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Featherweight titlist Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia will make the first defense of his belt against former titleholder Juan Manuel Lopez on June 15 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti told ESPN.com on Thursday.

Other than a little facial bruising following surgery to repair his busted nose, newly crowned featherweight titlist Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia is feeling and sounding good. Garcia suffered the broken nose just before the end of the eighth round ...

A head-butt broke Mikey Garcia's nose and ended his bout early Saturday in New York, but not before he dismantled Orlando Salido to take a wide decision and a featherweight title.

Featherweight titlist Orlando Salido plans to show he's more than just a cagey vet riding a hot streak by ruining the best-laid plans of challenger Mikey Garcia in New York on Saturday.

When promoters Tom Loeffler of K2 and Russell Peltz put on a media lunch in New York last month to discuss the middleweight title bout between Gennady Golovkin and Gabriel Rosado, the issue of the contract weight for the fight came up. Rosado, who...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- Former featherweight titlist Jonathan Barros of Argentina will step in and face Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia in a 10-round fight on Nov. 10 at the Wynn Las Vegas. If the deal is finalized, Top Rank and HBO have made a ni...

Featherweight titlist Orlando Salido broke his right index finger when his hand was accidentally slammed in a car door, forcing him on Friday to postpone his upcoming defense against Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia.

Maybe Jorge Arce will fight Nonito Donaire in the fall and maybe he won't. But whatever the Mexican star decides to do, it no longer will include his possessing a bantamweight belt. Arce (60-6-2, 46 KOs) has given up his 118-pound title. He had cl...

There has been a change of plans for featherweight titlist Orlando Salido (38-11-2, 26 KOs). Sean Gibbons, Salido's manager, said in an email to me on Wednesday that although Salido will still fight a nontitle bout at junior lightweight on July 28 in...

Sean Gibbons, the manager of featherweight titlist Orlando Salido, told ESPN.com that Salido's July 28 return in his hometown of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, will come in a nontitle bout at junior lightweight. Salido (38-11-2, 26 KOs) will face Chile's...

At long last, talented featherweight contender Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia will get a shot at a world title. Garcia (28-0, 24 KOs) is the mandatory challenger for titlist Celestino Caballero (36-4, 23 KOs), and the WBA has called for a purse bid o...

Nonito Donaire did his level best to make a fight Saturday in New York City, but Omar Narvaez was content to go 12 rounds and give away a bummer of a bout to the bantamweight champ.

Miguel Cotto's beating in their first fight and Antonio Margarito's ensuing hand-wrap scandal are the focal points during the buildup to their Dec. 3 rematch, which has fueled a hotcake-like ticket-selling spree.

Featherweight Miguel Angel Garcia beat Matt Remillard to the punch throughout the fight and scored three knockdowns en route to a 10th-round knockout.

One of the top featherweights of the present, Yuriorkis Gamboa, and perhaps one of the future, Miguel Angel Garcia, will both be in action March 26 on an HBO "Boxing After Dark" doubleheader.

Just getting to the ring was an accomplishment in itself, but Kelly Pavlik wasn't done there. Pavlik mauled Miguel Espino in front of his Youngstown fans to get his career back on track.