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On Wednesday, ESPN's "First Take" debated Floyd Mayweather's statements on his legacy. Mayweather, in reponse to a question about Manny Pacquiao's loss to Juan Manuel Marquez, which makes a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight less...

Bernardo Osuna New On-Site, Bi-Lingual Reporter for ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes ESPN’s Friday Night Fights presented by Corona Extra will return January 4 at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN2 HD and ESPN Deportes with a new studio ...

By Scott Gilfoid: Well, I knew it would happen. WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KO’s) won’t be fighting WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (25-0, 21 KO’s) anytime soon, if ever. Bu...

By Allan Fox: WBA World heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (25-0, 17 KO’s) and his promotional company Sauerland Events are pretty happy right now after learning that the World Boxing Association has ordered ...

By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (27-3, 19 KO’s) is saying that his next fight in April of 2013 will be for a world title at light welterweight, and he then plans on fighting ...

WBF Vice President Jean Marcel Nartz today announced that the World Boxing Federation have renewed their affiliation with the Malta Boxing Commission (MBC), now presided over by two-division, two-weight world champion St...

By Scott Gilfoid: The unbeaten heavyweight talent Deontay Wilder (26-0, 26 KO’s) showed why he’s so heavily hyped by boxing experts last Saturday night in his 3rd round destruction of previously unbeaten Ke...

By Chris Williams: I think it’s pointless in Manny Pacquiao fighting Juan Manuel Marquez for a 5th fight. Marquez’s is simply too much for the Filipino now, and it’s only going to be even worse for h...

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Based on the success of CBS' boxing event Saturday, we should see more cards on network TV.

By Chris Williams: WBA World super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux’s manager Gary Hyde says he’s been given a promise by Top Rank Promotion Bob Arum that he’ll set up a fight between Rigon...

By Chris Williams: Bob Arum’s plans to match former WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios (31-0-1, 23 KO’s) up against Manny Pacquiao in early April next year were foiled with Pacquiao’s knocko...

By Robert Elmore: Everyone is still shocked about Manny Pacquiao getting knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez. Shortly after, as I thought would happen, people have come forth saying Floyd Mayweather should have done this ...

By Ed Hoyle: Over the past five years, Britain has produced an unprecedented nucleus of raw talented boxers. The current up and coming stable of fighters seemingly destined to one day grace the American canvas; Carl Fram...

By Scott Gilfoid: WBC Silver super middleweight champion James DeGale (14-1, 9 KO’s) has decided to vacate his EBU super middleweight title that he had held for the past year. DeGale had to give up one of the stra...

World Boxing Federation World Super Middleweight Champion Marco Antonio Rubio, 55-6-1 (48), will defend his title on December 22 at the Auditorio del Bicentenario in Morelia, Mexico against fellow countryman Michel Rosal...

By Jamil Akram: The IBF super middleweight World champion “The Cobra” Carl Froch is confident that his private life will not affect his performance against Mikkel Kessler when they meet in an epic grudge matc...

By Chris Miller: What happened on that day was disgusting, god bless all the victims that were harmed or hurt. I do believe Amir Khan would be more loved if he were a fighter in his prime beofre 9/11, the reason I am ...

By Peter Broderick: A premature retirement in 2007 after a stellar career, turned out to just be a 2 year sabbatical for Floyd Mayweather jr. There is no doubt in my mind, (or most other people’s in fact) that he ...

By Dan Ambrose: Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (46-1-1, 32 KO’s) may be the next big name fighter that jumps ship and dumps trainer Freddie Roach, according to fightnews.com A source has r...

By Scott Gilfoid: After IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch finishes running the gauntlet in bouts against Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler, Adonis Stevenson and Andre Ward, he says he wouldn’t mind facing EBU s...

By Jim Dower: Promoter Gary Shaw won the purse bid for the title defense of IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KO’s) for his fight against former WBO light welterweight champion Kendall Ho...