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Tbf to Dubois he’s still very young for a HW and I still think he’s talented despite his shortcomings. Yarde is a guy that’s athletic, is pretty sturdy but too musclebound probably and skill wise kind of shyt thanks to starting late and keeping around yes men including his no good trainer.
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Seriously I hate this tit for tat bullshyt. If I wanted that I'd watch American politics
reservoirdogs
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Yeah, both are acting like they are too cool for school but I hope they don't actually believe they don't need the other at all. It's the fight at 147, simple as. Now both gonna chase Pac first, it is what it is, wouldn't be bad fights but at the end of the day Bud vs Spence is the fight.
Dallas' 4 Eva
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I want to point out something Porter said on the broadcast last night that caught my attention. He said the WBO put him in the rankings out of nowhere and he didn't request it. I wonder what was up with that?
Tyson vs. Jones Exhibition Nets 1.6 Million PPV Buys, Says Triller Owner
By Manouk Akopyan
Published On Sun Dec 6, 2020, 07:23 AM EST
Mike Tyson’s exhibition versus Roy Jones Jr. garnered over 1.6 million pay-per-view buys, Triller owner Ryan Kavanaugh told BoxingScene.com.
Triller reportedly paid $50 million to land the rights to the fight and charged viewers $50 to order the event. If the 1.6 million number holds, the TikTok rival and social platform will have made $80,000,000 for their pilot program and launch into their live events business.
More PPV buys should be tabulated in the coming weeks as traditional cable operators share those numbers with Triller.
“Despite everyone wanting for it not to work, we upset them by changing things up and making it work and dominated the conversation,” Kavanaugh said.
Shortly after the completion of Tyson vs. Jones, Triller announced that it had formed a boxing program with entertainer Snoop Dogg billed as Fight Club, a separate entity from Tyson’s newly launched Legends Only League.
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Triller and Snoop Dogg plan on putting on five to eight PPV events in 2021 following the same structure as Tyson vs. Jones featuring up-and-coming fighters and musical acts — sans the old man exhibition matches.
Tyson took home nearly $10 million for his scrap, while Jones had a $3 million payday. The purses listed for each all-time great by the California State Athletic Commission was $1 million.
Although the match was billed as an exhibition and not a “real fight” plenty of people were still interested in what both fighters had left in the tank.
The event marks the first boxing PPV that has gone over the million barrier since Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin crossed that threshold in back-to-back fights in 2017 (1.3 million) and 2018 and (1.1 million).
Tyson accumulated nearly the same PPV numbers he collected in his 1996 fight versus Evander Holyfield (1.59 million), but couldn't best his 1.97 million PPV number with Lennox Lewis in 2002, or the 1.99 million PPV figure from his rematch with Holyfield in 1997.
The “Bite Fight” still stands as the best-selling heavyweight fight of all time.
For context, the Tyson Fury versus Deontay Wilder rematch earlier this year drew nearly 850,000 PPV buys in what was arguably the most heavily promoted fight of all time from joint broadcast partners ESPN and FOX.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. still sits comfortably as the king of the PPV ring at the top four spots for best-selling boxing PPVs of all time with his fights against Manny Pacquiao (4.6 million) Conor McGregor (4.3 million) Oscar De La Hoya (2.4 million) and Canelo Alvarez (2.2 million).
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Artur Beterbiev-Joe Smith: Arum, DeGuardia Aim For Unification Showdown
By Dan Rafael
Published On Sun Dec 6, 2020, 12:24 PM EST
If Top Rank chairman Bob Arum’s plan comes to fruition three of the four major light heavyweight world title belts will be unified in the first half of 2021.
There is a three-fight plan in place to make it happen, Arum told BoxingScene.
The first bout will be when Artur Beterbiev, the lineal champion and owner of the IBF and WBC belts, will face Adam Deines in their rescheduled fight on Jan. 30, probably in Moscow, with the fight to air on an ESPN+. The bout has been delayed multiple times, from Oct. 23 to Dec. 11 and now to Jan. 30, in part because Beterbiev suffered a rib injury.
Step No. 2 will be a fight between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov for the vacant WBO world title on Feb. 13 in the main event of an ESPN card from a site to be determined.
And step No. 3 will be to match Beterbiev, if he beats huge underdog Deines, with the Smith-Vlasov winner to unify the three 175-pound belts.
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Arum said Beterbiev-Deines will be Top Rank’s first event of 2021. He said Top Rank plans to move slowly at the start of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We told ESPN we want to take January off and in February, March and April we are going slowly,” Arum said to BoxingScene.com.
“We are going to do one a month and maybe one of the months we do two shows and then starting in May we gear up for a full schedule because what I’m gambling on, what I’m hoping, is we have the (COVID-19) vaccine by then and whether it’s in the United States or abroad we can start doing events with spectators. Right now doing events without spectators is killing us.
