Carl Froch vs. George Groves, billed as the Battle of Britain, was a professional boxing match contested on 23 November 2013 at the Manchester Arena.

Carl Froch began 2013 by successfully defending his IBF super-middleweight title against WBA (Regular) champion Mikkel Kessler on 25 May, which was a rematch of their first fight on 24 April 2010, at the time part of the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament.

Having unified the titles and become a two-time world champion, Froch considered several options for his next fight. His preference was a third fight with Kessler, based on the resounding critical success of the second, as well as a rematch with former Super Six rival Andre Ward, who defeated Froch in the tournament final on 17 December 2011.

George Groves had won three fights in 2013, including a victory on the undercard of Froch–Kessler II. By June, he was ranked number two at super-middleweight by the WBA and was installed as the mandatory challenger by the IBF.

The rivalry between him and Froch had already begun prior to the Kessler fight, when Groves joined Kessler’s training camp as a sparring partner. This drew furious criticism from Froch a week before that fight, who branded Groves a traitor for helping out his Danish opponent and not staying loyal to his countryman. In response, Groves maintained that he had gained invaluable experience by sparring against a multiple-time world champion veteran in Kessler.

Once Groves became the mandatory contender for the IBF title, Froch began considering him as a serious opponent for later in the year. Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn had mentioned a potential Froch–Groves fight as early as March, which turned into more serious discussions in July, during which time Froch declared his intention to defend his title rather than vacate it for the sake of a potentially bigger fight with Kessler or Ward.

Hearn officially announced the event on 30 August, to take place on 23 November at the Manchester Arena (then known as the Phones4u Arena). Matchroom had promoted Froch since 2011, and Groves was signed in March 2013.

Throughout the latter half of the year, Froch and Groves engaged in an intense war of words, rife with trash-talk, in a rivalry likened to that of Nigel Benn vs. Chris Eubank in the early 1990s.

On 8 November, both boxers appeared on Sky Sports’ boxing talk show Ringside. During the show, Groves insisted on referring to Froch by his second name only, while Froch refused to even look at him. Neither accepted the offer of a handshake.

In Groves’ training camp, preparations hit a major stumbling block when he and trainer Adam Booth split acrimoniously in September. Groves would reveal in December 2015 that he felt Booth had abandoned him at the most important stage of his career, before a world title fight. With ten weeks to go before the fight with Froch, Paddy Fitzpatrick was hired by Groves to replace Booth.

At the weigh-in on 22 November, which culminated in both boxers having to be pulled apart by security and personnel, Froch was highly animated during the customary staredown as he taunted an “uncharacteristically quiet” Groves.

They weighed in under the super-middleweight limit of 168 lb (76 kg): Froch at 167+3⁄4 pounds (76.1 kg) and Groves at 166+1⁄2 lb (75.5 kg).

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Julio César Chávez vs. Meldrick Taylor, billed as Thunder Meets Lightning, was a professional boxing match contested on March 17, 1990, for the WBC and IBF light welterweight championship. Its title was an allusion to the punching power of Chávez and fast hand speed of Taylor.

Julio César Chávez had an undefeated record of 68–0 with 55 wins by knockout and had won world championships in three weight classes: super featherweight, lightweight and, the previous year against Roger Mayweather, the WBC light welterweight title.

Meldrick Taylor had won, at only 17 years, a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also had an undefeated professional record and had won the IBF light welterweight title in 1988 from Buddy McGirt.

This fight was the third title defense for both boxers and a unification fight of the WBC and IBF title.

The fight took place only one month after Mike Tyson’s upset loss to James “Buster” Douglas.

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Canelo Álvarez vs. Erislandy Lara, billed as Honor & Glory, was a professional boxing match contested on 12 July 2014.

On April 2014 WBA (Regular) titleholder Erislandy Lara agreed to face former unified light middleweight champion Canelo Álvarez in a bout to be televised on Showtime pay-per-view.

Lara’s WBA Regular title was not on the line, as the fight took place at a 155-pound catchweight and both fighters weighed in at precisely 155 lbs. Álvarez rehydrated to 171 lbs while Lara came into the ring at 166 lbs.

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Andy Ruiz Jr. vs Anthony Joshua II, billed as Clash On The Dunes, was a heavyweight professional boxing rematch between the Mexican-American champion Andy Ruiz Jr. and British former champion Anthony Joshua, for the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight world titles. The event took place on December 7, 2019, at the Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.

After losing by seventh-round technical knockout to Andy Ruiz Jr. on June 1, 2019, at Madison Square Garden in New York City in one of the biggest upsets in the history of boxing, Joshua stated in a post-fight interview that he and his team certainly expected to exercise the rematch clause with Ruiz.

Four days after the fight took place, Joshua’s promoter and group managing director of Matchroom Sport Eddie Hearn announced on social media platforms that Joshua’s management team triggered the contractual rematch clause with Ruiz.

Saudi Arabian authorities reportedly paid £30 million ($41.1 million) to host the event in Saudi Arabia.

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