This week was the classic week of great fights for hardcore fight fans, but might have been overlooked by others. 

Notable results are: 
Ekow Essuman defeats former undisputed champion Josh Taylor...we make sense of this.

Heavyweight Moses Itauma knocked out Mike Balogun. Is Itauma the next great heavyweight?

Angelo Leo made the first defense of his IBF featherweight title against Tomoki Kameda, traveling to Japan to do so. 

On Thursday, DAZN featured a card headlined by Jonny Mansour, who went six rounds for the first time in his career, defeating Christian Avalos. Featherweight Vic Pasillas stopped Carlos Jackson in the co-feature, and Jose Ramirez knocked out Jessie Mandapat.

Terri Harper and Maxi Hughes also won this week. 

This week....

Wednesday on DAZN, Eduardo Nunez will face Masanori Rikiihsi for the vacant IBF junior lightweight title.

Friday on DAZN, Darius Fulghum vs. Bektemir Melikuziev, will do battle in a WBA super middleweight title eliminator. Other notables on this card include, middleweight fight between Eric Priest and Luis Arias, 2024 U.S. super heavyweight Olympian Joshua Edwards, welterweight Cayden Griffiths, and junior middleweight Grant Flores.

Also on Friday on DAZN, Manuel Gallegos will rematch Khalil Coe in a light heavyweight main event. Gallegos stopped Coe in their last bout, and now they rematch in Mexico, where Gallegos is from. The co-feature is junior featherweight Murodjon Akhmadaliev.

Saturday on Prime Video, Caleb Plant will face Armando Resendiz. This will be the super middleweight Plant's first fight of 2025. The co-feature is Jermall Charlo vs. Thomas LaManna in a super middleweight bout. Interesting undercard bouts, a middleweight fight between Yoenli Hernandez vs. Kyrone Davis, a breakout fight between Isaac Lucero vs. Omar Valenzuela at junior middleweight, as well as lightweight Curmel Moton in action, and super middleweight John Easter.

Former beltholder Julio Cesar Martinez returns to Mexico. 

All of this, plus your questions and Dakota. 

Timestamps
0:00 Ekow Essuman upsets Josh Taylor
12:15 Moses Itauma 
17:50 Angelo Leo- Tomoki Kameda
23:00 Eduardo Nunez-Masanori Rikiihsi 
28:30 Manuel Gallegos-Khalil Coe II
34:35 Caleb Plant-Armando Resendiz
40:20 Yoenli Hernandez-Kyrone Davis
44:28 Julio Cesar Martinez returns
47:30 Darius Fulghum-Bektemir Melikuziev