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Dana White recently lauded Al Haymon, the mastermind behind Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), for securing the iconic MGM Grand as the venue for Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming bout. On September 14, White will be in a rare showdown in Las Vegas as two major c…
Dana White recently lauded Al Haymon, the mastermind behind Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), for securing the iconic MGM Grand as the venue for Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming bout. On September 14, White will be in a rare showdown in Las Vegas as two major combat sports events clash. Alvarez is set to defend his unified super […]
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Dana White recently lauded Al Haymon, the mastermind behind Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), for securing the iconic MGM Grand as the venue for Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming bout. On September 14, White will be in a rare showdown in Las Vegas as two major c…
Dana White recently lauded Al Haymon, the mastermind behind Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), for securing the iconic MGM Grand as the venue for Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming bout. On September 14, White will be in a rare showdown in Las Vegas as two major combat sports events clash. Alvarez is set to defend his unified super […]
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While we already know how Dana White feels about running against Canelo Alvarez, reigning UFC flyweight women’s champion Alexa…
While we already know how Dana White feels about running against Canelo Alvarez, reigning UFC flyweight women’s champion Alexa Grasso is thrilled to share the date with one of her role models.
On September 14, the promotion will make its highly anticipated debut at Sphere in Las Vegas for a combat sports event unlike anything that’s ever been done before. UFC 306, also known as Riyadh Season Noche UFC, will see two massive world title tilts as ‘Sugar’ Sean O’Malley puts his bantamweight belt up for grabs against the division’s top-ranked contender, Merab Dvalishvili.
Fans will also witness the first-ever women’s trilogy bout in UFC history when Grasso puts her 125-pound crown on the line against former champion Valentina Shevchenko in the co-main event.
That same night, just a hop, skip, and a jump away, Alvarez will put his WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight titles on the line against undefeated standout Edgar Berlanga at T-Mobile Arena.
Speaking with talkSPORT, Grasso expressed excitement over competing on the same night and in the same city as Alvarez.
“I’m a big fan of him, he’s been a big role model in my career,” Grasso said. “We are from the same town – he was born in Guadalajara too. “He has a lot of impact there in society with kids and sports. So, imagine fighting the same day as him. It’s amazing! If I have time, as soon as my fight ends, I’m going to try to watch his fight.”
After scoring a stunning fourth-round submission against Shevchenko to claim the flyweight title at UFC 285, the two ran it back during last year’s Noche UFC event. Grasso escaped with her gold intact via a highly questionable split draw.
Now, she’ll try to go two-up on ‘Bullet’ and close out their rivalry on an important day for her home country.
“It’s really cool. Mexican Independence is a big day for Mexico. “Big day! We love to celebrate that day and it’s really cool that it’s known for boxing, mostly. They do great fights with fighters from Mexico, with someone so big.
“It’s inspiring. I always dreamed to be on a card like this. Last year it happened, this year it is gonna happen again. This is something the UFC said they are gonna keep [doing]. I’ve seen Canelo doing this. I’ve seen [Juan Manuel] Marquez doing this. I’ve been watching all these amazing, huge boxers fight on this date. Now, being able to be there doing the same thing in MMA, as a girl — it’s big. It’s inspiring. It’s really huge for me.”
Sean O’Malley will defend his UFC bantamweight championship against Merab Dvalishvili on September 14, 2024. Riyadh Season Noche UFC is the most expensive UFC event ever and it’ll go toe-to-toe with a boxing event featuring Canelo Álvarez vs. Edgar Berlanga. While UFC 306 is booked for the Las Vegas Sphere, Álvarez will defend one of […]
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Sean O’Malley will defend his UFC bantamweight championship against Merab Dvalishvili on September 14, 2024. Riyadh Season Noche UFC is the most expensive UFC event ever and it’ll go toe-to-toe with a boxing event featuring Canelo Álvarez vs. Edgar Berlanga.
While UFC 306 is booked for the Las Vegas Sphere, Álvarez will defend one of his super middleweight titles against Berlanga at the T-Mobile Arena. The date and timings of the boxing and MMA bouts will clash, and fans can’t help but anticipate which event will be a bigger commercial success.
