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Home » BetUS TV » The Boxing Show » Benavidez vs. Lemieux + MORE | May 21st Fight Night Analysis | Boxing Picks, Predictions & Odds

Benavidez vs. Lemieux + MORE | May 21st Fight Night Analysis | Boxing Picks, Predictions & Odds

The Boxing Show by The Boxing Show
May 20, 2022, 5:47pm ET
in The Boxing Show

TJ Reeves:

Well, hello there and welcome into a brand new endeavor. It is good to be back on BetUS and the BetUS Boxing Show. I am the somewhat competent host of the program, TJ Reeves. He is arguably the premier insider on the sport. Dan Rayfield is a board here with me. We are looking forward to this, my friend. It is good to be with you. We got a big weekend of fights and we’re thrilled to be part of BetUS.

 

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Dan Rayfield:

I’m totally happy about it. I can’t wait. I always discuss fights. And now we get to give our opinions to all the folks out there. And like you said, a good weekend of fights to get started on for sure.

 

TJ Reeves:

Yeah, no doubt. And again, for the audience that’s finding us here, this is something where it is new, but it is something that if you are looking to wager, as I like to say Dan, a short-term investment on this, if you’re looking for short-term investment advice, this is the place to be. Glad that you found us here on the BetUS channels and on the BetUS Boxing Show we’ll be here on Fridays to give you advice on the top fights and the fight cards. And this time we have three different ones, a triple header from London to Phoenix, to Vegas. Dan we’re on two continents in three cities with all of these fights. And we’re here to give them a lot of advice if they’re looking into wagering on these different cards and on this action. And we’ve got some world title fights that are involved, we’ve got a couple of British light heavyweights that don’t like each other. They’re they’re involved.

 

TJ Reeves:

Just some interesting stuff that will be going on here. Just in general though Dan, give me a quick thought because you and I both know this. The sport of boxing is ingrained in Las Vegas, for example, and Atlantic city where gambling has been legal forever. Well, now it’s being legalized everywhere all over the world and all over the United States. There are more and more people finding out about the odds you’re seeing scrolling on the bottom of the screen, finding out about fight odds. So this is perfect for us to get in here and give them some great analysis, great insight into why they should wager on this fighter or that fighter, right?

 

Dan Rayfield:

Absolutely. boxing betting odds on two guys throwing punches at each other is as old as when people stood on a corner and watched them throw punches at each other, it’s not uncommon. I’ve been to boxing events in London, for example, where one of the events this weekend is taking place and there’s nobody that loves to gamble and bet more than the folks in Britain. They’ll bet on anything. They’ll bet on if the guy gets hit by the car crossing against the light. It doesn’t matter what there is to bet they’ll bet boxing. Certainly one of those things it’s ingrained in their culture, they have bookshops all over the place.

 

TJ Reeves:

Yeah. In Britain they call it the lift, not the elevator. They’ll bet on which lift is going to get down first at the hotel. They’ll bet on anything there. And they’ve got, as you mentioned, sportsbook and bookmaker shops it seems on almost any corner in London, for example, on all these fights. They love to gamble there. It’s becoming increasingly popular in the US and we’re here to give you some advice. All right. So to that end, again, triple header of fights. As we mention, we’ll go chronologically. Whenever we’re here with multiple fights, we’ll kind of go chronologically by time, et cetera.

 

TJ Reeves:

The first fight card is a match room boxing card that is in London. Match room is very prominent in England, the UK and Europe, and then has begun to come some here to the United States. That card is Saturday afternoon, US time. Late night, Saturday night, London time. It features a couple of light heavyweights unbeaten, Joshua Buatsi. He will take on veteran Craig Richards. Dan Rayfield, these are two guys, again, both in London. Buatsi’s kind of the up and comer undefeated. This is a very intriguing main event. Saturday night, London Saturday afternoon, US time.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Well in essence, it’s the battle for London. They’re both from London, as you mentioned. No love loss between these two guys. I think they respect each other, but they want each other’s place because the reality, and they have said this in the build up to the fight, in essence it’s like the battle for, not only London in terms of the bragging rights, but who’s the best light heavyweight in Britain. That’s what this comes down to. As you mentioned, Buatsi is undefeated, he’s on the rise. 29 years old, an Olympic bronze medal winner, and is still in the rising portion of his career. Still yearning to get that world title shot. He’s very close to getting it. And then you have Richards who’s a bit older, not by a lot, but more of a veteran fighter. Has a couple of losses, but has fought for a world title in the past, which is what Buatsi wants to do. And if he can get past Craig Richards, he’s going to put himself in a better position to do that.

