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WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach want a piece of Floyd Mayweather Jr. After Pacquiao dominated Joshua Clottey for twelve rounds on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, they both called for a fight with Mayweather. Both Pacquiao and Roach expect Mayweather to decision WBA champion Shane Mosley on May 1 in Las Vegas read more ...

WBO welterweight champion and pound-for-pound superstar Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision against former IBF champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KOs) in front of 50,994 on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. From the opening bell, Pacman outworked Clottey in every round. Pacquiao outpunched Clottey at a 3:1 clip as the Ghanian spent long periods read more ...

At Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Humberto Soto (51-7-2, 32KOs) won a unanimous twelve round decision over David Diaz (35-3-1, 17KOs) to win the vacant WBC lightweight title. The scores were 115-111, 117-109 and 117-109 read more ...

Jose Luis Castillo (60-10-1), a one time lightweight king and once considered as one of the best pound for pound fighters in boxing, announced his retirement after the loss to Alfonso Gomez on the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey undercard at Cowboys Stadium in Texas. Castillo is only 36-years-old but he went through many wars during his pro career, including the war with Diego Corrales in 2005 read more ...

WBO cruiserweight champion Marco “Kapt’n” Huck (28-1, 21 KOs) scored an exciting third round TKO over Adam “Swamp Donkey” Richards (23-3, 15 KOs) on Saturday night at the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin. Huck was in command from the beginning, but the aggressive Richards made a good fight out of it. Huck finally put Richards on the canvas in round three and referee Marc Nelson waved it off after Huck’s violent follow up assault. Time was 2:30 read more ...

At Max Schmeling Halle in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany, Marco Huck defends his WBO cruiserweight title against Adam Richards in the main event. In the co-feature, IBF heavyweight mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin (19-0, 14KOs) stopped Javier Mora (28-6, 18KOs) in five rounds read more ...

Former middleweight title challenger Giovanni “Chico Malo” Lorenzo (28-2, 20 KOs) returned on Friday night for the first time since dropping a split decision to Sebastian Sylvester in an IBF title clash last September. Lorenzo knocked out Wilmer Gonzalez (17-9-1, 11 KOs) in round two of a bout held at the Sosua Bay Grand Casino in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic read more ...

It´s official: WBA feather champ Yuriorkis "El Ciclon" Gamboa take on Argentinian Jonathan Victor Barros March 27 in Hamburg. Gamboa vs Barros headlines this Arena promotion along with the heavyweight clash between Steffen Kretschmann and Dennis Bakhtov. On the undercard heavyweight Juan Carlos Gomez, former WBC cruiser king and last seen challenging Vitali Klitschko, squares off against Ukrainian Alex Mazikin. read more ...

Manny Pacquiao 145.75 vs Joshua Clottey 147 (WBO welterweight championship) David Diaz 134 vs Humberto Soto 134.2 (WBC lightweight championship) Michael Medina 155.5 vs John Duddy 160 Alfonso Gomez 145 vs Jose Luis Castillo 144 read more ...

Here are the weights from Berlin ahead of Team Sauerland´s show at the Max-Schmeling-Halle on Saturday night. Today´s weigh-in took place inside Berlin´s famous central railway station where WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco Huck and challenger Adam Richards needed to be restrained following a little pre-fight bust-up read more ...