The Calgary Flames won again...how? Peter Klein breaks down what the Flames have done to be successful and why Flames fans should feel optimistic. Then, it is NFL Power Rankings Day! Peter ranks all 32 NFL teams from 32 all the way up to one. The Dallas Cowboys took a free fall in the rankings, who moves up because of it? The show closes with Boxing Pound-For-Pound rankings with a new Top 5 after Beterbiev vs. Bivol from the weekend.
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00:00Welcome, everyone, to Couch Potato Diary.
00:08Hey, Big Mac- Maco?
00:09Maco?
00:10Sorry.
00:11I think I got that right one time, and now I second-guess myself all the time.
00:13My name is Peter Klein.
00:14My light is way too bright.
00:15Thank you guys so much for tuning in today.
00:19Coming up, we are looking at the Calgary Flames.
00:21They keep winning.
00:22How?
00:23Plus, we'll be looking at NFL power rankings, heading into week number seven, and a little
00:28bit of boxing talk to wrap things up on the show today, as we have new pound-for-pound
00:33rankings coming out of the Better Be of Bivol fight from the weekend.
00:38So, there is a lot to cover on the show.
00:41As always, if you want to get involved in this conversation, or any conversation, let
00:46me know in the chat.
00:47Just start chatting away, and if it's not what necessarily the segment's about, just
00:52for my own editing purposes, because I put all this stuff up on YouTube after, I will
00:55be just answering it at the end of the segment.
00:59That's kind of how we're going to do this.
01:00But, really looking forward to doing this today.
01:02Let's get into it, and start talking about the Calgary Flames.
01:08Ah, Macko, from the, Mackenzie, from the Game Over stream chat.
01:18Well, thank you for hanging out today, and welcome to Couch Potato Diary.
01:22So, the Calgary Flames, with a victory last night over the Chicago Blackhawks, 3-1, ends
01:28up being the final score.
01:30And this, I have thought about doing a, um, sorry, I cannot get my lighting right today.
01:35Um, I have thought about doing a, well, how seriously can we take this segment, and stuff
01:39like that.
01:40And I still think the answer is not, and so there, I've done the segment now.
01:44But, I do think that there's, obviously there's a lot of positive signs.
01:48When you are winning four games in a row, things are going to be going well.
01:51But I do think, this season, in general, a lot of the messaging, at least from here,
01:57is going to be process over results.
02:01And the results are there, but the process is there as well.
02:04And that is what gives me so much optimism going forward with this team, is you look
02:11at how they are playing, and this is how they're going to have to play to be successful.
02:16And so, just firstly, awesome that they're getting rewarded for that.
02:21Like, that is, I think, a real boost.
02:24When you have a way that you have to play to be successful, and you play that way, and
02:31it works.
02:32That is really great when you're trying to get young players on board, and veteran players
02:37I guess as well.
02:38When you're trying to get everyone involved, and get them invested in the way you are kind
02:43of handling your business.
02:44So, for the Flames, how are they going to be successful?
02:48They are not going to out-talent many, if any, teams.
02:51What they are going to do, is have to win a lot of those puck battles, win a lot of
02:55those races, and score a few ugly goals.
02:59And they have been doing that.
03:00You look at the goal that Mantha scored against Edmonton the other night, where he beat Hyman
03:03in front and just bullied him and scored the goal to get the victory in that one.
03:09The goal that Huberto gets, he's just going to the net and the puck bounces off of him
03:13and goes in.
03:14You would love for your team to be the one that is able to do all the dipsy-doodle and
03:18walk in and there's a shot from 30 feet, and oh what a goal, or between the legs, dangle,
03:21all that.
03:22That's not going to be this group.
03:24At least for now, it's not going to be this group.
03:26So, it's good that they are going out there and putting in the process that they are going
03:31to need, the systems that they are going to need to be successful, and seeing those things
03:36work.
03:37One thing that I don't think can be overlooked in how this is all going, is I do think the
03:43goaltending has bailed them out at times.
03:46And now, not to the point where it's like the find-a-way flames, where it was Romo and
03:52Hiller and all those guys making 45 saves on a nightly basis, and this team was finding
03:57ways to somehow win 2-1 games coming off of that.