 

Dan Rayfield:

And in terms of Richards, he wants to get another title shot. His one loss in the title fight was against Dmitry Bivol, who boxing fans know of course pulled the big upset and retained his light heavyweight title just a couple of weeks ago against the number one fighter in the world, that he knocked from that perch Canello Alvarez. So he did pretty well against Dmitry Bivol. He didn’t win the fight, but he won some rounds and he looked pretty good. So if there’s such thing as a good loss in boxing, Craig Richards’ decision loss to Dmitry Bivol constitutes a good loss in my mind. And so you have these two guys going at each other and the fans are going to be split between them because it’s, like I said, in their hometown at The O2 arena. And the younger guy against a more experienced older guy and it does shape up like a pretty good fight. And I think probably a little bit of a competitive fight, frankly.

 

TJ Reeves:

All right. Very good on that. We’re going to actually make fight predictions as we go along here and keep track of this. Dan will be much better at this just into the newsroom at this than I am. I’m the host, I do know some. I’ve been a fight fan. Look, don’t think that I’m just some nuts, I’ve been a fight fan for going on 40 years and Dan has too. And Dan again in his background has covered the sport for 20 plus years in the United States for USA Today, very famously, and for ESPN TV and espn.com. So we value his opinion very much so on all these fights that you’re seeing. So let’s go ahead and get into the odds again. That’s why we’re here for BetUS and take a look at what we would be wagering on for this fight. Buatsi and Richards, both from Britain.

 

TJ Reeves:

Interesting to win by knockout. Buatsi minus 140 here, he’s got 12 knockouts. I believe, Dan, it’s 10 knockouts in a row. He’s 15 and 0 with 12 KOs. His last 10 wins have all been by knockout. So the knockout prop at minus 140 may not be as advantageous. Interesting that by decision in this one Buatsi is a plus 220, if you think it’s going to go the route. I don’t know that Richards is a live underdog. We don’t have an official over under. Again, you may see an over under out there of nine rounds, nine and a half rounds, something like that. We don’t have an official one on the BetUS line. So Dan Rayfield just give me a thought here on Buatsi who is favored to win. Interesting minus 140 on the knockout prop there for Joshua Buatsi.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Yeah. I think it is a little bit more of a competitive fight than you think because Craig Richards is the kind of guy that is going to hang with pretty much anybody. And I keep going back to the fight that he had last year. If you can go 12 good solid rounds against Dmitry Bivol, and even though you lose, you still win four rounds probably in that fight and don’t disgrace yourself at all. Nothing against Buatsi but he is not yet at the level of a Dmitry Bivol. I do think it has the chance to be competitive, but that said, it’s hard to go against Buatsi.

 

Dan Rayfield:

He’s the A side, he’s the one with the momentum, he’s the one with the unbeaten record, he’s the guy that they’re building up, and this is an opportunity for him to, I think, probably get the best win of his career. But partly is because as a professional, he’s not had the opportunity yet to fight the very best guys. And Richards does make the level of qualifying, so let’s say a step up for Buatsi compared to the other opponents he has faced. So, like you mentioned, he does have a long knockout streak, but Richards has got a pretty good chin. I do think this fight goes 12.

