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Bernardo Pilatti highlights five keys to victory for Lamont Peterson against Lucas Matthysse on Saturday.

Mike Alvarado stuck to his game plan in his rematch with Brandon Rios, boxing more but still often trading in thrilling fashion to take a close decision Saturday in Las Vegas.

Brooklyn-born promoter Bob Arum hasn't had time to even contemplate lightening his load in the last few days. He put together the fight which is the early lock for the 2013 Fight of the Year, Timothy Bradley-Ruslan Provodnikov, which ran on HBO f...

1. Was that the fight of the year? Jay Caspian Kang: It's only early March and the big fights of the fall haven't been lined up yet, but should we go ahead and proclaim Saturday's brutal 12-round welterweight battle the Fight of the Year? For thos...

Welterweight titlist Timothy Bradley Jr. -- often criticized as boring -- broke form and engaged in a firefight with puncher Ruslan Provodnikov on Saturday, holding on for a close decision.

Rodriguez's fight with Pawel Wolak won the 2011 Fight of the Year. Welcome to SportsNation! On Wednesday, we're going inside the boxing ring when Delvin Rodriguez stops by to chat about his fight on ESPN's Friday Night Fights (ESPN2, 9 p.m. ET). ...

Juan Manuel Marquez, an analyst on ESPN Deportes program "Golpe a Golpe," applied those TV chops to his own career-defining moment, December's victory over nemesis Manny Pacquiao.

Yes, 2012 is in the books, but beyond last week's daily annual awards for fighter, knockout, round, prospect and fight of the year, I handed out some additional hardware on Wednesday. And now, here is Part 2: Most important business development: T...

Benson Henderson's first year in the UFC was 2011, but you might say the former WEC lightweight champion truly arrived in 2012. Henderson was easily one of the most impressive figures in the Octagon in 2012 and it all started with a 155-pound ti...

Yes, 2012 is in the books, but beyond last week's daily annual awards for fighter, knockout, round, prospect and fight of the year, here is part 1 of some additional awards: Trainer of the year: This was a slam dunk: Robert Garcia had a huge year ...

These are the lightweight power rankings.

It took Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez four meetings to finally win the ESPN's fight of the year award.

The Chittenango Choo Choo's ride is done. Hall of Famer Carmen Basilio died of pneumonia in a Rochester hospital Wednesday at age 85. The man who won Fight of the Year honors in 1955 (for a win over Tony DeMarco for the welterweight crown), 1956 (...

Nonito Donaire knew he had nearly an impossible act to follow. Right before he took the ring, Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado brawled through arguably the most sensational fight of the year.

The fight won't get a lot of play in the United States, but if you're a hard-core fight fan, how can you not be at least a little bit interested in Kazuto Ioka versus Akira Yaegashi? I, for one, think it could be a terrific fight. Ioka and Yaegash...

Junior welterweight Mauricio Herrera (18-2, 7 KOs) didn't beat Mike Alvarado (33-0, 23 KOs) on Saturday at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, but he took pride in being part of a fantastic action fight that will go down as a fight of the year candidate. "...