Crime in Sports - #398 - The John Daly Of Boxing - Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

This week, we take a journey, with a man who always says/does the craziest thing possible. He came from unthinkable poverty in Nicaragua, but ended up making millions of dollars. He smokes cigarettes & drinks beer, in the ring. Many of his criminal activities, like rape, fraud & assault get swept under the rug, apparently due to corruption, and his deal with that country's dictator! He is a quote machine, with insults never heard in boxing!!Be stabbed & have brain damage, before you even start boxing, have the President of your corrupt home country get rid of a rape charge for you, and say the craziest things you can, just to promote boxing matches!!Check us out, every Tuesday!We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Oh, it's fucking hilarious. So that said, let's get into this. What do you say here? All right. With our asshole of the week, and he certainly is an asshole, Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez. no ricardo mayorga you know he is no i imagine a boxer you've seen him fight well yeah because i said we're doing a boxer so

it'd be weird if now it wasn't did you say box yeah i think so no i said brain damage sports maybe yeah either way ricardo mayorga here um you've seen him fight, I guarantee it, because there was a stretch where he was on like five big pay-per-view main events in a row against big opponents. Like he fought De La Hoya and Mosley and Vargas. Is he Cuban? No, he is Nicaraguan, actually. Okay. But he fought all those guys. So he was like the opponent du jour for the welterweight division in the late 90s did he win we'll find

out well he had not in life i'll tell you that much he's a disaster nicknames for him first el matador is the one which is the killer if you don't i mean we know a matador with the bull but in the actual translation the word matador means means killer and he has that tattooed on his neck matador or killer el matador tattooed on his neck so that would be the equivalent of an american guy having the killer tattooed on his neck which you'd look twice at that guy you know yeah your daughter brings him home you're like um what did i where'd i go wrong here Did I not spend enough time with you? What happened? What I did wrong. Yeah. What's the problem here? And also El Loco, they call him too, which is fucking crazy.

Yeah. So he's a crazy killer. There you go. Okay. Well, that's good. It describes him well. Born October 3rd, 1973. So he's only 50 at this point.

Five foot 10. 3rd 1973 so he's only 50 at this point uh five foot ten he's like i said he's in that kind of 135 to 147 was his that was his sweet spot when he fought in there in the welterweight and then he moves up and he'll end up like heavy later on fighting in like super middleweight which is like you know 175 or some shit 168 something like that So he really puts on some pounds and puffs up pretty good here. We'll talk a little bit here. His mother, her name is Miriam. Miriam del Socorro Perez. Oh, so beautiful.

That sounds poetic, doesn't it? My God. That's an operatic name. Miriam del Socorro Perez. Del Socorro. Del Socorro. She's Socorro. Del Socorro. She's a stay-at-home mom. Father is Eddie Mayorga, and he has a bunch of different jobs, but I guess his baking is one of his main jobs, being a baker.

Is that right? Yeah, so dad's off to work at 2.30 in the morning. That's interesting. Yeah, baking the donuts. Yes. We'll talk about this. I'm just going to get it over with now because we don't have dates. in the morning that's interesting yeah i'm making the donuts yes uh we'll talk about this you know i'm just going to get it over with now because we don't have dates whenever he his marriages and his

kids it all takes place in nicaragua so the oh i don't have access to records here really or anything nicaraguan birth records are sketchy they don't file those with us no so i don't know when he got married and has had kids so i'm going gonna go ahead and talk about his wife and his kids now and then we'll talk about his childhood but uh his wife is yesenia vanessa lobo god damn it and he has a son and what does he name him ricardo mayorga jr of course so of course yeah right off the gate here and he's coming out hot. Then we think that's we always say, Jesus, enough with the juniors. You think that's weird? Yeah. He then has and I don't know, he might have more kids in this, but I know he has at least

these three. He then has two daughters a year apart from each other. OK, that's not weird. People do that. Yeah. The weird part is he names them both Diana. Diana? Both of them.

They're a year apart. They're sisters who are a year apart. Both named Diana. I don't know. I guess that lends to he might be fucked up that he forgot already. I'm not sure. But he has the wife there to tell him, no, no, we have one. Well, she's nursing a black eye from the last time she reminded him about something.

So I feel like. So she might not, you know, be looking to say much about his memory at this point. She might have a T-bone on her face. Yeah. They have like five houses because he keeps thinking, I got to buy one because he forgets they have a house. So she just shuts up and fucking cleans them. You know what I mean? She's very terrified at this point.

So he's born in Messiah, Nicaragua. Yeah. Raised in complete poverty. Also, a terrible neighborhood, awful environment, poor. And poor meaning we say poor, not American poor. No. America. We have a rag. not American poor. No. Nicaragua.

There's poor people here, but you can go to the worst place here and then go to a place that's poor in Nicaragua and holy shit, those people, it's night and day compared to our worst place. You know what I mean? Is that where the hissing cockroaches come from? Is it Nicaragua? The Madagascar. Yeah, that's an island off Africa. That's very far away. So. So I don't even know what Nicaragua.

Central America. Exports. Cocaine. Exports. And tobacco. Yes. Cocaine. So he says he was a gang leader also.

Ricardo. I believe him. Which that's the thing. It's he's self-proclaimed. We don't know that if it's true or not. But at the same time, judging by his later exploits, I'd buy it. I'd buy it. He was raised mostly in Managua, which is the capital of Nicaragua and the largest city.

And he, like I said, let me tell you about poverty. Okay. Him and five siblings and mom and dad lived in a one-room, and I'm talking not a one-bedroom, a studio that's tiny. Everything's right there. With a dirt floor and just cinder block walls. That was it. There's no drywall. There's no insulation.

It's just you stacked up cinder blocks in a square and then raised a family inside of it that's it oh that's the house like there's no i didn't mention plumbing or anything like that yeah there isn't any that's the point holy so that's what i mean american poor and nicaragua poor third world poor is different than first world poor it just is you know for any poor is bad poor but that's even worse um my order would later say quote i come from a country where everything is war even the women are tough in nicaragua women give birth wherever in the middle of the street in the countryside with no medical attention you see that and it puts a totally different

perspective on things get out of here they just just are going about their errands during the day, and they just stop on the sidewalks, pop a kid out, and then go pick up the dry cleaning. Well, not the dry cleaning, because I doubt it. But you know. Yeah. And then go grab some fucking fruit for whatever, some vegetables for dinner. Buy a loaf of bread. Yeah.

With the kid in your hand. Good lord. Do you have a scissor back there behind the counter? Can you cut this? Can we give you a little clippy clip first? And I'll take a loaf of your rye. Your marble rye. That looks good.

So his father is called a bull of a man by people. He's this tough son of a bitch. The baker bull. Another bull here. And yeah, he would obviously beat the shit out of all the kids as well and uh ricardo said that's where i got my toughness where he that's not positive where he got the living shit beaten out of them yeah that's not a good thing very strange later on even more strange about his, later on he'll become a very successful fighter that will make a lot of money.

If you're a main event challenger on a bunch of pay-per-views, you made millions back then. And millions in Nicaragua go very far. Like, you get yourself $5 million. You go down to Nicaragua. You are the king of Nicaragua. Like, it's a lot of fucking money. Until somebody kidnaps your family. Well, they'll hold you for ransom you got to have a ransom you definitely got to have a ransom uh backup supply there yeah you got to have like robert de niro and casino where he's

got like three million stashed in the in the safe deposit box in case i'm okay i can't get to this here's my key so later on ricardo will buy them an 11-room mansion, a big, giant, beautiful, modern, perfect home. $37. They don't move into it, his parents. What? They stay in the cinderblock dirt floor hovel that they come from. Why'd they do that? They just didn't want to move there.

They were more comfortable there. They weren't comfortable living in a nice house, they said. So they had this house that they just didn't use. Ricardo said they became attached to the place where we suffered through such poverty. He said he spent his teenage years in a gang. And yeah, he said, you know, people pointed guns and shot at him and everything else. So during his teenage gang years, he has about six, seven knife wounds from then, scars from knife wounds from his years. He got stabbed up? He's got a nice scar on the top of his head that was from someone clanking him with a lead pipe.

So brain damage before he's even boxing, which is always great. For sure. It's always good when someone's fresh brain isn't good enough to put into the ring. He's also fighting in the streets all the time. So that's how he started boxing is he said, why am I fighting in the streets? Survival. People make money for this. And any money is, you know, if you live with a bunch of people in a one-room place with a dirt floor, any money is great.

So also likes to drag race at one point here. He likes to go down to this one street that's the red light district. And he had a Honda with a souped-up Honda that he would like to drive through really fast through the red light district here. And go around people. Drive like a maniac. Yeah yeah I'm sure it is I mean it's in Nicaragua in the 80s I don't know what the hell 70s CRX probably CRX maybe a CRX or even a little

like a Civic maybe Prelude or a Civic probably a CRX you could soup them up pretty good why not so he started boxing there was a teacher in school that originally had told him about boxing, said maybe you want to redirect some of this behavior because you're really a violent person. So you should try to do that here because he attended a military school at one point. Is that right? Yes.

But if you live in the streets, it doesn't matter what you're trying to do. You're always in the streets and there's gangs and all that. It's kind of tough. The streets will make you do what they want you to do. Streets will find you. Yeah. So that's what he was doing. He would, for a while, what he would do is he would hang out at truck stops.

Oh. Okay. And offer to fight truckers for money. Like, let's fight, and if you can beat me up, I'll give you $50, but if I beat you up, you give me $50. So unsanctioned truck stop fights is what he was going for. So you could get a blowjob from a nice young lady, or you can fight that kid. Or you can fight a child one or the other

it's a proof if you beat the child then you have blowjob money so really it's a one-stop shop for these truckers it's a good stop who knew the market at a truck stop was so diverse it's very different i'm sure there's drugs there too like you can the truck stop is where to go you can really do some damage there oh Oh, shit, man. You're going to burn money going right through your pocket there. Burning cash. So the truck drivers thought he's an easy mark. Like, look at this little skinny fucking kid.

I'll fight him. So they would fight him, but then he would beat the shit out of these truckers for the most part. Of course he would. He's like a crazy street kid who's getting hit with lead pipes. He's a wear. So he would end up doing that. But then, you know, that wasn't really going well. So we'll talk about his first fight here.

So he starts amateur boxing. And he won the national championship, as a matter of fact. Oh. And was the Central American Golden Gloves champion as an amateur as well. Right out of the gate. Right out of the gate. He had 103 amateur wins um and i think five losses something like that he's a very aggressive fighter he's an entertaining fighter like

they put him on main events of pay-per-views because he doesn't stand there he's coming at you he's trying to knock you out he's a very entertaining fighter he's all he's all balls you know what i mean that's just his whole style. So that's how he is. His favorite boxer is Sugar Ray Leonard, which is weird because it's the exact opposite style of him. Yeah. Sugar Ray was fucking style class and dance and make you miss. Speed, make you miss. Olympic style. I'm going to hit you more than you hit me type of shit.

Right. Different type of fighter than Mayorga. Mayorga will take a blow to give you a blow. He doesn't care. He's like a little welterweight rocky marciano is kind of how he fights so his first fight is in costa rica in 1993 that's his first professional fight it's against a guy named jose morales who is 8 11 and 1 and it ends up 825-1 for his career. He doesn't win another fight. He doesn't win another fight.

They say his first pro fight, though, was before this, but there's no record of it, but he went to Costa Rica and fought for $30 in his first pro fight and got TKO'd in the sixth round. But that's not enough. No one has official shit, but it was a it was a fight he went and fought for 30 so this fight here jose el indio morales he beats him we think in the second round they they even say the date on this is approximate nobody really knows when this

happened we don't know what day it happened july 20th ish 1993 we know it was the summer of 93 we got that much probably but wow that's how just however that's why i don't know when he got married or had kids they don't even know when he fucking had a fight for christ's sake again unbelievable you think they keep track of when people were born so probably not so yeah he goes on from there. Now he's a pro. In August, August 13th, a few weeks later, 93, he fights Jose Miguel Alvarado. This is this guy's pro debut. Yeah. And his whole career is 0-1 because he loses this fight. Demoralized.

That's it. This makes him, this makes Ricardo Mayorga not only 2-0 in his pro career, but 2-0 against guys named Jose also. Yes. You better watch out, Jose. He's coming for you. He is coming for your ass. Next up, he fights a non-Jose. September 5, 1993.

Humberto Aranda, and his nickname is El Maestro. The Maestro. It's fascinating how well I do with mexican names and and and uh latin names yes you grew up in phoenix but italian fucking fucking crushes me it's they're different they're different it's similar but just different enough that it scrambles my brain. I can't tell you the number of times I was called Pietra Gaio while I lived in Phoenix. They rolled the R and everything. Yeah. Pietra Gaio.

And I'm like, nope, that's not it. Other one. I'm afraid not. Other side of that sea. The L's are hard there. So El Maestro's 3-0 coming into this fight 37 and 16 for his career and this is a loss for my orga my orga does not come out for round six oh so yeah he's two and one now next up david salguera this is in guadalupe uh oh this is in nicaragua okay uh this guy's one

and one coming in he'll be one and nine for his career. So not great. And we know that he lost to Ricardo here in the sixth round with a TKO. But there isn't even a fucking venue for these fights, by the way. Probably not. We don't know. I mean, it might have just been in a field. Could have been in the street.

