BETERBIEV VS. SMITH: ‘ONE OF THE BEST FIGHTS THAT CAN BE MADE IN BOXING’ Three belts and light heavyweight supremacy will be at stake tonight when WBC/IBF world champion Artur Beterbiev meets WBO champion Joe Smith Jr. in a highly
Read moreIt’s Tyson Fury’s world. The “Gypsy King” retained his WBC and lineal heavyweight championships against Deontay Wilder with an 11th-round TKO on October 9 at MGM Las Vegas. Fury got a much grueling test than he saw in the rematch
Read moreBy Dan Rafael Teofimo Lopez had nicknamed himself “The Takeover” – as in what he planned to do in his boxing career — and on Saturday night he indeed took over the lightweight division. Lopez spent the better part of
Read moreUndefeated WBO featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez begins the third year of his championship reign by defending his title against former WBA super bantamweight world champion and current No. 2 world-rated featherweight contender Scott Quigg. For Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs),
Read moreMikey Garcia, one of the best fighters in the world pound for pound, has won world titles in three weight classes — featherweight, junior lightweight and lightweight. Now Garcia will shoot for a belt in a fourth weight division. Garcia
Read moreJunior middleweight world titleholder Miguel Cotto will bring to an end his surefire Hall of Fame career in a defense against Sadam Ali at Madison Square Garden, where Cotto has been a huge draw throughout his career thanks to the
Read moreTHE RIGHT FIGHT AT THE RIGHT TIME The Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin middleweight championship showdown was always a matter of “when,” not “if.” The timing just had to be right. Canelo had never fought above 155 pounds, five fewer
Read moreMiguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs), the only four-division world champion in the rich boxing history of Puerto Rico, returns to the ring tonight to take on the always-exciting Yoshihiro “El Maestrito” Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs), of Japan, for the vacant
Read moreTerence Crawford faces off tonight with fellow two-belt world titleholder Julius Indongo, of Namibia, at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, a short drive from Crawford’s hometown of Omaha. Crawford-Indongo will be only the fourth fight in the four-belt era
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