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https://www.boxingscene.com/wilder-makes-controversial-comment-about-breazeales-son--130747
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https://www.boxingscene.com/breazeale-wilder-you-sht-my-revenge-coming--130770
Breazeale To Wilder: You Ain't Sh*t, My Revenge is Coming!

Heavyweight contender Dominic Breazeale (19-1, 17 KOs) has fired back at WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) for his recent statements.

Over the last few months, Wilder and Breazeale have been trading words in the press.

Wilder, who is clearly agitated by some of Breazeale's statements from the past, has created a lot of controversy by making their rivalry very personal with a comment about Breazeale's son.

Their rivalry first began in 2017, in the aftermath of Wilder's defense against Gerald Washington in February of that year at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham.

Breazeale fought on the undercard in a Fight of The Year candidate when he knocked out undefeated Izuagbe Ugonoh in the fifth round of a wild brawl.

At some point during the event, some words were exchanged at ringside between Breazeale and Wilder's brother. The tension then blew over to a hotel lobby, where a scuffle broke out.

Breazeale, who filed an actual lawsuit over the incident, claimed in the legal documents that he was going back to his hotel room when Wilder and his entourage attacked him without provocation.

"We already know what Dominic Breazeale is doing. He’s trying to talk me into fighting him - which is not working. My mind is already made up on that Breazeale fight, and when it do happen I'm gonna make sure he brings his son on the stage to look the man in the eye that’s gonna cripple his daddy,” Wilder told Fighthype.com.

Breazeale took to social media to respond to Wilder's comments.

“Wider, you ain’t sh*t. For one man to talk about another man’s son and to talk about crippling a man in the ring, you ain’t nothing. You got the heavyweight championship, that’s about it. Outside of that - two wives, three girlfriends, three kids you know about, a disabled child, kids on the side, your life is all f***ed up," Breazeale said.

“You want to come at me with some bullsh*t. Be a man, step up, get the paperwork done, send the contract over. You and I, we can square this off in the ring and you’ll lose the only thing you’ve ever had good in your life. My revenge is coming.”

In November of 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Breazeale knocked out Eric Molina to become the mandatory challenger to Wilder's title. Wilder fought in the main event, when he blew away Bermane Stiverne in one round.

Wilder is currently close to a deal to fight former unified world champion Tyson Fury in the fall.
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https://www.boxingscene.com/john-david-jackson-kovalev-borderline-racist-karma-bitch--130758

John David Jackson: Kovalev is Borderline Racist, Karma is a Bitch!

John David Jackson, the ex-head trainer of former unified light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev, was not surprised that his former student was knocked out last Saturday night.

In sudden turn of events, Kovalev was dropped three times and knocked out by undefeated Eleider Alvarez, in the seventh round of their world title fight in Atlantic City.

Jackson had taken Kovalev to three world titles, but their relationship began to fall apart in 2016.

They fully parted ways in 2017.

Kovalev blamed Jackson for his back to back defeats to Andre Ward - and said the veteran trainer did very little to help him grow as a fighter.

Jackson explains that Kovalev stopped working hard once the money started rolling in - and he was very resistant to being pushed in the gym.

Because of the claimed training habits and refusal to raise his level of work, Jackson was not surprised at all when he was informed that Alvarez knocked Kovalev out.

“When he got stopped, I wasn’t surprised,” Jackson said The Ring. “Karma is a bitch. The things he had been doing to everyone around him came back to bite him in the ass. I wasn’t happy when I heard he got stopped. But I will say he got what he deserved. Without proper training, he got his ass whipped. There was no shock at all there; the handwriting was on the wall.

“He owes a lot to Kathy Duva and Jolene [Mizzone, Main Events’ matchmaker], but do you think he really appreciates them? Kathy went out of her way to move this clown. He wanted more money, and Kathy gave up quite a lot to make him happy. She rearranged things to satisfy him; Kathy and Jolene made him. One day, Sergey really pissed me off when he said, ‘I made myself a world champion.’ I asked him, ‘Kathy didn’t do anything for you, Jolene or Egis [Klimas, Kovalev’s manager] didn’t do anything for you? You did this all on your own?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ I asked maybe he didn’t understand my English. He thinks he did everything himself to make him a champion.

