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In boxing, just as in all sports, there's nothing quite like a fresh set of rankings to stir debate and help bring order to the subject at hand. We use pound-for-pound rankings as a method of classifying the best and most skillful fighters regardl...

Mike Alvarado sure has earned a fight in front of his hometown fans in Denver, and that is exactly where Top Rank promoter Bob Arum intends to put on his next fight this fall. "We will put him in Denver, end of October, beginning of November," Aru...

MEXICO -- As Juan Manuel Marquez begins training for his Oct. 12 fight with welterweight titlist Timothy Bradley Jr., for the first time in a long time, he won't be thinking about a possible future fight with Manny Pacquiao. Marquez insists that r...

Junior welterweight Karim Mayfield of San Francisco caused a stir when he got into a shouting match and near-physical confrontation with unified titleholder Danny Garcia and his father/trainer Angel Garcia in the media center during Floyd Mayweather ...

Manny Pacquiao has lost his past two bouts, so his next scrap, against Brandon Rios in Macau on Nov. 24 (Nov. 23 in the U.S.) is beyond crucial. I checked in with Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, and asked him for his take on the bout, Rios as ...

When Manny Pacquiao picked Brandon Rios to fight for his comeback bout after the knockout loss he suffered against Juan Manuel Marquez in December, he did so with the blessing of Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach. Roach said he liked the fight fo...

Manny Pacquiao will fight Brandon Rios in Macau, China, on Nov. 23.

Mauricio Herrera and Ji-Hoon Kim will meet in a 10-round junior welterweight fight on Thursday at the Omega Products International in Corona, Calif., in a special edition of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" (10 p.m. ET). Despite dropping his past two...

Juan Manuel Marquez stresses that nothing yet has been agreed to, but Timothy Bradley Jr. would seem to be his first choice as an opponent for the junior welterweight titlist's proposed September return.

Cameron Dunkin knows that Brandon Rios, warrior through and through, is keen to get back in the ring this summer, maybe in July, but the manager told NYFightblog he'd like Rios to get a bit more downtime before lacing up again. Rios lost a UD12 to...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, we're going inside the boxing ring when Brandon Rios stops by to chat about his epic junior welterweight bout last Saturday night against Mike Alvarado, a fight Alvarado won via unanimous decision. Alvarado (34-...

A little of this and a little of that from the boxing world: • As part of the lead-up to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero welterweight title fight on May 4 (Showtime PPV) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the documentary "30 Days I...

With fighters and suppliers always a step ahead of those who test for performance-enhancing drugs, less -- not more -- regulation may be a necessary evil to address, if not solve, boxing's steroids conundrum.

If boxing is sometimes stupid and always macho, there's no better example of the magnetism of stupid macho than Brandon Rios. He is boxing's early Ironclad, a slow-moving, indestructible and arguably ugly fighter who advances upon his opponents witho...

Mike Alvarado outlasted Brandon Rios in a much-anticipated rematch that lived up to all its slobberknocking hype, setting up an eventual rubber match for the ages.

LAS VEGAS -- It was an eventful night of boxing on two continents on Saturday, from an impressive knockout by Gennady Golovkin in Monaco to a war at the Mandalay Bay. Here are five thoughts on what we saw and learned: 1. Despite itself, boxing con...