Light Heavyweight Champ Alexander Gvozdyk Interview + Discussion on Past Fights (Thurman, Davis, & Cancio), Upcoming Fights (Joshua/Miller, Porter/Ugas, Spence/Garcia, Bivol/Smith)
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
Hit Hard Media LLC
4.8 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout record this episode from Oxnard, CA where Teddy is in training camp with his fighter Oleksandr “Alex” Gvozdyk, the WBO Light Heavyweight Champion. Teddy shares a look at what training camp entails with Alex (7:00) and the stresses that come with it (16:29). He and Alex are six weeks out from a March 30 ESPN title defense against French boxer Doudou Ngumbu. Teddy and Ken then discuss the recently announced Joshua v. Miller fight (24:15) before diving into the past fights of Thurman v. Lopez (31:05), Davis v. Ruiz (38:53), and the massive upset in Machato v. Cancio (45:00). Upcoming fights of Porter v. Ugas (1:03:52), Spence v. Garcia (1:06:25), Bivol v. Smith Jr. (1:13:30) are covered. Then, Alex Gvozdyk joins for an interview at the end (1:16:50). He shares how he got into boxing, his Bronze Medal win at the 2012 Olympics, and his victory over Adonis Stevenson to win the WBO Championship on Dec 1. All this and more... like Micky Ward stories (52:45).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. I'm Ken Rideout joined by |
| 0:08.8 | Legendary trainer and notorious truth-teller Teddy Atlas. We're coming to you today from |
| 0:13.9 | Oxnard, California. Before we dive into things, quick thank you to all the |
| 0:18.5 | people who've subscribed and left reviews for the podcast in the YouTube show. |
| 0:22.7 | It's a massive help to us. |
| 0:25.2 | Costs a lot of money to fly Teddy out here |
| 0:26.8 | private from New York to LA. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm just kidding. |
| 0:31.8 | So Teddy, I don't do that. What brings us out to ox nudge? I'm here training Light Heavyway |
| 0:36.5 | Champion the world that I'm fortunate off to be working with. We won the world title |
| 0:41.1 | a couple months ago against Stevenson. |
| 0:43.7 | Obviously I can't say that without also saying that we pray that Stevenson continues to recover. |
| 0:48.8 | He is recovering. |
| 0:50.0 | That's the main thing. |
| 0:51.0 | He got hurt in that fight. |
| 0:52.4 | But I started training for that fight. |
| 0:55.3 | That was December 1st on Showtime in Quebec. We beat Stevenson now we have to defend the title. |
| 1:01.2 | Again, the Alexander Volzic. the |
| 1:03.2 | Alexander Volk and he lives here in Oxnard. He's from the Ukraine like Lomonsonk. |
| 1:09.5 | He's from the Ukraine like Lomon Chenko and like Yusik, his fellow countrymen are also world champions. |
| 1:15.5 | They must be drinking some kind of special water over there because they're doing pretty damn |
| 1:20.5 | good. |
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