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Currently doing the rounds to promote his September 14 fight with Edgar Berlanga, Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez was a guest on Sways Universe podcast yesterday, and the reigning super middleweight champ fielded a number of questions. Canelo’s perhaps most interesting answer to a question came…

It remains one of the most fascinating, talked about, debated, and flat-out head-spinning of all mythical match ups. And back in 1990, it looked as though it would actually happen. George Foreman Vs. Mike Tyson: the youngest heavyweight champion in history against the oldest heavyweight…

Yesterday, coincidentally on the same day that Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga went face-to-face for the first time in advance of their September fight, Turki Alalshikh announced on social media that Canelo against Terence Crawford is no longer a fight that he is interested in…

Boxing commentator Tim Bradley says Terence Crawford dominated WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov, easily beating him and “whooping” him last Saturday night in their headliner at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. Exaggerated Claims Bradley and Shawn Porter agree that Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs)…

Promoter Eddie Hearn says he doesn’t think Terence Crawford will give former WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov a rematch after winning a harder-than-expected questionable 12-round unanimous decision last Saturday night at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. (Credit: Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) Crawford’s Toughest…

Today, PBC announced the undercard for Canelo Alvarez’s September 14th fight against Edgar Berlanga at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be shown on PBC Prime Video and DAZN PPV. (Credit: Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions) Fans’ reaction has been mixed, with some…

Edgar Berlanga had the media laughing at him today when he said that he’d been “dreaming” of Canelo Alvarez ahead of their September 14th clash at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Berlanga’s Bizarre Dream The New Yorker Berlanga, 27, says he dreamed that Canelo…

And to think, he’s far from retired at this point. This is what a number of boxing fans felt/wrote/shouted when news of His Excellency Turki Alalshikh’s induction, honorary, into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame broke over the weekend. As fans may have read or…

What, and who next for newly crowned four-weight king Terence Crawford? We fight fans have been asking this question since “Bud” added to his legacy along with his belt collection courtesy of his unanimous decision win over a determined and tough Israil Madrimov on Saturday…