Saul Canelo Alvarez says he’s “already training” for his May 4 unification fight against IBF middleweight champion Danny Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) on Cinco de Mayo on DAZN. There’s almost three months to before the Jacobs fight, and Canelo (51-1-2, 35 KOs) is getting a jump on his competition in preparing for their fight.
Strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza says he’s hoping that the trainers for Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) will be able to adequately prepare him for the daunting task ahead of him in his upcoming challenge of IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21 KOs) on March 16.
FRISCO, Texas (Feb. 2. 2019) —Sergey Kovalev gained a measure of revenge, and in the process, regained his title. Kovalev bested Eleider Alvarez (24-1, 12 KOs) via unanimous decision to win the WBO light heavyweight world title, becoming a three-time world champion.
The scores were 116-112 (2X) and 120-108.
In an effort to get more time to finalize the Deontay Wider vs. Tyson Fury rematch, the purse bid for the fight, which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday, has been postponed for one week by the WBC.
The management for Fury and Wilder asked the World Boxing Council to have the purse bid postponed so that they could work on getting the fight deal done.
WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (39-0, 25 KOs) is moving up to light heavyweight for his next fight to test the waters in that division, according to ESPN. Ramirez, 27, wants to go after a world title at 175.
WBA "regular" welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is ready to fight the biggest names possible in the welterweight division.
Last year, Pacquiao signed up with powerful adviser Al Haymon - who works with nearly all of the biggest names in the welterweight division.
A few weeks ago, Pacquiao dominated Adrien Broner over twelve rounds to retain his title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis says he doesn’t understand why Vasyl Lomachenko is is a pound-for-pound fighter after beating Jose Pedraza by a 12 round unanimous decision, but he’s not after knocking the same fighter out in the seventh round in January 2017.
ESPN5 continues to support the emerging local boxing scene with two new events this Feb. 9 and 16.
Admission is FREE for both events, and will be aired live on 5 and via livestream on ESPN5.com.
Promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank says he intentionally chose not to make the fight between Manny Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 KOs) and Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) in the past, because he felt that the Filipino star wound end up losing that fight.
