Eric Raskin
74 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Pacquiao-Marquez: The Fight Week Experience From A To Z (Part II)
By Eric Raskin
We left off yesterday with the letter ?M? and with the revelation that Twitter is an exclusively Mexican form of social media. We now continue with the rest of the alphabet, and…
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Pacquiao-Marquez: The Fight Week Experience From A To Z (Part I)
By Eric Raskin
Ah, Las Vegas. One of my favorite places in the world to be for one night. One of my least favorite places in the world to be for five nights. For the…
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The Official 24/7 Pacquiao-Marquez Drinking Game…RASKIN
By Eric Raskin
Give your keys to Lloyd Dobler, boxing fans, because it?s time to get rosy-cheeked and full-bladdered with another edition of the 24/7 Drinking Game. The Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III version of…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: A Barker, A Pig Parker & A Possible Jump-The-Sharker
By Eric Raskin
Between the new fall season of television, baseball playoff games that last into the wee hours, NFL football in full swing, seven hours of televised boxing over the weekend, and this whole…
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Guilty Pleasure: The Countdown To Margarito-Cotto Is On…RASKIN
By Eric Raskin
We?re not exactly looking at a barren boxing calendar for the remainder of 2011. Over the next 11 Saturdays, there are 10 fight cards on either Showtime, HBO, or HBO Pay-Per-View. Four…
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The Vegas Fight Week Experience From A To Z (Part II)
By Eric Raskin
We now conclude our two-part exploration of all things Mayweather-Ortiz. If you missed Part I ? well, let your lazy fingers do some work and mouse around TheSweetScience.com?s home page until you…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: Tipping A Few Back In Good Fun, Pouring One Out In Sheer Sadness
By Eric Raskin
In the current boxing game, we unfortunately get only three fights a year that cross over to ?major event? status with mainstream America: the two times each year that Manny Pacquiao fights…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: From Unwarranted DQs To Unwarranted Blurcles
By Eric Raskin
As a lifelong Philly sports fan, I suppose I have to open this week?s column by commenting on the almost embarrassing bounties reaped by my football and baseball franchises this weekend. I…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: Nicknames, No-Shows & The Blessed Return Of Broner Jokes
By Eric Raskin
A couple of weeks back, I picked the Miami Heat to win the NBA Finals and the Vancouver Canucks to capture Lord Stanley?s Cup. So, uh, I think I?m going to stick…
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No Comparison: Canelo Rises Above His Hypothetical Rival
By Eric Raskin
Within the confines of my own column (the one place in the world where I actually hold some authority), I?m officially placing a ban on comparisons between Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez and Julio…
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The Mayweather-Ortiz Six-Pack Of Signing Subplots
By Eric Raskin
After Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez finalized details for their third fight a few weeks back, I authored a column entitled ?A Six-Pac Of Signing Subplots.? Sadly, in the case of…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: Naazim Richardson, Patti LaBelle & Other Great Fight Motivators
By Eric Raskin
For this week?s one-toe dip into the mailbag waters, I?m using an email sent not about last week?s column, but about last week?s Ring Theory podcast. Some quick background for those who…
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Oscar Noticed For His Words, Hopkins Noticed For His Looks
By Eric Raskin
Let?s start this week?s column with my predictions for the NHL and NBA finals. I predict the Heat will beat the Mavs because if there?s one thing I?ve learned in my 35…
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Pacquiao-Marquez III: A Six-Pac Of Signing Subplots
By Eric Raskin
Three years ago, on the day after Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II, I wrote a column for ESPN.com entitled ?The Pacquiao-Marquez Postfight Six-Pac.? After tense back and forth discussions and negotiations with…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: Big-Name Bonanza, From Pacquiao To Ward To Hopkins To Haye
By Eric Raskin
Another week, another interesting email about Manny Pacquiao, another excuse for me to put Pac-Man?s name in my headline and earn my article hyperlinks throughout the Philippines. Now, just to spite Rick…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: Rumors, Exaggerations & Twitter Recommendations
By Eric Raskin
Since Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley was billed as a major ?event,? I?m going to take the glass-half-full approach and call the past week or so in boxing ?eventful.? There is indeed…
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The PPV Running Diary: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
By Eric Raskin
This past Saturday night brought another major boxing pay-per-view event, and you know what means: more bitching from Raskin about how late these things end and how early his son wakes up…
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365 Days Later: Mayweather Won The Battle ? Mosley Won The War
By Eric Raskin
You learn a lot about a man from the way he responds to adversity. To his credit and to his detriment, Floyd Mayweather spent most of his boxing career not letting us…
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A Victor Lap For Andre Berto
By Eric Raskin
You can spend hours studying the fight videos, absorbing the combatants? styles, every little intricacy, in hopes of assessing and accurately predicting how a matchup will play out. You scribble in your…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: ?Take The Test? And The Best Of The Rest
By Eric Raskin
The first pitch of the baseball season in my hometown of Philadelphia was thrown at 1:05 p.m. this past Friday, and just a few hours earlier, snow was falling on the field…