Efe Ajagaba vs Charles Martin Recap | Ryan Garcia vs Mario Barrios Preview | Russell/Hiraoka & more
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
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4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Sunday night at Zuffa Boxing, Efe Ajagba made a statement in the heavyweight main event, stopping Charles Martin by fourth-round TKO.
Now all eyes turn to a massive championship card next week in Las Vegas. In the main event, Ryan Garcia challenges Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight title in a true “career-defining” moment. Garcia’s speed and left hook vs Barrios’ size, jab and experience — this one could come down to discipline and who controls range.
On the undercard, Gary Antuanne Russell defends his WBA 140-pound title against unbeaten Andy Hiraoka — pressure and power vs length and timing. Plus, IBF champion Richardson Hitchins puts his belt on the line against Oscar Duarte, a classic boxer vs puncher matchup that favors Hitchins by decision if he controls the distance.
Big fights. High stakes. Championship drama. Let’s break it all down.
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Timestamps:
11:40 - Dzambekov vs Elbiali
22:00 - Ajagba vs Martin
36:30 - Garcia vs Barrios
45:15 - Russell vs Hiraoka
49:45 - Hitchins vs Duarte
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Teddy Atlas the third. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's episode is presented by Fyofo and I am joined by my main man, Boxing Legend, Hall of Famer, Teddy Atlas. |
| 0:14.0 | How you doing, bud? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm okay. I'm with you. I'm good. I'm with Richie. I'm good. I'm with Ben. I'm good. We got a nice team. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm with all these, uh, the audience out there that are good people. Some of them are knuckleheads, but you know, they sprinkle in and out. That's life as it is. You know, if you're, if you walk down the street, there's going to be, uh, there's going to be leaves falling and floating around and flying by and there's going to be some, maybe some flowers and some beautiful stuff. And then, you know, there's going to be |
| 0:46.3 | everyone's who are a little litter. You got to deal with the litter. You're picking up, |
| 0:50.7 | you put it where you got to put it, you know, I hope this is not the way |
| 0:58.5 | to seg into that, but I hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day. That's, that's, that's, that's |
| 1:05.5 | Teddy Atlas's way of saying, I hope you had a good Valentine's Day, all the moms, all the, all the, all the, |
| 1:12.7 | all the women out there, and the guys too, all the people out there. |
| 1:17.4 | I hope that you had a nice day with whoever your Valentine is. |
| 1:22.2 | And I'm stinking up the joint. |
| 1:26.1 | I guess that's what I was getting at. I'm stinking, you know, I like to be straightforward. I'm stinking up the joint. I guess that's what I was getting at. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm sticking, you know, I like to be straightforward. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm, I got a, I think I'm on a bad streak of about four in a row. |
| 1:36.3 | At one point we were doing real well. |
| 1:38.3 | And, you know, I, this is, this is food for the haters, |
| 1:43.3 | because haters have come out and say whatever. |
| 1:46.4 | And that's, hey, that's fine. |
| 1:48.3 | When you're out there in the Big Apple and you put yourself out there and you take risk, |
| 1:53.8 | and what's life without risk? |
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