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During a recent interview with the Newark Star-Ledger, WBC junior middleweight champ Floyd Mayweather, Jr. touched on the subject of a bout with unbeaten WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. Mayweather told the paper that it's premature to talk about a fight with Cotto. He views Cotto as a good fighter, but also says Cotto makes way too many mistakes to ever beat him read more ...

WBC junior middleweight champ Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is already talking up a rematch with Oscar De La Hoya. In a recent interview with the Associated Press , Mayweather said a rematch with Oscar would be even better than the original because they can fight toe-to-toe. Following the split-decision win over De La Hoya on May 5 in Las Vegas, Mayweather announced his retirement, but vowed to return for a De La Hoya read more ...

Conservatively dressed in a sober gray suit. But also sporting a Stars and Stripes tie and matching handkerchief, a noticeably slimmer Don King drew a jostling crowed of Mexican reporters like bees to a honey pot, and with an occasional flourish of his unlit cigar, he couldn’t resist raising the tasty prospect of a re-match between Oscar and Tito read more ...

First to speak was a disturbed Golden Boy Promotions CEO, Richard Schaefer who took the mic with an official media copy of the Nevada State Athletic Commission's official scorecard. Much to the dismay of vocal Mayweather supporters in the crowd, Schaefer pointed out an error in the copy of the scorecards read more ...

Shortly after Floyd Mayweather, Jr. was declared the winner of Saturday's fight against Oscar De Le Hoya by way of a split decision, De La Hoya told reporters that the decision should have gone the other way because he did enough to win the fight. Judges Chuck Giampa and Jerry Roth had it for Mayweather, with scores of 116-112 and 115-113. Tom Kaczmarek read more ...

WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (38-0, 24 KOs) won a twelve round split decision over WBC super welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya (38-5, 30 KOs) on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Floyd had the edge in a slow round one, but De La Hoya upped the pressure to win round two. After an opening flurry in round three, Oscar wasn't as aggressive and Floyd picked him apart. De La Hoya read more ...

"I beat the best that they put in front of me in my era," Mayweather (37-0, 24 KOs) said. "Every time I make an A-class fighter look like D-class fighter, (the media) doesn't want to give me the props I really deserve. I didn't live in the Muhammad Ali era. I didn't live in Sugar Ray Robinson's era. This is Floyd Mayweather's era. I can only beat the guys they put in front of me." read more ...

Unbeaten IBO jr welterweight champion Ricky Hatton says Oscar De La Hoya will "use his size and reach" to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday night. What's more, 'The Hitman' is targeting the winner. "If I had the choice I think I'd like to fight De La Hoya," Hatton told Sky Sports. "He's just a massive, massive name. He's not just a modern-day legend, looking at all the world titles he's won, he's a legend. read more ...

After three months of verbal sparring, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya are just about ready to shut up and fight. Boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter and its most popular champion said little to spark controversy or antagonize each other Wednesday at the largest media gathering before their fight for De La Hoya's WBC 154-pound title Saturday night. read more ...

Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather meet at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday for what has the potential to be the richest fight in boxing history. Six-weight world champion De la Hoya is defending his WBC light middleweight belt against the unbeaten Mayweather, a world champion at four weights. read more ...