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Five things we leard from Saturday's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero card.

LAS VEGAS -- When Robert Guerrero enters the ring to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand on Saturday night, his trunks will bear the logo of an organization called Be The Match, a nonprofit entity that runs the national registry of potential b...

LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero, naturally enough, steal the headlines. And the hard-core fans are salivating at the thought of Abner Mares tangling with Daniel Ponce De Leon. But Saturday's card at the MGM Grand also includes a...

LAS VEGAS -- After years of simmering turmoil that came to a boil with an emotional argument in front of HBO cameras in 2011, Floyd Mayweather Sr. and Jr. are -- for now at least -- reconciled, with Mayweather pere returning to his son's corner for t...

LAS VEGAS -- It was not exactly shaping up to be the most electrifying media conference of all time. Sponsors, promoters and broadcasters all took their turn at the podium, and the assembled media fidgeted and tweeted and waited for something interes...

LAS VEGAS -- There are elements of Floyd Mayweather's welterweight title fight with Robert Guerrero on Saturday that bring to mind his 2011 tilt against Victor Ortiz. Both Guerrero and Ortiz earned their shots on the back of impressive victories over...

LAS VEGAS -- Robert Guerrero earned his shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday partly because he is the mandatory challenger to Mayweather's welterweight belt, and partly because, after calling him out for what seemed like years on end, the former ...

After a busy weekend of fights that included a knockout in the nation's capital, an upset in Liverpool and a comeback story in Detroit, here are five things we learned from the weekend: 1. From the bottom to the top It's safe to say that Ishe S...

Ishe Smith has been through the boxing wringer, which consequently twisted his personal life into something he wasn't sure he wanted to salvage. But on Saturday, Smith gets a chance to finish what he started when he challenges for a world title.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. certainly knows how to make the most of social media. He doesn't just post random tweets of betting slips; he knows how to use 140 characters to stir things up. One day, he's proclaiming that he's likely to fight Devon Alexan...

Five things we learned from Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV card in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS -- His relationship with Floyd Mayweather Jr., at the center of so many episodes of "24/7," may have cratered, and with it the ballyhooed TMT Promotions. But 50 Cent's interest in boxing remains fully intact, as do his promotional designs, ...

Can a 20-year-old kid help investigators learn more about the effects of boxing on brain health and, ultimately, help make combat sports safer? Charles Bernick hopes so.

LAS VEGAS -- Manny Pacquiao will fight Timothy Bradley Jr. at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but inevitably conversation with the Filipino star turns, sooner or later, to another undefeated American. While Pacquiao and Bradley do ba...

LAS VEGAS -- Five things we learned from Saturday's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto card at the MGM Grand: 1. There's good, there's very good, and there's great With every fight, Mayweather is moving up the all-time list. For years, one knock...

Saturday's challenge of junior middleweight champ Miguel Cotto will be Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s sixth successive fight at the MGM Grand and his ninth overall. Here's one man's take on Mayweather's five most memorable appearances at what has become boxi...