SPORTS ROUNDUP 21: CANELO WANTS TO REMATCH WITH MAYWEATHER
By Maloney L. Samaco
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 20 Oct 2018
WBC and WBA unified middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez is more than willing to do a rematch with the now retired former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Canelo's lone career defeat was dealt by Mayweather on September 14 of 2013. The bout was fought at a catch-weight of 152-pounds, with Mayweather dominating the contest at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
If Mayweather is serious about the come back, Canelo says he should do the right thing and grant him a rematch. "Look, that's something that I would love," Canelo said to Sports Illustrated. "If he wants to come back and is still motivated to come back, he should do it right. He should do it right and give me the opportunity to have that rematch and demonstrate who is better."
Canelo believes he greatly lacks the experience last time to beat Mayweather in their first match. And he would love to to do it again.
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Sugar Ray Leonard encouraged Anthony Joshua to travel to America to fight Deontay Wilder to become a world superstar champion fighter. Joshua is the WBA, IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion and he wants to face WBC heavyweight king Wilder at the Wembley Stadium in April. Their teams failed to agree to fight this year.
KO specialist Wilder will stake his unbeaten record against Tyson Fury on December 1 in Los Angeles. Leonard was at the ringside when Joshua won over Alexander Povetkin last month and he feels the British unified heavyweight champ fighting Wilder would be similar to his return to the ring in 1987 to beat undisputed middleweight champion Marvin Hagler.
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LeBron James has not won any of the renowned season openers he played, dropping to 0-4 all-time in his debut games. He scored 25 points in his rookie opening game in Cleveland but the Cavaliers lost to the Sacramento Kings. James had 31 in his opener in Miami and the Heat lost to the Boston Celtics. And he had 17 points in his Cleveland return in 2014, a home loss to the New York Knicks.
The Lakers lost at to the Portland Trailblazers at the Moda Center, 128-119. James played 37 minutes and scored 26 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished out six assists. "A lot of these guys don?t have as much experience, so I have to understand that. And I do," said LeBron on his young teammates at the Lakers.
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