04:00But there have been a few times where there have been a few defensive breakdowns.
04:03And Wolff last night was really sharp, Vladar in other nights has been really sharp.
04:08I still think this team, defensively, has some work to do.
04:13But overall, they have done a tremendous job of shutting down the opposition, and kind
04:21of keeping a whole lot of stuff to the outside.
04:23A few breakdowns, a few more than you would like, but they are doing a great job with
04:27that.
04:28And then lastly, you are getting contributions from the guy that you really want to get contributions
04:32from, and you are getting, like, Huberto is it, Mako in the chat, mentioning Coronado
04:40showed a bit of skill, but he still had to kind of push in his goal.
04:43And yeah, there's that too.
04:45They aren't just a bunch of knuckle-dragger, just, you know, like, what my beard would
04:50make you believe I would be.
04:52They aren't necessarily that.
04:54There is some skill there.
04:55I guess I shouldn't understate it too much.
04:58But yeah, Coronado showing that, and he has been one that has been fantastic.
05:03And Adam and me talked about this on Game Over Calgary last night.
05:07I should share that in the chat, although, I mean, there's only a couple in here right
05:10now, and obviously one of them was in the chat.
05:13So maybe we don't need to share that one right now.
05:15But the thought of, well, you can't play Coronado on the fourth line, is one that I bought into.
05:22And honestly, I'm still kind of there.
05:25I don't think long-term this is where he kind of fits in on this team, but it's also better
05:29than him not playing at all.
05:32And so that is why I thought it was a little curious when they called him up with the Rooney
05:37injury, and then you have Honza go play on the top line.
05:42It's like, well, that's kind of where Coronado, it's kind of the only spot Coronado fits.
05:47So why are you not doing that?
05:49But I have really liked what that fourth line has brought.
05:52I know a lot of people were talking last night about, well, Mangiapane started on the fourth line.
05:56It's like, well, I kind of think Mangiapane is closer to a fourth liner than a first liner.
06:03I will say that.
06:04Right?
06:05Like, he got the 35 goals, and we all love him for it very, very much.
06:09And we all love the Sopranos memes and all that when he scores goals.
06:12It's so much fun.
06:14But he is, he's not that guy.
06:15He is much closer to energy fourth line guy than he is a high-level sniper type.
06:22And your hope for Coronado is that he turns into high-level sniper guy, because if he
06:26is not that, I just don't know how sustainable a run in the NHL is for him.
06:31But for right now, for him to be going out there and buying in in that way, I think shows
06:36a real level of maturity for him that is very encouraging to see.
06:41And I also think that it is a testament to the play of Kirkland and Lomberg as well,
06:48and what they have been able to do.
06:50That line has been a whole lot of fun.
06:51Lomberg has been the exact type of energy this Flames team needed.
06:54Like, he has played the role of Ryan Lomberg perfectly, so far, for this Flames squad.
07:02And that has been really great to see.
07:05And to have now, like I said, Coronado getting in there, contributing offensively, you now
07:11have scoring on all four lines, and that's not something you really thought you would
07:15have with this Flames group.
07:17And another reason you have that is because the Huberto line is also going.
07:22And Anthony Mantha has been beastin' with Huberto.
07:26And those two, along with Pospisil, have fit like a glove.
07:30And it is the exact thing that you wanted to see from Anthony Mantha, from Jonathan
07:36Huberto, and from Martin Pospisil.
07:37And I have said before, this team is not going to be able to move Jonathan Huberto.
07:44Like, he is a part of the future.
07:47So, you may as well make the most of it.
07:49And right now, Mantha's making the most of it.
07:51Which does lead to interesting conversations down the road, but for now, he's making
07:56the most of it and he's doing a phenomenal job with that.
07:59Overall, it's been very positive for the Flames.
08:02Now they get a few days to kind of rest.
