Notes: Alvarez-Khan generates $7.4 million gate

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A few notes from around the boxing world:

• Middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez’s sixth-round knockout of the year contender against Amir Khan last Saturday night in the main event of the first boxing card at the new $375 million T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, generated a live gate of $7,417,350, according to figures released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. That total came from 13,072 tickets sold, far short of a sellout. The Alvarez-Khan gross places it 34th-best in Nevada history. It is sandwiched between the $7,486,400 live gate of the Felix Trinidad-Fernando Vargas junior middleweight championship fight in 2000 and Trinidad’s junior middleweight title victory against David Reid earlier in 2000, which grossed $7,329,500.

• Former unified lightweight titleholder Juan Diaz, who returned to knock out Fernando Garcia in the ninth round on March 19 in his first fight following surgery to …

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