Podcast: Zurdo Ramirez interview, news of the week, Garcia-Fortuna preview, more

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On this week’s weekend podcast (in order):

• The Jake Paul-Hasim Rahman Jr. kick-off press conference, the re-hydration clause, Rahman Sr.’s criticism of his son’s dedication.

• Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez getting the co-feature slot on the Canelo Alvarez-Gennadiy Golovkin III pay-per-view to defend his junior bantamweight title.

• Top Rank’s announcement of the Jose Pedraza-Richard Commey fight and the return from injury in the co-feature of top heavyweight prospect Jared Anderson.

• My exclusive interview with light heavyweight contender Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, who earlier this week got his wish for the WBA to formally order his mandatory shot against titleholder Dmitry Bivol. We discussed a variety of things related to that fight.

• Our memories of the infamous first heavyweight fight between Riddick Bowe and Andrew Golota and the riot it sparked inside Madison Square Garden — 26 years ago this week.

• Full preview of all things related to the Ryan Garcia-Javier Fortuna fight that headlines on DAZN on Saturday night and the Arnold Barboza Jr.-Danielito Zorrilla fight that headlines the ESPN card on Friday night.

• Listen, rate and subscribe here and enjoy!

Garcia photo: Golden Boy

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