Jason Petock: Friday was a spectacular night of boxing on the Showtime network. In spite of the card itself being shrouded under the lecherous umbrella of Don King, the main event...

Allan Scotto: Hey, fans! Welcome to “Ask Gerry Cooney,” where you get to ask former heavyweight contender “Gentleman” Gerry Cooney any boxing-related question you’d like..

By Steve Kim: On the night of December 8th, near the entrance of the MGM Grand Garden Arena, this reporter was picking up his ringside credential for the fourth chapter of the rivalry between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. At the time, also at the will call area just happened to be one Juan Diaz, who I had not seen for quite awhile. Diaz, a former unified lightweight champion, was retired for a couple of years and was in town to enjoy the festivities. Coming off a round of golf with

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By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): “A pound for pound showdown” or “important” are something fight fans who care about such things would call Saturday’s WBO/WBA super bantamweight (122 pound limit) battle between Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire, 31-1 (20) taking on undefeated WBA Super Bantamweight Champion and former two-time Cuban Olympic Gold Medalist Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux, 11-0, (8) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York. But it’s more than the...

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Bill Tibbs: Born Walker Smith Jr., “Sugar” Ray Robinson was born May 3, 1921 in Ailey, Georgia. He is considered by many to be, pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all time...

By Steve Kim (Photo © Tom Casino / SHOWTIME): While Guillermo Rigondeaux faces Nonito Donaire this weekend in a high-profile junior featherweight showdown at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, another Cuban lefty continues his climb up the boxing ladder the night before. Lightweight Angelo Santana faces Bahodir Mamadjonov at the Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas (Showtime, 10 p.m., ET/PT). Like many other Cubans defectors, he doesn’t speak much English (as of yet) and his story has

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By Steve Kim (Photo © K9 Photos): Joe Goossen knows exactly how Michael Corleone felt in “The Godfather Part III.” It wasn’t that long ago when the respected trainer - best known for working with the Ruelas brothers, Michael Nunn, Diego Corrales and Joel Casamayor - swore off working with novice boxers. Sick and tired of the grind (and really, the lack of loyalty in this business), he made a vow that while he was still a gun-for-hire or a troubleshooter for established prizefighters, his

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Before Tyson Fury and Steve Cunningham go at it in the heavyweight showdown of the year on NBC network television, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in the afternoon of April 20th, a loaded undercard will warm up the New York crowd and have them ready for the anticipated main event.

On the final Friday of last month, Ermano Fegatilli (27-5-0 5 KO’s) needed to make a statement – and boy did he deliver with a lopsided 8round thrashing of French veteran Karim Chakim (25-9-0 11 KO’s) at the Topsporthal in Liege, Belgium.

Toronto (April 9) Tyler Asselstine looked in tremendous shape as he weighed in four-pounds heavier than opponent Oliver Lontchi ahead of their contest tonight at the 28th AnnAsselstine weighs in - Faces Oliver Lontchi Tonight

For the second time in three months middleweight world champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin has been named the World Boxing Association’s Fighter of the Month, following his impressive third round knockout of former world titleholder Nobuhiro Ishida on Saturday, MARCH 30 in Monaco.

The April 12 edition of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra will feature former Junior Featherweight titlist Rico “Suavecito” Ramos (21-2, 11 KOs) and

Promoters Camille Estephan, of Eye of the Tiger, and Greg Cohen, of Greg Cohen Promotions, are proud to a

ATLANTIC CITY. - World championship boxing returns to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday, May 18 with a SHOWTIME® CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING doubleheader featuring IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion Lamont Peterson facing hard-hitting WBC Interim Super Lightweight World Champion Lucas Matthysse in a 12-round welterweight bout and the rescheduled IBF Welterweight Title showdown between Two-Division World Champion Devon Alexander "The Great" and undefeated British star and number one rated I

British Featherweight Marianne Marston is to dedicate her upcoming fight, against Latvias Aleksandra Jasjukevica at York Hall, Bethnal Green in London on Saturday 27th April 2013, to the memory of her recently departed mento

Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): In the second week of March, I had the pleasure of visiting super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire at his training camp in San Carlos, CA’s “Undisputed Boxing Gym” as he prepared for Saturday’s unification bout with Cuban amateur boxing legend Guillermo Rigondeaux to be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and televised on HBO. The fight is one of two that Donaire, the 2012 Fighter of the Year, wishes to have in 2013, the other

By Steve Kim: On Monday morning, this press release was sent out by Golden Boy Promotions, which announced a new television deal described as a “Multi-Media Rights Extension” between the promotional entity and Fox Sports: FOX Sports and Golden Boy Promotions, founded by 10-time World Champion Oscar De La Hoya, have reached a multi-media rights extension to televise exciting live boxing in the United States and internationally. The new multi-year agreement keeps Golden Boy Promotions’...

Allan Scotto: Welcome to this week’s edition of “The Barbershop,” a column designed to give you a forum to speak your mind about our question(s) of the week or any boxing-related...

Percy Dockery: When a boxer commits a foul or disobeys the referee during a fight, after a few warnings are issued, points start getting deducted. If the fighter continues to foul...

By Steve Kim: This Saturday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, junior featherweight champion Nonito Donaire takes on talented Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux (HBO 11 p.m., ET). A few weeks later, in Las Vegas, in support of Floyd Mayweather’s return against Robert Guerrero, Abner Mares moves up to face WBC featherweight beltholder Daniel Ponce de Leon. Both are two pretty good prizefights between 122 and 126 pounds. But the reality is the fight the public really wanted here was..

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