Badou Jack Defends WBC Cruiserweight Crown + Teofimo Lopez-Shakur Stevenson Meet Media etc | BFW Preview Podcast

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Jack and McCallion tied the WBC purse bid at exactly $250,000, forcing a 15-minute extra round of bidding.

1. Big Fight Weekend's preview podcast covers the Badou Jack vs. Noel McCallion WBC cruiserweight rematch in Los Angeles and a Matchroom card in Stockton, California, along with fight news. 2. Host T.J. Reeves, who also works Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio, is joined by Dan Rayfield, author of the "Fight Freaks Unite" newsletter, who shares material from his Badou Jack interview. 3. The central question is whether the 42-year-old Jack can hold the WBC belt against the 35-year-old McCallion after a first fight that Rayfield saw as roughly "7-5" for Jack. 4. The first fight in Saudi Arabia ended 115-113 on two cards and 114-114 on the third, and the rematch went to a purse bid where both sides tied at $250,000 before Steve Bash's promotion won with a bid of just over $300,000. 5. In Stockton, Diego Pacheco (24-0) faces Kevin Lele Sadjo (26-0, 23 KOs) in a super middleweight main event, and Rayfield calls it "high risk, low reward" for Pacheco, whose last two fights, against Trevor McCombie and Steve Nelson, went the distance. 6. The co-feature pairs 25-year-old Gabe Flores with former IBF junior lightweight champion Joe Cordina, who was stopped in the eighth round by Anthony Cacace in May 2024 and then took a 14-month layoff. 7. The January 31 Teofimo Lopez vs. Shakur Stevenson fight at Madison Square Garden has Richardson Hitchens' IBF 140-pound title defense and a Carlos Adames vs. Austin Williams middleweight bout in the works for the undercard. 8. Rayfield says Jai Obataya's one-punch knockout of Hussein Sankara might be the "knockout of the year," and he reports a small brain bleed, a brain contusion and a cracked C1 vertebra, with Sankara released Tuesday. 9. Rayfield adds that Sankara was the sixth of Obataya's last seven opponents to go to hospital, and that Obataya drew about 7,000 people to Brisbane and wants a unification fight with the winner of Jack vs. McCallion. 10. Boxing fans who follow sanctioning-body politics and weekly fight previews.

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