‘Los Mochis’

Two big Mexican names were in action last night south of the border with ex-three weight world champion Humberto Soto and former world middleweight title challenger Marco Antonio Rubio treading the boards on separate fight cards.

Soto, who gave up his WBC lightweight crown in July after four successful title defenses, was operating officially as a light welter for the first time in a scheduled ten round affair with former WBA lightweight strapholder Jose Alfaro at a packed Estadio Centario in Los Mochis, Mexico.

Buoyed by a rabid hometown audience, Soto went right to work, stalking his Nicaraguan rival with an effective jab that kept Alfaro guessing.

Soto's pressure had Alfaro struggling to find his own offense and by the end of the first round, the local icon had shaken the visitor with a bracing straight right, left hook sequence.

Alfaro came out more aggressive in the second but was immediately countered by a four punch combination from Soto that also saw an accidental head clash, leaving both fighters with bad cuts above the right eye. More...

The big mid-week action of August's last days takes place Wednesday night at Nihon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan with the both the WBA bantam and super flyweight titles at risk in another installment of the Mexico vs. Japan rivalry of the lighter weight classes.

Tokyo based WBA 118 pound king Koki Kameda, 25-1 (16), faces undefeated Tijuana based Mexican David De La Mora, 23-0 (16), while 115 pound WBA ruler Hugo Fidel Cazares, 35-6-2 (25), of Los Mochis, Mexico squares off against local man Tomonobu Shimizu, 18-3-1 (9).

The flamboyant 24 year old Kameda will be making the second defense of the title won last December after knocking down KO artist Alexander Munoz in the 12th and final round.

The tricky southpaw southpaw has won three straight since losing his WBC flyweight crown to Pongsaklek Wonjongkam 17 months ago and Kameda has vowed to dazzle his faithful following with a tremendous title defense. More...

After traveling the world and doing battle in Denmark, Canada and Germany, fighting brothers Librado Andrade and Enrique Ornelas have one stamp missing stamp in their fistic passports - their native Mexico.

On Saturday, August 27, that will be rectified when they fight for the first time in their home country on a doubleheader to be aired on Televisa's "Sabados De Corona" in Mexico and on AT&T U-verse in the United States live from the Centro De Espectaculos De La Feria Leon in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. More...

Domo Del Mar, in Ciudad Del Carmen, Campeche Mexico, will be the site for the June edition of Televisa's hit boxing series "Sabados De Corona," as Mexican sensation Pablo Cesar "Demoledor" Cano, looks to extend his unbeaten streak on Saturday, June 25 in a 10 round lightweight bout against his fellow countryman Pablo Lugo. More...

Top-rated contender Mikey Garcia will risk his undefeated record and No. 1 ranking when he faces the power-punching Miguel Beltran Jr. on June 4 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Garcia-Beltran 10-round featherweight rumble will be the co-main event on “The Son Also Rises,” headlined by the Sebastian Zbik vs. Julio César Chávez Jr. World Middleweight Championship.

Both fights will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark, beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT(delayed on the West Coast.) Garcia and Beltran boast a combined record of 49-1 (38 KOs) -- a winning percentage of 98% and a victory by knockout ratio of 78%. More...

Six thousand fans, including the first arrival at 5 a.m., jammed MGM Grand Garden Arena Friday for the Free Public Weigh-in featuring Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley. Another 2,000 were turned away.

Tonight at the sold-out MGM Grand Garden Arena, eight-division world champion Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), of General Santos City, Philippines, will risk his WBO welterweight title against three-division world champion Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs), of Pomona, Calif., in the highly anticipated main event of a four-fight telecast produced and distributed live by Showtime PPV beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. More...

A mega-boxing event devoid of trash talk continued Wednesday as classy athletes Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley maintained their respectful tones during the final press conference at the Hollywood Theatre at MGM Grand. The final press conference for the undercard fighters is Thursday. More...

