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Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez met in a May 2004 featherweight boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout was contested for Marquez's WBA and IBF featherweight world titles. Pacquiao remarkably knocked Marquez down three times in the very first round. However, Marquez recov...
Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin I was a professional boxing match held on September 16, 2017, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 12-round bout was contested for the unified WBA, WBC, IBF, and IBO middleweight world championships. Despite Golovkin pressing the action and landing more...
Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder I was a heavyweight boxing match held on December 1, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, for Wilder's WBC heavyweight title. Fury survived a 12th-round knockdown that appeared to knock him out and rose to finish the round, and the bout ended in a con...
2-7 Triple Draw is a complex poker variant played within mixed lowball games. It involves three drawing rounds where players aim to complete hands using cards from deuce through seven of various suits. Aces are always high, and the best hand consists of 2-3-4-5-7 with mixed suit combinations. This g...
Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns met for their highly anticipated rematch in June 1989, contesting the WBC super middleweight title. The fight ended in a split draw, with one judge scoring it for Leonard, one for Hearns, and one even. The result was highly controversial, as Hearns had officially...
Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard fought their long-awaited rematch in June 1989 for the WBC super middleweight championship. The 12-round contest concluded in a split decision draw, meaning neither fighter secured a definitive victory over the other. Hearns managed to score two official knockdown...
Jermell Charlo versus Brian Castano I was a July 2021 super-welterweight title unification fight in San Antonio, Texas. Charlo entered with the WBC, WBA, and IBF belts, while Castano held the WBO title, so a victory would have produced an undisputed champion in the four-belt era. The twelve-round co...
Held in September 1993 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, this boxing match featured undefeated junior welterweight champion Julio César Chávez moving up to challenge Pernell Whitaker for the WBC welterweight title. Whitaker utilized his signature defensive prowess and southpaw jab to consisten...
This November 1979 boxing match contested the undisputed middleweight championship, with Vito Antuofermo defending against top contender Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas. Hagler effectively utilized his southpaw stance and size advantage to control the pace, appearing to outwork the champion throughout th...
The first boxing match between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield took place in March 1999 at Madison Square Garden to unify the WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles. The bout ended in a highly controversial split draw, despite most ringside observers and media scoring the fight decisively in favor...
Bernard Hopkins vs. Jean Pascal I was a light-heavyweight championship bout held in Quebec City on December 18, 2010. Pascal retained the WBC and lineal titles when the contest ended in a majority draw, with one judge scoring for Hopkins and two scoring it even. Hopkins recovered from two officially...
Azumah Nelson vs Jeff Fenech I was a WBC super featherweight championship boxing match held in Las Vegas in 1991. Ghana's Azumah Nelson defended his title against Australian challenger Jeff Fenech, who was attempting to win a world championship in a third weight class. The bout ended in a highly con...
Five-Card Draw is among the simplest and oldest poker variants, in which each player receives five private cards followed by a single round during which they may discard and replace any number of cards. The betting structure typically involves one round before and one after the draw, with hand ranki...
Badeucey is a split-pot poker variant that combines Badugi and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball. Half of the pot is awarded to the best Badugi hand, and half to the best 2-7 lowball hand. Players receive five cards and have three drawing opportunities to improve their hands. This complex game is typically fo...
Badeucy is a split-pot poker variant combining elements of Badugi and 2-7 Lowball. Typically played as a single-draw game in mixed-game rotations, the pot is divided between the best Badugi hand and the best 2-7 low hand. Players must develop strategies to compete for both halves of the pot simultan...
Erislandy Lara vs Brian Castano was a super welterweight boxing match held on March 2, 2019, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The bout featured the Cuban veteran Lara challenging the undefeated Argentine fighter Castaño for the WBA Regular super welterweight title. The contest ended in...
2-7 Single Draw is a lowball poker variant that uses deuce-to-seven rankings to determine the winning hand. The objective is to make the lowest possible five-card hand, with the best possible hand being 2-3-4-5-7 of mixed suits. Players are permitted one opportunity to discard and draw new cards to...
Badugi is a draw-poker variant in which each player receives four cards and may replace cards over several drawing rounds. The objective is to make the lowest hand containing four different ranks and four different suits; such a complete four-card hand is called a badugi. Pairs or repeated suits for...
Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield fought to a highly controversial split draw in this 1999 heavyweight unification bout at Madison Square Garden.
Jacks or Better is a form of draw poker in which a pair of jacks is the minimum qualifying pair for certain purposes, such as opening the betting or receiving a payout. In five-card draw, players may discard selected cards and receive replacements before the final betting round. The name is also wid...
A-5 Triple Draw is a draw-poker variant in which the lowest five-card hand wins under ace-to-five ranking. Players may discard and replace cards during three separate drawing rounds, with betting between the draws; the game is commonly dealt using fixed-limit betting. Aces count low, while straights...
Single-draw California Lowball variant where aces count as low, straights and flushes are ignored, and A-2-3-4-5 known as the wheel is the best possible hand.
Japanese veteran Kazuto Ioka and Filipino WBO light flyweight champion Donnie Nietes fought to a split draw in their December 2018 junior flyweight title unification.
Spit in the Ocean is a classic draw poker variant where a single community card is dealt face up to the center of the table, acting as the fifth card in every player's hand.
Lowball draw game using deuce-to-seven rankings with two drawing rounds, offering more flexibility than single draw but less variance reduction than triple draw.
Ace-to-six lowball variant related to Razz where straights and flushes do count against the low, making A-2-3-4-6 of mixed suits the strongest possible hand.
