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4:17 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Canelo Alvarez hasn’t closed the door on facing his biggest rival one more time. On Thursday, Alvarez indicated he wasn’t opposed to facing Gennadiy Golovkin for a third fight after Alvarez finishes the current task of unifying the super middleweight division. “The truth is, I’m open for anything,” Alvarez

Getty Images In news that should not shock anyone, a spectacle more focused on providing viral entertainment than contributing to the sport it’s involved with turned into a mess on Thursday. The promotional tour for the fight between championship boxer Floyd Mayweather and YouTuber Logan Paul — an actual phrase that contains no inaccuracies —

Floyd Mayweather was involved in a chaotic brawl on Thursday during the build-up to next month’s fight with Internet star Logan Paul as tempers boiled over at a press conference in Miami. The undefeated 44-year-old former welterweight world champion reacted angrily at the Hard Rock Stadium after Paul’s brother, Jake, grabbed his cap during a

A huge crowd is expected at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday to see the super middleweight unification bout between Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders. Alvarez holds the WBA and WBC super middleweight title belts, while Saunders is the WBO super middleweight champion. With the fight fast approaching, BetMGM has Alvarez as a

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez faces Britain’s undefeated Billy Joe Saunders in a world super middleweight unification showdown Saturday with 70,000 spectators expected, the largest US sports crowd since the coronavirus pandemic. Alvarez will risk his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association titles at AT&T Stadium while Saunders defends his World Boxing Organization crown at the

Matchroom Boxing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez takes the next step in his quest to unify all world championships at super middleweight when he steps into AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas to take on Billy Joe Saunders on Saturday night. Alvarez will be defending his WBC and WBA titles, with Saunders defending his WBO championship. Alvarez will

Every step Canelo Alvarez takes in public during a high-profile fight week guarantees that he’ll have a phalanx of security guards, training staff, friends, relatives, promoters and just hangers-on moving in lockstep with him. That was true when he first came to the U.S. as a teenager in 2008 and the entourage has only swelled

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