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So much for Top Rank promoter Bob Arum's plans to match newly crowned junior featherweight titlist Victor Terrazas with either Vic Darchinyan on the Aug. 3 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. undercard in Mexico City, or with former titleholder Nonito Donaire in ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. not only refuted the notion that he is in decline with Saturday's spectacular decision win but also showed that he has arguably never been better.

Fighting in a new division against a bigger opponent wasn't a problem for Abner Mares, stopping Daniel Ponce De Leon in the ninth round to grab a featherweight title.

How about some fighter picks for the two main bouts on Saturday's big Showtime PPV card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Robert Guerrero and Daniel Ponce De Leon versus Abner Mares? Here are some predictions on Mayweather...

Golden Boy and Mayweather Promotions rounded out the televised undercard for the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero Showtime PPV card on May 4.

Former two-division champion Rafael Marquez needs to have surgery for gallstones, which forced him to withdraw from a May 4 fight against Leo Santa Cruz, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com on Thursday.

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...

Leo Santa Cruz, looking for bigger fights and having trouble making the 118-pound weight limit, has vacated his bantamweight world title and is moving up to the 122-pound weight class.

Yes, 2012 is in the books, but beyond last week's daily annual awards for fighter, knockout, round, prospect and fight of the year, I handed out some additional hardware on Wednesday. And now, here is Part 2: Most important business development: T...

Nonito Donaire won four fights against strong competition in 2012 -- sometimes in spectacular fashion -- and did so while proving himself clean in a sport rife with PED issues. For that, he earns ESPN.com's boxer of the year award.

The circumstances are different for heavyweights Tomasz Adamek and Steve Cunningham from when they met for a cruiserweight title in 2008, but Saturday's network TV bout might be all the more anticipated for it.

Based on the success of CBS' boxing event Saturday, we should see more cards on network TV.

As Nonito Donaire put the wraps on his fighter of the year candidacy Saturday, Amir Khan and Leo Santa Cruz set themselves up for bigger things in 2013.

Leo Santa Cruz doesn't have to remember the last fight to air on CBS to look forward to Saturday's bantamweight title defense and a chance to show off his sensational, nonstop style on network airwaves.

Showtime and Golden Boy have a mega day of boxing planned on Saturday, culminating with the return of former junior welterweight titlist Amir Khan taking on Carlos Molina at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET, Showtim...

Bantamweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz and 2012 U.S. Olympian Joseph Diaz Jr. will be featured in separate Dec. 15 bouts when live boxing returns to CBS for the first time since the late 1990s.