Antonio “El Gigante” Mireles is about to take a giant step in his boxing career. The 6-foot-9, 265-pound heavyweight from Des Moines, Iowa, has signed a multi-year promotional contract with Top Rank and will make his professional debut in a four-rounder live on ESPN+ Friday, Oct. 15 on the Emanuel Navarrete-Joet Gonzalez undercard at Pechanga Arena San Diego.

Brooklyn’s newest young knockout prodigy and a former unified world champion from Philadelphia will see action Saturday, Oct. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in preliminary bouts before the highly anticipated heavyweight trilogy grudge match between WBC and lineal heavyweight world champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury and former heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder.

Ryan Garcia says Canelo Alvarez will knockout IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant for him disrespecting him during their press conference on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) called the former four-division world champion Canelo (56-1-2, 38 KOs) a “drug cheat” and a “mother-f****,” and it led to a brawl.

Caleb Plant suspects that the reason behind Canelo Alvarez acting aggressively, shoving and punching him during their kick-off press conference on Tuesday afternoon may have been a product of “roid rage.”

Caleb Plant suffered a cut on his right cheek after Canelo Alvarez slugged him with a bare fist during Tuesday’s press conference in Los Angeles for their fight on November 6th.
Canelo says he didn’t like Plant calling him a “mother f****” during their face-off, so he shoved him really hard. Moments later, Canelo punched him with a right hand to the head.

WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez vs. IBF champion Caleb ‘Sweethands’ Plant was announced on Monday for November 6th on Showtime pay-per-view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The fight will decide who is the #1 guy at 168, as the winner will be the undisputed champion in the division.

In a pointless move, the WBC has ordered Joseph ‘Jo Jo’ Diaz Jr. to defend his interim lightweight title against #2 Ryan Garcia next.

Ryan (21-0, 18 KOs) and Jo Jo Diaz Jr. (32-1-1, 15 KOs) were already in negotiations for a fight, so the World Boxing Council’s decision to order the fight is meaningless because it’s already going to happen.

Dillian Whyte makes it clear he’s NOT a big fan of Oleksandr Usyk, who he feels puts on a fake persona by trying to act weird. Whyte doesn’t buy Usyk’s act and sees him as a regular guy trying to freak people out with his eccentricity.

Andre Ward says he has no rivalry with Canelo Alvarez, and the reason he’s helping Caleb Plant is that he’s a friend. Ward says he doesn’t have a personal beef with Canelo (56-1-2, 38 KOs).

Andre maintains that he views Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) as a “brother,” and he doesn’t see any reason why he wouldn’t help him to get for the Canelo fight.

Tyson Fury’s snarling dad John Fury is predicting that he’s going to send Deontay Wilder into retirement on October 9th after he knocks him out in their trilogy match at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

John has got his mind made up that what Fury did last time he fought Wilder, he’ll be able to do the same on October 9th. The two fighters should be 1-1 at this point, as Wilder knocked Fury out in the 12th round in their first fight in 2018.

Mikey Garcia isn’t fighting Regis Prograis next because the money that DAZN reportedly offered him was considerably less than what he got in his last fight against Jessie Vargas in February 2020.

Mikey is fighting next month against fringe 140-lb contender Sandor Martin (38-2,13 KOs) on DAZN.

Mexico’s fighting cowboy is ready to roll into San Diego. Two-division kingpin Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete will defend his WBO featherweight world title against mandatory challenger Joet Gonzalez on Friday, Oct. 15 at Pechanga Arena San Diego.