BoxingScene.com caught up with former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron, who faces Carlos Molina on Saturday in the co-feature bout to the Brandon Rios-Urbano Antillon main event read more ...

Middleweight contender Matt Korobov, 15-0, of Orotukan, Russia is working out at the Top Rank Gym in Las Vegas. Korobov is wiring in for a fight against Lester Gonzalez, 12-3-2, of San Diego on the Rios vs. Antillon title card on July 9. «We’re in tough against Gonzalez,» said Cameron Dunkin, manager of Korobov. «In the fall we are looking for a real big fight.» read more ...

In an important IBF jr. bantamweight eliminator, IBF #3 Raul ‘La Cobrita’ Martinez (28-1, 16 KOs) won a twelve round split decision over IBF #2 Rodrigo Guerrero (14-3-1, 9 KOs) on Saturday night at the WinStar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. It was a hard fought affair from start to end read more ...

From the Palms Hotel Casino in Las Vegas: For the IBF/WBA world featherweight titles: Yuriorkis Gamboa 126 vs. Orlando Salido 126 WBA world lightweight title eliminator: Brandon Rios 135 vs. Anthony Peterson 134 read more ...

World champion Yurikoris Gamboa, who usually trains in Miami, is off to the Fight Factory in Tampa, Fla. He is preparing to take on champion Orlando Salido of Mexico on Top Rank’s ‘Battle of the Champions’ on September 11 at the Palms Resort Casino, Las Vegas. Gamboa, 18-0, usually trains in Miami. “It’s a big fight and we wanted to get away and do it right,” said chief trainer Tony Gonzalez read more ...

Unbeaten WBA #6/WBO #8/IBF #10/WBC #15 welterweight Mike Jones (21-0, 17 KOs) scored a fifth round stoppage over Hector Munoz (18-3-1, 11 KOs). Jones punished Munoz the entire fight and referee Benjy Estevez finally waved it off at 2:03 of the fifth. Jones retained his NABA belt and added the NABO belt read more ...

Russian middleweight Matt Korobov today was added to the Kelly Pavlik vs. Sergio Martinez fight card April 17 in Atlantic City, N.J. Korobov, 10-0, is coming off his best win, a blast of hard punches and a first-round stoppage over Lamar Harris on Feb. 13. "Korobov took out a pretty strong fighter real quick in that one," said Brad Goodman, matchmaker for Top Rank read more ...

WBA interim super flyweight interim champion Nonito Donaire (23-1, 15 KOs) scored a third round KO over late sub Manuel ‘Chango’ Vargas (26-5-1, 11 KOs) in a non-title bout on Saturday night at the famous Las Vegas Hilton Hotel/Casino. Donaire was in command all the way before laying out Vargas for the count with a left uppercut at 1:33. After original challenger Gerson Guerrero failed his physical read more ...

In a wildly entertaining bout Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter (33-3, 26 KOs) scored a fourth round TKO over 363lb Gabe “Big G” Brown (18-13-4, 12 KOs) at 2:58. Although Peter dominated the action, Brown’s antics won the night as he taunted the former world champion repeatedly. After eating a hard punch, Brown proceeded to stick out his chin and absorb four clean shots only to call for more. After being knocked down read more ...

Top Rank’s hot Olympian middleweight prospect Matt Korobov (8-0, 6 KOs) took a one-sided six round unanimous decision over James Winchester (10-3, 3 KOs). Scores were 60-54 on all cards read more ...