By Marty Mulcahey: Often times, the greatest boxing stories are not about the fighters who achieved their goals and became world champions but those who tried just as hard and came up a little short. Yes, Lennox Lewis is considered a great heavyweight champion but did he ever survive a shipwreck?

By Steve Kim (Photo © Jon Swenson): What circulated around the Worldwide Web on Thursday was made official on Andre Ward’s official Twitter account (@andreward) that night regarding the WBA super middleweight champion’s bout versus Carl Froch in the finals of Showtime’s “Super Six” tournament: "Bad News: I sustained a cut in sparring a few hours ago...

By Luis A. Cortes III: At its core, the “Sweet Science” is the art of hitting without getting hit. During the 1950s all the way through the ‘60s, a middleweight out of North Philadelphia truly personified the art of making his opponent miss and pay. George Benton was born on May 15, 1933. His youth was spent on the streets of his impoverished neighborhood where the young Benton was constantly trying to escape his situation...

By Gabriel Montoya: In one of the freakiest of freak accidents, WBA super middleweight titleholder Andre “SOG” Ward suffered a cut over his right eye during...

By Gabriel Montoya: As the evening wound down at Café Slow Down, Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain pulled fewer and fewer punches. Some of those punches thrown are here. Others will have to go in the vault, saved for a rainy day or a book in the future. Ironically and appropriate to last weekend’s Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight, the talk turned to Beristain’s favorite fighter and his use of dirty tactics to win...

By Marty Mulcahey: Boxing shows airing the week after a big PPV event have an anticlimactic feel about them and this week’s cards...

By Anson Wainwright: A few weeks back, South African Thomas Oosthuizen,16-0-1 (11), travelled over from his home in South Africa to make his American...

By Steve Kim (Photo © Chris Farina / Top Rank): Back in July of 2008, Antonio Margarito and Miguel Cotto engaged in one of the most memorable bouts of the decade at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. After absorbing the best that Cotto had to offer, Margarito would eventually smother and swarm the Puerto Rican star into submission in the 11th round. However, in light of illegal hand-pads that were discovered in Margarito’s gloves in his next fight against Shane Mosley...

By Coyote Duran: *The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by Managing Editor Coyote Duran do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of Maxboxing.com. So he says if you don’t like it, get bent.* Enough Already… We’re nearing a week since Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz became one of the most talked-about fights in 2011 and the buzz hasn’t ceased. A few points I’d like to touch upon...

By Steve Kim: There’s no doubt that the dubious ending between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz has been the buzz of the sports world the past few days...

By Allan Scotto: If you plopped down in your easy chair on Saturday night to watch a great fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz, you were instead...

By Stephen Tobey at ringside: Saul Duran had more knockouts than Demetrius Andrade had professional fights but in the end, youth and speed defeated experience. The 2008 U.S. Olympian from Providence, R.I., picke

By Matthew Paras: Ignore the elephant in the room for a second and all the controversy from last Saturday night’s fight card...

By Anson Wainwright: After a standout amateur career that saw him fight in many of the top amateur tournaments around the world, Claudio "The Matrix" Marrero...

By Steve Kim: In the aftermath of Larry Merchant’s verbal altercation with Floyd Mayweather on Saturday night (shortly after the sucker punch heard ’round the world leveled Victor Ortiz), if you typed “Larry Merchant Mayweather” into Google, you’d get a listing of over a million results. Just in case you’re the lone person who hasn’t seen the exchange (and seriously, you just might be the only one), log on to YouTube, where...

By Steve Kim: On Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, one of the more memorable nights in boxing’s recent memory took place as...

By German Villasenor: It was an explosive night of action at the BlueWater Resort and Casino in Parker, Arizona, as a pair of super lightweights...

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

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Tom Hogan - Hoganphotos/ Golden Boy Promotions): The main event this past Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Victor Ortiz was supposed to be the return of a master boxer to the arena he was born to fight in. More than that, it was intended to be a counterpoint to the kinds of soft, tailor-made matches chief rival Manny Pacquiao has engaged in for his last few fights. Ortiz, though only 24- and much less experienced than Mayweather-

By Steve Kim (Photo © Will Hart, HBO-PPV): Does anyone remember the NFL contest in 2002 between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green Bay Packers? There was nothing historic or particularly memorable about that game (if I recall correctly, I think the Bucs came out victorious in that game, which took place way back when Brett Favre was still the apple of everyone’s eye in Wisconsin) but...

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Will Hart, HBO-PPV): Though entering to the strains of “We Will Rock You,” in the end, it was Victor Ortiz who got his world rocked by Floyd Mayweather Jr. Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in front of a reported 14,687. It was an odd ending but nonetheless shockingly explosive as Mayweather capitalized on Ortiz breaking the cardinal rule of boxing: protect yourself at all times. Following an intentional headbutt by Ortiz, who launched...

Celebrated artist Richard T. Slone commissioned to paint Official Mayweather vs Ortiz paintings

By Coyote Duran (Photo © Tom Hogan - Hoganphotos, Golden Boy Promotions): Remember the old Nike commercials featuring Bo Jackson where he declares “Another day, another hobby”? (I know they were from about 1986 or 1987 because Danny Glover’s character, Roger Murtaugh in “Lethal Weapon 2,” was musing about it) In boxing, it’s more like, “Another year, another Floyd Mayweather fight.” Yes, Our Sport’s favorite villain is back for his not-quite-annual outing...

