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Paul vs. Silva: A Circus on Steroids or a Bonafide Athletic Competition?
Paul vs. Silva: A Circus on Steroids or a Bonafide Athletic Competition?
In 1958, RCA Records came out with a record album depicting then-23-year-old Elvis Presley, in a preposterous gold lame suit, entitled 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t be Wrong. OK, so the kid from Tupelo, Miss., could sing, but his rocket-to-the-moon rise in popularity as the king of rock ’n’ roll was particularly amazing considering that just a few years earlier he was a low-paid truck driver who counted himself fortunate to land an occasional gig shaking his hips at a Deep South county fair.
No one would yet dare to describe 25-year-old Jake “The Problem Child” Paul as a pugilistic equivalent of Presley, but there are certain numbers that suggest the YouTube icon from Cleveland already is encroaching on the fringes of late 1950s Elvis territory and pressing for more. By the spring of 2014, the younger of the two boxing Paul brothers – Logan is 27 — had amassed 5.3 million internet followers and two billion views on the discontinued Vine app. When he signed a multi-fight contract with Showtime in May 2021, Paul could boast of a whopping 20.4 million YouTube followers. There are future mortal-lock inductees into the International Boxing Hall of Fame who would just about sell their souls for that humongous a fan base, or even its smaller but continually expanding boxing subset, which is why everyone interested in the sport will be watching to see how Paul (officially 5-0 with four knockouts) fares in his Showtime pay-per-view bout ($59.95) with aging martial arts legend Anderson “Spider” Silva (3-1, 2 KOs) Saturday night at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz. The eight-round cruiserweight main event will be staged under boxing rules.
As always, Paul, whose unapologetic and unrestrained demeanor outside the ring constitutes a significant part of his notoriety, pulled no punches with his remarks at a press conference to announce what figures to be his most difficult challenge in his bid to eventually be recognized as a legitimately skilled fighter and not just a sideshow curiosity.
“My previous opponents were all dickheads,” Paul said with the lack of subtlety that has marked his incursion into an arena in which flung expletives are commonplace. “Anderson Silva is the nicest guy in the world and we love him. If my opponent is a dickhead, I’m gonna treat him as a dickhead and beat his f—— ass. I think people have seen that side of me, but I respect this man. I’m still gonna knock him out, but respectfully knock him out.”
Paul’s low estimation of the boxing capabilities of his previous victims is entirely justified. Ali Eson Gib, former NBA player Nate Robinson, Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley all were making their pro debuts when they lost to the Problem Child, with Woodley coming back for a rematch in which he was knocked out in the sixth round. A murderers’ row it wasn’t. Silva, however, has sterling credentials; the Brazilian-born southpaw at one time was widely regarded as the best MMA fighter in the world, and his most obvious attribute during his heyday was his striking ability. If he nailed the other guy with a punch that landed flush, he likely was going down and out. But Silva is 47 now, and Paul is not the only foe he will be confronting when the opening bell rings. Age is the silent thief that comes in the night, siphoning bits and pieces from even a great champion’s compendium of positive attributes. Former middleweight and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins can attest to that; he was just weeks shy of his 52nd birthday when he suffered the only loss inside the distance of his 28-year pro career, against 27-year-old Joe Smith Jr. on Dec. 17, 2016. B-Hop is absolutely certain that even a moderately younger and less-depleted version of himself would have defeated Smith, but no matter the outcome Saturday night he can’t compare his final ring appearance to a matchup he considers fraudulent.
“This is a total attempt to hoodwink the public,” sneered Hopkins who, like Paul, is temperamentally disinclined to tone down the chatter when his ire is up. “I do believe the boxing community is too smart to legitimize something like this. This fight is a circus on steroids.
“Showtime should be ashamed to promote this as a real event based on Jake Paul’s opponent. It’s the lowest of the low. Me and Joe Smith was a legitimate fight. Paul’s is not. This nonsense, this buffoonery, has got to stop.”
All right, that is one opinion. It is not the only one. Taking his turn at the figurative podium is Stephen Espinoza, president of Showtime Sports, whose company has long been involved in high-level boxing and, as of 2021 when it signed him to a multi-fight contract, the perhaps grand experiment that is Jake Paul. Maybe Paul throwing hands with the Anderson Silva of the here and now is not quite the acid test it might have been years ago, but it nonetheless stands as a major hurdle that must be cleared on Paul’s way to bigger and better things.
“The commitment that he made to us when we started into business with him is that he would progressively increase the risk with each fight. There’s no question he’s done that,” Espinoza said. “But to be completely candid, there were more than a few members of Jake’s team that were opposed to the Silva fight. This man is a legendary combat sports athlete with great striking ability who has already demonstrated a good amount of boxing skill.
“Look, I can be as much of a purist as anyone else in the sport, and I’ll confess I was initially a skeptic of the concept. But what converted me was, (a), watching his fights. It was apparent even in his early fights that Jake has a level of skill and enthusiasm that made me think that he could pull this off. Secondly, he has respect for the sport and the ambitions he has for the protection of fighters and expansion of the sport, even tutoring other fighters on how to use social media to their benefit.
“Clearly, he’s been interacting with his audience, learning from what they like. You don’t generate a fan base like his by accident. It’s calculated and part of a very intelligent plan. His fans are not people who picked up on a website six months ago and suddenly discovered him. He’s been gathering his supporters for more than a decade.”
Perhaps Espinoza is a visionary, part of a rare breed of soothsayers who recognize what the public wants before the masses want it, and caters to that need in its incubation stages. He recognizes past failures of similar ploys, such as when promoter Gary Shaw hitched his wagon to a menacing YouTube brawler named Kimbo Slice in an impossible quest to turn him into a heavyweight champion. But, hey, if something doesn’t work once or even twice, try, try again. The main requirement for a breakthrough is identifying just the right banner-carrier.
“I think Jake is a bit of a unicorn,” Espinoza continued. “He has the physical skill and talent, and the mental determination, to seriously undertake boxing and not as a fad or an attention-grabbing stunt. The usual procedure is to take a really talented, skilled boxer and make him popular, to make people care about him. This experiment is a little bit of the reverse. You take someone who already has a huge fan base, and also has certain physical abilities and athleticism, and make him into a serious boxer right in front of your eyes. I think it’s fascinating to watch.”
To his credit, Paul has been outspoken in his support of better pay and more recognition for boxers, especially previously underserved women boxers, and he has undeniably raised the profile of Amanda Serrano by having her appear on his cards. In doing so, there is mounting evidence he is drawing a younger demographic into the well of traditional boxing fans, a group that has been skewing older for some time.
“One of the questions at the start of this endeavor with Jake was, `Are these people just Jake Paul boxing fans, or can they become truly committed boxing fans? We’ve seen that question answered. These people coming in are becoming fans of the sport. I’ve seen it in Cleveland, a bunch of young kids clamoring for an autograph of a Puerto Rican female boxer (Serrano) who, as skilled as she is, largely toiled in obscurity for most of her career until Jake got more people interested in boxing.”
Espinoza also stresses that the investment in Jake Paul does not detract from the resources Showtime is putting and always has into the sport.
“Jake is not taking opportunities from anyone else,” Espinoza said. “Pay per view is all about eating what you kill. It’s not like we’re depleting our boxing budget and can’t put on three other championship fights. We’re able to do both, side by side, without compromising the long history of supporting championship-level fights that Showtime has been known for. That is not an either/or situation.”
So, what does the long view of Jake Paul look like? Maybe a quickie flameout, but maybe something far more intriguing. Maybe even as intriguing as it would have been had Elvis Presley, who played a boxer in 1962’s Kid Galahad, ditched his music career, took up the sweet science full-time and against all odds became a world champion. Elvis, who for years had dabbled in martial arts, did throw reasonably convincing overhand rights in that one, as Paul does now.
“Jake has the attributes to fight not just credible professional boxers, but contender-level and maybe even championship-level ones,” Espinoza said of the possible winning lottery ticket he hopes he has purchased. “Nothing would make him happier than in three years, five years, to look back and say, `No one thought I could do this. I’ve removed all questions about my boxing credibility.’ I think that’s the goal.”
