Podcast: Previews of Pacquiao-Barrios card, Usyk-Dubois rematch
Plus: Rodriguez-Cafu unification fight, news of the week
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LAS VEGAS — It’s a massive boxing weekend with three major cards on Saturday and we previewed all of them and discussed news of the week. Also, check out and subscribe to the YouTube channel, where have been adding plenty of content.
Here is what’s on the show (in order):
Preview of the return of Manny Pacquiao, who is coming out of a four-year retirement at age 46 to challenge Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight title in the main event of the PBC on Prime Video pay-per-view, also on PPV.COM, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Preview of the excellent Pacquiao-Barrios undercard: the rematch between WBC junior middleweight titlist Sebastian Fundora and Tim Tszyu; the junior welterweight rematch between Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz and Angel Fierro; the WBA featherweight eliminator between Brandon Figueroa and Joet Gonzalez; as well as the streaming preliminaries.
Preview of the rematch between lineal/unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and IBF titlist Daniel Dubois to unify the division and crown the undisputed champion in the Queensberry Promotions DAZN PPV main event at Wembley Stadium in London. New annual subscribers to DAZN will get the PPV for free, so click this to sign up.
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Preview of the unification bout between lineal/WBC junior bantamweight champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez and WBO titlist Phumelele Cafu in the Matchroom Boxing main event on DAZN at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.
Announcement by Turki Alalshikh and DAZN that they will abandon the pay-per-view model beginning with the Riyadh Season card on Nov. 22.
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Usyk-Dubois photo: Leigh Dawney/Queensberry Promotions
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Are we getting a throwback Water pressure report from vegas this weekend??