Sometimes I forget just how many people watch the NFL and especially Championship Sunday but when this happened near the 2-minute warning I probably got 15+ messages about it, none funnier than my guy
@RJcliffordMMA
sending me this one.
My favorite moment of the night was Amanda
@Serranosisters
being overcome by the moment right before the opening bell saying to Katie “This is crazy! This is crazy” and
@KatieTaylor
having a hard time holding her stare as she takes in the moment too.
Deontay Wilder has lost his last two fights. Anthony Joshua has lost three of his last four fights. A matchup between the two would still be one of the most lucrative fights that can be made in boxing.
So much disrespect to Oleksandr Usyk. Eddie Hearn saying he can't wait for Joshua to beat Fury as though Fury is just going to walk through Usyk. Broadcast calling Joshua the best heavyweight in the world forgetting Usyk beat him TWICE.
Tank Davis vs. Ryan Garcia, with Mayweather and De La Hoya fully involved in the promotion, would have a chance of doing 1M buys in the US in my opinion
Pat Bev just now: “Hey bro, I might have to leave soon. I’ve got a game tomorrow. I literally have a basketball game tomorrow. Like none of them. I play, like, other professionals, in a couple hours.” 😂 😂 😂 He is on the same court as a guy named Mantis right now.
Deontay Wilder once boxed a guy 140 pounds heavier than him early in his career. No excuse for Rahman Jr losing to a novice boxer. He was piecing up Greg Hardy in round 1 and then gassed out. That’s poor conditioning
Deontay Wilder and Gennady Golovkin had similar resumes before they faced an A-level talent. Their best wins before those fights -- Luis Ortiz and Daniel Jacobs -- are about even terms. Both were KO artists against the C- and B-minus level guys. But treated differently by fans.
Why should anyone pay Dillian Whyte a big purse again once he gets knocked out by Tyson Fury if he won’t even do the bare minimum to promote a fight he’s getting paid EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS FOR. Weak stuff.
I find
@EddieHearn
highly entertaining. He's like what I imagine a luxury car salesman is like (not a diss). This bit from
@DannyFlexen
interview about why he cropped out Frazier Clarke of a group photo made me laugh. Also calls him Joe Joyce 🤣
Statement from Henry and Lisa Garcia, Ryan's parents addressing his recent behavior:
"Our son has recently made statements that do not align with his, or our family’s, true character or beliefs. Our family unequivocally does not support any statements he has made regarding race
Spicy clip from yesterday's
#SpencePorter
#PBCFaceToFace
that aired on regular FOX. I think this was the best one of these so far. If you have a cable login, you can access this on demand on the
@FOXNOW
app, search "PBC".
#boxing
Eddie Hearn said he'd be willing to make Bivol vs. Beterbiev on ESPN and that it doesn't have to be on DAZN. Does Top Rank want it? Eddie says he would love to do a blind bid with Bob where each puts their offer in an envelope and the bigger offer gets the rights to the fight.
Sergiy Derevyanchenko is the rare 13-3 fighter who has bagged over $10 million in purses despite never winning a world title or being an A-side. That's why it's called the boxing business.
@_ChefDon_
Just sent a couple bucks to Gary because he said the burger was on the house for Keith showing up the next day. Good people like that should be winning.
Is
@KuganCassius
ever going to address the fact that
@IFLTV
was backed heavily by Daniel Kinahan with many trips to Marbella to hang with the crime boss himself, or is he simply going to keep blocking people who ask him about it?
Eddie Hearn said he was 99 percent sure
#ShieldsMarshall
didn't VADA test and Claressa came with the receipts. Eddie should learn to stay quiet about other people's business when he's in the muck.
Dana White on Zuffa Boxing: "I've been looking and kicking the tires on boxing for the last couple years and the reason you've never seen me do anything is because that's how screwed up and broken it is, that's what a mess it is. I'm not doing anything anytime soon."
Both
@ErrolSpenceJr
and
@terencecrawford
stopped guys in their last fights that had never been stopped before. They have all of the belts between them. The fight has marinated to perfection. It’s time to get it on.
