Jizzy Mack, the bodyguard of Floyd Mayweather, gassed after the second round of his bout with K-1 kickboxing vet Kouzi and was knocked out in the third round.
At 42 pounds heavier than his experienced opponent, Mack, also known as Ray Sadeghi, tried to use his heft to avoid the inevitable as he held the head and clinched for dear life.
With his gas tank quickly expiring, he was knocked down by a two-piece at the start of the third and hit the deck face-first after a left hook.
Mack, Mayweather’s bodyguard since 2013 and a central figure in the “Money Fight” between Mayweather and Conor McGregor, seemed happy just to be in the ring and give his best.
Kouzi, meanwhile, wasn’t entirely happy with his performance in the exhibition bout, which served on the four-fight Super Rizin fight card at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, and aired on FITE TV pay-per-view.
With a kickboxing record of 31-16-2, he felt he should have struggled a bit less.
But at 144 pounds, Kouzi struggled early on to get past Mack’s jab and then get space as his opponent hung on his head, pawed out his lead hand, and generally proved an awkward opponent.
One of the rather notoriously notable moments during the Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor press tour happened during the third stop in Brooklyn.
McGregor and some members of his team had a brief altercation with some of Floyd Mayweather’s bodyguards, whom he branded as “juiceheads.”
A member of the security team, Greg La Rosa, seemed to be slighted by McGregor’s claims. Speaking to Submission Radio, he spoke about what happened during that moment he clashed with McGregor, and how he wanted to take a USADA test right then and there to prove that he was clean.
“In Brooklyn, basically, Floyd said, ‘point to the easy work,’ and we pointed at him and he started saying the ‘tapout’ stuff and I think that was getting to Conor so he kind of drew his attention to that and he looked over at me and the other guy Ray (Jizzy Mack) and he said, ‘look at these two juice heads,’” La Rosa recalled.
“So I guess at that point he probably had enough of him, he had to go at me. So I thought it was very, he looked at me and he said, ‘look at these two juice heads,’ and Floyd, I can’t remember what Floyd said after that. Floyd said something after that.”
“So I think he walked away for a bit and then he came back and said some stuff to me like, ‘you’re on juice,’ and I told him right there, I said, ‘no, never,’” he continued. “I said, ‘I’m not’.
I said, ‘I’ll do a USADA test right now and I’ll bet you a hundred thousand dollars that I’m not,’ and he said, ‘yeah right, yeah right,’ and I said, ‘I’ll take it right now, I’ll take the blood right after the show.’”
“And it kind of got him like, ‘no way’ and he said, I think he said something along the lines of, ‘this is a real body,’ or something.
An early knockdown and the killer extinct from KOUZI (@1_kouzi) sees Jizzy go down in the final round 🔥
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And then I just told him, I said, ‘you know what, when you’re standing next to me’, I said, ‘put on a shirt cause you’re embarrassing yourself standing next to me’. I figured it would just rattle him up a little bit. That’s all it is for me.”
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