We don't know. I don't know how this happened. This might have been in a Denny's parking lot, for all we know. An El Denny's parking lot for all we know an l denny's parking lot i'm not sure it's possible l white castle out in the parking lot let's get it on fuckers so uh january 28th 1995 he goes about a year and four months without fighting after the david salguera win here he's making him three and one he fights miguel angel perez next up uh which sounds like an ai generated give me a spanish guy miguel angel perez perfect that'll work done done uh you can't make his hands but you can make that

make that name name generator boom out uh nine and1 coming into this fight. So very good record coming into this fight. And he'll end up 11-13-1. So not good. Wow, it went awry. Yeah, he goes 2-12 from this fight on. We also haven't heard of a man that becomes a challenger at some point who didn't come out for a round. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Who genuinely threw the towel in. That's never happened before, I don't usual it happens sometimes but uh this this is for the nicaraguan super lightweight title which somehow these two are going after a three and one fighter and a nine and one fighter going after this it's vacant it's apparently got stabbed but yes someone died someone died from lack of municipal sewage or something and had some disease. So this is a TKO in round six, making Ricardo the Nicaraguan super lightweight champion. Champion. And making him four and one as well.

Fascinating. Next up, Benjamin Rivas, February 18th, 95. This is his debut fight and his last fight, all in one. Opening night, closing night. Let's go. This is a TKO in the eighth round. So five and one for Ricardo. We won again.

Next up in September 1995, Adolfo Mendez, alias Omar Mendez. Don't know why. He's running from somebody. Yes, I mean, he's hiding. I don't know what the deal is. But either way, Omar or Adolfo gets knocked out in the second round. So it really doesn't matter at that point. Adolfo's a one-and-four career fighter.

Oh, no. Not great. Next up, Miguel Angel Perez again for some reason. He's back here, and Ricardo beats him again. Three rounds this time, making him one seven and one next up 1998 so from december 16th 95 he doesn't fight again till january 6th 98 three fucking years which makes me i'm gonna go out on a limb here i'm pretty sure that he probably was in jail during that time in my opinion he's in jail but he's not famous enough for anybody to report on him being in jail

yeah that's what i think happened here because why else would a guy who's fighting every month or every few months yeah and the and the champion yeah he's a champ. Not fight for years now. It doesn't make any sense. So next up, he fights January 6th, 98, German Espinales. And he's 10-0 coming into this fight. Oh. Not bad at all. His career, though, 10-7-1. So he never wins another fight. Weird, right?

We've heard of them being retired. Like, this is their last fight because they got just beaten so but they get beat and then they go on to lose so much more yeah sometimes a tko like this getting yeah it fucks somebody up they can't recover from it like this their life it does i mean he a draw was the best he did for the rest of his career wow it just changes how you are plus when if you're 10 and 0 then they start putting you in the ring with actual fighters at that point yeah you're not just building your record so then you actually have to be able to fight so uh this is a fourth round tko for ricardo eight and one next up may 16th 1998 roger benito flores who's an eight

and eight fighter coming into this fight and this goes all 10 rounds, and Ricardo loses it by unanimous decision, too. Huh. Yeah, unanimous decision loss. Flores had him the whole time. Yeah, Ricardo, like I said, he's not a points fighter. Yeah. So if you go the distance, you got a good shot at beating him because you probably— Because he's coming at you.

Yeah, he's coming at you. He's not trying to get points. He's trying to knock your ass out and after 10 rounds you're you're gonna get you're gonna get slower yeah yeah that too less aggressive possibly over the time next up september 13th 1998 henry castillo he fights who's 11 and 1 coming into this fight again decent fighter this goes all the way to the distance. Again, 10 rounds. And this is another loss for Ricardo. He should not be doing this. That's not great.

You've got to end him early. Otherwise, he'll lose. He'll lose against mediocre fighters. Castillo retired at 12-2. Jesus. His next loss ruined him. So he's 8-3 now, Ricardo, fighting Rafael Valdez, who's two and six in his next fight.

Knocking him out in the first round. Ricardo had to get that. There you go. That's what you do. And that's what they do. After a guy loses like that, they like to put him in the ring with a guy that they can really just tee off on and get some confidence back. If they could put him in the ring with like a fifth grade girl, they would. Just beat her ass.

Rock those ponytails you know what i mean make them fucking twirl spin that bitch's ponytails would you just knock her ass out not her braids like a cherry stem boom so uh yeah henry castillo he fights again the guy who beat him last time um this is castillo's last fight, by the way, because he is knocked out in the seventh round by Ricardo. And Castillo thinks better of his career decisions at that point. Next up, Walter. This is June 12, 1999. So Walter Palacios, nickname Leetron.

Nine and one coming into this fight. And this is a win in the eighth round. Knock out for Mr. Mayorga here. So he's 11 and three. Next up, Jose Laka Laka Cordoba. Laka Laka. That's a great name. L-A-C-A, L-A-C-A.

Like Waka Waka, but Spanish. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder what that means.'m the spanish fozzie bear laka laka laka is that no it's loco would be a a a chick i don't know what i don't know either but uh he's that twice so there he is crazy chick crazy chick it's all he's 11 and 8 coming into this fight and this will be the last fight of his career because he gets knocked out in the first round and again okay thinks better of his career decisions uh next up giovanni duran 4 and 12 coming in and uh he doesn't fare much better he's knocked out in the fourth round so 13 and

3 for my orga you had to build up all this type of shit sure next up november 7th 1999 one of the strangest nicknames i've ever heard in my life here okay here we go uh dios dios belize hurtado is his name i'm going to show you a picture of this man okay there's a picture of him see him he looks like floyd mayweather very similar looking to floyd mayweather yeah so very soft looking man okay so you picture him he looks like Floyd Mayweather. Very similar looking to Floyd Mayweather. Yeah. Very soft looking man. Okay. So you picture him. He looks like a, you know, he looks like a, if you just looked at him and saw his picture. Pretty boy Floyd.

He looks like a black guy. Yeah. You know, Central American guy, Spanish guy. Nickname, the Oriental Kid. I give up. I fucking give up. I have no idea anymore what's going on in this world. First, you can't say that word.

Second, you're not. Well, maybe you can say oriental rug maybe it's a yeah so he's an oriental i don't know i don't understand it ramen noodles still have oriental flavor they do yeah i mean whatever but the oriental kid fascinating i don't understand and then his other nickname is black money so what the fuck are you talking about is what i'm getting at hurtado what's your story he's just a big fan of ramen noodles maybe he just loves it so he's 30 and 2 coming into this fight though and this fight is due to an accidental headbutt is stopped in the second round and called a draw. So 13-3-1 for Mayorga. Next up, Marco Antonio Avendano.

He's 13-0 coming into this fight. So this is a big fight for Mayorga here. He's got to really prove himself, and he does with a second-round knockout of this guy. There you go. This guy will go on to be 30-11-1 too. So he's a decent fighter. Yeah, not a bad fighter. If you don't know when Crystal Pepsi was discontinued, what was in Al Capone's vault, or which famous meteorologist is Lenny Kravitz's second cousin, then you haven't spent enough time on Wikipedia. But that's okay. I am here for you. I'm Darcy Carden, and I'm inviting you to listen to my new podcast, WikiHole, from SmartList Media.

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it's an all-new season it's streaming you can say anything judy justice only on Freebie. So 14-3-1 for Ricardo. April 7th, 2000, he fights the German Espinales guy again. And he beats him again with a knockout in the fourth round here. Manuel de la Rosa up next. 12-0 coming into the fight. And he's knocked out in the first round. Holy. And the rest of his career's knocked out in the first round. Holy. And the rest of his career, he'll go 1-10.

What the fuck, man? I'm telling you, it just ruins their confidence. An early shot like that will make you second guess every punch you throw early, for sure. And it's that thing of boxing is an instinctual, aggressive thing. So if you have a slight, and it could be a millisecond of hesitation of yeah he's gonna punch i'm not gonna punch right now you're fucking dead you can't do that yeah you have to go in and have no memory of ever being beaten up and and if you're 10 and 1 everything you've done up to this date has pretty much worked except for one time yeah well this guy

was 12 and 0 coming in so 12 and 0 nothing's never worked not everything's gone great and then he's great he goes in he doesn't even get out of the first round is knocked out so he's like what the fuck just happened destroyed him ruined him i was doing everything i've done 12 times i did everything the same a guy can take a loss by points because that happens because Because you can say, I got robbed if you want to. You can make yourself believe that if you really think that way. Or if a guy, it's a war, and in the 11th round, you guys are fucking throwing blows, and one of you guys gets in, you get knocked out.

People can live with that generally. Sure. But first round knockout is like, what did I do? And you're 12-0. Yeah. Then you feel like, oh, you don't want to get hit again because you'll get knocked out. So all that confidence you have had your whole life building to this point, gone. What did I do? And you're 12-0. Yeah. Then you feel like, oh, you don't want to get hit again because you'll get knocked out. So all that confidence you have had your whole life building to this point, gone.

It's a lot. Being knocked out sucks. It sucks. No one likes it. Oh, God, that sucks. Especially in front of a bunch of people who paid to watch it. That makes it even worse. Yeah, people saw that. Oh, no.

Oof. June 3, 2000, Elio Ortiz, nickname El Chingo. I don't know what that means either. I'm not sure. We need a dictionary, a Spanish dictionary when we do episodes like this. Well, these are all like slang too. That's the other thing, yeah. Chingo's, isn't that fuck?

Beats me. I don't know. El Chingo, 19 and 4 coming into the fight. He said fuck after the fight because he lost in the 10th round, got knocked out. So he can probably be fine after that because he got knocked out in the 10th round of 12. This was for the WBA FEDA. What the fuck is that word? Oh, FEDA Latin.

Okay. Like Federation Latin. FEDA Latin super welterweight title. So now he's a champ here 17 3 and 1 um he fights old leetron again and we still don't know what the fuck that means and beats him with a unanimous decision goes all 10 rounds so now he won a decision so that's good he's pointing with people 18 3 and 1 next up filiberto and his delicious tacos burritos friend filberto and his delicious tacos. I got those burritos, friend. Filiberto and his delicious carne asada burritos.

Oh, man. That's so good. If you live in Phoenix, you know what we're talking about. Just meat and cheese. That's all you get out of it. You're going to shit yourself silly later, but, man, are they good. Your insides will liquefy, but it's worth it. It's so worth it.

Pour the green sauce right into the burrito you can barely fit it in your mouth it's just such a so big i would love a carne asada burrito from filiburto's so they're amazing filiburto alvarez four and four coming in this goes the distance with a four and four fighter and he wins this fight and And this is for the WBC Fekar Box Super Welterweight title. So now he's got two belts. Yeah. Building up here. Next up he fights November 24, 2000, Elvis Guerrero.

Oh. He's not dead. That shows you how far Elvis went. Yeah. Some Nicaraguan guy was like, we will name him Elvis. Like, that's fucking awesome. I love him so much. He wears blue suede shoes when he boxes.

Yeah. His nickname is La Cobra, which isn't that feminine? La Cobra. Yeah, but the feminine is for Cobra because C cobra has the a on the end so you got to say you can't be el cobra right but it has to be cobra is not a that that's not a the a on the end of cobra isn't a right isn't isn't a gender right but a trash can a basura is is also uh wait that's el basura that's I mean. It doesn't make sense. Wait, is it La Basura?

Even like. Elbasura. I don't know. I don't know. La Cobra. But there's feminine masculine nouns. Yeah, yeah. And I think El Cobra is just one.

Neither of us know Spanish nearly enough to know what this is. It might be El Cobra. We have no idea, but he goes by La Cobra, so. It should be El Cobra. That shit is dangerous maybe he's la cobra like he's from los angeles the los angeles cobra maybe that's what that's all it is he just forgot to put dots in there like a wfl team yeah exactly that would explain elvis a little bit more too maybe. Maybe he's just from East Los Angeles.

East LA. You know what I'm saying? LA Cobra. LA Cobra. You just shortened it. It was ELA Cobra. Like LA Mike. It's not La Mike.

That's what I mean. Could have been LA Mike Richardson. It wasn't La Mike. So who knows? We don't know. We haven't figured it out. But either way, Elvis is 8-3-1 coming in, and he gets TKO'd here by Mayorga in the second round. That is Mayorga's 20th win, so 23-1.

Next up, El Gato Adolfo Salazar. Yeah, the cat. The cat. He's very nimble, I suppose. Nimble, yeah, fast. He's 15-0 coming into this fight. Fuck, shit, yeah. That's pretty nimble. And Ricardo knocks his ass out in the first

round oh you beat that pussy up knock that knock the bottom out that pussy it's too much fun too much uh 23 and 3 for his career that that guy, too. So he recovered. Next up, Elias Cruz, alias Policia. Oh, the police? The police. What? Elias Police Cruz. What is happening? Okay.

Big Sting fan. He loves it, yeah. He's like, every breath you take, I'll be punching you. That's what he says. That's how he closes out interviews just so ricardo knows every breath you take i'll be punching you senor and then he leaves oh man oh boy so this is at mandalay bay though this is not is that right that i've seen the first fight in america that he has here um yes so mandalay bay las vegas and uh this is a third

round tko for mr mayorga so that's fantastic that's good good shit. And that after that, the next month, Don King spots him in Venezuela. Or I think he knew of him from Mandalay Bay and probably went to watch his next fight. He probably followed him to the airport and went right to fuck with him. He flew next to him and shit. Ordering him like shrimp cocktails. Yeah. So this is March 2001. Mayorga recalls King handing him $15,000 in cash when he met him.

