No, it’s absolutely not dead. 2016 was a bad year for boxing, but 2017 has been pretty good. Golovkin-Canelo is going to do insane business and probably be an awesome fight, and Anthony Joshua is a bona fide superstar in the making. Floyd Mayweather is boxing’s past, not its future.

Not exactly, though they were trending in the direction of increasing dynastic importance. I’ll talk about this a bit more later.

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I was at UFC 199, utterly hammered by the time that fight happened, and I caught a lot of crap for saying in the aftermath that I thought Holloway was the best featherweight on the planet. I stand by my take.

DJ has been nothing but a company man and they’ve still gone out of their way to screw him.

One of the things I love about writing for Deadspin is that I don’t need to worry about whether the folks I’m writing for will be turned off by a word they don’t know. I used to write for Bleacher Report, and, uh, that wasn’t the case.

Fun fact: Holloway didn’t have a legitimate striking coach until after that fight. He was basically self-coached.

You’d think so, but, and I quote, “We’re not sure about the viability of a podcast as a platform to launch a book.”

Absolutely, if some publisher is interested in it. I submitted a book proposal that didn’t get any traction, but I’ll try again in the next couple of months.

There’s a surviving letter from Saint Remigius of Reims to Clovis that describes the Frankish king as taking up the governance of the province of Belgica Secunda. This was probably in the 480s, decades after effective Roman rule had ended in northern Gaul, but there was still enough of a memory of governance that a…

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I’ll talk more about this in next week’s episode - a comparative look at all the barbarian kingdoms - but I’d say it has more to do with the fact that the Visigoths, Vandals, and even the Franks inherited more in the way of existing political and governmental structures. They could simply take over the framework of…

Vox has been trying to sell its platform like this for a while now - they were talking about it as far back as 2014 - but it’s not great, as platforms go, and I’m surprised they finally found someone to buy in.

I discovered lifting weights when I was 17 and someone told me you had to eat protein to put on muscle. I, uh, kind of went overboard:

RE Andrade, I think it’s helpful to draw a distinction between a pressure fighter - think Rafael dos Anjos or Conor McGregor, someone who excels at methodically working the opponent back to a barrier, in this case the fence - and a swarmer (think Nick Diaz or John Lineker) who has a quick trigger and unloads a hefty…

I don’t really disagree with any of that, but to your point, I think it’s important to draw a distinction between tactical adjustment and strategic adjustment. Lots of fighters can adjust their game tactically either through game planning or on the fly as the fight goes on, which Jedrzejczyk happens to do…

I’ve always thought JJ won that first fight, from the moment I saw it live to every time I’ve watched it since, but it was a close fight. I think there’s a lot to the idea that different fighters are built for different-length bouts: JJ is made for five-rounders, and Gadelha for three.

Sure have. If you want to compare the general competitive scene of 90s women’s boxing and kickboxing to women’s MMA in 2017, go ahead - 90s women’s boxing and kickboxing don’t come out favorably.

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