08:04I do like these early season breaks that teams tend to get, where you get into it, they had
08:11a back-to-back over the weekend, then you play again on a Tuesday, and now there's
08:14this pause here, and yeah, you would like to just stay, especially when they're winning,
08:18you would like to stay in the momentum of the season and just keep it rolling, but I
08:21do think it's a pretty good, like, okay, we've played four games, let's just, everyone
08:26do a deep cleansing breath, and just see, alright, now that that's out of the way,
08:33what's working, what's not working, let's actually see what's going on here.
08:38And I think this is a good time to assess, like, alright, what has actually, like, the
08:42wins have been great.
08:43What's actually been working, what's actually not working, and let's see where all the chips
08:46kind of fall after this.
08:48But another good win for the Flames, and now an interesting test against the Seattle Kraken
08:52coming up on Saturday.
08:54For more Flames talk, head over to Game Over Calgary on YouTube, or wherever you get your
09:00podcasts.
09:01Alright, that is it for the Hacky Talk today, let's get into some NFL Power Rankings.
09:13NFL Power Rankings, heading into week number seven.
09:23These ones, a couple of big movers, but a lot kind of stays the same.
09:27As this, this NFL week almost felt like the first week where things started to make sense
09:33a little bit, right?
09:34Like, it was just, okay, there wasn't a wild and crazy, oh wow, how did this happen, what
09:38upset, what, but for the first six weeks of the season, the whole year has kind of
09:43felt like the red zone, witching hour thing.
09:47But now, it's kind of settled in a little bit more.
09:50So, at 32, it's Carolina.
09:52We continue to see that while it was fun when they played Cincinnati and the Raiders and
09:57everything was moving well, now that they are facing real football teams, there's resistance
10:03and they are not handling it super well.
10:06So, there's that.
10:08At 31, it's New England.
10:10Yes, Drake May came in and played quarterback.
10:11No, it didn't look good for a half.
10:13Yes, it looked better in the second half.
10:14No, it does not make them a good football team.
10:16At 30, it's the Cleveland Browns.
10:19They move on from Omari Cooper, and the race to the bottom is on.
10:24And for these three teams, in the, well, we'll talk about this in a sec.
10:28At 29, it's the Vegas Raiders.
10:29They move on from Devontae Adams, and the race for the bottom is on.
10:33At 28, it is the Miami Dolphins.
10:37They did not play this week, and so they moved up a spot because things got substantially
10:41worse for the Raiders.
10:42And so our bottom five, Miami, Vegas, Cleveland, New England, and Carolina.
10:48Not necessarily how the standings sit right now, but let's just say, for argument's sake,
10:54that these are the, this is the draft order when we get to April.
11:00That's a lot of interesting decisions to be made.
11:04For Carolina, is it quarterback again?
11:07Because that feels like a waste.
11:09That feels like a gigantic, now there's sunk cost and all of that, but oh boy, I think
11:17that if you're Carolina right now, and you do get that first overall pick, I think you
11:23have to try to take advantage and hope that there is another, quite frankly, Carolina
11:27out there who is desperate to move up and try to get a, yours or whoever is going to
11:34be the number one quarterback.
11:36Hope that they are desperate enough, because this team, when they went out and made that
11:40move for Bryce Young, they were not a quarterback away.
11:44And now here we are a couple of years later, and you are still not a quarterback away.
11:48And so I think if the Panthers went out and drafted a kid again first overall, they would
11:53just be making the exact same mistake that they did, and clearly not doing anything to
12:02grow from that.
12:03New England would obviously not be taking a quarterback.
12:05That would be best O-lineman or wide receiver available.
12:09The Cleveland one's interesting because a lot of people are saying that the only way
12:12you get rid of Deshaun Watson is to attach your first round pick to it.
12:16If the first round pick is top three, do they?
12:20Or do they just kind of like, hey, Deshaun, we're going to pay you to not be here, and
12:24we're going to draft this kid, and they're going to be the starter.
12:28You will collect your paycheck and just sit at home and stay so far away from this kid,
12:34it's not even funny.
12:35I wonder what they would do there.
12:36The Raiders, I think, would just draft a quarterback and move on, even though, again, I don't think
12:40that foundation is set.
12:41And the Miami one is really interesting because of the Tua situation.
