BoxNation picks up rights to Alvarez-Khan

Specialist boxing pay-television channel BoxNation has secured the exclusive UK live broadcast rights to the forthcoming title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan.

The fight on May 7 at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas will see Mexican superstar Alvarez, the WBC, Ring Magazine and Lineal Middleweight World Champion, take on English fighter Khan.

BoxNation has exclusively shown five of the 10 best pound-for-pound fighters in the world already this year in the shape of Sergey Kovalev, Andre Ward, Terence Crawford, Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez.