Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s majority decision over Gennady Golovkin on Sept. 15 at T-Mobile Arena reportedly had 1.1 million pay-per-view buys. The first match last year drew 1.3 million PPV buys.
Boxing
Las Vegas resident Devin Haney headlines a Showtime-televised boxing card that he’s promoting Friday in Temecula, California. He fights former world title challenger Juan Carlos Burgos in a 10-round bout.
The foreseen was made official Thursday by HBO, as the pay TV service announced that boxing is being dropped from its programming by the end of the year.
Mandalay Bay Events Center and Staples Center in Los Angeles are the front-runner venues to land arguably the biggest heavyweight fight in the U.S. in almost 15 years.
The result wasn’t anywhere near as controversial as Canelo-GGG I, which was ruled a draw, but the majority of Las Vegas sports book directors believed Golovkin won the rematch.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s first title defense probably won’t be against Gennady Golovkin.
“Canelo” Alvarez was awarded a majority decision in a rematch with Gennady Golovkin, and if you were on the side that the first fight was incredibly close and impossibly difficult to score, well, this was even tougher.
The Canelo-GGG fight falls into a busy sports weekend in Las Vegas with the NASCAR racing action at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the Mr. Olympia competition at Las Vegas Convention Center.
All three undercard fights ended in knockouts Saturday night, with Roman Gonzalez, David Lemieux and Jaime Munguia prevailing.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez defeated Gennady Golovkin by majority decision (115-113, 114-114, 115-113) to become the WBC/WBA middleweight champion Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
Floyd Mayweather is ending another retirement to fight Manny Pacquiao for a second time.
The middleweight rematch became official for Saturday at T-Mobile Arena after the fighters made the 160-pound limit. Gennady Golovkin weighed 159.6 pounds and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez 159.4.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. fights Roberto Ortiz in a 10-round bout Saturday at T-Mobile Arena that will be shown on the HBO freeview, the final fight before the pay-per-view broadcast.
Canelo Alvarez is headlining, in a way, at XS Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas late Saturday night. Canelo will hit that scene(metaphorically) after his bout with Gennady Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena.
Fists fly and engines roar. It’s party time in Las Vegas, so let’s cash some tickets on boxing and NASCAR this weekend — and, of course, football.