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The highly anticipated fight between Canelo and Crawford could take place in September 2025

Arab sheikh Turki Al-Sheikh, an avid boxing fan, promised that by 2025 he will bring several world-class fights, but the jewel in the crown could be the long-awaited fight between Saul Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford, which could be in the works for September.

Both fighters spoke, away from Al-Sheikh’s radar, during a meeting in London last week, and it seems that they would have started the negotiating points for the long-awaited fight between two of the best pound-for-pound fighters today, reported Boxing News Online.

The fight is planned to take place on the weekend of the celebrations for Mexico’s Independence Day in mid-September, ESPN reported.

ESPN boxing specialist Mike Coppinger noted that: “From what I’m told, they’re in the process of finalizing a deal for a fight in September, Mexican Independence Day weekend. And it will be in Las Vegas with the 168-pound weight limit, no rehydration clause.”

However, there is one issue to be defined, and that is that Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) would require an additional 14-pound weight jump to match the weight and category of the Mexican fighter.

Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) has been moving up in weight over the years, after starting out at super welterweight, where he won the WBC world title, and later became the unified middleweight champion (160 pounds). He made a brief stop at light heavyweight (175 pounds) and defeated Sergey Kovalev to win the IBF belt before dropping down to super middleweight, where he would become the first undisputed four-belt champion.

Tyson’s opposition to Canelo-Crawford

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson immediately spoke out about the possibility of a fight between Canelo and Crawford, and disagreed with such a fight, especially because of the aforementioned weight difference between the two fighters.

“You know I don’t like that fight. I don’t like that fight. For him (Crawford) the weight difference seemed quite annoying. It’s a lot of weight,” Tyson said.

And to reaffirm his statement, Tyson recalled the fight between Crawford and Israel Madrimov in August 2024, when Crawford reigned as welterweight champion, and moved up to 154 pounds.

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Gervonta Davis at Centre of Storms as Lamont Roach Jr’s Big Disclosure Leaves Him Exposed

Gervonta Davis has been confusing his fans for the past few months with unexpected statements regarding his career and fights. On top of his retirement announcement, on Christmas Eve he sent the combat world into disarray, claiming that his upcoming fight with Lamont Roach, which has been in the making for months and fans have been desperately waiting for, is canceled. However, there was neither an explanation nor any backup statement, forcing the fans to believe it was another one of Tank’s meltdowns.

Thankfully, Roach and his father released statements claiming the fight was still very much on schedule. Keeping the debacle aside, both Roach and Davis are now preparing for their March 1, 2025 clash at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. However, we never got to listen to the Washington native’s side and why the rumor began.

During the Q&A session on his YouTube channel, ‘The Reaper’ was asked by a fan, “Why did people say the fight was canceled or you pulled out?” The WBA super featherweight champion appreciated the question. He revealed that Gervonta Davis is like a wild card and no one knows what he will do next. However, he has learned to deal with it and does not let Tank’s wild nature affect him.

Y’all know what y’all dealing with man. Y’all dealing with a wild card, you know what I’m saying. Just be doing sh*t. He be lunching. That s**t ain’t affect me,” claimed Roach. According to Roach, Gervonta Davis is erratic and what he will do is anyone’s guess. The Washington native explained, “The fight was never canceled just to let y’all know. The fight was never off, whatever the case may be. I already knew that but just so you know he scared ya’ll a little bit,” claiming that it was just one of Gervonta Davis’ usual meltdowns.

The 25-1 boxer further revealed that even he himself had no idea why the Baltimore native uploaded that story. Even he was in the dark just like all the fans. “I know but that s**t nothing to do with me. So I don’t know why people was saying I pulled out. I was in the gym,” preparing for his career’s biggest fight.

Despite all the rumors and delays, the fight is back on track and will headline PBC’s second event of 2025. According to the trend, the fight is bound to break gate records and will be another sell-out in Tank’s resume.

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Terence Crawford and Gervonta Davis go head-to-head on social media: “Let’s see who has the longest lasting money”

Bud Crawford mocks Tank Davis for his absence from The Ring awards: “I see someone upset because they weren’t invited”

The The Ring magazine awards ceremony brought together the best boxers of today in London this weekend, with the exception of Gervonta Davis, who, despite announcing his retirement for 2025, his unbeaten record after 30 fights, with 28 knockouts, places him in the elite of boxing.

Although Tank was probably not invited because he is not on good terms with Riyadh Season and Sheikh Turki Alalshikh, who also owns The Ring magazine, Davis made several posts on his X account, which he later deleted, but Terence Crawford took the opportunity to mock him, which generated a dispute on social networks that has continued until Tuesday.

