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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....

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...

After their back-and-forth, brutally physical battle in 2010, Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler expect nothing less than another slugfest when they meet Saturday in London.

Matchmaker and New York character extraordinaire Johnny Bos died May 11. Traditionally in our business, we will write about someone's death and then, a few days after, run one or two follow-ups about that person, if he or she was newsworthy. I've nev...

Super middleweight titlist Carl Froch of England certainly has his hands full when he faces fellow titleholder Mikkel Kessler of Denmark in a rematch on Saturday (HBO, 6 p.m. ET) at the sold-out O2 Arena in London. Froch lost the first fight in 20...

When light heavyweight contenders Tony Bellew of England and Isaac Chilemba of South Africa met on March 30 for the right to become the mandatory challenger to world champion Chad Dawson, they fought to an unsatisfying draw in England in a dreadful f...

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...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Tuesday, boxing editor Brian Campbell stops by to chat about the news around the ring.Campbell is also a contributing writer to ESPN.com's boxing page, as well as a studio analyst for ESPN.com's weekly show "Making The Rou...

Junior lightweight contender Juan Carlos Burgos of Mexico re-signed Wednesday with co-promoters Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions and Ken Thompson of Thompson Boxing after being sought after by other promoters. Pelullo and Thompson made the annou...

In another step towards a new chance at a world title in the junior middleweight division, Delvin Rodriguez is facing a tough challenge against former world title challenger Freddy Hernandez in the main event of "Friday Night Fights" (ESPN2, 10 p.m. ...

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Super middleweight champ Andre Ward knows what he is talking about when it comes Mikkel Kessler and Carl Froch. Ward, after all, easily defeated both of them in world title fights during the Super Six World Boxing Classic. Ward cruised to an 11th-...

With the news this week that Golden Boy has put Sept. 28 on hold at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., for the possible return of Miguel Cotto, it got me thinking -- if Cotto indeed fights, who should he face? Cotto (37-4, 30 KOs), a former ju...

Promoter Frank Warren announced Wednesday that his card at London's Wembley Arena on June 15 has been postponed until July 20.

Heavyweight Audley Harrison, long ago dubbed "Fraudley" by the media for his massive underachievement, is now just a sad joke in boxing. Harrison (31-7, 23 KOs) won a 2000 Olympic super heavyweight gold medal for Great Britain and arrived on the p...

The masterful skills of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the powerful attack of Lucas Matthyyse have plenty of room to share the fans respect in boxing.