Shannon Sharpe’s IG live, presidential debate ratings, Edgar Berlanga joins the show

what's up everybody Welcome to the latest edition of the Stephen A Smith show coming at you as I love to do over the digital Airways of YouTube and of course iHeart Radio as always before I get into anything else let me take a moment to thank my subscribers my followers we've now eclip 785,000 can't thank y'all enough for the love and support of course on ihart radio we've eclipsed more than two and a half million downloads over the last couple of months can't thank y'all enough for that support as well in audio in video and Beyond we've been receiving so much support and love from y'all can't thank y'all enough keep it coming and you know I'm going to keep on coming got a lot of stuff to get into today Donald Trump is backing out of debating kamla Harris ever again it appears I'll talk about that the one and only Ed Edgar belinga uh vying for the super middleweight championship boxing crown of the world going up against Saul Canelo Alvarez this Saturday night at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas um I'm going to look forward to talking to him because he's getting ready to fight Canelo and I think that that is I mean clearly the toughest fight of his career we'll get into that with this this this dude who's 22 and 0 and a knockout artist in his own right so looking forward to listening to him talking to him hearing what he has to say about this upcoming fight but it it has to take a backseat today both items have to take a backseat to today uh to Mr Shannon sharp Mr Shannon sharp um Shannon sharp that's where I'm going to start today because he was trending all over the damn place this week for a pretty interesting reason now uh I was minding my own business when my phone started blowing up and I was getting texts all over the place text messages all over the place everybody calling all you see what's happening to you see what's happening I Ain know what the hell was going on about Shannon sharp until I saw what I saw and shall I say a certain video of him doing some things doing some things okay let me just say he may want to change the name of his show uh from Club sh Shay to uh Club Sun house I I I don't know where to go with this here's the deal because obviously um I've spoken to him he is my colleague on First Take somebody that I brought over to the show uh last year who's done a phenomenal job uh since he's arrived and I'm incredibly appreciative of not just uh the partnership that we've developed but the friendship as well and he he called me about what happened let me know what was transpiring and was letting me know that he was going to let the world know uh what transpired as well Shannon Shaw was having sex it's what he was doing okay he's getting it in it's just that it wasn't for everybody to know and evidently you know he was on Instagram live and didn't know and as a result although no video was seen thank the good Lord we heard quite a bit we heard quite a bit and so initially he thought his stuff was hacked and then OB came out and and and and and told what transpired and that was that and from that point forward you've had people speculating as to whether or not he was gonna get fired was he going to get suspended etc etc again he works on first take I'm the executive producer for first take so if something was gonna happen to him with regards to ESPN I'd be one of the first to know um I was on the phone with the bosses yesterday and and uh you know nothing's gonna happen to be honest with you because nothing should happen let me be the first to say that Shannon sharp committed no crime uh it wasn't some sex tape that he meant for everybody to hear that's not how he rose I gotten to know him personally that's not how that's not who he is that's not how he rose okay so let me get that out the way first um and if something had happened where he was going to be in a world of trouble I would have fought like hell to make sure nothing came of it because again there's no video and he was living his private life and it was a mistake and if you know anything about Shannon uh trust me and believe it was a mistake because not only is he incredibly private he's incredibly clueless when it comes to using social media he has a team that does that for him that's not what Shannon sha Shannon Shar will tell you what he once tweeted he will tell you what he once posted on IG he will tell you what he want on Facebook or something like that but the damn show ain't doing it himself that's not what he does he's not technologically astute in that way a lot of people aren't he's one of those people okay I know his team I know him personally I've seen him all the time because when he shows up the first take they are with him when he goes anywhere they are with him there's a Cadre of people that show up with him when he shows up to games and stuff like that they with him he ain't rolling by himself they come with him he's got a social media person he's got a photographer he's got a photographer he's got all of that he don't mind people filming him and tweeting for him and you know constantly being h a conspicuous presence on social media he likes that stuff he's not like me in that regard we're both very very private but I don't have a desire to have all of that around me he loves it okay he you know but they're are professionals that handle his business but they ain't going to be there when he getting down he ain't gonna have him in the room when he getting down now he gonna do that