ESPN’s Dan Rafael reported the purses for Saturday night’s Madison Square Garden event featuring Gennady Golovkin. According to Rafael, the official payout for GG was $2 million although its likely he’s getting closer to $15 million. Steve Rolls, his opponent, drew $300,000. Ali Akhmedov earned $25,000. His opponent, Marcus McDaniel received $45,250. Akhmedov defeated McDaniel. […]
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Despite loss, AJ sponsor Under Armour is sticking by the boxer
According to the Baltimore Business journal, Saturday’s loss to Ruiz received more news coverage due to the upset than if Joshua would have beat the heavy underdog. Since the event was held on digital streaming service DAZN, still photos were used for coverage by ESPN and other reports. The Under Armour “UA” logo was prominently […]
Ruiz upset of Joshua helps heavyweight division
The biggest upset in boxing this year, and perhaps in several years, occurred at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night as Andy Ruiz, Jr. stopped Anthony Joshua in the seventh round. The upset victory put a damper on the first appearance in the United States for one of the best in the world in the […]
NAC discloses attendance and gate for Canelo-Jacobs
The Nevada Athletic Commission has released the attendance and gate for the May 4th fight between Canelo Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event was the sixth largest boxing event at the T-Mobile Arena with the top 5 involving Canelo. The other event, Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor had the largest […]
1.2M viewers watch Canelo-Alvarez
DAZN announced on Wednesday that it had more than 1.2 million viewers watching the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs fight across its eight territories. More than 700,000 devices were tuned into the fight with more than 600,000 concurrent streams coming from the United States. The news was confirmed by a source to ESPN. DAZN offers two tiers […]