How Everyone Around Aidos Yerbossynuly Should’ve Been Better
Welcome to the “Fight Freaks Unite Recap” podcast coming off a weekend that included two notable cards. There was David Morrell’s one-sided 12th-round knockout of Aidos Yerbossynuly in the PBC/Showtime main event to retain his secondary super middleweight belt.
After the fight Yerbossynuly was taken to the hospital, where as of Sunday night he was in a medically induced coma due to bleeding on is brain, a source told Fight Freaks Unite and Big Fight Weekend.
There was also Dmitry Bivol’s masterpiece 12 round decision over Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez to retain his light heavyweight title in the main event of the Matchroom/DAZN card. Plus there are some news items to go over.
Here’s what we discussed on this episode (in order):
The very unfortunate situation of Yerbossynuly’s traumatic brain injury in the fight with Morrell and thoughts on whether this fight should have been stopped sooner and who is that on? We certainly wish Yerbossynuly a speedy recovery.
The Morrell-Yerbossynuly undercard, including former unified junior middleweight titlist Jeison Rosario taking a KO loss in the middleweight co-feature and announcing his retirement.
Bivol’s extremely impressive rout of Ramirez in a win that probably locked up fighter of the year honors in the bout that followed his upset victory over Canelo Alvarez in May. We also discussed the other possible candidates.
The undercard, which included Chantelle Cameron outpointing Jessica McCaskill to become the undisputed women’s junior welterweight champion and Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov’s comeback ninth-round knockout of Zelfa Barrett to win the vacant IBF junior lightweight title.
Showtime’s announcement of a Dec. 17 fight between unbeaten rising lightweights Michel Rivera and Frank Martin.
The rematch between junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall, which is in the process of being finalized, being penciled in for Feb. 4.
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Since 2000, award-winning reporter Dan Rafael has covered boxing full time and been ringside for thousands of fights, first for five years at USA Today and then for 15 years at ESPN, where he wrote and appeared on various television, radio and streaming programs. In 2013, Dan was honored by the Boxing Writers Association of America with the Nat Fleischer award for career excellence in boxing journalism. Dan brings his great insight to the Big Fight Weekend site, podcast and more!