in private okay and I assure you I'm here I'm telling you right now I I wasn't there obviously but based on the Shannon shot that I know I can promise you when that brother says he didn't know he was on IG live he didn't know because there's very little he knows about social media he knows what he says because he's instructed his team to post what he said but in terms of technologically implementing something himself oh no no no no no no no no that's not Shannon that's not Shannon so make no mistake he was telling the whole truth but I want to get to a bigger portion of this story that I wanted to say the nerve of people out there that were trying to act like he did something wrong two consenting adults were getting it in yesterday morning what's the problem what's the problem I couldn't believe when people were trying to act like yo he he it's like he justone they're trying to say sex tape sex tape nah no you didn't see it if you didn't see it you didn't see it and and accidents happened he says he was embarrassed I saw him on night cap last night with ooo he says he was embarrassed I believe him because he don't want people in his business number one number two he don't want people trying to figure out who he was with and bothering that person that's true number three Shannon sharp is a big- Time family man in terms of Sterling sharp his brother former NFL wide receiver who by the way was the second best receiver in the world next to Jerry Rice when he was playing in Green Bay having passes thrown to him by Brett F if y'all don't know do your damn homework Sterling sharp was that dude and obviously Shannon with his sister and his family unit his daughters stuff like that he he ain't trying to be all over the media for that that is one thing to talk about stuff and be flirtatious and talk about what you going to do like he's done on night cap and stuff like that when they brought up Megan the Stallion and other people all that just talk but in terms of actually hearing and seeing him in action nah he ain't about that life that's not what he wants to do and so for me personally I'm just looking at people and I'm like why y'all tripping why everybody acting like you know he he he did something wrong I'm not saying it was right to be to to get caught on on audio getting it be getting it in like that but because there's nothing of anybody's business but if it was an accident it was an accident anybody any virgins out there raise your hand any folks rolling around celibate out there raise your hand anybody that ain't getting it in from time to time if not more than time to time sh raise your hand raise your hand all these people looking to find some kind of criticism I don't know what you can criticize now let me say this to Shannon Sha because it's very important that I say this thank God you were handling your business because you know it would have been bad right if if it was on audio and you were being insulted you know that would have been bad sh sh it would have been bad you know the whole crew would have been I mean not on camera but off camera we' all been laughing at you you know that right you know that right so so thank God that wasn't what was going on okay and then he said you know it you know CAD o choso alluded to it he said Cat Williams said called him and said to him quote you ain't gay today because you know those rumors that they try to put out there about Shannon Trum which to my knowledge first of all I don't care if he is or isn't it's none of my business but I can assure you I've never seen any evidence of that anytime over the years I've seen Shannon sharp he he's been with a dime piece that that means somebody that look looks very very good okay a female that looks very very good that's that's that's what I'm accustomed to seeing him around that's that's what I'm accustomed to seeing that brother around so I never bought into those rumors not that I care because I'm liberal on a social side I'm fiscally conservative but when it comes to your private life and how you live your life that's your business gay trans by you know heterosexual homosexual is none of my damnn business okay I got the kind of life I like to lead which is that of a heterosexual anybody that wants to live differently that's your business I could care less but if you a man who is a proud heterosexual you don't enjoy people saying that you're gay which is what they were saying about Shannon sharp which Shannon sharp has openly admitted he found offensive so all of those rumors we hope will be put to bed and everybody move on with their damn life but in the end I just thought it was important to point this out so long as it was an accident the man did absolutely nothing wrong so people blowing up my phone asking me is he gonna get fired and all of this other stuff no I spoke to the honos he ain't getting fired they it ain't going down like that that's not going to happen he's going to be here he's going to be right on first take Monday and Tuesday he's gonna be right with me next Friday in Washington DC when first take rolls up on Howard University he gonna be right there next month when we go to Tennessee State he's gonna be right there after that when we go down to Atlanta Clark University and moouse and all of that yeah he gonna be there too okay because he didn't do anything wrong mistakes happen accidents happen it's just that simple let it go let it be anybody who living on I understand living on it in a moment when the damn thing is strolling on IG live I get that part but now that it's