It's one of the top anticipated fights of 2022 as unified heavyweight champ Oleksandr Usyk defends his three titles against former champ Anthony Joshua Saturday night in Saudi Arabia. And, we're here to go over it all, hear from Joshua himself and more on the "Big Fight Weekend Preview" podcast.Host T.J. Rives is back with Dan Rafael, insider of BigFightWeekend.com, to discuss the rematch and what will or won't be different from Usyk's upset decision win in September 2021 that has put Joshua's career in peril, at least for now? Dan also spoke with the Brit Joshua earlier this week and you'll hear that portion of the Q & A.Next, there's a jr. welterweight main event on Showtime in Florida featuring former world champ Omar Figueroa now taking on veteran Sergey Lipiinets in a scheduled 12 rounder. Lipinets was called to the main event after being scheduled on the undercard, because former world champ Adrien Broner withdraw from the bout citing mental health reasons. Dan spoke at length with Figueroa and you'll hear the discussion on the show.Finally, the guys circle back to the Usyk-Joshua bout for more analysis and predictions. T.J. and Dan also go over the undercard featuring Croatian heavyweight contender Filip Hrgovic taking on mammoth Chinese heavyweight Zhelei Zhang. They also discuss the Figueroa-Lipinets card and have comments on the undercard, as well. Plus, WBO featherweight champ Emanuel Navarrete is back defending his title Saturday night in the ESPN Top Rank show in San Diego, CA, against veteran Eduardo Baez.Get all the insight and analysis on the "Big Fight Weekend Preview" and make sure to follow/subscribe to our feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goolge, etc.!!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/big-fight-weekend/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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