Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The WAAR Room: Taylor-Serrano 2 Classic, and Paul-Tyson Disgrace
In their fight, Taylor retained her 140-pound titles by a unanimous but controversial decision. We analyzed the fight, discussed the judges' decision, explored the impact this has on women's boxing and the continuing lack of opportunities for women fighters, and more.
The disgraceful fight between YouTuber Paul and the 58-year-old Tyson looked more like an exhibition rather than a real, competitive contest. We discussed why such a ridiculous fight gained so much mainstream attention, how the failure of promoters and networks to run boxing properly opened the door for such carnival spectacles, and more.
We also ended by explaining why we are moving much of our social media activity to Bluesky.
You can watch The WAAR Room at https://youtu.be/6XKoj1FnyPg
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This show was recorded November 19, 2024.
Labels: Amanda Serrano, boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, Jake Paul, Katie Taylor, Malissa Smith, Mike Tyson, No Holds Barred, WAAR Room
Saturday, November 16, 2024
"A Cynical Charade For Suckers" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Amanda Serrano, boxing, Eddie Goldman, Jake Paul, Katie Taylor, Mike Tyson, Netflix, No Holds Barred
Monday, November 11, 2024
"The Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Circus Comes To Texas" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Amanda Serrano, boxing, Eddie Goldman, Jake Paul, Katie Taylor, Mike Tyson, Netflix, No Holds Barred
Sunday, November 03, 2024
"World Boxing On The Road To Olympic Recognition" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, IOC, No Holds Barred, Olympics, World Boxing
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
"The Significance of Olympic Boxing Champion Imane Khelif Turning Pro" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, IBA, Imane Khelif, IOC, Myron Genel, No Holds Barred, Umar Kremlev, World Boxing
Monday, October 14, 2024
"Autumn In New York vs. Riyadh Season" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
My latest piece, "Autumn In New York vs. Riyadh Season", is up on the No Holds Barred Patreon page.
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Labels: Artur Beterbiev, Autumn in New York, baseball, boxing, Dmitry Bivol, Eddie Goldman, Humphrey Bogart, Mets, New York, No Holds Barred, Riyadh Season, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh, Yankees
Saturday, October 05, 2024
"Make No More Clown Fights in Riyadh or Anywhere Else" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, clown fights, Conor McGregor, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, Riyadh Season, Saudi Arabia, Terence Crawford, Turki Alalshikh
Monday, September 23, 2024
"Daniel Dubois KOs Anthony Joshua and Entertains the World" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Anthony Joshua, boxing, Daniel Dubois, Eddie Goldman, heavyweight, No Holds Barred, Riyadh Season, Turki Alalshikh
Thursday, September 19, 2024
"Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois Should Be A Special Fight" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Anthony Joshua, boxing, Daniel Dubois, Eddie Goldman, heavyweight, No Holds Barred, Riyadh Season
Monday, September 16, 2024
"Are Riyadh Season PPV Boxing Prices Insane?" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Crazy Eddie, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, pay-per-view, ppv, Riyadh Season, Turki Alalshikh
Monday, September 02, 2024
"The Clock Is Still Ticking on the Fate of Olympic Boxing" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Asian Boxing Confederation, boxing, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, SwissBoxing, World Boxing
Monday, August 26, 2024
"The Asian Boxing Confederation to Vote on Joining World Boxing" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Asian Boxing Confederation, boxing, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, World Boxing
Thursday, August 15, 2024
"Unfair! Stop The Attacks on Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting!" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, IBA, Imane Khelif, IOC, Lin Yu-ting, Myron Genel, No Holds Barred, Paris Olympics, Rose Eveleth, Russia, Umar Kremlev
Monday, August 05, 2024
The WAAR Room: Olympic Boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, and the Ongoing Plight of Female Athletes
The controversy was fueled by the Russian-led and -financed International Boxing Association (IBA), which disqualified both Khelif and Lin at the world championships they held last year. At the time they only gave a murky reason for doing so. Since last June, IBA had its recognition withdrawn as the Olympic boxing federation by the IOC because of a history of bad governance, lack of financial transparency, and corrupt judging and refereeing. IBA was first suspended by the IOC in 2019. The IOC directly organized the boxing competition at both the Tokyo and Paris Olympics through its own task force.
The charges against Khelif and Lin by the IBA are that they were shown to have XY chromosomes, which mainly but not exclusively exist in males. Yet the specifics of this test have not been revealed by the disgraced IBA, and have been dismissed by the IOC as "not legitimate", which has also confirmed that these two boxers are indeed both female. The IOC used the eligibility rules of the Rio and Tokyo Olympics for Paris, under which both Khelif and Lin qualified. In fact, both Khelif and Lin have been fighting in international amateur competition for many years. They also both fought at the Tokyo Olympics, although neither won a medal there.
We thus discussed the many aspects of this situation, including how Russia is using this situation to try to disrupt the Paris Olympics and to spread anti-LGBTQ propaganda, how the two fighters have faced an onslaught of lies and misinformation including that they are both "men" and "transgender", why the IBA's test of them is not legitimate, how this controversy adversely affects all women athletes, how legitimate questions about women and gender including eligibility in sports have been obscured by all the hate and lies, and much, much more.
You can watch The WAAR Room at https://youtu.be/bONVwyBTe30
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This show was recorded August 4, 2024.