beyond us anybody focusing on that making me wonder about what kind of life you got he 56 years old as he said on his podcast 56 and still healthy enough to get it in I appreciate that he ain't the only 56 year old that know how to get it in and got the energy and the stamina and the physical we with all to get it in there's a whole there's a few folks out there that can do that too but leave that man alone let him live his life and don't be searching for what woman he was with the way whatever the case may be that's his business too last time I checked he ain't married so nobody can assume specifically who it is if he was married you say it was his wife he's not married so we don't know why care and by the way for the woman who was with him and clearly intends on being with him again ain't no shame you with your man doing what it is that you do that most of us do quite a bit I'm just saying I'm just saying up next he's vying for the super middleweight championship of the world I'm talking about a big fight going down this weekend in Vegas I'll talk to the one and only Edgar the chosen one belanga about all that and more next up after all it is Canelo Alvarez this brother is fighting the boxing World wants to know how's he going to handle himself is he going to survive we'll talk to him about it that's up next right here on the Stephen A Smith show over the digital Airways of YouTube and of course our heart radio back with more in a minute okay everybody you know what time it is it's time for Stephen A Sports Picks everybody knows that I'm a sports fanatic and now that the NFL season is here I'm trying to find ways to put myself in the middle of the action and there's only one way I can possibly do that I'm going to use prize picks of course that's what I'm going to do you see priz piics is the largest fantasy sports platform in all the land with over three million members you just choose two or more players and then pick more or less on their projected stats for the game and the best part it takes only 60 seconds and get this sign up with code SAS and Prospects will give you $50 instantly when you play your first $5 lineup you don't need to win your lineup to receive the $50 bonus it's guaranteed all you have to do is play a $5 lineup on priz picks and you'll get your $50 instantly now let's get right to it and look at my winning picks okay today I'll be choosing all players from this weekend's NFL games Jared G quarterback for the Detroit Lions more or less than 267 and a half passing yards against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this weekend I get that Jared G and those Brothers I mean they they won the game against the Los Angeles Rams it was a tough competitive matchup but the Rams are no joke I know the Buccaneers don't look like much of a joke either especially Baker Mayfield doing his thing he deserves his props but I think this is a game that jarro g will show up and he'll throw for more than 267 and a half yards I think Detroit is the better team I think he'll show himself to be at least as good as Mayfield if not better which he is is in most people's eyes I'm going with more on this one more than 6 267 A2 yards for Jared G let's go to the one and only Baker Mayfield himself more or less than 255 and a half passing yards against the Detroit Lions look Detroit's defense is vastly improved they got they obviously uh they go how to get after the quarterback but I'm looking at Evans as a wide out I'm looking at godwins as a as as a wide out I'm looking at the opportunities that Baker Mayfield's going to have to make some noise I think he's going to do well himself I don't think he's going to do better than golf but I don't think it's one of those situations where he's going to stink up the joint either do I see Baker Mayfield pass it for more than 255 and a half yards the answer to that would be yes so we're going with more more more Bryce Young quarterback for the Carolina Panthers more or less than 192 and a half passing yards against the Los Angeles Chargers I'm like everybody else right now I've lost faith I look at Bryce young boy what a spect acular player he was coming out of Alabama he was special but looking at him in the NFL he looks like a boy playing amongst men he's just so undersized he's so small and these are goliaths these are these are mountains of men coming his way and he's had a rough patch of it and for them to get annihilated the way that they did it again in week one against the New Orleans Saints shows us that they're still not a good team the Chargers on to come up Jim Harbaugh is a hell of a coach I definitely think you got to look at them and what they can bring to the table I definitely believe that Bryce young is going to have a very very very rough outing 192 and a half yards I don't know if he's going to throw for 150 yards let alone 192 and a half I'm going with less on this one less when it comes to Bryce young so let's revisit my picks okay you got Jared G at 267 A2 yards I'm going with more you got Baker Mayfield at 255 A2 yards I'm going more you got brce young at 1922 yards I'm going with less more more and less those are my picks flow with me on this one y'all trust me you'll need to flow with me welcome back to Stephen A SM show right here over the digital Airways of YouTube and of course iHeart Radio Sin City's going to be on fire this weekend as my next guest is a big reason why with an undefeated record of 220 and0 please welcome The Man known as the chosen one ain't LeBron James is super middleweight boxing champion the one and only Edgar belinga what's going on Big Time how are you man how's everything going I'm good man I'm good man you know we here in Vegas you know two days away from the biggest fight of my life man and we ready to go how did this fight come about Edgar I mean were you pushing for it did Canelo call you how did this come about yeah he called me he called me he called my phone man he called my phone yeah uh now it was more um you know I was already talking about the fight you know what I'm saying four years ago I've been I've been speaking about you know me fighting him and stuff you know what I'm saying so um we got the call once he won Mia but I already knew because Eddie Roso has said something like yo like let him know that you know if we win you know we win this fight that you know we're gonna get the banga fight in September you know I'm looking at you right now first of all you know what you you you you you recently stopped uh your last fight you you had a stoppage in the sixth round prior to that you hadn't knocked out anybody since 2020 really but the first 16 fights not only did you knock everybody out you did it in the first damn round for crying out loud and I wonder when you were doing that as you were elevating yourself in this business what what did you think of yourself and why did you believe you were tailor made for this fight against Canelo um I feel like right now you know it's my time man you know I think well not think I know that you know it was written you know God's plan right and supposed to be here you know we a we a't fight no world champions you know we a fight for a title yet but my first world title shot is for three titles it's unification fight with a legend you know so that's a ready legendary right there you know and God Don't Make Mistakes man you know so I'm going in there and and I'm I'mma perform greatness you know what I'm saying I'm I'm I'm I've been ready for this you know four years ago five years ago I've been speaking about this fight man it's it's a different type of vibe when when when a person is mentally ready for something you get what I'm saying five years ago and then now I'm getting the fight you know I'm ready to go man you know the tickets are booming is a sellout event pay-per-view numbers are going to do amazing you know I got two on the line man you know so that right there once I got two on the line I said I know the fight is viral and this is greatness right here you know so I've been ready for it you got people that look at you and let me tell you what they say about you they say that if you're going to win this fight it's going to be because of your power and the fact that you've got the power to ultimately take down somebody who has never even been knocked down let alone knocked out in Canelo Alvarez but they say if it's a boxing match that's where you could be in trouble because they think that you're the inferior boxer what do you believe you are in this fight I'm everything I got everything everything counter punching I come to fight a great jab great legs great movement great waist great everything man you know that night for 36 minutes I got to be great for 36 minutes and on that on that night I gotta be the greatest egab bonga that's ever been you hear me and I know what I'm capable of doing I needed a guy like him to take me to that level I needed a legend like himself to push me to that level to where I know where I could be you know um um and yeah if it goes 12 rounds you know like I said we got to be locked in for 36 minutes greatness you know and if the knockout comes it comes but we looking to take him all in six rounds you know it down he he push it down and said he was he was gonna take me out at eight he said he's gonna take me out at six I told him all right so you're gonna go out in four and if you come out swinging in the first round you know I'm I'm The Knockout King when it comes to the first round Knockouts you going out in the first round so when you look at yourself and you see Canelo Alvarez tell me what you've seen from him in recent memory now when I look at him I one of the greatest ever but I also saw a dude that lost at the at the light heavyweight Division I saw a dude who fought an undersized charow I see a dude that people are talking about eventually fighting a Terrence Crawford who'd have to move up two weight classes in order to go up against them three rate classes actually I'm seeing these kind of things but I also see somebody that obviously has knockout power Swings with power with practically every punch he throws and he's been known to take a few cats out in his day when you look at Canelo Alvarez what do you see at this moment in time what do you see from him right now I see cap I think right now you know is his time already passed you know what I'm saying he's a great Champion he's a great fighter you know but um for me right I don't think he faced anybody at the 168 division that's big that's strong that's gon to come to fight that don't got no respect you get what I'm saying I got everything to lose anybody can say whatever they want I got everything to lose for this fight you know what I'm saying regardless of anything I'm facing a legend you know what I'm saying it's how I want to wake up September 15 you know either I'm GNA wake up with a l in my record or I'm gonna wake up being the face of boxing being the face of everything you know the face of Puerto Rico the face of New York you know the face of the world man the face of boxing bro so that's what's on my mind