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Editor (CasinoReport, LotteryGeeks), writer, podcaster (The Interim Champion Boxing Podcast), author (The Moneymaker Effect), husband, father, narcoleptic
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As noted on today's pod, starting in January and continuing until we've locked in a more permanent home,
@kieranmulvaney
& I will be doing our thing with The Interim Champion Boxing Podcast. More details to come; to keep apprised, subscribe (free) here:
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Hell of a night of boxing. Imagine wasting your life not watching this sport.
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Golovkin looks very good for age 40, very bad for a guy who's slated to stand across the ring from Canelo Alvarez later this year.
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Nobody takes punishment and keeps coming back for more quite like boxing fans. No AJ-Fury this summer, no Fury-Wilder this summer, no Spence-Pac, no Canelo-anyone, plus corrupt decisions, mandatory mismatches, and on and on. And still we answer the bell. What is wrong with us?
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My 6-year-old is correctly using the noun "advocate" in conversation. Thank you,
@HeymanHustle
.
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Kinda mind-boggling that Manny Pacquiao, at age 40, after 70 pro fights, with his fighting style, is still facing elite opposition. And is considered about even money to win.
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Sorry, 97-93 and 96-93 Taylor are terrible scorecards. I don't see it. This was Amanda Serrano's night.
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Tennis announcer just said of Nadal-Djokovic: "This is like Hagler and Hearns." Proof that boxing is the king of all sports. Nobody ever says during a fight, "This is like McEnroe-Borg" or "This is like Yankees-Red Sox" or anything like that. It's all lower stakes than boxing.
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Canelo vs. Beterbiev. That's the fight. That's always been the fight. Make it happen, boxing gods.
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Just heard
@jakepaul
say there should only be 1 champion per division in boxing. Not 2, not 3, not "we just need to get rid of this one awful ABC group." 1 world, 1 champion. Jake Paul gets it & respects this sport more than some media folks who've been covering it for 20 years.
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“Just in terms of poker’s coolness, and how we want the game to be portrayed, nothing’s done it better than Rounders.” —
@RealKidPoker
Happy 20th birthday to a modern classic:
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No. No, it is not a bigger upset than Douglas-Tyson. That’s ridiculous. (But it’s probably the biggest heavyweight upset since Douglas-Tyson.)
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Crazy to think that the 49ers initially traded up from 12 to 3 with plans to take a guy who is still available at 12.
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Exclusive: This is the story of a group of “advantage players” who found an edge and beat the New Jersey online casinos for nearly a million dollars in one week:
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How much you wanna bet the mainstream media doesn’t spend the next 50 years talking about the time Atlanta sports fans threw cans on the field?
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Screw it, cancel all the football games tomorrow, just show Zepeda-Baranchyk on a loop on every channel.
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Horrendous decision. Good fight, thrilling finish, but the judges butchered it. Fury boxed him silly, won 9 rounds.
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Bernard Hopkins, who was 49 years old and change the last time he successfully defended a boxing world title against a kid half his age, seeing the sports world freaking out about Phil Mickelson:
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I think I hit a nerve with my first question for Roy. Eye-opening response. And Roy remains the MVP of any boxing radio row-type situation.
.
@RealRoyJonesJr
doesn't want to be considered a gifted fighter.
"That's disrespecting my hard work." 💯
Watch his full interview with
@EricRaskin
and
@kieranmulvaney
➡️
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40% of Americans watch The Shawshank Redemption and root for the warden.
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Luis Ortiz by KO/TKO/DQ over Charles Martin is only -154 ... What am I missing? There's gotta be at least an 80% chance Ortiz wins this fight by knockout despite being 73 years old, right?
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Hot take: I'm much more interested in boxers boxing than in non-boxers boxing.
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With Canelo-GGG III potentially on tap for the fall, Daniel Jacobs had better plan on knocking Canelo down at least once every round if he wants to win a decision.
