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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....

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Canelo Alvarez are scheduled to meet in a junior middleweight title bout on September 14, 2013 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The fight will be contested at a catchweight of 152 pounds....

Fighters carrying on past their primes is nothing new. It's a time-honored, albeit sad, tradition. It has happened with more fighters than I care to count. Of recent vintage, Roy Jones Jr., Evander Holyfield and James Toney, to name just three, ha...

A world title doubleheader headlined by featherweight titlist Abner Mares defending against former titleholder Jhonny Gonzalez is close to being finalized for Aug. 24, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com on Tuesday night.

Adrien Broner admits that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is his role model. He regularly calls Mayweather "big bro," asks the pound-for-pound ace for advice and is exceedingly humble (for him) in admitting that Mayweather is boxing's top dog (for now anyway). ...

Paulie Malignaggi will not make it past the sixth round of his Saturday night clash at Barclays Center with Adrien Broner. At least that's what Broner's trainer Mike Stafford said at a press appearance at Gleason's Gym on Tuesday. "Adrien will...

Adrien Broner's trainer, Mike Stafford, predicted his kid would stop Paul Malignaggi in the main event Saturday night at Barclays Center no later than Round 6, but Broner left some wiggle room for himself during a Tuesday news appearance at Gleason's...

Before pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez meet to unify their junior middleweight world titles, they will hit the road for an 11-city, two-country media and fan tour to promote the year's biggest fight.

Junior middleweight Demetrius Andrade, a 2008 U.S. Olympian and former world amateur champion from Providence, R.I., is headed to Ukraine for his first world title shot this summer.

Boxing schedule for 2013

Welterweight contender Kell Brook believes his injury issues are behind him and he is looking forward to returning to action when he faces Carson Jones in a rematch on July 13 at the outdoor Craven Park rugby stadium in Hull, England. England's Br...

Former two-time welterweight titlist Andre Berto has hired a new trainer -- 2011 trainer of the year Virgil Hunter -- and has been working out with him at his Oakland, Calif.-area gym for the past few weeks. "I know I have all the talent in world....

Light heavyweight titlist Bernard Hopkins was ordered on Monday to face new mandatory challenger Sergey Kovalev in his next fight.

Good news for area boxing fans/film buffs: The Shadow Box Film Festival is back in the ring for another swing. Director David Schuster announced that the second fest will run Dec. 6 and 7, and again will be hosted by the School of Visual Arts in Manh...

I watched and listened to Paul Malignaggi tell me on Friday that he's done with trying to please all of the people all the time. In the near-empty Fight Factory in Gravesend, Brooklyn, he said he's quite content putting it out there. He fights for a ...

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...