Here's a pile of cash. Don King is not stupid, and he does his research. And if a guy has been in America fighting once and three years ago fought for $30, if you give him a stack of cash, you got his attention right there. You bet. He grew up on a dirt floor. My business card is in between some of those hundreds. Find it.

Yeah, look through it. Yeah. He also offers him another $10,000 if he comes to meet him in Florida. He said, if you come meet me in Florida, there's another $10,000 for you. So $25,000 just to talk to me how's that oh okay i'll talk to him about anything for 25 grand i've i talked to a man about uh timeshares just to get a free trip i got a hundred dollars one time to listen to like a two-hour speech yeah i got tickets on a boat to a to an island uh five miles away that's what i, and I sat through it.

That's what I mean. And say what you will about Don King, scumbag, criminal. We'll do an episode on him, so you'll know all about it. But besides all of that, fucking entertaining guy to sit and watch. So, I mean, you want to talk to me for a while. I'll watch you act like a jerk off for 20 minutes. For 25 grand? 25 grand, sure.

Yeah. And he ended up the next, he ends up making Don King a lot of money here. Yeah. And Don King said, I tell Ricardo all the time, you're going to conquer America. Okay. Grace. That's grace. America needs conquering.

Don King handed you a fucking massive pile of cash and said, you're going to conquer America. And that's, it doesn't get any gracier than that. Right. Yeah. That's as nice as it gets. It sounds like he's got belts on him. He's yeah. You know, he's doing well here.

So he didn't give a shit about coming to the US, though. He didn't want to come here and live here or any of that bullshit. He really didn't care at all. Nope. Didn't want to do it here um they said that for his first fight under king it took they took weeks to convince him to leave his home to train away from nicaragua he just didn't want to leave he likes it there um so they go there and uh it's a uh king's fort pierce training camp and it said there's mildew all over and it's a shitty place so

maybe he'll feel good about it uh later on the gym is converted to a funeral parlor which is funny so yeah um he uh he would just take off from the training site and yeah and go back to nicaragua oh really yeah one morning where the fuck is ricardo and he's in Nicaragua is where he is. He's gone. And Don King said, if you leave again, I'm taking away your American visa. And, you know, because it's a work visa. So he's like, I'll say you're not working. And Mayorga said, quote, I don't need an American visa to go home.

So I don't really give a fuck if you take away my American visa. If you take away my visa, I just can't come back. And I don't really want to. I don't really care about doing this. He's only doing this come back and i don't really want to don't really care about doing this he's only doing this for money he doesn't really want to be here so july 28 2001 andrew lewis elias his nickname is six heads so i'm curious to see him without his pants on see how many also i've never heard of anything that has six heads no no i've heard of a hydra is that eight i think he has eyes, I think, are on certain things, not heads. That's interesting.

Six heads. Six heads. He's 21-0-1. So six heads has been beating people's asses pretty good here. Yeah, he's doing great. This bout is ruled a no contest in the second round. It's a Lewis cut caused by an accidental headbutt. So no contest.

That never happened. So March 30, 2002, they fight again this time. And he, so same records. Andrew Lewis this time gets TKO'd in the fifth round by Mr. Mayorga here. And this is for the WBA World Welterweight title as well. That's the one. That's a big bite, a big belt. And Mayorga's not a big training guy.

No? He's not a guy that's like, I get up at 3 and do road work, and I only eat fucking egg whites for three months to cut my shit. He doesn't do any of that. He shows up at the post-fight press conference smoking a cigarette with a beer in his hand which is fantastically charming i enjoy it a lot obviously but i'm impressed if you can do that and win that's what i mean i don't know how the hell you can be a professional boxer and have the ability to go 12 rounds in a fucking ring while you smoke cigarettes

that's insane yeah it's like it's's the thing that diminishes cardio fastest. How do you breathe through that? Vlade Divac used to fucking smoke like three packs a day while playing in the NBA, and I don't know how the fuck he did that either. He did? Yes, he smoked like three. They said you never saw him without a cigarette.

He was constantly smoking. Vlade, is he dead? I don't know. He looks like a guy who smokes three packs a day, doesn't he? That's how you say it, yeah. And would sell you a stereo out of the back of a van while smoking. I didn't know he smoked. A lot, a lot. Yeah.

Like an Eastern European amount of cigarettes. Right. Like a guy with a thick, thick accent. Yeah. Who's like, when I was a child, they came and took my little sister and cut her head off with machete. Like, he's that guy. Yeah. It looks like he comes from a machete-cutting country.

Looks like a guy that asks, do you have a light? Absolutely. So 23-3-1 for Mayorga and cigarette and beer and a new belt, and he's doing great. So, yeah, he did fantastic. It was a big fight for him too because it's a obviously an undefeated yeah guy mayorga at his press conference said i'm a champion because i'm a man is that right i'm no la cobra bitch i'm a man too i'm not a champion jesus in the before the fight he had threatened to to break Lewis's ribs, knock him out early, and make him retire early also.

So he's going to retire when he's done with this. Not far off, though, because after this fight, he'll only have a few more fights, Andrew Lewis. Really? He's 21-0-1 coming in. He ends up 23-4-2. Oh, shit. So I don't think he lost his will to fight after that. How were his ribs? His ribs seemed okay.

Not bad. So, Mayorga, they're talking about him fighting Vernon Forrest next, because Forrest had just beaten Sugar Shane Mosley for the WBC title at that point. So, they're talking about he's going to make a lot of money

for that fight. For the fight he just fought against lewis my organ made 140 000 there oh my that's what he said he's going to use that money to buy his mother a house it's his first big payday so he said that's his house money and my argus said i want to thank my mother for her suffering for having a boxer as a son which is is, yeah, that's stressful. Yeah, that was a very Merle Haggard thing to say right there. Yeah. Lewis said, I'll go back to the gym and train. I'll be back.

He wasn't back much longer, like I said. Sometimes I'll be back. Yeah, that's it. He said, King said, because I asked King, he's smoking and drinking, and he's a boxer. Like, is that okay? He really is doing it. He said, I'm not because they asked King, he's smoking and drinking and he's a boxer. Like, is that okay? He really is doing it. He said, I'm not going to challenge his habits.

He said, what he said was some of the greatest fighters from the past like to drink and smoke. And I'm not going to tell a guy who just knocked somebody's ass out, an undefeated fighter, how to fucking live, basically. Don't touch him. That's how he does it. Some of the greatest did? Yeah, back in the day they did. I'm sure Sonny Liston was a fucking, you know know he was smoking and drinking and all that kind of smoking joe smoked not for not since the 60s though guys haven't done that you know now guys are all

about cardio and all about right this is like the early 2000s yeah you know he's fighting like oscar delahoya and shit yeah these guys aren't smoking generally no drinking maybe but not smoking yeah absolutely that's but not not smoking though yeah and uh drinking they drink but not while in training they usually cut it off when they go into training that's how it works so um my org's manager said his fighter had abstained from drinking and smoking during training as well uh but my org has said when it was really cold i'd sneak a cigarette once in a while wow i don't know cold air makes him want a cigarette so uh 2003 here they're talking about this unification bout possibly for all the titles and all this type of shit and uh my orga wants to

fight vernon forest and he says quote i plan to whip him like a man whips a boy very Ali wow yeah Ali but also with like a weird sexual undertone to it I don't care for there's a sexual undertone but also if it's not sexual it's absolutely child abuse it's one of the two yeah

one way or another it's illegal like a man whips a boy it just sounds whips is the word yeah beat would have Like a man whips a boy. It just sounds... Whips is the word. Beat would have been different, but whips sounds sexual for some reason. Forrest is a six to one favorite, though. So that's a problem here. Well, that's because he's the champ, isn't he? Yeah, absolutely.

Forrest said he just beat Mosley. Right. Forrest said, I'm the best so right Forrest said I'm the best welterweight in the world at this particular moment and I'm planning on unifying unifying the title then going on and uh Mayorga said I don't know quote the only way I found out who Forrest was is when he beat Mosley now he's fighting Ricardo Mayorga now people will know who Ricardo Mayorga is okay yeah okay he wants to make a name for himself he made a name for himself against mosley now it's my turn that's what he's saying

i don't even know about him until just a minute ago that's fair now if you're perusing the paper reading these comments thinking wow this ricardo mayorga sounds like a nut right below his comments are something maybe to do later on the sales jimmy you can head over to if you happen to be in tampa in 2003 you can head over to sophisticats oh what is that lingerie modeling what i don't know and then it says 2001 and two night moves awards best lingerie shop best models so it's a lingerie shop where there's people modeling lingerie i suppose who knew i didn't know that was a fucking thing um yeah they they say abby ariel heidi jenna ryan madison danielle savannah kiana marsala and ashlyn are all there for you so

my word i want to hit that up so june 25th 2003 vernon forest 35 and oh coming into this fight is that right oh absolutely this is a big fucking deal um no one knows who the fuck my orga is really my orga didn't know who a 34 and 0 fighter was he knew who he was the point was he's an unknown you know know, now he's known. This fight is a big fucking fight. And he comes out and absolutely fucking dominates Vernon Forrest. Manhandles him. From the start, drops him in the first round.

Wow. Then in the third round, and the ref calls it off. Third round TKO for Mayorga. It's almost like when you grow up poor and have fucking nothing. Weird. And you have to fight for it. You seem to be real good at it. When you fight grown truckers for food, you tend to be a little hungrier than someone who came up in America. And that means in the worst circumstances in America, it still was not that.

It just isn't. So you're just not as hungry and desperate to survive as, as Mayorka is going to be. And Forrest was bigger, stronger fighter too. He's taller. He's a good fighter. He's a great fighter.

And, uh, he celebrated by smoking in the ring during the post fight interview, which is fan fucking tastic. The most disrespectful thing. Well, let me tell you guys, it's fucking amazing. Like, post-sexual,

man, I could use a sandwich, but first. I am spent. I'm feeling very loose right now. I don't know what it is, just real loosey-goosey like. I don't even respect my body that just beat the shit out of you. Does he come when the ref waves it off?

Is that it? He's got to. He's like, oh, God. Where's the Marlboro? Okay, give me a minute, guys. We'll talk about it. Hold on. My God.

So, yeah, it's a big deal. His coach, Stacy McKinley, gave up trying to stop him from drinking and smoking, he said. I gave up. What are you going to do? He wouldn't stop. He said that he ended up making a deal with Mayorga, saying that he allowed his fighter to smoke and drink. He said, quote, I could deal with the champ. He's smoking cigarettes and drinking beer.

Okay, that's fine. We going to make a deal, though, champ. What's the deal going to be? Monday through Friday, you're going to train, you aren't going to smoke, and you ain't going to drink no beer. On Saturdays, you can sit behind the camp, I'm going to get you a case of beer and a pack of cigarettes, and you can smoke all day. Okay.

You've got to understand one thing. He was going to do it anyway. So if I could just push it into one area, a pocket I wanted to have it, otherwise it's water coming down. I could just push it into one area, you know, a pocket I wanted to have it. Yeah. You know, otherwise it's water coming down. You can redirect it, but it's stopping. It's not really going to work.

He said, you've got to understand one thing. He's going to do it anyway. So it was my way of managing it. I had to manage it. You've got to be thinking outside the box. Sure. He's just nuts is what it is. So what are you going to do about that night when he's fucking jittery and he's just nuts is what it is so what are you gonna do about that night when he's fucking

jittery and he's had enough and he just wants a goddamn cigarette who the fuck knows that's what i mean i don't know what's going on here um but they talk about him now there's big stories about him one i'll read you the first paragraph here there can only be one man there can only be one place a man learns to fight as ricardo mayorga does see the wild punches from unschooled angles not rationed for 12 rounds but spent in an angry burst born of an empty belly and you know his story an empty belly causes him to a starving desperate man yep he says through his says through his translator and co-trainer, Hector Perez says, it comes from the streets.

It comes from being mean and hungry, running the streets like a dog, doing whatever you have to do in order to survive. Jesus. That's it, yeah. Mayorga said that I was the rooster of the neighborhood, he talks about. Yeah. He said that when he was 16, this doesn't... Oh, my God.

He doesn't keep it just to people that piss him off, too, by the way. Oh? He pulled a manga when he was 16. Punched a horse? A horse kicked him, apparently. So he knocked it out with a punch. He knocked it to the ground with a punch i don't know if that's true but that's a legend of his neighborhood that they people saw him knock

a horse out like mongo from blazing saddles i hope it's bullshit because that's that's crazy um yeah and they said remember that oh that they remind you that uh remember that nicaraguan horses are smaller and skinnier than american horses his trainer says so he didn't knock out a clydesdale it's a smaller skinnier horse but still still a fucking horse they said very weird so yeah vernon forest was from atlanta fought very few horses and probably had food growing up and uh vernon forest said he was a mystery then and he's a mystery now he's like i don't know where the fuck that guy. He just came out of nowhere and, you know, did all that shit. So Forrest, Forrest trainer said he's strong. He just throws punches.

