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krackdagawd
Inspire.
Amare's Right Hook
Southeast World Champion
Feed me Gary
krackdagawd
Inspire.
Better than nothing
In this case, not really.
Too many other good cards this year to even care about that show.
Didn't know Shane was training now.
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GREENandYELLOW
2x...and defending
Dan Rafael chat wrap 4/3:
Mayweather-Pacquiao:
- Tickets will be released to the public next week. Guessing that maybe 1,000 will be available to the general public.
- Only MGM properties will show the fight on closed circuit (but that is 10 or 11 properties).
- Date to determine the referee and judges likely will be 4/21.
- In 15 years of covering Mayweather, he has been nothing but cordial and nice.
- Sky paid $4.5 million to televise the bout. The price could go up depending on how the PPV sells.
- When bars are charged to buy PPV's they are charged by max occupancy. (Write in questions says his buddy has a bar and the cost to buy this fight is $5,000)
- Programs will be on sale soon at spboxing.com. Richard Sloan is doing the artwork for the poster. Those will be available soon as well.
- Predicting over 3 million PPV buys.
- The total revenue from this bout likely could have been more if the date was announced earlier to get everything lined up more methodically.
The rest of boxing:
- Believes that Stevenson-Kovalev will happen, if they both win their next fights.
- Predicting Stevens beats Rosado.
- Roc Nation has been in talks with Gary Shaw to possibly schedule Geale as Cotto's next opponent.
- Julian Ramirez has looked good. Still not sure yet if he is truly legit or not.
- Doesn't believe Khan is scared of Brook. Wants to see Khan-Brook. Not a fan of Khan-Algieri.
- Not sure why Khan wants the Algieri fight (the fight is not officially set yet), other than to make a good payday against an easier opponent.
- Matthysse-Provodnikov is the fight he is most looking forward to outside of Mayweather-Pacquiao.
- Brook could be added to the Linares May 30th card.
- Doesn't imagine Bradley would turn down Gavin as an opponent. Bradley would be a large favorite.
- Had Charlo winning a close fight vs. Vanes. Didn't think either guy looked impressive.
- Since Showtime won't pick up Khan-Algieri, expect it to be on NBC or NBC Sports.
- In Andre Ward's next fight, expects him to look the same as always, with little ring rust. Fight will be on BET.
- Opponents listed for Ward could be: Paul Smith or Marco Antonio Periban.
- The WBO did not approve Kameda- McDonnell unification because they recognize Payano as the the WBA titleholder, not the secondary titleholder McDonnell.
- RJJ fought a few times on PPV (Gonzalez and Harding were poor sellers), but most his fights weren't PPV worthy. He earned $4-5 million a fight at his peak for regular HBO fights.
- Loves the Gonzalez-Sosa fight. It is a solid matchup and likes that Roman is getting a shot to be on HBO.
- Likes Gomez-Soto being added as the undercard to Alvarez-Kirkland. Expects Gomez to win, but Soto will bring it.
- If GRJ and Lomachenko rematch, he expects the same Lomachenko victory.
- HBO and Showtime are both interested in the Linares fight. Likely it will end up on US TV.
- The Bey-Shafikov fight was cancelled because Bey wanted more than the $200k he was being offered.
- Canelo vs. Paul Williams when the fight was rumored to be made? Picks Canelo because Paul was on the downside of his career.
- Nothing new on Nicholas Walters. TR still hopes to make Walters-Lomachenko eventually.
- Not sure who controls Khan's broadcast rights. Showtime claims they do. Khan says they don't.
- Beterbiev vs. Campillo? Beterbiev.
- Thought Judah deserved a legit KD vs. Floyd. Wouldn't have mattered on the scorecard as Floyd ending up winning dominantly.
- Would not be surprised if any or all of these fights are made this year: Stevenson-Kovalev, Canelo-Cotto, Brook-Khan, Broner-Garcia.
- GGG's camp says they are interested in fighting Froch and would consider fighting in the UK.
- If Ward says that GGG is ducking him, he is delusional.
- Canelo-Kirkland will scale the stadium down, but still have about 40,000 seats available.
- Likely we get GRJ-Mares later this year, with the winner facing LSC at some point.
- Nonito Donaire could be back on TR's July card in Macau.
- Doubful we get Thurman-Brook this Summer.
- Kovalev-Mohamedi likely takes place June/July. Venues could be Atlantic City or Russia.
- There are a lot more reporters getting boxing credential lately. They often root during the fight. He finds it pathetic and unprofessional.
- For the April 18th fight, Lampley and Hopkins will be in Verona.
- Stevenson-Bika? Stevenson by late KO.
- If Verdejo wins his next fight, he likely will fight Ivan Najera on his HBO debut.
