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A very slow week of boxing occurred with the highlights being Richardson Hitchins stopping George Kambosos Jr, which would lead to a call-out of former two-division titleholder Devin Haney. Andy Cruz stopped Hironori Mishiro. This win makes Cruz mandatory for Raymond Muratalla's IBF title. 

Friday night, two things to talk about: A card in Ghana went on until the early morning with Andrew Tabiti getting a stoppage win, and LeAnna Cruz had to get off the deck to win her fight against Regina Chavez. Israel Mercado upset Branden Pizarro in the co-feature. 

Looking ahead to Thursday, WBO welterweight titleholder Brian Norman Jr faces Jin Sasaki. Is this a Fight of the Year or a mismatch? We discuss. 

From Thursday to Saturday, the WBC Grand Prix will enter the second round. This has provided some very exciting bouts so far. 

Friday on DAZN, David Stevens vs. Petr Khamukov will meet in a crossroads match. 

Saturday on DAZN, Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez will take center stage with Peter McGrail in the co-feature. 

Saturday on ESPN+, Vito Mielnicki Jr. will face Kamil Gardzielik, other notables on the card, Jahi Tucker vs Lorenzo Simpson, which is a great fight, Brandun Lee, and Jamar Talley.

Saturday on UFC Fight Pass, Callum Walsh will face Elias Espadas in a very good match-up we will explain. Also, Cain Sandoval, "Right Hook Roxy" Verduzco, and Umar Dzambekov round out the undercard. 

Timestamps 
0:00 Dakota rants
3:00 Richardson Hitchins-George Kambosos 
13:00 Matchroom undercard
17:40 Moses Ituama-Dillian Whyte Preview
19:16 OTX Boxing card
25:35 Ghana card
27:10 Brian Norman-Jin Sasaki
30:00 TV Breakdown of the Week
37:30 Jahi Tucker-Lorenzo Simpson
45:10 Callum Walsh

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A preview of the upcoming main event fight on Saturday on ESPN.

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A lot of fights happened this week, with great boxing coach John Pullman 

First, Keyshawn Davis missed weight. His bout with Edwin De Los Santos was canceled. Abdullah Mason replaced him as the headliner. After Keyshawn's brother, Kelvin Davis, lost to Nahir Albright, a backstage incident occurred involving Keyshawn and his youngest brother, Keon. 

What do we take away from this weekend? 

Mason got a stoppage in his first headlining fight, and Keyshawn made a lot of bad decisions.

Other stuff, middleweight Troy Isley won a tough fight, so did Tiger Johnson, and Keon Davis had a good body shot KO. 

In the U.K., heavyweight Fabio Wardley had a come-from-behind knockout victory over Justis Huni. Wardley was down on the cards at the time of the stoppage. 

I will cover Albert Ramirez's highlight-reel KO and notable Eye of the Tiger bouts from Thursday, Salita Promotions had a card where Brandon Moore defeated Stanley Wright, Franchon Crews-Dezurn got a close majority decision win, and Wendy Toussaint upset Joseph Hicks Jr. 

IBF women's lightweight Beatriz Ferreira made her second title defense on DAZN as well. 

Looking ahead to this week on Saturday, Richardson Hitchins will make his first IBF junior welterweight title defense against George Kambosos Jr. The undercard features a lightweight IBF eliminator between Andy Cruz-Hironori Mishiro, junior welterweight Ernesto Mercado, heavyweight Teremoana Jr, junior middleweight Nishant Dev, and Zaquin Moses are featured on the undercard. 

Nonito Donaire fights Andres Campos for the interim WBA bantamweight title. 

Timestamps 
0:00 Keyshawn’s bad weekend
15:00 Abdullah Mason 
21:00 Kelvin - Nahir Albright
26:50 Top Rank undercard 
32:20 Fabio Wardley KOs Justis Huni
34:47 Crews-Dezurn-Ortiz
39:40 Nakatani continues to impress
47:22 Jai
51:00 Richardson Hitchins-George Kambosos Jr
55:00 Andy Cruz
01:00:30 Lomachenko stories

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A preview of the upcoming main event fight on Saturday on ESPN. 

To hear my thoughts on all of the major fights this week, visit: http://lukieboxing.substack.com

A preview of the upcoming main event fight on Saturday on ESPN. 

To hear my thoughts on all of the major fights this week, visit: http://lukieboxing.substack.com

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

A preview of this week's fights

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A preview of this week's fights

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