He has no direction on his punches. What we worked on every day is to keep your hands up when in close. You just can't trade punches. You've got to finish yours and step around his. And that's what it is, is he's so unconventional that you he does the punches don't come from angles normal punches come out you don't even know where he's coming from yeah because you're trained this is how you fight this guy's gonna fight you and you're gonna fight him and this guy comes at you all unorthodox yeah but what kind of roadmap is that from your

fucking train if your trainer tells you step around them and you don't know where they're coming from, fire him. Because the whole point is know how he throws punches and train me to block them. Yeah. Nobody really knew that much about him. And most of his fights were, they probably had two fights worth of film on him. The rest of them were fucking in Nicaragua somewhere. Sure. They had no idea how to even, you couldn't even really.

But a guy tells you throw your punches you never know where they're coming from but that's it's a rocky apollo creed thing unorthodox he's coming at you unorthodox and apollo had no fucking film to study on rocky and so he didn't know where the hell these left hooks were coming from they're flying from every direction step around them though so this is wonderful Orga, through his interpreter here, relayed a message to Vernon Forrest, which is fucking hilarious. Here is his interpreter. Quote, he says he's very upset that Father's Day passed and Vernon didn't get him anything. What?

He says, quote, he knows who his father really is. And my Orga says he will soon punish him like a father does a son he knows who his real father is and he should have bought me a present before twitter he was claiming to be someone's father that is awesome wait here he says the delahoya it's the greatest in their own words of all time i have to give like a disclaimer that this isn't coming from don't isolate this please the please, the whole deal. It's a lot. He told him, Father's Day just passed. You didn't get me anything, young man. I'm disappointed in you.

Wow. I'm going to go hard on you, beef. Holy shit. That's amazing. His translator also said, he gets into everybody's head, even mine. The man talks day and night. One of the things I'm always talking about is that he can say anything he wants, but he has to back it up. When I ask him for more sparring or a little more in the gym, I use that on him.

Like, well, you talked all the shit. Now you got to get in here and do all the fight. They say he drives. No one wants to ride with him in a car because he drives like a fucking psychopath. Awesome. Everywhere. He's nuts he also wants to build the first drag strip in nicaragua so he can fucking be a drag racer in nicaragua and nicaragua

yeah um he's insane um they one quote is uh this is perez again quote he's a character i'll be driving in traffic and he'll put a towel over my head and say you ever tried driving blindfolded that's not a character i have not that's a crazy person that's a romantic see no i can't see in a romantic comedy the charming sandra bullock character does that to show what a free spirit she is and then she like blows him afterwards you're like this girl's wild I have to be at my accounting job at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Stop doing this. Yeah, they said that he would. He's just everything he does. He's smoking cigarettes.

They said he's been known to eat a pizza as he was being weighed in. So he's just being weighed in eating pizza. Unbelievable. He drinks beers at the post fight, does all of that shit. One guy said here, I don't know. I do know he doesn't do what he says, smoke and drink every day. The guy trains very hard. I do know that much.

A lot of it is marketing. He'll drink and smoke on the weekends, but during the week, you know. It calms it down. You got to train. You can't come into a fight not training and win. It's just not going to work here. Mayorga said, quote, through Perezerez we don't know our destiny but if not for boxing i'd probably in a bb in a very dark world either in jail or a drug trafficker there was nothing else in my future so now he lives in

a gated home in nicaragua here in the in the city and everything like that. He bought his parents a house, which is obviously they're not even living in. And he says, quote, being poor is what really has made me strong. I always try to stay hungry. I worry that after two or three more fights, I won't be poor anymore and I might lose my strength. I'm betting everything I have on this fight, which is my family's future.

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And the night before the fight, Mayorga is seen on the floor of the casino where the fight is taking place at 3 a.m. smoking a cigarette with a strange woman on his arm and a fucking stack of chips gambling. Unbelievable. He has to fight tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a fucking fight with a guy who was 35-0 before this last fight. I mean, hit me. I'm sparring right now. He stumbled up to his room about daybreak and fell asleep in his street clothes and woke up a couple hours later to go get prepared for his fight. Unbelievable. Yeah, you can't do that shit. He thinks he's that much better?

He's just, I don't know what it is. It's insane. He says, I am a fighter with or without bad habits. This is what I am. When people like somebody, they accept the way they really are. Just love me, God damn it. Just love me. And his trainer says, he's a very unique person.

He's a handful. Sometimes he talks and does things he's not supposed to do. But when I ask him to do things in the gym, on the road, or with sparring, he does it. He's the kind of person that can go three days without sleeping, taking only little cat naps. Yeah. He said, I might get upset with him, and he will say, okay, what do you want me to do? And I will tell him to go train, and he will do it. He also says that he's very

charitable he says he gives his money away to people back home that need the money when he comes into a fight he wants to be broke so he can fight like he's the challenger wow he has to get rid of all his money that way he's hungry otherwise he's afraid he won't have the same hunger because if i don't win i'm not gonna i'm not gonna make it to the next fight that's what it is he said he wants to take care of business back home not not only for his family, but for his friends and neighbors. He wants to build a drag racing strip. Perez also says he wants to do this not only for his bad habit, but for other people's bad habit and to get them off the street. He wants to win this fight because he wants to go to a village that has never had lights, spend $100,000 so the town can have lights.

Just build a couple of Transformers. Yeah, there's these villages there that have no electricity, for Christ's sake. In the 2000s, they have no electricity. He's just trying to put some street lights up for them. He wants to put lights, wire the town for electricity so people can have electrical shit. It's important stuff there. So, yeah yeah he's going into this fight um my orga says quote i do not care if verne forest chose to stay away and

not help with the promotion because verne forest wouldn't say a word when someone is scared to fight they are even scared to talk to reporters i think it will work against him because it will only inspire me to fight even harder i'm going to knock him out in the second round. Okay. Okay. So during this fight, this is a very fucking interesting thing here. This fight goes the distance. So much for the second round.

But in the fourth round, I've seen this, Mayorga drops his gloves to his fucking side and is telling Forrest to fucking hit me. Offers him a free shot. Free shot. Forrest hits him. My orca then starts hitting his own face and saying, harder, harder. Fucking hit me harder. Let's go, motherfucker.

Knock me out. Let's see what you can do. Is that points for him? No, the judges will take that as he just got two good shots in on you. Right, yeah. But at the same time, if you're a judge, you got to go, he just, and Forrest fucking nailed him, and he barely even fucking flinched and came back out of my orga. So he got open, clear shot, hit me in the face, and did nothing to him.

So at that point, that's got to kill you if you're Forrest. I can't knock this guy out even if he, all things are perfect. Lays it down. Yeah. My orga afterwards said, i wanted to show i was the boss i was his father his father he wants to be el padre i want to be your father i want to name you diana hit me diana yep uh he says it was stupid and reckless but it did what he intended it to do which was changed the whole fight scared yeah scared burning out of his pants and he wins by

decision in a 12 round fight yeah so vernon now 35 and 2 and uh 25 3 and 1 for my orga and uh yeah that's how that's how it is there. So he's ready to fight again. And Perez says it's, uh, they said that, uh, he says it's always something with Ricardo. Look,

he's a great fighter. Is he a little crazy? Yes, but in a good way. Okay. Yeah. My Orga wants Delahoya next. Is that right?

He's beat forest twice. Now he's the fucking champ. So he's looking for it. He wants to fight Delahoya. He says he gets to pick the challenger more or less. He's the Forrest twice now. He's the fucking champ, so he's looking for it. He wants to fight De La Hoya. So he gets to pick the challenger, more or less. He's the champ. Yeah, you want to fight. The money fights with him.

So he's got all the belts, so now he can choose his opponents, pretty much. He said, my purpose right now is to fight Oscar De La Hoya. Honestly, I dislike him. I will fight him any weight class. He's like, this doesn't even have to do with belts. I just want to kick his ass. That's it. You want to fight that any weight class. He's like, this doesn't even have to do with belts. I just want to kick his ass. That's it. You want to fight that guy.

Yeah. Mayorga said that the fight against Forrest was kind of ugly looking, but he's happy he won. He said, I would have looked better if he had traded punches with me. It's hard to look good when you're doing so much chasing. Because they learned last time, you don't go in close and try to trade punches with this guy. He'll fuck you and knock you out. So, yeah yeah do that uh he said that quote i proved that the first time i beat him wasn't a fluke i proved that i could take a punch and go 12 rounds which is absolutely true it's all the things people said he couldn't do right and he did it uh december 8 2003 there's

a big sports illustrated article on him Oh, yeah. This is an interesting I'll read you the first little thing here. Somewhere, it is written that professional boxers must adopt a nom de ring, no matter how trite or ill-fitting. Thus, the pugilistic landscape is littered with the ponderous cheetahs and gelatinous

rocks. There are more Rockies than there are Rocky sequels. Then there is Ricardo Mayorga. The welterweight champion might be nicknamed El Matador. It's even tattooed on the side of his neck. But the handle could scarcely be less accurate.

Matadors can succeed with a combination of grace and precision. Mayorga does this to his with sheer power and aggression. If anything, his moniker should be El Toro, the bull. He is a rash and impetuous while Matadors are calculating and poised. Yeah, perhaps most telling while Matadors merely flirt with death, Mayorga all but stalks it. He has a notorious pack a day smoking habit.

And of course, his line of work isn't exactly osha approved they're talking about how he's breathing life into the sport because this is when kind of the delahoyas and the mosleys and all those guys were kind of on their the backside of their shit yeah and so they needed new guys in these weight classes to come up and they said he is uh don king says quote ricardo mayorga is the truth and that's no lie okay plus he's confusing as fuck plus he has the adrenaline to meet the prophecy what he's got enough energy to get where i just said he's going basically it's prophesied he prophesied at don king yeah yeah um which is ridiculous so uh he says uh he gave order to a waitress, they're talking about, at breakfast, and he announced to his dining companions,

it's a good thing I don't speak better English or I'd romance all your women. Like I'd fuck all the women too. I just don't know how to speak enough English to do that. I'm El Padre. Yeah, that's what he's doing. His next fight's going to be against cory spinks who's leon spinks who's a great episode yeah we did leon spinks he's got an enormous penis giant crank um that made a woman like wrote poetry about his dick it

was so amazing he says to cory spinks this will be the biggest uh the biggest person the biggest beating you'll ever get okay that's right uh they saw they do that um he said i don't do it to show off talking about smoking i'm addicted okay yeah we figured that that's what you're doing here i'm not doing this for fun yeah this is just what i do god damn it so yeah this sports illustrated just talking about what an oddball he is and everything like that um he says that he has the same friends that he always had in the streets when he was a kid. He says all these bums, he calls them. Those are his friends. All the bums.

He said, sometimes I go to my friends' houses and they want to serve me food on their best plates, not the paper plates they normally use. I say, you know, I come from poverty. Give me the paper plate. I'm no better than you are. I still think like a poor man. Yeah, well, I'm just afraid you'll punch me if i serve you that yeah i don't want to be disrespectful um so he is very much wants everybody to know that he's not like high hatting anybody he's not acting like he's fucking better than anybody um he they said that they he prayed that he'd never

kill anyone in the ring because that's what he does he doesn't want to kill anyone he said they said do you ever pray for your own safety and he said never i hit harder okay so december 13 2002 or 2003 cory the next generation sphinx who is leon's son 31 and 2 coming into this fight this is for the ibf wba and wbc welterweight titles here um myorga has penalized a point in round five for hitting after the bell and also a point in round 11 for holding and hitting oh which becomes a big deal because the fight goes the distance and he loses a split decision. Oh, shit. So losing two points over the course of the fight.

Cost him the whole fight. That could very easily cost you the fight here. So Corey Spinks unifies all these belts now. He was a five to one underdog and all that kind of shit. So, yeah. Mayorga said afterwards, okay, he's going gonna say a word that isn't politically correct to say here and we understand and all that kind of shit but it's him saying it and it's crazy and there's no you just there's no way to say it you'll understand yeah so here was it this is 2003

either way to say this in public has always been a little bit weird, but I'm going to read it. Here it is. Don't fucking isolate this, please. That's my normal thing here. Quote, Spinks, you are a faggot. I want to sew a pair of nuts on you so you can stand and fight in front of me next time like a man. Okay. That's what he said.

Sew a pair of nuts on you. He's a ball-less. A ball a man. Okay. That's what he said. So a pair of nuts on you. He's a ball-less. A ball-less. Yeah. He's more like a eunuch, really. I don't know what that has to do with his sexual preference being, but whatever. So, yeah, he's 25-4-1 now. He fights Eric Murder Mitchell next.

So we got the killer against the murder. Nice deal here. 16-3-1 for this guy. This is at Madison Square Garden. This goes all 10 rounds, and Ricardo wins a unanimous decision here. So good for him. At this point, June of 2004, he says that he's bored with boxing. It is so boring.

It's so boring. He plans to retire after two more fights. He says he's bored with boxing. It is so boring. It's so boring. He plans to retire after two more fights. He says he's got a bunch of money. He says, quote, I have bought five very big houses, two farms with a good amount of land, and I have money saved. I don't want any more boxing for anything. Wow. He just wants to build his stock car truck.

Nicaragua is cheap. It's insanely cheap. Yeah, you make a couple million, you're good. Especially 20 years ago. So June 18, 2004, he will be unable to attend his scheduled title bout promotional press conference in New York City because he is accused of assault in his hometown. Oh, no. In Nicaragua. Yeah, he is accused of assaulting and hometown. Oh, no. In Nicaragua. Yeah.

