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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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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

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. "...

When strawweights Akira Yaegashi and Pornsawan Porpramook met in Tokyo in October, few knew their names (or even how to pronounce them), and no one could have guessed it would earn 2011 ESPN.com fight of the year honors.

When last they met, Pawel Wolak and Delvin Rodriguez waged a battle that still has fight of the year buzz nearly five months later. On Saturday at Madison Square Garden, they fully intend to one-up themselves.

Hernan "Tyson" Marquez will make the second defense of his flyweight world title against rival Luis Concepcion on Oct. 29 in Hermosillo, Mexico, promoter Zanfer Promotions announced.

Andre Berto's first professional defeat -- an April decision loss to Victor Ortiz -- left him beltless and dejected.Saturday, Jan Zaveck offers Berto the first step on his road to redemption.

New Jersey-based junior middleweight contender Pawel Wolak (29-1-1, 19 KOs) of Poland signed Thursday with manager Cameron Dunkin.

Heavyweight contender Cristobal Arreola will stay busy with his fourth fight of the year -- and third since mid-May -- when he fights again July 9 in Atlantic City, N.J., promoter Dan Goossen told ESPN.com Monday night.

Even though 2010 is in the books, the Fight Freaks have been tweeting to ask me to dole out other awards besides the traditional fighter, knockout, prospect, round and fight of the year honors I handed out last week. So after handing out a batch yest...

Sure, 2010 is in the books, but the Fight Freaks have been tweeting to ask for me to dole out other awards besides the packages that ran daily last week for fighter, knockout, prospect, round and fight of the year. So I'll hand out some more tod...

Fight fans would have been satisfied with one round of grueling action between Humberto Soto and Urbano Antillon. The plucky pugs gave us 12 instead.