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Getty Images If the opening moments of WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders’ formal sitdown with DAZN this week was any indication as to how Saturday’s 168-pound title unification bout might play out, we might be in for something special.  “At the end of the day, this isn’t about him,” Saunders said during a

7:48 AM ET Yes, Canelo Alvarez has been beaten — once. And he has been in close fights, and has been in trouble more than once. But if there’s a boxer who could be considered invincible at this time, the middleweight and super middleweight world titleholder checks all the boxes. Alvarez (55-1-2, 37 KOs), 30,

Getty Images On Saturday night, Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders will throw down in Arlington, Texas with three of the four recognized super middleweight world championships on the line. The only fight that would seem to make sense for the winner would be a meeting with IBF champion Caleb Plant to unify the division.

USATSI Super-middleweight fighters meet in a unification bout when Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez faces Billy Joe Saunders on Saturday. The fight from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, features Alvarez, the WBA (Super), WBC and The Ring super middleweight champion against Saunders, the WBO super middleweight champ. The main card is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET with

Billy Joe Saunders was never going to skip on fighting Canelo Alvarez. Promoter Eddie Hearn could have installed a phone booth in Alvarez’s backyard, put ropes around it and Saunders would have stepped inside to meet Alvarez in a super middleweight unification bout that will pay him millions of dollars. Saunders and his father, Tom,

Matchroom Boxing Until a recent change in the buildup to this weekend’s super middleweight title unification bout, when pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez began speaking publicly in English and largely stopped pulling punches of any kind regarding just about everything, interviewing the Mexican superstar had become a typically predictable affair.  Sure, the 30-year-old Alvarez was always

10:00 AM ET Eric GomezMexico writer Over the decades, the label “Mexican Style” in boxing has become synonymous with all-out attacks at the expense of defense, a badge of honor and a promise of fireworks in the ring — all rolled into one. So as Canelo Alvarez seeks to unify the super middleweight titles Saturday

Mary Kom will resume training for the Tokyo Olympics.© AFP Indian women boxers including six-time world champion MC Mary Kom (51kg) and two other Olympic-bound boxers Simranjit Kaur (60kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) on Wednesday were named in the elite women national camp which is set to resume at the Army Sports Institute in Pune

4:09 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Even the first official event for Saturday’s super middleweight unification fight between Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders wasn’t immune to controversy. Saunders did not show for a press event and arrival photos on Tuesday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. His father, Tom, told ESPN that Saunders was

5:45 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Billy Joe Saunders is hoping Saturday’s fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez does not end in controversy after learning there will not be a British

In 1999, Nike produced an amazing commercial featuring Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Mark McGwire, which it billed “Chicks Dig the Long Ball.” Anthony “Rumble” Johnson would tell you that everyone digs a knockout. And so with Johnson back after a four-year, one-month retirement from mixed martial arts, there is one question anyone who bumps

Getty Images Billy Joe Saunders promised that, win or lose, he’d have no excuses after his planned fight on Saturday with boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez. Now, Saunders is threatening to not even step in the ring as a dispute has emerged over the size of the ring. Saunders skipped the first face-off with Alvarez on

The reason that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has been so successful was plainly obvious during a lengthy interview he did recently with Graham Bensinger. It came during a part of the conversation that had nothing to do with boxing. Alvarez told Bensinger that his brother was kidnapped days before he was to fight Rocky Fielding in

The Guardian Deported by Biden: a Vietnamese refugee separated from his family after decades in US Tien Pham, 38, who fled violence in Vietnam as a child, was sent back to an unfamiliar country due to teenage conviction: ‘America is my home’ Tien Pham and his family came to California in 1996 as refugees. Illustration:

Getty Images After a tumultuous 2020 that saw many major fights canceled or postponed, boxing is ready to head into 2021. As many champions and pound-for-pound elites hung on the sidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic, boxing missed out on some big-time fights. However, as the year went out, fighters slowly started to trickle back into

7:52 AM ET Former heavyweight world titleholder Andy Ruiz Jr. and Joseph Parker got up from the canvas to score impressive victories over Chris Arreola and Dereck Chisora, respectively, on Saturday. But are they the best heavyweights after champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua? Canelo Alvarez, who owns the WBC and WBA super middleweight titles,

The Boxing Federation of India’s Executive Director R K Sacheti died on Tuesday after battling COVID-19. He was 56. The long-serving administrator was fighting the dreaded infection at a hospital for the past few days and was on ventilator support. Sacheti first became BFI ED in 2016 and retained the position after incumbent President Ajay

Getty Images Six-time NFL Pro Bowler Chad Johnson is set to step into the boxing ring on June 6 when he participates on an exhibition bout on the undercard of the Showtime pay-per-view event headlined by Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul. Sources confirmed the plans to CBS Sports for Johnson’s fight on the card from