Bernard Fernandez, named to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the Observer category with the Class of 2020, was the recipient of numerous awards for writing excellence during his 28-year career as a sports writer for the Philadelphia Daily News. Fernandez’s first book, “Championship Rounds,” a compendium of previously published material, was released in May of last year. The sequel, “Championship Rounds, Round 2,” with a foreword by Jim Lampley, is currently out. The anthology can be ordered through Amazon.com and other book-selling websites and outlets.
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Northern California’s Cain Sandoval remained undefeated with a knockout win over Mark Bernaldez in a super lightweight battle on Friday on a 360 Promotions card.
Sandoval (15-0, 13 KOs) of Sacramento needed four rounds to figure out tough Filipino fighter Bernaldez (25-7, 14 KOs) in front of a packed crowd at Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez.
Bernaldez had gone eight rounds against Mexico’s very tough Oscar Duarte. He showed no fear for Sandoval’s reputed power and both fired bombs at each other from the second round on.
Things turned in favor of Sandoval when he targeted the body and soon had Bernaldez in retreat. It was apparent Sandoval had discovered a weakness.
In the beginning of the fourth Sandoval fired a stiff jab to the body that buckled Bernaldez but he did not go down. And when both resumed in firing position Sandoval connected with an overhand right and down went the Filipino fighter. He was counted out by referee Rudy Barragan at 34 seconds of the round.
“I’m surprised he took my jab to the body. I respect that. I have a knockout and I’m happy about that,” Sandoval said.
Other Bouts
Popular female fighter Lupe Medina (9-0) remained undefeated with a solid victory over the determined Agustina Vazquez (4-3-2) by unanimous decision after eight rounds in a minimumweight fight between Southern Californians.
Early on Vazquez gave Medina trouble disrupting her patter with solid jabs. And when Medina overloaded with combination punches, she was laced with counters from Vazquez during the first four rounds.
Things turned around in the fifth round as Medina used a jab to keep Vazquez at a preferred distance. And when she attacked it was no more than two-punch combination and maintaining a distance.
Vazquez proved determined but discovered clinching was not a good idea as Medina took advantage and overran her with blows. Still, Vazquez looked solid. All three judges saw it 79-73 for Medina.
A battle between Southern Californian’s saw Compton’s Christopher Rios (11-2) put on the pressure all eight rounds against Eastvale’s Daniel Barrera (8-1-1) and emerged the winner by majority decision in a flyweight battle.
It was Barrera’s first loss as a pro. He never could discover how to stay off the ropes and that proved his downfall. Neither fighter was knocked down but one judge saw it 76-76, and two others 79-73 for Rios.
In a welterweight fight Gor Yeritsyan (20-1,16 KOs) scorched Luis Ramos (23-7) with a 12-punch combination the sent him to the mat in the second round. After Ramos beat the count he was met with an eight punch volley and the fight was stopped at 2:11 of the second round by knockout.
Super feather prospect Abel Mejia (7-0, 5 KOs) floored Alfredo Diaz (9-12) in the fifth round but found the Mexican fighter to be very durable in their six-round fight. Mejia caught Diaz with a left hook in the fifth round for a knockdown. But the fight resumed with all three judges scoring it 60-53 for Mejia who fights out of El Modena, Calif.
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By TSS Special Correspondent David Harazduk — After David Alaverdian (8-0-1, 6 KOs) scored a gritty victory against a tough Nicaraguan journeyman named Enrique Irias, his plans suddenly changed. The flashy flyweight from Nahariya, Israel hoped to face even tougher opposition and then challenge for a world title within a year or so. But a prolonged illness forced David to rip up the script.
The Irias fight was over 22 months ago. On Saturday, Feb. 22, Alaverdian will be making his first appearance in the ring since that win when he faces veteran road warrior Josue “Zurdo” Morales (31-16-4, 13 KOs) at the Westgate Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It’s the fifth promotion by Las Vegas attorney Stephen Reid whose inaugural card was at this venue on Feb. 13, 2020.
“I’m excited to come back,” Alaverdian declared.
