By 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
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Undefeated 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),
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Mikey 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
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Junior 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
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THE 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
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Miguel 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
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Terence 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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