Fight week Canelo interview; preview of Munguia clash
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There is just one major show on Saturday and it’s a big one headlined by undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez’s defense against unbeaten Mexican countryman Jaime Munguia. There is also my brief fight-week interview with Canelo as he lashes out at Oscar De La Hoya, his former promoter; a preview of Monday’s Naoya Inoue-Luis Nery showdown; news of the week; and ringside memories on the anniversary of a mega fight of mega fights.
Here is what’s on the show (in order):
Preview of Canelo-Munguia: the buildup, the Canelo-De La Hoya war of words, and how we think it will go.
My brief interview with Canelo in which he went off on De La Hoya following Wednesday’s press conference.
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TJ’s interview with Mark Boccardi of our great sponsor PPV.com, which will stream the Canelo-Munguia event.
Preview of undisputed junior featherweight champion Inoue’s title defense against former two-division titlist Nery and three other world title fights at the Tokyo Dome on Monday morning U.S. time.
My travel home after Canelo-Munguia is not my normal Las Vegas to Washington, D.C. itinerary and I am not happy about it.
Discussion of my major scoop that Ryan Garcia failed two drug tests for the banned substance Ostarine the day before and day of his tainted victory over Devin Haney.
Announcement that the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight will be sanctioned by Texas regulators as an official boxing match, albeit with eight two-minute rounds and with the combatants wearing 14-ounce gloves.
Turki Alalshikh’s announcement that he plans to make heavyweight Jared Anderson against Deontay Wilder and place it on the already stacked Aug. 3 mega card as long as Wilder defeats Zhilei Zhang on June 1 and has no injuries.
Ringside memories on the ninth anniversary of when Floyd Mayweather handily outboxed Manny Pacquiao in their looonnnnnnng-awaited mega fight, the biggest money fight in history that in the end did not come to living up to the hype.
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