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Junior middleweight Vergil Ortiz Jr. was celebrated Saturday by his hometown of Grand Prairie, Texas, during the city’s “Grand Fiestas Patrias” event. Ortiz (22-0, 21 KOs), who in August bested Serhii Bohachuk to win an interim 154-pound title, formed part of a memorable parade…

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez authored yet another brilliantly calculating, if less than spectacular, performance in outpointing Edgar Berlanga in the main event Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Neither fighter delivered on their respective knockout promises, but the fight was not wholly devoid of drama.…

For Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the glass-half-full review of Saturday night’s victory over Edgar Berlanga at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas is clear enough: He won, he retained his lineal super middleweight championship, and he remains – at least as long as David Benavidez is…

None of the knockout predictions ever came to pass, but on Saturday at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez did what he so often does best, picking apart a younger and larger opponent in Edgar Berlanga to earn a 12-round unanimous decision and defend…

Middleweight titleholder Erislandy Lara won a drab defense over Danny Garcia in a ninth-round technical decision that lacked both a decisive ending and a hint of action leading up to the not-so-big finish on Saturday's co-main event to the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga fight at…

LAS VEGAS – Erislandy Lara and Danny Garcia both claimed in the build-up to their middleweight title bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas that victory would assure their place in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. That was always a tough argument to…

Caleb Plant got caught, recovered, chipped away and landed a late knockout in a hard-fought win over Trevor McCumby on the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga undercard Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.   McCumby wobbled Plant at the end of the second round with a…

Rolando Romero halted a recent slide by going back to basics and minimizing his risk-taking to earn a unanimous decision win over Manuel Jaimes on the undercard of Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. There was a lot of…

LAS VEGAS – Caleb Plant bounced back from a knockdown to put a steady beating on Trevor McCumby, eventually stopping him at the very end of the ninth round of a hugely entertaining and skillful super middleweight contest on the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga undercard…