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Miguel Angel Cotto is climbing his way back to the top of the boxing world after a difficult loss to Antonio Margarito. Since that devastating loss, the fighter from Puerto Rico has fought against Michael Jennings and Joshua Clottey. In both cases, Cotto has been victorious and demonstrated through his …

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a little like the National Basketball Association. That seems a strange analogy, but it’s really not. In recent years the off-season of the NBA has been really entertaining. There are blockbuster trades, player feuds, always more than our share of police blotter stories involving players, and …

© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Promoter Frank Maloney unexpectedly found star super middleweight prospect Darren Sutherland dead yesterday in Sutherland’s home in Bromley, England. Maloney, who also managed Sutherland, went to pick the boxer up for a news conference but found that Sutherland looked to have committed suicide by …

The boxing schedule for the last quarter of the year is ridiculously good. Big matches abound, starting with next week’s Floyd Mayweather Jr’s comeback fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. There is another mega fight in Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, then three great matches in the Super Six World Boxing …

The tension between John McDermott and rival Tyson Fury was tremendous yesterday at the weigh-in between the two heavyweights, who clash tonight at Brentwood Centre in Essex. At stake is McDermott’s English heavyweight title but many are looking at this bout as a manner of judging the future viability of …

There are few boxers in the business who have the charisma and ability that Jean Pascal demonstrates. The 26 year-old fighter from Montreal is living the life and enjoying every minute of his well deserved fame. No one will forget Pascal’s form against Carl Froch in a WBC super middleweight …

Over 35 years now I have either been a devout fan of boxing or involved with the sport one way or another. I have met boxing royalty, trained fighters, owned a gym and ignored every other sport there is because of my love of boxing. It is almost unexplainable the …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Saturday night, at the Eaton Hotel in Edgbaston, England, the Midlands Area Council for the British Boxing Board of Control hosted their Annual Boxing Awards Dinner. The event has been running for 20 years but the Midlands are still the only region …

Sat on the canvas straight after eight hard fought rounds for the Commonwealth Featherweight belt on January 16 of this year, John Simpson and Paul Truscott were conducting an interview for Sky Sports and had agreed that a rematch should be put into place, after the referee had stopped the …

I can count on one hand the times in my 30 year career that I have expressed disagreement with any of my broadcasting colleagues in a public forum. Mind you, I have often disagreed, but seldom if ever have I spoken out. My style as a communicator is not built …

When Oscar De La Hoya walked away from the sport of boxing in April, 2009, he only walked away as a fighter, and in doing so left his own individual legacy he had forged over 17 years. 17 world champions had fallen before him, he had won 10 world titles …

72 years ago this month, the world championship career of arguably the greatest heavyweight in history began. The “Brown Bomber”, Joe Louis, aged 23, had just defeated James J Braddock and had become the first black man since Jack Johnson thirty years previously to win the richest prize in sport. …