By Gabriel Montoya: Whether good or bad, the boxing business was born in a backroom and has continued to live there throughout its history. The commissions, judges, promoters, managers, trainers, fighters, strength coaches, sponsors, networks and news media in boxing all operate with the understanding that compromises, moral and otherwise, will more than likely have to be made. The boxing news media’s current state is one aspect that is compromised, in my opinion. Rather...

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 issue... Now on to today’s question(s):

Bill Tibbs: Born in Waipahu, Hawaii, Andy Ganigan, known as “The Hawaiian Punch” throughout his career, was considered one of the best punchers...

By Steve Kim: The latest edition of “The Soapbox” comes from Gregory Link, who wrote to me in the aftermath of Amir Khan’s latest harrowing experience versus Julio Diaz in his homecoming to Sheffield this past weekend. Khan escaped with a close victory and was dumped to the canvas in the fourth and hurt again significantly in the 11th round. While many rightly see flaws in Khan, our latest individual who steps onto “The Soapbox” sees something much different... "I just finished watching

Tensions flared, insults flew and blows were nearly exchanged during the final main event press conference Wednesday for “MAY DAY: Mayweather vs. Guerrero” this Saturday, May 4, live on SHOWTIME PPV from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.

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By Steve Kim: It’s not unusual for two fighters from the same promotional entity to compete in the ring. In fact, with the state of the business nowadays, it’s the easiest way to make a fight. Most of the major firms, whether they be Golden Boy Promotions, Top Rank, Don King Productions or Main Events, have all made a multitude of in-house match-ups pitting their clients against each other. It’s happening this weekend when WBC featherweight titlist Daniel Ponce de Leon defends

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By Marc Livitz: Cinco de Mayo weekend is fast approaching and that usually means what it has meant in years past. Floyd “Money” Mayweather, Jr., who can now truly be the one who sits alone well atop the mythical yet at times nonsensical “Pound for Pound” rankings will be the center stage in Las Vegas. The undisputed king of the boxing box office holds an undefeated record of 43 wins (26 KO’s) and no losses. Forty two have tried and failed. One has tried twice and failed twice...

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Anson Wainwright: When it was announced last week that Hryunov Promotions won the purse bid of the heavyweight title unification showdown between Wladimir Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin at...

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By Steve Kim (Photo © Tom Casino / SHOWTIME): This past weekend, we saw competing cards once again between HBO and Showtime. The networks were scheduled to feature six fights between them (before inclement weather in Argentina forced the welterweight contest between Luis Abregu and Antonin Decarie to start early, thus not making the HBO broadcast). For years, head-to-head shows were problematic and spoke volumes on just how fractured this business could be at times. And folks...

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By Jason Petock (Photo © Tom Casino /SHOWTIME): Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York was the dramatic theater that was set on Saturday for an electrifying evening of boxing between reigning and undefeated WBA Super World Light Welterweight and WBC Light Welterweight titleholder Danny “Swift” Garcia (26-0/16 KOs) and Zab “Super” Judah (42-8/29 KOs) in a 12 round grudge match for 140 pound supremacy in the division. The walk-up to the fight itself was anything but tame or less action-packed. F

Gabriel Montoya: Before nearly 40,000 Argentineans at the Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina, middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez...

John J. Raspanti: Former world champion Amir "King" Khan (28-3, 19 KOs) found his bearings after a fourth round knockdown to score a hard fought 12 round...

Anson Wainwright: When Antonin Decarie got the call to fight last year against prospect Alexis Perez as part of an HBO tripleheader on the night of 29th September, he...

Anson Wainwright: Fighting away from home is nothing new for Gary Buckland. Tonight, the 26-year-old Welshman heads to Argentina where he faces former world title...

By Steve Kim (Photo © Tom Casino / SHOWTIME): Like everyone else originally scheduled to go on February 9th at the Barclays Center, WBO middleweight titlist Peter Quillin saw his 2013 debut versus Fernando Guerrero delayed when headliner Danny Garcia suffered a rib injury and was forced to postpone his defense of his junior welterweight belts versus Zab Judah. Quickly, this Showtime card was rescheduled to this weekend. With that, Quillin, who had already spent nearly two months in Los Angeles..

John J. Raspanti: Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (28-0, 28 KOs) remained undefeated by stopping former UK heavyweight champion Audley Harrison (31-7, 23 KOs) in the opening stanza...

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Anson Wainwright: The last time we saw Firat Arslan, he was the proverbial sacrificial lamb to the slaughter when he was matched with long-reigning WBO cruiserweight champion...

By Gabriel Montoya: The goal in life should be to figure out what you are meant to do and then set about doing it. The lucky and hardworking persevere in this endeavor; the tests they face season rather than deter because those hopeful for greatness, like middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, understand that attaining a life’s goal is about fighting through each challenge the journey there presents. In order to attain greatness in your calling, new challenges must constantly be met

By Steve Kim (Photo © Tom Casino / SHOWTIME): In talking to Zab Judah last week before he departed for his familiar haunts of Brooklyn, New York - where he faces WBC/WBA junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia on Saturday night at the Barclays Center (Showtime 9 p.m., ET) - he swore up and down that as fight week approached, he wouldn’t engage in any of the hysteria or the lunacy that broke out at the opening press conference to announce this event (originally scheduled for February 9th)

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Ray Rodriguez): “My mom is left-handed so maybe that’s the reason for the left hook. Genetics. Because my mom, all her side of the family, her brothers and my mom: they’re all left-handed,” smiled WBA/WBC junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia last December 15. Garcia sat comfortably at a large circular table backstage at the Amir Khan-Carlos Molina fight at the L.A. Sports Arena. He was fresh off his first defense of his partially unified crown: a

Steve Kim: On Tuesday morning, Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission informed various members of the media that Top Rank had made...