“Sergey is a borderline racist. He shows it in certain ways. I defended his ass more than a few times. Sergey didn’t want either me or Don Turner to work with him. He is good at putting the persona on, but when he’s alone, he’s a raw, nasty person. Even his own people talk about him like a dog behind his back, I kid you not. His so-called friends couldn’t stand him.”
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Koltrain said:


I like Danny, but he gassed up in this interview.. don't like when interviewers kiss ass
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Noones resume stands out more than Danny but his pr sucks.If he would have had the same mindset back then that he has now he would have more $$$
 
https://www.boxingscene.com/dazn-entry-into-boxing-creates-healthy-broadcaster-competition--130839

DAZN's Entry Into Boxing Creates Healthy Broadcaster Competition
By Corey Erdman

Being a boxing fan in North America has never been easier—provided you have the money to afford it.

The sheer volume of fights being broadcast, combined with the number of interested broadcasters has created a plethora of viewing options for fight fans, albeit mostly behind a paywall. Were one to purchase a subscription to every service streaming boxing in 2018—roughly $11 for Showtime, $14.99 for HBO, $9.99 for DAZN, $4.99 for ESPN+--one’s monthly financial commitment to boxing is fairly substantial. If you were to add in the occasional $14.99 internet PPV from Fite.TV, and of course a quarterly $70 big PPV from either HBO or Showtime, it’s possible that you’ll end up spending more money watching boxing than you will any other major sport you follow.

But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

The 180-degree alternative, of course, is a rewind to the not-so-distant days when HBO and Showtime were the only games in town. Being a boxing fan then was relatively inexpensive, but it also meant not watching a whole lot of boxing—at least not legally. The most cost-friendly situation would see boxing on free network cable on a regular basis, something Premier Boxing Champions trialed for the better part of two years. For a variety of reasons, the experiment didn’t last, but the one fans often point to is the quality of the matchups being broadcast. To whatever degree the matchups were disappointing, one of the reasons perpetuating that trend was that PBC was only beholden to itself. The broadcast timeslots were purchased, and the audiences mostly built in by virtue of being on network cable.

In the new climate, in which promoters are marrying themselves to streaming platforms, or simply streaming fights themselves, it is still true that they have a great deal of (if not outright) autonomy when it comes to matchmaking. However, streams and subscribers aren’t built in the way they are with network television channels. The ceiling for streaming numbers may be infinite, but each one has to be earned. In a perfect world, this would hopefully motivate promoters to scramble to put on better fights.

Unfortunately, promoters throughout the history of the sport have never been immune to complacency. Self-motivation can only carry one so far, especially when, as promoters do, you deeply believe that your product is the best. An even better motivator is competition, which every promoter operating in America today has an unprecedented amount of when it comes to broadcasted events.

DAZN’s foray into boxing with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Sport has quickly changed the boxing landscape. This isn’t just a small promoter utilizing streaming technology to gain exposure and even the playing field—it’s one of the sport’s power players teaming with a billionaire and a digital company gobbling up big sports properties.
"Showtime and HBO are working on their digital services. Look at Netflix, they’re worth more than Disney. (They have) 140 million subscribers worldwide. His plan is to be the Netflix of sport. When you’re as aggressive as he is, and when you have the pockets he has – I would back him every day of the week," Hearn told the Telegraph this past week. "I don’t see this as a risk for us, I see this as an opportunity. Jumping ship to DAZN is not a risk, it’s a reward. Fighters will see that as time goes on. They pay more money than anyone else and are with the best promotion in the world and on a platform that will drive up your profile and invest in you.”

The first batch of announced fights for Matchroom USA on DAZN feature Jessie Vargas, Artur Beterbiev, Danny Roman, Jarrell Miller, Billy Joe Saunders, Demetrius Andrade, Katie Taylor, Regis Prograis and Terry Flanagan—all of whom have appeared on Showtime, HBO or ESPN programming over the past 12 months.

