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Brash lightweight titlist Adrien Broner will move up two weight classes to challenge welterweight titleholder Paulie Malignaggi on June 22, Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday.

Welterweight titlist Paulie Malignaggi has been all over the fight week buildup for Saturday's Canelo Alvarez-Austin Trout clash, hosting the public workout in front of the Alamo on Wednesday and talking with fans and media at Friday's sun-drenched w...

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...

As of yesterday (Thursday), both Paul Malignaggi, the WBA welterweight champion, and Adrien Broner, the WBC lightweight champion, had signed their contracts to face off, on June 22 at Barclays. When that fight was floated, the reaction of many pun...

Paul Malignaggi has signed to fight Adrien Broner on June 22 at Barclays Center, the WBA welterweight champion told NYFightblog today. Broner is making the leap from 135 pounds to 147 and Malignaggi tells us he will be too strong for the young Ci...

Shane Mosley will face welterweight contender Pablo Cesar Cano on May 18 (Fox Deportes) in Cancun, Mexico. In the co-feature, junior lightweight contender Sergio Thompson (30-2, 28 KOs) will face former contender Rocky Juarez (29-10-1, 21 KOs).

Not long after I chatted with George Foreman about the new boxing promotion he is forming with his sons, and we touched on how Big George might handle a fighter under the Foreman umbrella who shows troublemaker tendencies outside the ring, word got o...

Paul Malignaggi will defend his welterweight crown on June 22 at Barclays Center against the hottest young gun in the game, Adrien Broner, who is so sure of his talent, he's making the leap from 135, past 140, to the 147-pound class. The Bensonhur...

Paul Malignaggi flew in from the West Coast for the Hopkins-Cloud fight and at Barclays Center reported to NYFightblog that it is looking like his next fight will be against Adrien Broner, June 22, in Brooklyn at Barclays. The WBA welter champ was...

After the March 16 Ricky Burns-Miguel Vazquez lightweight unification fight was pushed off on Monday, Golden Boy Promotions' CEO Richard Schaefer said he revisited trying to make a unification fight between Adrien Broner and Scotland's Burns for June...

Sounds like we got a fight, or at least the main ingredients for one. Adrien Broner's trainer Mike Stafford said he'd love to have his kid fight Paul Malignaggi, and got the trash-talking parade marching when he took a couple shots at the Brooklyn b...

Get ready for trash-talk gold. It's looking a lot like Paul Malignaggi could face off against the newest "it" kid in boxing, Adrien Broner, this summer. The WBA welter champ Malignaggi told NYFightblog that if Broner says yes, they could fight ...

Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer said he is closing in on finalizing a main event to go along with the Devon Alexander-Kell Brook welterweight title fight on May 18 in Atlantic City, N.J.: a match between junior welterweight tit...

Promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy has given Paul Malignaggi until the end of this weekend to come together on a May 18 fight against either Diego Chaves or Humberto Soto in Abu Dhabi. If it doesn't, Malignaggi (32-4; age 32) told NYFightblog...

Paul Maliganngi is still in a holding period, waiting for all the elements of a deal to fight in Abu Dhabi on May 18, against Argentine Diego Chaves, to jell. "Supposedly, everything is agreed to in principle," he said. "I have to sign, though, and t...

WBA welter champ Paul Malignaggi has received a bout agreement, to fight WBA No. 1 contender Diego Chaves in Abu Dhabi, with a tentative date of May 18, the fighter told ESPN NY. The promoters, a group of Brits and businessmen in Abu Dhabi, are f...