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Showtime has pulled out all the stops for the first event in its 11-city, two-country tour to hype the Sept. 14 showdown between pound-for-pound boss Floyd Mayweather and Mexico's Canelo Alvarez. Mayweather and Alvarez will meet and greet fans on ...

Adrien Broner admits that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is his role model. He regularly calls Mayweather "big bro," asks the pound-for-pound ace for advice and is exceedingly humble (for him) in admitting that Mayweather is boxing's top dog (for now anyway). ...

Paulie Malignaggi will not make it past the sixth round of his Saturday night clash at Barclays Center with Adrien Broner. At least that's what Broner's trainer Mike Stafford said at a press appearance at Gleason's Gym on Tuesday. "Adrien will...

Adrien Broner's trainer, Mike Stafford, predicted his kid would stop Paul Malignaggi in the main event Saturday night at Barclays Center no later than Round 6, but Broner left some wiggle room for himself during a Tuesday news appearance at Gleason's...

Good news for area boxing fans/film buffs: The Shadow Box Film Festival is back in the ring for another swing. Director David Schuster announced that the second fest will run Dec. 6 and 7, and again will be hosted by the School of Visual Arts in Manh...

I watched and listened to Paul Malignaggi tell me on Friday that he's done with trying to please all of the people all the time. In the near-empty Fight Factory in Gravesend, Brooklyn, he said he's quite content putting it out there. He fights for a ...

Paul Malignaggi is not universally loved in the fight world. Some fans don't take to that Brooklyn edge, the pride almost incessantly on parade with no apologies. But gosh, if you ponder it, you do have to respect his game, even if you don't adore hi...

Many fight fans think they know what is going to go down June 22 at Barclays Center, in both the main event (Paul Malignaggi versus Adrien Broner) and the main support bout, a heavyweight rematch between Johnathan Banks and Seth Mitchell. The last...

If the fight itself provides half the heat the trash-talk battles in advance of the June 22 clash between WBA welterweight champion Paul Malignaggi and Adrien Broner, then fans at Barclays Center will get their money's worth. The two warred verbal...

Fight fans love an ass-kicker, someone who comes in and is a great bet to finish his foe before the final bell. Sergey Kovalev, who fights on Friday against Cornelius White, is starting to generate buzz as an ass-kicker. The Russian-born Florida r...

Former fighters get a tremendous kick out of the annual induction ceremonies at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y. It's a thrill to be reminded that, in the minds of many hardcore fans, you are still a marquee name. And you're s...

Boxing promoter Lou DiBella is putting his movie producer hat back on, and is teaming with rapper-entrepreneur 50 Cent on a new project. They have acquired the rights to the documentary "TAPIA," a film about the star-crossed former world champion Joh...

No one in their right mind thinks the life of a fighter is an easy one. But if Miguel Cotto didn't know it before, he now knows the life of the promoter isn't a parade of pleasure either. On Friday night at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., Co...

The choice for grand marshal of this year's International Boxing Hall of Fame parade will draw some surprised stares from non-hardcore boxing fans. But the boxing heads in Canastota, N.Y., to check out the Sunday parade, which kicks off at 1 p.m.,...

Mills Lane -- the consummate no-nonsense referee whose presence as third man in the ring insured that BS would not be tolerated, will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y. on Sunday. Lane, whose appeal transcend...

Sergio Martinez is, as I write this, driving from NYC to Canastota, to take part in the 24th International Boxing Hall of Fame induction weekend. And he took some time to chat with NYFightblog about lessons learned from his most recent fight, how man...