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Bachelor star Jade Roper won a million bucks on DraftKings this weekend — but as controversy swirls, it's no sure thing she and her Bachelor in Paradise husband will get to keep the money:
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Respect to Matt Damon: Interviewer randomly (incorrectly) tosses out the name "Francois Botha" when he meant a different Francois, Damon immediately responds, "No, Botha's the boxer." Damon insta-passes Pete Berg on the celebrity boxing fan rankings.
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No matter what changes with ESPN boxing, one thing remains constant: The start time will be delayed by whatever live show is on before it.
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Excited to announce that I will be starting a new full-time job on Monday, as managing editor/media director for DGS Media, covering the gaming industry (sports betting, casino, poker, online, etc.). Thrilled to be joining this team & getting back into this rapidly growing space.
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If you’re surprised by any of this, I guess you missed GGG-Murata.
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A boxer in the UK drew 170K for his last 2 fights. Two non-American middleweights sold 1.3M PPVs 7 months ago. The 2 biggest PPVs ever were in the last 3 years. Yes, boxing is a cult sport. But "boxing is dead" is an egocentric way of saying "I don't follow boxing."
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@ASlavitt
Republicans in the Senate don't give a damn about the common people who pay their salaries, only the wealthy people who pay their bribes.
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Now it’s officially a fight weekend in Las Vegas.
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I love
@MikeTyson
's honesty and authenticity.
Jim Gray: "How much do you miss this?"
Mike: "Not that much. It drove me insane."
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Canelo stops a good, tricky fighter, wins every round but one or two along the way, and the conversation is about how vulnerable he looked? What planet is this?
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@JeremyMcLellan
Well said. It's such a bizarre cop-out, trying to blame those who voted against him and absolve those who voted for him.
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The Cowboys have selected a hilarious route to 8-8 this year.
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Just found this while packing to move. The bout sheet from the first boxing card I covered. Just a buncha no-names.
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Shoutout to everyone who insisted a couple of months that Ryan Garcia was just "trolling" and was totally fine and was brilliantly hyping his fight with Haney (by doing things that were actively hurting sales for the Haney fight, mind you). Great read of the situation, people.
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Just watched Wilder-Ortiz (managed to avoid spoilers). Damned fun rumble. Wilder's technique remains an abomination. But his power is undeniable, and he has heart, confidence, and apparently a chin. Gotta give him respect for finding a way.
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If you pay and it sucks, don't blame boxing. Blame yourself. That is all.
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Whatever the result, Donaire has gone from "you're an idiot if you don't think he's a Hall of Famer" to "please walk into oncoming traffic if you don't think he's a Hall of Famer."
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Money-hungry alphabet groups: We need a 215-pound weight class! It's unfair to make the "little" heavyweights fight the bigger ones!
220-pound Alexander Povetkin taking on 250-pound Dillian Whyte a few days later:
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Damn, Barrera came to Morales' induction weekend. They're officially friends. How weird and wonderful and awful all at once.
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Next time, if there is a next time, don't vote for the obviously insane guy with no plan, no morals, and no filter. Thanks in advance.
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Just in case you were looking for the worst boxing take on the internet, may I present the "Manny Pacquiao never fought anybody good" take:
@EricRaskin
He's never fought elite fighters except after their prime,he was pumped up by Vegas beating washed up mostly Mexicans so Vegas could capitalize on the Filipinos &Mexicans in Vegas
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One cool thing about boxing is that it's far and away the No. 1 most popular combat sport that Joe Rogan has absofuckinlutely nothing to do with.
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This is the kind of major fight that creates new boxing fans. Haven't had one of those in a while. Credit to both warriors.
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Thrilled to announce what
@kieranmulvaney
& I have been keeping quiet the last several weeks ... Talking Friday's ShoBox card, Pacquiao-Broner, Crawford-Khan, 2018 awards, and more from around the boxing world on the debut Showtime Boxing With Raskin & Mulvaney.
We're back! Welcome to the first episode of the
@ShowtimeBoxing
Podcast with
@EricRaskin
and me.
