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Eight-man tournaments in the lightweight and middleweight divisions will be the focus of five editions of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" beginning on Feb. 21, the network announced on Tuesday.

Argenis Mendez is getting back his junior lightweight world title.

By Duke Pahulu: After Lamont Peterson’s solid rebound from his KO loss to Lucas Matthysee in 2013, the stage was set for Peterson to challenge Danny Garcia for his 140 Ring Title. Unlike most times when fighters are pu...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (January 30, 2014) – Hall of Famer “Iron” Mike Tyson is the youngest World Heavyweight Champion of all-time and in 1987 he was voted “World’s Most Popular Athlete.” The living legend bec...

By Hector Gonzalez: Let’s keep it real, most boxing fans don’t have a clue of what they are talking about when it comes to the sweet science. It’s not their fault really, it’s pretty simple. Most kids all over th...

By Scott Gilfoid: 33-year-old Rendall Munroe (27-3-1, 11 KO’s) is hoping that if he whips #6 WBC, #14 WBA, Lee Selby (17-1, 6 KO’s) this Saturday night that it’ll mean a second world title shot for him. Munroe and ...

(Photo credit: Hogan Photos) By Dan Ambrose: Whether former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-4-2, 22 KO’s) wants to admit it to himself or not his fight against Luis Collazo (34-5, 17 KO’s) is a do-or-die t...

Carl Frampton will face Hugo Cazares in a world title elimination bout on April 4.

Gennady Golovkin isn't the type of champion to sit on his belt.

By Robert "Big Moe" Elmore: Late great former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier planted three seeds into Marvin Hagler's mind. Frazier told Hagler he had three strikes going against him. The first was he was a southpaw. T...

Two junior female boxers from Attleborough Amateur Boxing Club started the 2014 season in style by each gaining a gold medal in The Golden Girl Championship in Boras, Sweden. Emma Dolan (15) and Lily Devlin (14) travelle...

Erik Skoglund (18-0, 9 KOs) will make the first defence of his EU Light Heavyweight title against Adasat Rodriguez (9-2-1, 6 KOs), the man known as ''El Toro'' (''The Bull'') in his native Spain, on Saturday night in Fre...

Banner Promotions and ESPN’s Friday Night Fight’s will team up this February to showcase a tournament that will develop boxing’s newest stars. The 2014 Boxcino Championships will be a single-elimination, two weight...

Cecilia Braekhus (23-0, 7 KOs) came face-to-face with her opponent Myriam Lamare (22-3, 10 KOs) for the first time at today's final press conference. Lamare will challenge the pound-for-pound number one for her WBC, WBA ...

This Friday night at the Richard J. Codey Arena in West Orange, New Jersey, Three members of the GH3 Promotions will be in action with two being featured in prominent fights as part of ESPN Friday Night Fight’s televis...

BoxNation subscribers get a chance to assess whether Kazakh crusher Gennady Golovkin is the most explosive puncher presently active in boxing - as many experts are suggesting - when he makes a ninth defence of his WBA Wo...

By Olly Campbell: Essentially its been a little quiet again on a British front, however this week we had Frank Warren hyping his proposed June rematch between Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora. Stateside, we have had a win f...

By Scott Gilfoid: While his important fight against Malik Scott (36-1-1, 13 KO’s) is still two months away, unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (30-0, 30 KO’s) is already discussing the March 15th match-up ...

By Chris Williams: WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (34-0, 28 KO’s) could be on the verge of facing his first real test of his career in Yuriorkis Gamboa (23-0, 16 KO’s). According to Steve Kim, Bob Arum...

Plotting a path to victory in Thursday's welterweight bout against Luis Collazo