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Few fighters have had more of a roller-coaster career of late than Brian Viloria. In August 2006, Viloria -- a Hawaiian of Filipino descent -- had a 108-pound belt, an undefeated record through 19 fights, a strong and growing fan base, an exciting st...

LAS VEGAS -- Five things we learned from Saturday's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto card at the MGM Grand: 1. There's good, there's very good, and there's great With every fight, Mayweather is moving up the all-time list. For years, one knock...

On Saturday, boxing fans will celebrate the Mexican festival of Cinco de Mayo by watching an American and a Puerto Rican do battle in the Nevada desert. More than anybody else, Oscar De La Hoya -- an American of Mexican descent -- popularized Cinco d...

Saturday's challenge of junior middleweight champ Miguel Cotto will be Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s sixth successive fight at the MGM Grand and his ninth overall. Here's one man's take on Mayweather's five most memorable appearances at what has become boxi...

When Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather Jr. face off in the ring at the MGM Grand on Saturday night, it will be several years after a meeting between the two men was first mooted. According to Cotto, however, one person who wasn't entertaining the pos...

LAS VEGAS -- It wasn't the first time a crowd had gathered in the MGM Grand to welcome Floyd Mayweather Jr. during fight week, and it likely won't be the last. Tuesday's throng wasn't nearly as large a gathering as the one that greeted him and Ric...

My late friend Bert Sugar would frequently opine, when asked about the dire state of the contemporary American heavyweight boxing scene, that "the best heavyweight in America today is Ray Lewis." He was not commenting specifically on the pugilistic a...

WASHINGTON -- Lamont Peterson is in no doubt. There's no doubt, he says, that Amir Khan deserved to lose the two points that referee Joe Cooper deducted for pushing the last time he and Peterson tangled in the ring -- two points that ensured Peter...

Devon Alexander believes many wrote him off after a pair of shaky performances, but he plans to make new fans at a new weight in his old St. Louis stomping grounds against Marcos Maidana on Saturday.

SAN ANTONIO -- On Saturday, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. returned to the scene of his legendary father's first professional blemish -- an infamous draw to Pernell Whitaker at the Alamodome more than 18 years earlier. He was there perhaps to defend his fami...

Since he first stepped foot into the ring as a professional prizefighter, looking for all the world as though he were just 12 years old, his every step has inevitably been compared to his father's -- not only because they share name, but because that...

Five things we learned from the Amir Khan-Lamont Peterson card.

It has been a good few weeks for boxing in the nation's capital. On Nov. 26, featherweight Gary Russell Jr., arguably the best prospect Washington, D.C., has produced in many years, scored a devastating first-round knockout against Heriberto Ruiz ...

If any fighter can claim to be Madison Square Garden's biggest star, it is undoubtedly Miguel Cotto, who proved again on Saturday night that he can repeatedly pack the sport's most storied venue to the rafters. But while Cotto may be "The Man" at...

Once, while sitting next to a professional prizefighter as we looked down from the bleachers at two men swapping punches in the ring below, I mentioned that at times I found it strange the way boxing compels men who do not know each other to meet for...

ESPN's coverage of Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito begins Saturday at 8 p.m. ET.