Friday, July 29, 2022
"Ramla Ali in First Women's Pro Fight in Saudi Arabia on Usyk-Joshua 2 Card" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
My latest piece, "Ramla Ali in First Women's Pro Fight in Saudi Arabia on Usyk-Joshua 2 Card", is up on the No Holds Barred Patreon page.
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Labels: Anthony Joshua, boxing, Eddie Goldman, Jeddah, No Holds Barred, Oleksandr Usyk, Ramla Ali, Saudi Arabia
Monday, July 25, 2022
"Usyk-Joshua 2 and the Rise of Saudi Boxing" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
My latest piece, "Usyk-Joshua 2 and the Rise of Saudi Boxing", is up on the No Holds Barred Patreon page.
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Labels: Abdullah Alharbi, Anthony Joshua, boxing, Eddie Goldman, human rights, Jeddah, No Holds Barred, Oleksandr Usyk, Rasha Alkhamis, Saudi Arabia
Sunday, July 24, 2022
No Holds Barred: Why We Need A World Sport Anti-Corruption Agency, on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with our colleagues Chris Baldwin of the WAAR Room and Malissa Smith of Girlboxing on the WAAR Room. A video of this discussion has also been posted on the WAAR Sports YouTube page.
We spoke with them by Zoom Thursday, July 21.
The countless and growing number of scandals in boxing and other combat sports once more prove, to all those who haven't already realized it, that these sports cannot properly govern themselves, and that whatever outside regulation exists is at best inadequate and at worst just as corrupt as these sports themselves.
This problem, however, is not unique to the combat sports. Lack of good governance plagues sport worldwide. Boxing and the combat sports are international sports, so any solution must be both international and part of an anti-corruption effort in sport in general. Narrow, localized solutions will fail, and myopic thinking must be replaced by approaching these issues from a global perspective.
The theme of the Play the Game 2022 conference of sports reformers, held in Odense, Denmark, June 27-30, 2022, was "is there a cure for sport?" Many of the participants advocated the formation of a world sports anti-corruption agency. This idea has been around for many years, but now many people at this conference were coalescing around it, and proposing that Play the Game may be the correct forum to develop this sports anti-corruption agency.
We discussed this in light of the latest, unending series of scandals involving boxing's sanctioning bodies, the role of organized crime, and much more.
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Labels: Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Play the Game, WAAR Room, WAAR Sports, world sport anti-corruption agency
Sunday, July 17, 2022
"I Hate the Summer" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, summer
Monday, July 11, 2022
No Holds Barred: Christy Martin on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with our colleagues Chris Baldwin of the WAAR Room and Malissa Smith of Girlboxing on the WAAR Room. A video of this discussion has also been posted on the WAAR Sports YouTube page.
We spoke with them by Zoom Thursday, July 7.
Boxing legend and International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Christy Martin joined us as a guest to discuss her newly published autobiography "Fighting For Survival: My Journey Through Boxing Fame, Abuse, Murder, and Resurrection".
Her incredible story was also produced as a documentary titled "Untold: Deal with the Devil" on Netflix.
Christy shared with us the important work her foundation is doing to raise awareness about domestic violence and mental abuse. Christy's Champs provides a network and resources to support those who have suffered emotional and physical abuse at the hands of an intimate partner or family member.
We also discussed her own boxing career, her coming out as a lesbian and how the boxing world treats LGBTQ people, the development of women's boxing, her current work as a boxing promoter, her dealings with Don King, and much more.
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Labels: Chris Baldwin, Christy Martin, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, LGBTQ, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, WAAR Room, WAAR Sports, women's boxing
Monday, July 04, 2022
"When Roy Jones Turned Down A No-Holds-Barred Fight" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, Extreme Fighting, MMA, NHB, No Holds Barred, Ralph Gracie, Roy Jones
Friday, July 01, 2022
No Holds Barred: IOC Tells IBA Enough Is Enough, on The WAAR Room with Chris Baldwin and Malissa Smith
We spoke with them by Zoom Monday, June 27.
The scandal-drenched International Boxing Association (IBA) made headlines again last week, and not for anything positive. At their Executive Board meeting, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not only confirmed that their suspension of IBA stands, but also that IBA would not be allowed to organize the boxing competition and qualification events for the 2024 Paris Olympics. They cited numerous failures of IBA, especially in the area of governance.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had ruled that, in their recent presidential election, IBA's exclusion of Dutch Boxing Federation President Boris van der Vorst, who was running against incumbent IBA President Umar Kremlev of Russia, was unwarranted, as well as the exclusion of four reformers who were running for the IBA's Board of Directors. So far, IBA claims that they will consider holding a new presidential election in a few months, but has said nothing about holding a new election for their Board of Directors.
The IOC has also raised the issue about IBA's failure to properly prepare for the 2024 Olympic qualifying events including no host city contracts being signed, the lack of a sufficient number of qualified referees and judges, and IBA's continued financial dependence on the Russian state-controlled Gazprom energy giant.
"Enough was enough," said IOC Sports Director Kit McConnell at the press conference. Thus, for the second Olympics in a row, IBA has been stripped of the right to organize the boxing competition, with the IOC set to devise a plan to do so themselves.
Boxing also remains excluded from the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, with the possibility that boxing will no longer be an Olympic sport looking likelier as time goes on.
Also, Malissa Smith discussed the latest women's boxing news, including Jessica McCaskill's successful defense of her undisputed welterweight ttile, and Christy Martin's new book.
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Labels: boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, IBA, International Boxing Association, IOC, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Olympics, WAAR Room, WAAR Sports