12:47And Walt Grizzley in the chat, why do you think the Dolphins are worse than the Jags
12:50or the Titans right now?
12:53Interesting question.
12:54The Titans did beat Miami a couple of weeks ago, and Jacksonville, yes.
12:59And I honestly, I probably didn't move Jacksonville down far enough in my rankings.
13:04So a very good point.
13:05It is just, it's how bad it has looked.
13:07And a big part of that is Tua not being in the lineup.
13:10But let's remember, it didn't look good for Tua in week one.
13:15They do get the win against Jacksonville.
13:17And so, yes, my argument of, well, Tennessee beat them, it goes out the window because
13:20Jacksonville won.
13:21But don't, only pay attention to the stuff I want you to.
13:23But no.
13:24And then week two, they are getting just curb stomped by Buffalo.
13:29And then the Tua injury happens.
13:31And now, like, this offense can do nothing.
13:34Like they, they look like the worst offense in football.
13:38And there are still a lot of talented pieces on this team.
13:40But quite frankly, I think that teams like the Raiders in New England have more of a
13:46beef with being below Miami than Miami has of being below a Tennessee or a Jacksonville,
13:52just based off of how it looks.
13:54Now if we were to project, like, there's still a world Miami makes the playoffs.
13:57Tua comes back, and we have the same conversation we've had for a bit where, oh well he's
14:02one big hit away, and then I counter with, well yeah, so is fucking everybody.
14:06And then we see what happens on that Thursday night game, it's like, well maybe he's
14:09just a medium hit away.
14:10And there is all of that conversation.
14:12But I, for right now, it has just looked so bad.
14:17And this defense has not recovered in the way that I think a few people assumed it would.
14:22And now part of that is they're on the field all the time, because again, the offense can
14:25do nothing.
14:26But I just think this offense is not moving the football at all.
14:30And it has made for a really bad product.
14:33At 27, it's the Tennessee Titans.
14:35I still think this is a decent roster.
14:38It's a quarterback who continues to make mistake after mistake.
14:41And this last week was, I think, the kind of, um, the nail in all of it.
14:48This just, I don't think it's going to work.
14:51And I don't like writing a kid off in his first full year of starting.
14:54But we have talked time and time again, the Indianapolis Colts do not alter their defense
14:59at all.
15:00And so for Will Levis to be thrown off by that is, I think, very concerning going forward
15:06for this team.
15:07At 26, it's the Rams.
15:08Maybe they get a little bit healthier and move on up.
15:11But it has been a bit of a slog so far this year.
15:13At 25, the Denver Broncos.
15:15They made a bit of a comeback against the LA Chargers, but the first three quarters
15:18of that game did not look very good for them.
15:21At 24, it's Jacksonville.
15:22Again, probably should be a little bit lower on this list.
15:25I think part of it is just, I have them a little high to begin with.
15:29And so they are moving down incrementally a little bit.
15:32But yeah, if I just was starting brand new over, maybe I shouldn't have them this high.
15:37But it is also tough to, like I guess Denver does have three wins.
15:42But I have not been impressed by Denver at all.
15:45And I still think I would take Jacksonville's roster right now and just kind of go with
15:51them.
15:52So that's where I'm at.
15:53At 23, it's the Giants.
15:54The defense is legitimately better than I thought it was going to be.
15:57And now the offense is not.
16:02With neighbors there, there's at least something.
16:03I think they found something in Tracy.
16:05I'll be interested to see what they do with him when Singletary is back.
16:08But I think this defense is actually legitimately pretty good.
16:11At 22, it's the Bears.
16:12The offense is starting to figure it out a little bit more.
16:15And this defense is very, very good.
16:18And so they're starting to put together a pretty good football team.
16:21At 21, it's the Indianapolis Colts.
16:24They have this weird thing where even when they win, none of it looks impressive.
16:29It just, it all looks like a grind.
16:31It all looks really just like, well, I guess we found a way to win.
16:35It never feels like they fully win a game.
16:37It's just that their opponents kind of run out of time.
16:40And that's not a great way to be building things.
16:43But I have them close to the middle.
