Manny Pacquiao added another impressive notch to his belt by beating the previously undefeated Keith Thurman on Saturday night. While the verdict was a split decision after 12 rounds, the 40-year-old "Pacman" was the clear winner. He sent Thurman to the canvas in the first round, controlled the first half of the fight, and then, with Thurman sneaking back into the bout, he hurt Thurman with a shot to the body in the 10th. Then he did enough in the late stages to hold off Thurman's rally. So what did we learn from Saturday night? Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman will collide for the WBA world welterweight title at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday with questions hanging over both of them. Let's break down the fight. Get ready for boxing's fight of the year, then follow our round-by-round updates. Everything you need to know ahead of the Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin rematch on Saturday It went the distance again, but this time Canelo Alvarez came out on top, defeating Gennady Golovkin in a very close majority decision in their middleweight title bout Saturday night. Floyd Mayweather says a rematch of his much-hyped 2015 fight with Manny Pacquiao is in the works for this year, posting a video of him jawing with Pacquiao and saying he is eyeing a December fight. In an uncharacteristic move, Canelo Alvarez charged toward Gennady Golovkin and pressed his forehead against GGG's after the two weighed in Friday, adding more fuel to their much anticipated middleweight title rematch Saturday. If Floyd Mayweather decides to fight in the UFC, Tyron Woodley is ready to lend a helping hand. Floyd Mayweather’s recent tease of a UFC contract isn’t hot air after all. After Mayweather claimed he’d been offered a deal that could pay him an eye-popping sum of cash, UFC President Dana White confirmed that, yes, the industry-leading MMA promotion is working on a potential deal to bring the undefeated boxer into the octagon. Despite the carnival feel and one-sided predictions throughout the build, the August boxing superfight between Floyd Mayweather and UFC champion Conor McGregor turned out to be an entertaining -- and financially gluttonous -- event for those involved. Still, there was a lingering feeling from some in the aftermath that the fight, pairing the greatest boxer of his era against a boxing novice, may not have been completely on the up and up. At the very least, many wondered whether the 40-year-old Mayweather carried McGregor in the early rounds before switching gears and finishing him late. Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder has lost out on the opportunity for two marquee fights because his opponents, Alexander Povetkin last year and Luis "King Kong" Ortiz last month, failed drug tests. The cancellations of the fights left Wilder emotional and upset, particularly the one with the big-punching Ortiz, whom he was supposed to fight on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The huge fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor was much better than expected, and we have a full round-by-round recap. That's called smart money. A dive inside the stats from Floyd Mayweather's 10-round TKO of Conor McGregor. The highly-anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor did not disappoint. Check out our blow-by-blow analysis. Here we are on the eve of a fight that, when you really think about it, has no business happening. A 49-0 boxer vs. an 0-0 boxer in a boxing match. How could the Nevada State Athletic Commission have possibly sanctioned this? And yet, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather (49-0 boxing) will face off Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a pay-per-view event expected to be the most lucrative prize fight of all time. After the wild, crazy, profane and totally over-the-top four-city media tour that Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor embarked on last month to promote their megafight -- in which they berated, insulted and cursed at each other stop after stop, whipping huge crowds into a frenzy -- the final prefight news conference at the MGM Grand was for media only and as low-key as it gets. Gene LeBell still shakes his head when he hears how the most infamous cross-sport fight in combat sports history — at least until Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor go at it Aug. 26 — was supposedly fixed. “I remember looking at (Muhammad) Ali’s legs,” martial arts icon LeBell, who refereed the fight and is now 84, told USA TODAY Sports via telephone Monday. “There were marks and hematomas all over them. Ali ended up in the hospital.” The Nevada State Athletic Commission will at least entertain the possibility of Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor wearing lighter boxing gloves in their highly anticipated fight later this month in Las Vegas. NSAC executive director Bob Bennett confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday that both fighters have submitted official requests to wear 8-ounce gloves for their junior middleweight fight on Aug. 26 inside T-Mobile Arena. Per Nevada regulations, any fight contested above the weight of 147 pounds must utilize 10-ounce gloves. The contracted weight for the Mayweather, McGregor bout is 154 pounds. With his world tour with Floyd Mayweather now behind him, Conor McGregor has moved his training camp from Dublin to Las Vegas, which was the plan all along. Back in Ireland, you might say McGregor’s sparring partners were a somewhat questionable bunch, specifically because he’s trying to prepare for a first-ever professional boxing match against one of the greatest boxers ever.
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