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Guillermo Rigondeux impressed the heck out of boxing fans who saw him do his ultra-clever pugilism against, the 2012 Boxing Writers Association Fighter of the Year, Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall on April 13. Yes, there was some grumbling...

Guillermo Rigondeaux might not have won any new fans, but he slipped punches and picked his spots Saturday in New York to outbox Nonito Donaire for a unanimous decision and unify junior featherweight titles.

Nonito Donaire initially had no interest in facing relatively untested Guillermo Rigondeaux, but now that Saturday's 122-pound unification fight is at hand, he says he's as excited as the rest of us.

The 88th annual awards banquet of the Boxing Writers Association of America will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at Capitale in New York City, and marquee players in the game, like Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire, and Juan Manuel Marquez, w...

Tickets are on sale for the 88th annual Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) awards dinner on April 11 at Capitale in New York City. The dinner is open to fight fans, and 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire, who fights on April 13 in N...

Junior featherweight titleholder Nonito Donaire will meet Guillermo Rigondeaux April 13 in the main event of HBO's "World Championship Boxing".

Nonito Donaire has for almost a year been a heavy proponent of regular PED testing in boxing. The 2012 Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year is slated to meet Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux on April 13 at Radio City Music Hall in Ne...

Junior featherweight titleholder Nonito Donaire, who had a dominant 2012 campaign, was voted Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year in balloting results announced on Sunday by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

No fighter directly impacted the sport of mixed martial arts, or the promotion under which he competed, in 2012 more than UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. A handful of fighters might be able to argue that they had a better overall indivi...

A panel of ESPN.com writers and editors provide their experts' picks for the year-end MMA awards of 2012.

As Nonito Donaire put the wraps on his fighter of the year candidacy Saturday, Amir Khan and Leo Santa Cruz set themselves up for bigger things in 2013.

Glen Johnson's retirement didn't last long. Johnson has agreed to face rising British super middleweight contender George Groves on Dec. 15.

Everyone knew Andre Ward was skilled, but the super middleweight champ went above and beyond against Chad Dawson on Saturday in Oakland, Calif., locking in the last pieces of the puzzle: excitement and a finishing flair.

Andre Ward, who unified two super middleweight titles and won the grueling Super Six World Boxing Classic, was voted 2011 fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America in balloting results announced Monday.

Josh Gross dishes out awards for 2011.

Editor's note: Next week, the ESPN MMA page will roll out its official end-of-the year awards. With winners in each of the most popular categories seemingly pretty clear cut, however, ESPN staffers Chuck Mindenhall and Chad Dundas will take the final...