16:45At 20, it's a big fall for the Dallas Cowboys.
16:49We have enough evidence now that I think we can clearly say on this podcast, on Wednesday,
16:55October 16th, at 1029 a.m. Mountain Time, the Dallas Cowboys are a bad football team.
17:03This is just a horrendous group that cannot defend, nor can they move the football.
17:09Also, the coach is dumb.
17:11Also, the owner is kind of insane.
17:15There are no redeeming qualities of this football team.
17:18They have seedy lamb.
17:21That's it.
17:22He kind of seems like he'd be a good fun dude to hang out with, but I don't think I'd want
17:27to be paying him a lot of money to be the quarterback of my football team.
17:30It's just that there's not a whole lot going on in Dallas right now.
17:34At 19, I have the Cincinnati Bengals.
17:37It's getting a little bit better, but again, the offense, it's weird, like I can't say,
17:42well, the offense can't really do anything, but also the Giants' defense is legitimate.
17:45Trust that.
17:46But, I do think that the offense is kind of rounding out a little bit, and I think more
17:51Chase Brown would certainly answer a lot of things that this team needs, and defensively,
17:56it looked good against the Giants, but again, it's the Giants, so I don't think we can take
18:01that all that seriously.
18:02So, I think that this is a Cincinnati team that is good, not great, and will probably
18:06continue to rise up a little bit.
18:08At 18, it's Arizona.
18:10They are another one that dropped quite a bit.
18:11I believe I had them around top 10 last week.
18:14I just can't.
18:15The offense is now too inconsistent, and the defense is now too bad.
18:23It's just, it's not, it's not clicking and it's not progressing.
18:26We saw this at the early part of the season, like okay, this is meshing, it's going well,
18:30and it's just, it hasn't, it hasn't taken that next step yet.
18:34And that has been, I think, a real concern for the Arizona Cardinals, is how inconsistent
18:39it seems right now.
18:41Toxic in the chat.
18:42The Cowboys being bad is good for the NFL.
18:45Oh boy, is it.
18:46Um, I do, like, it is a little bit more fun when the Cowboys are good, that they are one
18:52of those teams where even if they aren't good, we're still going to have to deal with them
18:56a lot.
18:57You know?
18:58And so, because they're going to be on primetime five or six times a year, and we're always
19:03going to get them on the Thanksgiving Day game, and we're always going to be talking
19:06about them, um, like, I mean, and look, I'm guilty of it too, guess, guess who's going
19:12to be the thumbnail this week for this?
19:14It's going to be Dak Prescott and the Cowboys plummet in power rankings, you know?
19:18Because people pay attention to them.
19:20And because we get them, like, just kind of plunged down our throats, I would kind of
19:26just rather them be good.
19:27You know?
19:28If I'm going to have to watch them anyway, I would rather they be good.
19:32So not great, to the point where it's absurd, but like, you know, give me a good football
19:36team.
19:37But, to your point, Toxic, every now and then, when they just slip in a nice little, like,
19:41oh wow, they're 6-11 type of a season, that makes it fun.
19:45And then it also makes draft time fun, because you have this marquee franchise, and everyone's
19:48focusing on draft stuff.
19:50So, um, yes, the Cowboys being bad is very good for NFL fans, and very much enjoyable.
19:56At 17, it is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, um, they put up a whole lot of points against
20:02the New Orleans Saints, and also gave up a whole bunch of points to Spencer Rattler.
20:06Although some of that was, uh, pick-sixes and fumbles and all that stuff, but, um, they,
20:13this is where they should be.
20:15I have been caught in thinking too highly of Tampa Bay, and also I have at times been
20:20caught thinking too lowly of Tampa Bay, but we are now, I think, course-corrected and
20:24figured out what this team actually is.
20:27At 16, it is the Los Angeles Chargers.
20:31Again, offense, mid, defense is quite good, but not to the point that it carries them
20:38up to being anything beyond a middle-tier team.
20:41At 15, it is New Orleans, probably a little bit too high, but still, um, up there a little
20:46bit based off of how well things went in the beginning part of the season, and again, I
20:50have incredible respect for what they can do on the defensive side of the football.
