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Lucas Matthysse's power prevailed again Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J., but rather than a right hand, it was a series of left hooks that claimed Lamont Peterson as Matthysse's latest TKO victim.

Just on their own, the fights between Danny Garcia and Zab Judah, who met April 27, and Lamont Peterson and Lucas Matthysse, who meet Saturday night (Showtime, 9 ET/PT) at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., are attractive matchups. Garcia is a...

Lucas Matthysse has crushing knockout power and his past 10 wins are by stoppage, but that doesn't worry junior welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson too much.

Lamont Peterson is a junior welterweight titleholder, while Lucas Matthysse holds an interim strap. So when the elite 140-pounders meet Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J., why won't it be for a belt?

How about some fighter picks for the two main bouts on Saturday's big Showtime PPV card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Robert Guerrero and Daniel Ponce De Leon versus Abner Mares? Here are some predictions on Mayweather...

Danny Garcia, Sergio Martinez and Amir Khan -- the favored fighters in their respective Saturday bouts -- were pushed to the limit in exciting, hard-fought decision victories.

The bad blood between Danny Garcia and Zab Judah disappeared Saturday in Brooklyn, but they did put on a gritty, crimson-tinted throwdown in a unanimous decision for Garcia.

The long lead-up to the Zab Judah-Danny Garcia fight for the unified junior welterweight title has been filled with drama and bad blood. On Saturday, the fighters will finally settle it in the ring.

Junior welterweight contender Olusegun Ajose, who gave a good battle to Lucas Matthysse in a 10th-round knockout loss in a September interim title bout, gets back to action Friday night. Ajose (30-1, 14 KOs), who fought just once in 2012 while awa...

The United States Anti-Doping Agency has issued a two-year ban to former four-division titleholder Erik Morales of Mexico for his multiple drug test failures preceding an Oct. 20 rematch against junior welterweight titlist Danny Garcia at the Barclays Cen

When junior welterweight titlist Danny Garcia suffered a rib injury and had to postpone his Feb. 9 defense against former titlist Zab Judah until April 27 (Showtime) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Golden Boy promoter Richard Schaefer said ...

Anytime a fight is postponed because of an injury, it's a bummer -- for the fighter, his opponent, the fans and everyone involved in the event. Training injuries are part of the hurt business of boxing. But it seems especially cruel when an entire...

Unified junior welterweight titlist Danny Garcia hurt his rib in training and has had to postpone his Feb. 9 title defense against former titleholder Zab Judah.

Former junior welterweight titlist Amir Khan of England is ticketed to return to action April 20 on Showtime, Golden Boy promoter Richard Schaefer told me on Thursday. Who will Khan fight and where will it take place? Schaefer said those questions...

Lucas Matthysse isn't exactly disrespecting Mike Dallas Jr., but neither is he giving him much consideration. The interim junior welterweight titlist already has much bigger plans beyond Saturday.

It's not the biggest fight in the world but it harkens back to the neighborhood battles of years past in New York -- Dmitriy Salita, the orthodox Jew from Ukraine living in New York, against Puerto Rico's Hector Camacho Jr., whose late father Hector ...