He is accused of assaulting and threatening the life of another man. The judge ordered an arrest warrant for him, and he has to turn himself in to face the accusation and blah, blah, blah. Mayorga said, if it had been me that beat the guy up, you guys know what I'm capable of as a fighter. I think he would be in the hospital or broken in half. So he said, it wasn't me. I'd have kicked his ass much worse than that.

Somebody just slapped him up. Which is a decent defense if you're this lunatic. It's not bad. Did he have cigarette burns on him? Then it wasn't me, obviously. He posted a $316 bond and took off. Then September 3rd, 2004, he's arrested again. He's arrested on suspicion of rape this time, though.

A little bit different. Oh, yeah. Those are, yeah. That's escalated. Yeah. That's not good. He's supposed to fight Felix Trinidad at Madison Square Garden in October. Except, yeah.

A month from now. He's released after his lawyer charged that the arrest warrant used to detain him had expired Thursday, which was the day before. That's the. A judge ordered him freed and upheld an injunction filed that will allow his client to fly to go to New York. So it's crazy. What the fuck? He was then arrested. He was first arrested at the airport while trying to come back to the United

States. The charges, a 20 year old woman said that he beat her and sexually abused her after he invited her to his hotel room. He told the reporter that he had quote a normal relationship with her and that hotel employees are witnesses that she was happy when she left the hotel. He said, I gave her two bills of 500 Cordobas, which is about $30 each. So he gave her $60.

Okay. And we said goodbye. That's what he said from his jail cell. I paid her for sex and she left. What the fuck? 60 bucks, you guys. Yeah. jail cell. I paid her for sex and she left. What the fuck? 60 bucks, you guys. He's then smoking a cigarette in the jail cell and asked the reporter to take a picture

of him in a boxing pose while he's smoking in a jail cell. They said, what about your fight against Trinidad? He said, I think that it was suspended and Trinidad will fight somebody else, but I'm not sure. That's what he said. Don King said, I'll address it another time

as soon as I figure out what the fuck's happening no yeah it's all good uh September 29th 2004 just these articles about him and what a fucking nut he is here um that was supposed to be that's supposed to be the fight where he fights Trinidad and all this type of shit but he still got a lot of attention on him for all of his bullshit and everything else. He's still saying, I had a normal relationship with her. That's what she said. That's what he keeps saying, had a normal relationship. What does that mean?

I don't know. I guess that's conventional sex, just normal. I didn't even put it in her butt or nothing. Yeah. Burt Sugar, the longtime boxing the boxing reporter, Burt Sugar. Yeah. Wears the hat, you know, the old-time reportery hat. He said he sort of embodies machismo.

Is that? What? He's up for a rape charge. Don't say that the month he gets put up for a rape charge. Embodies it? In the ring he's talking about, I think. Yeah. He swings as if there's no tomorrow again you

could take that either way burt uh he looks like he's throwing punches from the third row okay there you go nice clarify he does arrive at la guardia airport with his hair dyed bright red and a shirt uh that has the date of the fight coming up and says, Tito's retirement celebration, time to hang them up. And he also said he bet Felix Trinidad $100,000 in a personal bet on their fight as well. Mayorga said, it's a real bet. It's not putting any sort of pressure on me. In fact, I'm going to make sure he pays me after the fight. With that money, I'm going to buy myself a limousine maybe two

in nicaragua and name it tito so that everyone remembers when i knocked out tito that is such epic level trolling it's just it's all he's doing that's all he's fucking doing so he's he's ready to go he says uh my orga said i predict it's going to end between rounds three and five. I don't really want to cause the Trinidad family any more grief. So I please ask the father to say, stay close and try not to let the fight go on longer than needed. The father. Yeah. That was, I think his, his, uh, trainer.

So he's talking to Don Felix, Trinidad, who threw in the towel when he fought against Hopkins. So he's saying he'll don't worry about that sort of thing. Sugar said, there's no sweet science to his science. He's got one gear, and that's to throw punches as hard as he can. That's what it is. So Trinidad, honestly, that's a tough, you're trying to make a point if you fight this guy because there's really no reason. Trinidad said of himself, Tito is not coming to play in the ring.

He's coming to fight, and will be hitting very hard against any challengers, even more when they have a big mouth. He doesn't understand whom he'll be in the ring with. So doesn't get it. So, yeah, that's ready to go here. So here we go. Rape charges and all. Felix Tito Trinidad, 41-1 coming into this fight.

Wow. This is his comeback fight here. And Mayorga keeps running his mouth. He said, I'm not going to do it in the sixth, seventh, or eighth round because by that time he's going to be knocked out. But I'm going to do it, of course. I'm a man of my word, and I always do what I say. That's right. He'm going to do it of course i'm a man of my word and i always do what i say that's right he's gonna do that he's gonna name his fucking his limo tito this fight goes up until the eighth round where it is stopped and uh my orga is it's a tko for tito trinidad here felix

is that right yes trinidad's a really good fighter. Yeah, but he got knocked out. Didn't even go the distance. This is not good. And fighting Bernard Hopkins, too. Bernard Hopkins is a bigger guy. He was just shaving weight off to get down. Such a good boxer. He's a middleweight, Bernard Hopkins.

He's not a fucking welterweight or a super welter. So it's a tough fight for Tito. But then again, Tito ended up going up weight classes later on, too. So who knows? But they do that. He's 26, five and one now. October 7th, 2004. Back to rape.

He is. He gets back to Nicaragua and is immediately ordered under house arrest at this point. He says it's consensual. Yeah. He goes to court and his supporters are crying, let him out, let him out. And other people are crying accomplices, accomplices at those people.

So there's, yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. So December 8th, 2004, he is found innocent of rape after a closed door trial that ended fair 17 hour hearing even better later on when you hear how close he is with the president of the fucking country oh really yeah it's a little bit fucking ridiculous how close he is and by the way if uh may 11 2005 if you happen to be in the tamp area, you want to hit up this page in the newspaper because they have a whole lot of shit here.

It's Oriental, quote, Aloha Oriental Spa. And it's a bunch of jack shacks and adult movie theaters. All have ads in the same area. It's just for pedicures, James. One actually says, Great sex. One hour pleasure in five minutes. Now available. So, I mean, that's...

Not even trying to hide it at that point. Tampa Tribune. You're just airing that shit? Fantastic. August 4th, 2005 from the Boston Globe here. Mayorgas says he's ready to inflict pain. Doesn't care that he lost.

Yeah, he doesn't care. He's got to fight some guy now coming up, and he's saying that I don't even know this guy. I've seen tapes of this guy, and I don't really have a high opinion on him. I don't think he's going to be able to withstand my pressure. Yeah, he's going to get his pressure withstood uh he says just look at his record basically he's fighting guys that are stepping on grapes to make wine he's fighting an italian guy he hasn't fought a guy my caliber you'll see when i knock him out in two rounds he's so politically incorrect he's just yeah he says i was a great champion at the welterweight level, winning

two or three titles. I went to the middleweight division skipping 154, although I did make one fight there. So that's not skipping it. You fought at 154. What are you talking about? I didn't do that except for the time I did that. Okay. I think my history as a

welterweight and the decision to go to 154 pounds is sufficient enough to give me a shot at the title. Yeah, he's ready to go, and he thinks it's going to happen. He said, my head wasn't in the fight that night, but I want to repeat, I'm not making excuses, but it was a bad night for me. But he wants a repeat. He wants to do it. He's ready to go.

Come on, let's do it. So he's fighting April 13, 2005. He's fighting one of the most Italian men ever here. Let's take a look at this guy. Holy shit. Look at him. Jesus Christ almighty. Sausage and peppers.

I bought a pizza from that guy three days ago. So Michel Piccirillo here. Yeah. Michel Piccirillo, alias The Gentleman. He's known for his sportsmanship in the ring. I am the eggplant. Literally. No, don't say that, because Italian guys use that for a totally different fucking thing.

Yeah, you're right. And it's not the dick either. No, it's not. That's a racial slur in the Italian community. Not toward us. No. Used by us toward others. This is a 50 and

five career fighter uh yeah 44 and 2 coming into this fight for the vacant wbc world super welterweight title this fight goes all 12 rounds so oh i don't know it must be tough to stomp on grapes i guess because that's a pretty good deal here. They're slippery. And he does win, Ricardo, in a decision after 12 rounds. So 27-5 and one for him. Next up, he's fighting Oscar, the golden boy, De La Hoya. De La Hoya. Okay. May 6, 2006.

Definitely on the downside of Oscar's career. Sure. Oscar's 37-4 coming into this fight. Really? Yeah, 39-6 career for him not yeah the front end of his career was fantastic and then the back end just really wow oscar hadn't fought for 20 months before this fight either almost two years now here is what he says we're gonna definitely do it in their own words on this one because again this is him saying it not, this is him saying it, not me saying it, and we have to repeat it.

And if you have a problem with that, kindly stick your head directly up your ass and fart, because fuck you. Okay, let's do it. Really hard. Really hard. And after you've had a carne asada burrito from Filiberto's. Really push. So it might not actually be all air. You never know.

Yeah. So let's get into this in their own words quote i'm going to make you my bitch you're going to be my bitch in my bed anytime i want you i hate bitches and i'm going to make you my little bitch tell your wife to fuck you in the morning so you stand and fight me don't take a dive like you did against bernard hopkins faggot i want to kill him i want to stop his heart with my right hand you can't even represent your race bitch all the latinos are with me that's what he just said he said that into a microphone he said that to a reporter and said make sure delahoya hears that shit and the rest of the world too i hate bitches i hate bitches and i'm going to make you my little

bitch he said you're going to be my bitch in my bed anytime i want you he's essentially saying i will rape you yeah they're not if they were in prison together i understand what he's saying but this isn't a prison boxing match this is out on the outside this is uh free world it's gonna be like mandalay bay you know people will buy hotel rooms for this wow that is fucking amazing and my orga goes on to say i believe honestly that despite everything i told him and despite all the insults that we traded, I still don't think he's man enough to stand in front of me. Regardless, it's going to be the same result. I'm going to knock him out.

I not only want to stop him, I want to stop his heart or detach his retina, one of the two. I really want to do damage to him. I want to break internals on this man. Jesus Christ, that is insane this fight here uh is in the mgm grand in vegas only goes six rounds delahoya just picked him apart the whole fight he fucked him up i mean it was a wasn't much of a fight it's a tko in the sixth round for delahoya big win for him for a bitch he he does okay if you're gonna say is your style either a bitch style or not a bitch style and not a woman, which is a bitch ass, De La Hoya's style is a bitch style.

I'm sorry. Not a woman's style. He's not a fun fighter to watch. He's a boring fucking backpedaling. When you watch the first fight against him and Felix Trinidad, when he beat Felix Trinidad, he fucking ran for the fucking last five rounds of that fight. Trinidad was chasing him around the ring, and he was just back patting.

He wouldn't fight him. He's an Olympic style points fighter, which is fine, but I don't want to watch that shit. Don't care. Like he's in high heels in the ring. Yes. So after the fight, though, Mayorga had a totally different tone. He said to De La Hoya, quote, you are a great champion. You are a great fighter. I apologize for everything I said to you. And De La Hoya said, I forgive you. And they were buddies after that.

2012, 2006, Mayorga tests positive for a banned substance here. What is it? A diuretic after his weight loss, they talk about. So he's going to be fined and suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. He was drinking beer, so he needed to, you know. Drop the weight fast. Yeah, this is the executive director of the Athletic Commission said, it's a diuretic. We don't know if he took it to help him lose weight,

or it could be something he took to mask something else. Either way, it's a diuretic. We don't know if he took it to help him lose weight or it could be something he took to mask something else. Either way, it's a violation. Yeah. So, Mayorga could lose a bunch of his estimated $2.5 million purse from the bout, too, from it, though. Really? This fight generated more than about $44 million in pay-per-view revenue. Oh, fuck. Back then, too.

So Mayorga had threatened to pull out of the fight because he felt slighted because De La Hoya was guaranteed $8 million. So, yeah, Mayorga got knocked down in the first round, and it was just never really a fight. De La Hoya was on him the whole time. January 31, 2007, in Nicaragua, Ricardo is arrested for fraud. Uh-oh. He's got a variety. It's like a fucking card. It's like a hand of poker.

Shit. He doesn't like to duplicate moves, though. I like that. No, no, no. That's what I mean. He's got different stuff. He's got a two, a five, a jack, a ten. He's got all sorts of shit.

He was arrested at the airport as he boarded a plane headed for the U.S. They just wait for him at the airport is what it is here. Apparently, he was being held after Ramiro Sandino, a used car dealer, accused Ricardo of failing to pay him $56,000 for four cars. He said he had turned the cars over to my orga in december 2005 and the guy promised to pay for him after pay him after the delahoya fight but he never paid him so so he got him on credit we got him on credit i'll get you after the fight and they said sure yeah he's good for it he's fucking making all this money but now he doesn't know how much money he's

making because his purse is being held up because he's tested for a diuretic and all this type of shit. February 2nd, 2007, he is arrested again. This is within a week. Three days later, he's arrested again for fraud again. Yeah, he's doing all of this behavior based on living a life based on money that he might make. That he's supposed to make. This time worse, accused of writing bad checks now. Yeah, not good.

