Within the last week the World Boxing Organisation has announced that three weight World Champion and future Hall of Famer Juan Manuel Marquez has decided to vacate their “full” Lightweight title to campaign as a Welterweight, according to a recent statement that was released by the WBO.

Also contained within their statement, Marquez has demanded that he would vacate the Lightweight title on the condition that he would be made the WBO number 1 challenger at Welterweight.

Both requests that Marquez made were accepted by the WBO in their recent board meeting, which could potentially result in a fourth fight with Manny Pacquiao.

The actions of Marquez, who has not defended his WBO Lightweight title since stopping tough Australian brawler Michael Katsidis in nine rounds back in November 2010, could clear the way for Coatbridge’s Ricky Burns, who incidentally outpointed Katsidis, to be potentially upgraded from “interim” World Champion status.

Burns gets a chance to cement his reputation as a world class fighter at Lightweight when he faces Namibia's former WBA Champion Paulus Moses in March at Glasgow's Braehead Arena while Marquez's move to 147 pounds will potentially secure a fourth world title at a different weight, ideally following in the footsteps of his countryman Erik Morales.

Also within this statement, the WBO’s Cruiserweight Champion Marco Huck has been given permission to step up to Heavyweight to fight WBA Champion Alexander Povetkin in Stuttgart next month. However, once that bout is over Huck has 10 days to decide whether to carry on fighting at Heavyweight and therefore relinquish his title or return to Cruiserweight, regardless of the outcome of the Povetkin fight.

The February 24 Friday Night Fights series at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino at Rollins Center Arena features a new event on the card.

Super featherweights Juan Carlos “Miniburgos” Burgos (28-1, 19 KOs) and Cristobal “Lacandón” Cruz (39-12-3, 23 KOs ) will go head to head for the WBC Silver title in a 10-round bout. More...

Ken Egan will meet Joe Ward in next Friday's Irish Daily Star sponsored Irish Elite Championships light-heavyweight final.

Egan set up the "battle of the southpaws" after Eamon Walsh retired in round two of last night's semi-final at the National Stadium in Dublin with a facial injury. More...

Hatton Promotions exciting new signing - Zhanat Zhakiyanov, knocked out Thai rival - Noppadol Khongchana, in the first round to claim the WBC Asian bantamweight title on Friday night. More...

At age 21, Saul Alvarez is an up-and-coming young boxer who has the potential to become one of the greatest fighters that this sport has ever seen in the light middleweight division.

Already in his young career, Alvarez has headlined two separate HBO broadcasts in the last year. After a dominating win against the heavy hitting Kermit Cintron, the boxing world is speculating about who the next opponent for Alvarez could be?

Let's try to see if we can figure out who his next opponent could be and who his next opponent should be.

There has been widespread speculation that World Boxing Association champion Miguel Cotto is interested in a possible fight with Alvarez.

This clash is reportedly being negotiated but nothing has been finalized yet. If these two fighters do meet, it would make for an incredible power puncher's duel.

Most likely this fight would take place in New York City and Cotto would be getting the bigger purse share. However, I'm not so sure this fight would take place as I think, and possibly so does Cotto, that Alvarez is a much stronger and technical fighter than he is used to.

At 5'9, Alvarez is a slightly taller than the Cotto, who stands at 5'7; Alvarez could have too much youth and power which means that we could see Cotto take another beating.

I would be surprised if Cotto took this fight because he hasn’t fought a really dangerous opponent since his bout with Manny Pacquiao in 2009. Also, there have been reports that Pacquiao's wife, Jinkee, has confirmed that a Cotto and Pacquiao rematch is currently being discussed. More...

Carl Frampton says he thrives on the pressure to perform, as he defends his Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight title against Kris Hughes at a sold-out York Hall, Bethnal Green, tomorrow night (January 28) live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1 from 9pm.

The 24 year-old Belfast boy is aiming to extend his unbeaten record to 12 fights as he tackles the Scotsman – also 24 – who is fighting for the title for the second time having lost to Jamie Arthur in October 2010. More...

Vicente Escobedo has fought all over the world, represented his country in the Olympics and fought some of the best fighters in the sport throughout his career, but the one thing the top junior lightweight contender has never done is compete in his hometown as a professional. More...

Scott Quigg has been boosted by the possibility of a mouth-watering domestic clash against Rendall Munroe later this year.

British super-bantamweight Quigg had hoped to meet the former Commonwealth and European champion in his first defence next week. More...

To round out the Showtime Championship Boxing tripleheader headlined by the highly-anticipated rematch between Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto, Golden Boy Promotions and DiBella Entertainment have announced two more high-impact fights from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. on Saturday, Feb. 11. More...

Joe Ward advanced to the light-heavyweight final at the 2012 Irish Daily Star sponsored Elite Senior Championships at Dublin's National Stadium tonight.

The current European and Irish champion recorded a 17-4 victory over Davey Joe Joyce to book his ticket into next Friday's 81Kg final. More...

Irish amateur sensation - Ryan Burnett - has signed a long-term promotional deal with Hatton Promotions.

The Belfast teenager is one of Ireland’s most decorated amateurs of recent times and has already moved to Manchester where he is being trained by Ricky Hatton. More...

Carl Frampton’s Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight title defence at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Saturday 28 January against Kris Hughes is completely sold out.

The unbeaten 24 year-old belt-holder tackles the Scotsman live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1 in the first defence of the title he claimed in September with a clinical four-round stoppage of Australian Mark Quon at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. More...

The Ukrainian Vycheslav Senchenko, WBA Welterweight Champion, will make his fourth title defense against the challenger Paul Malignaggi, in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine in April.

The Purse Bid was directed by Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, WBA Vice-president, and supervised by Aurelio Fiengo WBA Championships Vice-chairman. More...

Star Boxing and Times Union Center officials are pleased to announce that Wishing Well Pictures has chosen the arena to film scenes for their upcoming boxing film "The Challenger".

Filming will begin on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at the KO at the TU Boxing event. Boxing fans in attendance for the event, whose main event features Joe "The Future" Hanks (18-0, 12KO's) vs. Rafeal "The Cuban-Cajun Giant" Pedro (21-9-1, 15KO's), will be asked to stay for filming to be extra's in the movie. More...

Kell Brook is back in Sheffield after a training camp in Spain, and has told Matthew Hatton that he will in prime shape when they meet at the Sheffield Motorpoint Arena on March 17, live on Sky Sports.

Brook spent a week in Fuerteventura with members of the Ingle Gym in Sheffield as he begins his preparation for the massive ‘War of the Roses’ Welterweight clash. More...