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Failure to put Mikkel Kessler away when you have the chance results in a stiff penalty. The Dane used a monstrous left hook to teach Allan Green that lesson Saturday.

Josesito Lopez will get the opportunity to fight former welterweight titlist Victor Ortiz on June 23 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles as the replacement opponent for Andre Berto.

Junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley Jr. will answer questions about himself and his career as part of an ongoing series leading up to his June 9 fight with Manny Pacquiao.

Unlike in any other sport, a boxer often needs to treat his exit as something of a detoxification process. Boxing is something that must be expelled from the system, oftentimes violently. The urge to compete in the squared circle, sadly, often must b...

"Friday Night Fights" analyst Bernardo Osuna has the latest on Miguel Cotto's possible next opponent (hint: Could be another classic Puerto Rico-versus-Mexico throwdown), where Amir Khan goes from here and Marcos Maidana's next move....

Karim Mayfield staggered Raymond Serrano at the fourth-round bell, and then landed a solid right hand less than a minute into the fifth that stopped the challenger in the NABO junior welterweight title fight Friday night.

Even if it isn't the fight many of us had hoped to see at 168 pounds -- that would be Andre Ward taking on fellow titlist Lucian Bute -- ESPN.com's Dan Rafael says the May 26 super middleweight tilt between Bute and Carl Froch is likely the next-best...

Karim Mayfield enters tonight's "Friday Night Fights" main event with what he believes to be a bit of a mental edge over foe Raymond Serrano. Both men were in Danny Garcia's camp ahead of Garcia's March 24 bout with Erik Morales, and Mayfield -- a 30...

It's a pretty easy interview, asking the man who turned 44 on May 6 why he's coming back to the ring, why he can't get boxing out of his bloodstream and focus on a less taxing vocation. You ask why. Why, David Telesco, 30-7-1 former light heavy...

Claressa Shields has earned a shot to box for gold at the London Games.

Former welterweight titleholder Andre Berto has tested positive for a banned substance, and his June 23 rematch with fellow former titlist Victor Ortiz has been canceled, according to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer.

ESPN.com's Dan Rafael took advantage of an aborted boxing bout to take in his first MMA card and came away with a simple but satisfying conclusion: Fighting is fighting.

Boxing schedule for 2012

Long after the Super Six tournament in which they were originally supposed to meet, Mikkel Kessler and Allan Green will climb into the ring Saturday in Denmark with everything to lose.

Ask super middleweight champ and undefeated pound-for-pound star Andre Ward who gave him his toughest fight. He'll tell you it was Sakio Bika. Australia's Bika, who won "The Contender" reality series tournament in 2007, is as rugged as they come. ...

Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday that it has signed two fighters to its growing roster, interim junior welterweight titlist Johan Perez of Venezuela and former amateur standout Julian Ramirez of Alhambra, Calif.