They dismissed the car thing as a civil matter. A judge dismissed it as a civil matter. $56,000? $56,000 seems above a civil matter. But then he was arrested again. In this one, three people have accused him of writing bad checks worth $87,000. Oh, my God. Yes.

And his brother, Ricardo's brother, said this isn't fraud. It's a debt that he's paying, and it's a civil matter. So this shouldn't be a crime. That's what he said. I don't know. It's $130,000 of money that he's supposed to make. In that country, that's so much money. He's only making 2.5.

Yeah. Yeah. That's so much money in that country, too. That's another thing. He is spending it so fast. So fucking fast. So, I mean, now he's sitting in a Nicaraguan jail cell on two different fraud charges in one fucking week and all this shit.

Not good. It's a mess, dude. He finally gets out. I mean, what's he going to do? He he gonna do he's gotta pay his debts back yeah you gotta like slink through the city who else does he owe money if there's these two i bet he owes a lot of people money yeah these are just the two that are willing to call the cops and talk about yeah that's what i mean there's probably a lot of people where he said i you know i'll get you back after the fight private people he borrowed money from things like under that. Something under five grand, yeah.

One thing, though, he's smoking and he's been drinking. Oh, boy. And what do you want after you're smoking and drinking, walking around? You're pretty hungry. Yeah. You're pretty hungry. You start to smell shawarma, and I'll tell you what, boy. Oh, boy.

It's absolutely. He opens the door, and he's in the shop shop and boom, it's the shawarma man. Yeah. And he says, how is it you've come to arrive here? Where have you been for so long? Nobody come see me. Come, come in, come in. Where are you?

I have, look, I make for you. Very nice. Wait a sec. Hold on. You say you want to pay. What is this? Hold on. Wait a sec.

Hold on. You say you want to pay. What is this? Hold on. You want to pay with post-dated check from two years from now from you get fight? No, I take cash only. I swarm a man. Cash only.

No, you don't say that. No, I'm not your bitch. Don't say to me like that. No, not your bitch. No, you are that word, I tell you. No, you. You don't call me that. I carve you like lamb that no sign say closed you go you go now get out and they know shawarma for ricardo poof and the shop is gone and it happens you don't say that word no and a cloud of shawarma and onions it's gone and he's just very confused now but tomatoes and tzatziki

tomatoes and tzatziki very confused you and tzatziki. Very confused. You don't call the shawarma man that word. No, that word is not for here. He will not take it at all. February 4th, 2007, he leaves prison. He's facing trial. He's got bail, I guess, here. He had been arrested, like we said, for all these different things.

May 13th, 2007 2007 i guess it's all cleared up at that point it's all fine because now they're talking about him fighting fernando vargas at that point remember him with his stupid hair in the front there yeah um on a showtime pay-per-view for the vacant wbc continental america's super middleweight title however it was postponed after uh it was discovered that during a routine blood test vargas was suffering from a severe iron deficiency i remember was that right yeah doctor ordered him not to participate in the bout until he received the necessary treatment to correct the problems and all this type of shit so um yeah um that's what

he's complaining about they're talking about vargas so july 12 2007 uh they have a press conference vargas and mayorga and they have all sorts of shit flying here vargas is a similar kind of guy so yeah these two guys are very similar here uh ricardo they said quote ricardo mayorga had blood-stained bruises on both cheeks, swelling around one eye, scratches on his neck and dried splotches of blood on his shirt, shirt collar. Fernando Vargas, his shirt and jacket removed, was standing in angry defiance, flexing his muscles and shaking his fists. And this was only the news conference. That's just the start. that's just the start yeah they said the violent clash between vargas who's from oxnard and mayorga from nicaragua uh wednesday afternoon at the in the chick hern press room at the staples center

at a news conference to announce their fight there at the arena um did not appear to be a don king concoction they said here uh the animosity and fury seemed genuine as evidenced by the blood and bruises so yeah there's a they got in a fucking brawl there um apparently my orga got up to speak and vargas was talking and my orga got up to speak and vargas didn't move so my orga referred to him as fatty vargas always looked like he had a little pududge in his stomach And then he said something about Vargas' wife and mother Oh fantastic Then reached over and

Slapped Vargas as well So at that point Vargas jumped to his feet and Landed two fucking punches on him quick Oh is that right? Yes and then everybody Got in and it was chaos and all that kind of shit. And Vargas said they should have sold tickets to this.

When he tried to slap me, he should have known I'm a counterpuncher, which is pretty fucking funny. Yeah. Yeah. Mayorga said through an interpreter, I am very upset.

This is a man who idolizes the gang life. He had his whole entourage with him, but on September 8th, he won't have them. So November 2007, they're talking about he's working out in East LA. That's what he's going to do.

He's ready to go. Vargas, they're talking about Vargas's money. He said, I've got my investments. I don't have to work anymore. We're going to open some pizza restaurants. We're committed to at least 12.

I'm a food connoisseur, you know. I'm a foodie. Yeah, that is, because that's why they keep calling him fatty. Yeah. That's what he says. He says, I'll get up to around 180 and stay there. I'll go to the gym.

I'll lift to eat. I'll stay ripped. I'm ripped now, talking about his retirement. He's like, look, I'm still going to eat when I'm going to get fat, and that's what it's going to be. He said, I'm a Mexican from Oxnard. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but that's what he said.

A lot of food in Oxnard, I guess. Apparently. So you get chubby, I guess, I suppose, here. So Don King, though, says Ricardo Mayorga fought his way out of the Nicaraguan barrio. He talks it as he walks it, I guess you might say. And Mayorga said, honestly, I'm going to knock him out. The main reason I really don't like him. I put a million dollars on myself in Vegas to win and not only to win, but to knock him out. God damn, that's awesome. I don't believe it'll go more than three rounds, Mayorga says. I've been training very hard,

especially for him, because I want to hit him as hard as I can hit him more than any fighter I fought. And Vargas called Mayorga a stupid street fighter. He said, when I knock him down, I'm going to tell him to get up. I'm going to tell him to get up and remember what I said. Yeah. Wow, not bad. So they're going

to get at least $5 million each out of this. Wow. Depending on the draw and everything like that so not too fucking shabby of what they're doing so fernando vargas 26 and 4 coming into this fight goes all 12 rounds my god and in a very close one fit here are the judges cards 115 111-114-112 and 113-113. Oh, boy. It's a split, I guess. It would be a majority decision. Both of those, the 114-112 and 115-111, were in agreement for.

Mayorga gets the win here. Really? So, yes, he gets the win. And he's drinking and smoking. And they said, are you going to stop drinking and smoking? He says, that's how I became world champion and I like it. The roadmap to success has been printed

and it includes these Newports. I'm sticking with it. Shit talking, Newports, fucking my beer. I don't know what beer he's drinking but something. Whatever it is, yeah. So yeah, this is what he does. He's talking shit again now. He wants to fight Shane Mosley.

So to have Delahoya, Vargas, Mosley, Vernon Forrest, all these fights right in a row. These were all a bunch of big fights, as I thought maybe you'd heard of him from before here. So, yeah, he said, I'm ready to fight. I feel very strong. I'm focused. Let's do this. Sugar Shane Mosley, 44-5 coming into this fight at the Home Depot Center here in Carson, California. I don't know where that is.

Home Depot Center in Carson. I don't know. Not Fort Carson, not Carson City. Carson. It goes all 12 rounds, though. Or no, it's in the 12th round. Shane Mosley knocks out Mayorga in the 12th round. So it's a knockout, but in the 12th round. Shane Mosley knocks out my Orga in the 12th round. So it's a knockout, but in the 12th round, Mosley,

um, just basically was avoiding his wild punches and kind of tied him up a little bit. Yeah. And that was that. So, uh, he's 28,

seven and one at this point, but he's still a fighter. September 3rd, 2009. He's suing Don King. So he joins the long list of people who sued Don King. Jump in line, yeah. Yeah.

He does that. He's for failing to arrange fights and for violating the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act by setting up a conflict of interest when King appointed his son Carl as Ricardo's manager. Oh. Conflict of interest. He's controlling the overview and the one... So, Mayorga's attorney said,

our client is being held in a state of professional limbo. He hasn't boxed much lately because Don King hasn't gotten him any matches. According to the suit, Mayorga had a contract that guaranteed him three matches from June 2008 to June 2009 unless he became world champion. And the complaint states that he was only offered one fight on

February 14th. And they said the fight for that bout was to be about $400,000. And yeah, Mayorga's lawyer said he's wasting what would be potentially the most profitable years of his career. Right. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, maybe he thinks he's unreliable, Don King, or he's just trying to fuck him over. I'm not sure. Who knows?

September 8, 2009, Mayorga signs with Shine Fights MMA. Oh. Okay. What? He's going to what? Yeah, they say he's going to do there. This is insane. What year is this? 2009.

Oh, boy. Long before it really caught on for a boxer to fight MMA. Is he going to actually fight MMA? But he's in his 30s. This is just a weird thing to do. MMA mania here. They said this about him. They talked about how he might fare in the mma world he said well

he has no ground game he's probably not going to try to learn a ground game anytime soon so there's that if someone they said if someone stands and trades punches with him they're fucked basically that's insane you can't do that he'll knock out boxers so he's definitely gonna knock yeah so they said he's got a phenomenal chin you can't knock him out and he will fucking knock you out and he swings like a maniac with those tiny gloves on he'll take your head off so they said the smaller gloves are also to his advantage because with big gloves he knocks people out he's gonna detach retinas so who knows he's gonna go out there and fight but this is like a smaller uh uh shine fights mma so he's not fighting like

the best in the world he's fighting half-assed guys who haven't gotten there yet so uh he's set to make his mma debut in 2010 he's gonna do it he's gonna fight against former ufc fighter din thomas i don't know either so um we're talking about all that, uh, May 15th, 2010. He's pulled from the shine fights. World collides events here for some reason. Um,

they reportedly conceded defeat and we'll host the card without the main event. They said, apparently there was a problem. Um, they said my org is out and ninja Rua versus David Heath is the new headliner. Okay. Well, they kind of wanted that famous guy.

I probably, I assume the people who bought tickets for it, I would think here, December 9th, 2010, uh, is what we're going to talk about here. Now there's charges of corruption. Okay. Yeah. This is, uh is Ortega. This is the leader down there in Nicaragua. And I'll read from the Miami Herald.

Another Sandinista judge accused of complicity in the bribery scheme, Rafael Solis, denied that he took bribes, calling the WikiLeaks documents baseless. The Associated Press reported, in another case case the cable said that ortega and his party blackmailed nicaraguan boxer ricardo mayorga in 2004 after he allegedly raped a woman in a hotel room they said ortega and the fsln agreed to protect the boxer in the courts if he would give the party a large portion of his international boxing winnings and advertise for Daniel in public. So be a proxy for much of my Orga's winnings now reportedly go to Ortega. And when my Orga fought in Chicago in August 2005, he dedicated the fight to Daniel Ortega.

Oh, my God. He wore a shirt at one point, too, during all this. When they're being accused of all this, he wears a Daniel ortega shirt in the ring like a fucking moron so uh again december 15 2010 they cancel another fight he's supposed to be in shine fights three worlds collide okay not there either he's not going to be apparently so yeah they said this court found that my org is not a legitimate mixed martial artist and that shine was not legitimately promoting him as one for this event. They said, and that's the only reason anyone attending this world's glide event was to see how my org affair is a boxer against an MMA fighter. So apparently there was a big thing about.

Yeah, there's a well, there's a it's because he has a contract with Don King still. Yeah, well, it's because he has a contract with Don King still. Oh, so he's not allowed to fight boxing. He could MMA fight, but he's a boxer, and you're advertising him as a boxer fighting an MMA fighter. Yeah, you can't do that. Injunction, basically, is how that works. December 17, 2010, he's boxing again. He fights Michael Walker, the Midnight Stalker. Not bad, yeah. Run Stalker. Not bad.

Yeah. Run it, Dr. Seuss. Well, he's 19-5-2 coming into this fight. His final record, 19-19-3. Never wins again. Ever again. Ever again. He gets TKO'd by Mayorga, and that's the end of the deal here.

29-7-1. It's January 3, 2011, that the WikiLeaks shit becomes public and they find out that the possibly the allegedly the record Ricardo Mayorga rape case verdict was rigged. That came out in the cables from WikiLeaks. One section of the document entitled Nicaragua's Most Wanted Part One, The Crimes of Daniel Ortega and His Family, contains a bombshell that super middleweight Ricardo Mayorga, who was accused of raping a 22-year-old woman in September 2004, allegedly made a secret deal with President Ortega for him to beat the charge. According to the document, now that they're public, they agreed to, like we said earlier, agreed to protect him if he gave money there. They said a lot of his money him if he gave money there. They said a lot of his money now goes to Ortega.