20:55Really interested in the Thursday night game.
20:56Sorry, against the Denver Broncos.
20:59At 14, it's Seattle, again, maybe a little bit too high, but again, this is one of those
21:03things where, okay, well, I think Seattle's too high, well can I confidently put New Orleans
21:06ahead of them?
21:07No.
21:08Chargers?
21:09No.
21:10Bucs?
21:11No.
21:12Cards?
21:13No.
21:14Bengals?
21:15No.
21:16Cowboys?
21:17LOL.
21:18Like, all of these teams, like, 14, when you watch Seattle play, it's like, well, that
21:19is not the 14th best team in the NFL.
21:20And then you watch the 18 behind them, or 17 behind them, it's like, well, I mean, maybe.
21:25You know?
21:26There's just, there's a lot of mediocre, as we've discussed.
21:30And Seattle, I think, is a step above that.
21:33They need to get healthy on defense, because it's starting to become really very much a
21:38problem for Seattle.
21:40At 13, it is Pittsburgh, some talk that Russell Wilson could get the start this week at quarterback,
21:45that is a good way to fall down in the power rankings, but that defense continues to be
21:49a problem.
21:50At 12, it's the New York Jets.
21:52They lose but move up because they end up getting Devontae Adams, and we broke the trade
21:56down yesterday.
21:58Maybe not necessarily the biggest need that this team has right now, but it is certainly
22:03a team that I think could be, or it's certainly a move that I think could help this team out
22:09a little bit further on.
22:10And it definitely puts them ahead of, like, Pittsburgh, Seattle, New Orleans, LA for now.
22:15Even though they sit at 2-4.
22:18Coming in at, where are we?
22:20Number 11.
22:21It is the Philadelphia Eagles.
22:24They are not impressive at all.
22:28And I just, I wanted to believe, I wanted to buy in, and we said, going into last week,
22:32this was the week where it needed to be dominant.
22:35And so many times when we have that, it just doesn't get there.
22:37And this week, it just didn't get there.
22:39And so I am, I am done taking Philadelphia seriously as any kind of a threat.
22:44Which is not great when we have a ticket that says Philadelphia Eagles, number one seed
22:48in the NFC, doesn't feel good.
22:50I mean, they got the win, so that's great.
22:52But it hasn't looked like it at all.
22:54At 10, it is San Francisco getting back on track with a Thursday night win over Seattle.
22:59They are getting healthier, they are getting better, even though I guess they're not getting
23:02all that much healthier with Mason getting hurt, but we'll see what his status is this
23:06week.
23:07At 9, it's Atlanta.
23:08It's becoming very apparent that what we saw week 1 for Atlanta against Pittsburgh was
23:12just working out some kinks, given that they didn't use a whole lot in the preseason.
23:18And we're starting to see, as the weeks go on, a little bit more creativity in the offensive
23:23play calling, better execution in the offensive play calling, and the defense is pretty good
23:27as well.
23:28At 8, it's Washington.
23:30They do take a bit of a dip after a loss against the Baltimore Ravens, but they held with Baltimore.
23:34Or they hung with Baltimore, sorry.
23:36And so I think they are still deserving of a top 10 spot.
23:39At 7, it's Green Bay.
23:40This was the most convincing victory and performance that Green Bay has had all season against
23:46Arizona, so that is, that is a good sign again for us.
23:52We were kind of on the Green Bay bandwagon.
23:54They are getting better as the season goes on, and it's kind of similar to last year.
23:58Only this year, they're not starting at 3-6 and making that push.
24:02They're starting right around 500 and making a push.
24:05So I think they're going to be dangerous.
24:07Walt saying that Mason is practicing, he should be able to play against Kansas City on Sunday,
24:10that's fantastic news, especially for those of us who have Mason in fantasy leagues.
24:16At where do we go?
24:17At 6, it's Buffalo.
24:18They move up in the power rankings, getting Amari Cooper and getting a big win over the
24:22New York Jets.
24:23I think Amari Cooper is exactly what this offense needed, and I think gets them back
24:28into kind of Super Bowl contention.