During his preparation for Irias two years ago, Alaverdian felt fatigue after a routine six-round sparring session. “It was on April 1, 2023, about ten days before my fight. It felt like an April Fool’s joke,” he said. He came down with a sore throat, a headache, and congestion. He soon developed trouble breathing. At first, he thought his seasonal asthma had flared up, but his condition soon worsened. No matter what he did, Alaverdian could no longer take deep breaths. Fatigue continued to plague him. His heart constantly raced. Instead of breathing from his diaphragm, he was breathing from his chest. He sought out numerous doctors in the United States and in Israel.
His symptoms were finally diagnosed as Dysfunctional Breathing (DB). DB is a condition that can stem from stress and is often misdiagnosed. Its symptoms include dyspnea and tachycardia, both of which David experienced.
While receiving treatment, the Vegas-based pro went back to Israel where he coached aspiring fighters. “David’s influence on Israeli boxing is amazing, because he shows we can succeed in a big business even though we come from a small country,” said another undefeated Israeli flyweight, 20-year-old Yonatan Landman (7-0, 7 KOs). “A lot more Israelis are going to dare to succeed.”
Landman was able to work with Alaverdian during David’s return to Israel. “He is a great guy and a friend,” Landman said. “He has a lot of willingness to help, share his knowledge, and help you move forward.”
Alaverdian finally started to feel like he could compete again eight months ago. He won last year’s Israeli national amateur championship and competed in Olympic qualifiers. Now, he’s preparing to fight as a professional once again. “He doesn’t mention anything about [his breathing issues] like he did before,” his coach Cedric Ferguson said about this camp. “He’s been working like there’s no issue at all.”
It has been a whirlwind week for the 31-year-old Alaverdian. In addition to putting the finishing touches on his preparation ahead of Saturday’s comeback fight, David got married on Tuesday. His mom came over from Israel for the wedding and will stay for the fight. “It’s a good distraction,” David said of this week’s significant events. “It helps me. That way I don’t have to focus on the fight all day.”
Josue Morales, a 32 year old from Houston, hopes to play spoiler on Saturday. The crafty southpaw has never been stopped during his 52-fight career. “He’s a seasoned guy with a lot of experience,” Alaverdian said of Morales. “He knows how to move around the ring and is more of a technical boxer. He’s a tough opponent for someone who has been out of the ring for two years.”
A win Saturday night would complete a monumental week for David Alaverdian, both in and out of the ring, repairing the once-shredded script.
Doors open at the Westgate fight arena at 6:30 pm. The first bout goes at 7:00. Seven fights are scheduled including an 8-round female fight between Las Vegas light flyweight Yadira Bustillos and Argentine veteran Tamara Demarco.
NOTE: Author David Harazduk has run The Jewish Boxing Blog since 2010. You can find him at Twitter/X @JewishBoxing and Instagram.
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Two Candidates for the Greatest Fight Card in Boxing History
Saturday’s fight card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, topped by the rematch between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol for undisputed light heavyweight supremacy, was being hyped as the greatest boxing card ever. That was before Daniel Dubois took ill and had to pull out of his IBF world heavyweight title defense against Joseph Parker, yielding his slot to last-minute replacement Martin Bakole.
The view from here is that the card remains in the running for the best fight card ever, top to bottom. The public didn’t view Dubois as the legitimate heavyweight champion. That distinction goes to Oleksandr Usyk.
Terms like “greatest” are, of course, subjective. Are we referring to the most attractive match-ups or the greatest array of talent, or the card that gives the most satisfaction by churning out a multiplicity of entertaining fights?
We won’t know how satisfying this card is until after the fact. We won’t know whether the talent on display was the greatest ever assembled on one night until many years have passed. Contestants such as Shakur Stevenson, Vergil Ortiz Jr, and Hamzah Sheeraz are still in their twenties (Stevenson is the oldest of the three at age 27) and it’s too soon to gauge if they will leave the sport with a great legacy.
As for which fight card in history had the deepest pool of attractive match-ups, this is a query that is amenable to an operational definition. Betting lines are a useful tool for informing us whether or not a fight warrants our attention if the likelihood of witnessing a closely-contested bout is our primary consideration.