 

TJ Reeves:

So let’s go ahead as we like to do on BetUS, we’ll lock Dan Rayfield in on this being a distance fight. That Buatsi will win by decision here in this scheduled 12 rounder. So he’s locked in on that. I like Buatsi for a knockout. I believe Buatsi gets a knockout probably later in this fight to stop it. Either a TKO or a KO would count somewhere around the ninth round. It’s interesting when we look at the exact prop, I think an exact ninth round KO is paying out something like 22 to 1.

 

TJ Reeves:

I’m not big on the exact round per se, I just think you’ll win for the knockout, Joshua Buatsi in this one. So we’re officially both on the record and we’ll see that as our best bets go along. So again, that’s the London main event. Saturday afternoon, Dan, we think somewhere around 5:00, 5:30 Eastern time, adjust your time zone in the US. That’ll be around 10:00, 10:30 London time for this battle prime time there in the UK where they have a ton of fight fans. But we suspect that’s where the main event will come, somewhere around the 5:00 Eastern 5:30 timeframe something like that, Eastern time, correct?

 

Dan Rayfield:

Yeah. That’s pretty much the ballpark for any of the televised matches that take place in the UK. And because they show it back here in the United States also, it’s going to be, like you said, that late afternoon, very early evening timeframe.

 

TJ Reeves:

All right, again, that one in London let’s move to the Showtime Premier Boxing Champions main event that will be in Phoenix, Arizona. Boy, The Suns blew it in the NBA playoffs so they don’t have a lot to cheer about in Phoenix except for the hometown fighter David Benavidez. Benavidez from the Phoenix area has fought there a couple of times recently in his home area, is back there again against a veteran Canadian David Lemieux. Very interesting that Benavidez is heavily favored to win this one by knockout. Look at that, minus 800 to win this by knockout. Dan Rayfield on the BetUS Boxing Show, do I see an over under a four and a half rounds?

 

TJ Reeves:

Typically again in boxing on a 12 round fight, under over would at the minimum be about six and a half or seven and a half rounds. A lot of times you see nine and a half, 10 and a half. I see an over under four and a half. That is enticing everybody to look for the Benavidez early knockout or not. Okay Dan, what is your thought here? Benavidez unbeaten, big time puncher, Lemieux a veteran. What are your thoughts on this Showtime main event for Saturday night in Phoenix?

 

Dan Rayfield:

Well, I certainly feel David Benavidez is the rightful favorite. I do think he’s going to win, I do think he’s going to win by a knockout. When I saw that four and a half on the over under, I felt somebody made a big mistake on that one. To me that was free money on the over. And I see that because-

 

TJ Reeves:

I like it, keep going.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Listen, David Benavidez is a tremendous fighter. Like you said, he’s undefeated, he’s won super middleweight world titles twice and he is the younger fighter, the fresher fighter. But in my look at his career, couple things. Number one, he’s never been the fastest starter in the world. He kind of picks up momentum as a fight goes along. So he’s not a guy that you look down the record and see him again, solid opponents, he’s just blitzing out there in two, three rounds, number one. Number two, David Lemieux although was at his best when he was a middleweight title holder and is one of the heaviest punchers in boxing, he’s not yet really proven himself as a super middleweight. But he can handle himself. And he has been stopped before but it’s not been blown out in one round.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Triple G for example, Gennady Golovkin, one of the great punchers of all time. A devastating puncher in his prime, especially. Well, they fought when Triple G was in his prime in the middleweight unification fight and Triple G at his absolute peak of his career basically took him eight rounds to get rid of David Lemieux. So I just have a hard time seeing Benavidez, who I view as a little bit of a slow starter of just taking him out that early in the fight. I do think he’ll break him down and wear him out and eventually stop him in this match. But that early number, just to me anyway, stood out like a sore thumb of somebody got it wrong big time. And like I said to me, free money on the over.

 

TJ Reeves:

Wait and what we should say, and Dan this and for the audience on BetUS, sometimes those lines will move. That line has not moved depending on the wagering. And maybe there’s not a lot of wagering on this fight yet. Maybe there’ll be some more Saturday before the Saturday night primetime main event in Phoenix. So if a lot of money comes in on the, over that four and a half will move to five and a half or to six and a half, and it would surprise me if it does not get some wagering on the over for Benavidez, Lemieux we’re talking about here and the line moves up. We’ll see if that’s the case.