And they said that little things here. The Supreme Court in Nicaragua had initially cleared Mayorga of the rape case. A lower court found irregularities in the trial in 2005 and ordered a retrial only to be blocked by the Supreme Court, which quashed the lower court's ruling again clearing my orga so the supreme court just said don't worry about it fuck it okay so yeah that's the whole thing is coming out now and uh yeah it's weird so he's mixed up with the president down there who's rigging his rape cases and he's a fraudulent guy and he's punching. He's a fucking mess at this point. He sure is. He's a nightmare. He's leaving a trail of shit behind him and I feel bad for the people who have to fucking clean it up

and everything. Right. What about Double Diana? How do you think they feel about all this? Double Diana. Double Diana. That's how Michael Jackson originally sang it but it didn't work out. So I feel bad for little Ricardo Jr. I feel bad for all these people, Jimmy, but not nearly as bad as I feel for Ricardo Mayorga,

a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He went to UCLA there. Ricardo Mayorga, warehouse associate in Rhode Island at Medline Industries. Got to have that. And then finally, Ricardo Mayorga co-host Destino Euro 2016 and Jorge Ramos and Sue Banda. What is that? He's a sportscaster. Oh, okay.

He's a sportscaster, a talent espn deportes radio network fantastic fan so he's mixed up in sports uh yeah that's fucking hilarious i love it sports this guy uh february 28th 2011 here yeah now there's a weird fluff piece in toprank.com. Just a weird little thing where they talk about how now he's just a nice guy. All of a sudden he goes from he's this killer to I'm a nice guy. He loves to listen to romantic music. What is that?

I don't know. He said his favorite singer is Anna Gabriel. Beats me. Is that Peter's daughter? I think it is. She only sings in Spanish, though. It's really weird. You should hear Shock the Monkey in Spanish.

It's really something special. Salisbury Road's a different fucking case when you put it in Spanish. Sledgehammer is pretty wild. He said he enjoys the typical foods of Nicaragua and misses home cooking when he's out fighting. Yeah. Oh, boy. Just a regular guy like you and me. March 12, 2011, he fights Miguel Cotto, 35-2 fighter coming in and a real good fighter, too.

Really, really good fighter. This fight goes all 12 rounds. Mayorga is knocked down in the 12th round but gets back up. But the ref waves it off and it's a tko in the 12th round a loss for my orga again now damn it so it's not going well at this point here um and also they said that at one point it looks like my orga may have dislocated his left arm in the exchange he calls rape an arm i think it's his holding down rape an arm that's not good gotta watch out for that he needs that for later it said it looks like uh

that's why the ref called off the fight because it looked like he fucked up his arm my organ actually dislocated his thumb oh and he said he said later i felt my thumb touch the back of my hand i hate the way this fight oh god damn it yeah so he's not doing great obviously this is this is fucking this was bad uh that's so bad yeah cotto said the game plan was not to get caught up in any of his antics he was very heavy handed i felt his punches the whole fight so he hits hard he just had to let him not you can't let this guy hit you he'll fuck you up no he's like cam newton you don't want him to yeah yeah don't mess with the man look up the video if you haven't seen of a bunch of people attacking cam newton and him throwing them off it looked like sagal in a ninja movie like that's

what he was he's just standing there ponytail not moving just grabbing one guy throwing another guy better than sagal because he kept his fucking hat on yeah a wide A wide-brimmed fucking Pharrell hat. Yeah. Unbelievable wide-brimmed, on-the-range hat. Kept it on while he pummeled people. Hey, don't fight giant men who are top-notch athletes. Because he can't read a defense doesn't mean he can't whoop your fucking ass. There's a big difference there.

He can still read your telegraphed punches, you novice. Oh, yes mean he can't whoop your fucking ass there's a big difference there he can still read your telegraphed punches you novice oh yes he can oh man so now he decides that he's going to retire from boxing and get into mma again oh boy he's gonna do it so um apparently he fights Wesley Tiffer on May 3rd, 2013. And originally, apparently, the fight is originally called a TKO win for Mayorga. Oh? But then it is overturned, and they call it a no contest because they say the knees he was using were illegal knees. Oh. Hmm. Yeah. So I don't know how that was you're allowed to knee people in the fucking face in that sport that's what i mean i don't know but also they're kind of being a little loosey-goosey with the rules for ricardo because

he came into the fight 20 pounds over the weight limit but they still let him fight let the heavy fun go yeah this was This was Omega MMA Battle of the Americas. Apparently he doesn't give a shit here. By the way, it took him a week to overturn it also. Overturn the 20-pound rule? Overturn the fight because of the knees. And then he's suspended for three months for being 20 pounds over the contracted 165 weight limit. Okay.

So not great. Next up in the World Series of Fighting 1, Central America, in 2013, he fights Rene Martinez and loses by submission to a guillotine choke. Uh-oh. Then he is 0-1. Then he fights Sergio Ortiz and loses a split decision to him. Mm-hmm. So he's fucking 0-2 in MMA.

And one person said, quote, you could see how disappointed Mayarga was when he didn't get his hand raised. I was thinking it'd just be a cash grab, but dude put in work. He wanted the W. He looked decent in there considering he's a 40-year-old boxer.

Yeah. Looked decent considering this isn't his sport and he's fucking 20 years older than all these guys uh next up he fights ortiz again and loses by submission to armbar so now he's oh and three not terrific and he will retire from mma done with that huh done with that that didn't work out next up jesus christ um september uh 27 2014 alan funky cold medina yeah he fights a boxer he's back into boxing now he's 9 23 and 1 coming into this fight this guy oh no he'll finish 9 25 and 1 so this fight not at the fight, not at the MGM, not at the Mandalay Bay, not at MSG or the Staples Center. OKC Downtown Air Park, Oklahoma City.

Yikes. Not good. He does knock this guy out in the first round, as he should, for Christ's sake, my argo. 38-1. Next up, Andreek Saralegu is his name. He fights a guy nicknamed Loco. He's 7-1 coming into this fight, and he was, I guess, this Loco got knocked down in the fourth round

and got cut over the eye and then doesn't come out for the fifth round. So they count him out whilst he's seated on his stool. He won't come out. He won't come out. So 31-8 for the fifth round. So they count him out whilst he's seated on his stool. He won't come out. He won't come out. So 31-8 for our guy here. Then, August 14, 2015, Don King files a lawsuit to prevent Shane Mosley and Ricardo Mayorga from fighting each other. He's suing, says that Mayor mayor is still under a promotional agreement,

which the guy signed in 2009, which is six years ago. Okay. Um, yeah, they said, according to the documents, my org assigned this,

uh, memorandum of a memorandum of understanding in 2014 to reaffirm that Don King's promotional contract is still valid. And now he's saying it's not. So whatever ends up happening, August 29th, 2015 is uh sugar shane mosley versus my orga here so here we go um the mosley is on the event is doing the event he puts on a press conference with his girlfriend trista paizani who hosted it um Before the face-off,

Paisani bent over to do something and Mayorga slapped her on her ass. Yeah. Well done, you piece of shit. Well done. Causing a melee on stage. And Paisani offered Mayorga $10,000 to allow her to beat him up.

This all sounds staged. Yeah, it does. This sounds like a wrestling angle. You slap her on the ass, I'll come up, be mad. Yeah. So she said, $10,000 to let me beat you up. He responded, how about for another 25, I get to slap your ass again?

And the WBC accused the incident of being staged and Mosley denied it. So even the boxing thing said, don't do that stage bullshit. We know what you're doing, you sons of bitches. It's one thing to say they're going to get up there and start pushing and shoving each other. That's fine. But to have like, you're going to slap her ass and then you

say sexual assault. Come on. They did a blocking run through like a rehearsal. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you still know you better angle yourself this way and then you say this. So he fights Mosley same result he's knocked out in the sixth round oh no so yeah he's not going well here mosley said he talks crap that's what he does but he's not really as bad as he is but he does have a sharp tongue and a big mouth especially if you can understand what he says if you speak Spanish, it's really annoying.

Sometime in 2016, a photo of him comes out. He's at a gas station in broad daylight. I'll show you the picture. Oh, boy. Shitface passed out leaning against a beam of some kind. Broad daylight at a gas station. Look at how fat he is. See the gut in this area here yeah yeah he looks like he just got off of like a day labor job at this not good he looks fat and he looks tired so uh but he was drunk is the problem broad daylight his wife at this time hernia silva is her

name a new wife who knows how many wives wives this guy's fucking had. She said, no, no, the photo's four years old. And he said that shows him asleep after an exhausting walk he took with his ill son to a clinic. Oh, he was being such a good dad. Yeah, he wasn't drunk at a gas station in the middle of the day. He was exhausted.

He walked 30 miles in each direction. Other people said, no, no, it was taken after he locked himself out of his car and just took a nap. That's what happened. It was exhausting. Yeah. So the wife said, or no, this isn't the wife. This is somebody else. I don't know who this is, but she said any of us could fall very low, inadvertently contaminated by drugs and alcohol.

Please do not collaborate in the self-destruction of a man's life who was the sporting glory of our country he was the biggest star in the country sports i believe it yeah i don't know anybody from nicaragua no he was the ali of that country he really was october 24th 2016 he crashes his car into a taxi and then is pursued for $200,000 in damages here. This is in Columbia, actually. Oh. According to the details claimed by the taxi driver, Virgilio Roblito, Mayorga was driving his sports car at a high rate of speed and crashed into the guy's right side,

totaling this man's taxi. The driver wants $200,000. Mayorga's insurance policy here wants them to settle the issue because the taxi is his only source of income, and he's got to sue. So this guy says, I was making a turn with my taxi that night. I was just about to reach the roundabout, so I slowed down to see a sports car coming at me at a fast rate of speed, hit my car on the right side. Yeah, we are making a claim for the insurance policy connected to the car

driven by my Orga because this will cover all costs. We believe this will be solved in the best way because in most cases the insurance will react when this type of damage occurs. of damage occurs so yes um he december 14th 2016 here according to sources in nicaragua he is attacked at a gas station now and here he is after the attack at a gas station there's a picture oh they got him scratched up and shit like that here uh took place at a gas station in mangua uh myorga and an unknown individual got into some type of argument over waiting at the pump. The unknown assailant attacked Mayorga with a club and struck him several times.

You better bring a club. I don't care if he's 45. If you're street fighting, this guy's going to fucking tear your head off your shoulders, man. Are you kidding me? But they got him. They took it to him and they brought the club and hit him with it

don't let him get within arm's reach get this club out because we've seen boxers when they fight regular people in the streets it's not pretty i mean the oh no no no that goes that goes south fast yeah we've brought it up many times the michael carbihall footage of him a 110 pound guy just beating a man standing unconscious on his feet holding him up with punches like holy shit so um yeah he says he's still trying to get in the back in the ring here he wants to fight again what he's 43 and uh don't do that old man yeah he owes money with the taxi he's getting beat up at fucking you know gas stations but doesn't matter april 1st 2017 uh jordiel zabata um here alias negro so 12 17 and 1 coming in he'll end up 13 33 and 1 oh my god jesus this fight uh the zapata refused

to continue fighting in the middle of the third round. He just quit and stopped. So I'm done fighting. In the middle of the third. The middle of the third. He's like, enough. I'm done. Just so he starts hiding behind the referee. That's it.

I've exhausted all my weapons. I'm out. That's it. So that's a TKO in round three. So 32-9-1. November 2, 2007 here. He still wants to box he wants to fight andre serotkin here uh in russia is what he's trying to do oh his russian opponent is 13 and 0 so they want to bring this

famous guy in right so this russian guy can knock him out and then he looks like he's he's whatever um they are they're promoting the shit out of it they out of it because he's a famous guy. Nobody wants to go fight in Russia, really. Not a lot of big fights take place there outside of Rocky IV. You don't really see a lot here. So, yeah, that's what he wants to do. November 3rd, 2017, Trade Union Sport Palace, Nagorni Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

So, there you go. For the vacant WBA Intercontinental Super Middleweight title. This fight goes nine rounds, and Ricardo cannot, he's injured in some way, and cannot come out for the tenth.

So he loses here to this guy uh that russian will end up 21 2 and 1 for his career by the way not bad next up april 7th 2018 he's still fighting jesus are you kidding me this is ridiculous here rodolfo gomez jr yeah known as cobrita little cobra i suppose, I suppose. Little Cobra. Little Cobra. Wow. Little Baby Cobra. Little Baby Cobra. He's 12-4-1 coming in.

He is 14-7-3 for his career, so not a great fighter here. No. This is at the Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Texas. Yikes. And I bet your Rodolfo's a hometown guy, too. Probably. Texas. Yikes. And I bet your Rodolfo's a hometown guy too. Probably. This

fight goes eight rounds and Mayorga loses a TKO to this guy. It's over, man. Get out. To the little cobra. Yeah, dude, it's over. You're losing to mediocre fighters now. Next up, he fights Lester Martinez. Yeah. His real name,

by the way, Lester Normandy Martinez Tut is his full name. Real? Tut, T-U-T, like King Tut. Yeah. Lester Martinez. This is his debut fight. He will be 16-0 in his career, though, and then retire for some reason.

Yes. This takes place in Guatemala City. It is a second-round TKO loss for Mayorga. Great fighter. This is, dude, this is, Mayorga's got to stop. He's 46 years old. They're saying that he's just getting pummeled from the start. Like he has no chance.

He's too slow. He's too fucking slow. He's old. It's over. He's in his late 40s now. That's enough. Like you can't be in your late 40s and keep fucking fighting. That's not going to work for anybody.

So he's doing it. They said, you know, as long as, because he keeps saying he's going to keep fighting. Are you serious? He's like, I'll keep fighting. He just loves this. It's the only way he can pay his bills. He probably has large bills, right? I think that's the other thing, too, is money.