I see someone angry because they were not invited to the @ringmagazine gala,” posted Bud Crawford along with some mocking emojis, in response to the now deleted posts, but some were rescued by users: “Why didn’t they invite everyone,” questioned Tank, then went on to say “But they invited the people they deal with… Get out of here! Stop eating shit,” while in one more he went against Eddie Hearn: “Look at that little rat thinking he came up with something.”

Gervonta and Terence keep bickering on social media

Gervonta also had words for Turki Alalshikh, first asking them to take the opportunity to fight among all the guests and then criticizing the sheikh for not knowing anything about boxing.

“They want to act like this guy is good for boxing when he’s not good at anything. If so, why isn’t he training people from where he’s from? This guy doesn’t know anything about boxing, and that’s who they’re turning to,” Tank Davis posted in another of the messages deleted from his X account.

The dispute between Davis and Crawford continued until Tuesday, apparently because Gervonta bragged to Terence that he had more money.

“The first thing a rich fool tells another rich fool is that he has more money than you. I bet I have more investments than you and I don’t owe a dollar in taxes. You can’t buy anything that I can’t buy and want, sir, and that’s a fact. Let’s see who has the longest lasting money, smart boy,” Bud Crawford wrote to Tank Davis, who responded not to complain accompanied by some insults.

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3 Reasons Why Floyd Mayweather’s 50–0 Record Cannot Be Broken in Boxing History

Boxing is an amazing sport, made even greater by some undefeated boxers who refuse to lose no matter what. This sport has been home to several cherished streaks that made this sport far more enjoyable and intense than it should have been. There have been many boxers with an undefeated streak, but Floyd Mayweather with his 50-0 career record, might hold the most celebrated streak in boxing.

‘Money’ retired without a single blip in his professional career with a record of 50-0. While there have been many boxers with a career-defining winning streak, no one has come close to the Michigan native in the modern era of boxing.

Furthermore, the way boxing is progressing, it looks like no one might ever get close to Mayweather’s streak. Let’s take a look.

At this point, no active boxer is even close to Floyd Mayweather’s record. Terence Crawford is the closest boxer with 40-0 straight career wins. However, at 37 years old, the Omaha native does not have much time at the top. Furthermore, with Crawford getting closer to his dream fight against Canelo Alvarez, he might not even remain undefeated by the end of this year.

On the other hand, other boxers closest to Mayweather’s record like Naoya Inoue (24-0, 21 KOs), Jermall Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs), Oleksandr Usyk (21-0), still have a lot of ground to cover in seemingly very little time.

Boxing is an unforgiving sport, and no one can escape aging. We recently saw Mike Tyson mercilessly failing in his attempt to cheat age against Jake Paul in front of 70,000 live fans. With the brutal nature of boxing, combined with their age and rigorous physical demand, achieving 50-straight wings, seems quite impossible.

High-stakes matchups and Saudi Arabia’s big-money fights

The entry of His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has completely changed the boxing scenario. With dreams and high-stakes fights being made like never before, the chances of everyone remaining undefeated are getting lesser. Undefeated vs. undefeated matchups like Gervonta Davis vs. Ryan Garcia, Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk, and Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev have completely changed the boxing scene.

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Tiger Woods’ Genesis Invitational Being Relocated From Riviera Country Club In Wake Of Palisades Fire

The PGA Tour said Thursday that its is moving the location of next month’s Genesis Invitational, the annual tour stop at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA hosted by Tiger Woods.

The move comes after the horrific Palisades Fire that erupted in that community on January 7, killing at least eight and destroying 2,869 structures, including entire swaths of neighborhoods both in the Palisades and Malibu, with more than 500 additional structures damaged. The fire as of today stands at 23,713 acres and is 22% contained.

Riviera didn’t suffer any damage from the fire but is located inside the mandatory evacuation zone in the southeast corner of the Palisades. There has been no indication of a lifting of those restrictions as firefighters continue to battle the fire and more severe Santa Ana winds expected next week.

“The PGA Tour’s focus continues to be on the safety and well-being of those affected by the unprecedented natural disaster in Greater Los Angeles,” it said in a statement today, adding that “out of respect for the unfolding situation, we have determined that The Genesis Invitational 2025 will be played at an alternate location the week of Feb. 10-16. A venue update and additional tournament information will be provided in the coming days.”

The tour kicked off its 2025 season today with the American Express in La Quinta, CA, part of its usual year-starting West Coast swing that includes stops in San Diego and Pebble Beach. It was due to hit Riviera after the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, AZ.

