Mayweather, a two-weight world champion boxer, helped nephew Floyd Mayweather become one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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Las Vegas resident and former two-weight world champion boxer Jessie Vargas is seeking world championships in two more weight classes.
An MGM Resorts bettor won $199,500 on Tyson Fury when the Briton beat Deontay Wilder, but MGM Resorts still enjoyed one of its biggest boxing wins of the past decade.
The fighters concluded the promotion by weighing in ahead of their heavyweight title fight Saturday at MGM Grand Garden.
Droves of people flocked to the lobby inside the MGM Grand on Tuesday and waited patiently for undefeated heavyweight boxers Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder to arrive.
Nicolas is trying one last time to qualify for the games in Tokyo, where he hopes to become the first Haitian boxer to earn an Olympic medal.
Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, who will fight Feb. 22 at the MGM Grand Garden for Wilder’s heavyweight title, appeared at a news conference Saturday in Los Angeles.
The Irishman, who returns to action Saturday at UFC 246 at T-Mobile Arena, said he “would love to be the first combatant to fight in that arena.”
Floyd Mayweather, the undefeated boxer from Las Vegas, took to Instagram on Thursday to tease a return hours after an interview was released in which he said he was done with boxing.
In a little more than eight years, Sonny Liston went from capturing the heavyweight title to allegedly selling heroin on Las Vegas’ Westside and dying of a presumed overdose — one that’s still believed by many to have been a murder.
Alvarez holds world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. He will take time to recalibrate before deciding who to fight next.
Canelo Alvarez won a fourth world title in a fourth division with a resounding victory over Sergey Kovalev in their WBO light heavyweight title fight Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury endured an impressive effort from underdog Otto Wallin before asserting his dominance in the latter rounds Saturday at T-Mobile Arena.
The 31-year-old from England will fight Otto Wallin on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, after making his Las Vegas debut in June with a technical knockout of Tom Schwarz.
Heavyweight boxer Tyson “The Gyspy King” Fury (28-0-1) will put his lineal heavyweight championship on the line when he faces undefeated Swedish boxer Otto Wallin (20-0, 1 NC) on Sep. 14 at the T-Mobile Arena.
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