Approximately 9,400 people packed the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, to watch Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and WBA/WBC & IBF World middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin step on the scales. Golovkin wore his black shorts and smiled as he stepped on the scale first weighing the 160-pound (72.5 kg) middleweight limit for…
Some of New Zealand’s best amateur boxers have been fighting it out in the ring at the New Zealand Boxing Championship in Rotorua this week. Today is the fourth and final day of the championships, at the Energy Events Centre, during which the elite open finals are being held. Flying the flag for…
Former African boxing champion Larry Ekundayo has launched a passionate appeal to Nigerians to help salvage his career. Ekundayo suffered a broken hand in his last World Boxing Organisation (WBO) intercontinental bout against Gary Corcoran which the Nigerian controversially lost. Ekundayo, a 35-year-old welterweight, told Completesportsnigeria.com that his career is hanging in the…
In what may have been the most bizarre weigh-in altercation ever, the son of undefeated WBO World Middleweight Champion Billy Joe Saunders threw a punch and kicked the groin region of the number-2 ranked Willie Monroe, Jr. This only added more fuel to the fire of Monroe, as the champion has continuously tried to…