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Tyson Fury thinks Steve Cunningham is a masquerade artist, a pretender best suited for cruiserweight, who will be out of his depth in the ring at the Madison Square Garden Theater on Saturday. The 36-year-old Cunningham, no great surprise, begs to...

The two best 122-pound professional fighters will face off on Saturday night in New York City, on a show promoted by Brooklyn-born Bob Arum, the 81-year-old sage who presided over a press conference at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday to hype the c...

Bob Arum is looking to determine who will get the coveted slot to fight Manny Pacquiao in his next bout by Sunday, he told NYFightblog during a Wednesday press conference at Madison Square Garden. The press conference was called to hype the Saturday ...

Tyson Fury, who fights Steve Cunningham at the Madison Square Garden Theater on April 20, has one of the best names in boxing. His dad, a pro fighter, saw the newborn, born seven weeks premature, and decided to name him after Mike Tyson. It sort of f...

He has one of the best names in boxing, and now fight fans will get a better sense if Tyson Fury has what it takes to possibly challenge the Klitschko brothers' chokehold on the heavyweight division. Fury, a 20-0 Brit, will fight Steve Cunningham,...

Boxrec says Austin Trout will fight Canelo Alvarez on May 4 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. That venue and date would be topped by Floyd Mayweather fighting the vaunted "TBD." I called Trout's promoter, Greg Cohen, for confirmation. "I'd like to se...

Did you like what you saw of Gennady Golovkin's taking apart of Gabe Rosado on Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden Theater? So much so that you'd like him to meet the man who is seen as the best in the business at middleweight, Sergio Martine...

Dana White has felt somewhere between cautiously optimistic and quite optimistic in the last few years that New York politicians would see the light, and see the economic bounty that the UFC could bring to the state, never mind the state of inequalit...

Mikey Garcia had his way with Orlando Salido, Gennady Golovkin bloodied up and stopped Gabe Rosado, and Rocky Martinez and Juan Carlos Burgos fought to a draw at the Madison Square Garden Theater on Saturday night. Top Rank put on the show with HB...

Seanie Mongahan did his job at the ticket sales office, and in the ring, on Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden Theater. The Long Beach, Long Island light heavyweight turned away the slowish but stubborn Roger Cantrell in an eight rounder und...

ESPN's Dan Rafael was working the phones and tapping the keyboard furiously in the hours before the Top Rank card at the Madison Square Garden Theater, breaking the story that ex-middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik was hanging up the gloves, at age 30. ...

Trainer Robert Garcia has a pretty good read on what Orlando Salido brings to the table at the Madison Square Garden Theater on the Top Rank-HBO show Saturday. Robert has done his due diligence ahead of younger brother Mikey's clash against the fe...

It's a good time to be a boxing writer in NYC. On Thursday, I soaked up intel at Madison Square Garden ahead of Saturday's Top Rank show topped by an Orlando Salido-Mikey Garcia clash. On Monday, Golden Boy had a presser at Barclays Center to announc...

Orlando Salido is 32, has been a pro for 17 years, and started boxing when he was 10. But no, he doesn't think the mileage has broken him down. "I feel better now," he told ESPN New York at a news conference held Thursday at MSG, ahead of his Satu...

The principals who will tangle at the Madison Square Garden Theater on Saturday night, in a card promoted by Top Rank with K2, assembled at the Garden for a press conference on Thursday. Bob Arum, the candid dealmaker who lives in Vegas but retains t...

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A casual fan will check out Gabriel Rosado when he appears at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, or on the TV screen of HBO's "Boxing After Dark" show, and they might think to themselves, OK, he has his fight fa...