 

TJ Reeves:

You and I are now going to lock in here. Benavidez very much would want a shot, who doesn’t, at Canello Alvarez, who is the undisputed super middleweight champ. This would put Benavidez in the number one spot, essentially as the WBC number one contender. He’s got a lot of motivation, he’s at home. I think you and I are in agreement. He’s going to win, but we might disagree on how he’s going to win. Dan, what do you think here for Benavidez and Lemieux on the outcome?

 

Dan Rayfield:

Well, first of all, the winner of the fight, whether it’s David Benavidez or David Lemieux, is going to put themself in that position, because they will acquire the interim belt of the WBC, which will put them in that position to eventually be mandated to fight Canallo Alvarez if he decides to remain in the super middleweight division and hold onto the WBC title. I do think David Benavidez wins by knockout. And even though I said, I thought that the four and a half was a little bit unusual to me. I definitely like the over, but not by a whole lot. I think that fight is five or six rounds. Maybe a little bit later, but in the end David Benavidez is going to knock David Lemeiux out. David Lemieux has not been very active.

 

Dan Rayfield:

David Lemieux is the smaller guy moving up. He’s had some fights in the super middleweight division, but they’ve been basically not by design because he’s had trouble making the weight. So he’s new to the weight class. Hasn’t really fought a top level opponent in quite a while. To me, I believe it’s an action fight. It’s a good fight. If you’re a fan it’s worth watching, it’s going to be exciting. But in the end, I think it’s definitely a big time David Benavidez victory. And I don’t think it’s going to be super tough for him to get there.

 

TJ Reeves:

Okay. We should make mention again to the audience. They’re seeing us on the preview show. We’re out on Fridays from here on out debut show right here. We remind you can help us by hitting the like button and hitting subscribe here and share us out on social media. Dan has a massive following, he’s going to be sharing it out. I got a little following compared to what Dan has. But you can help us, you, the audience that’s watching this on BetUS. Hit that like button, hit the bell that you see there, share this out. But most of all, subscribe to the channel, spread the word by doing all of those things.

 

TJ Reeves:

We know that more and more fans will see us on BetUS, so there’s just a friendly reminder on how you can help the show as we’re on the maiden voyage, Dan Rayfield and I. And we’re actually on a little bit of an opposite side with the same guy winning. Dan thinks this is a knockout for Benavidez. I think it might go the route. In fact, I’m going to go on the record and say, I think Lemieux frustrates him. I think he gives him some problems. I think this goes the route, it goes the distance. And I think that’s a much more interesting bet than just the straight bet on Benavidez, who right now, I think, on BetUS is minus 3000, just the straight bet to win. The win by decision would be a little bit better. Dan, go ahead.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Well at the very least, if you’re taking the decision, I’m taking the knockout but we’re both definitely feel that over under was misplaced.

 

TJ Reeves:

Yeah, no doubt. Over four and a half. Absolutely. So we’ll look at that. And again, we’ll circle back on the best bets there again. We anticipate that Showtime PBC main event. Again, you’ve got to have the Showtime Premium service either through your cable or satellite provider or the watch Showtime app, et cetera. That main event probably around 11:00 Eastern, 8:00 Pacific, something like that.

 

Dan Rayfield:

It’s going to be later than that. The telecast starts at 10:00 PM Eastern time and it’s a triple header. So it’s going to be a late night if you’re on the east coast for that main event.

 

TJ Reeves:

It’s going to be probably at least 11:30 or midnight, depending on if there are knockouts in the earlier fights. But it’s going to be at least that where they’ll stretch it, if that’s the case.

 

Dan Rayfield:

It always depends on how long those fights go. I’m always asked what time does the main event start? My answer is you just don’t know. Because if that first fight’s one round knockout or if it goes the route, that’s the difference of 35, 45 minutes depending on the deal. So I would say you’re safe to say if you want to watch it or you’re in front of your device by 11:30 ish, you should be good.

