“Saul Alvarez flattened Amir Khan in six rounds at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday night. A single right hand, one launched, quite rightly, without regard for what might come in return, did the trick. With the win, Alvarez got back to harrowing welterweights as he did before Floyd Mayweather Jr. humbled him in 2013. Somehow the image of Khan, first crumpled then unfolded, impressed Alvarez’s adoring throng, a constituency devoted enough to ensure another welterweight (perhaps a Filipino one) will be challenge enough when Alvarez next defends his 155-pound middleweight championship for 60 of your dollars or millions of HBO’s.”

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“Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz renewed absurdities at StubHub Center in Carson, California, Saturday night. Billed as a grudge match, as something personal, even something necessary (to hear the wrong people tell it), Berto-Ortiz actually was a fight between a man with a short future in boxing and one with none at all.

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“At the Saturday press conference to announce his July fight with Isaac Chilemba, light heavyweight reaper Sergey Kovalev described his profession as follows: “Boxing, for me, is a street fight with rules.” That qualifier “for me” is no trifle: Between the ropes, IBF/WBA/WBO titlist Kovalev conducts himself with the malice of a man fighting beyond them, one only restrained by the conventions of sportsmanship for the purpose of victory and compensation. For Kovalev, it seems boxing is a sport, second, and something more primal, first.”

Read: Aftermath: On Golovkin-Wade, Gonzalez-Arroyo, and Sergey Kovalev on UCN Live.