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Javier Fortuna, due to make the first defense of his interim featherweight title against Miguel Zamudio, was stripped on Thursday for failing to make weight for his ESPN2 "Friday Night Fights" main event.

Former titleholders Jose Luis Castillo and Joan Guzman, the poster children for modern fighters who have chronically missed making their contract weights, can rest easy now. Hello, Francisco Sierra! Mexico's Sierra (25-7-1, 22 KOs) was contract...

Former junior featherweight titlist Rico Ramos will take on Oscar Gonzalez in the new main event of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" on April 12 at Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton, Wash.

Trainer Freddie Roach is always motivated to see his guys win their fights. All of those victories he has been involved in as a trainer have helped make Roach a multi-millionaire, a five-time trainer of the year and a member of the International Boxi...

Action fighter Donovan "Da Bomb" George has decided to drop down in weight from super middleweight to middleweight, figuring his explosive power will be even better at 160 pounds than it was at 168. "At 160 pounds, no one can take my power," Georg...

Evgeny Gradovich of Russia has agreed to step in on short notice to challenge featherweight titlist Billy Dib.

Featherweight contender Luis Franco has stopped training and withdrawn from a world title challenge against Billy Dib.

If you don't get enough boxing on ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" this week, just head to your computer for bonus coverage from this week's card in Chicago. On the televised card (9 p.m. ET), junior middleweight contender Carlos Molina (20-5-2, 6 KO...

Canadian welterweight Kevin Bizier got a new opponent Thursday for his ESPN2 "Friday Night Fights" main event on Feb. 8: former unified lightweight titlist Nate Campbell.

The deal between junior welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson and mandatory challenger Kendall Holt, which was agreed to last Friday, is now finalized with the contracts signed and submitted to the IBF, which is sanctioning the bout. The fight is F...

Middleweight knockout artist David Lemieux has a small fracture in his right hand and has withdrawn from his Feb. 8 main event on ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights." Lemieux (28-2, 27 KOs) was supposed to face Colombia's Jose Miguel Torres (26-5, 23 KO...

On Sept. 1, junior middleweight prospect Johnathan Gonzalez got a huge opportunity to step up in competition and face former titleholder Sergiy Dzinziruk on HBO. Instead of taking advantage, Gonzalez blew it big time and left his career in tatters...

Delvin Rodriguez, a longtime staple of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" and the ringside analyst on the ESPN Deportes broadcast of the series, will be out from behind the microphone and back in the ring on the Feb. 15 show. Rodriguez (26-6-3, 14 KOs)...

It can't get here soon enough, but the new season of "Friday Night Fights" on ESPN2 and ESPN3 (and simulcast every week in Spanish on ESPN Deportes) will kick off on Jan. 4. ESPN boxing programmer Doug Loughrey is in the process of putting togethe...

A hand injury to super middleweight contender Adonis Stevenson has forced him out of this week's ESPN2 FNF season finale against Donovan George, and he was replaced by Dionisio Miranda on Monday.

The super middleweight title eliminator between Adonis Stevenson and Donovan George -- in need of a date after the card it was supposed to be on was postponed -- will headline the Aug. 17 season finale of ESPN2's "Friday Nights Fights."