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Far too long to quote, but this is a fascinating piece about fight-fixing in boxing. http://deadspin.com/why-i-fixed-fights-1535114232
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fatherdog posted:Far too long to quote, but this is a fascinating piece about fight-fixing in boxing. This was excellent. Thanks.
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fatherdog posted:Far too long to quote, but this is a fascinating piece about fight-fixing in boxing. it's a strange feeling to have 'why i hate boxing' put to me so humanely
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fatherdog posted:Far too long to quote, but this is a fascinating piece about fight-fixing in boxing. That's an excellent article. Thank you.
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mewse posted that article ponst the book and it was a great read.
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Definitely a great article. Between horrible judging, the network/promotion wars and so forth boxing suffers enough these days without fighters having to take dives but of course kit happens all the time to this day but it's kind of annoying to have people interpret bad judging/a bad mismatch as a fight being fixed. Also this weekend is the return of Bhop against the "fourth light heavyweight champion" Beibut Shumenov. Don't know too much about Shumenov -he won the belt against Campillo in 2010- and his most notable win since is I guess William Joppy. Also Shawn Porter defends his ibf belt against the Malignaggi in what has to be a star maker for Porter. Also Peter Quillin is stuck against some Czech fighter and will probably look less than impressive but still pull it before calling out Golovkin and Martinez.
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1. The most interesting part about that article is when other fighters would deride the can who managed to actually win. I figured someone would support them. 2. William Joppy rules
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Klitschko's next defense will be on ESPN, it's Dr. Steelhammer so I know snooze big deal, but the heavyweight belts being on a lot of tvs has the potential to really mix up the division. I hope they'll be able to make a proper event out of it.
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crolla vs murray tonight. might be vaguely interesting. my favourite thing about crolla is when he was on some card with an american commentator and the commentator kept saying his name like 'corolla.' million dollar.. corolla.
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Two face first manc meatheads
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howard foster getting booed lol
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I've had a shocker on the betting tonight so I could do with it going the distance, reckon Crolla might do him though
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Lomachenko-Russel Jr. June 21 promoted by GBP on Showtime
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The SituAsian posted:Definitely a great article. Between horrible judging, the network/promotion wars and so forth boxing suffers enough these days without fighters having to take dives but of course kit happens all the time to this day but it's kind of annoying to have people interpret bad judging/a bad mismatch as a fight being fixed. The whole article basically alludes to Bob Arum being a massive crook, which is obvious. Shumenov is alright, he's a big aggressive boxer/puncher, sort of like a more rudimentary Sergei Kovalev. But he doesn't hit as hard and he's much more predictable. He arguably lost two to Gabriel Campillo, and he's never really beaten anyone else of note. He's a top 10 level fighter but Hopkins should have no trouble with him.
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Mauro Ranallo is the worst thing about Showtime boxing.
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Ninja PD posted:Who could Peter Quillin even fight that would be interesting? Catchweight with Thurman?
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"Thank you world star for supporting me"
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Porter is just missing a touch of power to make him scary in a chaotic kind of way. This fight is good so far and seemingly heating up.
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fatherdog posted:Paulie is mouthy and featherfisted and probably not nearly as good as he thinks he is, but you can't say that motherfucker ain't tough. Paulie is a great disciple of the sport, he just doesn't have the body or the skills to execute his really impressive understanding of it.
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I must admit, nobody has manhandled Paulie like that. Goodness gracious.
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That was loving BRUTAL. A star is born in Shawn Porter.
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he made that look really easy, way too strong for paulie.
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hahaha, bhop is the best
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Al Bernstein just plagiarized the first paragraph of this article. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/04/sports/la-sp-dwyre-20131205
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Man, the Mayweather-Maidana card is really abysmal, main fight included. Khan-Collazo is the only remotely interesting fight there, and if Khan wins it just sets up another abysmal Mayweather card.
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Hopkins? Making a guy with "Trainer: Self" look amateurish? 
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 a split decision. gently caress boxing.
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