Jaime Munguia Returns In Tijuana, Fight News And Arturo Gatti Nostalgia | BFW Preview Podcast
We have fights all over the globe this weekend and we're ready to preview them, go over some fight news and some classic Arturo Gatti are all part of the "Big Fight Weekend Preview Podcast."Host T.J. Rives returns with insider Dan Rafael of BigFightWeekend.com.First, they talk Saturday’s Zanfer Promotions/ESPN+ card from Tijuana, Mexico, as favorite son Jaime Munguia meets Frenchman Bruno Surace in a scheduled 10 round, super middleweight battle. Dan also previews the undercard bout with Alan David Picasso taking on Isaac Sackey in a unior featherweight clash. Next it's Saturday’s Matchroom Boxing/DAZN card from Monte Carlo, Monaco with the main event seeing Murodjon Akhmadaliev squaring off with Ricardo Espinoza, for vacant WBA interim junior featherweight title. The winner is in the picture for a possible Naoya Inoue bout down the road. Back to the USA and Saturday’s Golden Boy/DAZN card from Ontario, Calif. with Alexis Rocha returning to action against Raul Curiel in a 12 rounds welterweight battle. and Sunday in Gibraltar on DAZN British heavyweight former title challenger Dillian Whyte meets veteran Ebenezer Tetteh in a 10 rounder. There's fight news inlcuding at this week’s WBC convention: Mauricio Sulaiman re-elected as president for third four-year term and Badou Jack re-instated as their cruiserweight champion; etc. Also, On the card in Hamburg associated with the WBC convention, former featherweight titlist Billy Dib, who was near death from cancer and given six months to live a few years ago, had his first fight in nearly three years – a farewell bout – and won an 8 rounder at lightweight. Dan loves Dib.Queensberry Promotions has announced WBA featherweight titlis Nick Ball will make his next defense against former junior featherweight titlist TJ Doheny in a second straight Liverpool, England, hometown defense, on March 15. The guys discuss.And prominent world title referee Jack Reiss announces retirement but will still judge fights in the future.We finish with Nostalgia as Dec. 12, 1998 – 26 years ago Thursday – the epic Ivan Robinson-Arturo Gatti rematch too place in an HBO main event and Fernando Vargas scored a TKO over "Yory Boy" Campas to win the IBF 154 title at age 21 in the co-feature.And on Dec. 14, 2013 – 11 years ago on Saturday – Marcos Maidana decisioned Adrien Broner to win the WBA welterweight title on a big Showtime card at the Alamodome. Rafael was ringside with memories of it all.It's all part of the "Big Fight Weekend Preview Podcast" and make sure to follow/subscribe on this feed on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc.!