Maidana moved up to welterweight for the fight, as did Alexander, and was toyed with. Now back at junior welterweight to defend his belt, Maidana (31-3, 28 KOs), the big puncher from Argentina, has been in Oxnard, Calif., working with new trainer Robert Garcia and looking forward to a return to action later this summer against an opponent to be determined read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised that Andre Berto has failed one of his random drug tests that were issued by VADA [Voluntary Anti Drug Association]. Berto’s A and B samples were confirmed to have had traces of nandrolone. Historically, 80% of anabolic steroid positives from 1998-2003 were for nandrolone as a result of a contaminated supplement not injection read more ...

Former World Champion Victor Ortiz, Former Three-Division World Champion Humberto Soto, President of Golden Boy Promotions Oscar De la Hoya and former World Champion Andre Berto pose on April 16, 2012 in Los Angeles, California at the press conference to officially announce Ortiz’s and Berto’s June 23, 2012 rematch at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and Soto’s fight against top rated super lightweight contender Lucas Matthysse in the co-feature, both of which will be televised live on SHOWTIME Championship Boxing read more ...

For those of you who were thrilled to see Andre Berto get back into the ring against Victor Ortiz for the second time, and then let down by the new of Berto’s injury causing the fight cancellation, don’t you worry, the fight is on for June 30, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas read more ...

As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Andre Berto (28-1, 22KOs) suffered a left arm injury on Monday while training at the Ten Goose Gym in Van Nuys, California. Berto was preparing for his scheduled welterweight rematch with fellow former champion Victor Ortiz(29-3-2, 22KOs) read more ...

Victor Ortiz has no problem with submitting random blood and urine samples during training camp. The former WBC welterweight champion admits it took some getting used to last summer, but he has grown accustomed to the process now that he is in the middle of his second straight camp that required random submissions read more ...

Victor Ortiz handed Andre Berto his first pro defeat earlier this year in a fight that many experts called a "Fight of the Year" candidate. Both fighters hit the deck in a very exciting bout that took place in Connecticut and was televised by HBO read more ...

Larry Merchant was still full of piss and vinegar the day after Floyd Mayweather sucker punched his way to victory against Victor Ortiz. Among many others, Merchant said «Pretty Boy» Floyd is a «prima donna» and definitely not a crowd-pleaser — at least last night. As for Merchant’s claim he could have kicked Mayweather’s butt 50 years ago — let’s put it this way ... the day after Larry made the comment, he wised up read more ...

Referee Joe Cortez has received a lot of criticism from the fans and the boxing media, with nearly all of his critics being upset over the veteran referee’s performance in last Saturday’s controversial fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. During the fourth round, Ortiz apologized to Mayweather for intentionally using his head read more ...

Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather (42-0, 26 KOs) scored a fourth round KO over WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-3-2, 22 KOs) in round four on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Ortiz had a good round two, but Floyd was back in charge in the third. Aftyer a head butt in round four, Cortez broke the action. Mayweather then knocked out Ortiz while he was apologizing with two shots in round four read more ...