World boxing council articles
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The Unsung Heroes of the Boxing World
In the name of beer sales and taco Tuesday nights, Cinco de Mayo has morphed from a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle into a lucrative marketing opportunity for corporate America. Cinco de Mayo’s fight night—a stage for high-profile fights and staggering paydays, with renowned headliners like Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr., generating millions in revenue—has, too, become a cash grab for the boxing industry. This Cinco de Mayo weekend, Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, this era’s top earner, is...
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Top Rank's Bob Arum on attending 5 fights in 6 weeks at 92: 'It just shows you how huge boxing is around the world.'
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum has seen a whole lot in the world of boxing over the past 58 years. He started promoting fights in 1966 around the famed Muhammad Ali-George Chuvalo fight in Toronto (which took place there thanks to many U.S. venues refusing Ali over his protests of the Vietnam War), co-founded Top
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List of current men’s boxing world champions as Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk reign as heavyweight kings, while Canelo Alvarez rules the super-middleweights
Boxing is a complicated and convoluted sport with several world champions in each division. Most observers recognise that we are now in a four-belt era, with the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO all given cre