Eric Raskin
74 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Riyadh Season has boxing media independence on the ropes
By Eric Raskin
Some 65,000 people will watch Saul “Canelo” Alvarez defend the super middleweight championship of the world against Terence “Bud” Crawford this Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, while another 30 million…
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Wham, ‘Bam’: Rodriguez dazzles in first defense at 115
By Eric Raskin
Wham. Bam. In his first 47 pro fights, Pedro Guevara had never been stopped. In fact, all four of his defeats had come by either split or majority decision after 12 rounds.…
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Too much boxing: Riyadh Season inadvertently makes the case against ‘supercards’
By Eric Raskin
The opening bell rang at 12:54 a.m. on the East Coast. And by the time it did, I wasn’t just tired. I was tired of boxing. No matter how much you love…
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In Wake Of Garcia-Haney, A 10-Pack Of Thoughts On The 10-Stone Division
By Eric Raskin
The junior welterweight division doesn’t get a whole lot of respect. For superstar-level fighters, it tends to be just a way station between lightweight and welterweight. Floyd Mayweather popped in for three…
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Canelo Alvarez needs to face rising super middleweight Edgar Berlanga, promoter Eddie Hearn says after his Brooklyn-born fighter obliterated Padraig McCrory in six rounds
By Eric Raskin
Edgar Berlanga scored his first knockout in more than three years with Saturday's sixth-round stoppage of Padraig McCrory – and now the 26-year-old super middleweight wants to fight Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez. 'I…
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Linares vs. Gesta Results: Linares Outclasses Gesta via 12-Round Decision
By Eric Raskin
HBO?s Boxing After Dark double main event opened with a one-sided unanimous decision win by Venezuela?s Jorge Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) over Mercito Gesta (31-2-2, 17 KOs) on Saturday at the Fabulous…
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The Eccentric Genius of Muhammad Ali?s Boxing Style
By Eric Raskin
Muhammad Ali was so much more than just a boxer. ?I came to love Ali,? two-time foe Floyd Patterson told David Remnick for his book King of the World. ?I came to…
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?Are You Serious?? The Unlikely Ascent of GGG to PPV
By Eric Raskin
The ?five years too late? crowd was half right. As a business venture, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao arrived right on time this past May 2, the extended anticipation having built…
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The Myths and Realities of Boxing?s Tilted Canvas
By Eric Raskin
Sports is full of popular clich?s, but it doesn?t make them true. Does defense really win football games? In combination with offense and special teams, sure. Did one team want it more…
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Hopkins-Kovalev Preview: The 50-50 Blowout
By Eric Raskin
The mask has changed, but the man underneath it remains the same. Bernard Hopkins attempted a rebranding two fights ago, ending his two-decade run as ?The Executioner? to become ?The Alien.? His…
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De La Hoya vs. Trinidad revisited
By Eric Raskin
Controversy and cash are the twin engines that power boxing rematches, and Felix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya produced bundles of both. When they exited the Mandalay Bay ring on September…
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’12 Days’: Stevenson-Kovalev
By Eric Raskin
The clich?d "irresistible force versus immovable object" paradox makes for a pretty darned good stylistic showdown in the boxing ring. But it's second-best in terms of excitement to when the irresistible force…
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Is a Mayweather Loss What?s Best for Boxing?
By Eric Raskin
On June 16, 2012, a week after the Tim Bradley?Manny Pacquiao decision that launched every conspiracy theory short of a fourth judge on the grassy knoll, HBO broadcaster Larry Merchant uttered possibly…
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We Went There: Matthysse Makes a Statement in Atlantic City
By Eric Raskin
This wasn?t supposed to be a blog about Floyd Mayweather. The Lucas Matthysse?Lamont Peterson fight on Saturday night at Atlantic City?s Boardwalk Hall had nothing to do with Mayweather. This was a…
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One man’s opinion: Ward still trumps Floyd
By Eric Raskin
It was just a week ago that, along with everyone else with even a passing interest in the sport of basketball, I found myself asking, "Who is that idiot who voted for…
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Donaire-Marquez a fitting award debate
By Eric Raskin
2012 will not go down as the year in which boxing developed a PEDs problem. But it will go down as the year in which boxing was forced to admit it has…
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?Miss Pac Man?: What We?ll All Be Doing On May 5
By Eric Raskin
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a tweet is worth ? well, at 140 characters max, certainly a whole lot less than a thousand words. Maybe 32 or so,…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: On Manny, On Floyd & On Freddie Roach
By Eric Raskin
I hope none of you boxing fans out there have been taking these Rants for (g)ranted. What once was a weekly tradition has become, due to other pressing obligations, a sporadic home…
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Yaegashi-Pornsawan stands tall in 2011
By Eric Raskin
Boxing fans will never be satisfied -- nor should they be -- in a world in which Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather haven't fought each other. But in terms of access to…
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THE RASKIES: Raskin’s Rants, From A. Ward to Awards
By Eric Raskin
As you may have noticed, I haven?t had a byline here within the TSS universe in about three weeks. Time to come clean: I did 21 days in county for beating up…