“I was just tired of being there in Cuba and losing,” Yordenis Ugas said this week, through a translator. “I went into a depression. I wanted a change, and I wanted to get out.”
Boxing
Canelo Alvarez, the unified super middleweight champion, will fight IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant on Nov. 6 for the undisputed 168-pound championship.
Manny Pacquiao didn’t make any predictions Wednesday about how his bout against Yordanis Ugas would end, but his trainer, Freddie Roach, predicted a knockout for Pacquiao.
About 50 fans crowded around barriers at Toshiba Plaza to see Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas kick off fight week for Saturday’s title bout at T-Mobile Arena.
Muhammad Ali’s grandson Nico Ali Walsh will make his professional boxing debut Saturday — some 60 years after his grandfather began the greatest career in heavyweight history.
Unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. has withdrawn from his planned fight with Manny Pacquiao on Aug. 21 in Las Vegas because of a retinal tear in his left eye, Premier Boxing Champions announced Tuesday.
A close look at each athlete with Las Vegas ties competing in the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The heavyweight title fight was scheduled for July 24, but was postponed last week when Tyson Fury tested positive for COVID. He since has tested negative.
The trilogy fight between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder on July 24 at T-Mobile Arena is postponed amid a COVID outbreak in Fury’s camp.
The commission voted Wednesday to eliminate discipline for boxers and MMA fighters who test positive.
The former pound-for-pound king outworked, outboxed and thoroughly dominated Masayoshi Nakatani en route to a technical knockout win on Saturday at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Gervonta Davis (24-0, 23 knockouts) will fight for the first time as a junior welterweight Saturday against Mario Barrios, who doubles as the tallest and heaviest opponent he’ll have faced to date.
The 5-foot, 7-inch Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs), will take on the 5-11 Masayoshi Nakatani (19-1, 13 KOs), in the main event of a Top Rank boxing card from Virgin Hotels.
Top Rank announced on Thursday that Nico Ali Walsh, a Las Vegas native has signed with the promotional company and will make his professional debut.
The welterweight title fight between Errol Spence Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will be held at T-Mobile Arena on Aug. 21 and will be for Spence’s IBF and WBC world titles.