Based on these factors, I would submit that the current leader in the race for the best card ever assembled goes to Don King’s May 7, 1994 promotion at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Six future Hall of Famers – Julio Cesar Chavez, Ricardo Lopez, Azumah Nelson, Terry Norris, Julian Jackson, and Christy Martin — were on that card, an 11-fight, eight-hour marathon with five WBC world title fights, four of which were rematches.
These were the five title fights:
140 pounds: Julio Cesar Chavez (89-1-1, 77 KOs) vs. Frankie Randall (49-2-1, 39 KOs)
Odds: Chavez 3/1 (minus-300)
154 pounds: Terry Norris (37-4, 23 KOs) vs. Simon Brown (41-2, 30 KOs)
Odds: even (11/10 and take your pick)
160 pounds: Gerald McClellan (30-2, 28 KOs) vs. Julian Jackson (48-2, 45 KOs)
Odds: McClellan 7/2 (minus-350)
130 pounds: Azumah Nelson (37-2-2, 26 KOs) vs. Jesse James Leija (27-0-2, 13 KOs)
Odds: Nelson 17/10 (minus-170)
105 pounds: Ricardo Lopez (36-0, 27 KOs) vs. Kermin Guardia (21-0, 14 KOs)
Odds: none
Results
Chavez-Randall — Julio Cesar Chavez avenged his loss to Frankie Randall, but not without controversy. An accidental clash of heads in the eighth round left Chavez with a bad gash on his forehead. Ring physician Flip Homansky would have allowed the bout to continue if that had been Chavez’s preference, but El Gran Campeon wasn’t so inclined. A WBC rule specified that in the event of a significant injury accruing from an accidental head butt, the less-damaged fighter is penalized a point. The fight went to the scorecards where Chavez won a split decision that would have been a draw without the point deduction. The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Chavez, but the big bets were mostly on Randall and the odds got nicked down on the day of the fight.
Brown-Norris — In their first meeting in December of the previous year, Simon Brown dominated Terry Norris from the opening bell before stopping him in the fourth round. It was a massive upset. Norris was in the conversation for the top pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. In the rematch, Norris opened a slight favorite, but the late money was on Brown. And, once again, the so-called “sharps” were on the wrong side. Terry Norris, the would-be avenger, won a comfortable decision.
McClellan-Jackson — A murderous puncher, Gerald McClellan bombed out Julian Jackson in 83 seconds, or four rounds quicker than in their first engagement. Jackson was also a murderous puncher and attracted money in the sports books, lowering the price on the victorious McClellan who yet remained a solid favorite.
Nelson-Leija – WBC President Jose Sulaiman mandated this rematch after the first meeting ended in a draw after an error was found in the tabulation of one of the scorecards, overturning the original verdict which had Nelson retaining his title on a split decision. Leija thought he was robbed and was the rightful winner in the do-over, outworking Nelson to win a unanimous decision. At age 35, Azumah was getting long in the tooth.
Lopez-Guardia – Before the digital age, bookmakers didn’t trifle to post lines on bouts that on paper were egregious mismatches, save perhaps a fight of great magnitude. Guardia, the Colombian challenger, overachieved by lasting the distance in a fight with no knockdowns, but “Finito” won a lopsided decision.
A Note on Odds
Betting lines serve a useful purpose for boxing historians; they quantify the magnitude of an upset. However, quoting odds is tricky because they are fluid and vary somewhat from place to place. What this means is that two journalists can quote different odds on the same event and they both can get it right – unless there is a significant disparity. The odds quoted above are the closing lines at the MGM Grand or, at the very least, a very close approximation.
Saturday in Riyadh
One reason why tomorrow’s fight card is the best ever, said the tub-thumpers, is that the card (in its original conformation) included seven world title fights. But that’s no big deal There are so many title fights nowadays that the term “world title” has been trivialized. And what wasn’t acknowledged is that three of the title fights were of the “interim” stripe.
However – and this is a big deal — a glance at the odds informs us that tomorrow’s card is chock-full of competitive match-ups (at least on paper) and from that aspect, a blend of quality and quantity, it is a doozy of a boxing card.