By Steve Kim: Leading up to his fight this weekend at the BlueWater Resort and Casino in Parker, Arizona, lightweight Mercito Gesta spent a large portion...

By Gabriel Montoya: When you look at the stats of Top Rank Promotions junior welterweight prospect Jose Benavidez, Jr, it is easy to...

Kicking off the biggest weekend in boxing of 2011, Las Vegas fight fans were entertained by "STAR POWER FRIDAY," an explosive five-fight card at Texas Station Casino presented by Mayweather Promotion

By Marty Mulcahey: When it comes to creating butterflies in the stomach, nothing surpasses a big fight night. Tonight’s pay-per-view...

By Gabriel Montoya: Heading into the weekend’s Golden Boy Promotions HBO PPV extravaganza known as “Star Power” which pits Floyd Mayweather, Jr against Victor Ortiz for the WBC welterweight title, one fight has been overlooked despite its quality. Junior welterweights Josesito Lopez and Jessie Vargas get it on in a crossroads fight to see who will move forward and who will go back to the drawing board...

By Allan Scotto: Over the past couple of years, boxing has quietly been gaining popularity again, thanks in no small part to many of the young fighters on the way up...

By Anson Wainwright: At a whopping 6’9” and over 250 pounds, Tyson Fury is an impressive specimen. Over the summer, he...

By Marty Mulcahey: Tonight, Seth “Mayhem” Mitchell, whom many consider America’s best heavyweight prospect, fights trial horse Hector Ferreyro on Telefutura and...

By Alec Kohut at ringside: Fairfax, Virginia is hardly the place one would expect to see...

James “Smitty” Smith, In This Corner brings viewers up close and personal interviews with some of the greatest fighters in boxing history, as well as

Popular light welterweight prospect Danny O’Connor returns to the ring Wednesday night (Sept. 21), fighting for the fourth consecutive year on the Fight To Educate (“FTE”) card, at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Carlos Delgado, HoganPhotos/ Golden Boy Promotions): The conundrum that is 21-year-old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, rising star, WBC junior middleweight titleholder, and Golden Boy Promotions future pay-per-view attraction, fights this Saturday against welterweight Alfonso Gomez. The bout is the co-feature to the Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. “Star Power” pay-per-view extravaganza split between the MGM Grand...

By Steve Kim: While the main event between WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz and Floyd Mayweather and two other support bouts on the “Star Power” pay-per-view...

Special to Maxboxing by Vinnie Paz: So, we meet again, fight fans. It’s been a few months since I last spoke to you guys, so I’ve missed my Maxboxing fam. What I didn’t miss is the good, the bad, and the ugly that’s been going on in our beloved sport.

By Steve Kim (Photo © Carlos Delgado - Hoganphotos/ Golden Boy Promotions): Alfonso Gomez was chosen to face WBC junior middleweight titlist Saul Alvarez this Saturday night on the Staples Center portion of the “Star Power” pay-per-view card. Like most of “Canelo’s” foes, this is a carefully calculated bit of matchmaking designed to make the young icon shine without much risk. Gomez, best known for...

Grand Prize of Pacquiao vs Marquez VIP Tickets and All Expenses Paid Trip is Announced in Global Village Champions Foundation Summer 2011 Membership Drive Drawing.

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

By Gabriel Montoya (Photo © Gene Blevins - Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions): “Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ’the rat race’ is not yet final.” - Hunter S. Thompson...

Floyd "Money" Mayweather is set to take a seat on the couch of funnyman Conan O’Brien as the Six-Time World Champion appears on "CONAN" in advance of his mega-fight Saturday, Sept. 17 against "Vicious" Victor Ortiz at MGM Grand in Las Vegas which will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®. The program airs exclusively on TBS, tonight, Monda

By Jason Gonzalez: Atlantic City, NJ- 29 year old Cuban Yuriorkis Gamboa pulled out a unanimous technical decision in his return to the...

By Steve Kim (Photo © German Villasenor): As promised, Golden Boy Promotions put together a solid undercard for their “Star Power” pay-per-view show, taking place this Saturday night at the MGM Grand and the Staples Center and featuring the return of Floyd Mayweather versus WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz. While not exactly “Revenge: the Rematches”...

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By Gabriel Montoya: In a tight, respectful but ultimately one-sided outing, Cuban featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa used his superior technique and...

By Gabriel Montoya: Before 40,000 chanting and adoring Polish fans at the Stadion Miejski in Wroclaw, Poland, Tomasz Adamek took the beating of a lifetime at the hands of WBC heavyweight titleholder Vitali “Dr. Ironfist” Klitschko. The good doctor, now 43-2 (40), gave away jabs to Adamek’s face like they were going out of style. Mixing in right hands that came as uppercuts, straight leads or...

Vincent “Vinsanity” Arroyo made the most of his return to the red corner by turning in a gritty unanimous decision performance over Hector “El Flaco” Sanchez by the scores of 98-92 twice and 96-94 on ShoBox: The New Generation on SHOWTIME®. In the evening’s co-feature, Lateef “Power” Kayode scored a unanimous decision victory by the scores of

By Marty Mulcahey: Four short years ago, no boxing expert or whacked-out fiction writer for that matter could have imagined a scenario...

By German Villasenor: It’s been a long time coming for former WBO super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce de Leon...