you know um Canelo right now I feel like his time has passed every King has his day right and this happened years ago just like you right Stephen A when you get older you you're the king of what you do but eventually someone's goingon to come in and take your place and you're gonna have to sit down retire right so it's the same thing that goes with him every King has his day my day gonna come it's depending how I wanted to go right but at the end of the day my my my time is going to come to become king and then eventually I'm might have to get you know not saying thrown by anybody but it happens you get what I'm saying it's boxing bro you know and right now I feel like it's my time I feel like right now is the time for me to just take over the sport you know the sport needs somebody like me man they need that energy they need a New Yorker you know what I'm saying they need a Puerto Rican they need a person that's gonna represent the brothers man you know saying that's gonna represent everything you know I'm that gu you know what I'm saying when I think about Canelo here's what I think about I think anybody who's just gonna walk to him and try to and try to just get in a brawl with him they're playing right into his hands I think that even when you have the power he's somebody you got to use the jab you gotta stick you gotta move you gotta at B you gotta keep him at B you can't just walk to him because the brother will catch you I mean catch anybody especially with that left hook do you recognize that about yourself do you feel like this is a guy that you got to fight a little bit differently against compared to how you fought against everybody else in your career thus far oh th% you know he's a legend right so he's a guy he got a lot of experience right and I'm going go back to to when roelly fought when when roelly fought javante Davis right javant roelly was a power puncher but roelly depended too much on his power you know what I'm saying and that's and tank is a guy that has IQ he's intelligent and he has power too and he knows how to use it you get what I'm saying so that's why he did roly the way he did you get what I'm saying so my my my my strategy my plan is not to go in there and try to run and then throw bombs from down here to try to we're not going to land that you know we got to use the jab we got to use F you know we got to go in there and be smart be intelligent man make him think it's different when you go in there with a thinker you get what I'm saying you see when he fought Floyd Floyd made him think Floyd made him think the whole 12 rounds made him think you know you gotta go in there making that guy think you can't go in there like I'm went in there and just throwing combination you know m is a great fighter but I feel like he lacked the IQ he lacked the intelligence and that's why he didn't get the victory you know I look I I look at you and you know and I saw y'all with y'all press conference y'all was talking some stack some smack to each other and and Canelo was like I'm gonna hurt I'm gonna hurt this brother real bad I'm gonna put I'm gonna hurt him real real bad that's the prediction that he's been telling all of us he's been telling the world about what he's going to do to you Saturday night is there any history between you two that most of us may not know about but we need to know about um n but what I do know is that he sees something right he you know what he sees he sees a young kid right a young kid strong pretty you know got a lot of a lot of great stuff going for myself you know I'm a guy right and I said this before and I don't mean like meaning like I want what he has like you know I don't like that when when somebody says they want what I got right but I didn't mean it like meaning I want he everything he I want no meaning like whatever he he got I could get you get what I'm saying I could fight my ass or I can sell tickets I'm a guy that that that I bring that energy I bring that light into boxing you know what I'm saying sort of like how Floyd did you know and I'm Spanish I'm Puerto Rican I got a whole country behind me a whole island behind me you know so he sees that and that's a threat for him you know what I'm saying then he sees a kid that don't got no respect for him you know what I'm saying in that ring you get what I'm saying so a lot of these guys got a lot of respect for him you know because they like kissing his feet because you know paid day and they got paid and he's you know who he is he's can of Alvarez and let me let me kiss his feet and it's like no man like I'm not doing that he keeps talking about respect but but it's like brother you trying to go in there and hurt me Stephen if somebody wanted to go in there and hurt you right on Saturday night you going to have respect for them no I'm G try to kick their ass yeah exactly and you gonna talk your [ __ ] right you gonna tell them I'm GNA kick your ass [ __ ] it's not gonna be no respect you trying to hurt me you wanna you want to send me to the hospital bro you wanna you trying to embarrass me in front of my kids in front of my family you crazy I got to do the same to you that's why I say boxing is not a is not a sport it's respect after fight but during the fight contract signed that sit is over out the window it's Blood swe and Tears bro I could die in that ring he could die in that ring you know what I'm saying so it happens man you know I'm looking at this right now and obviously you're Puerto Rican he's Mexican how much does that factor into I mean is Mexican Independence