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By Jeff Aranow: Eleider Alvarez will be defending his WBO light heavyweight title against former champion Sergey Kovalev on February 2 on Top Rank Boxing on ESPN a the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.  → read full article

By Jim Dower: ESPN will be picking up the rematch between former World Boxing Organization cruiserweight champion Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev and Eleider Alvarez after HBO chose not to televise it.  → read full article

Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev and Eleider “Storm” Alvarez lit up the Atlantic City Boardwalk in a pitched battle last month.  → read full article

By Jeff Aranow: Sergey Kovalev has exercised his contract option for a rematch with Eleider Alvarez, but it’s unclear whether HBO will televise the fight.  → read full article

By Jeff Aranow: Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev has decided to exercise his contractual rematch clause to force a second fight against Eleider ‘Storm’ Alvarez after he lost his WBO light heavyweight title against him earlier this month on August 4 in getting halted in the 7th round at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic […]

By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook has been elevated to the #3 spot with the World Boxing Council at junior middleweight after inking with the sanctioning bodies’ ‘Clean Boxing’ anti-doping program with VADA.  → read full article

By Jim Dower: Eleider Alvarez is planning his first title defense of his newly won WBO light heavyweight title that he captured last Saturday night in stopping Sergey Kovalev in the 7th round.  → read full article

By Jim Dower: WBA World light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol is interested in facing WBO light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez in a unification fight next later this year following their wins last Saturday night on HBO.  → read full article

The seventh round demise of WBO world light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev to the Colombian Eleider ‘Storm’ Alvarez came as no surprise to the mentor of Anthony Yarde, top trainer Tunde Ajayi.  → read full article

By Allan Fox: Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev was badly exposed by unbeaten Eleider ‘Storm’ Alvarez (24-0, 12 KOs) last Saturday night in losing by a 7th round knockout in his second defense of his World Boxing Organization light heavyweight title at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  → read full article