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Canelo Álvarez Vs. Sergey Kovalev
Canelo Álvarez vs. Sergey Kovalev was a professional boxing match contested on November 2, 2019, for the WBO light heavyweight championship. The fight took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada and Álvarez won by 11th-round knockout. Background On July 25, 2019, it became known that Kovalev (34-3-1, 29 KOs) was negotiating a deal to fight Álvarez (51-1-2, 34 KOs) for October 2019, in a fight that would see Álvarez make his light heavyweight debut. There was reports implying the fight with Anthony Yarde, who the WBO ordered Kovalev to fight, would be scrapped if Golden Boy Promotions and Kathy Duva, Main Events successfully negotiated a deal. Álvarez was ordered by the IBF to defend the title against Sergiy Derevyanchenko. John Skipper, who was DAZN's executive chairman, where Álvarez was tied into a contract, stated the streaming service would only approve Kovalev or a trilogy fight with Gennady Golovkin as Álvarez's next fight. According to Egis Klimas, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knockout
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, as well as fighting-based video games. A full knockout is considered any legal strike or combination thereof that renders an opponent unable to continue fighting. The term is often associated with a sudden traumatic loss of consciousness caused by a physical blow. Single powerful blows to the head (particularly the jawline and temple) can produce a cerebral concussion or a carotid sinus reflex with syncope and cause a sudden, dramatic KO. Body blows, particularly the liver punch, can cause progressive, debilitating pain that can also result in a KO. In boxing and kickboxing, a knockout is usually awarded when one participant falls to the canvas and is unable to rise to their feet within a specified period of time, typically because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Gvozdyk
Oleksandr Serhiyovych Gvozdyk (also Hvozdyk; ; born 15 April 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Council, WBC and Lineal championship, lineal light-heavyweight titles from 2018 to 2019. As an Amateur boxing, amateur, Gvozdyk won a bronze medal at the Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's light heavyweight, 2012 Olympics and a gold at the Boxing at the 2013 Summer Universiade, 2013 Summer Universiade. Gvozdyk has stated he is nicknamed "The Nail" because his surname in Russian translates to 'Nail (fastener), nail'. He is considered part of the Ukrainian golden generation of boxing along with other 2012 Olympic medallists Denys Berinchyk, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Taras Shelestyuk, and Oleksandr Usyk. Amateur career Gvozdyk was introduced to boxing at the age of 8, when his father, an amateur boxer, gave him a set of boxing gloves. Prior to this, Gvozdyk was more interested in kickboxing and karate. He also received the encouragement of his friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Bivol
Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol (; born 18 December 1990) is a Russian professional boxer. He won the undisputed light-heavyweight title in February 2025, and has held the unified championship since April 2025, as well as the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and ''Ring'' magazine titles since February 2025. Previously, he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light-heavyweight title ( Super version) from 2019 to 2024. He also held the IBO title during his first reign as WBA champion. As an amateur, Bivol won the gold medal at the 2013 World Combat Games in the 81 kg weight category. He was listed by multiple sources as the fighter of the year for 2022, including being selected as ''The Ring'' magazine Fighter of The Year and as the Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year. He is the only boxer to defeat a reigning undisputed world champions in the "four-belt era," having done so twice with his victories over super-middleweight champion Canelo Álvar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Beterbiev
Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiev (; ; born 21 January 1985) is a Russian and Canadian professional boxer. He held the undisputed light-heavyweight championship between 2024 and February 2025. He also held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and ''Ring'' magazine titles during his reign as champion. Beterbiev is the first boxer to become the undisputed light-heavyweight champion since Roy Jones Jr. last held that distinction in 2002, and is the first to do so in the "four-belt" era. As an amateur, Beterbiev won a light-heavyweight silver medal at the 2007 World Championships, gold at the 2008 World Cup and 2009 World Championships, as well as gold at the 2006 and 2010 European Championships. He also reached the heavyweight quarter-finals at the 2012 Olympics. He is known for his punching power, having won his first 20 professional fights by knockout or stoppage after debuting in 2013. Amateur career Beterbiev competed as a light-heavyweight and heavyweight in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional ice hockey league in the world. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the Stanley Cup playoffs, league playoff champion at the end of each season. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) views the Stanley Cup as one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The NHL is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The National Hockey League was organized at the Windsor Hotel (Montreal), Windsor Hotel in Montreal on November 26, 1917, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909 at Renfrew, Ontario. The NHL immediately took the NHA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegas Golden Knights
