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Imagine demanding that your city add a stop sign on your corner and then, after local officials relent, blowing through the intersection at your first opportunity. A weak analogy, perhaps, but you get the idea why ESPN.com's Dan Rafael is so confound...

Junior middleweight titlist Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, the Mexican star who has been brought along slowly with a series of fights against opponents given little chance to win, will next face a tall order: powerful 6-foot-1 southpaw Paul Williams.

Freddie Roach got around to watching the May 5 Floyd Mayweather-Miguel Cotto fight last night. You'll forgive Dedham Freddie for the delay; he has an excuse, in that he's been knee deep in getting Amir Khan ready for the Lamont Peterson rematch, whic...

When Floyd Mayweather Jr. was facing Miguel Cotto on May 5 in Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao - who boxing fans around the world want to see Mayweather fight - was arriving in Los Angeles on his flight from the Philippines with trainer Freddie Roach to beg...

You'll hear, if you're affiliated with the sweet science, the assertion that "boxing is dead." It oftentimes comes from someone older, 40, 50, 60, who is comparing it to periods like the Ali or Tyson eras. My response is usually something along the l...

Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s junior middleweight title victory against Miguel Cotto on HBO PPV last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas generated a whopping 1.5 million pay-per-view buys and $94 million in domestic pay-per-view revenue.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has lived up to his "Money" nickname again. Besides his record guaranteed purse of $32 million for his victory against Miguel Cotto (who made a career-best $8 million minimum) in their junior middleweight title bout last Satur...

The time has come for boxing to find out what life without Floyd Mayweather Jr. is really like. The "0" is all that should matter to Mayweather, not the 43 that precedes it.

Full disclosure: I'm a fan of Larry Merchant's work. I enjoy his insights, appreciate that he is a fan and chronicler of the sweet science and am happy that HBO has the stones to keep using an 81-year-man, this in an industry which rewards youth and ...

Canadian legend Justin Bieber has made a habit of basking in the spotlight of some of the biggest names in sports. Just two weeks ago he was phonin' it up with Bubba Watson the night of his Masters win. On Saturday he spent his night with Floyd Maywe...

LAS VEGAS -- In the week leading up to Saturday's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto junior middleweight title bout, I had heard rumors that Mayweather had suffered some sort of hand or wrist injury. Last Tuesday, I spoke to Leonard Ellerbe, Maywea...

It isn't often a fighter leaves the ring $32 million richer. Even rarer -- Floyd Mayweather leaving the ring with a bloody nose. Both were the case Saturday in Las Vegas.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a professional boxer. At 43-0, he's considered to be one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the sport....

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Miguel Cotto fought in a boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 5, 2012. Mayweather won a unanimous decision, 118-110, 117-111, 117-111....

A weekend in Vegas.

Paul Pierce shook off a knee injury to rope-a-dope the Hawks.