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Miller Lite, Southwest Airlines, Sportsbook.com, and Rock Star Energy Drink have signed on as sponsors of Fernando Vargas’ August 20 bout against former world champion Javier Castillejo from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. Miller Lite, Southwest Airlines, and Sportsbook.com …

Zab Judah may no lonegr be facing Sharmba Mitchell at the Gund Arena on September 3, but WBO light middleweight champion Daniel Santos will certainly be in action. The Puerto Rican champion will defend his title against former WBA welterweight champion Jose Antonio Rivera. Santos will have been inactive for …

Former world lightweight champion Miguel Angel Gonzalez will receive yet another chance to gather a world championship when he features on Don King’s pay-per-view event on August 13. Gonzalez will face tough WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo of New York. Collazo won his championship from Jose Antonio Rivera via a …

Newly crowned IBF cruiserweight champion O’Neil “Supernova” Bell will make the first defense of the title he won, albeit controversially in a vacant title fight with Canada’s Dale Brown earlier this year. On August 26, Bell will headline the card held at the Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, Florida …

For many of us fans, boxing enjoyed a period of great fights and great fighters in the late seventies and eighties, which has not been equaled since. Fighters like Leonard, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Arguello and others were in their heyday. The heavyweight division, arguably the most popular among many boxing …

It’s a boxing rarity, putting a group of Olympic fighters who reached the pinnacle of amateur boxing together in the same ring as they attempt to reach world championship status in the pro ranks. In fact, its only been done three times in recent history, as members of the 1984, …

Bradford’s Junior Witter has moved closer to a shot at a genuine world title having recently been installed into the top three of all the major governing bodies light welterweight rankings. This includes the IBF – of whom long-term domestic rival Ricky Hatton is champion – who place him at …

WBC featherweight champion In Jin Chi is off the August 20 card, but the show must go on. Chi’s defense against dangerous left-hooker Rocky Juarez could have been one of the greatest fights of the year until Chi’s injury removed that possibility. