The replay of the Canelo Alvarez- Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. fight drew 769,000 viewers this past Saturday night on HBO per ShowBuzz Daily. Canelo’s May fight against Amir Khan drew 767,000 for the replay on HBO. He drew 459,000 HBO subscribers for his September 2016 fight against Liam Smith. His 2015 fight with Miguel Cotto […]
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UFC-McGregor could agree to bout with Mayweather by Sunday…but Mayweather has to accept
The New York Times reports that Conor McGregor could agree to a deal with the UFC to fight Floyd Mayweather by Sunday. Of course, that just leaves out one big party to the fight to agree to the deal…Floyd Mayweather. Dana White set an artificial deadline of Sunday to come to terms with McGregor to […]
Report: initial estimate for Canelo-GGG is at least 1M PPV buys
ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted that this past Saturday’s fight between Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. did “at least 1 million buys.” The report, if verified, is better than most expectations and is the best boxing PPV since the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight back in May 2015. No official numbers yet for #CaneloChavez […]
GGG-Canelo set for September 16th
Immediately after the Canelo-Chavez fight Saturday night, it was announced that Alvarez would face Gennady Golovkin in September. Obviously, what looked like an impromptu faceoff was planned well-ahead of time with the belief Canelo would win. For those that watched the event, Canelo easily handled Chavez and won by unanimous decision. GGG was in attendance […]