm expecting you to come back at me with this one.

And how are you finding it?

It's kind of interesting because a lot of the narratives that have been out there, as I said earlier, are false.

And it's actually the complete opposite of what I'm like.

You know, you have a lot of promoters that...

And by the way, there's been a lot of deals like this that I've done that, for whatever reason, hasn't come to the forefront.

It has now.

But I've taken some high-profile fighters in the last 10 years from one promoter to another promoter or one network to another network and done eight-figure deals like I did for Conor Benn.

He actually goes on later on in that interview to say that they were more winnable fights for Conor than Ryan.

And so can I ask, when was the moment where you realized there's a better deal here for your client, and this is the way to go as opposed to re-signing with Matchroom?

Well, it's all about economics, right? It's all about opportunity as well, not just the money, but the combination of both.

And there's been a lot of false narratives put out there over the last seven or eight months.

I stayed quiet, relatively quiet about it and classy about it, but my job as a manager is to get my guy the best deal possible.

So I've been through this, I've been in the game of boxing for a long time.

I've done a lot of eight-figure deals, and if you get an offer of a s- a couple million dollars and then you get an offer 4 or 500% higher, there is no decision to be made, right? You have to do what's best for your client.

I'm hired to represent the fighter, not the promoter, right? So there is a, there was a sense of loyalty.

Yeah.

So what's the situation regarding the mandatory on the WBA there for Teofimo?

It's kinda confusing, because they, the other side keeps coming out and saying that we signed a contract to fight Jack Catterall next.

That's not true.

The first that we heard of it was, I think, after the fight, that we had to fight him next.

And he's the super champion now.

He's not the regular champion.

That brings a lot more, let's say, advantages and, and, and leeway.

I think he, I think he's got it all, but we just don't know.

No. [laughs]

Have you ever seen Filip lay back ever in a fight? I mean, even the Dubois fight, the one blemish on his record, which he was sick going into that fight.

He had 101 fever the week before the fight, and I don't think he's ever fully recovered.

But even in that fight, he dominated the first three rounds and, and came out guns a-blazing.

So the same exact thing will happen August 29th.

It's just gonna be a matter of can Moses take it? And if he can take it for the first couple of rounds from my guy or the first round, then, then we could have a problem.

So I, I do think my guy's best chance is to get him early.

Is that true, what he said there?

So

that seems to be the gripe from Matrim, isn't it? From Eddie Herndat.

There were certain things that happened that...

Again, I don't really want to talk about, but there's certain reasons why things were handled the way they were handled on our side.

That's all I can speak of.

There were certain things that we didn't like...

the way they were handled on the other side, to be honest with you.

about the situation.

Okay.

But what I will say is there's been some comments that Conor Benn turned down Lewis Crocker, Josh Kelly, Rolly Romero, and I think people twist words when they say that.

We never got an official offer for Josh Kelly.

We were actively pursuing the Rolly Romero fight.

I thought the offer that we got, the initial offer, the initial offer that we got, I thought was pathetic.And the offer that we got for Crocker, which was there were loose offers being thrown around.

The money on that fight was a lowball offer, I think, to be polite.

So it's a business, right? So we had those offers.

I know this is obviously you probably as a spectator more than anything, but what have you made of the ongoing weekly battle between Hearn and Dana White?

So why has there been frustration among councillors with the current clamping system in the city, Keith?

Good morning, Ciara.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, there's two main issues.

So there's a regional imbalance with the court contract.

So a lot of the clamping at the moment takes place in the city centre.

And the court and company have the contract since 2004, which is obviously quite a long time.

Why do you still believe it has a role?