 

TJ Reeves:

Yeah. Let me give you an example. The Showtime card last week, Dan knows this. They were fighting in Carson, California. It was a tremendous main event, anticipated fight between Jermall Charlo, Brian Castano, undisputed junior middleweight title fight. They’ve been building it up for weeks and weeks. So the undercard fight with Jaron Ennis ends up being a two round fight. It’s over in the first minute of the second round. They had that complication. So it’s over quickly.

 

TJ Reeves:

But the second complication is Castano, the WBO champion, got to the stadium, got to the arena late. How does that happen to your own fight? But he was caught in Southern California traffic. I don’t know if he was trying to visit Hollywood. He was late to the stadium. So we sat and waited and waited. And Dan you’ve been there a hundred times having to hurry up and wait for a main event fight to happen. That one literally took 45 minutes of talk, stretch it on the Showtime broadcast. We don’t think it will be that Saturday, but they will stretch a little if the undercard fights go quickly. That’s my point. It was ridiculous last week.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Hey, my man, Jim gray, the great ringside reporter got to interview basically everybody that was ringside. LL Cool J, other boxers. I thought at one point he was going to maybe hit me up on a Zoom call.

 

TJ Reeves:

Hey, let’s check in with Dan at his home here and what he’s thinking right about now on this. Very true. So that was just the case last week on their fight card. We’ll see what happens on this Showtime fight card in Phoenix. And again, we’ll recap what we have on the predictions in the best bets. One more fight card on the triple header of three different fight cards on two continents, London, Phoenix, and then in Las Vegas. And we’re going to have fun with this name. It is a WBO middleweight interim title fight, Janibeck Alimkhanuly, did I come close? How close did I come on Janibeck’s last name? The Kazakhstan, favorite to win this fight, Alimkhanuly.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Ali’s close. If you just break it up, it’s a little phonetics, Alimkhanuly. But you know what? To make your life easy and mine we’re just going to call him Janibeck, his first name.

 

TJ Reeves:

First please. So Janibeck is an outstanding amateur fighter. He is the favorite here. As you like to say, he’s the A side. Look at the odds there for Janibeck to win by knockout at minus 400, to tell you how favored he is in this fight. Again, there’s your over under at seven and a half rounds in this one. Dignum is a British contender. Not much known about him. Dan, give me some insight for wagering purposes. Are we even fooling with those underdog odds with Dignum in this one?

 

Dan Rayfield:

No disrespect to Danny, but I just have to say that I don’t see him having a big chance to win this fight. He’s more of a boxer, more of what they call a cutey. Not blessed with a lot of punching power. Coming to the United States to fight for the first time. He’s motivated, he’s excited. Here’s the one thing you need to know. You can measure how a guy punches, you can’t really mention a guy’s desire or his heart. And the one thing is Janibeck is not a guy that a lot of people are running tough towards to fight. He’s a dangerous guy. Like you said, great amateur background as an Olympian for Kazakhstan. And he’s a handful for anybody. And not that guys don’t want fight guys who are handfuls, but you want fight guys who are handfuls that bring you rich rewards.

 

Dan Rayfield:

And he doesn’t bring a lot of money and he doesn’t bring a lot of glory. So he’s a guy that nobody really wants to fight. Maybe eventually if he wins a championship or becomes better known and makes exciting fights that the masses see. But at the moment nobody’s running the fight him. Danny Dignum said when they got to him in the ratings, when everybody else turned down Janibeck, he grabbed that with two hands and said I’m in. And not only I’m in, but you know what? I’m crossing the Atlantic. So he’s coming in a very motivated way to fight even though Janibeck is not from the United States, but he has been based here in terms of his professional career. So and it’s his-

 

TJ Reeves:

I was going to ask you this, does he train out of California? Because I know Gennady Golovkin can train some out of California, Janibeck from the same country. Does he train in California if we know?