By Steve Kim (Photo © Tom Casino / SHOWTIME): I’ll say this right now, if I lived in San Antonio I’d be 30 pounds heavier. Because while Tex-Mex cuisine is to be found everywhere, locating an LA Fitness or 24 Hour Fitness is harder to find than someone wearing a Derek Fisher jersey in this city. Seriously, I was there from late Wednesday afternoon to Sunday and I literally didn’t see one workout facility during my stay there. I spent plenty of time at the famed Riverwalk and

By Gabriel Montoya: Heading into his 2011 fight with Grady Brewer, middleweight contender Fernando Guerrero had it all going his way. He was 21-0 with a growing following in Salisbury, Maryland. He was fighting often both in Mississippi and Maryland and drawing well. He had TV fights and industry notice. What he didn’t have was what he got that night: a reality check surprise loss. Brewer, considered a heavy underdog, shocked Guerrero and pretty much everyone else when he stopped Guerrero...

John J. Raspanti: Before his American debut, bombastic heavyweight contender Tyson Fury told members of the media that if he lost to Steve "USS" Cunningham, he’d retire...

By Gabriel Montoya: Before an announced crowd of 39, 427 at San Antonio, Texas’ Alamodome, junior middleweight champions Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, 42-0-1, (30) and Austin “No Doubt” Trout, 26-1 (15), put on an exciting, tense, and much closer than the scorecards showed fight Saturday night. When it was over, Trout saw his first defeat and Alvarez got his past his first true test as a professional, adding Trout’s WBA title to his own WBC version. Judge Rey Danseco had it 115-112 Alvarez. Judge Oren.

Anson Wainwright: It’s refreshing when you see two young unbeaten fighters meet each other, looking to advance their respective careers. That’s what is bound to...

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

By Gabriel Montoya: Saturday night’s WBA/WBC junior middleweight unification bout between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Austin “No Doubt” Trout to be held before a sold out crowd of 38,000 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas is being compared the “super fight” between Julio Cesar Chavez and Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker held at the same locale nearly 20 years ago. From a fighting style standpoint, that comparison would be incorrect. In terms of how important the win...

By Steve Kim: On the afternoon of December 22nd, in the eyes of most observers, it seemed as though Steve Cunningham had done more than enough to exact revenge on Tomasz Adamek in their second go-round. Back when they first met up as cruiserweights in December of 2008, “U.S.S.” was sunk to the canvas thrice in losing his IBF title via split decision. This time around as heavyweights at the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Cunningham, boxed smartly and stayed out harm’s...

Steve Kim: While the calendar says we’re well into the month of April, it could easily be said that for Showtime, it’s a brand-new year as the network kicks off its boxing slate...

Anson Wainwright: In early February, Paulus Ambunda became only the third Namibian boxer ever to win a world title, joining Harry Simon and Paulus Moses when he dethroned Thailand’s...

Allan Scotto: Happy Thursday, fans! 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...

Thomas Hauser: Seanie Monaghan is a “throwback fighter.” In the 1940s, he would have been a neighborhood fight club headliner and local hero. Seanie is the oldest of four children. His parents immigrated to the United States from Ireland and settled in Long Beach, a town of 33,000 located on a barrier island east of New York City. Long Beach faces the Atlantic Ocean. There was a time when it styled itself as “the Riviera of the East” and vied with Atlantic City as a tourist destination for New Y

By Steve Kim: Back on September 10th, 1993, Jesse James Leija faced future Hall-of-Famer Azumah Nelson at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Leija would come up just a bit short in his bid for the WBC junior lightweight crown as he and “The Professor” fought to a draw in the first of four meetings over five years. But what Leija really remembers from that night is he fought in front of over 63,000 rabid fans, who had come to see this card and its main event, Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Pernell W

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): I once had the pleasure of witnessing unified super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux dance across the canvas to some of the most violent artists the world has ever known at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, CA. The southpaw Cuban legend known as “El Chacal” (The Jackal) was preparing for his fifth fight as a professional after an amateur career that boasted 2 gold medals among top honors at every world championship you...

By Steve Kim: On Saturday night from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, one of the year’s most anticipated events takes place between junior middleweight beltholders Austin Trout and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Between 35,000-to-40,000 fans are expected to be in the building but it wasn’t all that long ago when Trout was headlining on a much smaller stage. Back in November of 2011, Trout made his Showtime debut against the forgettable Frank LoPorto at Cohen Stadium in El Paso, Texas in front

Ken Hissner at ringside: Before you sign on the dotted line of that contract you better read the “small” print of the man’s record that says knockout, knockout and knockout...

Earlier this afternoon in front of a jam-packed room of media at NYC’s historic Gallagher’s Steak House in midtown Manhattan, K2 Promotions and DiBella Entertainment hosted the initial press conference to announce the highly-anticipated Middleweight Championship between defending champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (26-0, 23KO’s) and Ireland’s top-rated, former world title challenger Matthew "Mack The Knife" Macklin (29-4, 20KO’s).

By John J. Raspanti (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): 32-year-old WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux proved his amateur pedigree was no mirage by outpointing 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire over 12 rounds at The Radio City Music Hall in New York City, NY. All three judges had Rigondeaux the winner by 114-113, 115-112 and 116-111. Rigondeaux is now the WBO and WBA champion. The fight was the headline bout on HBO’s World Championship Boxing...

John J. Raspanti: The upset trend continued on ESPN’S Friday Night Fights as unknown Oscar Gonzalez (21-2, 14 KOs) surprised former WBA super bantamweight champion...

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