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Fight 5 Round 6 – Huge Welterweight Tournament Finale / Shakur / Boxing News Alfonso & Rick
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Fight 4 Round 12 – Manny vs. Ugas / Vergil Ortiz Jr. / Professor Franco Alfonso & Rick
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Fight 5 Round 8 – Canelo vs. Plant Post Fight / Munguia vs. Roasado! / Boxing News Alfonso & Rick
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Fight 5 Round 7 – Canelo vs. Plant / Boxing News Alfonso & Rick
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Fight 14 Round 11 – Usyk Tested / Inoue Dominates / WBO & IBF Alfonso & Rick
The heavyweight division just got more interesting, Naoya Inoue is the undisputed No. 1 fighter on the planet, and two sanctioning bodies just formed the first defensive alliance in boxing history. It’s been that kind of week.
On this episode , we break down everything that matters. Frank Sanchez stops Richard Torrez Jr. in two rounds at the Pyramids of Giza — a perfectly scouted counter right uppercut, a carefully managed prospect exposed at the first serious test of his career, and an IBF mandatory shot at Usyk now on the table. We get into Inoue’s unanimous decision over Nakatani at the Tokyo Dome — 55,000 in attendance, two unbeaten fighters, and a result that moved Inoue to No. 1 on every major pound-for-pound list simultaneously for the first time in his career.
Then we cover the fight the weekly package was built around: the WBO and IBF announcing a formal alliance against Zuffa Boxing — the first time two major sanctioning bodies have coordinated against a single promoter, and what it signals about where the sport’s power structure is heading. Plus Benavidez TKO6 Zurdo — three-weight world champion, Canelo manufacturing excuses in real time, and the Bivol fight that the rankings now demand. Usyk’s controversial R11 stoppage of Verhoeven, the scorecards that made it genuinely complicated, and why the Joshua fight now has real questions attached to it.
We close out previewing next week — we’ll be on the ground at the International Boxing Hall of Fame induction weekend in Canastota, New York. Full coverage, ringside access, and the conversations you don’t get anywhere else.
The Corner. For the people who already know.
Tokyo Dome. Congress. The heavyweight division. All in one week. On this episode of The Corner, we break down Naoya Inoue vs. Junto Nakatani — two unbeaten fighters, identical 32-0 […]
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