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Floyd Mayweather Already Thinking How to Duck Saul Alvarez
The WBA is such a terrible organization that it has two boxers, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather Jr. holding the same title, the WBA Light Middleweight title. But as we know championships don’t matter, only money and PPV numbers do, there’s a very good chance we won’t get to see who is the “real” champion of yet another title belt is.
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Aftermath of the Canelo vs Trout Title Fight
In a test of both his ability as a fighter and his growing status as a star in the boxing world, Saul Alvarez passed the test with flying colors, showing that despite his young age, he’s quite ready to continue and take on the biggest challenges left for him to conquer in the boxing world, beating Austin Trout by a unanimous decision, remaining undefeated and unifying the WBA, WBC & Ring Light Middleweight title belts.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux Beating Nonito Donaire is Bad for Boxing
Being a two time gold-medal winner in the Olympics isn’t enough to make you popular, and winning titles at Batmanweight won’t do the trick either if you’re not a boxer people like to watch. Guillermo Rigondeaux pulled off a huge win over one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, Nonito Donaire, but isn’t going to help him or the world of boxing in any kind of way.
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Bernard Hopkins Not Too Old to Beat Tavoris Cloud
There isn’t such a thing for too old to still be dominant in boxing, or win a title belt. Not for Bernanrd Hopkins, as B-Hop became the IBF Light Heavyweight champion, thus breaking his own record for oldest champion in the history of boxing after beating Tavoris Cloud by a unanimous decision.
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Floyd Mayweather is Afraid of Saul Alvarez
When Floyd Mayweather announced he’s planning on fighting twice in 2013, the initial projected opponents were Robert Guerrero, which happened as predicted, and a later fight in a higher weight against Saul Canelo Alvarez, which is probably the biggest boxing match PPV money can buy these days.
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Mayweather vs Guerrero – More Than Just the Money
The new deal Floyd Mayweather signed with Showtime offers him greater prosperity than ever before, but while the final six fights of his career are probably mostly about money for him, Robert Guerrero, his next opponent, is looking at this as more than an opportunity to earn his biggest payday ever.
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Floyd Mayweather – Nothing Surprising About Robert Guerrero
The big surprise regarding the next fighter Floyd Mayweather will take on in the ring wasn’t the identity, Robert Guerrero, who was the first name to come up when Mayweather announced the dates of his 2013 fights, but for choosing Showtime as his PPV route to the masses.
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Adrien Broner Too Good For Gavin Rees & Lightweight Division
It was only the second time Adrien Broner fought in a Lightweight bout, but already it seems this division and this title (WBC) are too small for his abilities and aspirations. Gavin Rees, a tested journeyman without much left in the tank, was simply way out of his league against the champion, and it doesn’t seem to feel anyone in the division is.
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Floyd Mayweather – Not as Important as He Could Have Been
How will Floyd Mayweather be remembered, when his days inside the boxing ring are over? As one of the greatest boxers of all-time, undefeated, winning pretty much every possible title he could get his hands on? Or as a man who chased money, and not glory, taking the easy road when he could have done stuff that would have gone down in the legend books?
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Floyd Mayweather – Devon Alexander is His Next Opponent
It’s been about keeping the cards close to the chest as Floyd Mayweather prepares for his first fight since being released from prison, but according to recent rumors and updates, his next opponent will be IBF Welterweight champion Devon Alexander.