Day and all of this how much does that factor in your Puerto Rican ancestry compared to his Mexican ancestry how much does that factor in to not just how big this fight is but how exactly you'll fight him because a lot of times we're watching from the outside looking in and we're wondering whether or not that pressure that pressure from your countrymen that pressure from your Peach plays a role in how you choose to fight somebody talk about that for a second and what kind of influence that could potentially have on this fight um you know it's it's gonna be a great fight right because you know the type of style fighter I am the type of style fighter he is you know he's intelligent I'm I'm gonna be very intelligent at night you know but it's going to be eventually it's gonna wind up being a slugfest when it comes down to it in the later rounds you know my my my job is to go in there in the later rounds and go and and and and take them into deep orders you know what I'm saying and put that pressure on him you know he's been he had 607 fights so like what what Co said right like when we talk about he's been at 60 something camps training camps that takes a toll on your body you know what I'm saying and I feel like right now it's my time you know it's gonna be a slug Fest I feel like but not only that it's gonna be in the later rounds you know it's gonna be it's gonna be a fight fight man you know when Puerto Ricans and a Mexican go at it it's always a fight right because it's like two countries going up against each other and and then it's two fighting countries you know what I'm saying like Puerto Rico is a fighting country like we fight for our [ __ ] you get what I'm saying and then you got Mexico who has the same thing you know so when you put those together you know it's explosive yeah but he's got the experience because he's gonna have the composure because of those damn camps that he's been in pretty much his entire career with 65 fights just like you just said so he experienc in this whereas these kind of Bright Lights is your first experience ever so that's how people are looking at you what do you say to them I'mma ask you a question right if you was prepped mentally for something five years ago and you seen everything happen played out the way it is and you seen your name and you seen your name and you seen your face where certain people's face was when he was facing them right when that time come would you would you have any anxiety would you feel any nervousness would you how how would you how would you feel you feel ready right feel ready I feel ready I feel ready mentally and what have you but I'd also know I got to be careful because I'm going in of course no for sure but but a dangerous fighter is a confidence fighter right and a smart fighter you know what I'm saying a person that's confident and that knows what he's gonna do in that ring is dangerous you know what I'm saying I don't I don't I can't look at him like oh my God like that's Canelo he's a legend you know oh my God he fought Mayweather he fought Triple G he fought just like with said he ain't fight belanga you know what I'm saying he ain't fight EGA belanga you know so this my time man I feel like right now this is my time to make history you know go in there and perform greatness and do what I do best you're fighting him at 168 your super middleweight there's a person that's been there even though they recently moved up to light heavyweight because Canelo wouldn't fight him that guy's name is David benovitz uh a lot of times when people looked at Canelo they thought that was the guy that should be in the ring with him Canelo uh hasn't hasn't hasn't embraced that smoke yet uh but he's willing to embrace you what do you believe the difference is between you and a guy like David benovitz and why you're in this fight this Saturday night against Canelo because I know he thinks that so he's like I got this young kid right if I grab him now he's young he's inexperienced he doesn't have the IQ that he says he has this is what he's saying he's a puncher he could fight right he's going to be a star but let me grab grab him now let me grab him early that's what Floyd did to him that's what Floyd did to him let me grab him early because he gonna be that guy so let me grab him early so I can have him on my resume and let me let me duck smoke with with benitz that already fought you know the the you know boooo Andre you know he he uh he fought Caleb plant you know he fought a lot of big guys right that's the reason why 100% you know but just like where everybody says man he going to run into a train Saturday night if you win this fight what will this do for your career in your estimation said I'm the face of of the boxing World completely I'm G be that guy I'm gonna be I'm GNA probably go see you in person you gonna probably want me on your show in person know I'm saying I'm probably gonna want that anyway bro I'm proba you 22 and0 you can you you can fight make no mistake about it and you can you can take you can people out I'm going give you your respect um I'm asking what would be next do you anticipate a rematch do you anticipate moving on to a David benovitz what do you anticipate reaping from this fight for yourself I want to collect that that other belt that he gave up that ibf it's there two guys that's fighting for that belt right now I think they're GNA fight for his own so the winner of that I would like I would like to get that belt to become Undisputed saying but I know for a fact he gonna want a rematch you