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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,...

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...

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...

New York-area boxing fans have been blessed with a bounty of product to soak in the last couple months, and can enjoy the same in the first part of the New Year. The Theater at Madison Square Garden will host three world championship fights on Januar...

Brownsville's Danny Jacobs met Chris Fitzpatrick, out of South Carolina, in a middleweight scrap set for eight or less at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Jacobs started out lefty, then went righty at the 2:10 mark in the first. Fitzpatric...

Paul Malignaggi likes the seasoned pro who has been successful on the big stage over the under-the-radar titlist at MSG on Saturday night. "Miguel Cotto's experience will win the fight," the just-turned-32-year-old WBA welterweight champion told NYFi...

Disclosure: As a fight fan and writer who happens to live a 20-minute walk from the Barclays Center, I am excited that boxing looms large in the grand plan for the new building to be as big as MSG in the United States' arena-sphere. Golden Boy is ...

Miguel Cotto is unbeaten in nine fights in NYC since turning professional in 2001. On Saturday, Dec. 1, Cotto looks to extend the streak against Austin Trout, a slick and smart foe, at Madison Square Garden. The former four-time and three-division w...

Dang that Grinch! Fight fans hoping that Tim Bradley's next fight would land at the MSG Theater on Dec. 15 can curse the green guy with the pea-sized heart. The Grinch is booked into the Theater from Dec. 13-30, so we hear that Bradley's next bout...

Pundits reacted with surprise when they learned that Miguel Cotto, the Puerto Rican future Hall of Famer and a top economic driver in the sport, announced he would fight New Mexico junior middleweight Austin "No Doubt" Trout, who holds the WBA crown....

Disclosure: Damn right I'm psyched that the Barclays Center in Brooklyn will feature boxing every month for the foreseeable future, and that the Barclays crew is making boxing an immense building block of their brand. I live a couple minutes away, in...

The Brooklyn Nets may be the focal point of the almost-finished Barclays Center, the new building in Prospect Heights which opens with a Jay-Z concert on Sept. 28, but boxing will be a significant part of the programming.

Fight fans, if they have followed the sport for any length of time, are typically a cynical lot when it comes to the deal-making segment of the sport. Promoters can at times speak with the conviction of a pump and dump boiler room stock promoter, and...

Sergio Martinez, one of the top pound for pounders in the game, will face off against Irishman Matt "The Knife" Macklin tomorrow, March 17, at the Madison Square Garden Theater. At the Thursday presser at MSG to hype the middleweight bout, promoter L...