Handicapper Kelly Stewart and The Linq Hotel sports book director John Lukasik join the Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey to preview Saturday night’s fight between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez at T-Mobile Arena.
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Benjy Esteves Jr., a respected referee from New Jersey, will be the third man in the ring for the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
The biggest favorite in Saturday’s rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at T-Mobile Arena is on the fight to go the distance.
In an attempt to avoid controversy, the Nevada Athletic Commission modified its protocol when selecting the judges for Saturday’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch at T-Mobile Arena.
The Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin face-off watch continues for another few days, with the next opportunity on Friday at the weigh-in. No promises have been made that a staredown will occur then.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will meet Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in a rematch of their middleweight fight last year that ended in a split draw.
Alvarez and Golovkin will meet for a second time Saturday at T-Mobile Arena for an HBO pay-per-view bout with Golovkin’s WBA and WBC middleweight belts on the line.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is back after serving a six-month suspension.
Four years after losing his first world title, Shawn Porter is again a welterweight champion after defeating Danny Garcia by unanimous decision for the vacant WBC title at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The moment after ring announcer Michael Buffer revealed judge Adalaide Byrd’s 118-110 scorecard, the middleweight classic between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin became an afterthought.
Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia meet Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, for the vacant WBC welterweight title. The Showtime-televised event airs at 6 p.m.
Here are eight can’t-miss fights this fall without counting the highly anticipated Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch.
Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday after a lengthy battle with brain cancer, sat at ringside for many famous championship fights in Las Vegas. In 1998, he also introduced the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act which helped protect prizefighters from being exploited.
Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury will meet in a heavyweight fight in November or December at T-Mobile Arena. The bout will be shown on Showtime pay-per-view.
The Nevada Athletic Commission unanimously approved judges Dave Moretti, Glenn Feldman, Steve Weisfeld and referee Benjy Esteves Jr. as the officials for the Sept. 15 rematch.
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