know what I'm saying so we gonna have to you know work some stuff out you get the money you get the rematch because you gonna get more money fighting him in a rematch if you win this get the money baby get the money get the paper bro last question to you you say you're gonna win I assume you predicting the knockout what round is it gonna happen in six you taking them in six rounds six rounds so remember this is a man that's never been knocked down let alone been knocked out and you're predicting you gonna stop him in the sixth round six rounds you know it's coming five coming to that boy man it's Fire coming to him Ed good binka right here on the Stephen A Smith show appreciate you my brother good luck Saturday night man you handle your business all right you take care of yourself all right thank you brother I appreciate it right you can watch Canelo CZ take on Edgar belinga at the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas this Saturday night September 14th on pay-per-view I ain't trying to miss that I ain't trying to miss that coming up the former president of the United States appears to be Running Scared at least in some people's eyes not everybody but at least in some people's eyes we'll talk about Donald Trump's refusal to debate KLA Harris and why exactly that is plus got a whole slew of NFL games to talk about this week and I'll touch on most of them give you some of my predictions to go into the weekend with stick around don't touch that doll you're watching the Stephen A Smith show over the digital Airwaves of YouTube and listening to the 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running for reelection trying to become the 47th president of the United States um got roasted in the debate on Tuesday night against vice president kamla Harris and since that time he has oped over social media that there will not be a third debate he debated Biden on June 27th he debated Kamala Harris uh this past Tuesday on September 10th and now he's done with the debates there won't be a third let's call it what it is Trump is scared to look bad and I can't blame him I don't think it's the wisest decision I think personally he should want another debate against KLA Harris he just should wanted it a different network one more favorable to him so he doesn't get to complain about how the network was favorable to her that's what I think he should want to do but I don't think your last debate should be the one that we saw just a few days ago where he got romped I'm just calling it like I see it um I want to remind everybody I've been of the opinion that she didn't really get to win on too much substance um she didn't address her changed positions fracking healthc care imig ation she didn't really answer the question about the withdrawal from in Afghanistan uh by American troops uh spearheaded by the body of administration there was a few things that she didn't get into okay and we understand that but Trump Let Her Off The Hook because he didn't press the matter and you know why he didn't press the matter because he wasn't prepared he wasn't prepared and so much noise has been made about who the moderators were and Lindsey Davis and David mure and all of that stuff that wasn't the problem the real problem was is that Trump wasn't prepared and she was now people are going to sit up there and say she was slippery because she was evasive and she didn't answer the questions whatever well what politicians do you know that ain't slippery they all slip and slide to some degree the issue is is that you got to be on top of them so they don't get to be but so slippery and they get to be forced to answer the the questions about what their positions may be to the American people he didn't do that he didn't do that because she had him reeling because she beat him at his own game she came up with one line is calling him weak and wrong she talked about his rallies and how people would leaving they were exhausted and bored and didn't want to be there to listen to him no more she did everything she could to egg him on you know she was coached know Obama had something to coach on you know Hillary Roden Clinton coached her you know a lot of people in the Democratic party coached up and she handled her business and he didn't so the question is is he really really making the right decision is he really really making the right decision by avoiding debating her a third time a second time third time overall I think he is making a mistake I think he was so bad and I think he got beat up so bad by her on Tuesday night he desperately should want a third a second debate against her a third debate overall if for no other reason to articulate his positions but the reality is is that when we listen to him speak we used to chide Biden about how inarticulate he appeared at times not finishing sentences words missing from here and there well guess what that's what we can say about Trump now I mean if you listening to him he's stumbling and bumbling a little bit more than usual he doesn't appear as sharp as he was in 2016 he doesn't appear as sharp as he was in 2020 he doesn't appear as sharp as he was June 27th against Biden so for me I'm like wait a minute I'm torn I have to confess and I'm looking at some of my producers and everybody in the westers Nicks and everybody else and ran and everybody I'm looking at y'all and I'm just thinking along these lines I'm saying to myself yo I don't know if he's making the wrong decision I think it is I think I listen to Frank Lun just yesterday the noted poster spending 