Podcast: Thoughts on the late, great legend George Foreman
Plus: 'Shu Shu' Carrington interview; recaps of Fundora-Booker card, Kambosos-Wyllie; news of the week; Gatti fight anniversary memories
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The biggest news over the weekend was the death of legendary two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman on Friday, so we kicked off with our thoughts on him and his career. We also recapped the main fights from Saturday, the Sebastian Fundora-Chordale Booker card and George Kambosos Jr.’s victory. There is also my interview with featherweight contender Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington, who has a final title eliminator on Saturday’s Top Rank card; news of the week; and memories on the anniversary of an all-time great Arturo Gatti fight.
Here is what’s on the show (in order):
Recap of Fundora’s blowout of Booker to retain the WBC/WBO junior middleweight title in the PBC on Prime Video main event: Thoughts on the performance, how he did it, and what could be next.
Recap of the undercard: junior middleweight Jesus Ramos Jr.’s domination and seventh-round knockout of Guido Emmanuel Schramm and the regression of middleweight Elijah Garcia, who got a gift split decision over Terrell Gausha.
Recap of Kambosos’ move up to junior welterweight to outpoint late replacement Jake Wyllie in a win that will propel him into a title shot against Richardson Hitchins.
My interview with Carrington, who will face Jose Enrique Vivas in a WBC final featherweight eliminator: Knowing he is one win away from title shot; thoughts on; thoughts on Vivas, whose only losses have been decisions to world title challengers; learning from his extremely close win over Sulaiman Segawa and response to those who say he is overhyped; the experience of boxing on the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson undercard; his relationship with Tyson; thoughts on WBC titlist Stephen Fulton Jr., who he would be mandatory for with a win; his breakdown of the rest of the featherweight titleholders; more.
Word from trainer Eddy Reynoso that despite plans to train Teofimo Lopez and Ryan Garcia, he won’t be training either for their upcoming fights.
Terence Crawford informing the WBO he is leaving junior middleweight for good and is vacating his interim belt.
Memories on the 29th anniversary of when Hall of Famer Gatti knocked out Wilson Rodriguez in the sixth round to retain his junior lightweight title in his first defense and launch himself to stardom with an epic comeback victory that is the most electrifying fight of Gatti’s career against somebody not named Micky Ward.
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Fondly remembering big George who i remember more with his comeback, sadly i just missed out on that last great heavyweight period when the best fought each other consistently. Fight-wise i remember Big George was taking a fair bit of punishment all going one way from a classy southpaw in Michael Moorer when he turned a pretty one sided fight around in the 10th round and like a larger version of Marvin Hagler totally took the judges out of the fight and at 45 years of age overtook Jersey Joe Walcott as the oldest heavyweight champion of the world with a sweet KO that really highlighted his power with the ko punch that had little travelling to do to put Moorer to bed.