The Vegas Golden Knights are a professional ice hockey team based in the Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Golden Knights compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. Founded in 2017 as an expansion team, the team is the first major sports franchise to represent Las Vegas. The franchise is primarily owned by Black Knight Sports and Entertainment, a consortium led by William P. Foley, Bill Foley, with Adrienne Maloof holding a minority stake. Their home games are played at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. One of the few expansion franchises to experience immediate success in North American professional sports, the Golden Knights 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs in their first four seasons and reached the Stanley Cup Finals in their first season. Their 13 playoff wins en route to the 2018 Stanle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Opened on April 6, 2016, it is the home arena of the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). A joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), T-Mobile Arena is situated on the Las Vegas Strip behind the New York-New York and Park MGM casino hotels. It's been nicknamed "The Fortress". T-Mobile Arena has hosted various sports and entertainment events, with the latter including concerts, Awards ceremony, award shows, and beauty pageants. The arena has also hosted various combat sport events, including mixed martial arts (MMA), professional boxing, boxing, and professional wrestling. MMA promoter Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) signed a long-term tenancy agreement with T-Mobile Arena in 2017, under which it agreed to host four events per-year over the next seven years. History The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) first tried to build a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Golovkin
Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (; also spelled Gennady; born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time former unified champion. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles at varying points between 2014 and 2023, and challenged once for the undisputed super middleweight championship in 2022. He is also a former International Boxing Organization (IBO) middleweight champion, having held the title twice between 2011 and 2023. Golovkin was ranked as the world's best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017 to September 2018 by '' The Ring'' magazine. He was also ranked as the world's best active middleweight by ''The Ring'', Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, ESPN, and BoxRec. In 2010, Golovkin won the WBA interim middleweight title by defeating Milton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DAZN
DAZN (; pronounced "da zone") is a British Over-the-top media service, over-the-top sports Sports broadcasting, streaming and entertainment platform. Founded in 2007 as Perform Group via the merger of Premium TV Limited and Inform Group, it is owned by Access Industries, the investment group founded by Len Blavatnik, Sir Len Blavatnik, and is headquartered in London, England. Shay Segev is DAZN's CEO as of January 2021. The non-executive directors are Lincoln Benet, John Gleasure and Guillaume D’Hauteville. The DAZN platform was founded in 2015 and broadcasts live and on-demand sport in over 200 countries worldwide with a strong domestic presence in Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, France, Portugal, Belgium, Taiwan, the United States and Canada, where it has key domestic broadcast rights. It is considered to be Europe's largest digital sports broadcaster with over 75 programming rights. the service has 20 million paid subscribers globally. Outside of streaming, DAZN has since e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Skipper
John Skipper is an American television executive, former executive chairman of DAZN Group, former president of ESPN, and co-founder of Meadowlark Media. Career Education and early career Skipper attended Lexington Senior High School in Lexington, North Carolina. He then attended UNC-Chapel Hill and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature. After receiving his master's degree in the same field from Columbia University, he went to work for ''Rolling Stone'', beginning as an executive assistant before being promoted. He also worked for '' Us'' and '' Spin'' before becoming senior vice president of Disney Publishing Group. ESPN In June 1997, Skipper became senior vice president and general manager of ''ESPN the Magazine''. In October 2005, he was named as executive vice president of content. On January 1, 2012, he became president of ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks. In 2017, Skipper's contract with ESPN's parent company, Disney, was extended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergiy Derevyanchenko
Serhiy Vyacheslavovich Derevyanchenko (; born 31 October 1985) is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has challenged three times for world middleweight titles; the IBF title in 2018; the IBF and IBO titles in 2019; and the WBC title in 2020. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal at middleweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships. Amateur career His father was a boxer, who introduced him to the sport. Derevyanchenko trained with his father in his hometown, Feodosiya, until he was 10. At the 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships, he beat Argenis Casimiro Núñez in the quarter-finals to win a bronze medal, but was unable to progress any further, losing to Matvey Korobov in the semi-final. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics but lost to Emilio Correa in the second round. Derevyanchenko took part in the 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships, where he reached the quarter-finals but fell short against Vijender Singh. Between 2010 and 2014, he took part in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
