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Busy Alvarez back in Texas for unification bout vs. Saunders By SCHUYLER DIXONMay 7, 2021 GMT ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is back in the ring for the third time in less than five months with a “Cinco de Mayo” theme serving as a backdrop for the Mexican star after the pandemic scrubbed the same matchup a year ago. One of boxing’s best said he’s making up for lost time as he prepares to face undefeated British fighter Billy Joe Saunders in a unification bout Saturd...

Exposing rats in the social security system – and the coronavirus blues Exposing rats in the social security system – and the coronavirus blues April 26, 2021 by Paradise Free Jah Love Supreme There are going to be some terrible horror stories coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic when it’s over.  Especially for Black people in America who have already lost over a million small businesses and 70,000 lives! A disproportionately high number of over 500,000 lives have been lost in t...

George Foreman On What He Would Have Done Differently In Muhammad Ali Fight KEY POINTS Foreman suggested he would not change anything about his past rivalry with Ali "Big George" and the late boxing icon became friends after their epic fight George Foreman shared an interesting insight about his rivalry with Muhammad Ali. During his active years in boxing, Foreman became famous for his incredible knockout power. Atop that, only the late Ali, whom he eventually became friends with, was able t...

Sick DeathList which predicts celebs to die updated after Prince Philips passing The controversial DeathList site predicts which celebrities will die each year. Prince Philip, who has died aged 99, was listed as number one on its twisted register Prince Philip was in the top spot on the controversial list (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) The Daily Stars FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again ...

Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images and Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images and Mikey Williams/Top Rank via Getty Images It may not be the most stacked weekend of action that we’ve seen, but there are still plenty of things to consider ahead of this weekend’s boxing. Is Bakhodir Jalolov a genuine heavyweight sleeper? Uzbekistan heavyweight Bakhodir Jalolov returns to action on Saturday night, taking on Kristaps Zutis in his eighth professional outing. At 6’7”, the 26-yea...

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the Boston middleweight who became a world champion, died this week at the age of 66.

Boxing Legends: Cory Spinks Remembers His Father, ‘Neon’ Leon Spinks  Boxing Legends: Cory Spinks Remembers His Father, ‘Neon’ Leon Spinks  Comments Off on Boxing Legends: Cory Spinks Remembers His Father, ‘Neon’ Leon Spinks  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — On Feb. 15, 1978, Leon Spinks defeated the self-proclaimed “Greatest of All Time,” Muhammad Ali, in his eighth professional fight. Just five days later his son, Cory, was born and he, too, made his own mark in boxing, becoming...

Rematches. Sometimes they happen within months, such as Saturday’s return between Jessica McCaskill and Cecilia Braekus, who fought in August. And sometimes they take years. Like Saturday’s main event between Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, who first hooked up in 2012. Things were a lot different then. Chocolatito was 33-0, the WBA junior flyweight champ and arguably the best fighter in boxing. As talented as he was, Estrada was just another notch in Chocolatito...

Mark Pavelich, a center on the 1980 USA Olympic hockey team, has passed away at the age of 63. At the Lake Placid games, that team defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union, perhaps the greatest win in the history of team sports. The American victory has since come under fire from the left, which dislikes the idea of the United States as a winner. Back in 1980, the nation was losing badly at home and abroad.  The Soviets were on the march in Afghanistan and their proxies making inroads...

Alerts Professional boxing had come a long way in the half-century that preceded March 8, 1971, the night Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali stepped into the Madison Square Garden ring for what remains history’s greatest heavyweight championship fight. Advertisement Fifty years earlier, in a previously-billed “Fight of the Century,’’ Jack Dempsey had met Georges Carpentier in a makeshift wooden arena constructed to hold 120,000 fans at a place called Boyle’s Thirty Acres across the Hudson R...