You’re not beating the A side — especially when it’s Saúl Canelo Alvarez — by taking off the middle rounds of a mega-middleweight fight that unified three championship belts in the division, but that’s what Jacobs did and he rightly paid for it.
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Saul “Canelo” Alvarez scored a unanimous decision victory over Daniel Jacobs to unify the world middleweight boxing titles Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
Gennady Golovkin, the WBA/WBC/IBF champion, will attempt to tie Bernard Hopkins’ record of 20 consecutive successful middleweight title defenses when he fights Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday.
The Fremont Street Experience payed tribute to the late Muhammad Ali with a special presentation on its 1,500-foot-long video screen.
Manny Pacquiao said after Saturday’s loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. that he injured his right shoulder in early April and was using an anti-inflammatory to deal with the pain. But the Nevada Athletic Commission would not allow him to get a shot before the fight, saying it had no knowledge of the injury.
The former fiancee of Floyd Mayweather Jr. claims in a civil lawsuit that the superstar boxer beat her during their relationship and later publicly humiliated her by posting on social media a sonogram of her pregnancy and saying they broke up because she got an abortion.