Boxing

Boxing

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 20, 2019) — The rising iron-fisted star of the 154-pound division, Carlos “Caballo Bronco” Adames, will lock horns with Patrick Teixeira in a 12-round WBO junior middleweight title eliminator Saturday, Nov. 30 at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Alfredo Angulo, two Mexican warriors who might have faced one another, and in theory perhaps could still do so, both aim for a big 2020. Chavez Jr, who still has to hear the strong (and wholly justified) criticism his terrible non-effort against countryman superstar Canelo Alvarez attracted, has been offered one last big chance. Chavez Jr, now 33 years of age and 51-3-1(33) will face Danny Jacobs in December.

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MANILA: The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte discouraged his friend Manny Pacquiao, senator and world boxing champion, for running as presidential candidate in 2022, after his own term ends.

"Politicians should think about it carefully. Manny, I think Manny is entertaining, well it's good... Getting tired is the only thing you get from this work," Duterte said on Monday night at an event.

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WBA/IBF bantamweight world champion Naoya “Monster” Inoue, a 5-foot-4½ three-weight world champion who has climbed the pound-for-pound rankings with devastating knockouts against normally iron-chinned foes, is coming to America.

Inoue has signed a multi-year promotional agreement with Top Rank, which will co-promote his bouts with Ohashi Promotions on the ESPN family of networks. His first fight under this new, landmark agreement will take place in the United States in early 2020.

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PUEBLA, Mexico (Nov. 14, 2019) — Boxing’s busiest world champion, WBO junior featherweight king Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete, will make his fourth world title defense in less than seven months against Francisco “Panchito” Horta Saturday, Dec. 7 at Auditorio GNP Seguros in Puebla, Mexico.

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Hall of Fame Boxing Champion, Mike Tyson, has teamed up with leading network, PodcastOne, in a new deal to help expand the show’s reach. The move will allow Tyson to leverage the power of connection, community, and engagement that the PodcastOne network uniquely offers hosts and fans alike. In the weekly show, Tyson pours his soul into conversations with fascinating minds, celebrities and athletes in a studio full of smoke, along with his cosmic millennial sidekick and former NFL star, Eben Britton.

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