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  Kovalev (left) surveys his challenger Alvarez yesterday in Atlantic City.   Eleider Alvarez, WBO Light Heavyweight Contender “Good afternoon to all of you, First, I want to thank God for being able to actually be here. Thank you, HBO, Main Events, Kathy Duva, Groupe Yvon Michael, to the members ...

By Scoop Malinowski ESPN just announced a huge seven-year contract with Top Rank Boxing that will extend through the year 2025. Top Rank already had an agreement with the network – which began with the Manny Pacquiao vs Jeff Horn card last year – but the new plan replaces and expands ...

By Scoop Malinowski This whole Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury sudden alliance smells worse every day. Now Wilder is saying he’s friends, practically business partners with Fury… “I believe 100 percent that this fight is going to happen and it’s going to get done. We’re very, very close. Closer than ...

Eleider Alvarez Photo Credits: Robert Lévesque/GYM   ELEIDER ‘STORM’ ALVAREZ, WBC Silver Light Heavyweight Champion and WBO Light Heavyweight World Title Challenger   “I am well prepared for the biggest challenge of my career. I suffered in training and I am at my peak right now.” “I think it will be ...

By Scoop Malinowski Could Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder be an inside job? I’m suspicious how suddenly this fight has popped up. It has also been suspicious how Fury has taken Wilder’s side in the Joshua vs Wilder negotiations. Fury is no dope, he has to know the truth – ...

  This is a parody satire essay of the machinations behind the Deontay Wilder ducking of Anthony Joshua by his protectors Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel… Shelly Finkel: We are almost through this. We just need to keep pushing our story in the media, continue asserting it’s Joshua and Hearn ...

By Scoop Malinowski The Manny Pacquiao-Bob Arum alliance lasted over a decade and produced one of the most illustrious careers in ring history. But for all intents and purposes, that relationship appears to be over. Because there has been a breach of trust. Bob Arum’s interests are not the same ...

By Scoop Malinowski Now that Deontay Wilder and his team have dodged Anthony Joshua for 2018 by refusing to sign Eddie Hearn’s $20m contract, there is still plenty of work (ducking) to do, because Hearn and Joshua are still pushing and making offers to set the fight for April 2019. ...

  By Scoop Malinowski   Manny Pacquiao might be the greatest fighter of all time. Manny Pacquiao saved boxing from the boring, dreariness of the Mayweather reign. Manny Pacquiao won’t get these credits by the media but whoever counted on the mainstream media to get the story straight? At 39, ...

By Scoop Malinowski Oscar De La Hoya fought both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao in their respective primes and suddenly has decided to express his thoughts on what would have happened had Floyd and Manny tangled in their primes in 2010. De La Hoya was asked by Inquirer.net about if ...