Boxing is much easier to train and prepare for, in contrast to MMA.
The main reason professional fighters select MMA over boxing is boxers usually needing to compile 20-0 records before fighting for a championship or seeing a good payday.
Wheras in MMA it is possible to have a title shot or be paid well with as little as a 5-0 record.
However with the inception of Jake Paul and Logan Paul the nature of boxing has changed. Athletes with fewer than 5 professional boxing matches are being paid well, as long as they have a good following on social media. This is something that has never been seen before in boxing. Its good for athletes and celebrities. Although over the long term, it could devalue boxing as a sport. If the market becomes too saturated with unvetted amateurs competing at the highest levels. This is good for entertainment purposes. Although I am not a fan of events like this. I would rather see real MMA and boxing. It is hard to compare boxing and MMA because they are really different sports. It's like saying that it is easy to play chess which is true but is it easy to make it to the world level or IM or GM? The numbers of fights are sometimes misleading. Most MMA from the big leagues like UFC, Bellator, and ONE spent years in kickboxing, boxing, wrestling, and many other forms of combat sports. Just like boxing too, even if Lomachenko, Inoue, and Usyk became world champions in 10 or fewer fights but they spent years as amateurs. The point is there are more boxers that are earning millions of dollars even in their early 20s and some of them are not even world champions like Ryan Garcia. In the UFC (the biggest stage of MMA) you'd be glad to earn a title shot before 30. And we all know both sports can generate as much money but shares to boxers are way too bigger. The biggest superstars in boxing can become highest paid athletes if they fight 3 times a year. Jake Paul's entry into boxing hasn't changed the usual real boxing competition and its purse. Jake Paul only opened the door to more celebrity boxing events either professional or not, although they are not really sanctioned by the major boxing organizations. |
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Most if not all jobs you can find at Services and Bounties belongs to informal work. I defined formal work as long-term and official. By being official, it means there are documents and contracts signed. There are full benefits and rights and everything like the normal employee we knew as prescribed by our laws. Even some informal workers have signed contracts too but no full benefits and they aren't long-term.
You can include forum work experience to your resume but only when you believe it is beneficial to the job you are applying for.
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Is cryptocurrency silent? Not here mate. There's a lot of noise going on locally and globally. Prices are at dip but they are temporary. Old banks and new financial institutions are getting licenses and partnerships in my country and I love it. I do hope they won't pressure and bribe our local government to block the entry of Binance. Binance is pretty sure would take a huge percentage of our local market. Binance a few days ago just opened its New Zealand operations. There's just a lot of news and developments of crypto mate from web 3, to the metaverse and many more.
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I am willing to spend BTC and other crypto assets as well because I believe they are currencies to be utilized. But because they are highly speculative, they will become my last resort especially BTC, ETH, and BNB. I am currently not in a favorable economic situation and I have used nearly all of my fiat and USDT savings as well. I am now seriously planning to make a raffle of which financial assets to be used next; stocks, crypto (except BTC, ETH, and BNB), and foreign currencies.  |
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I am really excited about the UFC 280 and what could have unfolded in that event on the main event we will have main 4 fights that are truly outstanding in my opinion and that will be the match in order between,
1st Beneil Dariush VS Mateusz Gamrot
2nd Petr Yan VS Sean O'Malley
3rd Aljamain Sterling VS T.J. Dillashaw
4th Charles Oliveira VS Islam Makhachev
these 4 will surely be enough and a blast but having a wave of well-known fighters in one event is really an excitement raising, especially the main event, if these two would likely take the Belt could Charles Oliveira reclaim his belt or Islam Makhachev could take it this time, thinking about this makes my excited boils. UFC 280 is a great event. The emir must've paid a lot to make this kind of event. It's too stacked and there are too many great match-ups that are nearly 50/50. I'm not missing this event. I'll be cheering for Oliveira, T.J., Yan, and Beneil. I'm not a big fan of wrestling, I find it a little boring and Oliveira is a very very exciting fighter, so I want him to keep on winning. I want I'm not a fan of T.J. either but I still have my hangover on that Oscar award performance of Aljamain. The same with the Pink Poodle, but hats off to him for taking this Yan fight. Poor Beneil is inactive for a year and a half, and yet he will face a very tough opponent in his comeback to the octagon. |
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Group B though is a very tough group. Wildcard Gaming and Infamous are most likely the weakest teams that will drop into the lower bracket. I am very excited to see if T1 players are able to utilize this break and worked more on their chemistry and strategies. Their first game will be against Liquid right away and that's like a deciding factor already if they are indeed a serious team enough to compete at the world level.
