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King of the 4 rounders Butterbean faces Peter McNeeley in a Heavyweight Bout on Showtime Boxing PPV
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00:00we close in on Butterbean versus McNeely IBA super heavyweight title we
00:05continue our coverage from the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas when last
00:10we saw Peter McNeely he was in the dream fight of his life an unknown from
00:16Medfield Massachusetts designated to fight Mike Tyson in his return bout
00:21following prison we turn back the clock to August of 95 we all know how it turned
00:26out McNeely tried to jump on Tyson but just 89 seconds in after receiving a
00:31major pummeling McNeely's manager trainer Vinnie Vecchione rushed into the ring to
00:36stop the damage final result DQ McNeely round one well the outcome was academic
00:43Vecchione has since admitted he made a mistake running into the ring and should
00:47have let the referee stop the fight on his own but McNeely inactive most of 97 to
00:52Minnesota personal issues drug and alcohol related is Vecchione in there
00:56along side Peter McNeely he credits Vecchione with cleaning him up McNeely
01:02nine and two four knockouts since that fateful night
01:07Vinnie Vecchione there's been a ruling by the Nevada Athletic Commission here he
01:12cannot work the corner able to walk in and walk out with McNeely but can't work
01:16the corner or be within five feet of him during the fight so obviously they're
01:19still reeling from that wild night in 95 waiting the entrance of Butterbean supposedly
01:28it's going to be an interesting entrance and there he is it's interesting
01:30already taking a page from Prince Nassim Ahmed silhouetted behind a screen if he
01:35punctuates his entrance with a backflip like the Prince on by dinner
01:41I'm just going to go cover up the hole in the ground I have no round mate did I know it will stand out
01:49now he's the only guy I know that they unhook the ropes to let him in
01:52turn it up
01:53they don't even hope that he gets into the ropes
01:55three hundred and twelve pounds ladies and gentlemen you have to go and find a scale
02:03I went into the interview hoping to hate him and I came out loving the guy because that guy is funny
02:17Bobby had a bone to pick with him when he said he's KO Tyson but he said you'll go away after the fight being a
02:23butterbean fan too I'm a fan of the guy he you know he doesn't take himself too
02:27seriously except to a guy who's made a lifetime of boxing boxing has been my life
02:32I take offense because all he really is is a professional amateur he's a four round fighter
02:36I'm not sure you stand up for ten rounds and actually fight he's never faced one person that could punch
02:41he's never faced a real fighter yeah Peter McGill should Peter McGill beat him
02:46that'll end it for me he's not a fighter he's a media guard
03:06let's size him up and I do mean size him up
03:28butterbean 32 two years older than mcnealy two inch height advantage for mcnealy butterbean a mere 99
03:34heavier than McNeely but down from 323 his last fight 15 days ago he'll reach
03:40even he unified rules for the super heavyweight bounce schedule for four no
03:44standing eight count three knockdown rule no not the fighter cannot be saved
03:48by the Bell in any round and if an accidental headbutt occurs before the
03:52end of the fight it's a no contest
03:56well we're set for the introductions from our ring announcer Jimmy Leonard
04:02Jr. ladies and gentlemen at this time we present a much anticipated super
04:10heavyweight showdown brought to you courtesy of top rank incorporated and
04:15Showtime event television in association with the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
04:21and Budweiser the undisputed undefeated king of beers this bound is sanctioned by
04:28the International Boxing Association President Dean Champs Supervisor Bob Case
04:33along with the Nevada State Athletic Commission the chairman is Dr. Elias
04:38Conum introducing to you our judges at ringside all from Las Vegas Nevada we have
04:45Bill Graham Jerry Roth and Glenn Trowbridge with our referee in charge of this
04:53about Jay Nadie right fans here we go with the battle of the big boys of boxing as super heavyweights in
05:03the ring four rounds of action schedule introducing you first on my right finding out of the blue
05:12corner wearing white trunks with black and green trim finding out of his home of
05:18Medfield Massachusetts he weighed in and I'm ready to 112 pounds with a record of
05:2645 wins four losses he has 34 wins coming by way of knockout introducing a hurricane Peter
05:36and his opponent across the ring on my left finding out of the red corner wearing red white and blue stars and stripes
05:54trucks and fighting out of just for Alabama he weighed in at 311 pounds his record stands at 44 wins one loss one loss one
05:58draw with 33 wins coming by way of knockout here is the former tough man champion and the current IBA super heavyweight champion
06:17and now introducing the king of the king of the four rounders butterbeam
06:25and once again our referee in charge Jay Nadie
06:31do you guys have any questions get back we're not going to do that here
06:35do you have any questions obey my command
06:39who's the belt line man who's the belt line there
06:43i see the belt line stand back go back to your corner touch go off and go to work and don't tell me i do my job again
06:49get back you hear what i said
06:53controversy already
06:55today nadie screaming at the mcneely corner basically butterbeam's mindset walk to the center of the ring
07:01starts slugging until somebody falls as quick as knockout 18 seconds and i got to ask you fernie
07:07about mcneely 70 days clean from drugs and alcohol he told us with your medical background is this too
07:13risky for him to be fighting under these circumstances certainly has he had a long time where he was under
07:18drugs and heavy drugs let's go to this butterbeam goes right to it
07:21going to end it less than 18 seconds you know what butterbeam thinks he's a big puncher he weighs 300 pounds
07:30i don't think he's a good puncher for 300 pounds and we had some words about this i think he really
07:35thinks he's a real fighter he fights good four-round fights and butterbeam of course wants the bra on the
07:40street fight he wants to lure mcneely into that kind of a fight mcneely's got to stay outside i know he's
07:48an in-your-face butterbeam he's got a box jab and move that's how michel rose handed butterbeam his
07:53only defeat the guy being butterbeam is one in six that should tell you something between the two
07:58guys they have 89 wins and neither of them have fought a live fighter this fight has the skill and
08:02subtleties of a barroom brawl and how often art invitates life but schilbert wrote a book called the
08:11fall and that's what this is all about building up a fighter and he's nothing well there's two built-up
08:15fighters you hear the chance in unison butterbeam
08:23i'd be interested to see if mcneely actually go tries to go to the body it's a big enough target
08:28mcneely who looks a lot thinner than the last time we saw him 99 pounds lighter than butterbeam
08:33there's an overhand right by butterbeam that connected on the trail
08:37and a left hook to follow it it was a nice combination by butterbeam now he goes to the body
08:43swings and misses with the left hook
08:51the fan appeal of this guy on the red white blue trunks is very very palpable stevie appeals
08:57any guy who can walk out of a bar who's had a couple extra drinks or ain't a little too much
09:00didn't die in a trainer's life and can actually come in here and perform at this level it's one of
09:05those spots you can up down for a second left hook right for the glove of mcneely on top on top of
09:11which he's such an appealing character he's so funny he's such a nice guy there's a lot of electricity
09:17in the air tonight folks a lot and even though he's only fighting four rounds he has some good form
09:22he threw a nice jab hook off the jab and he fought with a right uppercut on the inside he's throwing
09:26some nice combinations butterbeam takes the insults about his appearance very much in stride which
09:33makes him even that much more likable oh he missed with the right fires away with a couple of left hooks
09:39that connect it and he's got mcneely in trouble believe me he's got mcneely in trouble mcneely is not
09:47fighting well at all he's out he's out on his feet powerful punches by butterbean and mcneely in trouble
09:55well butterbeam was a 10-1 favorite then a 7-1 favorite by fight time four and a half to one
10:00favorite obviously somebody knew something but a little bit of money went on mcneely oh a right
10:04hand by butterbeam that snaps mcneely's head back another uppercut it's all butterbeam mcneely ready to go
10:11and that's it jane 80 steps in and stops the fight just before the bell
10:19it's over on the first round if i said sacrificial lamb would i be overstating the case pretty accurate
10:26well we didn't get any action in 12 rounds and we got all the action we could stand in one round
10:32so butterbeam continues to win the hearts of the public this guy's electric i mean however
10:37foolish he looks and i ever say the whole thing is he still can fight and still can hurt you he's tough
10:44so for staff here or not he is here and he's in to make some paydays
10:51every time we see this guy mcneely the fight's over the first round well at least vacchione didn't
10:56have to stop at this time yeah it would be against the law this time they'd have to shoot him on the way in
11:01where's that tyson guy it's all over and butterbeam shuts his record of 45 one and one with 34 ko's
11:08you know he was telling me in the interviews that he's he's going to get a fight with tyson because
11:11the people demanded mike tyson will be the laughing stock of the industry if he actually fought butterbeam
11:18yeah that would be a big surprise if tyson accepted that let's watch him probably he pretty much got
11:23him get out of here he got him in trouble pretty much at will nice combination there's an overhand
11:28right that misses and he just takes another right hand there's a left and an overhand right he's
11:33got some fair form slips inside throws a right to the body which is a nice move
11:39and again peter mcneely doesn't really offer up much
