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By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (32-2-1, 23 KOs) suffered a shoulder and eye injury on Saturday night in winning a 9th round disqualification victory over Diego Chaves (23-2, 19 KOs) at the C...

By Jim Dower: WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (25-0-1, 23 KOs) did his part to earn his unification match against IBF/WBA light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs) by crushing challenger B...

By C. Noriega: Those who have followed the sweet science for a while have watched bad fights, good fights, and very good fights. Despite the popular belief, being a gladiator in this sport doesn’t exactly mean the boxe...

By Allan Fox: The tough Argentinian fighter Diego Chaves (23-2, 19 KOs) says he absolutely wants a rematch against former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (32-2-1, 23 KOs), and that he's willing to fight him anywher...

By Gav Duthie: There are some fighters who are so revered that they can have their opponent beaten before they even step in the ring. FEAR can be a boxers greatest weapon but it can also be a major obstacle. Some of our ...

By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, the promoter for Brandon Rios (32-2-1, 23 KOs), says that visiting fighter Diego Chaves (23-2, 19 KOs) was disqualified last night by referee Vic Drakulich for having thrown...

By Dan Ambrose: In re-watching last night's controversial fight between Brandon Rios (32-2-1, 23 KOs) and Argentinian Diego Chaves (23-2, 19 KOs), it appears that referee Vic Drakulich took Rios' word that he'd been thum...

By Allan Fox: Last night we saw IBF/WBA light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs) show flashes of what appeared to be irritation when he was interviewed by HBO commentator Max Kellerman about his chance...

Brandon Rios won by disqualification against Diego Chaves when the fight was stopped in Round 9 on Friday night.

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In the much-anticipated WBO Light Heavyweight World Championship bout, Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (25-0-1, 23 KO’s*) takes down undefeated Australian challenger Blake “Il Capo” Caparello (19-1-1, 6 KO’s) in the...

Light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev punched his ticket to the biggest fight of his career by knocking out unheralded underdog Blake Caparello in the second round on Saturday night in Ovation Hall at the Revel Casino...

Jessie Vargas won a unanimous decision over Anton Novikov to retain his WBA World Light Welterweight title on Saturday.

Sergey Kovalev successfully defended his WBO light-heavyweight title Saturday night, stopping Australian challenger Blake Caparello in the second round at Revel Casino-Hotel.

By Dan Ambrose: In a fight that was filled by fouling by both fighters, Brandon Rios (32-2, 23 KOs) defeated Diego Chaves (23-2, 19 KOs) by a 9th round disqualification tonight at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, in Las Ve...

(Photo Credit: Rich Graessle/Main Events) By Jim Dower: In a predictable outcome, WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (25-0-1, 23 KOs) destroyed the light hitting fringe contender Blake Caparello (19-1-1, 6 KOs...

By Scott Gilfoid: Andre Dirrell (22-1, 15 KOs) put the super middleweight division on notice last night in taking apart a guy with a nearly unbreakable chin in Vladine Biosse (15-5-2, 7 KOs) in getting a 5th round TKO at...

(Photo credit: Ed Mulholland/HBO) By Chris Williams: The winner of tonight's fight between Diego Chaves (23-1, 19 KOs) and Brandon Rios (31-2-1, 23 KOs) won't be getting a world title shot, of course, but they could face...

By Gav Duthie: The heavyweight division has been dominated in one way or another by a single individual for 15 years since Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in 1999. From the invention of boxing in the late 1800s t...