The greatest boxing linemaker of my generation, now deceased, once told me that any fight where the “chalk” was less than a 3/1 favorite is essentially a “pick-‘em” fight. Yes, I know that makes no sense mathematically. However, I know what he was getting at. In a baseball game, for example, it’s very rare to find a team favored by odds of more than 3/1. In boxing, where self-serving promoters are constantly feeding us King Kong vs. Mickey Mouse, odds higher than 3/1 are the norm.
As this is being written, there are six fights on Saturday’s card where one could play the favorite without laying more than 3/1. I believe this is unprecedented. Moreover, the main event and a fascinating match-up on the undercard, Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Israil Madrimov, are virtual toss-ups with the favorites, Beterbiev and Ortiz, currently available at 5/4 (minus-125). Another very intriguing fight is the heavyweight contest between late bloomers Agit Kabayel and Zhilei Zhang which finds the less-heralded Kabayel cloaked as a small favorite. And kudos to Joseph Parker for accepting Martin Bakole when he could have held out for a lesser opponent. If Bakole is in shape (a big “if”), he will be a handful.
And so, where does tomorrow’s card rank on the list of best boxing cards ever? Right up there near the top, we would argue, and, if the bouts in large part are memorably entertaining, we would push it ahead of Don King’s May 7, 1994 extravaganza.
That’s the view from here. Feel free to dissent.
Postscript: If you plan to watch the entire card ($25.99 on DAZN for U.S. buyers), it would help to stock up on some munchies. The first fight (Joshua Buatsi vs. Callum Smith) is scheduled to kick off at 8:45 a.m. for us viewers in the Pacific Time Zone / 11:45 a.m. ET. If the show adheres tight to its schedule (no guarantee), Beterbiev and Bivol are expected to enter the ring at 3:00 p.m. PT/6:00 p.m. ET.
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Hall of Fame Boxing Writer Michael Katz (1939-2025) Could Wield His Pen like a Stiletto
Claressa Shields Powers to Undisputed Heavyweight Championship
Najee Lopez Steps up in Class and Wins Impressively at Plant City
Vito Mielnicki Hopes to Steal the Show on Friday at Madison Square Garden
With Valentine’s Day on the Horizon, let’s Exhume ex-Boxer ‘Machine Gun’ McGurn
Bakhodir Jalolov Returns on Thursday in Another Disgraceful Mismatch
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Avila Perspective, Chap. 310: Japanese Superstar Naoya Inoue and More
Avila Perspective, Chap. 311: Jim Lampley Adds Class to the Benavidez-Morrell Rumble
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Avila Perspective, Chap. 313: The Misadventures of Canelo and Jake Paul (and More)
Japanese Superstar Naoya Inoue is Headed to Vegas after KOing Ye Joon Kim
Arnold Barboza Edges Past Jack Catterall in Manchester
Lucas Bahdi Paid His Dues, Quite Literally, and Now his Boxing Career is Flourishing
Eric Priest Wins Handily on Thursday’s Golden Boy card at the Commerce Casino
Biyarslanov TKOed Mimoune at Montreal; Jalolov Conspicuous by his Absence
Cain Sandoval KOs Mark Bernaldez in the Featured Bout at Santa Ynez
The Return of David Alaverdian
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Avila Perspective, Chap. 314: A Really Big Boxing Show in Riyadh and More
Lucas Bahdi Paid His Dues, Quite Literally, and Now his Boxing Career is Flourishing
The Hauser Report: Keyshawn Davis at Madison Square Garden
Oscar Duarte KOs Miguel Madueno in a Battle of Mexicans at Anaheim
Arnold Barboza Edges Past Jack Catterall in Manchester
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Avila Perspective, Chap. 313: Global Cooperation — Golden Boy and Matchroom Boxing
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Avila Perspective, Chap. 313: The Misadventures of Canelo and Jake Paul (and More)
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Bakhodir Jalolov Returns on Thursday in Another Disgraceful Mismatch
Claressa Shields Powers to Undisputed Heavyweight Championship
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