Podcast: Recap of Jake Paul-Mike Perry card; Todd Grisham interview
Plus: Nakatani's impressive 1st-round KO; no Tank-Loma and more news of the week; fight anniversaries involving Sanchez, Tyson, Hopkins
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There were three notable cards over the weekend and we discussed and recapped each of them: the MVP card headlined by the Jake Paul-Mike Perry brawl; the Teiken Boxing world title show in Tokyo; and Golden Boy’s card headlined by welterweight contender Alexis Rocha. There is also TJ’s interview with DAZN broadcaster Todd Grisham for his thoughts on the Paul-Perry event, which he called; news of the week; and a trio of fight anniversary memories.
Here is what’s on the show (in order):
Recap of Paul’s sixth-round knockout of BKFC champion Perry in an exciting fight and a look ahead to Paul’s rescheduled bout against Mike Tyson in November.
Recap of the undercard, including Amanda Serrano’s move up to junior welterweight for a second-round destruction of overmatched Stevie Morgan to move on to the Katie Taylor rematch in November; lightweight Lucas Bahdi’s gargantuan KO of the year contender against Ashton Sylve; and the return from a 2 1/2-year layoff of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at cruiserweight for a lackluster decision over former UFC fighter Uriah Hall.
TJ’s interview with Grisham.
Recap of WBC bantamweight titlist Junto Nakatani’s first-round knockout of Vincent Astrolabio; junior featherweight prospect Tenshin Nasukawa’s impressive third-round knockout of Jonathan Rodriguez; and Anthony Olascuaga’s third-round knockout of Riku Kano to win the vacant WBO flyweight title.
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Recap welterweight contender Alexis Rocha’s decision win over Santiago Dominguez on Friday night.
Vasiliy Lomachenko’s decision to not fight for the rest of the year and withdraw from negotiations for a lightweight unification fight with Gervonta Davis that was being negotiated for November.
Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya’s social media video saying he would not pursue signing free agent WBC lightweight titlist Shakur Stevenson.
Memories on the 42nd anniversary of when Salvador Sanchez stopped then-unknown replacement opponent — but also a fellow Hall of Famer — Azumah Nelson in the 15th round of a great fight to retain the WBC featherweight title in what would be Sanchez’s final fight as he would die in a car accident three weeks later at age 23.
Memories on the 35th anniversary of when Mike Tyson erased Carl Williams in 93 seconds to retain undisputed heavyweight title in his last successful defense before he was upset by Buster Douglas.
Ringside memories on the 17th anniversary of when Bernard Hopkins outpointed fellow Hall of Famer Winky Wright to retain lineal light heavyweight title.
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