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Andreas Hale
Andreas Hale
ESPN
- Andreas Hale is simply a combat sports newsman astatine ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas' escaped time, helium plays video games, obsesses implicit euphony and is simply a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is besides a big for Sirius XM's Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a elder writer astatine DAZN and Sporting News. He started his vocation arsenic a euphony writer for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z's Life+Times. He is besides an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker arsenic a shaper for the animated abbreviated movie "Bridges" successful 2024.
Brett Okamoto
Brett Okamoto
ESPN Staff Writer
- Brett Okamoto has reported connected mixed martial arts and boxing astatine ESPN since 2010. He has covered each of the biggest events successful combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names specified arsenic Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was besides a shaper connected the 30 for 30 film: "Chuck and Tito," which looked backmost astatine the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives successful Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer successful his spare time.
Sep 13, 2025, 08:06 PM ET
Terence Crawford moves up successful value to situation Canelo Alvarez for his undisputed ace middleweight rubric connected Saturday astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas (Netflix, 9 p.m. ET).
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) is simply a four-division satellite champion and has fought astir of his vocation betwixt 135 and 147 pounds. He moved up 1 value class to 154 successful August 2024 and defeated Israil Madrimov to triumph the WBA inferior middleweight title.
"Bud" Crawford has achieved undisputed presumption successful 2 divisions -- thing that has been accomplished by lone 2 different men's fighters successful the four-belt epoch (Oleksandr Usyk and Naoya Inoue). A triumph against Canelo volition marque Crawford the lone men's combatant to beryllium undisputed successful 3 value classes (Claressa Shields has done it successful women's boxing).
Canelo (63-2-2, 39 KOs) is besides a four-division champion. His lone 2 losses were against Floyd Mayweather successful 2013 and to Dmitry Bivol successful 2022 erstwhile Canelo moved up to airy heavyweight to situation for a satellite title.
Canelo vs. Crawford is 1 of the astir anticipated fights successful caller years and the victor could arguably beryllium the champion combatant successful the world.
Andreas Hale and Brett Okamoto are successful Las Vegas to bring you each that's happening, including combat results and round-by-round analysis.
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