Podcast: Recap of Dubois' shocking destruction of Joshua

Plus: The rest of the Riyadh Season card and the Munguia-Bazinyan show; news of the week; big fight anniversary memories

Dan Rafael

Sep 23, 2024

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There were two notable cards over the weekend, the huge Riyadh Season event headlined by Daniel Dubois’ four-knockdown, fifth-round upset destruction of Anthony Joshua to retain the IBF heavyweight title on Saturday and the Top Rank card on Friday headlined by super middleweight contender Jaime Munguia’s 10th-round knockout of Erik Bazinyan. We recapped both shows in detail. We also covered news of the week and served up memories on the anniversary of three significant fights.

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

Recap of Dubois’ stunning pounding of Joshua to retain his heavyweight belt in a terrific but one-sided fight. What happened, what’s next and should Joshua retire?
Recap of the quality undercard: Hamzah Sheeraz’s blowout of Tyler Denny to win the European middleweight title; Joshua Buatsi’s split decision over Willy Hutchinson in a terrific fight to win the vacant WBO interim light heavyweight title; junior lightweight Anthony Cacace’s decision over Josh Warrington that sent him into retirement; middleweight Josh Kelly’s underwhelming majority decision over Ishmael Davis; and junior welterweight Josh Padley’s upset over Mark Chamberlain to knock him out of a world title shot.
Recap of Munguia’s return from losing to Canelo Alvarez for a good fight and a big knockout of unbeaten Bazinyan as well as wins by two of Top Rank’s top prospects on the undercard, heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. and junior welterweight Emiliano Vargas.

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My reporting on the latest with WBA lightweight titlist Gervonta Davis — a possible fight Dec. 21 in Washington, D.C., against WBA junior lightweight titlist and D.C. native Lamont Roach.
Matchroom Boxing’s announcement of a Nov. 9 card in Philadelphia with Jaron “Boots” Ennis in an IBF welterweight mandatory defense against Karen Chukhadzhian in a rematch and WBC junior bantamweight titlist Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez against interim titlist Pedro Guevara.
My reporting on the expected Prime Video undercard fights on the card topped by the Bakhram Murtazaliev-Tim Tszyu fight on Oct. 19.
Memories on the 30th anniversary of when Oliver McCall scored a huge upset by knocking out Lennox Lewis in the second round of their first fight to win the WBC heavyweight title.
Ringside memories on the 19th anniversary of a loaded HBO card of Wladimir Klitschko surviving three knockdowns to otherwise dominate Samuel Peter in an IBF heavyweight title eliminator in the main event with a young Miguel Cotto engaging in a wild shootout with Ricardo Torres before stopping him in the seventh round to retain the WBO junior welterweight title.

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Podcast: Recap of Dubois' shocking destruction of Joshua

Plus: The rest of the Riyadh Season card and the Munguia-Bazinyan show; news of the week; big fight anniversary memories

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