08-11-2017, 08:49 PM | #1 |
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I was going to use the Conor McGregor ESPN profile, but I already posted that. Then I was going to post another Atlantic piece called "How the US Lost Its Mind" which was exceptional, but also exceptionally long. Plus, I didn't want to double down on The Atlantic two weeks in a row. SOOOO
http://deadspin.com/floyd-mayweather...gge-1797272009 "Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor is the Second Biggest Fuck You Possible" by Charles Farrell. Farrell is one of the best boxing writers alive. He wrote a dope piece explaining the origins of Mayweather's boxing style, and is most known for an essay that sort of went viral about why he used to fix fights as a boxing promoter/trainer. Here, he details other notable mismatches with stupidly close betting odds in boxing history, and explains why he thinks the odds of the Mayweather-McGregor match are so close. "Mayweather’s masterpiece. TBE. The Best Ever, hands down. Forget Tex Rickard and Don King as promoters, Doc Kearns or Ray Arcel as managers, Bruce Trampler or Harry Markson as matchmakers, or Abe Attell or Frankie Carbo as fight-fixing gamblers; as great as they all were and are, Mayweather’s August 26th score eclipses anything anyone has done in boxing outside of the ring. If he doesn’t make another hundred million betting on the fight (one way or another), he will still walk away with more than $60 million for facing the single most ill-equipped, unprepared opponent a championship-caliber fighter has ever found in the opposite corner. Every wiseguy who has ever engineered a Help Yourself money grab is shaking his head in stunned admiration. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is the Sugar Ray Robinson of promoters, managers, and matchmakers."
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08-12-2017, 01:38 PM | #2 |
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Word.
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08-12-2017, 01:46 PM | #3 |
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Brilliant writing. <3
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08-12-2017, 02:04 PM | #4 |
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Charles Farrell is awesome. All of his deadspin pieces are great.
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Yeah I read it in chunks across a couple days. Apparently it's an excerpt from a book, which I intend on picking up in September.
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