 

Dan Rayfield:

Yes, he’s been training in California, but the biggest thing also is that it’s a top rank ESPN card. So it’s Janibeck’s promotion, they’re the ones doing the fight. So he’s the one that’s the home fighter let’s say. Like you said, the A side. So I do give Dignam credit for being one of the only guys out there that is running towards fighting this guy. So you can’t measure the desire in the heart. But ultimately skills pay the bills as my good friend, the philosopher, Floyd Mayweather said many times.

 

Dan Rayfield:

And Janibeck has the boxing skills. He also has much bigger punching power and it’s hard to see him… He’s been such a dominating fighter in recent fights. He’s beaten some better guys and than Dignum has, he’s got knockout wins against former title holders, Robert Brant and also Hassan Nadam. Maybe they were a little bit older at the time that he beat them. But he didn’t just beat them, he punished them and stopped them. To me, Dignum’s a good, solid contender maybe a B-, C+ kind of fighter. Janibeck’s got a chance to be an A fighter. He’s got the arrow pointing up on his career and we’ll find out for sure on Saturday. But to me, this is a Janibeck landslide.

 

TJ Reeves:

We agree. We both think, you think knockout, I think knockout somewhere around the sixth, seventh round, something like that. Janibeck gets to him. We’ll see that up on the screen when we go to the best bets, but we both for the prop purposes are on the Janibeck knockout. And again, the over under is around seven and a half rounds on this fight. Be careful with that over under, I might just go with the knockout prop. Forget about the round, go with the knockout prop for Janibeck who should win. And again, that counts that knockout prop counts on a stoppage.

 

TJ Reeves:

If he wears the guy down, the guy quits on his stool in the corner, or the referee stops the fight, it counts the same way for wagering purposes here through BetUS or through anybody else. One more Dan, as we wind it down here on the undercard, again, it’s the ESPN top rank show Jermell Herring, former WBO junior lightweight world champion, a US Marine, a great guy. He’s on the undercard in the cofeature. I know you want to say something real quick about Herring’s undercard fight. That will also be part of the top rank Las Vegas show real quick, even though that we don’t have it graphically here on the screen. Go ahead.

 

Dan Rayfield:

Yeah. As we were talking about it off the air, it’s a very interesting fight to me, certainly in terms of the wagering. Maybe even more so than some of the more wide odds on the main events that we’ve talked about. Herring’s last fight was a knockout loss where he lost his title to the very brilliant Shakur Stevenson who has gone on to unify titles in the 130 pound division. So that was last fall. He had the title, he lost the title by knockout, and now he’s coming back. He’s moving up to the lightweight division and a lot of guys would take a real soft touch in this spot. They didn’t give him a soft touch. They gave him Jermaine Ortiz who is not a well known fighter, but he’s a good, solid fighter.

 

Dan Rayfield:

He’s much younger than Jermell is. He’s also a hungry, anxious guy to get the opportunity. He’s been talking about how excited he is to test himself against a well known fighter, a former world champion. These younger fighters when they come up, one of the benchmarks is when they get the name of a former champion on their record, it’s meaningful to them. And so to me, even though Herring he’s the more well-known guy, he’s the A side, the favored fighter. In my mind, if there’s an upset special, if there’s a guy that could pull that upset, Ortiz because of his fighting style. And the fact that Jemerll’s moving up and also was stopped in the last fight, that’s a spot where you might look at the underdog.

 

TJ Reeves:

All right, good enough. Again, we don’t have this up on the screen, but Herring is only minus 200, 2 to 1 to win. Ortiz minus or a plus 250. Actually I have that backwards. Ortiz is favored minus 250, 2 and a half to one. Herring, a 2 to 1 underdog for simplify the US Marine, Jermell Herring out of New York.

 

Dan Rayfield:

You’re saying Herring is the underdog?

 

TJ Reeves:

Harring is the underdog on the BetUS line that I saw at plus 200 here. So Ortiz, but again, that line could move as Friday becomes Saturday and the Vegas odds and money come in. It might move to a pick and fight, et cetera. You might like a little tasty Jemrell Herring underdog at plus 200 value for your money there on that for the BetUS short term investors.