Woods, who sponsors the Genesis Invitational via his company TGR Live, was expected to play as he continues to battle back from injuries suffered in a 2021 car accident.

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Former Heavyweight Champion Says He Is The Only Man Both Lennox Lewis And Mike Tyson Refused To Face

Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson are in the heavyweight history books for incredible achievements.

Tyson still holds the record as the division’s youngest ever champion, and brought a ferociousness to the ring that often had opponents so thrown that the fight was won before the first bell.

Lewis famously avenged two shock losses to beat every man he faced in the ring. Until very recently, he was the last undisputed heavyweight champion – that status was held for around 25 years before Oleksandr Usyk achieved it in 2024.

Tyson and Lewis would be confident in their abilities against all-comers, however fellow undisputed champ Riddick Bowe believes both men swerved him. That is despite most feeling he didn’t want any part of Lewis, who was called as mandatory challenger but ended up elevated to champion when Bowe famously held a press conference to put his belt in the bin rather than make the fight.

In an interview with Tha Boxing Voice, Bowe stood his ground.

“He didn’t want the fight. I was ready to go, in great shape. I think what scared him was he saw the first fight with Evander Holyfield and once he saw how good I looked and what great condition I was in, he want ain’t no part of me. He fought Mike Tyson, Holyfield, why not me?”

On publicly throwing away his WBC belt, Bowe said it was the politics of the sport behind it.

“Lennox Lewis kept playing games. They were gonna give me 30 days to make the fight happen. I kind of felt betrayed because I’m your champion. How you gonna give me a deadline waiting on this clown that’s playing games? He didn’t want the fight. So they stripped me and gave him the title.”

Finally, it comes as no surprise that he predicted a clear victory had the fight happened.

“Unequivocally. My style was impeccable compared to his. Look at the guys that knocked him out. Oliver McCall. Hasim Rahman. They didn’t hit anywhere close to as hard as I hit. He knew I was gonna tap that ass so he stayed away from me.”

Bowe then discussed Tyson, who came from the same neighbourhood, Brownsville in Brooklyn. ‘Iron’ Mike has said in the past that he wouldn’t face Bowe because of their connection, however ‘Big Daddy’ believes it was because he couldn’t intimidate him.

Let me just say this. Evander Holyfield beat Mike Tyson twice right? Didn’t I beat Holyfield twice? So you tell me. It don’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

“My jab was impeccable. He wouldn’t know how to get away from it, so that would cause him a lot of trouble. My uppercut was vicious. With him being short, that would’ve got him. He couldn’t get on the inside where he did a lot of damage, my left hand would’ve kept him at bay. At the end of the day, I wasn’t intimidated by him, so that’s why the fight didn’t happen. If he thought I was scared of him, he would’ve took the fight.”

Bowe hung up the gloves with a record of 43 wins from 45 fights, with Evander Holyfield being the only man to beat him.

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‘Against who?’ – Gervonta Davis’ KO record questioned by rival Teofimo Lopez who has brutal theory

Teofimo Lopez has aimed a new jibe at Gervonta Davis over his professional boxing resume.

Davis has emerged as one of boxing’s biggest superstars in recent years, particularly since his sensational stoppage victory over Ryan Garcia in April 2023.

But he has faced criticism over his recent calibre of opponent, having missed out on clashes with Vasyl Lomachenko and long-term rival Shakur Stevenson.

One of those critics is former undisputed lightweight champion Lopez, who has made pleas to fight ‘Tank’ himself.

But in a recent outburst, ‘The Takeover’ isn’t sure Davis’ current legacy of power punching stoppages is as it seems.

He said: “I think a lot of people just focus on the knockouts that he does but against who?

“They’re not seasoned fighters. It would be a great fight [Lopez vs Davis]. But he’s never faced a fighter like me, never. At all. Never.”

Davis has a perfect 30-0 professional record with 28 of those wins coming by KO.

The American has shown he possesses frightening power, leaving a whole, host of opponents on the canvas.

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Floyd Mayweather made remarkable $300 million claim about monthly earnings with clever investment

Floyd Mayweather remarkably suggested he earns $300 million a month thanks to huge investments outside of boxing.

The legendary fighter earned his ‘Money’ moniker during his boxing career, pocketing some of the biggest purses in the sport’s history including for his most famous fights with Conor McGregor and Manny Pacquiao.

It is estimated that Mayweather generated in excess of $1.2 billion in total earnings from his professional career, a staggering number which is barely matched by any other fighter.

