Oleksandr Usyk Wins Dramatically Over Verhoeven + Sheeraz And Frank Sanchez Big KOs And Fight News! | Fight Freaks Unite

About this episode

The episode covers Oleksandr Usyk's dramatic title win over Rico Verhoeven and highlights from various boxing matches.

A wild night in Egypt on Saturday produced an unexpected, dramatic title win for Oleksandr Usyk and our guys are ready to go over that, the undercard and much more on the newest "Fight Freaks Unite Recap Podcast!" Host T.J. Rives returns with insider Dan Rafae of his Fight Freaks Unite Substack and Newsletterl to go over it all They start with the recap of Saturday’s "Glory in Giza" Ring magazine DAZN PPV in Giza, Egypt Oleksandr Usyk TKO11 Rico Verhoeven, and retains heavyweight titles. This was controversial and we have lots and lots of takes on how much Verhoeven pushed Usyk to the brink. This, includes- what's next for both? In the co-feature, Hamzah Sheeraz KO2 Alem Begic, wins WBO super middleweight title.This was a joke of a fight and we need to see better opponents for Sheeraz. Also, veteran Jack Catterall W12 Shakhram Giyasov, and wins vacant WBA “regular” welterweight title and big Cuban Frank Sanchez KO2 Richard Torrez Jr., IBF heavyweight eliminator . Massive knockout for Sanchez and what does this mean for Torrez's future fighting big heavyweights? Also, a recap of Friday’s Golden Boy DAZN card in San Jose, California Amari Jones KO3 Vincenzo Gualtieri, IBF…

People in this episode

Host: T.J. Rives

Guest: Dan Rafae

Topics covered

• boxing
• fight recap
• heavyweight titles
• knockouts
• fight news

Keywords

• Oleksandr Usyk
• Rico Verhoeven
• Hamzah Sheeraz
• Frank Sanchez
• boxing news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ring magazine, DAZN, Golden Boy

Places: Giza, Egypt

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