The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A full house of enthusiastic fans turned up for the Charros de Jalisco baseball team’s home opener against the Venados de Mazatlan in the new season of the Mexican Pacific League last Saturday.
In a true-life rags to riches tale, Guadalajara’s hometown working-class boxing hero Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has joined the sporting elite after signing a record-breaking, 11-fight deal with streaming service DAZN for a minimum of $US365 million.
Boxing fans are just a week away from the much anticipated rematch between Guadalajara’s very own Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO) and Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KO), scheduled in Las Vegas Saturday, September 15.
The Charros de Jalisco get the Mexican Pacific League (LMP) baseball season underway Saturday, October 13, 5 p.m. at the Charros Stadium in Zapopan.
Japhet Amador, the power hitting first baseman of the Charros de Jalisco and a current player for the Rakuten Eagles, has been suspended by the Nippon Professional Baseball League in Japan.
Guadalajara boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez was crowned world middleweight champion Saturday after inflicting the first ever defeat on holder Gennady Golovkin in a furious, close fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ajijic’s Jose Isabel “Chabelo” Gonzalez Valenzuela captured his second consecutive championship title in 43-kilometer El Tecuan leg of the Ultra Trail Campanaria mountain race series held Sunday, August 12.
Golfer Abraham Ancer failed in his bid to become the first Mexican to win a PGA Tour title in 40 years at TPC Boston last weekend.
Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has welcomed home the athletes from Jalisco who represented Mexico in the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games that wrapped up in Barranquilla, Colombia, on August 3.