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In this Aug. 20, 2021, file photo, Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, poses for photographers during a weigh-in in Las Vegas. Philippine boxing icon and senator Pacquiao says he will run for president in the 2022 elections. He accepted the nomination of his PDP-Laban party at its national convention on Sunday, Sept. 19, pledging to honestly serve the Filipino people who he said have been waiting for change in government. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Pacquiao retires from boxing, will focus on political career in Philippines

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Anthony Joshua of Britain waves to spectators after his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine in their WBA (Super), WBO and IBF boxing title bout at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) **FILE**

Joshua quick to plot how to beat Usyk in rematch after loss

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

British boxer Anthony Joshua, left, poses for a photo with Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk, right, with Chairman of Matchroom Boxing Eddie Hearn at centre, during a press conference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, in London, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. Joshua faces Oleksandr Usyk in the second defense of his second spell as world heavyweight champion. Joshua holds the IBF, WBA and WBO belts and had been hoping to fight WBC champion Tyson Fury in an effort to become the undisputed heavyweight champ. Fury has to fight Deontay Wilder instead so Usyk is a replacement. (Zac Goodwin/PA via AP)

Southpaw Usyk provides the challenge heavyweight champ Joshua needs

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, right, shields himself from punches by former MMA star Vitor Belfort, before the boxing bout was stopped in the first round Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) **FILE**

Making money in boxing means not saying you’re sorry

By Tim Dahlberg - Associated Press

Manny Pacquiao, of the Philippines, wipes his eye at a news conference after his loss to Yordenis Ugas, of Cuba, in a welterweight championship boxing match Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) **FILE**

Even Manny Pacquiao finds Father Time undefeated

By Tim Dahlberg - Associated Press

Li Wenwen of China shouts in celebration after setting a new Olympic record in the women's +87kg weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

IOC gives itself more power to remove sports from Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Alexandria native Troy Isley gets a chance to compete for the Olympics when he'll represent USA Boxing in Tokyo (Photo courtesy of AIBA)

Troy Isley thought his Olympic dream was dead. Then the U.S. came calling.

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

USA Boxing team member Ginny Fuchs takes part in drills during media day for the team in a gym located in a converted Macy's Department store in Colorado Springs, Colo., in this Monday, June 7, 2021, file photo. Fuchs’ obsessive-compulsive disorder sometimes compels her to use a dozen toothbrushes a night and to buy hundreds of dollars of cleaning products per week. Yet Fuchs is headed to Tokyo next week to compete in the Olympic boxing tournament, where she realizes it’s almost impossible to avoid touching the blood, sweat and spit of her opponents.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) **FILE**

Olympic boxer Fuchs determined to win her fight against OCD

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

FILE - Boxers Claressa Shields speaks during a news conference ahead of a women's super welterweight title fight against Eve Dicaire in Flint, Mich., in this Wednesday, March 3, 2021, file photo. Two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist Claressa Shields has a date and an opponent for her mixed martial arts debut with the Professional Fighters League. Shields will fight Brittney Elkin on June 10, the promotion told The Associated Press on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)

Claressa Shields to make MMA debut with PFL on June 10

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, former professional boxer Evander Holyfield paces the sidelines as he watches his son, Georgia running back Elijah Holyfield, play in an NCAA college football game against Florida, in Jacksonville, Fla. Elijah Holyfield says it wasn't an easy decision to leave Georgia after his junior season. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Tyson, Holyfield and the dying gasp of a once-great sport

By Thom Loverro

Xavier Cavazos works against Alex Mazzarisi in the ring of the club. Mazzarisi continually coached Cavazos during the spar. The club has group classes Monday through Friday 6pm-8pm with open gym hours on weekends and flexible personal training times any day of the week. (Alex T. Paschal/The Daily Gazette via AP)

Sterling enthusiast opens boxing club in his garage

By CODY CUTTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 1987 file photo, "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, left, moves in on "Sugar" Ray Leonard during the third round of a boxing bout in Las Vegas. Leonard won with a split decision. Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with the loss to Leonard in 1987, died Saturday, March 13, 2021. He was 66. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Marvin Hagler legacy of greatness

By Thom Loverro

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady walks off the field with his family after the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in Tampa, Fla. The Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs 31-9 to win the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) **FILE**

Tom Brady’s powers at age 43 are knowledge and experience, George Foreman says

By Thom Loverro

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 1978, file photo, Leon Spinks, right, connects with a right hook to Muhammad Ali, during the late rounds of their championship fight in Las Vegas. Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks Jr. died Friday night, Feb. 5, 2021, after battling prostate and other cancers. He was 67. (AP Photo/File)

Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks dies at 67

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

Floyd Mayweather Jr. fights Andre Berto (not shown) during their welterweight title in Las Vegas, in this Sept. 12, 2015, file photo. It’s still early, but give Round 1 of the trash talk battle between Conor McGregor and Mayweather Jr. to the Irish MMA star. (AP Photo/Steve Marcus) ** FILE **

Floyd Mayweather, Laila Ali elected to Boxing Hall of Fame

Associated Press

Olympic gold medal boxer Claressa Shields begins MMA career

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

In a photo provided by Triller, Mike Tyson throws a punch during the third round against Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition boxing bout Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Los Angeles. The bout was unofficially ruled a draw by the WBC judges at ringside. Tyson and Jones fought eight two-minute rounds, and both emerged smiling and apparently healthy from a highly unusual event. (Joe Scarnici/Triller via AP)

Mike Tyson returns to ring, draws in exhibition with Jones

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. are older, wiser, calmer men than the superstars who dominated their sport. Their fight at Staples Center on Saturday night, Nov. 28, is an eight-round exhibition bout with no official judging and limited violence, although the limit depends on whether you're asking the fighters or the California State Athletic Commission. For Tyson and Jones, this unique pay-per-view boxing match is less of a sporting event and more of a chance for two transcendent athletes to prove age is a number and aging is a choice. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

50-something Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr. hungry to fight again

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. got permission from California's athletic commission to return to the boxing ring next month because their fight would be strictly an exhibition of their once-unparalleled skills. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Mike Tyson, Roy Jones promise a fight in “exhibition” return

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press

FILER - In this April 20, 2019, file photo, Teofimo Lopez is shown before an NABF lightweight championship boxing match against Finland's Edis Tatli, in New York. Brooklyn-born Teofimo Lopez stunned Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, to win a unanimous 12-round decision and unify the lightweight titles to join a rare group of boxers of Central American descent to capture a world championship. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Teófimo López win excites Honduran Americans amid pain

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press