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Getty Images Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin are set to run it back one more time on Saturday night as the pair of future Hall of Fame fighters complete their much-anticipated trilogy. The years-long rivals will meet for a third time when they battle in Las Vegas on Saturday night (8 p.m. ET, DAZN PPV– subscribe

6:27 PM ET Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez will face Gennadiy Golovkin for the third time in a winner-take-all bout at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday

LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez trailed badly on the scorecards after nine rounds of his middleweight title bout on Sept. 16, 2017, against Gennadiy Golovkin. He needed to do something dramatic to have a chance, and he did. Alvarez pulled out the final three rounds and wound up getting a majority draw. A year later,

LAS VEGAS — NFL coaches are renowned for being workaholics, for sleeping on the couches in their offices during the season, going over video to try to find the slightest edge. Johnathon Banks, the trainer of Gennadiy Golovkin, doesn’t find that approach useful in the case of his fighter, even though there are 24 rounds

Getty Images Four years after their controversial rematch, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin are set to conclude their trilogy on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Unlike the prior two meetings, Alvarez will enter the fight as a sizable favorite. Since losing the rematch by decision, Golovkin has won four straight fights, including capturing the

7:00 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Canelo Alvarez said his upcoming matchup with rival Gennadiy Golovkin is “personal” and it would be “sweet” if he got to send Golovkin into retirement. Alvarez said Friday during a news conference in Hollywood that he does not like Golovkin and believes “GGG,” who is beloved by fans, is

For a while, it looked like whoever trained Le’Veon Bell for his exhibition boxing match had been playing an elaborate prank on him. Then Adrian Peterson walked straight into a hard right. The former Pittsburgh Steelers running back emerged victorious from a sparsely attended Social Gloves exhibition against his fellow NFL running back on Saturday

Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall’s middleweight world title fight has been postponed following the death of Her Majesty the Queen. Organisers of the weekend’s sporting events in Britain are to be left to decide whether to postpone their schedules in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and Shields vs Marshall was among

8:02 AM ET Two big fights. Each could have been a main event on a card of its own. When Claressa Shields faces Savannah Marshall and Mikaela Mayer fights Alycia Baumgardner on an all-female 10-fight card at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday, it will be another touchstone point for women in boxing. The

Jake Paul’s critics will moan, and note that the You Tube sensation turned boxing prodigy pro boxer is again taking the easy way out. He’s facing Anderson Silva — 47-year-old man — on Oct. 29 at Gila River Arena in Phoenix, Arizona in the main event of a Showtime Pay-Per-View card. That 47-year-old man only

Getty Images Jake Paul’s return to the ring is officially set, and while he’s set to fight yet another legend from the world of mixed martial arts, this time, the fighter has also proven himself a capable boxer. Paul will face one of the greatest fighters of all time when he battles Anderson Silva in

Andy Ruiz Jr. punches Luis Ortiz to a unanimous decision win during a WBC world heavyweight title eliminator fight on Sept. 4, 2022 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Andy Ruiz Jr. and Luis Ortiz are among the hardest-punching heavyweights in boxing. Combined, they entered Sunday’s crucial bout at Crypto.com Arena in Los

Premier Boxing Champions Sunday’s heavyweight matchup between Luis Ortiz and Andy Ruiz is, in all likelihood, the last chance for either man to battle their way back into contention for a world title. It is that reality that adds more weight to a showdown between men most known for their roles as the B-side in

Outside of that one magical night in New York that changed his life forever, Andy Ruiz Jr. has always been a tantalizing mixture of potential and disappointment. Trainers have seen his fast hands, his quick feet and the thunder in his hands and have imagined a guy with a long run at the top of

Aug 30, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Just last year, the 135-pound division was the weight class to watch, as Devin Haney, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia and Gervonta Davis all called it home. Now Lopez and Garcia campaign at 140 pounds, and suddenly, the junior welterweight division is one of the sport’s most competitive weight classes. The

Getty Images Multi-time former world heavyweight champion George Foreman is facing a lawsuit in California filed by two women who allege Foreman sexually abused them in the 1970s. The filing of the suit comes after news of the allegations became public in July. The two women, under the pseudonyms Gwen H. and Denise F., filed

George Foreman has been accused of sexual assault by two women. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images for Houston Sports Awards) Former boxing heavyweight champion George Foreman has been accused of sexually assaulting two women when they were teenagers and below the age of consent during the 1970s in a pair of lawsuits, according to The

(Reuters) – Two women who accused the American former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman of sexually abusing them in the 1970s have filed lawsuits in a Los Angeles court. Foreman, 73, has denied the allegations since they first became public last month and spokespeople referred questions about the lawsuits to his earlier statement. The women