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Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose Shakur Stevenson takes on Robson Conceicao in a twelve round main event tonight at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center. The fight will be aired live on ESPN and ESPN+ starting at 10 PM eastern time. The 18-0 Stevenson was supposed to be defending his WBO and WBC junior lightweight

Posted on 09/22/2022 By: Sean Crose Earlier today, WBO and WBC junior lightweight titlist Shakur Stevenson, who is set to face Robson Conceicao tomorrow night in Newark, New Jersey, missed weight by 1.6 pounds. He was given two hours to make things right on the scale. He didn’t bother, opting instead to post the following

Posted on 09/22/2022 By: Sean Crose “I gave it my all,” Shakur Stevenson posted on Twitter Thursday afternoon. He had come in 1.6 pounds overweight on the scales a few minutes earlier at the weigh in for his scheduled Friday night battle with Robson Conceicao, who himself made weight easily. “I’ve been professional my whole

Posted on 09/21/2022 By: Sean Crose At the time it all made a bit of sense. Floyd Mayweather, although forty years of age and retired, was still considered the single most dominant force in boxing. No one, not even former foe Canelo Alvarez, had positioned himself on the throne Mayweather had vacated. Conor McGregor, on

Posted on 09/20/2022 By: Sean Crose It had been said that the postponed undisputed middleweight championship fight between Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall was going to be rescheduled for October 15th. Now it’s been made official. “New Date. Same Mindset,” read a Top Rank Twitter post that appeared Tuesday. Under that post was a promotional

Posted on 09/20/2022 By: Sean Crose “I was a little disappointed in the efforts. It looked like one guy wasn’t ready to fight and he was glad the other guy wasn’t either.” So said famed trainer Abel Sanchez of last Saturday night’s Canelo Golovkin battle. It was the first time the Big Bear, California based

Posted on 09/19/2022 By: Sean Crose “It’s hard to deny that Golovkin no longer appears to be his prime self in the ring.” The above words weren’t written after last weekend’s third Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight. They were written by me in back 2019, after Golovkin fought in less than stellar fashion against  Sergiy Derevyanchenko.

Posted on 09/18/2022 By: Sean Crose So now we’re told that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez should have laid out Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night in Las Vegas. This after we’ve been told over the past several years that Canelo was a ducker, a cheater, a judges’ darling and just an overall over-rated product of hype. Okay,

Posted on 09/17/2022 By Charles Jay Canelo Alvarez is consistently a favorite for his Saturday night bout against Gennady Golovkin (GGG). That’s not a secret. But there is some disparity in terms of the odds at which you can wager on either man. It is not Boxing Insider‘s policy to advertise or promote any individual

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose Popular veteran Gabriel Rosado stepped into the ring as part of the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin undercard at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Saturday. The 26-15-1 fighter was facing the 18-1 Ali Akhmedov in a scheduled super middleweight 10 rounder. The first half of the fight saw Akhmedov looking

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, the 22 year old undefeated WBC super flyweight champion of the world slipped in between the ropes at Vegas’ T-Mobil Arena Saturday night to take on the 28-4-1 Israel Gonzalez in a championship affair scheduled for 12 rounds. This was the first defense of the 16-0 Rodriguez’

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 09/18/2022 By: Sean Crose Saul “Canelo” Alvarez returned to the ring at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday to once again face his arch rival, Gennady Golovkin. The first two controversial fights (which ended in a draw and a Canelo victory, respectively) between the two

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose The 11-0 middleweight Austin Williams opened up DAZN’s Canelo-Golovkin pay per view card Saturday night at Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena by taking on the 18-2-1 Kieron Conway in a scheduled 10 rounder. The opening chapter was something of a feeling out process for each man. Williams moved forward while Conway

Posted on 09/17/2022 By: Sean Crose What is perhaps the most anticipated fight of the year is going down this evening at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as Canelo Alvarez defends his undisputed super middleweight championship of the world against Gennady Golovkin in what will be the third matchup between the two. Both the

Posted on 09/16/2022 By: Sean Crose Here we go again. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who remains the most dominant force in boxing despite his recent loss to WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, is once more going to share the ring with arch rival Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. And why not? The first two bouts, although controversial,

Posted on 09/15/2022 By: Sean Crose One of the things that comes to mind when the topic of Canelo Alvarez’ ring battles with Gennady Golovkin comes up is the topic of judicial bias. Canleo, fairly or not, has been widely regarded as a judge’s darling. The first fight between he and Golovkin ended in a

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 09/15/2022 By: Sean Crose ESPN reports that WBA, IBF, and WBC welterweight champion Errol Spence and WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford “have agreed to all material terms for an undisputed welterweight title fight targeted for Nov. 19.” This is a considerable development in negotiations which seem to

Posted on 09/14/2022 By: Sean Crose It’s no surprise that there’s bad blood between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez. They’ve fought tooth and nail twice, after all. Not only that, each of their two fights have ended in a controversial decision. To make things truly hostile, however, Golovkin has suggested Canelo intentionally ingested the banned