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Boxrec says Austin Trout will fight Canelo Alvarez on May 4 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. That venue and date would be topped by Floyd Mayweather fighting the vaunted "TBD." I called Trout's promoter, Greg Cohen, for confirmation. "I'd like to se...

Shane Mosley was last seen in a ring continuing a sad and never to be eradicated fight game tradition -- he was the sacrifice offered to the young lion, on this occasion Canelo Alvarez, on a Las Vegas altar-ring. As far as sacrifices go, this one ...

Paul Malignaggi will serve as guest analyst on Showtime's Saturday offering, topped by the junior middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez facing off against script-flipper Josesito Lopez, who got the gig when he beat favored Victor Ortiz in June. So the...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be released from Clark County Detention Center on or about Aug. 3, so we have started to think more and more about what fight looms next for him. I asked Brooklyn-born HBO analyst Larry Merchant: Who, as a fan, would you ...

New York fight fans who stayed up late to watch the debut of Jim Lampley's "The Fight Game" on HBO on Saturday, at midnight -- or sad sacks like me, who fell asleep before it came on, and watched it off the DVR -- had to be tantalized by the tidbit d...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the best in the business today. He is a singular talent, a star shinier than any other when it comes to doing business in the squared circle. Now, he'll sometimes tell you that he is the best in the business across the ages...

Lou DiBella was in fine form, if not rare form, on Tuesday as he chatted with fightwriters alongside his ace middleweight, Sergio Martinez. Combustible Lou slammed HBO for what he said is an unfair playing field, slammed Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. as an ...

One of my main desires is to not bore you. I fear if I delve too deep into matters involving the sanctioning bodies, I risk a readership drain from NYFightBlog. So I try and keep that stuff to a minimum. But Sergio Martinez, acknowledged as the be...

Rodriguez' promoter, Joe DeGuardia, told me the other day he had preliminary discussions with all the people repping the guys who hold belts at 154, including Canelo Alvarez. I don't think Del gets a crack at Canelo, who can fry bigger fishies, or th...