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Guillermo Rigondeux impressed the heck out of boxing fans who saw him do his ultra-clever pugilism against, the 2012 Boxing Writers Association Fighter of the Year, Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall on April 13. Yes, there was some grumbling...

I checked in Monday with Gary Hyde, the Irishman on top of the world after his guy Guillermo Rigondeaux proved against Nonito Donaire that he is more than an amateur legend, cementing himself in the pound-for-pound top 10 with a superb showing at Rad...

Nonito Donaire hadn't tasted defeat in 12 years, and he sipped from the bitter cup on Saturday night, at Radio City Music Hall, as Cuban native Guillermo Rigondeaux showed amazing command of the sweet science and took a unanimous decision from the 20...

The Cuban-born hitter Guillermo Rigondeaux had a rep as an amateur ace, with two Olympic golds and a 400-12 record under his belt. He proved to the world that he's pretty awesome as a pro, too, getting the better of pound-for-pound ace Nonito Donaire...

Boxing is a freelance sport, without a central league body. It has so many moving parts, and moving mouths, that the sports' grapevine is maybe the richest of any pro sport. Some of those mouths have been busy this week. They're chattering that maybe...

The two best 122-pound professional fighters will face off on Saturday night in New York City, on a show promoted by Brooklyn-born Bob Arum, the 81-year-old sage who presided over a press conference at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday to hype the c...

Bob Arum is looking to determine who will get the coveted slot to fight Manny Pacquiao in his next bout by Sunday, he told NYFightblog during a Wednesday press conference at Madison Square Garden. The press conference was called to hype the Saturday ...

I was chatting with Irishman Gary Hyde, the manager of Guillermo Rigondeaux today, during a Top Rank media gathering at Mendez Gym on E. 26th St. in NYC. Hyde asked me who my favorite fighter was and I paused, thought about it, and said, "Ya know, I ...

Freddie Roach -- who was in the corner of Top Rank prospect Zou Shiming, the two-time gold medalist from China, last Saturday in Macau -- chatted with NYFightblog about the faceoff between Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux, which unfolds Saturd...

Laypeople consistently underestimate how difficult it is to be a prizefighter. You see evidence of this when, every couple of years, this football player or that basketball player decides that he could be the next heavyweight champion of the world an...

You could see it as a sad commentary on our times, or see the upside -- that the increasingly regular PED flaps in boxing mean the sport is actually attending to a problem that is present in all sports in which strength and stamina are prized and mon...

The 88th annual awards banquet of the Boxing Writers Association of America will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at Capitale in New York City, and marquee players in the game, like Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire, and Juan Manuel Marquez, w...

Tickets are on sale for the 88th annual Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) awards dinner on April 11 at Capitale in New York City. The dinner is open to fight fans, and 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito Donaire, who fights on April 13 in N...

The Radio City showdown between Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux is on, as of Monday afternoon, according to Donaire manager Cameron Dunkin. Dunkin confirmed to NYFightblog that as far as he knows Team Rigo filled out all the necessary paperwo...

As of Sunday afternoon, it does appear we have a fight. The PED-testing issue continued to loom over the April 13 showdown between 122-pounders Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux, as Donaire started to suspect on Friday and Saturday that Rigo...

There was a fair amount of grumbling in certain cynical circles when Bob Arum made the fourth Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez fight, which unfolded Dec. 8 in Las Vegas. Been there, done that, wanna see something else, grumblers on Twitter tweet...