Podcast: Reaction to Fury-Ngannou, Teofimo's expected unretirement

Plus: Previewing Martin-Harutyunyan Showtime card; Baumgardner-Linardatou 2 DAZN card; news of week; celebrating Chavez

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Saturday’s schedule includes a pair of cards we previewed: the PBC/Showtime event headlined by the Frank Martin-Artem Harutyunyan WBC lightweight eliminator and the Matchroom Boxing/DAZN show topped by undisputed women’s junior lightweight champion Alycia Baumgardner defending against Christina Linardatou. We also covered a plethora of news, including Tyson Fury’s fight with MMA star Francis Ngannou being set, celebrated the birthday of the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez, and reflected on the anniversary of a pair of notable fights that shared the same broadcast from different locations.

Here is what’s on the show (in order):

• Discussion of Fury-Ngannou and what we think about this crossover fight: Are we interested? Do we hate it? Should we care?

• A rundown on the major changes made to the Errol Spence Jr.-Terence Crawford Showtime PPV card and Saturday’s Showtime event due to injuries, including shifting the Nonito Donaire-Alexandro Santiago vacant WBC bantamweight title bout from Saturday to the PPV.

• Previewing Martin-Harutyunyan as well as the Showtime undercard.

• Previewing Baumgardner’s rematch and efforts to avenge her lone loss to Linardatou as well as the thin undercard that includes the pro debut lightweight Andy Cruz, the 2020 Cuban Olympic gold medalist.

• Teofimo Lopez’s decision to end his brief and ridiculous retirement by keeping the WBO junior welterweight title and calling out undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney to move up and fight him.

• The official announcement and kickoff news conference for the heavyweight rematch between Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte.

• The two-city press tour for unified heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk’s mandatory defense against Daniel Dubois.

• On Chavez’s 61st birthday, a discussion of his awesomeness, his place in boxing history and why he belongs on a boxing Mount Rushmore.

• Ringside memories on the 16th anniversary of Arturo Gatti’s final fight, a TKO loss to Alfonzo Gomez, on the same HBO telecast on which Paul Williams won the WBO welterweight title and announced his arrival by beating Antonio Margarito in a terrific and underrated fight.

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Fury-Ngannou photo: Getty

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