According to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s coach, O’Malley won’t be able to outsell Álvarez in PPV terms despite the UFC calling its event a celebration of Mexican heritage…
Nurmagomedov’s coach discussed whether O’Malley is a big enough draw to compete with Álvarez directly on the Javier Mendez Podcast recently. He outright highlighted the boxer’s massive following in Mexico and how “Suga” is yet to achieve Conor McGregor’s levels of stardom.
“That’s mexican’s day for pay-per-view, it’s always been that way for as long as I remember. And Canelo being the biggest superstar in Mexico fighting on that night, I think on a pay-per-view level, it’s going to be difficult to compete. On top of that, if you look at the prices.”
The Mexican Independence Day is September 16, and unsurprisingly, sporting events around the date have usually been headlined by the most popular Mexican athletes. Mendez called Álvarez the biggest star in Mexico and predicted that his fight could generate more revenue than Riyadh Season Noche UFC.
Mendez didn’t put all the blame on O’Malley, though. Despite the recent price drop, the cheapest tickets for Riyadh Season Noche UFC cost over $700. In contrast, the cheapest tickets to Canelo vs. Berlanga are $400 at the time of writing.
According to Nurmagomedov’s coach, unless someone’s a huge MMA fan, they would consider watching one of the biggest names in boxing history for a lesser price.
“I don’t think that O’Malley’s a huge star yet. I think he can be, and I, but I don’t think he’s Conor-ish. I don’t think he’s, honestly speaking, where he needs to be yet. I mean, he’s got all the charismatic personality. He’s got the fighting style. But I just don’t think he has that he has that, the people that can propel him into that next level.”
Mendez admitted that “Suga” has the personality and fighting style to be a much bigger star in the future. However, he’s more interested in the winner of the UFC 306 main event defending their belt against Umar Nurmagomedov, who potentially secured a title shot by defeating Cory Sandhagen recently.
As of now, around 1,700 Riyadh Season Noche UFC tickets remain to be sold and Dana White expects a sell-out and a record $21 million gate.
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Kamaru Usman and Canelo Alvarez have officially squashed their beef. Chances are, you completely forgot the two combat sports…
Kamaru Usman and Canelo Alvarez have officially squashed their beef.
Chances are, you completely forgot the two combat sports icons were even feuding. A few years back when ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ was reigning over the UFC’s welterweight division, he began to relentlessly call for a crossover boxing bout with the sports’ top star.
Alvarez largely ignored Usman’s prodding on social media aside from the occasional dig accusing Usman of fishing for a bigger payday.
Fast forward to 2024, Usman hosted Alvarez on his popular Pound 4 Pound podcast with co-host Henry Cejudo. There to promote his upcoming clash with Edgar Berlanga on September 14 in Las Vegas, Alvarez, and Usman were quick to address the elephant in the room.
“Obviously, when I was champion in the UFC, I was welterweight champion of the world, and you dominated as champion in boxing, there were some talks about potentially fighting,” Usman said. “First and foremost, I’m a fan of yours. I’m a fan of your work and everything you’ve done in the sport of boxing. I think it’s important for us to clear the air and have this type of conversation” (h/t MMA Junkie).
Usman went on to explain that the callouts were never meant to be personal. He simply wanted to test himself against the best of the best and, as Alvarez suspected, secure a big bag while doing it.
“Obviously we’re competitors, and we want to compete, and of course when we started this competition in our respective sports, we didn’t necessarily get in it for money, you get into it to be the best at it, to compete,” Usman continued. “But then you get to a certain point where, ‘Hey, the paycheck makes it worthwhile.’ All the years that you work, and you put into it, the paycheck makes it worthwhile.
“You were in a spot where you were dominating everyone to the point the question was being asked, ‘Who else can challenge this guy? Is there anything that anyone has for him?’ At that moment, I threw my hat in, let me at least give him a different look. I’m not a technical boxer. I feel like you know all the pieces of the puzzle when it comes to boxing. … I felt that mine is different.
