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There is nothing quite so fascinating as a boxer who has game-changing hands, true weapons that can render a foe slumped and twitching in a blink. The fight game hasn't had an excess of those natural-born lobotomizers in recent years, as the top t...

Middleweight titlist "Kid Chocolate" Peter Quillin has looked quite impressive in his recent fights. In his last three bouts combined, decisions against Winky Wright and Hassan N'Dam (to win a belt) and a seventh-round knockout of Fernando Guerrer...

A little of this and a little of that from the boxing world: • Middleweight contender Andy Lee (29-2, 20 KOs), 28, of Ireland, gets back in action May 15 on promoter Lou DiBella's Broadway Boxing card at B.B. King Blues Club in New Yor...

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...

Although middleweight champ Sergio Martinez won a dominant unanimous decision against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their big-time showdown in September at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, the most memorable moment came in the 12th round when Marti...

Who will junior middleweight Willie Nelson fight on June 29? Good question. Promoter Lou DiBella and HBO continue to search for an opponent to face Nelson in the opener of a tripleheader that will be topped by Gennady Golovkin's middleweight title...

Middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin will make defense No. 8 against former two-time title challenger Matthew Macklin.

Here's the lowdown on a bunch of fights that are either set, in the works or falling apart: • Middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin (26-0, 23 KOs) of Kazakhstan and former title challenger Matthew Macklin (29-4, 20 KOs) of Great Britain...

Now that middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin is safely through his Saturday fight -- having absolutely drilled Nobuhiro Ishida in the third round in a knockout-of-the-year candidate -- attention can turn to a more serious fight for the man called "...

Mike Alvarado outlasted Brandon Rios in a much-anticipated rematch that lived up to all its slobberknocking hype, setting up an eventual rubber match for the ages.

LAS VEGAS -- It was an eventful night of boxing on two continents on Saturday, from an impressive knockout by Gennady Golovkin in Monaco to a war at the Mandalay Bay. Here are five thoughts on what we saw and learned: 1. Despite itself, boxing con...

If you ever believed it was impossible to look impressive doing something that's widely expected of you, check out Gennady Golovkin's performance Saturday in Monaco. In what amounted to a stay-busy fight against veteran Nobuhiro Ishida at the Sall...

Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan stopped Nobuhiro Ishida of Japan in the third round to successfully defend his WBA and IBO middleweight titles Saturday night.

Middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin, usually with a smile on his face, loves to fight and wants to stay as busy as possible. He hopes to fight at least four times this year and got his 2013 off to a blazing start with a good old-fashioned beatd...

Notes and nuggets from the boxing world: • The proposed middleweight bout between Detroit's J'Leon Love (15-0, 8 KOs), one of Floyd Mayweather's fighters, and Philadelphia's Gabriel Rosado (21-6, 13 KOs), who is coming off a game perfor...

NEW YORK -- Had a chance to talk with Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer on Friday at the weigh-in for Saturday night's Tavoris Cloud-Bernard Hopkins light heavyweight title fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. He dropped a few solid nu...