The WBO welterweight champion will face Chris Algieri Nov. 22 at the Venetian Macau Resort on HBO Pay Per View after Juan Manuel Marquez decided he didn’t want to pursue a fifth fight with Pacquiao this fall.
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Tickets for the Sept. 13 rematch between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand Garden go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The cheapest seats are $350.
The World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion still can’t believe New Mexico boxing judge Levi Martinez scored the non-title fight 117-111 in Canelo Alvarez’s favor, giving Alvarez a 12-round split decision win Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden. The commission wants to know why Martinez’s round-by-round scores differed so vastly from the other two judges.
They say you have to risk the unusual or merely settle for the ordinary. There is nothing ordinary about the way Erislandy Lara fights.
When you have contrasting styles in boxing and neither dominates, it’s a perfect recipe for controversy.
At some point, Canelo Alvarez probably would have agreed to fight Erislandy Lara. But it didn’t figure to be tonight.
The relationship most thought severed in boxing isn’t all that fractured, at least not from now until Sept. 13. That’s when Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight next, having announced he will grant Marcos Maidana a rematch of their tussle in May, scored a majority decision for Mayweather.
The WBA junior middleweight champion has enjoyed a multitude of success living and training in Houston with the veteran Shields, who has helped guide Lara to the top of his division. Lara fights Canelo Alvarez Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has announced that he will return to the ring Sept. 13 at the MGM Grand Garden against Marcos Maidana in a rematch of their May 3 fight which Mayweather won by 12-round majority decision.