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Brett Okamoto
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Brett Okamoto
ESPN Employees Author
- Brett Okamoto has reported on combined martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has coated all the largest occasions in fight sports activities throughout that point, together with in-depth interviews and options with names similar to Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was additionally a producer on the 30 for 30 movie: “Chuck and Tito,” which appeared again on the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.
Terence Crawford strikes up in weight to problem Canelo Alvarez for his undisputed tremendous middleweight title on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas (Netflix, 9 p.m. ET).
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is a four-division world champion and has fought most of his profession between 135 and 147 kilos. He moved up one weight class to 154 in August 2024 and defeated Israil Madrimov to win the WBA junior middleweight title.
“Bud” Crawford has achieved undisputed standing in two divisions — one thing that has been completed by solely two different males’s fighters within the four-belt period (Oleksandr Usyk and Naoya Inoue). A win in opposition to Canelo will make Crawford the one males’s fighter to be undisputed in three weight courses (Claressa Shields has accomplished it in girls’s boxing).
Canelo (63-2-2, 39 KOs) can be a four-division champion. His solely two losses had been in opposition to Floyd Mayweather in 2013 and to Dmitry Bivol in 2022 when Canelo moved as much as gentle heavyweight to problem for a world title.
Canelo vs. Crawford is among the most anticipated fights in recent times and the winner may arguably be the perfect fighter on the planet.
Andreas Hale and Brett Okamoto are in Las Vegas to deliver you all that is taking place, together with struggle outcomes and round-by-round evaluation.