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Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Say what you will about Billy Joe Saunders, but the man believes in himself and his ability to take on the powerhouse that is Canelo Alvarez. As the two fighters get set to meet in Arlington, Texas this Saturday in a Matchroom main event, Saunders says he’s not letting any naysayers bring him down about his chances as he feels extremely confident in his ability. “This fight is all about the brain. Not about power, muscle or skill, it’s the brain and...

Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders had something of a tense photo shoot faceoff on Wednesday, but at today’s press conference, you could feel the seriousness from the fighters, but everyone was on their best behavior for the most part, excepting possibly Tyson Fury and the Saunders supporters in the back of the room. Canelo (55-1-2, 37 KO) brings the WBC and WBA super middleweight titles to the fight, with Saunders (30-0, 14 KO) toting the WBO on the way in, with the winner leaving with al...

The great ring size drama of May 4 appears to be over.

Ethan Miller and Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Boxing can be a very “what have you done for me lately?” world, and in some respects, there’s good reason for that. The most recent performances of a fighter are generally the most important in trying to figure out how they’re going to look the next time out. That’s not to say that fights further back don’t matter at all, but people improve, decline, make various changes in their careers or approaches. With two guys in their prime years lik...

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Canelo Alvarez or Billy Joe Saunders, who ya got this Saturday night?

Ryder (29-5, 16 KO) last fought in December, not exactly shining against Mike Guy but winning clearly at any rate, and is most notable as a contender for a very controversial loss to Callum Smith in Nov. 2019. He has reportedly been training for a June fight in the U.S., so he’d be a bit ahead of schedule, and we may not get a title fight out of it if he can’t make 168. But we’d have a fight, which at a certain point is the most important thing, what with 60,000 or so expected at AT&T Sta...

Canelo Alvarez returns to the ring this Saturday (May 8, DAZN) against Billy Joe Saunders in a fight where the winner will leave with three of the four major titles at super middleweight. Canelo was a guest on The Last Stand Podcast with Brian Custer and spoke about the Saunders fight, Caleb Plant and the IBF title, other names at 160, and his willingness to fight on a PBC card. On Billy Joe Saunders “I’m not the same guy from 5, 6 years ago, I’m different, I have experience, I’m a more...

Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images As Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez gets ready to unify super middleweight titles with Billy Joe Saunders this weekend, Alvarez shares some of his thoughts on the recent trend on YouTube fighters — most notably Jake and Logan Paul who have crashed the sport with their novelty events. And with Jake Paul describing himself as an ‘elite fighter’, Canelo Alvarez says he doesn’t believe the brothers respect the sport of boxing and thinks it’s dangerous ...

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images DAZN is minting and selling or auctioning off a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) tied to this weekend’s Canelo Alvarez vs Billy Joe Saunders super middleweight title fight. The tokens on offer come in a variety of grades: Legendary and Gold tokens are one-of-a kind and only available through auction sale. Lower-tier offerings at the Silver and Bronze level are available in limited quantity (50 and 100, respectively) and at fixed, buy-it-now prices. If yo...