Podcast by HBO Boxing
They called the fight “Bad Blood.” It was a marketing angle that wrote itself. In 2002, Oscar De La Hoya and Fernando Vargas met in a clash of Mexican-American U.S. Olympians from southern California, bringing the two biggest draws at 154 pounds together for a monster pay-per-view event that was powered by a bitter grudge. In a special edition of the HBO Boxing Podcast, Eric Raskin speaks to De La Hoya, Vargas, and numerous insiders who were at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas that night and lets them tell the story of a modern classic, a showdown in which scores were settled and blood was spilled.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney recap Saturday night's Boxing After Dark tripleheader featuring victories for Cecilia Braekhus, Claressa Shields, and Juan Francisco Estrada, plus they share reflections and memories from the podcast's run.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday's Boxing After Dark tripleheader from the StubHub Center in Carson, California, featuring top female fighters Cecilia Braekhus and Claressa Shields and "Super Fly" stalwart Juan Francisco Estrada.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney analyze Dmitry Bivol's dominant but somewhat unsatisfying win over Jean Pascal and Murodjon Akhmadaliev's TKO victory over Isaac Zarate in his HBO debut.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday night's light heavyweight bout in Atlantic City between undefeated rising star Dmitry Bivol and former world champion Jean Pascal.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney reflect on Saturday night's HBO World Championship Boxing tripleheader, featuring Daniel Jacobs' hard-fought win over Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Alberto Machado's explosive first-round knockout of Yuandale Evans, and Heather Hardy's grudge match victory over Shelly Vincent.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday's middleweight showdown between Daniel Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko, the headline bout of a World Championship Boxing tripleheader from Madison Square Garden.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney talk to undefeated female featherweight Heather "The Heat" Hardy about her October 27 HBO-televised rematch with Shelly Vincent, the tragedy she was dealing with leading up to their first fight, the challenges posed by jumping back and forth between boxing and MMA, and the future of women's boxing.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney give their immediate reaction to and analysis of Canelo Alvarez's thrilling decision win over Gennady Golovkin in their rematch and speculate on the likelihood of a third fight.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney are live from Radio Row in Las Vegas for their final day of GGG-Canelo 2 prefight podcasting, welcoming trainer Abel Sanchez, HBO expert analyst Roy Jones, and boxing journalist Gordon Marino, and also covering the weigh-in and breaking down the betting odds.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney are live from Radio Row at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, covering GGG-Canelo 2 Fight Week with guests Brian Campbell of CBS Sports, middleweight contender Spike O'Sullivan, and women's welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney open up the Fight Week mailbag, responding to listener questions about the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez rematch and awarding signed gloves for the best submitted questions.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney provide their official fight preview of Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez 2, assessing what's at stake for both fighters, breaking down key storylines, and offering their predictions on what will happen in the ring at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney kick off GGG-Canelo 2 Fight Week by discussing four key CompuBox stats that could play pivotal roles once the opening bell rings for the hotly anticipated rematch.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney analyze the results from Saturday's Super Fly 3 tripleheader, including Juan Francisco Estrada's action-packed win over Felipe Orucuta, Donnie Nietes' controversial draw with Aston Palicte, and Kazuto Ioka's HBO coming-out party against McWilliams Arroyo.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday's Super Fly 3 tripleheader, focusing in particular on the main event pitting Super Fly series veteran Juan Francisco Estrada against Felipe Orucuta.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney offer an early preview of the stacked September 15 Canelo-GGG 2 pay-per-view undercard, analyzing Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez vs. Moises Fuentes, Jaime Munguia vs. Brandon Cook, and David Lemieux vs. Spike O'Sullivan.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney chat with Gennady Golovkin's trainer, Abel Sanchez, about how he expects Canelo Alvarez to fight in the rematch, GGG's mindset in camp, and what it will take to make a third fight.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney are joined by CompuBox's Bob Cannobio and Lee Groves, co-authors of Muhammad Ali: By The Numbers, to discuss the stats that shaped Ali's extraordinary career and the most surprising facts and figures from his fights.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney react to Eleider Alvarez's shocking seventh-round knockout of Sergey Kovalev and Dmitry Bivol's decision win over Isaac Chilemba in a light heavyweight doubleheader from Atlantic City.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday night's light heavyweight doubleheader, Sergey Kovalev vs. Eleider Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol vs. Isaac Chilemba, and share their predictions for the outcomes.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney discuss Saturday night's dominant decision wins by Jaime Munguia and Alberto Machado and assess whether each fighter's stock had gone up at the end of 12 rounds of action.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday night's junior middleweight showdown between Jaime Munguia and Liam Smith, plus they reveal the final results on the HBO GOAT fighter tournament.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney open up the mailbag and answer listener questions about the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament, then they reveal the results of the semifinals and preview the final matchup of the tourney. To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney reveal the results of the quarterfinals of the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament and preview the Final Four, plus they catch up on the latest HBO boxing news. To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney reveal the results of the second round of the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament and are joined by Hall of Fame boxing journalist Nigel Collins to preview the quarterfinal matchups. To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney complete the second round of the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament by revealing first-round results and analyzing four upcoming matchups in the "Savage Sixteen." To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney kick off the second round of the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament by revealing first-round results and analyzing half of the matchups in the "Savage Sixteen." To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney conclude the first round of the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament by revealing the four matchups in the "Lederman Region" and analyzing the cases for and against each of the eight fighters. To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney discuss the news about the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez rematch deal getting done, then they continue the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament by revealing the four matchups in the "Kellerman Region" and analyzing the cases for and against each of the eight fighters. To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney continue the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament by revealing the four matchups in the "Merchant Region" and analyzing the cases for and against each of the eight fighters. To vote for your GOAT, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney kick off the Greatest HBO Fighter of All-Time tournament by revealing the four matchups in the "Lampley Region" and analyzing the cases for and against each of the eight fighters. To vote for the winners, visit insidehboboxing.com.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney interview legendary warrior Micky Ward on the 15th anniversary of his final fight, discussing his trilogy with Arturo Gatti, what it's like to become the subject of an Academy Award winning movie, his health and daily life after boxing, and why he plans to donate his brain to science
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney look back at all three fights in the legendary trilogy between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales, the latter of whom is about to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney welcome Hall of Fame HBO broadcaster Jim Lampley onto the podcast to discuss the latest news pertaining to Jaime Munguia's emergence, the top of the pound-for-pound list, Canelo Alvarez's VADA agreement and what it means for a Gennady Golovkin rematch, the Supreme Court's ruling on sports betting, and Eddie Hearn's ambitious new venture.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney break down Jaime Munguia's stunning four-round destruction of Sadam Ali and Rey Vargas' hard-fought decision win over Azat Hovhannisyan. (Spoiler alert: Raskin and Mulvaney actually have a strong disagreement about something!)
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney look back on Gennady Golovkin's destructive second-round knockout of Vanes Martirosyan and Cecilia Braekhus' historic win over Kali Reis, then look ahead to the May 12 doubleheader headlined by Sadam Ali's dangerous defense against undefeated puncher Jaime Munguia.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Gennady Golovkin's return to live HBO, as "GGG" takes on Vanes Martirosyan and attempts his record-tying 20th middleweight title defense.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney discuss Daniel Jacobs and Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller's respective decision victories in Brooklyn over game underdogs Maciej Sulecki and Johann Duhaupas and project where all of the fighters go from here.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney review the latest news in the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez saga, then they preview Saturday night’s World Championship Boxing card featuring Daniel Jacobs vs. Maciej Sulecki and Jarrell Miller vs. Johann Duhaupas.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney dive into all of the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez drama from the past several weeks, asking and answering five key questions about what has happened and what's still to come.
The HBO Boxing Podcast takes a detour into the world of pro wrestling, as HBO Boxing Insider Eric Raskin talks with CBS Sports' Brian Campbell and 1Wrestling.com's Bill Apter about the legend and legacy of Andre The Giant. Andre The Giant airs April 10 at 10 PM ET on HBO.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney look back on the remarkable career of the recently retired Roy Jones Jr., analyzing the 10 greatest victories scored by the longtime pound-for-pound king.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney break down British heavyweight Dillian Whyte's emphatic knockout win over Lucas Browne and explore a potential scrap between Whyte and Deontay Wilder, then they welcome HBO's unofficial judge Harold Lederman back onto the show to answer listener questions.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview Saturday's heavyweight showdown from London between Dillian Whyte and Lucas Browne, then they're joined by HBO's unofficial judge Harold Lederman for a conversation covering the Golovkin-Canelo scoring, what kind of fights are hardest to judge, the fight Harold would most like to see made, and much more.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney catch up with newly retired former middleweight titleholder Andy Lee for a conversation about his decision to hang up the gloves, his Olympic experience, working with the great Emanuel Steward, what to expect in the Golovkin-Alvarez rematch, and what other middleweights right now can threaten the Canelo-GGG winner.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney look back on dominant knockout wins for Sergey Kovalev and Dmitry Bivol on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden and glance ahead to when the two elite light heavyweights might meet in the ring, plus they reflect on last week's Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fan event at LA Live.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview the March 3 light heavyweight doubleheader at Madison Square Garden, breaking down the all-Russian showdown between Sergey Kovalev and Igor Mikhalkin and Dmitry Bivol's gigantic step up against Sullivan Barrera.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney discuss the sensational SuperFly 2 card, from Srisaket Sor Rungvisai's narrow decision over Juan Francisco Estrada in a Fight-of-the-Year-caliber main event, to McWilliams Arroyo's surprising and hard-earned victory over Carlos Cuadras, to Donnie Nietes' emphatic destruction of Juan Carlos Reveco in his HBO debut.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney preview the 115-pound championship fight between Srisaket For Rungvisai and Juan Francisco Estrada and analyze whether this "SuperFly 2" tripleheader is better from top to bottom than the original "SuperFly" event. SuperFly 2 airs on HBO on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 9:30 PM ET/PT.
HBO Boxing Insiders Eric Raskin and Kieran Mulvaney kick off the countdown to the Feb. 24 Superfly 2 card by engaging in a "Little Guys Snake Draft," assembling fantasy teams of the best 115-pound-and-below fighters of the last 25 years.