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By Mike Smith: IBF middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) has signed a three-fight deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing USA DAZN company ahead of his unification fight against WBA/WBC middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez on May 4.  → read full article

By Jeff Aranow: Gennady Golovkin still hasn’t signed with a U.S broadcaster, according to promoter Tom Loeffler.  → read full article

By Dan Ambrose: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is convinced that pay-per-view is officially dead as far as boxing goes in the United States, other than for the biggest stars of the sport like Floyd Mayweather Jr.  → read full article

By Dan Ambrose: According to Matchroom Boxing USA promoter Eddie Hearn, negotiations between his fighter IBF middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) and unified WBA/WBC champion Saul Canelo Alvarez will begin next week for a May 4 fight on DAZN at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.  → read full article

By Aragon Garcia: Saul Canelo Alvarez’s fight last Saturday night against British fighter Rocky Fielding at Madison Square Garden in New York brought in a massive audience of 26 million viewers on TV Azteca and Televisa in Mexico, according to ESPN Deportes.  → read full article

By Trevor McIntyre: Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez is very interested in a fight between Saul Canelo Alvarez and WBA Super super middleweight champion Callum Smith in the UK at Wembley Stadium in 2019.  → read full article

By Chris Williams: Jaime Munguia will be back inside the ring next month to defend his World Boxing Organization junior middleweight title against #3 WBO Takeshi Inoue LIVE on DAZN on January 26 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.  → read full article

By Sean Jones: Following Saul Canelo Alvarez’s third round knockout victory over Rocky Fielding last Saturday, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn says the fight that DAZN wants next for the Golden Boy Promotions star is Daniel Jacobs on May 4.  → read full article

By Allan Fox: Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn plans on having Chris Algieri and Jorge Linares fight in separate contests on his January 18 DAZN card at Madison Square Garden in New York with the idea of matching the two of them later in 2019 against WBO light welterweight champion Maurice Hooker.  → read full article

By Jeff Aranow: WBO middleweight champion Demetrius ‘Boo Boo’ Andrade (26-0, 16 KOs) will be making his first defense of his title against former 160 lb world title challenger Artur Akaov (19-2, 8 KOs) on January 18 on DAZN at Madison Square Garden in New York, according to ESPN.  → read full article