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A little of this and a little of that from the world of boxing: • There's been a big shake-up behind the scenes at Golden Boy as chief executive Richard Schaefer recently announced a major restructuring of the staff of the world's No. 1...

Promoter/rap star Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson started off slowly in the promotional game. The first fight he was involved in was when he made a deal with Top Rank to put his top fighter, Yuriorkis Gamboa, on the HBO PPV undercard of Juan Manuel Marqu...

Marcos Maidana overwhelmed Josesito Lopez with a blitzkreig of power punches in Carson, Calif., while Adonis Stevenson required just one punch to blast out Chad Dawson and take the lineal 175-pound title.

Lightweight Darleys Perez was on the worldwide stage as an amateur when he was in the 2008 Olympics for Colombia. Now he will be on the biggest stage of his professional career. Perez will face Yuriorkis Gamboa, a 2004 Cuban Olympic gold medalist,...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Thursday, we're going inside the boxing ring when Yuriorkis stops by to chat about his lightweight title fight this weekend. Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO) takes on Darleys Perez (28-0, 19 KO) for the vacant WBA interim lightweig...

A few updates on some upcoming fights: • Former unified featherweight titlist and interim junior lightweight titleholder Yuriorkis Gamboa has never fought at lightweight, but when he makes his debut in the 135-pound division he will be ...

There are two big fight cards on June 8. A Showtime tripleheader from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., will be headlined by the welterweight clash between Marcos Maidana and Josesito Lopez, and also will feature two junior middleweight fi...

As an amateur fighter, Darley Perez was a 2008 Olympian for his native Colombia. As a professional, he is undefeated but a bit too old to still be called a prospect and not proven enough yet to be called a contender. But now that Perez (28-0, 19 K...

Yuriorkis Gamboa, a former unified featherweight titleholder and current interim junior lightweight titlist, is moving up in weight again.

Three notes from the fistic world: • Interim junior lightweight titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa is supposed to fight June 8, but it has not been easy for promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and HBO to finalize the opponent. Gamboa is supposed to...

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...

If Adrien Broner is as good as some say he is, why doesn't he step up to fight the best and prove it? Admittedly, there are complications with all of them, but here are nine Broner matches we'd love to see.

NEW YORK -- Welterweight titlist Timothy Bradley Jr. is supposed to be back in action March 16 and Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has been saying it's going to be a big-name opponent, but he won't say who. But from what I am told, Top Rank has a deal ...

Juan Manuel Marquez, seeking his first victory over longtime rival Manny Pacquiao, delivered the most convincing and emphatic ending of their four fights Saturday in Las Vegas with an explosive one-punch KO.

Five things we learned from Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV card in Las Vegas.

Yuriorkis Gamboa returned from a 15-month layoff Saturday in Las Vegas to receive a stiff challenge -- and even a knockdown -- from Michael Farenas, but grinded out a tough points victory.