The main highlight and the team that has the most fans is T1. It's now less than 2 days to go and we're going to see the first action of many teams all together. We're all going to watch the first match of Team Secret against Tempest. Well, not a known opponent so mostly will bet on Team Secret if the odds are good. T1 is in a top spot. They are grouped together with VP, Liquid, Xtreme, Infamous. They have liquid and Infamous on the first day. They have a good chance to win against infamous, but I am not so sure against liquid. If they can win on their first series against Liquid, they should look good for the last spot in the top bracket. But they have a back-to-back game in day 2 with VP and Wildcard. that would be tough. I read that Ana and Topson are grinding hard in rank games since the regional qualifier. They have like 350+ games in rank. I hope they get rewarded for their effort. 350+ games? That's quite a lot. Maybe they don't have much time to talk and review their games with that massive number of games. They also need to bond with each other to boost their confidence and learn to trust each other. People are gonna be hyped on T1 because of Ana and Topson. I really hope T1 performs well and get their ticket to TI. Anyways, I already had an advance bet on T1 against Liquid. They only need to win 1 map and I'm good.  |
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Lakers and Nets both got slaughtered tonight. No starters for the Lakers played so that’s to be expected. Durant had himself a good night but no minutes for Kyrie. Ben Simmons looks like a guy who hasn’t played basketball in over a year. I don’t know what it is about the 76ers but whatever they did to Fultz and Simmons should be studied by therapists.
"It's just a pre-season" but it seems like I'm not seeing an improvement with the Lakers this season. Though it's just a pre season, but those numbers they put up seems alarming and AD is so fragile as usual. It's just the start of the pre season and he already have signs lol. Can't wait for the season to start for both of these teams though. Well, it's not like the 76ers wanted to waste their two first picks. It was very hard for the 76ers also, although it was their decision to pick the players. What happened to Fultz was a tragedy on both sides. It was a good decision by the 76ers to let go of Fultz. But I'm just happy that Fultz was able to retain himself playing despite his injury and illness and was able to secure a $50 million 3-year contract last year with Magic. That should be more than enough should he decides to retire early. As for Ben Simmons, it was his own doing. He showed arrogance in the way he handled his critics. He's got too much pride. This season we will find out if those critics are right or if they were too harsh and that Ben Simmons can become a better player too by showing us what he got. |
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@ inthelongrun - maybe this is not the personality of Haney? He might as well be quiet, but then prepared himself to the fight and focus. Although he is also no short of doing his own bad mouthing to Kambosos, but he was just reacting to anything that George says. So it will be interesting to see from him start trash talking and boast that he already beat him once and that we will repeat it again in front of his Australian and Greek fans.