So
@MannyPacquiao
took part in fights that totaled over 20 million PPV buys. A fighter who started at 106 pounds will never duplicate that model ever again.
David Benavidez got stripped of his WBC title for doing cocaine out of competition while not training for a fight. Oscar Valdez allowed to keep the same sanctioning body title and FIGHT next weekend. Make it make sense.
Dillian Whyte won't even allow the promotion for his fight use his likeness or image in any promotional materials. That's next level petty. While I see quite a few people agree with him, I don't think it endears him to the larger audience once they hear he's getting paid $8M.
What does that mean “people need to look up the definition of boxing”?
Nowhere does it say in the definition it’s “hit and not get hit”. That’s a style, one that promises more longevity. But it’s not the only way to box. That’s why boxing is different. Many ways to skin a cat.
Hasim Rahman Jr had about 100 amateur fights before turning pro in 2017. He lost by KO in his first step-up in his most recent fight (his 13th pro fight) but this marks the first opponent for Jake Paul where boxing is their main focus. I don’t hate this fight at all.
Amanda Serrano is a 7-division champ who was the first ever woman to headline a boxing card on an NBC platform. Katie Taylor is the reason women are allowed to box in Ireland and a big reason it got into the Olympics. Couldn’t pick two better Trail Blazers for the sport.
Terence Crawford talking trash about Jermell Charlo’s performance when he’s never himself fought an A-level guy like Brian Castaño in his entire career is pretty funny to me
The situation regarding Olympic boxer Imane Khalif has shown the worst sides of social media. Prominent names not just in sports have come out definitively against her competing without having any of the facts or doing any semblance of research. They see one tweet and lose it.
It's sick to realize Manny Pacquiao has TWO Hall of Fame careers in one. If you split his career in half, everything up through his 130-pound days, and everything after that, both of those guys would be enshrined in Canastota.
#boxing
Last night’s fight makes me even more impressed by Floyd Mayweather, the only fighter in the modern era to consistently spot his opponent the first two rounds and then go on to dominate every single one of them.
I hadn't watched a WWE PPV probably since last year's Royal Rumble. Was pleasantly surprised. My new favorite wrestler is definitely
@KairiSaneWWE
-- that Macho Man-esque elbow was perfectly Savage.
.
@terencecrawford
, who made history when he became the first male boxer to hold all four major titles in two different weight classes, says that he never doubted his ability to win: “Some things you’re just born with and I was born with the will to keep going no matter what.”
One of the most elusive finds for this
@EdgeRatedR
@wweonAE
doc was of
@BretHart
’s home ring in his indoor pool area. Nobody thought footage existed. Indie wrestler Maddog McFly had a camera setup and I found him on FB. Here’s Bret watching
@ShamrockKen
& Andrew “Test” Martin.
Matchroom Boxing had invested a lot of time and money into Devin Haney and are missing out on an undisputed title fight at 135 pounds. That’s gotta sting quite a bit.
Terence Crawford is calling you a hater if you don't tune into his next fight against a guy he is a -1400 favorite against that will cost $40 on a website that looks like it was designed in the dark from a company whose name he can't even say out loud without laughing.
Manny Pacquiao isn't making Errol Spence Jr fight at a catchweight but Canelo Alvarez wants to make Dmitry Bivol fight at a catchweight? Make it make sense.
How angry are you if you fought Conor Benn in the last few years? That knockout of Chris Algieri was brutal and maybe career-ending, and the chances it was done with PEDs in Benn's system are much higher than zero. A travesty.
As much as I bag on Matchroom, gotta say Ben Shalom has been an utter embarrassment at Sky. Sky’s boxing programming hasn’t been this consistently forgettable in a while.
Am I crazy or has the Conor Benn discourse already died down? Any update? B sample tested? Any of the info Eddie said would sway our judgment on the way? Anything at all?
Props to the ESPN boxing post show talking about the other fights that happened tonight. Boxing needs a regular show that serves the whole sport on TV.
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