“I’m a mixed martial artist. I’m an MMA fighter. They might come slower, but the combinations might be different from what you’re used to. So that’s why I threw my hand in the mix and said I’d love to give him something different, a different look. And who knows, at the end of the day, we know as fighters anything can happen in a fight. That’s what it was. I hope there’s no hard feelings because I respect you as a fighter.”
Alvarez holds no hard feelings towards Usman but doubled down on his belief that the former UFC champion has no business challenging him inside the squared circle. Usman echoed a similar sentiment while discussing the notion of Alvarez testing himself in the Octagon.
“No hard feelings,” Alvarez said. “I think this is a beautiful sport, and you’re the best in your sport, and I’m the best in my sport, and I respect that. We’re never going to know because we never made the fight, but I always said that’s why you chose MMA and I chose boxing. If I go in there with you in an MMA fight, it’s going to be different. If you come to my sport, it’s going to be different. I know the mentality of, ‘I can do it. I can do this,’ but when you go in the ring it’s very different.”
Canelo Alvarez isn’t concerning himself with the UFC. On Saturday, September 14, Alvarez will put his WBA, WBC, and…
Canelo Alvarez isn’t concerning himself with the UFC.
On Saturday, September 14, Alvarez will put his WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight titles on the line against the undefeated Edgar Berlanga inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
That same night, Ultimate Fighting Championship will make its highly anticipated debut at Sphere with two massive world title bouts.
Alvarez’s decision to go head-to-head with UFC 306 has generated some criticism, with Irish megastar Conor McGregor suggesting that the Noche UFC card will overshadow Alvarez’s fight against Berlanga.
Responding to all the trash talk in an interview on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game, Alvarez remains confident that he’ll show-up the UFC in ‘Sin City’ and make a bigger splash on Mexican Independence Day than Dana White.
“It’s just different,” Alvarez said. “Maybe other boxing matches, maybe, but Canelo is different. There are other kind of fights, but Canelo is just different. I don’t care if the UFC is there, when Canelo fights, it’s different” (h/t MMA Fighting).
Aside from choosing to compete against the UFC, Alvarez has also been repeatedly knocked for his choice of opponent. Berlanga, while unbeaten, has only 22 career fights and lacks the notoriety of other potential fights out there for Alvarez, namely WBC interim champion David Benavidez.
Recently, Saudi promoter Turki Alalshikh accused Alvarez of intentionally pricing himself out of a scrap with Terence Crawford. Alvarez responded to the claim with nothing more than a laughing emoji on social media.
— Canelo Alvarez (@Canelo) August 7, 2024
Alvarez attempted to justify defending his title against Berlanga amid calls for him to take on more intriguing opponents.
“Look, at some point, all the fighters did [what they were told],” Alvarez said. [Oscar] De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Mike Tyson, everybody did this. There are stars and superstars and they made the championship, not the championship made them. So it’s way different. I come and I do my career and I fight with [Miguel] Cotto with a clause, and I fight with Mayweather with a clause, and I fight with everybody to build the Canelo Alvarez I am. Right now I can do whatever I want.
“The IBF [says], ‘Hey, you need to fight with this because this.’ Who’s [William] Scull? I never hear about him, just when they say, ‘This is your mandatory.’ I never hear about him. I don’t want to do whatever they want. I want to do what I want. In this position, I can do whatever I want. Because I deserve it, because of all I did. They said, ‘You don’t want to fight [Gennady] Golovkin,’ I fight him. [Erislandy] Lara, I fight him. Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders, Caleb Plant, [Austin] Trout, Mayweather, Cotto, [Dmitry] Bivol, everything. I did everything, and now [Berlanga]. But like I said, I did everything and now I can ask whatever I want and I can do whatever I want.”
Overall, ‘Canelito’ is 61-2 with 39 of his wins coming by way of knockout. After coming up short against Dmitry Bivol in 2022, Alvarez has won four straight.
