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By Dan Ambrose: Bernard Hopkins of Golden Boy Promotions expects his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) to beat IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) by a knockout just like Andre Ward stopped former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev by a stoppage in their rematch. … Read

Kathy Duva, CEO – Main Events: All right, everybody, welcome. We are here today to officially kick off the promotion for a fight that’s going to take place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, November 25. That’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev is going to fight Vyacheslav Shabranskyy in a […]

By Allan Fox: With his career on teetering on the brink of implosion, former IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) is in a must win situation in his fight against Vyacheslav “Lion-Heart Chingonskyy” Shabranskyy (19-1, 16 KOs) (19-1, 16 KOs) in a scheduled 12 round fight in 2 months from now […]

Former Unified Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) returns to the ring Saturday, November 25 at The Theater Madison Square Garden to take on hard-hitting contender Vyacheslav “Lion-Heart Chingonskyy” Shabranskyy (19-1, 16 KOs) in a ten-round light heavyweight showdown. Kovalev vs. Shabranskyy will be promoted by Main Events and Krusher Promotions […]

By Allan Fox: The struggling former light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) is rumored to be fighting on November 25 against an opponent still to be determined in New York on HBO, according to RingTV. … Read

By Allan Fox: Former IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) will soon be back inside the ring following his controversial 8th round knockout loss to Andre “SOG” Ward on June 17. Kovalev, 34, will be fighting on November 25, possibly at Madison Square Garden in New York, according to ESPN. … […]

By Jeff Aranow: Andre Ward’s rematch with Sergey Kovalev did poor numbers on HBO PPV for their June 17 rematch at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports News, the Ward vs. Kovalev 2 rematch did 125,000 buys on HBO pay-per-view. … Read

By Jeff Aranow: Former light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) is reportedly interested in adding the help of Andre Ward’s trainer Virgil Hunter, according to Fighthype. Hunter recently offered to train Kovalev following his 8th round knockout defeat in his rematch with Ward on June 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Read

Arizona Boxing News & Notes with Don Smith: Editor’s Note : Our delay in reporting  on the ward/Kovalev fight came as a result of my serious battle with dehydration that resulted in  my being hospitalized for several days. Thank you for your get well cards and letters and I particularly want to thank the well […]

By Jeff Aranow: British promoter Eddie Hearn thinks the promotion of the Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev 2 fight last Saturday night could have taken advantage of a lot of different things to make it a much bigger fight than it turned out to be. Hearn thought the fight should have brought in twice the […]