"It's a joke for boxing if that happens," two-time world champion Canelo Alvarez, who fights fellow Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in Las Vegas in May, told Reuters on Tuesday. "It is a businessman fight," Chavez said during Tuesday's promotion stop in New York for the Cinco de Mayo weekend bout with Alvarez on May 6. Famed boxing trainer Freddie Roach believes the much-hyped Mayweather-McGregor showdown will happen and that he may get involved himself. "According to Mayweather, yes. Because (McGregor) throws, he throws hard and he’s not afraid to throw."

Source: The Star February 22, 2017 02:01 UTC