Oscar De La Hoya 8–4 (30 KO) vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. 37–0 (24 KO), billed as The World Awaits, was a professional boxing match contested on May 5, 2007, for the WBC super welterweight championship.
At the time, the bout was the most lucrative boxing match ever, with over $130 million in generated revenue.

The fight took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada under the promotion of Golden Boy Promotions. It was contested at 154 pounds, with De La Hoya defending his WBC light middleweight championship.

Tickets sold out three hours after they went on sale on Saturday, January 27, 2007. With the sellout, the bout generated over $19 million in live gate, beating the previous record of $16,860,300 set by the June 28, 1997, heavyweight championship rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson at the Thomas & Mack Center. The fight was televised on HBO pay-per-view, with the cost to watch the fight at $55 in the U.S.

As part of the buildup for the fight, HBO produced an unprecedented four-part prelude. The series, titled De La Hoya-Mayweather 24/7, aired installments on the final three Sundays of April, with the fourth installment airing on Thursday, May 3, two days before the fight. The series focused on each fighter’s training and preparation for the bout.

A subplot to the fight concerned whether De La Hoya would be trained by Floyd Mayweather Sr., the estranged father of Mayweather Jr. Mayweather Sr. had served as De La Hoya’s trainer since 2001. Mayweather Sr. announced his willingness to train De La Hoya after initially declining to oppose his son, but demanded a $2 million fee in light of the enormous revenue to be generated by the fight. De La Hoya declined to meet Mayweather Sr.’s demands, making a counteroffer of $500,000 guaranteed plus an additional $500,000 contingent on De La Hoya winning the fight. Ultimately, the sides were unable to come to an agreement and De La Hoya hired the highly respected Freddie Roach to be his cornerman instead.

Although Mayweather Sr. reunited with his son at the start of Floyd Jr.’s training camp, he had no official role, as Floyd Jr. opted to retain his uncle, Roger Mayweather, as his trainer instead. Mayweather Sr. left the camp by the end of April, upset over not being chosen as trainer and by comments made by his son and brother during the taping of the 24/7 show.

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David Haye 24–1 (22 KO) vs. Audley Harrison 27–4 (20 KO), billed as Best of Enemies, was a professional boxing match contested on 13 November 2010 for the WBA Heavyweight championship.

After his stoppage win over former champion John Ruiz in his first defence, WBA champion David Haye entered into negotiations with the Klitschko brothers, with Wembley Stadium and Stamford Bridge being mentioned possible venues] These talks however were unsuccessful as the brothers agreed to face former champions Shannon Briggs and Samuel Peter instead. This left two main options for Haye: European champion (and former amateur teammate) Audley Harrison and former two-division champion Tomasz Adamek. Ultimately, Haye came to an agreement with Harrison to meet in November.

The build up to bout was marked by a great amount of trashtalk from both fighters, including Haye saying ‘Fortunately, there are enough people in Britain who want to see him get destroyed, completely annihilated. That’s why this fight is happening. They want me to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show’. Harrison said ‘When I came out of the Olympics, they called me Muhammad Ali, then four years later I’m “Fraudley”. But after this fight I’ll be extraordinary’.

It was expected that Haye’s superior speed, coupled with his uppercut, would give him the edge over the slower and innately more cautious Harrison.

This was only the third time in history that two Brits had faced each other for the heavyweight title, and the first on UK soil since Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno in 1993.

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Paulie Malignaggi 32–4 (7 KO) vs. Adrien Broner 26–0 (22 KO), was a boxing welterweight championship fight for Malignaggi’s WBA welterweight title. The bout was held on June 22, 2013, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, United States on Showtime.

After failing to secure a fight with WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns, WBC champion Adrien Broner decided to move up two weight classes to welterweight in order to challenge WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi.

On March 10, 2013, the fight was made official for June 22 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The build up to the fight was marred by an excessive amount of trash talk, with the pre fight press conference featuring comments by both fighters.

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Lennox Lewis 23–0 (19 KO) vs. Frank Bruno 36–3 (35 KO), billed as The Battle of Britain, was a professional boxing match contested on 1 October 1993 at National Stadium, Cardiff in Wales. It was between WBC heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, who was making the second defence of his title and Frank Bruno, who was fighting in his third world title bout, his two previous title fights having been unsuccessful.

Lennox Lewis had won the WBC heavyweight title when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him, so the WBC gave Lewis the title on 14 January 1993. Lewis had previously been the WBC’s number one contender by defeating Razor Ruddock. Lewis then became the first British world heavyweight champion since Bob Fitzsimmons lost the title on 9 June 1899. Lewis went on to defend his title by defeating Tony Tucker.

Frank Bruno had previously lost to Tim Witherspoon on 19 July 1986 for the WBA heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium and to Mike Tyson on 25 February 1989 for the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles at the Las Vegas Hilton.

The fight was the first time that two British-born boxers had fought for the world heavyweight title, although Bruno had questioned how British Lewis really was, as he had won a gold medal for Canada at the 1988 Olympic Games as an amateur. Bruno described Lewis as “…not British”, but said “It’s about boxing. I’m sick and tired of his pretences. He calls himself champion. He acts like he’s a Sugar Ray Leonard or a Willie Pep or a Joe Louis”,[5] and that “Nobody cares about Lennox Lewis in Britain.”

To counter the Bruno claim that he was “not British”, Lewis said, “What was I supposed to do? Not follow my mother to Canada?”, “Look, I’ve fought more British fighters than that guy has. He makes a fool of himself, dressing up in girls’ clothing on television”. Lewis called Bruno an “Uncle Tom”.

Bruno weighed in at 238 pounds (108 kg), and Lewis at 229 pounds (104 kg)

The fight was promoted by Frank Maloney Panix Promotions and by Main Events. It was a pay-per-view event with HBO in the United States and on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.

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🗣️When Fury gave AJ advice on Sky Sports’ The Gloves Are Off show back in 2013.

🥊 They finally look set to take each other on this year.

🎥Credit: @skysportsboxing

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