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Denver’s Mike Alvarado will risk his WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title, his undefeated record and his Top-10 world rating when he takes on Gabriel Martinez in a homecoming rumble, his first in over two years, this Saturday, July 30, at Softball Country.

The vacant IBF Latino junior welterweight title will also be at stake. Alvarado and Martinez have a combined professional record of 57-2-1 (36 KOs) – a winning percentage of 95% and a victory by knockout ratio of 63%.

Alvarado (30-0, 22 KOs), of Denver, enters this having won 12 of his last 14 fights by knockout. He has not had a fight go to the judges’ scorecards in two years. A boxer-puncher, Alvarado boasts knockout victories of former world champion Cesar Bazan, former world title challenger Michael Clark, and world-rated contender Emmanuel Clottey. More...

Denver’s Mike Alvarado will risk his WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title, his undefeated record and his Top-10 world rating when he takes on Gabriel Martinez in a homecoming rumble, his first in over two years, on Saturday, July 30, at Softball Country in Denver, CO.

The vacant IBF Latino junior welterweight title will also be at stake. Alvarado and Martinez have a combined professional record of 57-2-1 (36 KOs) – a winning percentage of 95% and a victory by knockout ratio of 63%. More...

Last night's much hyped showdown between WBO welterweight king Manny Pacquiao and former three weight world champion Shane Mosley failed to live up to expectations last night at Las Vegas' MGM Grand.

Mosley, at age 39 at least six years out from his prime, started well, using his jab and the occasional right to keep distance between himself and Pacquiao, who only tested Mosley's defense with a few efforts in the first.

Pacquiao started to pressure Mosley in the second, leaping in with jabs and a few quick combinations, illustrating his hand speed advantage. Mosley continued to prevent Pacquiao from developing a rhythm by using the jab and footwork but this ability was slipping away.

The champion continued to up his efforts in the third, using multiple jabs to get closer to his rival, who was now fully on the backfoot. Mosley tried to shove the smaller man away when Pacquiao got in close but Pacquiao was finding the target with rapid combinations. Mosley was still using the jab and looking for openings for a right hand, backing up Pacquiao at times.

Pacquiao made a particularly hard charge that Mosley nullified by backing up but when Pacquiao came forward again, Mosley was caught flatfooted and when down after getting clipped with the sharp right, left combination.

Mosley beat the count and used his experience to survive the rest of the round, clinching his way through. 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...

Tonight at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas, NV, Roy Jones Jr faces Bernard Hopkins at light heavyweight in a rematch that comes 17 years after their clash for the vacant IBF middleweight title.

This bout comes at least seven years too late as Jones' incredible reflexes left him following his WBA heavyweight title winning effort against John Ruiz in 2003.

Now 41 years of age, Jones has gone 6-5 since the Ruiz bout and most recently was stopped in the first round by Danny Green for the IBO cruiserweight crown.

Prior to the Ruiz clash, Jones had gone 47-1 and the Florida native has been a very different and very hittable fighter ever since winning the heavyweight title. More...

The official weights for the Jones vs. Hopkins 2 fight card are in along with a surprising variety of fight predictions from those who know best; other world champions, most of whom have fought either Hopkins or Jones or both.

Light heavyweights, 12 rounds
Roy Jones Jr: 175 lb
Bernard Hopkins: 175 lb More...

At the weigh-in yesterday in Halle, Germany, WBA Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm measured up with challenger Randy Griffin of America ahead of their rematch tonight at Gerry Weber Stadium.

Both men looked perfectly fit and trim but I give the weighin procedure on points to Griffin, who came in at 72.4 kg / 159.5 lb with a very confident look about him. More...