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A few updates on fighters and upcoming fights: • Miguel Cotto, who likely will return to the ring in September, is keeping busy with his promotional company. In his June 7 card on Showtime from Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y., juni...

It was just a week ago that, along with everyone else with even a passing interest in the sport of basketball, I found myself asking, "Who is that idiot who voted for Carmelo Anthony over LeBron James for NBA Most Valuable Player?" Turns out there...

Floyd Mayweather Jr., at age 36 and despite coming off a year-long layoff, put on a clinic in a high-accuracy pounding of Robert Guerrero on Saturday in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS -- After years of simmering turmoil that came to a boil with an emotional argument in front of HBO cameras in 2011, Floyd Mayweather Sr. and Jr. are -- for now at least -- reconciled, with Mayweather pere returning to his son's corner for t...

It's one of the best months on the sports calendar: May is home to several iconic sporting events, including the Kentucky Derby (on Saturday), the start of the French Open and the Indianapolis 500 (both on May 26). The month also marks the return ...

LAS VEGAS -- Robert Guerrero earned his shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday partly because he is the mandatory challenger to Mayweather's welterweight belt, and partly because, after calling him out for what seemed like years on end, the former ...

Although middleweight champ Sergio Martinez won a dominant unanimous decision against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their big-time showdown in September at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, the most memorable moment came in the 12th round when Marti...

Austin Trout's arrival as A Fighter To Be Taken Seriously followed his impressive decision win over Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden last December. That earned him Saturday's Showtime-televised shot against Canelo Alvarez, and the fact that he i...

Austin Trout came up through boxing's ranks the hard way, so he says playing foil to another star on his home turf -- this time Canelo Alvarez in San Antonio on Saturday -- won't affect him.

Bernardo Pilatti highlights five keys to victory for Austin Trout against Canelo Alvarez on Saturday.

A little of this and a little of that from the boxing world: • As part of the lead-up to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero welterweight title fight on May 4 (Showtime PPV) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the documentary "30 Days I...

The fate of fighters who win titles controversially has been checkered at best, and their first defense has frequently been their last. Is that where Timothy Bradley is heading when he faces Ruslan Provodnikov?

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is calling all the shots -- except for how we'll remember him after he's gone. Will he use his new Showtime deal to finally validate the legacy he says he has already earned?

VERONA, N.Y. -- Junior middleweight titlist Austin Trout can't seem to go anywhere these days without being asked the same question: Who is your next opponent? After crossing into enemy territory in December to hand Miguel Cotto the first defeat o...

I caught up with Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer this week and he filled me on a few things. Here are the updates: • Two weeks ago, Golden Boy won the purse bid for the rematch between Erislandy Lara (a Golden Boy fighter) and Vanes Mar...

Over the course of two meetings, one on Dec. 1 in New York on the day the Austin Trout-Miguel Cotto fight and one on Dec. 8 in Las Vegas on the day of the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao IV, members of the Boxing Writers Association of America met...