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From Monday through Thursday, television people convened in New York City to hype their stuff and try to convince advertisers that their programming is top grade and worthy of getting top advertising dollars. Boxing exec Oscar De La Hoya made the tre...

There have been a lot of good fight cards over the past couple of months and there are more to come. One of the shows I like the best, even though it won't get as much attention as some of the others, is Golden Boy's tripleheader on June 8. That S...

LAS VEGAS -- Sin City is best known, in boxing terms, for its mega-events -- the high-stakes clashes that today headline Saturday nights at the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay and formerly brought regular doses of sanctioned violence to the likes of Caesa...

LAS VEGAS -- Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s welterweight title defense against Robert Guerrero is the main event, but the real attraction for many Mexican fight fans on the Cinco De Mayo weekend card on Saturday night (Showtime PPV, 9 ET...

LAS VEGAS -- It was not exactly shaping up to be the most electrifying media conference of all time. Sponsors, promoters and broadcasters all took their turn at the podium, and the assembled media fidgeted and tweeted and waited for something interes...

Confession: My thoughts on Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin's chances in his title defense against Fernando Guerrero were impacted by his difficulty making 160 pounds on the day before the fight. Quillin was 1 1/2 pounds over and I really wondered if he...

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 ...

If the Saturday clash between WBA and WBC 140-pound champion Danny Garcia and ex-junior welter and welter titlist Zab Judah contains half the drama that the buildup to the fight has provided, then fans at Barclays Center and watching on Showtime will...

The decision made by Canelo Alvarez and his team to drop out of the May 4 card headlined by Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero took a bit of a toll on the fighter's promoter, but in the end, Oscar De La Hoya says he would have made the same cho...

It has been almost 15 years since he closed the book on his four-fight rivalry with Azumah Nelson by scoring a unanimous decision win at the very venue where Canelo Alvarez and Austin Trout will face off on Saturday. But San Antonio's own Jesse James...

Security cleared a pathway for him, but Oscar De La Hoya darted away from it, toward the crowd, famous grin at the ready as he shook hands and signed autographs for the fans who screamed his name. Bob Arum doesn't get welcomes like that. But then,...

Pernell Whitaker versus Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. Canelo Alvarez versus Austin Trout. The comparisons are so obvious between the two fights that are separated by nearly 20 years. What was once old is new again. Both fights pitted champion again...

Some have compared the junior middleweight title unification fight between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Austin "No Doubt" Trout to the 1999 battle between then-titlist Fernando Vargas and Winky Wright, who would later become the undisputed 154-pound cha...

HBO, the leader in televised boxing in the United States for decades, on Monday made the stunning announcement that it was severing ties for the foreseeable future with Golden Boy Promotions, the company with the deepest stable of talent in the sport.

First, the caveat: Purely from the perspective of its immediate importance in the world of boxing rankings, what Bernard Hopkins did at age 48 to Tavoris Cloud in New York on Saturday night was of less significance than what he meted out to Jean P...

It's tour time for junior middleweight titleholders Canelo Alvarez and Austin Trout. Before they square off to unify their 154-pound world titles on April 20 (Showtime) at the Alamodome in San Antonio in one of the year's most anticipated fights, the...