Parenthood has prompted the Plants to deviate from their usual preparation process as Caleb prepares to fight former 168-pound champion Anthony Dirrell.
Boxing
That Gennady “GGG” Golovkin is a +350 underdog to Canelo Alvarez in their super middleweight fight seems disrespectful, even if he is past his prime at age 40.
The son of Hector “Macho” Camacho will fight Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. in an exhibition Saturday, more than 29 years after Chavez beat his father at the Thomas & Mack Center.
WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford beat Kell Brook by technical knockout Saturday to retain his title inside Top Rank’s bubble in the MGM Grand’s Grand Ballroom.
WBA and WBO lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and IBF champion Teofimo Lopez will fight Saturday inside Top Rank’s bubble at the MGM Grand.
Romero (11-0, 10 knockouts), a Las Vegas native, is fighting Jackson Marinez (19-0, seven KOs) on Saturday for the interim WBA lightweight title.
Junior lightweight boxers Mikaela Mayer and Helen Joseph on Tuesday became the first women to fight in the main event of a Top Rank boxing card on ESPN.
Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury endured an impressive effort from underdog Otto Wallin before asserting his dominance in the latter rounds Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
The heavyweight is relishing his first fight in Las Vegas as he prepares to defend his lineal championship against Tom Schwarz on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
The undefeated German heavyweight will be fighting in the United States for the first time when he steps into the ring Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden.
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.
Sixteen boxing reporters made predictions for Saturday’s highly anticipated middleweight rematch between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena.
