Happy New Year and welcome back to our kickoff episode of the shows for 2025. And, since there's not a significant main event in the world this weekend, host T.J. Rives and insider Dan Rafael are taking the opportunity to go over the "End of 2024 Awards."

First, they talk some quick fight news including the Fernando Martinez vs. Kaz Ioka title bout from Tuesday in Japan being postponed due to Martinez getting the Flu in fight week. When will this title fight be put back on? Dan has more.

He also gives us the latest on Ryan Garcia and him confirming that he has a wrist injury in training for his own Japanese exhibition and that he says he needs surgery.

Then, the boys go over Dan's lists for Fight, Fighter and KO of the year for 2024. There's good debate on them all, including Oleksandr Usyk beating Tyson Fury twice, Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano the sequel and what about some other fights they considered.

There's also good debate on whom gets "Fighter of the Year," especially for the women and there's disagreement on the KO of the year out of choices involving Daniel Dubois, Angelo Leo, Lucas Badhi and others.

It's all part of the "Big Fight Weekend Preview" and make sure to follow/subscribe to this feed on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc.!