David Benavidez stopped Demetrius Andrade in their WBC interim super middleweight title fight Saturday at Michelob Ultra Arena.
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Unbeaten stars Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford are finally ready to battle Saturday inside T-Mobile Arena for the undisputed welterweight title.
We joke about the many halls of fame in which Al Bernstein has been inducted. If there were an Boxing Broadcaster-Singer of Standards Hall of Fame, Bernstein would be enshrined there, too.
Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford announced Thursday that their long-awaited undisputed title fight will take place July 29 at T-Mobile Arena.
The bad blood finally boiled over Saturday night inside the boxing ring at the MGM Grand Garden, ending one of the sport’s best rivalries with an unlikely embrace.
The hall is celebrating and honoring 27 former boxers and boxing contributors this weekend at Resorts World Las Vegas with its first gala since 2019.
Pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez will return to the ring May 7 to fight WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol, with T-Mobile Arena the front-runner to land the bout.
Junior lightweight Chris Colbert, who got the blessing of Deion Sanders to also use the nickname “Primetime,” will fight undefeated Hector Garcia on Saturday.
While the Raiders’ tumultuous year dominated the news in Las Vegas, they were far from the only major story on the local sports scene.
Gervonta Davis (24-0, 23 knockouts) will fight for the first time as a junior welterweight Saturday against Mario Barrios, who doubles as the tallest and heaviest opponent he’ll have faced to date.
The 5-foot, 7-inch Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs), will take on the 5-11 Masayoshi Nakatani (19-1, 13 KOs), in the main event of a Top Rank boxing card from Virgin Hotels.
UFC star Conor McGregor tweeted Friday that he was going to step back into the boxing ring and fight former great Manny Pacquiao.
Vazquez can claim his first world crown by beating Brandon Figueroa on Saturday for the WBA super bantamweight title.
Jason Moloney scored a technical knockout over Leonardo Baez in Moloney’s Las Vegas debut in the main event of Top Rank’s boxing card Thursday at the MGM Grand.
A bettor at the MGM Grand has a $192,001.30 wager to win $14,763.33 riding on Orlando Gonzalez-Ruiz over Luis Porozo in their featherweight fight Thursday at the MGM Grand.
