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LAS VEGAS – Montana Love cannot wait to disappoint some of Canelo Alvarez’s fans by beating one of his stablemates on Alvarez’s undercard Saturday night. The unbeaten junior welterweight contender from Cleveland is set to square off against Gabriel Valenzuela in the co-feature before Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol fight for Bivol’s WBA light heavyweight title

Momentum is a funny thing. Saul Alvarez has it. One can look at his lack of losses since the Floyd Mayweather fight and see his position in 2022 as a result of a constant. It’s not. There’s been a different level to Alvarez since the rematch victory over Gennady Golovkin. Caleb Plant, Sergey Kovalev, and

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz   As usual, the first week of May brings with it the return to the ring of the best pound-for-pound fighter of today, Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who will challenge Dmitry Bivol for the World Boxing Association (WBA) light heavyweight title in the midst of the important patriotic date

David Benavidez couldn’t help but get a kick out of his recent run-in with Jermall Charlo, knowing that it is unlikely to lead to an actual fight anytime soon. The pair of unbeaten boxers and their respective teams exchanged harsh words and had to be separated while ringside for the Errol Spence-Yordenis Ugas Showtime Pay-Per-View

World Super Middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KO) has done a lot already in his career. He’s already only the third former Jr. middleweight titlist to win a major sanctioning body belt at light heavyweight, joining the exceptional company of Thomas Hearns and Mike McCallum. This Saturday (DAZN, 8 PM EST), Alvarez will try

Triller Fight Club announced ‘The Rising,’ a Monday Night Fight Series debuting on May 9, and emanating from Grupo Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico in addition to being broadcast globally on FITE. The eight-bout card kicks off a full fight week of events leading up to Triller Fight Club’s highly anticipated TrillerVerz 5 on Saturday, May

LAS VEGAS – Dmitry Bivol will be the eighth world champion Canelo Alvarez will have faced in his past 10 fights after Saturday night. The Mexican superstar can become a two-time light heavyweight champion by beating Bivol in their 12-round fight for Bivol’s WBA 175-pound championship at T-Mobile Arena. If the favored Alvarez wins, he

The concerns raised by Seniesa Estrada have been heard loud and clear by the top brass at Golden Boy Promotions. However, there exists confusion as to how things managed to reach this point. East Los Angeles’ Estrada (22-0, 9KOs) has been vocal in recent weeks in her displeasure over the pay offered for her next

Undefeated WBC Middleweight World Champion Jermall Charlo will hold a Juneteenth celebration in his hometown for the second-straight year when he steps into the ring to face tough former title challenger Maciej Sulecki on Saturday, June 18 live on SHOWTIME from Toyota Center in Houston in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. The SHOWTIME

Canelo Alvarez sees no reason to abandon his long standing ring philosophy in his next fight.   The 31-year-old Mexican superstar and current undisputed 168-pound champion is set to take on WBA light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol of Russia in a 12-round, 175-pound title bout May 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The pay-per-view

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Less than a month before Saul “Canelo” Alvarez invaded the light heavyweight division for the first time and knocked out Sergey Kovalev in 11 rounds in November 2019, Dmitry Bivol was preparing for another defense of his WBA title, which turned out to be a near-shutout 12-round victory over

Another dominant performance from Shakur Stevenson drew higher viewership than the previous Stevenson fight ESPN televised. Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that an average of 1,353,000 viewers watched Stevenson’s 12-round, unanimous-decision victory over Oscar Valdez in their 130-pound title unification fight Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. ESPN’s audience for Stevenson-Valdez,

LAS VEGAS – Full title unification in the 130-pound division isn’t nearly as important to Bob Arum as it is to Shakur Stevenson. Stevenson’s 90-year-old promoter adamantly dismissed the possibility of Stevenson fighting WBA champ Roger Gutierrez or IBF champ Kenichi Ogawa next during a post-fight interview with BoxingScene.com on Saturday night at MGM Grand.

All of a sudden, he’s a generational talent. It seems like only yesterday – or at least not too long ago – that Canelo Alvarez was a precocious phenom being touted by his promotional apparatus as a lock to be a superstar. Now, a few months before he turns 32, he’s exactly where the hype

As usual, the first week of May brings with it the return to the ring of the best pound-for-pound fighter of today, Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who will challenge Dmitry Bivol for the World Boxing Association (WBA) light heavyweight title in the midst of the important patriotic date for Mexican people. (photos by Melina Pizano)

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Referee Michael Griffin decided a hands-free approach was the only way to officiate the dramatic tussle he presided over Saturday night. Before a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Ireland’s Katie Taylor, the undisputed women’s lightweight champion, went toe to toe with Brooklyn’s Amanda Serrano,

French veteran Yvan Mendy (47-5-1) won the vacant EBU lightweight last night in Pont Sainte Maxence with a unanimous decision over Italian Gianluca Ceglia (17-4-1).  Mendy now has Finn Edis Tatli as mandatory challenger. Tatli beat Mendy back in 2015 in a fight for the then vacant EBU title but it was close enough to

Katie Taylor edged out Amanda Serrano to retain her undisputed lightweight crown in an epic fight for the ages at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York City. Taylor was trying to fight off in the early rounds. Serrano came on very strong in the fifth and had her fans on her feet as