Lightweight contender Josesito Lopez spearheads a three-prong attack by a Mexican-American contingent beginning this Friday in the East Coast against three excellent Puerto Rican fighters. It’s...
Barely five weeks ago, Alfonso Gomez wasn’t thinking about Miguel Cotto. He was thinking about dying. Well along in his preparation for Saturday night’s WBA welterweight...
The flyweight division has never been one to quicken the pulse of fight fans this side of the Pacific. Watching two men weighing 112 pounds duking...
Decades have passed since the golden era of the light heavyweights of the late 1970s and early 1980s when Saad Muhammad was surviving brutal knockdowns, grotesque...
The reality these days is those “reality fighters’’ from the first three years of “The Contender’’ series are starting to make life difficult for the skeptics....
I will beat Margarito because I am now more mature in boxing, I’m a lot smarter boxer now than I was in 2005. Mentally, and physically,...
Manny Pacquiao will glove up again on June 28, and will take on WBC lightweight titleholder David Diaz at Mandalay Bay, in a card to be...
I will beat Glen Johnson because I am more determined, and the better boxer and better fighter. He's 39, I'm 25. He beat 36-year-old Roy Jones...
I know I am ready to beat Chad Dawson, because I am a better fighter. That's not to say I don't have respect for his skill,...
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is the best welterweight in the world. In the opinion of most people he is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world as...
Most people will agree that former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver talks a lot better than he fights. His listlessness has resulted in him losing several...
Very few fighters deliver pain like WBO Super Bantamweight Champion Daniel Ponce De Leon (34-1, 30 KOs). It’s not just the intensity he punches with but...
ONTARIO-In a border war it was Tijuana’s Manuel Roman who pulled out a majority decision win against San Diego’s Sergio Espinoza in a tight battle for...
On March 17, Sadam Ali stopped Juan Nicolas Cuellar of Argentina in the third round of their bout, which was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad....
There is finally light at the end of the tunnel in the long and circuitous journey of top-ranked welterweight contender Joshua Clottey. At the Aviator Sports...
After nearly a quarter century of denials, Luis Resto has finally come clean. At a Manhattan press conference on April 3, the onetime welterweight prospect admitted...
#1 Floyd Mayweather (39-0) vs. #2 Miguel Cotto (31-0) So it's all come down to this. A showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto has all...
CABAZON-The return of former world champion Jesus “El Matador” Chavez started slowly but after a few rounds the relentless pressure proved the difference in his win...
LINCOLN, R.I. – Normally, a fighter waits until after a fight to retire. Friday night former world title contender Lance Whitaker retired before his bout with...
He’s starting to get it. Chad Dawson, a nice young man from Connecticut, is learning that it’s helpful to have a bit of bite in your...
