LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor McGregor’s improbable challenge of Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a box-office smash.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor McGregor’s improbable challenge of Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a box-office smash.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor McGregor was exhausted and hurt by the 10th round, his audacious venture undone by every logical problem with a mixed martial artist entering a professional boxing ring for the first time to take on the most accomplished boxer of recent years.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) The big money continued rolling in just before fight time at this city’s sports books, with several million-dollar bets on Floyd Mayweather Jr. to beat Conor McGregor.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor McGregor has been kept pretty much under wraps ever since his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. was announced, emerging occasionally to trash Mayweather only to disappear again behind the closed doors of the UFC training center.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) World boxing champion Terence Crawford has had his 90-day jail sentence overturned, though he still will be on two years’ probation for two misdemeanors in connection with a 2016 disturbance at an Omaha body shop.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor McGregor is making a lot of wise guys nervous in this gambling city.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Conor McGregor’s improbable challenge of Floyd Mayweather Jr. could be seen by a staggering 50 million people in the United States as fans and the curious gather in small and large parties.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) The fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor may not have sold out yet, but that won’t stop Las Vegas from putting on its party hat.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) It’s only two ounces of foam, four if you count both hands.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Terence Crawford had never heard of Julius Indongo until nine months ago. Neither had the rest of the boxing world outside the small African nation of Namibia.
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KYOTO, Japan (AP) Luis Nery of Mexico defeated Japanese boxer Shinsuke Yamanaka with a fourth-round technical knockout to claim the WBC bantamweight title on Tuesday.
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From the first press conference to media day, the buildup to one of the most anticipated bouts in history has been a spectacle.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Conor McGregor became known as a fighter with a mystical ability to defy the odds because of his stunning upset victory over Jose Aldo, the former UFC featherweight champion.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) It’s a fight (or at least an event) born and bred by social media. There is really no reason for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor to meet in a boxing ring Aug. 26 other than a lot of UFC fans think it’s a great idea and it will make the two fighters a great deal of money.
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DETROIT (AP) For Claressa Shields, this is an opportunity that arrived sooner than expected.
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Wladimir Klitschko had to lose before he finally became accepted by most fight fans.
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) Vasyl Lomachenko awakes to California sunshine in his large, sparsely furnished suburban house. He commutes to his boxing gym in a late-model white SUV, cruising past fragrant acres of strawberries, lemons and celery in Ventura County’s fertile farmland.
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BERLIN (AP) Former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko announced his immediate retirement from boxing on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (AP) Adrien Broner unleashed a profanity-filled tirade against his opponent in the ring and his doubters outside it, proving he remains one of boxing’s biggest mouths.
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Movie theaters around the U.S. will show the Aug. 26 fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor.
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MOSCOW (AP) The embattled governing body of Olympic boxing has picked Russia to host the 2019 men’s world championships, amid reports of a no-confidence vote against President Ching-Kuo Wu over concerns about the Switzerland-based body’s finances.
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TORONTO (AP) UFC star Conor McGregor played to a partisan Toronto audience and made fun of boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s tax problems at the second stop of their four-city promotional tour.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Manny Pacquiao still disagrees with the unanimous decision that resulted in him losing the WBO world welterweight title to Jeff Horn, despite an independent re-scoring of the July 2 fight, and says he has no plans to retire.
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Floyd Mayweather’s boxing match against Conor McGregor will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after promoters reached an agreement with Ice Cube to move the championship game of his Big3 basketball league.
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It’s still early, but give Round 1 of the trash-talk battle between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to the Irish MMA star.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) The World Boxing Organization says it will re-score the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight world title fight due to the contentious unanimous decision awarded to the Australian fighter, but there is no plan to change the result.
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Ice Cube says his Big3 basketball league is open to moving its championship game to another arena in Las Vegas to make way for Floyd Mayweather’s boxing match against Conor McGregor.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) Manny Pacquiao has asked the World Boxing Organization to act on a request by Philippine sports officials for a review of his welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn, saying he didn’t want to see the boxing industry ”dying because of unfair decision and officiating.”
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Manny Pacquiao had already left town without saying much, even as criticism of the referee in the WBO welterweight world title fight and the judges who awarded a unanimous points decision to a previously almost anonymous Jeff Horn was still pouring in on social media.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Manny Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight world title to Jeff Horn in a stunning, unanimous points decision in a Sunday afternoon bout billed as the Battle of Brisbane in front of more than 50,000 people.
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