We are ready to go with another preview podcast in the final month of 2023, as Ryan Garcia returns, Devin Haney talks with Dan and much more on the "Big Fight Weekend Preview Podcast."Host T.J. Rives and Dan Rafael of BigFightWeekend.com return and are ready to go over it all. That includes the Golden Boy / DAZN show from Houstonas Ryan Garcia takes on Oscar Duarte in a junior welterweight return. Will it be a big night for Ryan? Also earlier in the day on DAZN from Belfast, Northern Ireland former WBA featherweight champ Michael Conlan meets Jordan Gill in a junior lightweight battle. Does Conlan have anything left after a couple of knockout losses. Then, Dan talks with the former undisputed 135 lb. champ Haney on the week before he battles Regis Prograis for the WBC junior lightweight crown. Will this be a real battle with the outspoken Prograis? What are Haney's plans for the future? Hear him discuss it.There's news on Haney’s vacant titles and how they will be filled, including Vasiliy Lomachenko taking on George Kambosos for IBF and Dan has learned it will probably be April 14 in Australia (April 13 US time).And, Top Rank wins a purse bid for vacant WBA featherweight title between Otabek Kholmatov and Raymond Ford and Dan is reporting that Top Rank has signed Kholmatov to a promotional deal. Finally some Nostalgia on this weekend 44 years ago, as Sugar Ray Leonard becoming a world champ with his TKO 15 over Wilfred Benitez to win the WBC welterweight title. And, on the undercard, Marvin Hagler gets jobbed in a draw vs. Vito Antuofermo, who retained the undisputed middleweight title. The bouts were live on ABC in prime time!And it was 23 years ago on Saturday that Dan believes was the greatest 154 title fight ever, This, as "Tito" Trinidad scored a rousing 12th round TKO over a valiant, tough Fernando Vargas to unify the WBA and IBF titles. Dan was ringside for it and it culminated a slew of fights that weekend that he covered in Las Vegas right around that bout.It's all part of the "Big Fight Weekend Preview Podcast" and make sure to follow/subscribe on Apple, Spreaker, Spotify, Google, etc.

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