For Davis and Garcia, they should really fight instead of this childish scuffle in public. My personal take with Davis and Garcia's childish scene. They are trying to engage their fans and let them ask for the fight to happen. I mean, they can provoke promoters to bring the contract on both sides. My opinion though. Moving back to this upcoming fight, trash talks might be used to attract possible viewers aside from those fans who surely will buy the ticket. Haney can say that word since he already beats Kambosos and by chance he can repeat the outcome. Haney for sure loves to talk but he ain't good at trash-talking. He ain't good at creating hype. I think Haney is personally a little bit mature good kid (he's only 23). Haney at times tried to fight dirty and doesn't show respect when it's inside the ring but that's it. Haney though starts to explore trolling online using his Twitter. Ryan Garcia is also young at 24 but the kid knows how to hype himself. I'm annoyed but he got a lot of fans and followers. Tank meanwhile is the silent type but he sells PPVs even against unknown and cherry-picked opponents.  |
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That's right. If Bivol prioritized money, he could've accepted Canelo's offer to let the rematch happen at super-middleweight instead of light-heavyweight. Bivol could've agreed since he is a small light-heavyweight anyway. Bivol could've asked for more money guarantees.
But if the fight will happen at super middleweight, Canelo would risk all of his belts and Bivol actually become a challenger here. It doesn't make Canelo gain anything if he win against Bivol, so it doesn't make any sense for Canelo fight on super middleweight. Well, Canelo will defend his undisputed belts at super-middleweight anyways. If he feels better at super-middleweight than at light-heavyweight then he should try to convince Bivol to let the rematch happen at 168. Maybe Bivol will be less robust and his punches are not that strong at 168. And Canelo mentioned that getting his revenge on Bivol is very very important to him. Here's what Canelo said:  If I'm not mistaken, his trilogy fight with Canelo is the last fight that he had with Hearn and DAZN?
And so if he wanted to fight Bivol next then he either sign a new deal or totally become free as a fighter and handle his own promotion. So it might be easy for him to go to other division as well and get that 5th weight title that he wanted to be the first Mexican to do that.
But we will see if he is willing to sign with Hearn and DAZN since they pay him good money. Yes, you are right. It was a 2 fight deal with Matchroom and DAZN. Although ever since HBO left boxing, Canelo is always with DAZN already. Except when Canelo fought at Showtime in order to unify his WBA, WBC, and WBO titles against PBC's former IBF champion Caleb Plant. Canelo owns Canelo Promotions and is very active in Mexico. But the big promotions like Top Rank, Matchroom, Golden Boy, and PBC (hiding under a managerial license) are the ones promoting the big fights in the biggest stage of boxing. Canelo loves DAZN but I won't be surprised if he will temporarily fight at the other networks soon knowing there's only Bivol/Ramirez and Andrade left for him. Showtime/Fox has Benavidez and Charlo while ESPN has Beterbiev. |
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This is pretty easy to predict. BNB will reach $1k in 2024 or 2025 or who knows even earlier. Binance continues to grow and expand with its ambitious plan of opening offices on different sides of the world. Binance's policy of following as much as possible all nations' regulations widens its market. Just a few days ago, Binance officially launched its exchange in New Zealand after getting the nod of the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment or MBIE. Japan, a huge crypto market is one of its next targets. Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/binance-officially-launches-crypto-exchange-in-new-zealand-following-regulatory-approval/ |
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So it's like saying that it is hard to become rich when you are poor? Anyways there is some point behind it. But rather than blaming being poor and the lack of capital, why not focus on the brighter side? All of us are naturally gifted with skills.
In trading, you will never ever blame the lack of capital. Those are just excuses and alibis. If you are that confident of a trader then there are many exchanges out there that offer margin trading. I know an online friend that turned $100 into $40,000 in just a few months of trading.
I am not great, not even that good especially now that I am just a hodler type. I first tried crypto trading with a small capital too like $100. I sweat when I lose a $10 trade. One of the most important things I learned in trading is starting an amount you are willing to lose.