 

Dan Rayfield:

That surprised me a little bit. I thought Herring would be at least a slight favorite just because Ortiz is not a known fighter, unless you’re really down in the weeds watching undercards and smaller shows and Herring has been on a much bigger stage for quite a while. I’m actually quite interested to see how that fight plays out.

 

TJ Reeves:

No doubt again, that’s the cofeature fight. The ESPN top rank card again begins right around 10:00 Eastern time.

 

Dan Rayfield:

No. That’s an 8:00 start Eastern time.

 

TJ Reeves:

8:00.

 

Dan Rayfield:

And they have a triple header. You’re looking at about a main event, probably in the that 10:30 range.

 

TJ Reeves:

I always have you to keep me straight. So the Herring fight probably the 9:00 Eastern time hour, adjust your time zone accordingly in the co feature. And then Janibeck and Dignum probably in the 10:00 Eastern time hour there, ESPN top rank. Okay. So this is what we’ll do every week. We’ll go over the fights and then we recap it in the form of our best bets here. Dan and I on the record, let’s take a look at them. Look at Alejandro, he is all over this. We both agree that Joshua Buatsi will win the battle of London as Dan was dubbing it against Craig Richards. That is Saturday afternoon, US time from London. Buatsi by decision for Dan. And I know it’s listed there as a specific ninth round knockout. Man, if that comes through right on the money that’s paying plus 1200 for Buatsi to get the KO.

 

TJ Reeves:

We also see that we both agree on David Benavidez to win in Phoenix on the Showtime card Saturday night, super middleweights. Dan likes him for the knockout, I like him to go the distance. I think Lemieux hangs in. Maybe I’m wrog and maybe Benavidez gets to him quickly. We both agree that over under at four and a half rounds seems too low for us. You might want to play the over in that Benavidez fight. And then Janibeck in the WBO, interim middleweight title fight. We both like him by knockout.

 

TJ Reeves:

That is again, the round prop. Dan liking a fifth round knockout, I like a seventh round knockout. Just go for the knockout. Go for the safer knockout at any point in the fight for him to get Danny Dignum out of there. The Brit that’s challenging him and for Janibeck to remain undefeated at middle weight at 160 pounds. So there’re our best bets. We’re all locked in. We don’t disagree on who’s going to win. As you see graphically on the screen, we just might disagree on how they win in these different bouts. And we’ll keep track of this and see how we do with that. Dan Rayfield I believe that’s a maiden voyage. That is a first show on the BetUS Boxing Show for the insight and the analysis. Did you have fun here for the first one of what’s going to be many?

 

Dan Rayfield:

TJ, we haven’t known each other for that long, I guess, but have you ever known me not to have fun talking about boxing?

 

TJ Reeves:

Absolutely. It’s what this man has been doing.

 

Dan Rayfield:

All the time, it’s what I do.

 

TJ Reeves:

Yeah. And so this man is in constant contact with fighters, with promoters, with managers. And again, we plug here, go to the big fight weekend website that Dan is now part of with me, bigfightweekend.com for our coverage there, with what’s on the written. But you’re going to find us every Friday in the preview mode. Again, one more time on this YouTube channel, make sure that you’re here. Bookmarkers will be promoting this. This is where we’ll be on Fridays. You may see us later in the day. You may see us on Saturday as we continue to promote. This show stays current in the preview mode all the way up until the fights Saturday night, whether it’s in London, Phoenix, or Las Vegas for this weekend. I think we’re good. Dan Rayfield enjoy the fights. Thank you for the time here.

 

Dan Rayfield:

You bet. You enjoy the fights also my man.

 

TJ Reeves:

All right. And we also thank Alejandro. Everybody would BetUS, Natalie and everybody that has green lit this show we’ll be here on Fridays. Again, like, subscribe, hit the bell on this channel, spread the word as we talk boxing on the BetUS boxing channel every Friday and previewing the Saturday night fights. For Dan Rayfield, I’m TJ Reeves. Enjoy all the action.

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