Big Fight Weekend Boxing Podcast

On the latest edition of the show, host T.J. Rives is back with guests to get ready for the return of Unified Super Middleweight champ, Canelo Alvarez Saturday night in Miami. Canelo will defend his 168 lb. title against little regarded Turkish contender Avni Yildirim in a scheduled 12 rounder. And, T.J. has the help and insight of International Boxing Hall of Famer Ronald "Winky" Wright to help a...

An underrated championship battle is ready to take place Saturday night in Vegas and we have a full look at it on the latest edition of our show. Host T.J. Rives is back with special guests to get ready for all the action, including the Miguel Berchelt vs. Oscar Valdez WBC Super Featherweight Showdown. First, T.J. welcomes back David Payne, aka "The Boxing Writer," from England to give his insight...

It' our latest edition of the show, as host T.J. Rives is back with special guests. First up, it's Jr. Welterweight contender and former IBF Lightweight champ, Rober Easter Jr., joining the show. Easter is in training for the Saturday night February 20th bout with Ryan Martin on Showtime. Easter updates his training and his goals for a possible 140 lb. World Title fight later in 2021. Then, Marqui...

Host T.J. Rives welcomes in Marquis Johns, senior writer of BigFightWeekend.com and also Gayle Falkenthal, a freelance boxing writer/reporter based in San Diego, California. The three discuss Plant's latest victory for his IBF 168 lb. title by 12 round unanimous decision over veteran Caleb Truax in L.A. last Saturday night. That win improved Him to 21-0, 12 KOs and has him waiting for the opportun...

Host T.J. Rives and Marquis Johns, Senior writer of BigFightWeekend.com are back to go over the IBF 168 lb. World Championship fight Saturday night in Los Angeles featuring Caleb Plant making the latest defense of his title against veteran title Challenger Caleb Truax in a scheduled 12-rounder. This should be an easy win for the 20-0, 12 KOs, Plant. And, most sports books have him at least 30-1 to...

A Saturday night Super Bantamweight World Fight between unbeaten WBO Champ, Angelo Leo and fellow unbeaten contender, Stephen Fulton is part of our latest show. Host T.J. Rives is ready to break down the matchup between the New Mexico native Leo and the Philly Fulton in the main event on "Showtime Championship Boxing" Saturday night. First T.J. is joined by Showtime analyst and former IBF Junior m...

On the latest edition of our show, T.J. Rives and Marquis Johns, Sr. Writer of BigFightweekend.com. are back to go over the news of the week and the latest on fights being scheduled for February and March. Even though there's not a prominent fight in the U.S. or Europe for this weekend, there will be plenty coming, including the likes American Jamel Herring and Carl Frampton of Ireland meeting for...

Host T.J. Rives is back with special guests to go over Ryan Garcia's 7th round KO of Luke Campbell and all of the latest boxing news and info from this week and looking ahead to the future. Marquis Johns, Sr. Writer from the BigFightWeekend.com website and Carlos Toro of FightGameMedia.com are along to discuss it all. Will we see Garcia next battle fellow unbeaten star Gervonta Davis in the coming...

Host T.J. Rives is back with senior writer Marquis Johns of BigFightWeekend.com and special guest Todd Grisham of the DAZN streaming service, as the guys are ready to preview the Ryan Garcia - Luke Campbell Saturday night What will happen when the unbeaten Californian Garcia steps up for his biggest test as a professional against the former Olympic Gold Medalist and World title contender Campbell...

We close out 2020 with a special edition of the show, as host T.J. Rives and guests discuss the fighter, fight and knockout of the year in boxing. First up, is a round table that includes Marquis Johns, senior writer of BigFightWeekend.com and also Dan Canobbio of the "Inside Boxing Live" weekly digital show on Pluto TV, etc.! TJ, Marquis and Dan debate who deserves "Fighter of the Year considerat...

One of the premier fighters in the world will make his 2020 debut on Saturday night in San Antonio, TX, and we're here to talk a bunch about Canelo Alvarez battling England's Callum Smith on our show. Host TJ Rives is back with special guests talking about the Unified Super Middleweight Championship being on the line in the Alamodome on DAZN Streaming Service and PPV. First ,TJ goes to England and...

Host T J Rives is back with his guests, as Anthony Joshua gets set to put his WBA, IBF and WBO World titles on the line against Bulgarian contender Kubrat Pulev Saturday night in London. It's the first time that Joshua, 23-1, 21 KOs has been in the ring since December of 2019, when he recaptured his belts in a rematch decision win over American Andy Ruiz. First off, T J talks with Britain's David...

