Top Rank promotes arguably boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighters in Terence Crawford and Vasiliy Lomachenko. Crawford will fight Jeff Horn on June 9 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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Gennady Golovkin is pursuing a 50-50 split for a potential Sept. 15 bout in Las Vegas against Canelo Alvarez, whose two positive drug tests forced cancellation of the spring fight at T-Mobile Arena.
President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction.
Molina tested positive for dexamethasone, a corticosteroid which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for in-competition use, in a routine test after the IBF heavyweight title bout at Manchester Arena.
Adonis Stevenson will defend his 175-pound title Saturday against Badou Jack on a Showtime-televised main event from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The broadcast starts at 7 p.m.
Floyd Mayweather collected $101,250 playing on a “Ten Play Draw Poker” machine on Sunday.
Vasiliy Lomachenko recorded 10th round technical knockout over Jorge Linares.
Las Vegas resident Jorge Linares faces Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday when the two technicians meet on an ESPN-televised main event from Madison Square Garden in New York.
Ishe Smith has another home bout Friday against Tony Harrison at Sam’s Town, but the former junior middleweight champion isn’t happy with the location after his last fight in Las Vegas.
Al Bernstein will be inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame on Friday, along with Forrest Griffin, Jim Reitz, Armon Gilliam, Rossi Ralenkotter and the Las Vegas Thunder hockey team.
Gennady Golovkin unleashed a vicious onslaught in the second round to knock out Vanes Martirosyan before an announced crowd of 7,837 Saturday night at the StubHub Center.
Gennady Golovkin, the WBA/WBC/IBF champion, will attempt to tie Bernard Hopkins’ record of 20 consecutive successful middleweight title defenses when he fights Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday.
Insults are encouraged in boxing to promote a fight, but there’s a line, and Isaac Dogboe and his father, Paul, crossed it.
Las Vegas native Jessie Vargas and Adrien Broner fought to a majority draw Saturday in the main event of a Showtime-televised tripleheader at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Max Ornelas entered the ring Friday sporting scarlet and gray trunks with the letters UNLV stitched on the right side. It was the perfect homecoming that ended with Ornelas strapping his first boxing belt over his stylish trunks.
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