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From the Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas for tomorrow night’s card on Fox Sports en Espanol, promoted by Top Rank. Hernan ‘Tyson’ Marquez 113.5 vs. Richie Mepranum 112.25 Samuel Peter 237.5 vs. Nagy Aguilera 230.5 read more ...

ALBERT SOSNOWSKI has pulled the plug on his European title showdown with Audley Harrison — in favour of a crack at Vitali Klitschko. Sosnowski was due to defend his crown against Harrison at London's Alexandra Palace on April 9 read more ...

The World Boxing Association will make a decision by next week regarding the controversial fight between Gabriel Campillo and Beibut Shumenov. The WBA will review arguments submitted by representatives of both fighters after observing the video read more ...

Moments ago Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer informed Boxingtalk.com that world lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez will defend his titles on the targeted date of July 10 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Several opponents are under consideration, but none have been solidified read more ...

In a very smart move, HBO and Top Rank have reached an agreement to keep Miguel Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman from heading to pay-per-view. Arum confirmed the information to noted Puerto Rico scribe Carlos Gonzalez. The fight will take place on June 5 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York read more ...

Looks like a showdown between WBA lightweight champion Paulus Moses of Namibia (25-0, 17 KOs) and WBA interim lightweight champion Miguel Acosta of Venezuela (26-3-2, 20 KOs) will be happening in May. No specific date has been singled out yet, but Caracas, Venezuela is the likely site for the read more ...

WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko can't believe the seven-foot giant, former champion Nikolai Valuev, turned down an offer of $2.5 million for a fight. The two sides have been negoiating for several weeks. The offer began at $1 million and then went to $2 million and ended with $2.5 million read more ...

Trainer Freddie Roach is not worried about much when it comes to Manny Pacquiao's WBO welterweight title defense on Saturday night against Joshua Clottey. Roach is confident he knows Clottey's style like a book. He says the former champion from Ghana has big holes that Pacquiao will exploit with boxing and movement read more ...

With the knockout streak out of the way and a Canadian championship safely in hand, unbeaten David Lemieux (21-0, 20 KOs) defends his super-middleweight belt versus rugged Walid Smichet (20-6-3, 14 KOs) on April 3 in what will be the final Casino de Montreal show for quite some time. Lemieux was able to reel off twenty straight knockouts before being forced to go the distance in winning the Canadian crown versus Jason Naugler read more ...

A purse bid procedure was held at the IBF headquarters today to determine who will promote the IBF middleweight championship mandatory defense fight. There were only two bidders, Bash Boxing, Inc and Sauerland Event GmbH. Bash Boxing won with a bid of $ 616,515 and Sauerland Event GmbH bid $ 521,414. The purse bid split will be 75% to the reigning champion Sebastian Sylvester (33-3, 16 KOs) of Germany and 25% to IBF #1 mandatory challenger Roman Karmazin (40-3-1, 26 KOs) of Russia read more ...