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Former IBF super featherweight champion Carlos “Famoso” Hernandez will see action for the first time since his close defeat to Jesus Chavez earlier this year. An opponent is yet to be named, but the gutsy warrior from El Salvador will return on October 8, and will make a welcome addition …

Giant heavyweight prospect Tye “Railroad” Fields gets the chance to advance his career tally to thirty-four wins with only one loss this week as he provides the headline fight at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas against veteran campaigner Saul Montana. Thirty-four-year-old Montana has shared a ring with …

It is a distinct possibility that if Ricardo Mayorga disposes of Italy’s Michele Piccirillo when the two fight on Don King’s pay-per-view card on August 13, Mayorga might be in line to face former light middleweight champion Fernando Vargas. Defeating Piccirillo might prove to be more difficult than imagined as …

Things were beginning to get quiet in Britain this past weekend as the U.K. settled into its traditional midsummer break between the “seasons,” but the scene isn’t completely dead with the upcoming bouts in the U.S. and Italy this week for British fighters, along with speculation on just who some …

Sensational news, fight fans: a replay of the Fight of the Year between Diego “Chico” Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo will be shown Saturday on SHOWTIME. The memorable, epic slugfest many regard as the greatest fight of all-time – Corrales rallied from the absolute brink of defeat to register a …

August is here, and the first of two summer installments of Broadway Boxing is on the horizon for this week. Undefeated knockout artist Jaidon Codrington (8-0, 8 KO’s) of Queens (by way of Bridgeport, CT) will headline the August 4th edition of Broadway Boxing when he faces Levan Easley (17-11-2), …

This Thursday, at the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, former undisputed middleweight champion Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins will be on hand to present a night of Golden Boy Promotions Boxing action featuring his nephew, Demetrius “The Gladiator” Hopkins. “The Executioner” is currently planning the last year of …

This Saturday, in the champion’s hometown of Tampa, Florida, Jeff Lacy puts his IBF super middleweight title on the line against former WBC super middleweight titlist Robin Reid of Great Britain. Lacy is undefeated in nineteen fights and has been on a tear since winning the IBF title. A win …

Reports indicating that former undisputed light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu might return to the ring to fight conqueror Ricky Hatton might be a tad premature. Tszyu is quoted as saying that “if” he returns to the ring, a Hatton fight would be his first course of action. However, due to …

Promoter Don King announced today his longtime friend “Big” George Foreman has accepted his invitation to be an analyst for his pay-per-view boxing telecast of Global Glory at the United Center on Aug. 13. The main event, for the interim World Boxing Council heavyweight championship, pits former unified heavyweight world …

On August 6, 2005, live from the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa Bay, Florida, former United States Olympian, and current IBF super middleweight titlist Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy will defend his crown, which he won on October 2, 2004, via an impressive eighth round TKO over solid veteran contender …

World champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was acquitted Friday of hitting and kicking his former girlfriend during a 2003 argument outside a Las Vegas nightclub. Mayweather showed no reaction as the verdict was read in Clark County District Court. “I was nervous, extremely nervous, because my life was on the …