Being successful for me means happiness. It doesn't require much for me to become happy. I want to do what I love to do which means I want to earn money for the things that I love. It's becoming common, especially in poor and developing countries that people work for the sake of earning a living. That is why it is very important for people and parents to find their and their children's natural gifts and skills in order to develop and enhance them because that should be the basis of their careers.

Money- Earning a lot of money is just a bonus for me so I can help those in need.
Fame- I don't need this. I am a private person. Sometimes I help people and I always want to make it private as much as possible.
Achievement- Define achievement. When I'm happy with my life it already means I achieve something which is more valuable that the other kind of world achievements. The ultimate achievement of course is to help those in need even in simple ways. So my definition of achievement might be different from other people who perceive it as some rewards or medals and trophies and recognitions.

Too much drama last weekend in the UFC. Dana White's evil plan of destroying Nate Diaz in a very violent way to further boost Chimaev's popularity failed. Nate Diaz ended his UFC contract like a hero as he was able to stop Ferguson in the main event. Nate might box Shake Paul next.

Although there's something in my mind that says the drama was created in order to save the event from Chimaev's overweight. Chimaev just after Herb Dean stopped the fight tried to comfort Holland right away and they hugged each other. Nevertheless, the event was very successful. I think the drama despite the change of opponents made the event even more enticing.

I hope Ferguson retires or maybe Dana should give him something very winnable so he can retire with a win. As for Chimaev, he's a fuckin' beast but I wonder what's next for him since 8 pounds overweight is too heavy. 

Chinese qualifier is done. No big upsets happened as both top 1 and 2 made it into the finals with top favorite RNG claiming the slot to TI.

My 2 favorite underdog teams Vici Gaming and Invictus Gaming failed to upset their opponents in the upper bracket. They started making upset wins in the lower bracket but was a bit too late. I'm still glad they matched each other with the winner still traveling to Singapore for the final TI qualifier.

The SEA qualifier will start tomorrow. I am so excited to see the new T1 line-up for the first time. I really hope they can take the final slot. Who knows, maybe this line-up is the one to win TI for SEA for the first time.

A lot of stuff happened last weekend including a lot of surprises.

Lithuania-Spain was a great game and I thought the Lithuanians will upset the Spaniards but they came up short after losing in overtime. But this was already surprising as underdog Lithuania nearly made it. But the best game was France versus Turkey. What a game. I had a small bet on France but I knew anything can happen in that game including a possible Turk victory.

Everyone thought Giannis and the Greeks were too much for the Czech but they only won by 6 points. And anybody here bet on Finland to win over Croatia? And the biggest surprise? Serbia lost to Italy. Damn, I cannot believe it. I predicted earlier that Serbia and Greece will vie for the championship. Now I think France or Slovenia or Greece can win the championships.

BTC most likely will have a tough push for a x10 in the next few years. ETH and BNB probably can make it x10 or a little bit more.

Syscoin maybe x10 to x40 something. LOA is probably the one capable of making it x100 more or less but it is a very huge gamble though. My $4,000 is now worth a few hundred dollars. My bad, it is a big amount of money for me. I should have never invested that big when I was expecting the crypto market to head into a correction.

A few hours earlier I watched a video about Kaspa. I was actually looking for some coins that can possibly replace ETH for GPU mining and I saw Kaspa.

Actually, I am not that interested and excited about this fight seeing how one-sided their first fight was. But since Kambosos is too furious and badly wanted an immediate rematch then all we have fight fans is to give him the benefit of a doubt. I cannot really say that Kambosos cannot win too. I was expecting in the first fight that Kambosos will let his hands go and make it dirty but he didn't and lost a wide decision.

In this rematch, I wanna see Kambosos letting his hands go just like when he beat Teofimo Lopez, he should play dirty and no fucking touch gloves before and after the bells because he should not show any respect to Haney until the fight is done. So there is no need for Kambosos to change big, he's got the talent and skills to win but he needs to impose and execute them. Whatever happened to his words before he fights that he's into a war. He should recall it and bring it into this rematch with Haney. War means everything; from trash-talking outside the ring to fighting dirty inside the ring.

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Through the years, I'd been longing for multiplayer gambling too. There are games like NBA Fantasy available on ESPN and Yahoo. Maybe a league creator can set the entrance betting fees and the system is the one setting how to distribute the prize pool. But maybe this needs a full KYC since it can be exploited by dummies, multi-accounts, and people in the same location who might collaborate with each other in order to rig some of the results.

I like the idea but it needs to be worked well since there are too many factors that are open to exploitation.

I like it. I remember there were 32 teams in the NBA before. Seattle always wanted to bring back NBA to its city. I don't know how they lost their team earlier. These last years I also heard rumors of Las Vegas or Nevada wanting to join the NBA too.

So how will NBA gonna do this? Las Vegas or Nevara and Seattle pretty sure belong to the west. Maybe transfer some of the teams that are located in the middle to the eastern conference? I'm thinking both Minnesota and Oklahoma transferred to the eastern conference. But if they want to draw a line to make sure there was no bias then it's Minnesota and Houston going to the eastern conference. Team owners in the east might complain because Minnesota is looking like a serious contender and everybody knows that Houston is rich and it won't take them long before appearing in the playoffs again especially that they have many future draft picks.

I really want Beterbiev and Bivol to fight each other for the undisputed belts. Both Beterbiev and Bivol want the fight. I haven't heard Eddie Hearn's comment on this but I'm interested to hear his side because Bob Arum already said that it's like impossible for these 2 beasts to face each other. Arum might have been realistic that there is not much money for a joint network show. Bivol is with DAZN while Beterbiev is with ESPN and it might be very costly to stage the fight.

