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Roy Jones Jr. has a few words of advice for Canelo Alvarez as it pertains to the latter’s multi-weight class ambitions. The 31-year-old Alvarez has been a middleweight and junior middleweight for most of his career, but he caught the weight-jumping bug after he moved up to the 168-pound division in 2020 and
Amir Khan wanted to make sure that as many people as possible could catch his long-awaited grudge match against Kell Brook, even if it meant taking a haircut on his purse.
You don’t need a belt evidently to be tops in the lightweight division, according to Ryan Garcia’s personal hierarchy. The lightweight contender still believes former unified lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko is the top threat in the division, putting him over the likes of WBC titleholder Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis, Teofimo Lopez, and the recently crowned WBA/IBF/WBO champion George Kambosos.
The ballyhooed Errol Spence Jr.-Terence Crawford welterweight matchup may never branch out from the realm of fan fiction so long as purse expectations remain unreasonably sky high, according to one partisan observer.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging that he and other celebrities played a role in a cryptocurrency scam that deceived investors.
Mark Tibbs feels that his former trainee Billy Joe Saunders left a lot on the table as it relates to the latter’s boxing career. The London-based Tibbs, a former fighter himself, trained the two-division champion Saunders ahead of his super middleweight unification bout against Canelo Alvarez last May, which Alvarez won by 8th round knockout.
Tyson Fury evidently is working on his smack talk as much as he is on his body. The WBC heavyweight titleholder unloaded on his divisional peers Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua during a workout session on the treadmill. An amped-up Fury aimed his invective at countryman Joshua for relinquishing his WBA/WBO/IBF heavyweight titles
Filip Hrgovic doesn’t buy Luis Ortiz’s excuse. The Croatian contender has been angling for a chance to square off against a fellow top-ranked name in an IBF eliminator for the past year but has been unable to entice anyone of note.
Keith Thurman isn’t fazed by the critics who think his drive isn’t what it used to be. Over the past few years the former welterweight titleholder from Clearwater, Florida has battled the perception that he is not as devoted to boxing as people have come to expect from a world class fighter.
Mairis Briedis apparently has no qualms about the wave of “influencer” boxing matches that has riled up the sport’s hardcore fanbase, if his newly-imprinted tattoo is anything to go by.