Walters to face Garza on Garcia-Martinez card
Hard-hitting Jamaican Nicholas Walters will make his Top Rank debut against Alberto Garza on the undercard of the Mikey Garcia-Roman Martinez fight on Nov. 9.
read moreCotto ‘in a very good place’ after Rodriguez victory
Three-division titlewinner Miguel Cotto is expected to arrive in Las Vegas on Thursday to discuss potential future fights with Top Rank, which promoted last his one-sided third-round TKO of Delvin Rodriguez last Saturday.
read moreLem’s latest: Bradley aims to retire Marquez
WBO welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley is looking to beat Juan Manuel Marquez into retirement, while the 40-year-old Marquez is trying to become Mexico’s first five-division beltwinner.
read moreMayweather-Alvarez grosses record $150 million
Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe: “Floyd very well could make $100 million.”
read moreMayweather-Alvarez breaks closed circuit sales record
The Floyd Mayweather-Canelo Alvarez fight totaled more than $2.6 million in closed circuit ticket sales in Las Vegas on Sept 14, setting a new record, according to the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
read moreThey Never Happened – part II
What would have happened if Mike Tyson fought George Foreman, if Oscar De La Hoya fought Kostya Tszyu or if James Toney fought Gerald McClellan? Here’s a list of 10 elite showdowns that could have taken place at one time but didn’t for various reasons. Anson Wainwright asked three top matchmakers to tell us what might’ve happened if they had.
read moreSchaefer: Mayweather-Alvarez to pass gross record, over 2 million PPV buys
Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer said Floyd Mayweather-Canelo Alvarez will eclipse Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya as the highest-grossing boxing event of all time.
read moreMayweather apologizes for ‘stupid’ post
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has offered an apology to Oscar De La Hoya after a mocking photo “not authorized” by Mayweather was posted on his Instagram account.
read moreWhat’s next for Alvarez?
Richard Schaefer said Canelo Alvarez, “today, is bigger than he ever was,” in the wake of the 23-year-old’s loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday night.
read moreMayweather: De La Hoya’s ‘a true champion’
After dominating Canelo Alvarez, whom Oscar De La Hoya said would stop him in eight rounds or less, Floyd Mayweather called De La Hoya, “a true champion” in support of his former rival’s struggles with substance abuse.
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