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It has been some time since Brian Vera has been considered anything better than an even-money bet in a big fight. Although his new role might take some getting used to, it also means that he must be doing something right. Vera, coming off three st...

Junior middleweight wrecking ball Lucas Matthysse delivered his fifth consecutive knockout with a first-round finish of Mike Dallas Jr. on Saturday in Las Vegas.

VERONA, N.Y. -- Brian Vera is no stranger to derailing his opponent's best-laid plans. An exciting, go-for-broke fighter, he has turned the role of spoiler into something of a calling card over the course of his career. Vera rallied to stop then-u...

Boxing returns to Verona, N.Y., on Friday when middleweight contender Sergiy Dzinziruk, seeking to nail down a title shot by the end of the year, gloves up in the main event against rawhide-tough spoiler Brian Vera. ESPN2 and WatchESPN will televi...

On Sept. 1, junior middleweight prospect Johnathan Gonzalez got a huge opportunity to step up in competition and face former titleholder Sergiy Dzinziruk on HBO. Instead of taking advantage, Gonzalez blew it big time and left his career in tatters...

A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:...

Middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin, anxious to strut his considerable stuff for an American television audience, was supposed to fight Dmitry Pirog, one of the best 160-pounders in the world, on Aug. 25 in an HBO main event. That was, however, unt...

Promoters Gary Shaw and Artie Pelullo are close to finalizing a doubleheader that would feature a middleweight unification bout between Daniel Geale and Dmitry Pirog and a junior middleweight title bout between Austin Trout and Sergiy Dzinziruk.

With money left in the till, Showtime is planning a New Year's Eve bash that could include a host of titlists, former belt holders and rising prospects on a loaded card.

Is it possible to be too good? Maybe not, but middleweight champion Sergio Martinez's recent run of destruction has left him with a dwindling (and ducking?) handful of suitable foes.

Middleweight world champion Sergio Martinez, who scored five knockdowns and destroyed Sergiy Dzinziruk en route to an eighth-round knockout Saturday night, is now back in the same boat he was in after scoring the 2010 knockout of year against Paul Wi...

Sergio Martinez is simply in a zone right now, fighting as well as anybody in the world as he continues to rise on the pound-for-pound list.

Sergio Martinez took away Sergiy Dzinziruk's jab, penetrated his defense with ease and knocked him down five times en route an overwhelming eighth-round knockout.

Sergio Martinez stopped Sergiy Dzinziruk in the eighth round, knocking down the Ukrainian middleweight three times Saturday night at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Casino.

ESPN Mobile's Brian Campbell will be chatting at 9:30pm ET during the undercard leading up to the main event of world middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KOs) vs. 154-pound title holder Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KOs) from the MGM Grand...

Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez will be without trainer Gabriel Sarmiento in his corner when he defends the title against junior middleweight titlist Sergiy Dzinziruk.