11:44but it's the first time he really hurts mcneely he throws a nice overhand right misses comes back
11:48with a hook the hook had a lot of weight the double hook the second one is the one that you
11:52could see actually made the eyes rolling mcneely and in the end of the fight was just a matter
11:57of mcneely not doing anything butterbeam firing a nice uppercut on the inside a right hook around
12:03mcneely's gloves smart move and mcneely winds up with his back up against the ropes and just gets
12:08uppercutted to death practically that's the third one a hook another hook another right hand and
12:15mcneely offers up nothing the referee just says that's enough that's what he's called overwhelmed
12:21overwhelmed there's nothing there's nothing he could do but stop that fight he's right
12:25butterbeam smothering mcneely once again the hurricane blows over let's get the official word
12:32from jimmy lennon jr ladies and gentlemen we have the time of two minutes 59 seconds in round number
12:39one our referee in charge jay nady stops the contest the winner by way of technical knockout and still the
12:47king of the four-rounders butterbeam
12:54i've been hearing it from the crowd continues his reign as a king of the four-rounders did he ever
13:01beat the guy to knock them out all right mitchell rose yes i don't think they met again how do you get
13:08the title back that would be a good rematch from somebody else well peter mcneely loses for the
13:15second straight time coming into tonight off the loss to brian nielsen of denmark he's now 45 and 5.
13:20and he said if he lost tonight he'd go get a date that's right he'd quit and go to a daytime job so
13:28i just heard him asking somebody oh yeah i'm right yeah that's what the world wants to see
13:33he probably thought he was going to move and run and he stood right in front of the house
13:36i was hoping he'd stand there being all smiles used to build mobile homes now he has to bring a
13:41briefcase note to each fight with photos to sign autographs for hundreds of people coming up next
13:48our main event and we're looking live at johnny tappy in his dressing room getting ready for number
13:53two contender southpaw paulie ayala this guy has the reputation of taking on all comers he's about a
14:00five to one favorite some of the so-called experts in the local papers are picking ayala though
14:05undefeated 48 fights 25 knockouts 16th world title fight it's coming up in a moment tapia
14:11versus ayala right now let's go over to bill boggs with the super heavyweight here we go bill all
14:18right mr butterbean mr bean it's gonna be here in vegas i tell you well listen we felt the electricity
14:25of the crowd and yet for the boxing pundits you're like the rodney dangerfield of boxing
14:29like i said it wasn't gonna be a boxing match it's gonna be a fight and that's why i give the
14:32people their money's worth did you take a big step up tonight do you think i i take a big step every
14:38time i walk i'm 300 pounds no we saw some double jabs you saw some good defense where do you want to
14:44go do you want to stay i want mike tyson four rounds ten rounds gonna be just like this he's too stupid
14:50he's too stupid to run he'll stand up and get knocked out the pundits say you couldn't last 60 seconds
14:55with mike tyson that's what they say mike tyson one hit's all it takes from heavyweight like me
14:59what about defense though hey hey i can take a punch as good as anybody but i don't get as much
15:04anymore let's talk a little bit about what happened with mcnealy in there tonight they were saying
15:08mcnealy has been essentially a top 10 fighter this was a step up for you did it feel like that did it
15:13feel any like the level of competition was any different than your other four around yeah did i step
15:17up every you know whenever i have a tough opponent like two weeks ago on espn i stepped up i step up
15:23whoever the guy they put in front of me i step up to that occasion so what do you want champion when
15:27you go back to the gym what are you really working on you got the punching power what's your plan where
15:32where do you want to be a year from now i'm improving my hand speed i'm improving my boxing skills where
15:37i can fight better i don't want to start boxing i don't want to jab him i'm too big for that i'm just
15:42getting ready for the eric morales fighting tijuana mexico from the mexican friends i love you all right
15:48mr butterbean mr bean the king of the four rounders will you well will we ever see you
15:54fight a 10 rounder you know what if it's not broke don't fix it but if they want me to fight 10 rounds
15:59mike tyson anytime all right what about bobby chad steve ask him if he'll fight anytime anytime back to you
16:05steve all right thank you very much bill and butterbean and uh a very very disappointed
16:13peter mcnaily out of medfield mass chatting with ron borges of the boston globe right over there
16:21to his right a quick post-fight interview flying monday six by peter mcnaily trying to explain
16:30what just happened surrounded by the boston press uh the kid was a little better than i expected so
16:38what his confidence got going you don't get you get better
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