Undefeated Gennady Golovkin will be in action Saturday against unknown challenger Dominic Wade at the Forum in Inglewood, California, with Golovkin’s WBA and IBF titles on the line.
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Canadian Lucian Bute faces WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack next Saturday in Washington, D.C., on a Showtime-televised card. Bute is coming off a loss to IBF champ James DeGale on Nov. 28.
The fight boxing fans have been looking forward to seeing for months has been put on hold. World Boxing Association welterweight champion Keith Thurman pulled out of his March 12 title defense against Shawn Porter Monday after being involved in an automobile accident last Wednesday in Florida.
Bob Arum, the Top Rank chairman who is Manny Pacquiao’s longtime promoter, said Monday there’s no chance Pacquiao’s April 9 fight against Timothy Bradley Jr. at the MGM Grand Garden will be postponed after some of Pacquiao’s opponents claimed he has an unfair advantage in campaigning.
Timothy Bradley Jr. wasn’t expecting to hear from Manny Pacquiao again. But the World Boxing Organization welterweight super champion is glad Pacquiao chose to fight him again.
This wasn’t like the fable. The old lion might have given up a good 15 pounds to his opponent, and his limbs might not have been as they once were, but he wasn’t gasping on the ground about to expire. He fought in a most beautiful manner.
Nonito Donaire insists he’s a changed fighter and a changed man. For the sake of his boxing future, he had better be.
The fight Abner Mares had been seeking for two years is almost here. He said he is ready for it.
A wild 24 hours for Jesus “Chuy” Gutierrez ended with him battling Angel Hernandez to an eight-round majority draw at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, a decision that left the 26-year-old Gutierrez angry at himself.
It took this, the megafight of megafights, the one sure to shatter all sorts of financial records at the gate and on your pay-per-view screens, the supposed biggest night in the sport’s history, to confirm what we already knew: It’s not about the fans.