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Middleweight knockout artist David Lemieux has a small fracture in his right hand and has withdrawn from his Feb. 8 main event on ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights." Lemieux (28-2, 27 KOs) was supposed to face Colombia's Jose Miguel Torres (26-5, 23 KO...

Boxrec.com is just about the most popular website for boxing fans. It functions as the go-to source for fighters' records, and contains pertinent information on who and where and when they will fight next. So, I'm on there a lot. After my vacay, ...

Sergio Martinez, the real middleweight champion, has wanted to fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for more than a year, ever since Chavez won a belt -- which had been stripped from Martinez -- from Sebastian Zbik. Chavez Jr. has also wanted to fight Marti...

As if there weren't enough scandal and controversy in boxing already, now we have a manufactured one due to an honest error -- but one that many fight fans can't seem to accept as just that. I was watching HBO's "World Championship Boxing" telecas...

Middleweight titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. figures to be in a real fight against Andy Lee on Saturday night (10 ET, HBO) at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, so the outcome is in doubt. But even before Chavez and Lee get into the ring, a questi...

One can criticize middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for a number of things. The caliber of opponents he has faced, for instance. His need for radical weight loss in the final days before a fight. The fact he was arrested and charged with d...

On Sunday afternoon, I busted Marco Antonio Rubio's chops for insinuating that Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. used an illegal PED or PEDs before his unanimous decision title-defense win in San Antonio Saturday night. I stand by that piece, because Rubio m...

Despite a recent arrest for drunken driving, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. had no problems overcoming Marco Antonio Rubio to defend his middleweight belt.

Shame on Marco Antonio Rubio. His foe at the Alamodome in San Antonio on Saturday night, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., outfought him, by a wide margin. Chavez won a unanimous decision, by scores of 118-110 (to me, spot on) and 116-112 (not spot on) and 115...

SAN ANTONIO -- On Saturday, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. returned to the scene of his legendary father's first professional blemish -- an infamous draw to Pernell Whitaker at the Alamodome more than 18 years earlier. He was there perhaps to defend his fami...

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. retained the WBC middleweight title Saturday night, earning a unanimous decision over fellow Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. set aside weight struggles and even a training camp arrest to overpower and outlast Marco Antonio Rubio in a toe-to-toe scrap Saturday in San Antonio.

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Boxing's cognoscenti and fellow fighters continue to question the legitimacy of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.'s championship status, but the Hall of Famer's kid can disprove them yet again Saturday against Marco Antonio Rubio.

Since he first stepped foot into the ring as a professional prizefighter, looking for all the world as though he were just 12 years old, his every step has inevitably been compared to his father's -- not only because they share name, but because that...

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. insists he'll seek out a fight with Sergio Martinez and prove his worth as a champion. But first, he has a potentially dangerous date with Marco Antonio Rubio on Saturday.