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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...

The interruption came with the subtlety and grace of a sledgehammer, not unlike the punches landed minutes before by Lucas Matthysse in his dismantling of Lamont Peterson on Saturday. As Showtime's Jim Gray was set to begin his postfight interview...

Interim junior welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse made his claim for being the best fighter at 140 pounds with his demolition of Lamont Peterson on Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J.

Lucas Matthysse stopped Lamont Peterson in the third round Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in a matchup of junior-welterweight champions.

Lucas Matthysse's power prevailed again Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J., but rather than a right hand, it was a series of left hooks that claimed Lamont Peterson as Matthysse's latest TKO victim.

Just on their own, the fights between Danny Garcia and Zab Judah, who met April 27, and Lamont Peterson and Lucas Matthysse, who meet Saturday night (Showtime, 9 ET/PT) at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., are attractive matchups. Garcia is a...

Lucas Matthysse has crushing knockout power and his past 10 wins are by stoppage, but that doesn't worry junior welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson too much.

Interim junior welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse was supposed to arrive in New York on Tuesday morning on a flight from his native Argentina that would give him plenty of time to make it the final news conference on Wednesday to promote his 141-po...

Lamont Peterson is a junior welterweight titleholder, while Lucas Matthysse holds an interim strap. So when the elite 140-pounders meet Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J., why won't it be for a belt?

Bernardo Pilatti highlights five keys to victory for Lamont Peterson against Lucas Matthysse on Saturday.

Bernardo Pilatti highlights five keys to victory for Lucas Matthysse against Lamont Peterson on Saturday.

Junior welterweight contender Olusegun Ajose, who gave a good battle to Lucas Matthysse in a 10th-round knockout loss in a September interim title bout, gets back to action Friday night. Ajose (30-1, 14 KOs), who fought just once in 2012 while awa...

Lucas Matthysse and Lamont Peterson will meet May 18 in the main event of a Showtime-televised card at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.

The heavyweight rematch between Johnathon Banks and Seth Mitchell is still supposed to take place, but it will be put off a little longer because of Banks' injured thumb. Banks scored an upset when he knocked out Mitchell in the second round on No...

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...

Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer said he is closing in on finalizing a main event to go along with the Devon Alexander-Kell Brook welterweight title fight on May 18 in Atlantic City, N.J.: a match between junior welterweight tit...