Labels: boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, IBA, Imane Khelif, IOC, Lin Yu-ting, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Olympic boxing, Paris Olympics, Russia, Umar Kremlev, WAAR Room, women's boxing
Friday, August 02, 2024
"How Russia Sabotaged Women's Olympic Boxing" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, IBA, Imane Khelif, IOC, Lin Yu-ting, No Holds Barred, Paris Olympics, Russia, Umar Kremlev, women's boxing, World Boxing
Monday, July 29, 2024
The WAAR Room: Unraveling the Paris Olympic Controversies
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This show was recorded July 28, 2024.
Labels: boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Olympic boxing, Paris Olympics, WAAR Room
Thursday, July 25, 2024
"Some Gems and Germs on Boxing Twitter" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, czar, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, Olympics, Turki Alalshikh, Twitter
Sunday, July 21, 2024
The WAAR Room: Biden Out, Harris In, The Fight for Democracy
On this special political edition of The WAAR Room, Chris Baldwin, Malissa Smith, and Eddie Goldman discussed the historic news that President Joe Biden announced that he will not seek re-election and that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for President. We examined why this has happened, how this affects the fight to save democracy from Trump and his fascist Project 2025 program, and what we must do now. Democracy is on the ballot!
You can watch The WAAR Room at https://youtu.be/VPsCGGAqQ4Q
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This show was recorded July 21, 2024.
Labels: Chris Baldwin, democracy, Eddie Goldman, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, WAAR Room
Monday, July 15, 2024
"The World and Boots Ennis" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Bozy Ennis, David Avanesyan, Eddie Goldman, Eddie Hearn, Jaron Boots Ennis, No Holds Barred, Terence Crawford, Turki Alalshikh
Monday, July 08, 2024
"Stevenson and Zepeda Win But There's Only One Johnny Fisher" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, Johnny Fisher, No Holds Barred, Shakur Stevenson, William Zepeda
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
"Bone Saws for Boxing Writers" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: Abdulaziz Almuzaini, boxing, Eddie Goldman, Jamal Khashoggi, MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, No Holds Barred, Saud al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh
Monday, July 01, 2024
The WAAR Room: The Saudi Boxing Power Grab, Conflicts of Interest, and No Space For Women
We started discussing the Saudi boxing takeover and the secretive, proposed new global "league" or governing body, that already has seen numerous conflicts of interest, for example with certain fighters being favored as Riyadh Season ambassadors. We discussed how many of the internationally accepted principles of good governance are already being violated. And we discussed the case of Egyptian worker Ahmed Mohamed Omar, who was reportedly given a 19-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia for a tweet he made criticizing Saudi boxing boss Turki Alalshikh about football, and what this means for boxing.
So far, all the Riyadh Season-sponsored boxing shows have featured only men's boxing, even though women have previously boxed on professional and amateur cards in Saudi Arabia. This includes announced fights for their shows on Aug. 3 in Los Angeles, Sept. 21 in London, and Oct. 12 and Dec. 21 in Riyadh. We discussed how what the Saudis are doing by excluding women is deleterious both to women's boxing and to boxing as a whole.
Plus, we also discussed the upcoming congress of the Asian Boxing Confederation where they will vote on whether to join World Boxing, the fight to save Olympic boxing, and more.
You can watch The WAAR Room at https://youtu.be/95aGIbbXxEs
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This show was recorded June 30, 2024.
Labels: Ahmed Mohamed Omar, boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, governance, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Saudi Arabia, WAAR Room, women's boxing
Saturday, June 22, 2024
"Do We Really Want Saudi Arabia Controlling Boxing?" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: .boxing, Ahmed Mohamed Omar, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, PIF, Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
"Transparency and Public Discussion Needed for Proposed Saudi-Backed Boxing League" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, PIF, Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh
Thursday, June 13, 2024
"Saudi Arabia and a Proposed World Boxing League" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, No Holds Barred, PIF, Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh
Sunday, June 09, 2024
The WAAR Room: Malissa Smith On Her New Book 'The Promise of Women's Boxing', Heavyweight Shakeup
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This show was recorded June 8, 2024.
Labels: boxing, Chris Baldwin, Eddie Goldman, heavyweight, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, Promise of Women's Boxing, WAAR Room
Tuesday, June 04, 2024
No Holds Barred: Malissa Smith On Her New Book 'The Promise of Women's Boxing'
Her second book, The Promise of Women's Boxing, has just been published.
We discussed how this book picks up where her first history of women's boxing left off, how women's boxing has advanced so much in the past decade, why there are still so many challenges facing women's boxing, and much, much more.
We spoke with her by phone Tuesday, June 4.
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, Girlboxing, Malissa Smith, No Holds Barred, women's boxing
Monday, June 03, 2024
"Dubois, Zhang, and the Heavyweight Shakeup in Saudi Arabia" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: 5 vs. 5, boxing, Daniel Dubois, Deontay Wilder, Eddie Goldman, Eddie Hearn, Filip Hrgovic, Frank Warren, heavyweight, Matchroom, No Holds Barred, Queensberry, Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh, Zhang Zhilei
Monday, May 27, 2024
"Boxing's Stripper Problem" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
My latest piece, "Boxing's Stripper Problem", is up on the No Holds Barred Patreon page.
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, heavyweight, IBF, No Holds Barred, Oleksandr Usyk, undisputed
Sunday, May 19, 2024
"Usyk, Undisputed" on No Holds Barred Patreon Page
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, heavyweight, No Holds Barred, Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury, undisputed
