WBC super middleweight champion David Benavidez has reportedly tested positive for a banned substance benzoylecgonin, which an ingredient in the illegal drug cocaine. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman broke the news about Benavidez’s positive test on Tuesday.

AFTER Filipino boxing superstar and eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao threatened to hail them to court over unremitted share of the United States broadcast proceeds from his most recent fight, promoter Bob Arum and his Top Rank Promotions said the issue is now being resolved by both parties.

Speaking to ESPN on Tuesday (US time), Mr. Arum said their people have already reached out to Mr. Pacquiao’s group and that resolution on the issue is on sight.

Oscar De La Hoya churned out an open letter to the boxing world on Monday in response to the many critics that think Saul Canelo Alvarez received a gift decision win over Gennady Golovkin last Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Saul Canelo Alvarez is angry and Gennady Golovkin and his team the things they’ve said about him during the build-up to their fight this Saturday night. Golovkin has been letting Canelo have it with his comments about his 2 positive tests for clenbuterol, and it’s succeeded in angering him to the point where he wants to take it out on him on Saturday night in their second fight on HBO pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman says he’s healthy once again and ready to make an announcement for his next fight in a “few weeks” from now for his comeback fight later this year. Thurman (28-0, 2 KOs) has had an injury problem with his right elbow as well as a bone bruise to his hand. Both problems have cleared up, and he’s waiting for the approval from his doctor to return to the ring.

Welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr (24-0, 21 KOs). says he wants to fight Saul Canelo Alvarez in the near future, and he’s predicting a victory for him over IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) this Saturday.

Spence will move up two weight divisions to fight Canelo when the time comes for them to face each other. Golden Boy Promotions executive Bernard Hopkins likes the idea that Spence wants to fight Canelo, because this means that he thinks that he’s going to beat Golovkin on Saturday. Hopkins doesn’t need to speculate whether Spence thinks Canelo will beat Golovkin, because he openly admits it.

Shawn Porter (29-2-1, 17 KOs) started off slowly in the first four rounds but then came on in the second half to defeat former two division world champion Danny Garcia (34-2, 20 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision to win the vacant World Boxing Council welterweight title on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The judges scored it 116-111, 115-113 and 115-113. Boxing News 24 scored it for Porter by a 117-111 score. Porter boxed Garcia in the first quarter of the fight. As you would expect, Porter wasn’t effective when he was boxing Garcia. After the fourth, Porter made adjustments by mauling Garcia and working his midsection on the inside.