Despite not being as successful as his weight class jumping contemporaries Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto has beaten them to the punch by gaining a world title shot at 160 pounds. The 33 year old Puerto Rican star challenges WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez on June 7 …

It was an awkward, messy and difficult to score fight last evening at Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico as Philadelphia’s Danny Garcia retained his WBC and WBA light welterweight belts via majority decision over California’s Mauricio Herrera. Herrera fought the first four rounds on the backfoot, maintaining distance …

WBC/WBA light welter champ Danny Garcia is fighting three opponents tonight at Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico: Maurico Herrera, distraction and pressure. The Philadelphian has been short-listed to face Floyd Mayweather Jr later this year, a monumental distraction to the task at hand, and with the added pressure …

The middleweight division’s ruler makes another appearance in Monaco as Gennady Golovkin puts his WBA crown at risk tonight against the challenge of Osumanu Adama at Salle des Etoiles in Monte Carlo. Golovkin, 28-0 (25), returns to the same arena where he belted out Nobuhiro Ishida in three rounds just …

Spain’s only world champion, IBF super bantam king Kiko Martinez, will look to make the first defense of his unlikely reign this evening when he meets South Africa’s Jeffrey Mathebula over 12 scheduled rounds in the 2,000 seat arena Pabellon Esperanza Lag in the Valencian city of Elche. Where do …

Reigning WBC cruiserweight champ Krzysfor Wlodarczyk of Poland faced of against Italy’s Giacobbe Fragomeni in a third clash between the pair as they met last night at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago, IL. They first met in Italy in 2009, with the much shorter Fragomeni hitting the canvas in the …

It was the night of the iron fist in Quebec City, Canada last night as light heavyweight world champions Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev ended the challenges of Tony Bellew and Ismayl Sillakh in devastating fashion at Colisee Quebec. Englishman Bellew, 20-2-1 (12), started strong by going after Haitian born …

In the first round, Rios adopted the Juan Manuel Marquez strategy of hanging back and looking for the right hand counter but lacking the Mexican icon’s quickness and precision counter-punching abilities, was on the receiving end of Manny Pacquiao left hands to the head and body. Brandon Rios reverted to …

The biggest fight in the world this weekend takes place at the Cotai Arena in Macao, China and marks the much awaited return of Boxing’s former top man, Manny Pacquiao, who meets brash American brawler Brandon Rios over 12 scheduled rounds for the vacant WBO International welterweight strap. Both Pacquiao, …

After waiting about two years as a mandatory challenger to Wladimir Klitschko, who holds damn near every title belt in the division, heavyweight Alexander Povetkin finally gets his shot at “Dr. Steelhammer” on Saturday night at The Olympiyskiy in Moscow. That’s homeground for the Chekov-based Povetkin, 26-0 (18), but that …

As Saturday night turned into Sunday morning, somewhere high above the Nevada desert came the distant wail of millions of people who shelled out for the Floyd Mayweather vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez pay-per-view telecast on the misguided assumption that it would be a competitive affair. Perhaps they were smoking the …

As far as title challenges go, for Jose Nieves at Tokyo’s Ota City General Gymnasium last night it was the good, the bad and the ugly all rolled into one, with the good expiring the minute he stepped into the ring. The numerical won-loss record, 22-2-3 (11), of Nieves going …