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Alternate headline: Vegas Sportsbooks Set to Make a Killing Off People Who Apparently Hate Money
Vegas Sportsbooks Are Exposed Like Never Before, Will Be Decimated if Conor McGregor Beats Floyd Mayweather
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@kieranmulvaney
and I might have just recorded the first episode of a new boxing podcast. Maybe. I can neither confirm nor deny.
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The
@HBOBoxing
Podcast presents ...
UNREALIZED: The Story of Ike Ibeabuchi, The Great Lost Heavyweight
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My son just chose SportsCenter over cartoons. Historic morning. Now I need to teach him how to change the channel when Stephen A comes on.
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You can disagree with the decision of course. But anyone who uses the word "robbery" gets muted.
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I am a liberal Democrat Jew. All my life, people have said “Merry Christmas” to me, and I’ve smiled and said, “You too” without giving it a second thought.
The lesson, as always: Trump is full of shit.
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Surprised to see/hear the mainstream-media dropper-inners referring to Andy Ruiz as "out of shape." This isn't complicated. He's proof that some guys can be both fat and well conditioned. An actual "out of shape" guy barely survives two rounds of shadow boxing.
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Lomachenko is the best boxer on the planet. Teofimo is a REAL threat to beat him. That fight's gonna be something special. I will order a hit on the first person who uses the word "marinate."
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If Tyson Fury wasn’t the heavyweight champ worth many millions in future fights, or if that cut had been from a clash of heads, this thing would have been stopped a long time ago.
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More Broner opponents need to aim all their punches at his larynx so he can’t do postfight interviews.
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THE PRINCE AND THE FLASH
Here's my 20th anniversary oral-history-style
@HBOboxing
Podcast on the unforgettable Naseem Hamed vs. Kevin Kelley fight:
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Watched Legendary Nights: Gatti vs Ward last night with the boy. "This looks like a Rocky movie fight," he said during the breakdown of Round 9. Time will tell if this turns him into a boxing fan or ruins him because no other boxing can compare.
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I love that Stallone played the heavyweight champion of the world and the person in this photo to whom he’s closest in size is Mia St. John.
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Boxing is at its best when fighters ignore the sanctioning bodies and make the best fights for themselves and the fans. Thrilling stuff.
OTD 1977 - Carlos Zarate TKO 4 Alfonso Zamora at Forum, Inglewood. Classic slugfest between WBC and WBA Bantamweight champions. Because of the warring sanctioning bodies, this was a non-title fight. Coming into the fight, their records stood at Zarate 45-0 and Zamora 29-0.
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Whatever you think of his technique, however you scored last night's fight, you have to give Deontay Wilder this: He's almost single-handedly making the heavyweight division fun these days. I'm struggling to think of the last top heavy who was as consistently exciting as DW.
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Congrats to
@GGGBoxing
for cracking Teddy Atlas' top 10 P4P. (Two spots below Keith Thurman somehow, but still.)
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I don’t know if Wilder is the hardest heavyweight puncher ever, but certainly no heavyweight in history has ever had more belief in his power. Did nothing for almost 7 rounds and just knew he’d get Ortiz.
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117-111 is awful. But 115-113 is fine. I had 114-114. If u think that was a robbery, ur paying 2much attention to commentators & punchstats.
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Me, when I read that 54-year-old Oliver McCall is scheduled to fight this month:
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And I see that the "boxing is dead" stories have started. Because a fight got postponed.
Editor: "We should write about this. Anyone on staff follow boxing?"
Staff: "Nope."
Editor: "Well, just shit on the sport a little."
Writer: "On it!"
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On the plus side, DAZN unwittingly created one of the great nights in Twitter boxing history.
On the minus side, I could have been asleep an hour ago.
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I agree with this. 113-113 is, to my eyes, a bad but fathomable scorecard. Anything in favor of Wilder is just ridiculous to me. 115-111 Wilder is every bit as terrible as Adelaide Byrd's Canelo-GGG score.
