No Holds Barred: Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, and the Honor of Champions

by Eddie Goldman

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman spoke with Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia about their welterweight title unification fight.

In addition, the issue of honor and the lack of honor of many boxing champions, including the potential implications of this past Saturday’s postfight hotel lobby brawl involving Deontay Wilder, and the WBC’s call for a boxing code of ethics to be implemented, are discussed.

WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (27-0, 22 KOs) and WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia (33-0, 19 KOs) fight this Saturday, March 4, in the main event of a card billed as Showtime Championship Boxing on CBS, presented by Premier Boxing Champions, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. This card will be shown live in the U.S. on CBS and in the U.K. on BoxNation.

We spoke with both Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia on a recent media conference call.

You can play or download No Holds Barred https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/nhbnews/episodes/2017-02-28T22_09_07-08_00  and  https://archive.org/details/NoHoldsBarredKeithThurmanDannyGarciaAndTheHonorOfChampions. If one link does not work, please try another.

No Holds Barred is available at Google Play Music at https://play.google.com/music/m/Igsrna4y4tx6xg4femdhjwbeesa?t=No_Holds_Barred_with_Eddie_Goldman.

Also, No Holds Barred is available through iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=150801513&s=143441.

You can also listen to No Holds Barred via Stitcher through iOS or Android devices or on the web, at http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/no-holds-barred-with-eddie-goldman.

The PodOmatic Podcast Player app is available for free, both for Android at Google Play, and for iOS on the App Store.

The No Holds Barred theme song is called “The Heist”, which is also available on iTunes by composer Ian Snow (http://liveone.tv).

No Holds Barred is sponsored by:

Skullz Double-End Bags (http://www.skullzdebags.com), the perfect bag for your combat sports training. Skullz Double-End Bags provide a realistic striking target, and help improve timing, distance, and hand and eye coordination. Hang it and hit it right out of the box! No pump required. For more information, go to http://www.skullzdebags.com.

USA Combat Wrestling (http://combatwrestling.us), the official U.S. governing body for combat wrestling and U.S. delegate of the International Combat Wrestling Federation (FICW) (http://combatwrestling.org), which was founded by the legendary wrestler Noriaki Kiguchi of Japan. For more information, go to http://combatwrestling.us

Thanks, Eddie Goldman

http://eddiegoldman.com