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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...

German Villasenor: Former WBO bantamweight champion Wilfredo “Papito” Vazquez Jr., 22-3-1 (19), lost his WBO International super bantamweight title to Japan’s Yasutaka Ishimoto, 22-6 (5), in the UniMas/Top Rank-promoted main event at the Cotai Arena at the Venetian Resort in Macao, China on Saturday. Vazquez Jr. traded probing jabs with Ishimoto in the first frame but the taller Ishimoto used quick combinations in the second. Vazquez got into a confident rhythm, counterpunching and

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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I am pleased to announce that according to laboratory results I am not under suspicion of having taken a banned substance in connection with my bout against Lamont Peterson.

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

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

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.

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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Zou Shiming wins a 4-round unanimous decision over Eleazar Valenzuela of Mexico in his professional Top Rank boxing debut ,Satur

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John J. Raspanti: A little over a month ago, Billy Dib waltzed into the Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket , Connecticut to fight unheralded Russian Evegeny Gradovich on...

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By Gabriel Montoya: On a sunny San Carlos, CA Friday afternoon at the Undisputed Boxing Gym, super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire finished his training camp for his WBO/WBA unification bout with Guillermo Rigondeaux. The fight will be held Saturday April 13 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York. A supporting fight on the Top Rank-promoted card will be between lightweight prospect Erick De Leon, 2-0 (1), and Diamond Baier, 2-4-1, (0). While that fight may be the typical...

Gary Shaw Productions wrapped up its lightweight featured card on ESPN 2 Friday Night Fights earlier this evening and it ultimately produced a couple of winners that could be well on their way to making an impact in the lightweight division.

Anson Wainwright: Argentina is one of the toughest proving grounds in world boxing. On a regular basis, young Argentine fighters are matched with seasoned campaigners, fellow...

Steve "USS" Cunningham held an open media workout at the Rock Ministries Gym in Philadelphia. With a little more than two weeks remaining until the fight, Cunningham, 25-2, 12 KOs, appeared confident, conditioned, and

Undefeated super - featherweight prospect Joel Diaz Jr. (12-0, 11 KOs) continued to impress the boxin

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It is T-Minus one day and counting until world championship boxing premieres in Macau and the Shiming Dynasty begins! Olympic athletic hero ZOU SHIMING, will make his professional debut hea

By Steve Kim: There is a certain bit of irony that after a long and distinguished career with HBO (that came to an end last December), ringside commentator and provocateur Larry Merchant will be calling this weekend’s bouts in the exotic locale of Macao (where the likes of Brian Viloria, Rocky Martinez, Diego Magdaleno and Zou Shiming will be in action) for...HBO2. Geez, they just can’t get rid of this guy. “Just proves you can run but you can’t hide,” Merchant said with a laugh, a

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Anson Wainwright: When Gamaliel Diaz headed to Japan last October to make his third and likely last attempt to become a world champion, not many fans gave him a chance...

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 (Photo © Miguel Salazar): It’s been a hot minute since we’ve seen junior lightweight prospect Joel Diaz Jr., 11-0 (10), who takes on Victor Sanchez (who’s more dangerous than his record suggests) at the Bayou Event Center in Houston, Texas on April 4. Diaz kicked off 2012 with a “Fight of the Year” candidate against Guy Robb on “ShoBox.” Until he got off the canvas early to stop Robb in an instant classic, no one had ever heard of the 20-year-old Palmdale, CA badass when

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By Steve Kim (Photo © K9 Photos): On the night of January 23rd, 2010, Brian Viloria, then the IBF junior flyweight beltholder, was going through what was thought to be a rather routine defense versus Carlos Tamara. Back at that time, there was talk of Viloria unifying his title with Puerto Rican stylist Ivan Calderon (who held the WBO strap). It’s the type of fight a solid champion is supposed to get past. No, Tamara certainly was not a club fighter but he wasn’t Michael Carbajal

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Bill Tibbs: Bernardo Paret was born in 1937 in Santa Clara, Cuba. He was better known by his ring name Benny “The Kid” Paret and went on to capture the World...

Gabriel Montoya (Photo © German Villasenor): There is nothing more humbling than watching two prizefighters, each with iron will and fists of steel, hammer away round after spectacular round. Each bends the other while buckling under the pressure and pounding in turn. Great chemistry leads to terrific ebb-and-flow and this past Saturday night, “Mile High” Mike Alvarado, 34-1 (23), and Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios, 31-1-1, (23), displayed exactly that for the second time in a row at the Mandalay Bay

By Steve Kim (Photo © German Villasenor): In the aftermath of Mike Alvarado’s close, hard-fought victory over Brandon Rios at the Mandalay Bay on Saturday night, neither combatant would be able to make it to the post-fight press conference. Both were sent to the hospital to undergo observation and tests. Yeah, it was that kind of night. And a rematch that had such high expectations coming into it not only delivered but perhaps surpassed them. You could say it was the best sequel since “T

By John J. Raspanti: The first meeting between Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios and Mike "Mile High" Alvarado was 20 minutes of blood, guts and glory. Could the sequel live up to the original? Alvarado (34-1, 23 KOs), defied the boxing experts by winning a scintillating unanimous decision over the previously undefeated Rios (31-1-1, 24 KOs) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV. The victory earned Alvarado the WBO interim light welterweight title. The bout was...

John J. Raspanti: Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (26-0, 23 KOs) retained his WBA middleweight title by chopping down Nobuhiro Ishida (24-9-2, 9 KOs) in three...