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@Andy_destroyer1
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Sad day, even if we all knew it was coming. I feel much worse for the many full-time employees than for a freelance contributor like myself. We shall see what the future holds.
Paramount Global To Shut Down Showtime Sports; Network Will No Longer Broadcast Boxing
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The question is, how many fights do you need to know that his nickname isn't "3G" and literally nobody calls him that?
I don't need a third fight to know 3G is just better than Canelo.
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We're just a Stephen A departure away from it being safe to turn on ESPN again ...
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I really don't mind Logan Paul vs. KSI. It makes business sense. It doesn't hurt boxing.
That said, I look down with much disdain upon sports media outlets that are covering it and have ignored the half-dozen Fight of the Year candidates boxing has provided in recent months.
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Updated Canelo quote: "Mexicans do fuck around, but only for a year or so, then they stop fucking around."
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I have interviewed Donald Trump. I have also interviewed hundreds of people from the sport of boxing, in which the race card is frequently in play. I can say without hesitation that Trump is the most racist person I've ever interviewed.
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True story: 16 years ago, lotta people were convinced Panchito Bojado was going further than Miguel Cotto.
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Sad day (and not just for personal financial reasons). Will have more to say after a little time passes.
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Note to
@maxkellerman
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16 years ago today, Oscar De La Hoya took on Fernando Vargas in a thrilling grudge match.
Yesterday, I interviewed Oscar. This morning, I interviewed Fernando.
Coming this fall: The
@HBOboxing
Podcast relives "Bad Blood," oral-history-style.
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There were probably 9 or 10 rounds in that amazing fight at the end of which I shrugged my shoulders before filling out my scorecard. Not just Fight of the Year so far. Sporting Event of the Year so far. To use the obvious word for today: Marvelous.
#ChocolatitoEstrada
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Quick anecdote
@sepinwall
(and others) may enjoy:
#BreakingBad
binge with the kids, S2E12. End of episode. Jane starts to do…that thing Jane does. (You're welcome, spoiler-phobes.)
My sweet, innocent, almost-16-year-old daughter, initially: “It’s a good thing Walt is there!”
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One round of boxing in the first 62 minutes of a broadcast seems less than ideal.
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15 yrs ago today, Arturo Gatti & Micky Ward gave us the 2003 Fight of the Year, then Ward retired. Micky joined us on the
@HBOboxing
Podcast to talk about life after boxing, feeling bad for Mark Wahlberg, the great/semi-forgotten Reggie Green fight & more:
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A boxing main event that starts just before 8 AM. We livin', baby.
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He's not gettin' up, Jim ...
HBO didn't go out with the kind of fight card we would have liked. But the curtain came down with moving words from the broadcast team and riveting images of the legendary fighters who graced the network. That's not coming off the DVR anytime soon.
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Breaking: People on Twitter think the way they scored the fight is the only conceivable way to score the fight.
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If Lomachenko-Rigondeaux happens, you're matching two fighters with legit claims to being the best amateur boxer ever. Bring it on.
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When two boxers scheduled to fight are getting into wars of words and shoving each other, I stop and ask myself, "Is this fight on a network that employs me?"
If yes, I'll entertain the idea that the beef is legit; if no, I'm highly skeptical and anyone who buys in is a sucker.
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Let me save you some time: No, this is not a new Adrien Broner. No, he is not taking his career more seriously. No, he has not turned over a new leaf in his personal life. No, he is not about to put it all together.
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To all involved in GGG-Canelo: IT DOESNT MAKE 1 BIT OF DIFFERENCE WHAT ABC BELTS ARE AT STAKE. The attractions are the fighters & the fight.
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Why does nobody write the "golf is dead" articles when celebrities and athletes from other sports come in and generate a lot of money and attention with made-for-TV exhibition-type events?
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Wow, I have never seen anything quite like that. Jab to the body by Charlo, Rosario flat on his back convulsing!
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So apparently Trump and his traveling COVID-spike circus are currently in the town where I live. Adjusting my social distancing standards to 6,000 feet for the next couple of weeks.
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