The influx of broadcast dates which purport to pay the fighters quite well promises to create something of a bidding war and arms race amongst the existing players if the trend continues. Showtime or HBO may not battle to go after any of Matchroom’s first wave of signees, but if their roster continues to grow, and the purses are as handsome as they’re promised to be, other networks (and by extension, promoters) may be forced to make a move.

Machroom and DAZN have an ace in the hole as well: Anthony Joshua. Perhaps the biggest star in global boxing belongs to them, and as long as he remains under their umbrella, they can always remain a major player. It’s the same reason HBO locked Canelo Alvarez into a deal, and the same reason CBS and Showtime opened the safe to secure Floyd Mayweather. Having a marquee star not only guarantees two blockbuster fights per year on average, but carries immeasurable marketing and negotiating pull with those hoping to stand near the sport’s very best.

Over the past few years, Showtime leveraged its Mayweather affiliation and the stalling of PBC’s free TV model to soar to the front of the pack in the boxing broadcaster race. With its built-in prestige in the sport and beyond, and an unrivaled roster of talent, the network made not only the most fights, but the best ones. Although the network obviously has a chummy relationship with Al Haymon, it isn’t Haymon himself programming the fights—it’s the network. As promoters such as Hearn, Top Rank and Golden Boy venture to handle their own programming and attempt to overtake Showtime’s top spot, it will be important for them to not get in their own way, and think as television executives rather than maneuverers of fighters.

In the end, even if the current climate in the boxing world is an expensive one for the fan, its pros would seem to outweigh the cons. More fights being broadcast, more opportunities for fighters to be seen and more money in the fighters’ pockets are all things everyone can get behind. But in the end, the fans’ dollars will always have the final say. The boxing broadcast world as its set up, and its prices, are both not set in stone. Who and what people pay to watch and how much they pay to do so will drive the marketplace—and never before has the fan’s voice been more prevalent or important than in the present a-la-carte setup.
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Abel Sanchez: No Beef? I Hope Canelo Stopped Eating Duck Too!

“He ran, he stalled, he didn’t conquer,” so sayeth trainer of the year ABEL SANCHEZ about former two-division world champion Canelo "Beef Jerky" Alvarez, (49-1-2, 34 KOs), of Guadalajara, Mexico. Sanchez is putting his star pupil GENNADY “GGG” GOLOVKIN, (38-0-1, 34 KOs), from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, boxing’s longest-reigning world champion (since 2010), through his paces at The Summit, the high altitude training camp in Big Bear Lake, Calif., in preparation for the Mexican Independence Day rematch between the two top pound for pound fighters.

Golovkin, the beef-eating undefeated World Middleweight Champion with the positive attitude and the negative random drug test results, is hard at work training for his record-breaking 21st consecutive title defense. Canelo vs. Golovkin 2, takes place Saturday, September 15, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

It will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.

“The last fight between Gennady and Canelo was a real contrast of styles,” said Sanchez.

“Gennady had to chase Canelo, who boasted that he was the true Mexican warrior, around the ring. It reminded me of the four corners offense those old Dean Smith-coached basketball teams used to play. I’m seriously considering asking the Nevada Athletic Commission to install a 24-second clock to force Canelo to engage.

"Compare the activity between the fighters in their first fight. Gennady did everything in that fight. Gennady wasn’t the one who got booed by the fans when those crazy scorecards were announced. And Gennady is going to do even more in the rematch. I read that Canelo isn’t eating beef in this camp. Let’s just hope he stopped eating duck too.”

Remaining tickets for Canelo vs. GGG 2 are priced at $5,000, $2,500, $2,000, $1,500, $800, $700, $500 and $300, not including applicable service charges and taxes. There will be a limit of eight (8) per person at the $5,000, $2,500, $2,000, $1,500, $800 and $700 price levels with a limit of two (2) per person at the $500 and $300 price levels. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call 888-9-AXS-TIX (888-929-7849). Tickets also will be available for purchase at www.t-mobilearena.com or www.axs.com.

https://www.boxingscene.com/abel-sa...pped-eating-duck-too--130911?print_friendly=1

Canelo after reading this
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