Please don’t attribute what happened to Canelo Alvarez in the ring at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday at the hands of Dmitry Bivol to Bivol’s advantage in size. That would be wrong. Size didn’t have an impact on this fight. Bivol retained his WBA light heavyweight title because, on this night at least, he was the …
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LAS VEGAS — Fighting for or defending the world title is always a huge night in any athlete’s life. Jan Blachowicz knew full well the euphoria of success in a title fight. He won the vacant light heavyweight title by knocking out Dominick Reyes at UFC 254 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Sept. …
The renewal of one of boxing’s most compelling rivalries is now within sight. On Monday, Canelo Alvarez announced that he’ll bypass an immediate rematch with WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol to face arch rival Gennadiy Golovkin in September. ESPN Deportes first reported the news. Alvarez had agreed earlier this year to meet Golovkin in …
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Rolando “Rolly” Romero comes on the phone and he’s talking. He hasn’t even said hello, but when he hears another person on the other end of the line, he’s off to the races. He’ll face Gervonta “Tank” Davis on Saturday at the Barclays Center in New York for the WBA lightweight title in the main …
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Canelo Alvarez barely hid his disdain for rival Gennadiy Golovkin during media tour stops in Los Angeles and New York to promote their Sept. 17 bout for the undisputed super middleweight title at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez, who got a draw in their first fight in 2017 and won the second in 2018, …
Olympic and triple world boxing champion Andy Cruz was caught trying to escape Cuba, the island nation’s boxing federation said on Tuesday, accusing the the fighter of “serious indiscipline”. The Cuban Boxing Federation (FCB) issued a statement on the website of Cuba’s INDER sports institute saying it had been “informed that the athlete Andy Cruz …
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Japan’s Naoya Inoue wants to prove he is worthy of his status as boxing’s new pound-for-pound king, by becoming undisputed bantamweight world champion, the man known as “Monster” said Monday. The ferocious 29-year-old was named The Ring magazine’s new pound-for-pound number one last month after demolishing the great Filipino veteran Nonito Donaire inside two rounds …
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On June 4 in Melbourne, Australia, George Kambosos Jr. and Devin Haney will fight for the undisputed lightweight title. But no matter who wins, the identity of the world’s best lightweight will be very much in dispute. Gervonta “Tank” Davis made his statement on Saturday at the Barclays Center in New York, and it was …
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Saul “Canelo” Alvarez said Friday he plans to finish Gennady Golovkin’s career when the two boxing rivals meet for the third and probably final time later this year. Five years after their first bout ended in a controversial draw, Mexican icon Alvarez and the heavy-hitting Golovkin face a trilogy bout in Las Vegas on September …
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Devin Haney stole a page from the boxing playbook of the 1940s last December. Moments after successfully defending his WBC lightweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas against Joseph “JoJo” Diaz, Haney called out unified champion George Kambosos Jr. A week earlier, the virtually unknown Australian upset Teofimo Lopez to become the unified …
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