Journalist. NJ native. Father. Bylines at BoxingScene, ESPN, Rappler, Guardian, The Ring, Vice. @NewmarkJSchool alum. @USABoxing silver level coach
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Rod Salka wore “America 1st” and a wall pattern on his trunks against Mexican fighter Francisco Vargas, and ended up getting his ass kicked #boxing
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Who did it better, @Tyson_Fury or Muhammad Ali? #FuryPianeta
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.@BernieSanders: “Tonight we say to Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry...”
Guy in crowd: “Fuck you!”
Sanders: “That is one way of phrasing it.”
#BernieInIowa #BernieInBluffs @People4Bernie
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Guy comes into the boxing gym, saying he’s a gangsta, then he steals someone’s phone and denies it. To stay in the gym he had to spar one of the amateurs. The amateur beats the crap out of him, makes him puke and quit. A lesson in respect he’ll never forget.
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Andy Ruiz Jr. tells his mother that their lives will change and they’ll never have to struggle again #JoshuaRuiz
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What concerned me was Salka attempting to use a Mexican fighter as a prop in his nativist, anti-immigrant statement. It was an ugly move, and it backfired in the most epic manner.
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Storytelling 101: @TheRealXPac and @BretHart say 1,000 words with one arm drag and one facial expression
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A “Vote for @AndrewYang” mural on Roosevelt Ave. in Flushing, Queens, NYC, in the heart of Chinatown. Whoever owns the PokeWave restaurant is definitely #YangGang
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Kevin Owens (@FightOwensFight): "I'm CrossFit Jesus!" as he busts out the jumping jacks vs @WWERollins #WWEManila
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Kanye West, who sold people a plain white t-shirt for $120 each, condemns "consumption"
kanye went to joel osteen's church today and it was something nitter.app/JordanUhl/status/11961…
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LeBron James leaves the game with 4 minutes left. May be the last time we ever see him in a Cavs Jersey #NBAFinals
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC): “It wasn’t until I heard of a man named Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves health care, housing, education and a living wage.” #BernieInQueens @rapplerdotcom
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Adrien Broner tells Filipino Pacquiao supporters “I got a cat for you for dinner” and “I got some sautéed German Shepherd for you in the back” #PacquiaoBroner #PacBroner @Sports5PH
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Deontay Wilder on wanting to kill an opponent: “This is the only sport where you can kill a man and get paid for it at the same time...so why not use my right to do so?” #WilderBreazeale
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There’s only a couple female NYC Golden Gloves legends, and I don’t recognize her. Gonna call BS on the description
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Volunteers for @AOC are out in Sunnyside, Queens signing people up for the census and registering people to vote
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CM Punk chants get louder as they tease Randy Orton not showing up for the main event #SurvivorSeries
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Canelo Alvarez cursing out Demetrius Andrade is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in boxing
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My take on Billy Joe Saunders "quitting": No boxer owes us their life, regardless of what they say beforehand. We marvel at their sacrifice, but they deserve to go home to their children in good health. We know too much about brain health to view "quitting" as a pejorative today
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Some say the “Whoop that trick” gimmick was inspired by Punk whooping Jack Perry and the Young Bucks’ asses
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Congrats on a great career then
Anthony Dirrell says it’s Canelo or retirement for him following big knockout win over the weekend on #CaneloPlant card badlefthook.com/2021/11/8/22…
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And still! Anthony Joshua finishes Alexander Povetkin in round 7 to retain the heavyweight championship! #JoshuaPovetkin
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That time Emmanuel Lucero hit @MannyPacquiao with his best shot, and Pacquiao answered back by rocking his world with one punch
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Trainer: “It’s the sixth round!”
Fighter: “It’s the sixth?”
Assistant: “It’s the eighth, last fucking round.”
Trainer: “Whatever the fuck it is, you better win.”
The most boxing conversation ever #ShoBox
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Fans are walking out of Prudential Center during the Shakur Stevenson-Artem Harutyunyan fight #ShakurArtem
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For real, I’m a boxing coach and I never saw whoever runs that shitty account at one of the boxing events. Maybe they need to get off TikTok and start skipping some rope
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.@NinaTurner of @OurRevolution calls out New Jersey's political "machine": "The system is rigged. It’s rigged economically, politically, socially, environmentally. The system is absolutely rigged and it's not just the Republicans doing the damn rigging."
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We live in a time of religious hypocrisy and apostasy, fake Christians don't see anything wrong with their hatred and bigotry. This isn't about rule of law; it's about hating people who are different and tax cuts for the rich.
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A right uppercut followed by a right hand, never saw that combination before. This is why Inoue is such a dangerous puncher, because he gets perfect rotation on everything with minimal effort.
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Lucky you, I have a baby that cries even though she’s seen me every day of her life. I’ll remember that when she asks me for a car one day.
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Kinda, half of getting over is having something the fans can do in the stands, like Rollins' theme.
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It came down to who wanted it more. When Nesthy Petecio wanted to fight, Irma Testa wanted to hold.