24:30Now as we talked about yesterday, defense still needs to be addressed, but it's looking
24:34up with Amari Cooper there.
24:36At 5, it is the Houston Texans, 41 points over the New England Patriots.
24:41Another strong showing against a defense that we think is supposed to be pretty good, although
24:45I think that is also changing a fair amount.
24:48At 4, it's Detroit.
24:50The Lions, uh, boy did they feel a certain kind of way about playing the Dallas Cowboys
24:57last week, hey?
24:58Like that was, that was a loss that really stuck with that team, and they pounded the
25:03hell out of them in this game, and just any nightmares they had from a season ago have
25:09all gone away based off of that one, because holy crap.
25:12And then our top 3 remain the same.
25:14At 3, it is the Minnesota Vikings, who still, it's still Sam Darnold, so we still can't
25:20get them in that top 2 yet, but they find their way on the podium.
25:23At 2, it is the Baltimore Ravens.
25:25Still some long term concerns about that defense, but that was a good win against Washington.
25:29And at number 1, no one has knocked them off the perch yet.
25:32They are the Kansas City Chiefs.
25:34So those are the NFL power rankings as we head into week number 7.
25:40We are not done with lists on this show today.
25:43There was a gigantic fight over the weekend, and while there was controversy around the
25:48results, we still have another data point for two fighters who were in the top 10 in
25:52the pound for pound.
25:53So, where do they land after that big fight in Saudi Arabia?
25:57Well, let's talk about it.
26:02Boxing pound for pound rankings, coming off of Beterbiev vs. Bivol at Saudi Arabia.
26:13A bit of a shift in this one.
26:16And so, this is, I kind of had to preface this last week with the UFC, because there
26:21was a controversial decision in the Raquel Paddington-Giuliana Pena fight.
26:26Even if you disagree with the scoring, for pound for pound, in my opinion, I think you
26:32have to just go with what the results are on paper.
26:35If you want to matchmake based off of how you think the fight should have gone, or how
26:40the judges should have done it, that's fine.
26:42But I think for actual real-life rankings, I think you have to kind of follow what the
26:47results say.
26:49So, coming in at number 10, I have Tiafema Lopez.
26:52Still a couple of gigantic wins, and maybe a couple of stumbles along the way as well,
26:58but I still think that the resume is there at number 10.
27:02At number 9, it is David Benavidez.
27:04The only way he really gets to move up is if he finds his way into better competition.
27:10And lord knows, this is not a knock on him for dodging anyone.
27:14It is a knock on people above him.
27:16Check Alvarez, comma Canelo.
27:20And not giving him the opportunities to move up, or to test his skills in those ways.
27:26At number 8, it is Devin Haney.
27:29It just, it felt like there was a few times where he'd go through, oh, what about this
27:33guy?
27:34Why don't I have, oh, we lost to Haney.
27:35Okay, well, what about, oh, we lost to Haney.
27:37Oh, well, okay, he's beat enough guys who are supposed to be on this list.
27:40Why don't I put him on this list?
27:42Still one of the best fighters in the sport.
27:43At 7, it's Dimitri Bivol.
27:45So he falls down a couple of spots based off of a loss to Artur Beterbiev.
27:50He still has the win over Canelo Alvarez, so you have to still keep him on this ranking.
27:55Even though that is a smaller fighter moving up, but still, a loss to a guy who was basically
28:01tied with him in the pound-for-pound rankings, I don't think should drop him out of the
28:04top 10.
28:05At 6, it's Gervonta Davis.
28:07He does move up just based on the Bivol loss.
28:11One of the guys who is in contention for face of the sport, so to speak.
28:16At 5, it's Canelo Alvarez.
28:18For the first time in a while, I have really bumped Canelo down in the rankings.
28:22I just feel like this last fight against Berlonga, I think, has to move him down a
28:28little bit more.
28:30And when you have a guy in Beterbiev, so spoiler alert, he does move up, when you have a guy
28:35in Beterbiev who is going out and fighting another guy who is basically tied with him
28:39in the pound-for-pound rankings and unifying a championship, I think that guy has to go
28:44over Canelo when Canelo had the opportunity to fight someone on this list and decided
28:49to go with Berlonga, who was barely a top 10 fighter in his own weight class.
