David Benavidez-Kyrone Davis: Stats & Stakes
By Cliff Rold - Despite two belts already to his credit, this might be the biggest fight in the career of David Benavidez (Showtime, 9 PM EST). It’s definitely the biggest for Kyrone Davis.
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The Canelo Sweepstakes: Auditions Are Open
By Cliff Rold - For Saul Alvarez’s goal to win every major belt available at super middleweight, it’s mission accomplished. Caleb Plant came to compete and did. It wasn’t enough. It hasn’t been enough for anyone for a long time. It doesn’t mean opponents won’t stop trying.
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Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant: Stats & Stakes
By Cliff Rold - The talking is done. The weigh in is complete. The next time Saul Alvarez and Caleb Plant let their hands go, it won’t be with open palms to get them through the turnstiles. The Alvarez/DAZN marriage of recent years has ended with Alvarez back for now in the Showtime PPV tent (Saturday, 9 PM EST).
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BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - November 5
Pick It: TBRB #1 Saul Alvarez vs. #2 Caleb Plant (Saturday, Showtime PPV, 9:00 PM EST) - A new lineage, new TBRB, and first four-belted titlist at super middleweight will be established in this main event here. The 31-year old Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KO), a former lineal middleweight king and already Ring’s titlist at 168 lbs., enters with seven wins in his last eight starts against TBRB or Ring rated opponents.
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Canelo Alvarez: As High As He Gets?
By Cliff Rold - Right now, it looks like a before and after. Saul Alvarez was already one of the better fighters in the world before his second bout with Gennady Golovkin. Their rematch, like the first fight, was hotly contested and the scoring continues to be debated but there was something different about Alvarez’s performance that night.
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Jamal James-Radzhab Butaev: Stats & Stakes
By Cliff Rold - The WBA’s move to finally clean up the mess they made of their own title picture has its pluses and minuses. The minus, at welterweight, is the reported roadblock in the way of a unification match between WBC/IBF titlist Errol Spence and the WBA’s primary titlist Yordenis Ugas. Coming off a career best win over Manny Pacquiao, Ugas earned the right to cash in and see how farther he can go.
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BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - October 29
Pick It: TBRB #9 Jamal James vs. Radzhab Butaev (Saturday, Showtime, 10:00 PM EST) - As the WBA sorts out the mess it made of its title situation over the last two decades, the 33-year old James (27-1, 12 KO) might just have landed in the perfect place at the perfect time. Undefeated in seven starts since a loss to Yordenis Ugas, James is positioned for a potential Ugas rematch and maybe more in the always tough welterweight division.
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The Future Will Get Here Soon Enough
Last week, to some fanfare online, ESPN published a list of Boxing’s top 25 under 25. It did what lists like that are supposed to do, celebrating what boxing has around the corner and giving readers something to talk and debate about.
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Jamel Herring-Shakur Stevenson: Stats & Stakes
By Cliff Rold - As far as good fights between big fights go, this one ain’t bad. We have a clash of US Olympians, one in his mid-30s, the other in his mid-20s, and they don’t seem to particularly like each other. No, this isn’t the sort of intensity we saw a few weeks ago in Fury-Wilder. It’s more an older man annoyed by the younger.
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BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - October 22
Pick It: TBRB #2 Jamel Herring vs. #7 Shakur Stevenson (Saturday, ESPN, 10:30 PM EST) - This one may appeal most to the hardcore audience but as boxing moves from big heavyweight action to a loaded November slate, this is real quality to pass the time.
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