“Right now I’m in a stall pattern to do as few fights as we can get away with hoping to get into some sunshine where can do spectators.”
But even with a slow start planned for 2021, Arum is looking forward to what’s in store at light heavyweight, especially if spectators are widely allowed to attend events.
“If Beterbiev wins we put him with Joe Smith if Joe Smith wins the (WBO) title,” Arum said. “That’s a big fight for Madison Square Garden (in New York). That fight would do a ton of business in Madison Square Garden.”
The WBO recently ordered a negotiation for the mandatory bout between Smith and Vlasov and said if there was no deal a purse bid would be ordered, but that won’t be necessary. Arum promotes Vlasov and co-promotes Smith with Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing. They both told BoxingScene they have made a deal for the bout.
“The deal has already been made. It’s all done,” Arum said.
As for where it will take place Arum said it is not determined but that it likely would be in Las Vegas.
“We’re trying to break out of the bubble so we can get some spectators,” Arum said. “We’re talking to casinos to do our protocol with testing and everything and open up the (MGM) Grand Garden Arena or Caesars (Palace) or one of these places for 1,000 or 1,500 people. Joe Smith will bring in 300 people.”
DeGuardia said he and Arum worked things out quickly for the fight.
“We’re set, we just haven’t signed it yet. But we know where we are and what’s going on with the fight,” DeGuardia said. “We are ready and prepared and looking forward to it. And then if Joe wins, him and Beterbiev is a huge fight. We want the biggest fights for Joe and I think Joe, as this year has gone by, he’s become a much better fighter, developed an awful lot in the last few fights. Sky’s the limit.
“I think Joe wins the fight with Beterbiev, but he is not looking past the fight with Max. Max is strong, a Siberian tiger so to speak, and he has to take care of that first, but I’m not worried about Joe with anyone in the light heavyweight division. He really looked good this year in his wins against Jesse Hart (in January) and Eleider Alvarez (in August).”
The Smith-Vlasov fight came about when another boxer Arum promotes, Las Vegas-based Russian Umar Salamov (25-1, 19 KOs), 26, came down with COVID-19 and had to pull out of a planned semifinal title eliminator against Vlasov that was most recently planned for Nov. 20 in Minsk, Belarus.
Smith (26-3, 21 KOs), 31, from New York’s Long Island, had already won his semifinal eliminator by ninth-round knockout of former world titleholder Alvarez (25-2, 13 KOs) on Aug. 22 inside the bubble of the conference center at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to earn his way into the world title bout.
With Salamov sidelined, the WBO ordered Smith-Vlasov for the title vacated by Canelo Alvarez. Arum said he would put Salamov on the undercard of a possible Beterbiev-Smith fight and if Salamov wins match him with the Beterbiev-Smith winner.
Montreal-based Russia native Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs), who turns 36 on Jan. 21, will be making his fourth title defense but has not fought since he knocked out Oleksandr Gvozdyk to unify a pair of 175-pound world titles and send him into retirement in October 2019.
Deines (19-1-1, 10 KOs), 29, a Russia native fighting out of Germany, has won two fights in a row but been idle since September 2019.
Vlasov (45-3, 26 KOs), 34, of Russia, has won three fights in a row since a one-fight move up to the cruiserweight division, where he lost a unanimous decision in an interim world title bout to Krzysztof Glowacki in November 2018 in Chicago in the quarterfinals of the World Boxing Super Series tournament.
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You know how it is when these boxers get to the bigger paydays. They immediately start trying to cut expenses whether it’s their current trainer, coaches, etc.
A fighter of Spence’s caliber should have a chef, s&c coach, etc
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You know how it is when these boxers get to the bigger paydays. They immediately start trying to cut expenses whether it’s their current trainer, coaches, etc.
A fighter of Spence’s caliber should have a chef, s&c coach, etc
Man you already know lol...glad to see he sees the difference in his performance since going away from Blue Ray.
This may end up being the difference between him having a tough fight with Bud and dominating the fight.
ChocolateGiddyUp
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Imagine if it was Miguel Cotto in that ring last night 
Swift tougher than a $3 steak
Swift tougher than a $3 steak
ChocolateGiddyUp
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I usually speak well on the Fox team N they don’t bother me as much as ESPN or DaZn
but Kenny was on his lampley shyt last night ... I’m surprised he didn’t go full bang bang bang
Swift lands the biggest punch for him of the night ... Drool N sweat fly off Spence
Kenney “that did not land
“Camera cuts to Angel telling Danny dip N throw the overhand right... stand your ground... throw the hard punches jus try it
Kenney “ Angel gave no advice between that round”
I thought @patscorpio was hired by Fox for a while there