For me, the best way to make this fight happen is to let ESPN handle the network solo since Beterbiev is the lineal, WBC, IBF, and WBO champion compared to Bivol's lone WBA belt. But we do need Hearn and DAZN's approval on this. I believe in Hearn and DAZN, they seem willing to sacrifice like letting Haney sign a contract with Top Rank which is with ESPN in order to made the Kambosos undisputed match a reality. But it is still business though. DAZN earlier was mentioned denying PBC as the solo promoter and its network for the mandatory Jermall Charlo-Jaime Mungia fight.

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Another win. Congrats mate. I should have bet on Czech too because I knew Israel is the underdog but I was reluctant to take the risk in that do-or-die game.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand more about the points system. I really thought that the overall total points difference will be used once head-to-head is not enough for tie-breakers. Poor Italy, they dropped to 4th when I thought they secured the 2nd spot since they have a total of 45 points differential. Now Italy is likely to get dropped by Serbia while Croatia and Ukraine are most likely to win against their next opponents.

In my country, 8 hours is the standard daily working hours. But in reality, many of our companies and employers provided too much work to do that it consumes 10 to 12 hours daily. Overtime works are just fine if people are getting paid for their extra working hours. But many of our employers here are not paying for extra time spent at work. Some are paying but not the usual standard rate. And many jobs in my country wherein people need to work 6 days a week instead of just 5 days. These are just some of the reasons why many left for other countries to find better jobs.

The survey is getting weird here. At the start, I'm pretty sure that the majority voted for Shakur to win by decision, but now we have a couple more votes for Shakur to win by knockout. Interesting because Shakur right now has a 50% KO ratio just like Conceicao. We'll see if Shakur's KO ratio will become higher than 50% or if it will drop.

And so I just found out that Conceicao is an Olympic gold medalist. Wtf! I missed something then. I knew he was an Olympian before just like Valdez but I never realized he is that special. So it seems like Conceicao is being underestimated here although I still agree that he is an underdog due to the reasons I mentioned earlier. Nonetheless, we are having an Olympic gold medalist in Conceicao versus an Olympic silver medalist, Shakur.

Is anybody here following Haney's Twitter? I like how he is being vocal and at the same time trolling or trash-talking. Last month, Haney was trolling Teofimo Lopez calling his performance like a poor one against a non-ranked fighter.

This month of September he is targeting Tank Davis, calling his WBA regular belt a Mickey Mouse belt. Of course, the WBA belt is not a major title since Haney got the Super WBA belt and all the remaining belts in the division. It's funny because prior to becoming an undisputed champion, Haney was called an e-mail champ after his WBC interim belt was upgraded as the WBC champion after the corrupt WBC president Sulaiman tried to introduce its new WBC Franchise (similar to Super WBA belt) belt as a major belt with higher credits than the usual WBC belt.

Miami Heat together with the Philadelphia 76ers, are my favorite teams in the East. Miami Heat in spite of competing at the top the in East thru the years always had the cap space to sign even superstars like Giannis, KD, and Mitchell but they always came up short and I wonder why. Is it because they might have a problem with Butler who's known as the heart and soul of Miami or they just simply lost those bids against the other teams?

I consider Butler a superstar. If only they were 100% healthy last season, they may have a real chance of winning. I'm also hoping for Victor Oladipo and Duncan Robinson to step up their games. And maybe Miami can still acquire some new before the season starts.

Very tough game. France tried to bury Slovenia early but they cannot stop the momentum from shifting away. Luka Doncic had an insane night and looked unstoppable even if Gobert tried to guard him. France was always in the game but they cannot catch up with the Slovenians. It was like a do-or-die game because taking the top and second spots guaranteed facing the 3rd and 4th placers of Group A. After the defeat, France dropped to 3rd and they are facing the 2nd seed of Group A which is the ever dangerous Turkey. Top Slovenia is expected to have an easier time against the Belgians. The same with 2nd seed Germany, they are also expected to beat Montenegro.


Yes, mate. It's round robin and there are 6 teams in a group, which means all teams will play 5 games each. And yes, Israel is not yet safe. If Czech wins then Israel's only hope is for Finland to lose against the Netherlands. But the Finns are heavy favorites to win over the still winless Dutch team.

Damn. I was lucky I stopped betting for Infamous after their win over SG. I should've won in their next game but looking at the odds, I would have a net loss after they lost to Hokori. SA TI qualifier was much like what happened in eastern Europe. Hokori was dropped by Tempest, then avenged their loss after Infamous dropped Tempest in the upper bracket finals. Then boom! Hokori won 3-0 over Infamous.

China and North American qualifiers start today. We'll see if favorites RNG of China and Soniqs in NA are going to get upset too. China is really stacked with good teams though so RNG will be having a hard time battling these teams to secure their TI tickets.

Nate Diaz does have good ground skills during his younger days. But at this current stage of his career, I am not taking out the possibility of Chimaev winning a submission. Chimaev has good ground skills too and is obviously stronger and has more stamina which will play an important role if the fight gets past round 3.

I highly doubt though that Nate can survive more than 3 rounds. I don't think he can take a lot of punishment like Burns at his age and inactivity. More or less 50 significant strikes from Chimaev and Nate will be done.

Former Sixth man of the year Montrezl Harrell signed with the Philadelphia 76ers for 2 years. I'm liking Philly even more with this new acquisition. If James Harden returns this season fit and brings back his good old years then this team is serious to reach the top. It can compete against the Celtics and the Bucks in the eastern conference. I expect Miami Heat to slow down this season after losing Tucker and not acquiring anything material in return. Miami will have a hard time repeating as the number 1 winningest team in the east with its rival teams taking some big moves with their line-ups.