40 years I'm listening to all of that but I got to tell you at where I'm sitting at right now I don't know he might be making the wrong decision but then again he might not here's why Trump never showed up for the debates for the Republican primaries Nikki Hy wanted him there Ron de santis wanted him there Chris Christie desperately wanted him there he never showed he said the reman people on the conservative side definitely want me they don't want none of y'all y'all ain't gonna beat me let me take my rallies to you know to to to New Hampshire and Iowa and places like that I ain't got to show up against y'all I mean please y'all y'all are nothing to me that's what he was saying and I love Chris Christie you understand that's that's my guy but he didn't have a chance against Trump Nicki Haley didn't have a chance Ronda Sanz didn't have a chance Ronda sentus tried to be Trump he tried to become the Republican nominee by out trumping Trump at being trump it didn't work it didn't work so if he doesn't show up at the primaries and he Cakewalk to the Republican nomination despite 34 felony convictions despite two impeachments despite numerous civil cases against him if he is still the Republican nominee after all of that I don't know if it's the wrong decision for him to say why do I need to battle her Treat Her Like She's Nikki Hy Treat Her Like She's Ronda SST Treat Her Like She's them maybe that'll work for me because debating against her the prosecutor showed up and exposed them she was ready you know what she you know what Comm Harris did you know what the vice president of the United States did the Trump she treated him like a defendant on the witness stand she didn't treat him like a peer buying for the same position as she is she didn't treat him like some somebody to look up to who once held the position she aspires to have she treated him like a defendant on the stand with his life on the line having to guard every damn syllable he uttered out of his mouth and got him to fumble and stumble and trip over himself along the way they eating pets they're eating cats and dogs and oh ladies and gentle gentlemen I don't know whether that's true or not I just know most folks a was trying to hear that that's not something you was trying to hear from a presidential candidate you wanted to hear something a bit more substantive yeah they're ruining in our country they're letting the borders get flooded well give us the numbers tell us where they flooded in to talk about those Sanctuary cities and how that panned out for some of the liberal cities he never did it he never did it inflation the price of food the price of gas the price of milk he never focused on it he never did because he was preoccupied with himself and him defending himself and fending off her accusations so much so the man forgot the damn points he wanted to make that's what happened he I'm willing to bet I'm willing to bet you he didn't remember his damn points because he was too busy trying to defend himself from her accusations of being wrong of audiences being exhausted of him and bored by him you know of him being weak and how world leaders laugh at him and stuff like that oh no she hit right on the ego you know what she did I'm just going to go there especially since I started off the show talking about Shannon sharp and that audio sex tape right we going to go here for a second you know what she did she did imagine getting into an argument with your woman or with somebody who used to be your woman now there was a time when they loved you there was a time when they wanted you there was a time when intimacy with you with something they look forward to hell they might have craved right up until the moment you got on their got you got on their damn nerves and you pissed them off and all of a sudden they calling you everything but the child of God and and everything that your ego was was allowed to to to be fed off of for whatever period of time you was with her she just throwing that out right out the window oh I was faking it I wasn't feeling your ass you a do it for me I got your n on you I can't wait for you to leave they touch on your ego to make sure that when you walk out the door it ain't with the same confidence you had in yourself when you were with him that's what the vice president of the United States did to Trump in a political way speaking strictly political she stripped him of his potency and made him impotent that's what she did on that stage so the question is does he get it back by going to battle with her again or does he get it back by going on the campaign Trail and avoiding such debate situations that's really the question mark we don't have the answer he supposedly gave it to us already but we know he's prone to change his mind we shall see we shall see before I get on out of here uh let me inform y'all I'm gonna have uh I was gon to do some NFL picks um I'm taping this on Thursday night it's right before the Dolphins Bills game uh and I was talking about Friday you know really getting into my NFL picks but literally while sitting here I decided I'm going to do a special edition of the Stephen A Smith show on Saturday live from right here in Vegas hours before both the UFC and the boxing match Saturday special edition of the Stephen A Smith show coming your way so until then I'll save that day for my NFL picks for these Sundays games I'll save it for Saturday okay until then I'm signing off that's it for this edition of the Stephen A Smith show peace and love everybody I'll talk to you on Saturday