Controversial ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith will make his debut as a boxing analyst for the Nov. 5 Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas card at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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Charles Adams is on a mission. People know about Muhammad Ali, the boxer. But Adams wants to make sure people know about Muhammad Ali, the man, the humanitarian.
Two-division champion Vasyl Lomachenko is set to return to the ring Nov. 26 at The Chelsea inside the Cosmopolitan, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told the Review-Journal on Saturday.
Michael Conlan wants to follow in the same path as his friend Conor McGregor. The Irish boxer signed his first professional contract with Top Rank this week.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. stopped to talk to the Review-Journal on Friday. The retired boxing superstar didn’t give a definte no when asked about returning to the ring.
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.
Ishe Smith turned back the clock to defeat Frank Galarza by majority decision in a junior middleweight bout Friday at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
This will be the first time since 2010, and only the second time since 2002, that the marquee fight of Mexican Independence Weekend won’t be in Las Vegas. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez faces Liam Smith on Saturday in Arlington, Texas.
Ishe Smith returns to the ring Friday to face Frank Galarza in the main event of a Mayweather Promotions card at the Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Sergey Kovalev’s matchup against Andre Ward is the biggest boxing match of 2016, but Kovalev won’t let the fight sell itself. The Russian wants everyone to know how good the Nov. 19 bout is at T-Mobile Arena.
Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin fought again on the same day Saturday, but this time the top two pound-for-pound fighters were on different continents.
Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook open a boxing doubleheader Saturday from the O2 Arena in London. Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez faces Carlos Cuadras in L.A. for the night bout.
The Knockout Night at the D series returns to the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center on Friday, and four Las Vegas boxers are scheduled to compete at the outdoor venue.
The Manny Pacquiao circus is alive and well. Fans crammed into the Crystal Ballroom at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday to see the return of the Filipino superstar on U.S. soil.
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