The pound for pound king and greatest fighter of his generation Floyd Mayweather Junior looks for a remarkable 45th career win against the insatiable Mexican 23-year-old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, exclusively live on BoxNation.
The Mexican will put his WBC and WBA World titles on the line at a catch weight of 152lbs, and he’ll hope to capitalise on his greater size and power to secure what would be a priceless, career-defining win over Mayweather.
MGM Grand in Las Vegas – the fight capital of the world – is a fitting arena for a fight of such magnitude and, at the age of 36, there is a groundswell of opinion that the man 13 years his junior will finally be the one to crack the Mayweather code.
At the age of just 23, Alvarez has already amassed a quite incredible 42 wins from 43 fights; he drew his fifth fight back in 2006.
It wasn’t until the last couple of years that he really announced himself as an elite level fighter, and he’s since gone on to win the WBC and WBA’s super world titles, which he’ll defend in September against Mayweather.
Golden Boy Promotions are bringing yet another megashow live from Las Vegas to BoxNation viewers and there is a great night of undercard bouts to look forward to ahead of the main event.
Danny Garcia defends his WBC and WBA Super World Light-Welterweight titles against one of the most feared knockout fighters in the game, Lucas Martin Matthysse.
Garcia v Matthysse is unquestionably the best undercard fight in recent memory, and is a true fight of the year contender with the lightning quick Mexican-American Garcia facing the awesome might of a man with 34 wins and 32 knockouts.
Competitor in the first season of American boxing reality TV show “The Contender”, Ishe Smith eyes a first defence of his IBF Light-Middleweight title against Mexican 30-year-old Carlos Molina.
Smith took a majority decision over domestic rival Cornelius Bundrage last February to win the IBF belt, and is now out to defend is for the first time.
The 25-5 Las Vegas fighter will have the backing of a home crowd as he faces his 21-5-2 Mexican opponent on the undercard to the biggest night of boxing in 2013, topped by Floyd Mayweather Jr. v Saul Alvarez and supported by Danny Garcia v Lucas Martin Matthysse.
Londoner Ashley Theophane brings some British interest to the night as he faces former interim world champion Pablo Cesar Cano over 10 rounds at welterweight.
The popular Kilburn-born fighter, who is promoted by Floyd Mayweather, believes he’s on the world title trail and will look to improve his 33-5-1 record against the 26-3-1 Mexican 23-year-old.
Join the BoxNation team late on Saturday night for a truly huge night of boxing live from the MGM Grand Arena, Las Vegas, with coverage starting at 1.30am (Sunday morning).
A stellar lineup of programming building up to the fight will be shown throughout the week on BoxNation as the channel looks forward to one of the biggest fight nights in recent memory.
These include final two instalments of the award-winning behind-the-scenes documentary ‘All Access: Mayweather vs. Alvarez’, Bunce’s Boxing Hour Live, the return of Boxing Matters and Steve Lillis reports from Las Vegas on Countdown to “The One”.
In addition, BoxNation will stream live coverage of the weigh-in free from 10.00pm to midnight on Friday, September 13, as Mayweather and Alvarez face off for one final time before the talking stops and the fight of the year begins.
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Saturday 14th September
The One: Floyd Mayweather Jr v Saul Alvarez
Plus – Garcia v Matthysse, Smith v Molina & Theophane v Cano
LIVE: 1.30am-6.30am (Sun) BoxNation
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