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LAS VEGAS -- It was not exactly shaping up to be the most electrifying media conference of all time. Sponsors, promoters and broadcasters all took their turn at the podium, and the assembled media fidgeted and tweeted and waited for something interes...

First, the caveat: Purely from the perspective of its immediate importance in the world of boxing rankings, what Bernard Hopkins did at age 48 to Tavoris Cloud in New York on Saturday night was of less significance than what he meted out to Jean P...

Howl all you want about Hopkins-Dawson, Mayweather-Ortiz and other stinkers of recent vintage, but boxing has a long-standing and storied tradition of fights ending in skeevy and unsatisfactory fashion.

As soon as it was over, Max Kellerman knew it was the best one yet -- better even than when Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal glowered at each other through the previous edition of HBO's "Face Off." "There was such a contrast between them," Kelle...

The debacle that was the rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones on Saturday was an illustration of what can happen when a previously compelling fight doesn't take place until years later than it should have. There's little fear that...

Friday, 5:15 p.m. ET -- High wattage Lot of star power in the media center. Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins doing radio interviews, Juan Diaz posing for pictures and Marco Antonio Barrera looking dapper in a dark suit. -- Kieran Mulvaney...

Thursday, 3:20 p.m. ET -- Buzz buzz The media room is buzzing and busy. Floyd Mayweather Sr. and Freddie Roach will be resuming their verbal sparring shortly. Meanwhile, Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins are on the dais, introducing the undercard...

Don't tell Shane Mosley to act his age. Or Bernard Hopkins. Or any hard-nosed vet the boxing fraternity has written off over the years, for that matter. The old guard isn't going anywhere.

No matter the opponent or the circumstance, Joe Calzaghe always seems to get the job done, just as he did against Bernard Hopkins in his first fight in Las Vegas Saturday.

Is it possible to lose a fight and still walk away a winner? Despite losing to Kelly Pavlik, Jermain Taylor raised his stock and erased the memories of disputable decision wins earlier in his career.

Who wins the Jermain Taylor-Bernard Hopkins' rematch? Common foe William Joppy and champs Diego Corrales and Jeff Lacy have myriad opinions.