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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Showtime Sports shutting down at end of 2023, spelling end of boxing, MMA on the network  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Is Canelo Alvarez a top-100 fighter of all time? Boxing experts differ on his legacy  Yahoo Sports Source link

Barring any unexpected late snags, Ryan Garcia (above with trainer Joe Goossen), will fight Gervonta Davis on April 15 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Tom Hogan/Golden Boy Promotions via Getty Images) On Nov. 17, both Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia took to social media to announce that they’d agreed to fight each other in what all in the sport agree will be a mega-fight at super lightweight if it goes forward. Davis went so far on Twitter to say the fight was “signed sealed delivered…done.” But… Source link

When Chad Dawson first got the call to serve as a sparring partner for Jake Paul, he was skeptical. Dawson is a fighter’s fighter. He was once a mainstay on pound-for-pound lists, had two stints as light heavyweight champion, fought the best of his era and has two wins each over Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver, and single victories over Bernard Hopkins, Tomasz Adamek and Eric Harding, among others. He was vaguely aware of what Paul, the social media star, was doing in boxing because it was… Source link

For a while, it looked like whoever trained Le’Veon Bell for his exhibition boxing match had been playing an elaborate prank on him. Then Adrian Peterson walked straight into a hard right. The former Pittsburgh Steelers running back emerged victorious from a sparsely attended Social Gloves exhibition against his fellow NFL running back on Saturday despite an embarrassing show of form in the first four rounds. Each boxer landed only a handful of blows — and few, if any, significant strikes… Source link

Though the comparisons to Manny Pacquiao are inevitable, Mark Magsayo (L) is out to chart his own course in boxing. (AP Photo/John Locher) Mark Magsayo is the first one to quash the comparisons. He’s Filipino, he boxes, he can punch and he’s strung together a long winning streak. But Magsayo, who defends his WBC featherweight title against Rey Vargas on Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, doesn’t need a positive comparison with Manny Pacquiao from anyone in order to make himself… Source link

For the first time in Madison Square Garden’s history, a women’s boxing match takes center stage as the main event Saturday in New York City when Amanda Serrano (42-1, 30 KOs) and Katie Taylor (20-0, 6 KOs) meet with Taylor’s undisputed lightweight title on the line. The fight, which will be streamed on DAZN, is widely considered the biggest women’s bout in history and pits two of the sport’s best against each other. At BetMGM, Taylor is +135 to retain her belts with Serrano the favorite to… Source link

If Al Haymon, Tom Brown, Stephen Espinoza and whoever else may be involved in the negotiations to put Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford in the ring against each other in their next bouts screw this up, may they be damned to watching “Ishtar” for the next 20 years with only limited bathroom breaks. This can’t be screwed up. It can’t be put on the back burner. It can’t be allowed to marinate. Spence has to be the next opponent for Crawford and Crawford has to be the next opponent… Source link

After a highly productive career in MMA, Anderson Silva is taking on a new challenge. The former UFC middleweight champion will try his hand at boxing in a match against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Saturday.  This isn’t going to be a one-fight deal for Silva, however. Once Saturday’s fight is over, Silva is looking for another opponent, and he’s open to that opponent being one of the Paul brothers, according to TMZ. Silva said “everything is possible” regarding his next fight. He mentioned that… Source link

MATCHES (ET) FORWARDS Sergio Aguero, MCI v. Newcastle (£27): Aguero hasn’t started a match since coming back from injury but he has been on the bench the past two matches. If fully fit and starting, Aguero has the highest goal-scoring odds of any player on the slate, followed closely by Gabriel Jesus (£24). Manchester City are heavy favorites and have a good chance to score multiple goals, so it’s worth considering the likes of Raheem Sterling (£29) or Ferran Torres (£20). Putting a lineup… Source link