As a result, it has set the American icon up for a lifestyle of luxury and wealth, as well as for generations to come.

Of course the money can dry up if not careful, given Mayweather retired from competitive action in 2017.

He has since been fighting in lucrative exhibitions against the likes of Logan Paul, Deji and John Gotti III but his fighting exploits are likely to be behind him entirely soon.

But it is his investments outside of the sport that are currently paying dividends, including his passion for real estate and property.

And incredibly, during an acceptance speech after being inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2021, he suggested he makes a colossal $300 million each month.

He said: “I will continue to give back to the sport of boxing in my time, and I will also give back financially because I got it.

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Simone Biles treats herself to $30K Hermès Birkin bag — and brings husband Jonathan Owens for ‘emotional support’

By Admin January 16, 2025

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On Tuesday, Simone Biles revealed that she purchased a light brown Hermès Birkin bag, captioning the Instagram Story, “treated myself to a new lil bby while in new york.”

The Olympic gymnast, 27, who was in NYC for the VTEX Connect event on Monday, brought her husband, Jonathan Owens, 29, along to the store for emotional support.

“baby I was sweaaaating,” she added, referring to the big splurge.

Indeed, the famous designer bags, which were named after the late style icon Jane Birkin, come with a hefty price tag — styles similar to Biles’ will set you back around $30,000 on resale site Fashionphile.

Though she was nervous to make the purchase, this isn’t the gold medalist’s first Birkin bag.

After competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, Biles celebrated becoming the most decorated gymnast in history by picking out her very first tote from the brand.

In August, Biles shared photos on her Instagram Story of her shopping trip to a Hermès location in Paris, showing different color options and then a private back room.

Though she didn’t reveal which style she chose, Biles did show off the brand’s famous orange box after securing the purchase.

A few days after the shopping spree, Biles revealed on Threads that her parents, Ronald and Nellie Biles, actually foot the bill for her the bag.

“don’t be mad at me, be mad at your parents,” she quipped to haters.

Earlier this month, Biles was named Sports Illustrated 2024’s Sportsperson of the Year.

In the interview for her cover, the gymnast spoke about whether she plans on being a part of the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

“Because I’ve accomplished so much, there’s almost nothing left to do, rather than to just be snobby and to try again and for what?,” she said. “I’m at a point in my career where I’m humble enough to know when to be done.”

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“Watch Your Character”- Laila Ali Throws Shade at Claressa Shields With Blunt Career Advice

By Admin January 16, 2025

The feud between Claressa Shields and Laila Ali has been one of the most talked-about rivalries in women’s boxing, despite the two never sharing the ring. Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and undisputed champion, has often declared herself the greatest woman of all time (GWOAT). Ali, an undefeated former champion and daughter of Muhammad Ali, has publicly questioned Shields’ claim and expressed confidence in her own abilities.

Tensions escalated as both exchanged verbal jabs through interviews and social media. However, it seems Ali has a lot to focus on in her life at the moment but she still has some words of advice for the boxer.

Claressa Shields and Laila Ali’s rivalry takes a new turn once again

Claressa Shields, the reigning WBC and WBO women’s heavyweight champion, in a candid interview, shed light on the ongoing tensions with Ali, aiming to clear up misunderstandings surrounding their rivalry. Widely regarded as one of the best in women’s boxing, Shields used the opportunity to provide her perspective on what many see as a clash between two different generations of fighters. The friction between Shields and Ali stems from a series of comments exchanged over the years, fueling speculation and debate among fans. But how exactly did the rivalry start between the two?

Well, in an interview on Sway’s Universe from four years ago, Ali was asked her honest opinion of what she thinks of Claressa Shields. In reply, she said, “First of all, she could never beat me. Let me get that real straight.” This did not go well with the 29-year-old, who decided to respond promptly. During an interview, the two-time Olympic gold medalist didn’t hold her feelings back and said, “If you go on boxrec and look at my caliber of opponents and look at her caliber of opponents you’ll see why she’s 24-0 with maybe 23 knockouts”.

While speaking on the All the Smoke Fight Clips Ali responded to Shields’ comments about her record, ‘She was basically trying to degrade my legacy and everything that I had done. I was like, ‘Wow you are crossing a line. You can think you can beat me, you can think that that’s fine. But to start going in on my legacy and what I have and haven’t done?” She further added, “‘You are not going to get very far in your life if you continue burning bridges. You gonna see a lot of people surpass you even though you are talented. So never think too big of yourself. You got to watch your character you got to stay humble.’”