Question posed: If you could watch just one fight — Canelo Alvarez against Gennady Golovkin or Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Conor McGregor — which would you pick?
Boxing
Boxing’s history is defined by characters, and a Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Conor McGregor fight would offer a bonanza of them.
UFC star Conor McGregor has once again applied for a boxing license in Nevada. He’s likely to actually get one this time.
Larry Wade likes to keep himself busy by training world-class boxers and the UNLV track and field team. Wade is married to Yvonne Wade, the UNLV track coach.
Andre Ward defeated Sergey Kovalev by unanimous decision, 114-113 on all the cards, to become the new unified light heavyweight champion Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
The hope of boxing was that it wouldn’t produce boredom, that when the conclusion of Andre Ward against Sergey Kovalev arrived Saturday night before 13,310 at T-Mobile Arena, a mainstream fan base watching might want to see it again.
Junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has a broken right thumb that will keep him out of the ring for the rest of the year.
Top Rank’s stable of talented fighters just got better. On Monday, the Las Vegas-based company signed Irish boxer Michael Conlan, who made waves at the Rio Olympics for raising his middle fingers at judges after a controversial loss.
In a rare Sunday bout, Errol Spence Jr. meets veteran Leonard Bundu in an IBF title eliminator in Brooklyn, New York. The matchup will be televised on NBC at 2 p.m.
This summer will be four years since Michael Hunter represented the United States in the Olympics as a heavyweight. By now, the boxer from Las Vegas figured he would be ranked and fighting for world titles in the cruiserweight division.
The Magdaleno brothers of Las Vegas were hoping they would be world champions at the same time. But while Jessie’s future is very much in play toward winning a belt, older brother Diego’s future is uncertain.
Manny Pacquiao could have chosen just about anyone in his return to the ring April 9 at the MGM Grand Garden.
For Marc Ratner and Jerry Izenberg, earning membership in a Hall of Fame is nothing new.
When is a loss a good thing for a boxer?When it’s early in your career and it’s to the best fighter of your generation and you learn from the mistakes you made.
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