Not many are giving Jeff Horn a shot to defeat Terence Crawford on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Crawford is a minus 800 favorite and Horn a plus 550 underdog at the Westgate sports book.
Gilbert Manzano
Former reporter: Raiders, NFL, video
Gilbert Manzano worked for the Las Vegas Review-Journal from November 2015 to November 2018. He covered UNLV football and boxing. Before joining the RJ staff, he was a breaking news editor for NFL.com and a preps sports reporter for The Acorn Newspapers in Southern California. Manzano graduated from Cal State Northridge, and calls Pasadena, California, home.
The IBF stripped Gennady Golovkin of its middleweight belt Wednesday. But that might be a positive for Golovkin’s bank account in the long run.
Top Rank promotes arguably boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighters in Terence Crawford and Vasiliy Lomachenko. Crawford will fight Jeff Horn on June 9 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Gennady Golovkin is pursuing a 50-50 split for a potential Sept. 15 bout in Las Vegas against Canelo Alvarez, whose two positive drug tests forced cancellation of the spring fight at T-Mobile Arena.
Las Vegas and the Raiders will have a longer wait to find out if they’ll get to host an NFL draft. The announcement for the host city of the 2020 NFL draft was postponed Wednesday at the league owners meetings.
Las Vegas reportedly could be in line for a rotation of cities that hosts the Super Bowl every four years.
Las Vegas is vying to land the NFL draft in 2019 or 2020.
Real Monarchs found the back of the net early to defeat the Lights 2-0 before an announced crowd of 6,810 at Cashman Field.
Adonis Stevenson will defend his 175-pound title Saturday against Badou Jack on a Showtime-televised main event from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The broadcast starts at 7 p.m.
Sammy Ochoa scored his first two goals of the season to lift the Lights to a 4-2 victory over FC Tucson on Wednesday night at UNLV Peter Johann Soccer Field in the second round of the U.S. Open Cup.
The Raiders partnered with the ECO City Gallery at DISCOVERY Children’s Museum to unveil a Kids Construction Zone exhibit.
The 51s gave up five home runs to the Albuquerque Isotopes en route to a 10-3 Pacific Coast League loss Tuesday at Cashman Field.
Winnipeg Jets forward Mark Scheifele seemed annoyed by questions pertaining to the so-called “Vegas Flu.”
Chris Flexen pitched seven shutout innings to lead the 51s past the Albuquerque Isotopes at Cashman Field on Monday night.
Floyd Mayweather collected $101,250 playing on a “Ten Play Draw Poker” machine on Sunday.