Floyd Mayweather Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Trainer Joe Gallagher has high hopes for his fighter, WBO junior middleweight world champion Liam Smith (23-0, 13KOs). On Saturday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas - Smith will defend his world title against Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (47-1-1, 33KOs). The venue will have over 40,000 fans in attendance, and most of them will be Mexican fans in support of Canelo.
Manny Pacquiao still has designs on a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr after dropping a unanimous decision in their May 2015 super fight. Pacquiao, boxing's only ever eight-division champion, will end a short-lived retirement from the sport when he challenges Jessie Vargas for the WBO welterweight title in Las Vegas in November 5th at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
From 1998 to 2000, British boxing legend Naseem Hamed and pound-for-pound fighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. were the shining stars of their respective divisions.
Manny Pacquiao will be one month shy of his 38th birthday when he challenges World Boxing Organisation welterweight champion Jessie Vargas in November, a mature boxing age that gives his trainer cause for concern.
Though Pacquiao is an eight-division world champion and one of the greatest boxers ever, the whole experience of preparing for that Nov. 5 fight feels strange as he will be competing for the first time as an elected senator in his homeland.
Former two division world champion Paulie Malignaggi believes Manny Pacquiao never intended to retire from the sport of boxing - and only announced his retirement to snatch a few headlines from his career rival, Floyd Mayweather Jr., who retired last September.
British Olympian Joshua Buatsi was impressive during the recent Olympic games in Rio. He walked away with a bronze medal and is now mulling the possibility of turning pro or remaining in the amateurs ranks to chase Olympic gold at the games in Tokyo in 2020.
During a recent podcast interview, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum reflected on last year's post-fight controversy which surrounded the mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Despite Floyd Mayweather Jr’s insistence that he has retired from boxing and has no plans of returning to the ring particularly in a rematch with eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao, there are still persistent rumors if not hopes that a rematch would eventually happen.
A strange twist in a lawsuit connected to the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao mega-match from last May. The highly successful pay-per-view event generated 4.6 million buys and over $670 million in revenue.