Host T.J. Rives and his guests are ready to get you up to speed on a great documentary that is out this weekend and preview the World Welterweight Title fight in Texas between unbeaten, Errol Spence and top challenger Danny Garcia. First, T.J. talks with Emmy Award winning filmmaker Eric Drath to discuss his new documentary film on the incredible flamboyant boxing career of former multi-division W...

On our latest preview podcast, Host T.J. Rives is back with special guest for insight and analysis. First up, from over in England is David Payne, aka "The Boxing Writer" of his own site, boxingwriter.co.uk, who will have great perspective on Saturday night's British unbeaten heavyweight Contender showdown between young knockout artist, Daniel Dubois and veteran unbeaten fighter, Joe Joyce. Both o...

Put up your Dukes! It's a brand new edition of the show, as Host T.J. Rives and Marquis Johns, Sr. Writer of BigFightWeekend.com, are back on board recapping the Terence Crawford World Welterweight Title win over England's Kell Brook and much more! They welcome in right away, the familiar face and voice of ESPN's Bernardo Osuna. Bernardo has been part of the "World Wide Leader in Sports" coverage...

It's our latest version of the show, as host T.J. Rives and guests get set to preview Saturday night's WBO World Welterweight title defense of Terence Crawford against England's Kell Brook. First, it's a "roundtable" discussion with T.J., Marquis Johns of BigFightWeekend.com and Abraham Gonzalez of NYFights.com. The guys discuss how enthused (or not) they are about this title defense by Crawford a...

It's a brand new edition of our show, as more fight cards get set to take place in Florida and L.A. And host T.J. Rives is back to preview it with his guests. First, Sergio Mora, former fighter now DAZN boxing analyst, comes aboard to talk the Devin Haney Yuriorkis Gamboa WBC World Lightweight Title fight that he is calling on Saturday night in Hollywood, FL. Can the young unbeaten Haney easily di...

It's a special recap edition of our show, as we had multiple important World Championship fight cards this past weekend. Host T.J. Rives and Marquis Johns, Sr. Writer of Big Fight Weekend.com, are back to go over all of it with insight and analysis. First, the guys discuss the Friday night win by unbeaten, Middleweight contender Jaime Munguia in the Golden Boy main event in California. Then, they...

On the latest edition of the show, Host T.J. Rives is back and getting ready for a massive weekend of fights from London to Las Vegas to Texas and even, Friday night in California. First, Showtime Boxing analyst and Hall of Famer, Al Bernstein is on board and ready to talk about the Saturday night PPV battle in San Antonio, TX, between Gervonta Davis and Leo Santa Cruz. Find out what Al is watchin...

It's a brand new edition of the show and host T.J. Rives is joined by four division World Champ, Leo Santa Cruz, who's getting ready for his PPV showdown with Gerovonta Davis next week. And, it's time to get ready for some Friday night title fights in Mexico City. First, T.J. gets the latest from Santa Cruz on his preparation to fight the unbeaten and dangerous Davis in the Alamo Dome in San Anton...

On the latest edition of the show, it's one of the biggest fights remaining in 2020, as Unified Lightweight champ, Vasiliy Lomachenko gets set to take on unbeaten IBF champ, Teofimo Lopez on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Host T.J. Rives is joined by guests, Marquis Johns of BigFightWeekend.com and T.C. Martin of the 5 day a week "T.C. Martin Show" in Vegas. The guys discuss the buildup to this 135...

It's the latest edition of our show in the preview mode for the WBO World Featherweight title fight involving Mexico's hard punching, Emanuel Navarrete in action on Friday night in Vegas. Host T.J. Rives welcomes Steve Kim, Boxing writer/insider from ESPN, to the show to discuss that fight. And, they also discuss the upcoming Vasiliy Lomachenko/Teofimo Lopez World Lightweight Unified Title showdow...

It's a brand new edition of our show with the Canelo Alvarez out of ring soap opera continuing and some other big headline news from the week. Host T.J. Rives returns with roundtable guests, Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports and Marquis Johns, Sr. Writer BigFightWeekend.com. The guys discuss Canelo re-filing his $280 million lawsuit this week, and what are the chances he gets something worked out/gets ba...

It's a huge weekend of World Title fights in the USA and Europe and we're ready for it on the "Big Fight Weekend Podcast!" Host T.J. Rives is back with his guests/analysts to get ready for the Charlo brothers both defending their World titles in Connecticut on a rare "Split-PPV" Saturday afternoon-night. First up, Showtime Network President of Sports and Events, Stephen Espinoza, is back on with u...

On our latest edition, hear some great stories and reminisce about some of the biggest moments in boxing in the last 40 years with legendary referee, Joe Cortez. Cortez (above) worked over 170 World Championship fights,  including with the likes of Mike Tyson, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard and even more recent fighters like Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez. We also reminisce about this being...