Tickets for the middleweight showdown between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.
Boxing
Floyd Mayweather Jr. by knockout is the minus-200 favorite in method-of-victory props for his Aug. 26 boxing match against Conor McGregor.
Early betting interest on the bout has been nonexistent at the Westgate, which posted odds on the possible megafight Thursday with Mayweather listed as a 25-1 favorite and McGregor a 11-1 underdog.
Carl Frampton is arguably the biggest boxing star in the U.K. and is now starting to make a name for himself in the U.S. He has the McGuigan family to thank for that.
Andre Ward took Sergey Kovalev’s three light heavyweight belts, but not without some controversy. Boxing fans and media are divided on who won Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
Former UNLV football player Jason Beauchamp made his boxing debut Friday against Kenny Cruz in a cruiserweight match at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. stopped to talk to the Review-Journal on Friday. The retired boxing superstar didn’t give a definte no when asked about returning to the ring.
Manny Pacquiao’s next fight will take place at Thomas & Mack Center on Nov. 5, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum confirmed Wednesday.
Two-time Mexican Olympian Oscar Valdez will be fighting in his first championship match when he faces Matias Rueda for the vacant WBO featherweight title on the co-main event of the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday.
Las Vegas’ Jessie Vargas will risk his WBO welterweight title against Kell Brook, the IBF champ, on Aug. 27 in England.
Bob Bennett isn’t going to comment on the nonsense that is anyone believing a Floyd Mayweather Jr.- Conor McGregor fight has the slightest chance of happening, no matter how rich a payday it might generate for all involved.
Erislandy Lara, the reigning World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion, is confident he will defeat Vanes Martirosyan Saturday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas after their first fight in 2012 ended in a draw.
Vanes Martirosyan will get a second crack against arguably the best junior middleweight in boxing when he and Erislandy Lara headline a tripleheader Saturday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Bob Arum of Top Rank had sued Al Haymon of Haymon Boxing for $100 million in July over antitrust violations along with violating the federal Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act.
Oscar De La Hoya, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, is excited about the May 7 WBC middleweight title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan at T-Mobile Arena.
