The boxer tweeted this on Friday night: “Read this $72,276,000.00. God bless.” with a picture of two checks — one for $31,406,000 and one for $40,870,000.
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Forget everything you knew about the ice bucket challenge. 50 Cent just changed the game and landed a devastating shot to Floyd Mayweather in the process.
The debut of Big Knockout Boxing was a different experience than traditional boxing, but there was definitely an appeal.
A recent fight in Nevada has people wondering how the bout could have even been approved.
Gabe Rosado knocked out Bryan Vera with one second remaining in the sixth round of their seven-round main event to capture the BKB middleweight belt.
Veteran boxers Gabe Rosado and Bryan Vera are happy to be guinea pigs when Big Knockout Boxing makes its Nevada debut Saturday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
The Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation and Mayweather Promotions will hold a “Back To School Giveaway” charity event from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Mayweather Boxing Club, 4020 Schiff Drive.
Usually, fighters will segregate themselves from their opponents while they train to do battle. So it was somewhat strange to be at Barry’s Boxing on Wednesday and see Kell Brook inside the ring hitting the mitts while no less than 30 feet away stood Shawn Porter, shadow-boxing in front of a mirror.
TMT or TMI? That’s a question we were forced to ask after Floyd Mayweather posted a video of his bath time on Instagram this week.
The Panamanian boxer had 14 memorable fights in Las Vegas, including six straight wins. He’s being inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday at the Tropicana.
It had started out as boxing but quickly deteriorated into a street brawl, the kind that would probably have landed the participants in the Clark County Detention Center for the night had the violence not been confined to the ring.
Jessie Vargas retained his World Boxing Association junior welterweight title Saturday night in his first defense since winning it in April. But his performance was far from perfect, and he was the first to admit it.
In recent years, almost every boxing pay-per view-event in the United States has had a 6 p.m. Pacific start time. But Showtime is going outside the norm for its Sept. 13 PPV telecast of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Marcos Maidana welterweight title rematch.
It wasn’t long ago that Jessie Vargas had little to say. He was soft-spoken, cliche-ridden and would stare at the floor while being interviewed. But the Palo Verde High School graduate has grown up.
The former world champion has lost two straight fights and hopes to stope his slide when he faces Argentina’s Diego Chaves Saturday in a 10-round welterweight main event at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on HBO.
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