Podcast: Andy Ruiz interview, news of the week, Gonzalez-Dogboe preview, more
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On this week’s weekend podcast (in order):
Props to the promoters in how they’ve dealt with Covid-19-related issues on their cards.
The date and site being penciled in for the rematch between undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney and former unified champion George Kambosos Jr. and does the winner fight Vasiliy Lomachenko?
The WBA ruling that featherweight titleholder Leo Santa Cruz must next face “regular” titlist Leigh Wood and Santa Cruz telling the organization that he will. We also discussed the WBA outlining the obligations middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin will have win or lose against Canelo Alvarez.
My exclusive interview with former unified heavyweight titleholder Andy Ruiz Jr. as he gets ready to return to action against Luis “King Kong” Ortiz in the main event of the PBC/Fox Sports PPV on Sept. 4. We covered a lot of stuff.
The rescheduled heavyweight title eliminator between Filip Hrgovic and Zhang Zhilei landing on the Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua II undercard.
Full preview of all things related to Top Rank’s ESPN+ card on Saturday night, including the Joet Gonzalez-Isaac Dogboe featherweight main event and the Gabriel Flores Jr.-Giovanni Cabrera lightweight co-feature.
We digressed and wound up discussing Chicago being a crappy fight city and the bloodiest fight I’ve ever covered.
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Ruiz photo: Ryan Hafey/PBC
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