28:53So that is the knock against Canelo, and again, I get no joy in this because I am such a huge
29:00Canelo fan, but I think it had to be done.
29:03And so obviously at 4, it is Beterbiev.
29:05You can say what you want about how the judges should have or could have or would have scored
29:09that fight, what they did score it was in favor of Artur Beterbiev.
29:13And so now, he continues to wake up as the undisputed light heavyweight champion, and
29:18a win over a top 10 fighter gets you up into the top 4.
29:23At number 3, it's Terrence Crawford.
29:26That is going to be a tough one to knock off, after the amazing performance he had over
29:30Errol Spence Jr.
29:31I do think, again, some of the talk of him moving up, even beyond where he tried in August,
29:37is a little bit premature, and we'd like to see him slowly do that, even though we
29:42are getting towards the end of the career here.
29:45I think that might be a step too far, but for now, dominant performance against Errol
29:48Spence Jr. in the biggest fight of the year keeps him at number 3.
29:52At 2, it's Oleksandr Usyk, after countless wins at heavyweight, cruiserweight, and all
29:58of that.
29:59And a win over Tyson Fury.
30:01I think you have to keep this guy at number 2.
30:03And at number 1, it is Noyoya Inoue, one of the most dominant fighters in this sport.
30:09And no matter what weight class he goes to, no matter who he is fighting, that power follows
30:15him wherever it goes, and he is just an absolute wrecking ball.
30:19And if you have not watched this guy fight, because most of his fights are in Japan at
30:232 in the morning.
30:242 in the morning art time.
30:25Not 2 in the morning Japan time.
30:27If you can watch this guy fight, please do it.
30:29Go find any YouTube clip of this guy, because he is just one of the best fighters of this
30:36era, and I still... like, obviously, giving him credit here, number 1 in the pound-for-pound
30:40rankings, but I think that this guy does not get the attention and love he deserves.
30:44Because of just how damn good he is as a fighter.
30:48So that's the homework for today.
30:49Go out YouTube Noyoya Inoue, and watch him just be an absolute wrecking machine at a
30:55bunch of the smaller weight classes.
30:57So a bit of a quicker one today.
31:00Coming in, by the time we edit this thing down, it's going to be about half an hour.
31:04So thank you guys so much for hanging out.
31:07Tomorrow's an off day, and then Friday is going to be a little bit different than what
31:11we have done around these parts before.
31:14As we've talked about before, I'm back on Sportsnet 960 The Fan every Friday, and so
31:19I have to be there for noon.
31:21We're on location tomorrow, too.
31:23But we have to... or sorry, on location on Friday.
31:27And so that only gives me a bit of time in the morning to get these things done, and
31:32then also, after... like, we can't do the divide of Football Friday and then Fighting
31:38Friday, because after, I'm basically going right from there to Flames Community Arena
31:42to call some Calgary Dinos hockey coming up on Friday as well.
31:46So it is going to be a bit of a jumbled schedule, and quite frankly, I don't know how I'm going
31:51to do it yet, but keep it locked.
31:53I'll try to get things scheduled here as best as I can on PrimetimePK.
31:58Also, keep it locked to my social medias.
32:01I am at PrimetimeKlein on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
32:06Thank you all so much for hanging out with me today, and I will talk to all of you later
32:11on today.
32:12I forgot to say, we're doing another video game stream.
32:13So that's coming out at... we're going to be doing that at 3 o'clock Mountain Time today.
32:17Going to be continuing on with the Calgary Flames.
32:20It's hockey season.
32:21I do want to get the other ones in there, but for now, it's hockey season.
32:24We got to get this thing wrapped up again.
32:26So we are going to do that.
32:28Toxic, see you later.
32:29Walt, as always, thank you so much.
32:32BigMacko as well, thank you very much in the chat.
32:34And I'll talk to all of you either later today or coming up in some form on Friday.
32:39Have a great day, everybody.