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Jake Paul to fight Bare Knuckle's Mike Perry

Jake Paul will square off against former UFC fighter and now bare-knuckle boxer "Platinum" Mike Perry in an eight-round cruiserweight bout on July 20 in Tampa, Fla.,Paul initially was slated to fight legendary boxer Mike Tyson on that date at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The 57-year-old Tyson, ...

by Field Level Media|

|Tue Jun 18 2024

Nate Diaz-Jorge Masvidal press conference erupts into brawl

Before Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal meet in the boxing ring next month, their respective teams got in some early blows against one another during a press conference that erupted into a brawl Thursday.,A member of Diaz's support team punched Masvidal after an abrupt end to the outdoor press conferenc...

by Field Level Media|

|Fri Jun 07 2024

Ex-UFC rivals Anderson Silva, Chael Sonnen to box in Brazil

Former UFC fighters Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen will renew their rivalry in the boxing ring next month.,The 216-pound bout will consist of five two-minute rounds on June 15 in Sao Paulo in Silva's native Brazil.,Both men announced the fight on social media. ,Silva, now 49, is a UFC Hall of Famer...

by Field Level Media|

|Mon May 20 2024

James Harden finally found a restaurant willing to carry his wine

Are you looking for traditional flavors with a Japanese flare, a stunning lounge with a live DJ, bowling lanes, exotic hookah, a nightclub, and bottomless J. Harden Wine prosecco all in one convenient, classy one-stop shop? Well look no further than Thirteen Houston, James Harden’s new restaurant ve...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Sat Mar 09 2024

This week in the NFL March 09, 2024

Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs’ linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a ...

by Deadspin Bot|

|Sat Mar 09 2024

Andy Reid's son gets break his DUI victim didn't; Emmitt Smith is right about DEI; Kelce retires for real this time

by Deadspin Bot|

|Sat Mar 09 2024

Mike Tyson clip from Jake Paul hype package is 4 years old

Yesterday, Jake Paul and former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson announced that they would be fighting in July at AT&T Stadium and streaming live on Netflix. ...

by boxing - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinMackenzie Meaney|

|Fri Mar 08 2024

Mike Tyson returning to boxing to fight loudmouth Jake Paul

A soon-to-be 58-year-old Mike Tyson is returning to the ring to fight none other than loudmouth influencer turned boxer Jake Paul. ...

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Thu Mar 07 2024

Increasing the NFL season to 18 games is a terrible idea

An 18-game NFL regular season has been looming over the league at least since it was clear that the 2011 lockout was an inevitability. What the league wants, the league — more specifically the team owners — usually gets. The revenue split used to be 50/50 with the players, but now a greater share ha...

by Stephen Knox|

|Mon Mar 04 2024

Ex-Man U star Wayne Rooney's next venture could be boxing

Former England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney may be looking to make a pivot to the ring. The 38-year-old has had talks with a boxing promoter to participate in a Misfits Boxing promotion, according to ESPN. ...

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Thu Feb 15 2024

SB LVIII even too expensive for the rich; A Swifties guide to the game; Poor Mama Kelce; What's Brock Purdy have to do with Lee Harvey Oswald?

Unfettered capitalism is putting some restraints on the top one percent enjoying one of its biggest parties of the year. With the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, luxury suites have reached the highest of high-roller prices. These seven-figure suites are out of the price range for even some of the biggest s...

by Staff Report|

|Sat Feb 10 2024

The non-Mahomes, Purdy players to watch in Super Bowl LVIII

You know the big names of this Super Bowl matchup already. There’s no need to talk about Patrick Mahomes and Brock Purdy anymore, treating a 53-on-53-man matchup like it’s a one-on-one boxing match. We’ve gotten enough coverage of the Travis Kelces and the Christian McCaffreys of this game. ...

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Thu Feb 08 2024

The NBA In-Season Tournament crowd sounded like the ones in the bubble

Adam Silver’s attempt to bring more excitement to the NBA’s regular season fell a little flat in its first attempt. It’s only the first In-Season Tournament, so there are sure to be kinks to work out, but maybe it wasn’t the best idea to have the final on a neutral court. ...

by Staff Report|

|Tue Dec 12 2023

World Cup Day 20: The yappy Dutch are finally silenced

The last eight, usually the best part of any tournament if only because it’s the last time you get multiple matches in one day (or night as the case may be this time), didn’t disappoint at World Cup 2023. The darlings of everyone are out, and Spain are learning quickly. Let’s spin this right round b...

by Sam Fels|

|Fri Aug 11 2023

Jake Paul and Nate Diaz set boxing back at least a week, probably more

The only reason to watch Jake Paul box is to see a YouTube personality get hit in the face. Like that Twitch star who started a riot in Union Square this week; get him in a pair of gloves and let a New Yorker of equal stature go a few rounds. On Saturday night in Dallas, Nate Diaz, a 37-year-old UFC...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Sun Aug 06 2023

Crawford-Spence was an all-timer — just not in the way fans expected

The only ruling necessary after Terence Crawford’s TKO of Errol Spence Jr. was whether Saturday’s fight at the T Mobile Center in Las Vegas met the hype. It was one-sided throughout, as Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) put Spence (28-1, 22 KOS) on the canvas in the second round for the first time in Spence’s...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Tue Aug 01 2023

Where did the American heavyweight boxing champions go?

Errol Spence and Terence Crawford’s highly-anticipated welterweight Fight of the Year doubles as a ring showdown for the pound-for-pound crown that boxing aficionados have been counting down to for years....

by DJ Dunson|

|Fri Jul 28 2023

Evander Holyfield allowed Donald Trump to make $2.5 million off his 2021 boxing match

God looks out for fools and babies. But, does that grace get extended to 58-year-old men? Or can we just admit that Evander Holyfield played himself?...

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Sun Jul 23 2023

Qatari ownership has come to sports on this continent, and is it just the beginning?

We’d wondered when Middle Eastern regimes would come for U.S. sports. They’ve got their mitts all over soccer now, warping how that sport works in Europe. They’ve completely altered golf. Boxing too. And yet it seemed that North America was the last frontier. ...

by Sam Fels|

|Fri Jun 23 2023

The most anticipated boxing matchup in years had a rough SEO day

There is not a lot of room in the news cycle at the moment. Much of it is being swallowed up by Donald Trump being arraigned for allegedly turning Mar-A-Lago into a Hoarders episode using classified documents. (He pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.) In sports, the LIV-PGA merger is being investigated by...

by Stephen Knox|

|Wed Jun 14 2023

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