They started hovering around the make-shift ring in the lobby and the front entrance at MGM Grand an hour before the first of the custom-designed buses were scheduled to arrive.

First, a little after 11 a.m., came the Shane Mosley bus. Then, at a tad after 1, the bus carrying Manny Pacquiao and his team rolled onto the property. More...

The May 13th edition of the hit Showtime series, ShoBox: The New Generation will feature some of boxing's top unbeaten stars as they risk their "0's" on a stacked card led by 19-0 Sharif "The Lion" Bogere, 21-0-1 Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell and 15-0 Gary Russell Jr.

The action-packed "Night of Unbeaten Stars" featuring these three of ESPN.com's top prospects to watch for 2011 will take place from Buffalo Bill's Star of the Desert Arena in Primm, Nevada. More...

Due to a foot injury suffered in training yesterday, former World Champion Martin "El Gallo" Castillo has been forced to pull out of his April 1 rematch with Eric Morel. Mexican contender Luis Maldonado will step up to the plate to face "Little Hands of Steel" this Friday night in the main event of TeleFutura's "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. More...

Former World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik will make his long-awaited return to the ring when he takes on undefeated WBC Continental Americas super middleweight champion Alfonso “El Tigre” Lopez, Saturday, May 7, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev. More...

A hit in his first fight in Puerto Rico last December, unbeaten lightweight prospect Michael "The Artist" Pérez returns to the island on Friday, February 4, to square off against Colorado's Marcos Herrera in the eight round main event of TeleFutura's "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" at the Coliseo Félix Méndez Acevedo in his father's hometown of Lares.

In the co-featured bout, Juncos, Puerto Rico's Jayson "La Maravilla" Vélez will face Mexico's Juan Josè Beltrán in an eight round junior featherweight showdown. Also in action will be Canadian phenom Mikael Zewski, Eddie Gomez of the Bronx, NY, who looks for his third consecutive knockout when he takes on Arecibo's Ramón Sánchez, as well as debuting Eduardo Alicea. More...

It's the first "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" event of the New Year, and fight fans in Fairfield, Calif. have kicked off 2011 by making tonight's hard-hitting card at the Sports Center a sell-out.

The red-hot, seven-bout card is headlined by unbeaten rising star Brandon Gonzales against fellow prospect Lester "El Cubanito" Gonzalez in an eight-round super middleweight fight and an eight round welterweight bout between Fairfield's Alan Sanchez and Los Mochis Sinaloa, Mexico veteran Cristian Favela. More...

To kick off the 2011 boxing season, TeleFutura's "Sólo Boxeo Tecate," returns with live boxing action for the first time ever at the Sports Center in Fairfield, California on Friday, January 7. In the main event, scheduled for eight rounds in the middleweight division, unbeaten Sacramento prospect Brandon Gonzales puts his perfect record on the line against San Diego's Lester Gonzalez. More...

Last night at Osaka's Prefectural Gymnasium, WBA super flyweight kingpin Hugo Fidel Cazares retained his crown via a 12 round unanimous decision over Hiroyuki Hisataka.

Hisataka, coming up from flyweight, started off well, taking the action to the Mexican based champion, who patiently studied the challenger, who was fighting in front of a hometown crowd.

Cazares' big edge in experience started to show by the second as he expertly outboxed Hisataka, but the Osaka resident scored with some big shots in the fourth.

But this caused Hisataka to look for one big punch from then on, allowing Cazares to regain control through a higher work rate and avoiding the challenger's telegraphed efforts.

Hisataka almost hit the jackpot in the eighth when he hurt Cazares but the Los Mochis resident was able to see his way through the difficulty until the end of the round.

Cazares carefully boxed his way through from that point on, sweeping the scorecards by margins of 117-111, 117-111 and 116-112.

The champion retains the WBA strap for the third time, improving to 34-6-2 (24), while Hisataka drops to 19-9-1 (8), and is now 0-3 in world title bouts.