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Many, if not most, fight fans expected Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez to renew their rivarly this fall, and were eager to see if Pacquiao could shrug off the KO loss at Marquez's hands last December. But Marquez threw us a curveball, deciding...

I'd have had no idea that Larry Merchant, the New York native who was cemented to the HBO lead analyst chair for 35 years until moving on at the end of 2012, had any sort of history with Floyd Mayweather -- but I know better. One of the most surpr...

Larry Merchant was pleasantly surprised by Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero in the Californian's last outing, a decision win over Andre Berto on Nov. 24. In that bout, he proved to many that he's no blown-up lightweight, that he possesses the strength and...

More than 300 people attended this past Sunday's second annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) induction dinner, sponsored by Ring 8, at Russo's On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York, as 20 inductees from the Class of 2013 were honored. ...

The fate of fighters who win titles controversially has been checkered at best, and their first defense has frequently been their last. Is that where Timothy Bradley is heading when he faces Ruslan Provodnikov?

Hall of Fame broadcaster Larry Merchant, a ringside staple of HBO broadcasts since the 1970s, retired at the end of 2012. Former heavyweight champ George Foreman was one of his longtime broadcast partners on HBO before leaving the network several yea...

While boxing media coverage traditionally focused exclusively on what happened inside the ropes, the recent trend of reporting too much on the business end of things has hurt the sport.

So, is this a game changer? Floyd Mayweather (43-0 with 26 KOs) jumping ship from HBO, for whom he has worked with since 1997, to Showtime. Does this actually change things for the boxing world as a whole, or just for Floyd, as it's just another enti...

What if Roy Jones Jr. had remained a heavyweight after beating John Ruiz for a title in 2003? Might his superhuman reputation have held up in the division and changed how we remember him today?

Five things we learned from Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce, Amir Khan-Carlos Molina and Saturday's other fights.

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. According to sources, the seven Catholic, non-FBS basketball schools in the Big East plan to leave the conference. Josh Hamilton and the Los Angeles ...

Larry Merchant will leave the lead HBO boxing analyst seat after helping call the HBO's Saturday night show, after 35 years of offering incisive, sometimes pointed and occasionally controversial insights. "Starting in January, I will become a Tom ...

Larry Merchant, a staple of HBO's boxing telecasts for 35 years, will call his final fight for the network on Saturday night.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be released from Clark County Detention Center on or about Aug. 3, so we have started to think more and more about what fight looms next for him. I asked Brooklyn-born HBO analyst Larry Merchant: Who, as a fan, would you ...

By and large, I'm not a fan of anyone telling writers or analysts who are not ex-boxers that their judgments are suspect because they haven't boxed. Fair to say I don't think it detracts from Larry Merchant's efficacy that he didn't go into prizefigh...

Shane Mosley made it official, announcing his retirement on Monday.