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Jaron Ennis is the mandatory opponent of Spence and this guy has an awesome record he has 29 wins and 27 knockouts and is touted to be the next Floyd Mayweather, Spence is going to get less money on this fight and he will be in trouble against this guy because this is a worthy challenger, this could be the guy that can stop the Spence - Crawford to happen if he beat Spence, Spence should face Crawford because there is huge money that he's going to take than fighting Ennis. I would love these sanctioning bodies to start their mandatories now. I'm sick of Spence and PBC playing shit for many years and nothing serious. But I know that these sanctioning bodies can be negotiated secretly except maybe the IBF.  I have here the current top 10 rankings of the welterweight division taken from wiki. So yes, it is really Jarron Ennis as IBF number 1. I really really hope that the IBF starts calling for a mandatory defense. I actually believe that Spence will also duck Ennis as he is too risky with low returns. I can smell PBC and Spence trying hard to tell IBF to not declare a mandatory defense since Spence moves up soon. The welterweight division is stacked with young prospects that are very dangerous of which Bud and Spence might rather move up in weight for bigger money and new title achievement goals. The division got Vergil Ortiz, Eimantas Stanionis, Jarron Ennis, and former undisputed super lightweight champion Josh Taylor might also move up after his next fight. It's a shame sanctioning bodies are ignoring Radzhab Butaev after his very close decision defeat to Stanionis. I believe these guys will beat Keith Thurman. They are also probably the reason why Danny Garcia move up in weight rather than fighting them. |
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Moneywise, Bivol would try to make Canelo activate the rematch clause if he wins against Zurdo. And it is also dangerous for Bivol to pursue a unification fight with Beterbiev because he is probably the underdog despite the 3-belt champ's age. And Canelo will never be interested to fight a beltless Bivol. But these fighters from the former Soviet Union are more glory hunters and money only comes second. Beterbiev and Bivol's team might want them to fight Canelo and Yarde respectively for money purposes but we heard these 2 champions during interviews on who they want. Both Beterbiev and Bivol said they want to face each other because they want to become undisputed.
I don't see Bob Arum protecting Beterbiev to face Bivol here knowing his fighter is the A side and probably the slight favorite but only due to Beterbiev's age. Beterbiev is a beast, he would've re-arranged Canelo's face and body if they were the ones fighting. Someone can correct me if I am wrong but I believe Beterbiev is the last one to knockdown and hurt our current heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. And we know Usyk is another legend in the making. Bivol and Beterbiev need to fight each other if they want to enter the Hall of Fame. But DAZN and Matchroom should allow Bob Arum and ESPN to promote and televise the fight to turn this into a reality. As you said, Bivol is not prioritizing Canelo and he won't be if he will come out successful in his fight against Zurdo Ramirez as a fight against Canelo is just a pure money fight with no glory to make. He already proved his talent against the undisputed boxer and upsets Canelo, that said, a rematch from Canelo's camp is the least of things he thinks of. Canelo have two choices if Bivol turns out to be the winner in his upcoming fight, first is that he has to wait because chances are high that Bivol will pursue Beterbiev first and second is to forget having a rematch because there's also a high chance that he will have the same result. And there's no roadblock for an undisputed fight in LHW because Bob Arum openly said that he will allow Beterbiev to fight after his title defense. That's right. If Bivol prioritized money, he could've accepted Canelo's offer to let the rematch happen at super-middleweight instead of light-heavyweight. Bivol could've agreed since he is a small light-heavyweight anyway. Bivol could've asked for more money guarantees. Canelo still has a rematch clause but at light-heavyweight. I believe Canelo loves challenges too especially since he is nearing his mid-30s soon. Maybe he can tell Hearn and DAZN to let Bivol fight Beterbiev at Top Rank and ESPN. Then he fights the winner. |
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In the UFC we have some genuine fighters who are not getting paid as they should be. In boxing, we have dumb fighters who barely possess any skills and who are getting paid like crazy. Many times personality, charisma, and roots exceed over skills on who's getting paid most either in the UFC or boxing, etc. We also got guys like Masvidal who's not the most talented in the UFC but he is paid higher than the likes of Covington. Ryan Garcia is not even a world champion yet he is paid more than some of the current world champions. It's always like that. It's not the hardcore fans that bring the bulk of the money, it's always the casual fans. |
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Have you guys watched the games today? The Phoenix Suns just won by 4 points after overtime against the Los Angeles Lakers. CP3 is still showing signs of his greatness. He is amazing.
