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Ben Askren Opens As Underdog Against Jake Paul In Boxing Match
Former UFC welterweight Ben Askren has opened as a betting underdog against Jake Paul.
It was recently reported that Askren and Paul would face off in a boxing match set for March 28. Although nothing is official just yet, Askren hinted it was legit and later explained why he accepts the challenge.
“I know you called me out after your fight with that bum Nate Robinson,” Askren said. “Listen, it’s a pretty simple choice. I’m gonna make a whole bunch of money to beat up a guy who is pretending to be an athlete because at the end of the day that is what you’re doing, and I know you may think I don’t have too many standup skills but also at the end of the day I don’t need to.
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Dylan Hernandez: Canelo Alvarez had a chance to elevate his ambitions, and it’s gone [Los Angeles Times :: BC-BOX-HERNANDEZ-COLUMN:LA]
Championship boxing match, glorified sparring session, whatever that was, it resembled the afternoon feeding of the red-bellied piranhas at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Canelo Alvarez walked down and whacked around a defenseless man for 12 rounds on Saturday night, each thudding blow he landed destroying the delusions of Callum Smith that were manufactured by a British sports scene that overrates its soccer players and really, really overrates its fighters.
Rather than elevate Alvarez, the lopsided decision victory confirmed what was already obvious before the opening bell sounded:
Your Flight Is Booked: Canelo Alvarez Dominates Callum Smith
It’s a little-known law of nature: Because crusty, bloated sportswriters are biologically predisposed to pearl-clutching, the survival of the species depends on the periodic rant about The Sanctity of the Game. In boxing, that means screeds about sanctioning bodies, state commissions, promoters, managers, yahoo judges, YouTubers, referees, Saved By the Bell refugees, various and sundry unspecified sources of incompetence and corruption, and the
pièce de résistance PEDs. This mountain of sustenance, incidentally, is why fight bloggers and cockroaches will rule a post-apocalypse world.
It also explains a recent news cycle within the sport, in which the International Boxing Hall of Fame announced its 2021 inductees and HOF voters took to the internet to chitter over the details like the world’s worst-dressed knitting circle. The juiciest bit: James Toney, a two-time Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year, multi-divisi
Hernández: Canelo Alvarez had a chance to elevate his ambitions, and it’s gone [Los Angeles Times]
Championship boxing match, glorified sparring session, whatever that was, it resembled the afternoon feeding of the red-bellied piranhas at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Canelo Alvarez walked down and whacked around a defenseless man for 12 rounds on Saturday night, each thudding blow he landed destroying the delusions of Callum Smith that were manufactured by a British sports scene that overrates its soccer players and really, really overrates its fighters.
Rather than elevate Alvarez, the lopsided decision victory confirmed what was already obvious before the opening bell sounded: