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Top Rank Inc. has been gobbling up prospects over the past year even as HBO’s limited slate of dates has grown thinner and thinner. Bob Arum had a vision, and now it’s coming to fruition.
The Las Vegas-based promotional outfit has been engaged in talks for months on a new deal that will see Top Rank’s best and brightest stars — boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Terence Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko — featured on ESPN and perhaps ABC (Disney owns both networks), multipl

Top Rank Inc. has been gobbling up prospects over the past year even as HBO’s limited slate of dates has grown thinner and thinner. Bob Arum had a vision, and now it’s coming to fruition.
The Las Vegas-based promotional outfit has been engaged in talks for months on a new deal that will see Top Rank’s best and brightest stars — boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Terence Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko — featured on ESPN and perhaps ABC (Disney owns both networks), multipl

Roman Gonzalez will have the opportunity to avenge the lone defeat of his pro career.
He’ll mix it up with Wisaksil Wangek, also known as Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, in a rematch of their 115-pound title fight Sept. 9, it was announced Saturday. The likely destination is Los Angeles, but the site hasn’t been finalized yet.
The junior bantamweight bout will headline a tripleheader featuring the five best 115-pounders in the world. The other bouts? The much-anticipated American debut of Ja

LAS VEGAS — Sergey Kovalev was in control.
He knocked Andre Ward down in the second round, and was dictating the action with his measured jab.
Then Round 5 hit and Kovalev felt … different.
Kovalev said he was exhausted, that he felt like he left everything in training camp. The 34-year-old Russian says a month before the fight, he knew: his gas tank was empty.
Under the direction of a strength and conditioning coach that both Kovalev and Main Events CEO Kathy Duva couldn’t re

PHOTO:AFPPromoter Kathy Duva says the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight is "bad for boxing" and the backlash from the exhibition spectacle will likely dog the sport for years to come.
"Of course it's bad for boxing," said Duva. "It's going to suck up all the air in the room."
Boxing legend Mayweather and mixed martial arts superstar McGregor announced plans on Wednesday for a boxing showdown that could become one of the richest bouts in history. The fight will take place August 26 in the Ame

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields defeated an overmatched Sydney LeBlanc by unanimous decision in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday. Scores were 80-72 across the board. The bout was streamed live around the world by FightTyme.com.
Shields (3-0, 2 knockouts) resembled a human tornado in the opening round, throwing a ton a blistering combinations and hurting LeBlanc several times in the round and causing referee Frank Garza to t

LAS VEGAS — Sergey Kovalev has brooded around Sin City.
He’s angry about much: the controversial decision from the first bout, trash talk from Andre Ward, charges he’s a racist. Perhaps he’s most steamed about the money he’s set to make and how little it is in relation to Ward’s purse.
According to the Nevada State Athletic Commission payout sheet, Ward is guaranteed to pull in $6.5 million for Saturday’s rematch for the vacant RING light heavyweight cha

LAS VEGAS — There was no staredown Thursday after Sergey Kovalev jettisoned the news conference early, but the fighters finally came face to face Friday.
Moments after stepping off the scale — both fighters looked ripped and weighed 175 pounds on the dot — they met face-to-face, and Ward began jawing at Kovalev while chewing gum.
The unified light heavyweight champ refused to divulge what he said — “as long as he understood me, that’s all that matters” b