The Lakers meanwhile are starting to get it together. Bron is back with limited minutes but was performing well. It is Westbrick that wasn't doing well. This guy needs to stop taking volumes of shots, this isn't OKC where it didn't mind losing games. AD as LA was able to ma hasn't played with an injury.
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EthereumMax seemed familiar. I first saw this name in the trunks of a popular boxer, I think it was Tank Davis. I was curious about it but I never tried to search for it too. Kim Kardashian deserved it. Anyways, this should not be much of a big deal to Kim. That penalty is just like dust to her.
These celebrities should be liable for the products and services they endorsed. It is part of the so-called social responsibility of a good citizen.
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Fun game by the New Orleans Pelicans versus the Chicago Bulls. The bench players' performance in the last quarter of the game made it look like it was a regular season. NOP 129 - Bulls 125 The Pelicans look great, and Zion looks good (I can't tell if some weight was lost). They are a solid team and their bench looks promising too with Willy Hernangomez who won the Fiba Eurobasket MVP. If healthy, I think they have a great chance to make a top seed. They will probably be one of the favorites this season. I don't usually watch pre-season games because they aren't serious games. But I'm also excited at how the healthy Pelicans will end up this season. Their line-up is already good so all they need now is to perform well. I heard that Zion is on a seafood diet. Hopefully, it's not a giant octopus or tuna per meal. Chicago Bulls acquired veteran Goran Dragic and Andre Drummond to boost their line-up this season. So I am also hoping they can also perform well. I want to see Vucevic bring back his Orlando Magic stats. |
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 We have here the groups and their game schedules. I have to say that Team Secret should be able to make it into the upper bracket. Group B though is a very tough group. Wildcard Gaming and Infamous are most likely the weakest teams that will drop into the lower bracket. I am very excited to see if T1 players are able to utilize this break and worked more on their chemistry and strategies. Their first game will be against Liquid right away and that's like a deciding factor already if they are indeed a serious team enough to compete at the world level. |
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As far as I know, Francis Ngannou does not have an existing contract with UFC at this time. Moreover, he said that unless certain terms and conditions are met by the UFC, he would not sign a new contract. I have also heard that he recently had to borrow money from someone to live. Furthermore, it is not difficult to understand that the relationship between Dana White and Ngannou is not at all a good one. So, I really don't know if the demands of Francis Ngannou will be met.
Moreover, I do not really understand how someone like Ryan Garcia can earn more than Francis Ngannou! If anything I think UFC is actually earning more. Therefore, it isn't going to be hard for Dana White, the president of the UFC, to pay the fighters a little more in order to keep them happy.
Even though Francis Ngannou doesn't get paid higher than Ryan Garcia, but do you think $100,000-$500,000 per fights are low? I don't think so, he's must be have a luxury life style so that's make him to borrow money similar like Mike Tyson. Ngannou said the UFC rules that's make him not want to sign the contract, but at the same time he said he wouldn't fight for $500,000 only, so this mean money is the reason why he doesn't want to sign the contract. Ryan Garcia is just handsome and have undefeated record, that's the reason why he can be paid more although his skill is suck. $500,000 is a big money but it is also small considering UFC revenues. The reality is, UFC stars are underpaid while many boxing stars and superstars are overpaid. Boxing and UFC numbers are now at par with each other. It's just that the UFC is giving its fighters the small cut while in boxing, many of its stars and superstars are getting huge cuts and at the same time they also get guaranteed purses. Boxing promoters and networks many times lost millions of dollars on failed PPVs yet they continue to overpay and give guaranteed purses to their stars and superstars because they know that they can earn big in their next events. Meanwhile, I woke up this morning seeing the news of Swede Khamzat Chimaev being detained in Russia after planning a short vacation in his birthplace Chechnya. His manager denied the rumors but probably to stop it from spreading. |
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