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This Saturday afternoon here in the states Leigh Wood and Josh Warrington face off in an all-British showdown live on DAZN from Sheffield Arena. Given these two combatants style of fighting boxing fans should be in for an entertaining main event. On the undercard Terri Harper vs. Cecilia Braekhus should be pretty good. Also, keep an eye out for a closely-matched middleweight bout between Linus Udofia and Keiron Conway.

PBC’s boss Al Haymon has had talks with bringing his huge stable of top-level fighters over Amazon Prime as a part of a new broadcasting deal now that Showtime is expected not to renew the contract after it expires. As Chris Mannix points out, it” unclear at this point if Amazon Prime will be looking to be a “Showtime-like boxing provider” or if this is just a one-off event. Amazon has the money to afford boxing, as they’re already paying huge amounts of dough for their broadcasting of NFL fights.

PBC is looking for another broadcast deal for their fighters, with Showtime rumored to be leading boxing after 2024, says Dan Rafael. Rafael states that PBC’s contract with Showtime runs through 2024, and it’s not expected to be renewed. It’s believed that the boxing events that Showtime puts on their network in 2024 will be PPV only, which limits fans’ choices. Rafael says Al Haymon of PBC is already searching for a new broadcast deal. Just where that will be is unclear.

By Charles Brun: Anthony Joshua is starting to lose patience with Tyson Fury due to his reluctance to fight him. AJ feels that Fury has been swerving him, but the real problem is the big money he’s making fighting easier options. Fury is currently tied up with fights against non-boxer Francis Ngannou on October 28th and then unified champion Oleksandr Usyk in December.

Canelo Alvarez doesn’t seem to be nearly as excited or as interested as we fans are when it comes to a fight being made between himself and rival pound-for-pounder Terence Crawford. Ever since “Bud” spoke about his very real desire to go up to 168 and “do what’s never been done before,” we have been calling for the super fight. And it would, in terms of hype, global fan interest and sheer intrigue, rank as a super fight if these two modern greats did meet.

AS CASTRO"S AMATEUR JOURNEY CONTINUES, THE BOXING WORLD EAGERLY AWAITS HIS INEVITABLE TRANSITION TO THE PROFESSIONAL RANKS. INDUSTRY INSIDERS AND FANS ALIKE BELIEVE THAT "ZEKE CASTRO" IS POISED TO BECOME ONE OF THE NEXT GREAT LEGENDS OF THE SPORT. WITH HIS RELENTLESS WORK ETHIC, UNDENIABLE TALENT, AND REMARKABLE SKILL SET, THERE'S LITTLE DOUGHT THAT HIS STAR WILL CONTINUE TO RISE

It’s easy to understand why people view Canelo (59-2-2, 39 KOs) as not being a true great and unworthy of all the praise given to him. He’s a good fighter, but you can’t help thinking he’s a manufactured product. The way Canelo’s management has matched him it’s allowed him to avoid many losses in his career and turned him into a fabulously rich fighter.

Richardson Hitchins (17-0, 7 KOs) had his coming out party on Saturday night, beating the experienced Jose Zepeda (37-4, 28 KOs) by a twelve round unanimous decision in a defensive masterclass performance in light welterweight action at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida.

Terence Crawford took to social media to gloat over his rise to the top and kick sand in the face of two fighters who had ignored him for years, Danny Garcia & Keith Thurman. Terence says he’ll “never” fight either of them, even though both are more popular than most of the fighters at 154, and he could make millions.

Frank Martin took to social media last Sunday to deny that he’d ducking a November 16th fight against Shakur Stevenson for the vacant WBC lightweight title, saying, “I ain’t duck s**t.” Frank could be right if the rumors are true that he’s being lined up for a mega-payday against the biggest star in the 135-lb division, Gervonta Davis.

Demetrius Andrade says Errol Spence Jr. has no other options but to take the rematch with Terence Crawford after his ninth round knockout loss last July in their mega-fight in Las Vegas. Like most people, Andrade is counting out Spence (28-1, 22 KOs), and he says he should take the rematch, “get beat up” for money, and then retire.

Last week, the thirty-day time clock was about to expire, and Errol Spence Jr (28-1, 22 KOs) decided to activate his rematch clause as he’s now set to make an attempt to avenge his loss when he faces the undisputed, undefeated welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford.

Terence Crawford says he hasn’t heard anything from Errol Spence yet about whether he’ll activate the rematch clause in the contract to force a second fight. It wouldn’t be a total shock if Spence chose not to take the rematch because he needs to move up to 160 or 168 and get a couple of fights under his belt before he starts thinking about facing Crawford again.

Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis is not in Terence Crawford’s future plans because he wants to cash in on his victory over Errol Spence by fighting the big name in the remainder of his career by fighting a rematch with Errol, then Jermell Charlo and possibly Canelo Alvarez if he’ll agree to move down 10 lbs to 158 to give him a significant handicap to help him win.

Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of legendary boxer Floyd Mayweather, discusses the comparison between Terence Crawford and Floyd Mayweather on the “The Mayweather Channel”. The comparison isn’t just about talent, but also records, achievements, and potential. Jeff Mayweather: “In their primes I mean, it’d be a great fight. I mean both guys are pretty much masters at what they do.”

DAZN CEO Joe Markowski gave an update on Anthony Joshua’s status regarding his replacement opponent for the August 12th event at the O2 Arena in London. Markowski says it was the right decision to pull Dillian Whyte from the card after VADA reported his adverse findings on one of their tests. As for the replacement opponent for Joshua, Markowski says they’ll have an announcement on that early next week.

Last Saturday night’s mega-fight between welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford pulled in 650,000 PPV buys in the U.S., earning them each $25 million. According to Dan Rafael, the PPV numbers for Spence vs. Crawford could reach as high as 675,000 pay-per-view buys from the domestic audience. What those numbers mean is that it’s almost a given that we’ll see a rematch between Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) and the undisputed 147-lb champion Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) later this year in December.

Trainer Kenny Porter says he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for Errol Spence Jr. to return to the ring this year to fight Terence Crawford in a rematch after the sustained beating he took last weekend in his ninth round technical knockout loss. Spence has a rematch clause in the contract, with a time limit written in, stating the second fight must happen this year, leaving Errol with no choice but to fight Crawford in December.

Errol Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) took a career’s worth of punishment in his loss to Terence Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) and looked like the shell of the fighter he’d been six years ago when he won his first world title at age 27 in 2017. Many boxing fans on social media believe it would be an unwise move on Spence’s part to exercise the rematch clause in the contract to fight Crawford again in any weight class, not just 147.

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A thin-looking IBF/WBA/WBC welterweight champion Errol Spence weighed in at 147 pounds, and the tired & drawn-looking WBO champ Terence Crawford came in at 146.8 lbs during today’s weigh-in for their undisputed championship contest for Saturday night’s fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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has successfully invaded yet another weight division. Moments ago in Tokyo, Japan, Naoya Inoue scored a wholly one-sided win over defending WBC/WBO super-bantamweight champ Stephen Fulton, Inoue ending his commanding night’s work with an 8th round KO.

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