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12 Rounds is the ultimate boxing breakdown. It looks at 12 distinct factors -- including punching power, speed, experience and even cornermen -- when predicting the winner of boxing's biggest fights....

Paul Malignaggi now recalls what it's like to be Mr. Popularity. Since he lifted the WBA welterweight title from Vyacheslav Senchenko on April 29, the Twitter King (#TK) has been targeted by this boxer and that. And he's loving the attention. Devon A...

Junior welterweight titleholder Lamont Peterson will seek a Nevada boxing license despite his admission that he took a banned substance, which forced the cancellation of his rematch with Amir Khan.

Middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin wants the major fight that he deserves and that he is mandatory for against Germany's Felix Sturm. But I don't think Sturm, the WBA's so-called "super champion" to Golovkin's "regular champion" designation, wa...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, ESPN.com mixed martial arts writer Brett Okamoto stops by to chat about the news from the octagon.Okamoto joined ESPN.com in December 2010. Previously, he was the boxing/MMA writer for the Las Vegas Sun newspape...

Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old boxer from Flint, Mich., and the top-ranked American in her weight class, was upset at the Women's World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China. Shields was trying to clinch a berth to the London Olympics with ...

Three-time world champion Katie Taylor of Ireland qualified for the London Olympics women's boxing, defeating Saida Khassenova of Kazakhstan 20-8 in the 132-pound class at the world championships on Tuesday.

What recent changes have been made in boxing's weight-class rankings? Dan Rafael reveals his new world standings.

Boxing schedule for 2012

Freddie Roach got around to watching the May 5 Floyd Mayweather-Miguel Cotto fight last night. You'll forgive Dedham Freddie for the delay; he has an excuse, in that he's been knee deep in getting Amir Khan ready for the Lamont Peterson rematch, whic...

Golden Boy Promotions said Monday it has decided against putting on a June 30 Showtime card in Washington, D.C., because of the continuing fallout from the Lamont Peterson failed drug test.

New York fight fans who stayed up late to watch the debut of Jim Lampley's "The Fight Game" on HBO on Saturday, at midnight -- or sad sacks like me, who fell asleep before it came on, and watched it off the DVR -- had to be tantalized by the tidbit d...

An Achilles injury has forced former welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito to postpone a return to the ring that had been planned for May 26 in Tucson, Ariz.

The father of light welterweight boxer Nick Casal considers his son lucky to be alive after sustaining several deep cuts to his head in an attack last weekend.

The heads of the international boxing and cycling federations are vying for a spot on the powerful IOC executive board.

When Floyd Mayweather Jr. was facing Miguel Cotto on May 5 in Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao - who boxing fans around the world want to see Mayweather fight - was arriving in Los Angeles on his flight from the Philippines with trainer Freddie Roach to beg...