General News

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.

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.

Tapatio Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the city’s most famous ever pugilist, cut the ribbon this week at a new center to develop Jalisco’s next generation of boxers.

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.

It started so encouragingly for Mexico but, in the end, the country’s World Cup campaign in Russia concluded in the same manner as it has for the past six tournaments: dumped out in the round of 16.