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When light heavyweight contenders Tony Bellew of England and Isaac Chilemba of South Africa met on March 30 for the right to become the mandatory challenger to world champion Chad Dawson, they fought to an unsatisfying draw in England in a dreadful f...

Former two-division world champion Vic Darchinyan knocked out Javier Gallo in the fourth round Saturday.

Former two-division world champion Vic Darchinyan, now campaigning as a junior featherweight, signed this week with Top Rank and will make his debut with the company on May 11.

Former Puerto Rican world champion boxer Wilfredo Gomez is in critical condition in a hospital following respiratory failure, a family spokesman said Wednesday.

Laila Ali has always had a plan to support herself, both before her boxing career, as a manicurist, and now in retirement, developing her own hair- and skin-care products.

Gary Russell Jr. isn't sweating his slow track to stardom, perhaps because the fast-handed featherweight prospect says he's ready to step up his level of competition and turn in his biggest year yet.

Hundreds of fans of Hector "Macho" Camacho turned out Friday for the public wake in the neighborhood where the slain former world champion fighter grew up in New York.

Family, fans and fellow boxers said goodbye Tuesday to Hector "Macho" Camacho at a memorial and wake for the slain former world champion fighter known for his flamboyance in and out of the ring.

Hector "Macho" Camacho will be taken off life support, his mother said Friday night, indicating she would have doctors do that Saturday. It was a decision the former championship boxer's eldest son opposed.

After a devastating loss to Manny Pacquiao in 2009, Ricky Hatton went into depression and even tried to take his own life. Now he's back in the ring to exorcise his demons.

Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez is making plans to defend the world title in a homecoming fight on April 27 before a possible rematch with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. next fall.

Carmen Basilio, a genial onion farmer's son who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 and lost an equally epic, razor-edge rematch six months later, died Wednesday at age 85.

Middleweight world champion Sergio Martinez has decided he will have surgery.

The California State Athletic Commission, by a 4-1 vote on Monday, upheld the one-year suspension it gave to former light heavyweight world champion Antonio Tarver in June after he tested positive for the anabolic steroid drostanolone.

Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton came out of retirement on Friday, seeking redemption following a loss by Manny Pacquiao in 2009 that sent the Briton into retirement and his life to "mush."

Now that he's a lightweight champion, Antonio DeMarco wants to stay on top for a long time. The next step begins with his first title defense, against John Molina on Saturday in Oakland, Calif.