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A slow-motion look at Gennady Golovkin’s violent finish of Vanes Martirosyan #GGGVanes
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12-year-old Adrien Broner was talking real stuff to a reporter who wasn’t ready to hear it
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.@MannyPacquiao drops Lucas Matthysse a third time in round 7, his first knockout win since 2009 (Miguel Cotto) #PacMatthysse
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Francisco Vargas on Rod Salka's trunks: "Once we were already in the ring, the wall was an extra [motivation] so I gave it everything. Whatever it is I represent Mexico and I feel that wall is against all my countrymen." (via ESPN Deportes)
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The fact that they look the same should have tipped them off sooner
"This is the best Christmas present I could ever imagine having:" Two Hawaii men who grew up as best friends recently learn that they're actually brothers. apne.ws/nJV5TIB #odd
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Hope everyone is safe at Resorts World. Reminder to be responsible on social media. Speculating about terror ties helps no one, causes panic
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Amanda Nunes knocks out Cris Cyborg in the first round! Unbelievable! #UFC232 @Amanda_Leoa
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Deontay Wilder (@BronzeBomber) and Andy Ruiz Jr. (@Andy_destroyer1), holders of all 4 heavyweight belts, on the #PacThurman broadcast
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Gotta say that I didn't expect to see Kamala Harris trailing Andrew Yang in her home state of California
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.@MannyPacquiao, Morales and Broner, 13 years apart, the same punch #PacBroner
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Gennady Golovkin crushes Vanes Martirosyan in round two to retain his middleweight titles #GGGVanes
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The problem isn’t @JakePaul being in boxing. The problem is the real boxers aren’t doing the numbers he and his brother are doing.
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The incredible Kenny Omega vs Chris Jericho match at #WrestleKingdom12, condensed to one minute of highlights #njwk12
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.@briankoppelman, co-creator of @SHO_Billions, wears a @BeckyLynchWWE shirt at the @Xfinity #Billions watch party, says The Man has a standing invitation to appear on a future episode
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Oh man, Andrew Yang is polling higher than Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke COMBINED.
NATIONAL POLL: @JoeBiden, @ewarren, and @BernieSanders lead the #Democratic Primary
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The horse that played Pie-O-My, the reason Tony Soprano killed Ralph Cifaretto #sopranoscon
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Today I got blocked by World Star on IG for politely declining to let them use my Wilder video without pay. Nice folks
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.@ErrolSpenceJr immediately calls out @MannyPacquiao at mid-ring, says it’d be “an honor” to fight him, Pacquiao says “Yeah, why not?” #SpenceGarcia
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10,000 retweets and 20,000 likes, and this tweet has appeared in Washington Post, Vice, Esquire and Sports Illustrated. I'd like to thank Rod Salka for Making Ryan Great Again #MRGA
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The rope snaps as @WWETheBigShow tries a corner splash. @JohnCena hits the AA to win! #WWEManila @rapplerdotcom
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Jose Benavidez Jr drops his hands in front of Terence Crawford, then gets dropped on his face. Incredible twelfth round performance for the WBO welterweight titleholder Crawford #CrawfordBenavidez
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Chants of “Black Lives Matter” and “Get your knees off my neck” at today’s protest in Flushing, Queens, NYC
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I saw a guy wearing an @AndrewYang Math hat on the subway the other day. That was dope
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@dallasnews made an awful decision which sends the message that elected officials can bully reporters around and cost them their jobs for harmless tweets. Can’t support them after this behavior.
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Shakur Stevenson makes a huge statement tonight, becoming the first boxer to stop Viorel Simion - and he did it in the first round #boxing
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Oleksandr Usyk lands a huge left and down goes Tony Bellew! Fight is over in round 8, Usyk retains the undisputed cruiserweight championship!
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Conor McGregor taps! Khabib Nurmagomedov is still UFC lightweight champion! #UFC229
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.@NinaTurner of @OurRevolution invokes Harriet Tubman's "keep going" exhortation to push for universal healthcare, a living wage, reproductive rights and pay equity in a speech at Rutgers University.
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.@KieferRavena threw down his first PBA dunk against GlobalPort today. He had 20 points, 5 assists, 4 steals and two rebounds to lead NLEX to Christmas victory
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To those saying Deontay Wilder was “exposed” last night: have you watched him before ever? That’s who he is, a technically flawed powerhouse with big balls. All that does is “expose” that you don’t really watch boxing.
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Tank Davis takes a knee, his corner reaches in and wipes his head with a towel. This should be ruled a knockdown and then a DQ, absolutely terrible officiating by Steve Willis, giving Tank Davis the superstar treatment #TankRoach
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Carlo Paalam sweeps the second round on all 5 cards as well, leads Ryomei Tanaka 20-18. The Japanese fighter needs a knockout in round 3 or Paalam is heading to the gold medal match! #Tokyo2020
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Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez delivered an instant classic in their rematch. Highlights from #CaneloGGG2
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Manny Pacquiao scores a third round knockdown of Lucas Matthysse with an uppercut #PacMatthysse
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Adrien Broner should be ignored. Every time he loses a fight, he says something outrageous about Hispanic people, says something about gay people, insults a commentator. Don't feed the troll, he's not particularly relevant to the sport anymore.
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Gary Russell Jr. is closing out his year with a strong performance, can’t wait to see what he does next in 2021
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Yes Lock to the Triangle Choke, to the F5 for the win. Brock Lesnar and Daniel Bryan put on a modern classic tonight at #SurvivorSeries
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.@NinaTurner on transforming the Democratic Party: “It kills me when some of our neoliberal sisters and brothers say ‘well Nina Turner if you don’t like the party, get out’...This is what I say: ‘This is our party, and we ain’t going nowhere.’” @OurRevolution
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I was always curious about this moment, because it was a total undersell of the moment. Glad to know it wasn't on you, but even more disappointed now with Vince
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Update on Adonis Stevenson (@AdonisSuperman) from his girlfriend Simone God: Stevenson is now out of his coma and recovering “in the private company of his family and his dedicated medical team.”
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