He's probably got a lot of people to take care of, I assume, his family and shit like that. So when you have a lot of people on your payroll, it's very difficult here. Here is a picture of Ricardo. Okay. After being beat up here, he's recovering. He's in the hospital? Sleeping, yeah. Oh, my God.

His shoulder's fucked up. That's why he didn't come out, because there's a dislocation in his shoulder. Sure is. His brain's fucked up. He's got all sorts of problems here. Blue blankets. Yeah yeah an issue um so um he is uh recovering that was recovering from the fight oh no this is i'm sorry that was not the fight this is on january 24th 2020 he was severely beaten by robbers in his? Yeah, I guess he took a severe beating from a group of unknown assailants in his hometown. He was assaulted and beat to a degree that he had multiple fractures.

He was heading home after going shopping for breakfast when an unknown group of people sought to rob him. Wow. And he was hit with a blunt object in the head and then to different parts of the body. So they beat him with a blunt object till he was unconscious yeah and they know he's made money so you got to get out of there you can't yeah he's walking back and forth yeah they took his watch cell phone cash some clothes and his IDs as well because you can sell those now. So, yeah, he's all sorts of robbed, and he's in a bad place. So August 9, 2020, he's in need of help, he says. The help he needs is he needs to kick drugs and alcohol.

Yep, he's all fucked up. He's lost a lot of weight. He agreed to enter rehab in an effort to kick his drug and alcohol problems. Now they said that he squandered millions of dollars he earned in his rigged career. He's been assaulted in the streets. He's a, he's a mess.

Now he says he's willing to work hard to get clean and sober and he can do what he thinks. So that's, he's going to do, he's going to try to do that. He needs to, obviously he's, he can't be old and a brain damage. No. So he's continuing drug rehab, to, obviously. He can't be old and have brain damage.

No. So he's continuing drug rehab October 2020. They said Ricardo Mayorga has been fighting the most important battle of his life. And although for a short while he was against the ropes, now he's found a way to defeat that fearsome rival of drug and alcohol addiction. So they said his boxing family's been there with him. He left the rehabilitation center and now he's reunited with his family and he's

ready to go. He's also accepted the help of Julio Cesar Chavez, the boxer, long time boxer here, who was 11 years clean and sober at this point. I thought you were going to say Jesus Cristo. No, definitely not okay so he's helping him and all that sort of shit june 11 2022 he is okay he uh it's a mess this

is a translated article from a nicaragua news or south american newspaper They said, Mayorga confirms the absence of voters in receiving boards. Former Nicaraguan boxer Ricardo Mayorga went this Sunday to participate in the electoral farce carried out by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on November 6th.

And after testifying before spokespeople in the official media, he confirmed the process was fast because it was empty. And so empty was the vote receiving board located in the Manuel Fernandez neighborhood of Sabana Grande in Mangua, which the former Nicaraguan boxer went, who refrained from thanking the dictatorship for going to vote. He said, well, first of all, you have to thank God, right? What can I tell you? I feel happy. I feel good. I had to make my vote because logically, like every citizen, you have to make your vote. I did it well already. I'm very happy. And they said, Ricardo, is the process fast? And he said, yes, very quickly. It was empty. Thank God.

So they're talking about essentially here, um,'s voting there because they know it's a dictatorship already. So it doesn't matter. So they said, Mayorga said, everyone has to choose where they are going to vote. I guess so. I didn't want to come from the morning. They said a citizen living in the St. Juan distribution who attended the National University of Engineering almost at the same time that the appointed mayor of Mangua went to vote in the face of the farce of municipal elections on November 6th described the rickety influx of people to the polling stations installed in its higher education center. Quote, I didn't want to come from the morning because the Sandinistas of my neighborhood turned the orientation for days to their militants and sympathizers who came to make their vote early. And the truth is that my house, my children aren't involved in that, but I am a liberal, but I wanted to come and see with my own eyes, this robbery that they do with these municipal municipal elections nobody wants to participate

in these elections apparently that my org is just like it's great it's really great that i get to vote and they're not they don't count apparently so it's interesting here um but he i don't know what he's doing here he they talk about my org and um here at the i'll let him close out his own story here fantastic this is in from sports illustrated 2003 and they said they talk about his aggressive uh punches and all that and he says quote i know i pushed the envelope of danger but god has been very good to me i should probably be dead by now that's true i don't know how the fuck he's still alive this guy yeah he's been robbed he's been beaten he's been fuck man he's been stabbed he clubbed before he even started

this shit clubbed after it yeah he had a book at clubbing bookends here yeah so the net worth a couple of sites all kind of agree that his net worth is around two million dollars but i think he pissed it all away i'm not sure it's got to be a lot less than that, right? Not a lot of drug addicts have $2 million sitting around. You know what I mean? No, no, no, no, no. I mean, he might have eight houses or something worth that money. I have no idea.

I can't imagine if he has eight houses in Nicaragua, they're worth more than $150,000. Yeah, I was going to say, but maybe they're mansions. Who knows? Can't get enough Ricardo Mayorga? Well, you can buy the vintage Oscar De La Hoya versus Ricardo Mayorga boxing poster. It's the fight poster. It says De La Hoya versus Mayorga.

Danger zone under it. Cool. 2095. It has seven watchers, too, on eBay. People are watching this. Fucking beat them. And then a Ricardo Mayorga signed 8x10 photo of him in the ring with a belt on, saying he's number one. $49.99, buy it now. That's steep, right?

With $4.50 shipping. Yeah, you could just find him at a passed out on a Nicaraguan gas station. I bet he'd probably give you an autograph, bust one off for you real quick. Give him a 20, yeah. you an order he probably gave you an autograph bust it off for you yeah or there is a mikhail cotto ricardo mayorga ticket from the mgm fight in 2011 uh 39.99 for that ticket here is it signed no it's just a plain old ticket of code ticket used there so that everyone is ricardo mayorga wow double diana little ricardo jr and a fucking mess of a life that this guy has made for himself. And a poor raped woman in Nicaragua?

Jesus. All rigged. Yeah. Doesn't matter. They got him out of it. No problem. Poor thing. Yeah.

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This week, we're going to talk about four crime in sports. It's personal ad time again. Oh, it's back again. We're so excited. We are going to hear about how to find love in the 80s and 90s, which was to put a little ad in the newspaper saying what you're looking for and what you're all about and pay by the letter and see how that goes. One step above a homing pigeon.

Yep. And then sit by your letter and see how that goes. One step above a homing pigeon. Yep. And then sit by your mailbox and wait for a response. So there's that. Then for Small Town Murder, we're going to talk about the Collier brothers, a pair of shut-in brothers who got very, very large, and then just one of them, like, died in the house, and the other one didn't say anything, and then they both died, and they had to cut a wall out to take them out.

Lots of hoarding and a crazy story of some weird shit. We'll talk all about that. Patreon.com slash crime and sports. And you get a shout out. You bet. At the end of the show, which is shit. This is the end of the show. That means the shout outs are coming right.

God damn. Now, Jimmy, hit me with them like a fucking lead pipe to the head when I'm seven years old. Right now. This week's executive producer is Sarah Bejoyi Kimose. Kimose? Kimose. I don't know. It's Kimose, maybe?

Kathleen Hyden, thank you so much. That was nice. Shelly Roberts and the gals from Gun Barrel, Texas, thank you so much. You're terrific. Franny in Australia, thank you. I miss you too much. Kyleyle norwig you're such a doll i can't wait to meet you you're not one of the bad kyle's norweg uh stan and diana i think it's diana it may be dayana in the uk thank you guys all thank you so much for participating being a

part of this and uh buying me nice things for my birthday. Other producers this week are Angela's Cat Sprinkles, who was murdered by Dwight. Andy Zoff, Bigfoot historian Bob Titmuss. Do you know who that is? I don't know who that is. Is that a person? Are we supposed to know who that is? I don't know if it's a reference to something. We're not getting there.

And Andy Zoff is a reference to something else. I don't know. But I do know that Angela's Cat is from The Office. Andy might be from The Office also. Who knows? Peyton Meadows, Mo Gibbs, Janice Hill, Scarlett Horbis III and her brother Rusty, Alicia Renee, Ace Handlin. You gotta

talk about her. She's wonderful. Sandy Beck, Kim with no last name. They Calls Me Teddy Burr, Elena Darter, Jessica Ogden, Rachel Whitehead, Alec Abelman, Abel Mayen, Lady Amalthea, that's what it is. Amy Scott, Julie Porche, SVB, Amanda Three, Katie Hayes, Marty Coffield, Emily Lang, Matt

with no last name, Delta Dawn,. Christopher Phillips. Portia. Porsche. Wolford. Wolford. Chris with no last name. Peyton Nolan. Carly Abbott. Raymond Bluebell. Kelly Denton.

Donna with no last name. Tilar with no last name. No, it's Tilar. Tilar. Tyler. It might be Tyler. T-I-L-A-R. That's not Tyler, is it?

Fucking hell. Tilar. T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-a-r that's not tyler is it fucking l-a-r till r t tiller it could be tyler i don't know what pilar is with a p right yeah i guess if it's tyler beat your mother to death or your father whoever fucking whoever did that to you lb nart nart nart firker what is this naff zingers naff tiger night kendall osborne kyle f there's another good kyle rebecca mckell henney i'll like the tabasco sauce the obstinate obstinate the mackle back el haney yes is that how is that oh and and and rob mack that's right but isn't that the uh makers of tabasco? McElhaney? McElhaney?

McElhaney. Beats the shit out of me. I think that's the owners of Tabasco. The obstinate daughter. Obstinate. Obstinate. Yeah. Give us that Tabasco money. Maria Jones.

Noel De La Forret. Ava Erlia. Nicole Hennessy. Corey with no last name. Brett Ross. Steve Tidwell. Travis Thomas. George One Ball Wonder. Blake. Cindy English. erlia nicole hennessey cory with no last name brett ross steve tidwell travis thomas george one ball wonder blake cindy english rebecca buchanan shannon mckinley uh scott elbert

steven cook ashley proctor amanda sikorsky courtney schultz devin brashear chad litzing litzinger uh grace poffley a phil i phil i donil, I don't know, Don Abramo, Heidi with no last name, James Gonzalez, Jamie Byrne, SD, the letters S and D, like a card, Amber Carter, M Williams, Talonda Robinson, Michael Belcher, Sam Thompson, Ashley Graham, Ray Stebbins, Adrian Aquino, Aaron with the letter A. I don't know. Sorry. Brittany. Brittany Drawhorn, Toriana Munari, Dorothy Ann Pierce, Joseph Johnson, Aaron P., Carl Wenzel, Ben Tuttle, Luke Hilton, Craven Moorhead. All right.

Ben Tuttle, Luke Hilton, Craven Moorhead. All right. Natalia Destin, Sam Grisafi. Melissa Pearson, Leighton with no last name. Jim and Kim Cody. Mary Zart, Hannah Bement. John Barlow, Cloud 7A. James with no last name.

Andy Beecham, Shane Whitaker. Ethan Rye, What is this? Rhea Marsh, Kyle Pancake. I doubt it. Kelly Campbell, Tracy Thomas, Jim Jam, Sean Slade, Jill Pfister, Casey with no last name, Casey Witten. That's two different Casey's spelled different ways. Wow. That's crazy.

That's too much for me. Casey, Casey Witten, and Cassie all donated right in a row. That's unbelievable. You guys are, they did that on purpose. Truly. That's fucking, that's never happened before. Stop confusing us. Liz with no last name. Melissa V.

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Butler and Boyer. It's true. What's happening? Kathy Margulies, Megan Orr, Jack Miller, Sinead Birmingham, Morgan Thomas, Janelle Borgstrom, Leanne Corbett, Andy Muth-Wan, Susquito, David Wilbert, Lilac Lavender, Tyler Weath, Robert Poe, Casey Ort, Jada Lynn, Skyler with no last name, Miss Britt, Mel Shoebridge, Kimmy Wolfe, Nicholas Hobbs, James with no last name, Robin Ragsdale, Sean with no last name, Emily Satori, Johnny Luff, Tracy with no last name, Jessie Marie, Amy Frick, Kevin Child, Scott Frank, Jenny Remar, H-I'm not saying Remar. I won't say Remar. H.M. Redden, Nikki with no last name, Abriana Only, Sean Campbell, Salem Golden, Steve Cecil, Aiden Wynn, Molly with no last name, Daniel Namislaw. What?

Johnny Parks, Lauren Nel uh not going back shannon k steven scattergood dead world uh christopher cardona sarah sours stone stephanie thompson laney with no last name savage randy oh i see what you did jasmine uh good good man uh damon wider wider widensall uh jacob r christy Duffin, Selena with no last name, Rhonda with no last name, Jessica Nelson, Chelsea B., Stephanie Robinson, Dallas White, Nikki with no last name, Melody Wright, Cambria White-Walker, Wyatt Walker, got it, Shannon Welachico, Brian Duchette, Justin Griggs, Jen, Jerry, Jerry Frampton, and all of our

patrons. You're fucking incredible. Thank you, everybody. You're fantastic. Wonderful beasts. We cannot thank you enough for all that you do for us. Shocking. Making this show a thing. So thanks for what you do, and thanks for everything. And we're coming up on 400, too, so that's going to be some fun. We're very

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