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By Marty Mulcahey: Last Friday, the upset bug struck the FNF program again, taking Fernando Guerrero’s pristine record with it. The prospects featured on tonight’s...

By Alec Kohut: In the week following Adrien Broner’s HBO debut in March, trainer Mike Stafford told Maxboxing amid a firestorm of media and fan criticism that he, “felt sorry for his next opponent.” ...

By Ryan Maquiñana: The upset bug affected Dallas in more ways than one this year. While the Mavericks recently pulled off the feat against the world’s most hated team...

By Gabriel Montoya: Over the past two years, the name Lucas Matthysse has slowly entered the consciousness of boxing fans. Last November, the 28-1 (26) Argentinean showed he was not all raw power when he took Zab Judah to the 12-round limit in a split decision loss many felt he deserved. Now, the 28-year-old Golden Boy Promotions fighter looks to turn his luck around and march toward his first world title shot when he...

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By Gabriel Montoya: There are few people in the sport of boxing easier to root for than former fighter-turned-trainer Ann Wolfe. Once a homeless mother of two searching for shelter for her and her two children inside an Austin emergency room

By Steve Kim: Next week, Sugar Ray Leonard will continue his tour for his newly released autobiography, The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring (co-written with Michael Arkush), which gives an intimate and detailed look at his storied career and often turbulent personal life. Many books of this nature promise to “tell all” but really don’t tell us all that much other than the things that fit conveniently into a certain narrative. Leonard seems to go above and beyond in baring his

Promoter Don King has been tenaciously promoting his Saturday fight card in St. Charles—that will make Missouri history with three world championships—but he made time to make sure this fight card will be seen in his beloved Mexico by striking a deal with Mexico’s Cadena Tres (“La Television Mas Abierta que Nunca”), which is seen in Mexico on channel 28 or 128 on Skye Television.

By Alec Kohut: Not only did critics come out from every corner after Adrien Broner’s lackluster decision over Daniel Ponce de Leon but...

North American Boxing Association (“NABA”) Lightweight Champion Logan Cotton McGuinness makes his second title defense this weekend at home in the 10-round main event against veteran Daniel “Canerito” Ruiz on the “Friday Night At The Fights” card at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

KZ Event Productions announced today that World Boxing Association/International Boxing Association Light Heavyweight World Champion Beibut Shumenov will make his third title defense July 29, showcased on TeleFutura’s Solo Boxeo Tecate show, live from South Point Hotel

By Steve Kim: There was a time early in his career when IBF light heavyweight titlist Tavoris Cloud was among the most active fighters in the sport. But as he moved up the rankings and went through a litany of changes to his management and promotional situations, Cloud got bogged down and became a part-time prizefighter. Since August of 2009, when he captured the vacant title by besting Clinton Woods, he has engaged...

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By Allan Scotto: Happy Tuesday, 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 or any boxing-related issue you would like to comment on. We welcome and appreciate your participation, so take a minute, scroll down and leave your comment below.

By Gabriel Montoya: Last December, I reported that the New York-based promotion Boxing 360, a relative newcomer to the sport, decided to have arbitration over two of its fighters, David Estrada and Angel Hernandez, who had signed with a new firm, Chicago Fight Club, despite having valid contracts still in place. On April 21 and 22, 2011...

By Steve Kim: On the night of January 29th in Pontiac, Michigan, Devon Alexander engaged in what was the biggest bout of his career, putting his WBC junior welterweight title on the line against WBO champion Tim Bradley. It was a contest that was supposed to not only represent what could be so right about the sport but an opportunity for boxing to introduce a new star...

Youth defeated experience last night as red-hot welterweight prospect Javier “El Chino” Flores extended his perfect record to 6-0 with six knockouts, stopping 30-fight veteran Shakha Moor

Friday Night’s edition of "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" featured a five-fight event at the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas that was presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Cavazos Boxing Promotions. See full Boxing Res

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Ed Mulholland, HBO): Saul “Canelo” Alvarez made an impressive, if unexciting, first defense of his junior middleweight title Saturday night, stopping Ryan Rhodes in the twelfth round in an HBO-televised fight live from Guadalajara, Mexico. The action started off slowly in the first as both men looked to establish the jab. Alvarez worked a few punches to the body early on and Rhodes got in a...

By John J. Raspanti: Last night on HBO’s Boxing After Dark, WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (37-0, 27 KOs) showed off an impressive offense and improved defense in stopping number three ranked contender Ryan “Spice Boy” Rhodes (45-5, 31 KOs) at the arena VFG in Jalisco, Mexico...

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Michael Norby: Injury plagued Contender Season Two winner Grady Brewer scored a huge upset on Friday night with a fourth round stoppage victory

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © German Villasenor): In Part One, we learned: On August 11, 2011, junior middleweight Alfredo “Perro” Angulo will be 29 years old and will have been out of the ring for a little over a year, expelled to his own country due to a visa that expired for one of two reasons. Angulo’s new legal team of Mike Miller and Kelly O’Neill claim the visa was not renewed because someone dropped the ball...