Mayweather-Pacquiao:
- Tickets will be released to the public next week. Guessing that maybe 1,000 will be available to the general public.
- Only MGM properties will show the fight on closed circuit (but that is 10 or 11 properties).
- Date to determine the referee and judges likely will be 4/21.
- In 15 years of covering Mayweather, he has been nothing but cordial and nice.
- Sky paid $4.5 million to televise the bout. The price could go up depending on how the PPV sells.
- When bars are charged to buy PPV's they are charged by max occupancy. (Write in questions says his buddy has a bar and the cost to buy this fight is $5,000)
- Programs will be on sale soon at spboxing.com. Richard Sloan is doing the artwork for the poster. Those will be available soon as well.
- Predicting over 3 million PPV buys.
- The total revenue from this bout likely could have been more if the date was announced earlier to get everything lined up more methodically.
The rest of boxing:
- Believes that Stevenson-Kovalev will happen, if they both win their next fights.
- Predicting Stevens beats Rosado.
- Roc Nation has been in talks with Gary Shaw to possibly schedule Geale as Cotto's next opponent.
- Julian Ramirez has looked good. Still not sure yet if he is truly legit or not.
- Doesn't believe Khan is scared of Brook. Wants to see Khan-Brook. Not a fan of Khan-Algieri.
- Not sure why Khan wants the Algieri fight (the fight is not officially set yet), other than to make a good payday against an easier opponent.
- Matthysse-Provodnikov is the fight he is most looking forward to outside of Mayweather-Pacquiao.
- Brook could be added to the Linares May 30th card.
- Doesn't imagine Bradley would turn down Gavin as an opponent. Bradley would be a large favorite.
- Had Charlo winning a close fight vs. Vanes. Didn't think either guy looked impressive.
- Since Showtime won't pick up Khan-Algieri, expect it to be on NBC or NBC Sports.
- In Andre Ward's next fight, expects him to look the same as always, with little ring rust. Fight will be on BET.
- Opponents listed for Ward could be: Paul Smith or Marco Antonio Periban.
- The WBO did not approve Kameda- McDonnell unification because they recognize Payano as the the WBA titleholder, not the secondary titleholder McDonnell.
- RJJ fought a few times on PPV (Gonzalez and Harding were poor sellers), but most his fights weren't PPV worthy. He earned $4-5 million a fight at his peak for regular HBO fights.
- Loves the Gonzalez-Sosa fight. It is a solid matchup and likes that Roman is getting a shot to be on HBO.
- Likes Gomez-Soto being added as the undercard to Alvarez-Kirkland. Expects Gomez to win, but Soto will bring it.
- If GRJ and Lomachenko rematch, he expects the same Lomachenko victory.
- HBO and Showtime are both interested in the Linares fight. Likely it will end up on US TV.
- The Bey-Shafikov fight was cancelled because Bey wanted more than the $200k he was being offered.
- Canelo vs. Paul Williams when the fight was rumored to be made? Picks Canelo because Paul was on the downside of his career.
- Nothing new on Nicholas Walters. TR still hopes to make Walters-Lomachenko eventually.
- Not sure who controls Khan's broadcast rights. Showtime claims they do. Khan says they don't.
- Beterbiev vs. Campillo? Beterbiev.
- Thought Judah deserved a legit KD vs. Floyd. Wouldn't have mattered on the scorecard as Floyd ending up winning dominantly.
- Would not be surprised if any or all of these fights are made this year: Stevenson-Kovalev, Canelo-Cotto, Brook-Khan, Broner-Garcia.
- GGG's camp says they are interested in fighting Froch and would consider fighting in the UK.
- If Ward says that GGG is ducking him, he is delusional.
- Canelo-Kirkland will scale the stadium down, but still have about 40,000 seats available.
- Likely we get GRJ-Mares later this year, with the winner facing LSC at some point.
- Nonito Donaire could be back on TR's July card in Macau.
- Doubful we get Thurman-Brook this Summer.
- Kovalev-Mohamedi likely takes place June/July. Venues could be Atlantic City or Russia.
- There are a lot more reporters getting boxing credential lately. They often root during the fight. He finds it pathetic and unprofessional.
- For the April 18th fight, Lampley and Hopkins will be in Verona.
- Stevenson-Bika? Stevenson by late KO.
- If Verdejo wins his next fight, he likely will fight Ivan Najera on his HBO debut.
anyone got a link to espn2 brehs?
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SuikodenII
Where's Suikoden VI??????
@ Teddy hating on Tyson AGAIN and going 
"Whiskey!! Whiskey baby! Whiskey baby!" at the very end
blackestofpanthers
God forgives, you are forgiven.
Can't wait for ward to destroy dude.
