Podcast: Recapping Paul-Fury PPV and Showtime's Matias-Ponce card
Plus: News of the week and two notable fight anniversaries
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Welcome to the Fight Freaks Unite recap podcast coming off a weekend that included two notable cards, Showtime’s tripleheader on Saturday topped by the excellent Subriel Matias-Jeremias Ponce vacant junior welterweight title bout and a Sunday pay-per-view headlined by the Jake Paul-Tommy Fury fight. We discussed both at length, covered some news of the week and looked back on the anniversaries of two major fights.
Here’s what we discussed on this episode (in order):
Matias’ all-out slugfest with Ponce, including discussion of Ponce’s corner with the surprising corner stoppage after the fifth round.
The other Showtime bouts: welterweight Jamal James’ rout of Alberto Palmetta and where he stacks up in the division, and junior welterweight Elvis Rodriguez’s two-knockdown decision win over Joseph Adorno in a battle of one-time top prospects.
Everything you need to know about Fury’s split decision win over Paul in their 185-pound bout. Did it live up to the hype? Did it prove anything? Was the PPV worth it? Will there be a rematch? More.
Badou Jack’s 12th-round knockout of Ilunga Makabu to win the WBC cruiserweight title at age 39 in the entertaining co-feature.
Light Keyshawn Davis, the 2022 Fight Freaks Unite prospect of the year, stepping up at leas some degree in his next fight on April 8 to face former junior welterweight title challenger Anthony Yigit.
The retirement of former middleweight titlist and Japanese star Ryota Murata.
Jack Catterall, idle since last February and no longer getting a rematch with Josh Taylor, is now off Boxxer’s March 25 card as it looks for bigger fight for him.
Looking back on the 34th anniversary of then-undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson’s dominating fifth-round knockout of Frank Bruno in their first fight. It was the rampaging Tyson in his prime.
Looking back on the 28th anniversary of the epic but tragic super middleweight title fight between Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan that left McClellan with a severe brain injury from which he has never recovered.
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Fury-Paul. Meh. A decent co-feature at a local fight night at best.
Matias-Ponce. Bombs away. I saw a look come across Ponce’s face end of round one. A dawning awareness that Matias wasn’t going to crumble.