By Gabriel Montoya: While all the talk, the fans, the cheers and the fanfare will be reserved this Saturday night in Guadalajara, Mexico for Golden Boy Promotions’ Mexican sensation Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (who defends his WBC junior middleweight belt for the first time), a veteran fi

The official weigh-in was held today for tomorrow (Saturday) night’s professional boxing show, “The New Generation Boxing Series,” presented by Bulldog Cartel Promotions at the Conn

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This morning, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. refused to appear for a court-ordered deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by pound-for-pound champion and Co

World cruiserweight contender Troy Ross is experiencing abdominal pains and has been hospitalized in Toronto, where he is undergoing precautionary tests. He has been forced to withdraw from fighting June 24 on the “Friday Night At The Fights” show at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Undefeated challenger Tyson Fury believes his July 23 showdown in “The Big Brawl” Pay-Per-View event against defending British & Commonwealth

Gleason’s Gym owner Bruce Silverglade, NABF featherweight champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano and award-winning boxing artist Gabe Parillo, Jr. will be special guest speakers Tuesday night (June 21, starting at 7 PM/ET) at RING 8’s monthly meeting at the histo

Yesterday, Federal Magistrate Judge Robert Johnston denied an Emer

Please watch a special Father’s Day edition of "Sanjay Gupta, MD," This Saturday and Sunday, at 7:30 a.m. ET, on CNN, on our

By Steve Kim: Rumors are swirling that there may be an amicable resolution for the return of bantamweight kingpin Nonito Donaire, who in recent months, has been bogged down in litigation, as he tried severing his ties with Top Rank to join Golden Boy Promotions

By Steve Kim: The Orlando Magic would love to be in the position that promoter Lou DiBella is in right now, as it relates to their star center, Dwight Howard. A year from now

By Marty Mulcahey: I am in love with the idea of Saul Alvarez, a charismatic, young “champion” who has engaged in 37 professional fights before his 21st birthday. I remain uncertain as to whether “Canelo” is the next great Mexican fighter. Are we witnessing the emergence of the next Marco Antonio Barrera or the rise before the fall of a Luis Ramon “Yori Boy” Campas? Television networks adore Alvarez because...

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By Marty Mulcahey: Last Friday Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas hosted a fight card in their backyard at New York City’s elegant Roseland Ballroom. This week they trek across the country to the gritty Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. Which seems an odd venue to host Dominican born Fernando Guerrero, especially since Guerrero is a huge draw in his

Undefeated World Lightweight Champion BRANDON RIOS and stablemate, undefe

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © German Villasenor): It has been nearly 11 months to the day since we last saw Alfredo “Perro” Angulo ply his trade as one of the top junior middleweights in the world. In that time, his story has been told by everyone except him. Reports have poured out of the boxing community like whispers and shouts from the pages of websites to the quiet corners of gyms across Southern...

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JOSHUA “Juice” HARRIS HARVEY “Candy Man” JOLLY

By German Villasenor: On Saturday night, super lightweight prospect Jose Benavidez Jr., 12-0 (11), fought a good fight in front of his hometown for the first time since leaving for Los Angeles to train under Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood.

By Steve Kim (Photo © Carlos Delgado, HoganPhotos): This Saturday night in Guadalajara, Mexico, Saul Alvarez defends his WBC junior middleweight title against Ryan Rhodes, just a couple of weeks after Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. captured the WBC middleweight title against Sebastian Zbik at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. You hear the usual moaning and groaning from the purists about “paper titles” and the term “fraud” being thrown around...

NABA Lightweight Champion Logan Cotton McGuinness defends his title for the first time June 24th in the 10-round main event against Daniel “Canerito” Ruiz, headlining “Friday Night At The Fights,” at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

On Tuesday afternoon in New York City, WBC Middleweight Diamond Champion and universally recognized top-3 pound for pound fighter, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KOs) signed a new multiyear, multimillion dollar

Unbeaten, 22-year-old Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano captured the vacant NABF super featherweight title, stopping Jennifer Scott at 1:46 of the opening round, last Saturday night at historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City. Serrano (10-0-1, 6 KOs)

Dear Fans and Friends, After 110 amateur fights, 39 professional fights, and 19 years of sparring, training, and everything that comes with being a competitive athlete, I am announcing my retirement from boxing. This is not a decision that I take lightly. However, after extensive consultation with my fam

By Allan Scotto: Happy Tuesday, fans! Welcome to this week’s edition of “The Barbershop,” a column designed to give you a forum to speak your mind about

By German Villasenor: For the last few weeks prior to the announcement of plans to stage the December 3rd rematch between Antonio Margarito and Miguel Cotto, if one were to do a keyword