Eric Raskin
74 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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RASKIN?S RANTS: BAD In A.C. With MAB & JCC (Plus FNF, FX, AMC, etc.)
I was in Atlantic City on Saturday night for the Boxing After Dark card headlined by Yuriorkis Gamboa?s four-round destruction of Jorge Solis (it hasn?t been a very good March for fighters…
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Arum?s Featherweight Feast Recipe Calls For Additional Baking
Yuriorkis Gamboa fights on HBO this Saturday night from Atlantic City. Juan Manuel Lopez fights on Showtime on April 16 from Bayamon, Puerto Rico. As you probably deduced based on the inconsistent…
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The Running Diary: Cotto-Mayorga, Martinez-Dzinziruk & The Neverending Saturday Night
As I stated the first time I wrote a pay-per-view running diary, I freely admit to stealing the running diary concept from Bill Simmons, who freely admits to stealing it from Norman…
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Solo Cotto: Can He Carry A Pay-Per-View With No Supporting Cast?
For Miguel Cotto, the easy part of the job comes on Saturday night. Defeating Ricardo Mayorga? No sweat?at least when you compare it to the challenge Cotto?s been facing leading up to…
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Conflicted Over Canelo: Is Alvarez The Goods?
It?s really not fair to try to guess whether a 20-year-old is going to be successful in life. How many sophomores or juniors in college even know what field they want to…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: The Mini Mailbag, The Montiel Massacre & Multiple Moras
As I noted in last week?s TSS debut of Raskin?s Rants, I?ll be combining a one- or two-email mailbag with the traditional bullet-pointed nuggets of deep-fried ranting goodness. So here?s the best…
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RASKIN?S RANTS: Of Hump Day, Hopkins, and Horrible Hairstyles
Can a boxing column cure your work-week blues? That?s what I?ve come to TheSweetScience.com to find out. For obvious reasons, nobody likes Mondays. Wednesday is known as ?hump day? because it?s a…
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A Numbers Game? Assessing Boxing?s Place In The Statistical Revolution
In baseball, they use DIPS, FIP, VORP, WAR, and PECOTA. In football, it?s YACO, ANYPA, DVOA, and DYAR. In basketball, there are fewer acronyms, but we have PER, usage rate, and win…
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Arum spins conversation his way with Showtime/CBS move
You can call Bob Arum selfish if you want. You can call him spiteful or temperamental or honesty-impaired. Some might even suggest he's downright evil. But you?d better call him a genius…
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Chavez Jr. is back, but will he get back on track?
Eleven. Ten. Six. Five. Four. Three. One. No, that?s not Forrest Gump attempting a countdown. It?s not some complicated mathematical sequence where you divide a number by pi and then multiply it…
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Don?t look now, but HBO might just deserve a little credit
Who has the best chin in boxing today? Glen Johnson? Vitali Klitschko, perhaps? Maybe Sakio Bika? Here?s one more name to consider that doesn?t get thrown into the mix very often: Ross…
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Bright ?Lights?: A long-shot lead powers FX?s new boxing drama
The tagline for Lights Out, the first major television drama series set in the world of boxing, consists of four simple words: ?Everybody loves a comeback.? That statement is generally true (as…
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The anti wish list for 2011
At this time of year, we?re supposed to resolve to make changes that will better our lives, but most of us end up going down an alternative route for change: sitting back…
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Morales-Barrera IV makes more sense than mismatches
You can?t talk about Marco Antonio Barrera?s career without talking about Erik Morales, and you can?t talk about Morales? career without talking about Barrera. Like a less-congenial, less-sexually ambiguous Bert and Ernie,…
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Marquez-Katsidis: Thiller? Mismatch? Both?
As you may have heard, styles make fights. But there?s a little-known companion clause: Miles break fights. As in, if the fighters are miles apart in ability, it can break a fight…
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The official 24/7 Pacquiao-Margarito drinking game
Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach have a mutually beneficial, highly successful, longstanding partnership. But they ain?t got nuthin? on the one-two punch of sports and alcohol. That?s a team that has stood…
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JuanMa takes aim at a ?name? against Rafael Marquez
You fight, then you embrace. You fight again, then you embrace again. Another fight, another embrace. That pattern could describe the career of a boxer. It could also describe life for most…
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Score losers: What can be done about out-of-whack scorecards?
Rarely does dumb luck determine results in sports. But often it’s timing, a close cousin of luck, that makes all the difference. New York Jets fans probably wouldn’t tell you their team…
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Ten indelible images from 2009
Boxing is one sport I never experienced on the radio. I listened to countless baseball games on the radio as a kid. I’ve taken in plenty of football games on the radio…
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Is division jumping good or bad?
In a span of two months last year, the business side of American boxing took two devastating defeats: Both the sport?s all-time pay-per-view king and its most marketable emerging star lost in…
