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The Miami Heat's epic win against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in overtime on Tuesday night was as exciting as anything I've seen in sports in a long time. And it got me thinking -- what if the insanity that often prevails in the...

Rudy Perez, who trained several top fighters and was revered as a great motivator, died Thursday in Mexico City after a lengthy battle with stomach cancer.

A little of this and a little of that from the world of boxing: • There's been a big shake-up behind the scenes at Golden Boy as chief executive Richard Schaefer recently announced a major restructuring of the staff of the world's No. 1...

One of the best national rivalries in boxing, of course, is Mexico versus Puerto Rico. Many trace the birth of the rivalry to a 1934 bantamweight championship bout in which Puerto Rico's Sixto Escobar became the first world champion from the Caribbea...

Lightweight John Molina's low point was a 44-second knockout loss in an HBO-televised world title fight against Antonio DeMarco in September. It gets no worse than that for a fighter. But Molina, of Covina, Calif., has not given up on his hopes of...

Featherweight Gary Russell Jr., the 2011 ESPN.com prospect of the year, has been cleared to resume training after fracturing his left hand in a March 2 victory. The 24-year-old Russell (22-0, 13 KOs), of Capitol Heights, Md., scored a 10-round shu...

It is not unusual for a fighter who says he is retiring to reconsider and return. Sometimes it's only a matter of days, such as this week's announcement from Audley Harrison that he was coming back just 20 days after announcing his retirement. Someti...

Lightweight Omar Figueroa will return to San Antonio to face Japan's Nihito Arakawa for a vacant interim title on July 27, Golden Boy told ESPN.com on Monday night.

Some news and notes from the boxing world: • Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer said Thursday that the post-fight drug tests for Floyd Mayweather Jr., Robert Guerrero, Abner Mares and Daniel Ponce De Leon al...

When Manny Pacquiao picked Brandon Rios to fight for his comeback bout after the knockout loss he suffered against Juan Manuel Marquez in December, he did so with the blessing of Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach. Roach said he liked the fight fo...

One of my favorite prospects, exciting junior welterweight Antonio Orozco, is getting back to work after being sidelined briefly because of an injury. San Diego's Orozco (16-0, 12 KOs), 25, will face Jose Reynoso (16-4-1, 3 KOs), 28, of Riversid...

Fights between junior middleweight contenders Erislandy Lara and Alfredo Angulo and super middleweight contenders Sakio Bika and Marco Antonio Periban have been added to round out a Showtime-televised tripleheader on June 8.

Labeled a boring fighter who didn't deserve last June's split-decision win over Manny Pacquiao, Timothy Bradley Jr. threw caution to the wind Saturday and battled heavy-handed Ruslan Provodnikov for a tight decision win.

It's tour time for junior middleweight titleholders Canelo Alvarez and Austin Trout. Before they square off to unify their 154-pound world titles on April 20 (Showtime) at the Alamodome in San Antonio in one of the year's most anticipated fights, the...

After the March 16 Ricky Burns-Miguel Vazquez lightweight unification fight was pushed off on Monday, Golden Boy Promotions' CEO Richard Schaefer said he revisited trying to make a unification fight between Adrien Broner and Scotland's Burns for June...

Undefeated junior middleweight titleholders Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Austin "No Doubt" Trout will meet to unify their 154-pound belts in one of the premier fights of the year after the complicated logistics of the bout were worked out Wednesday.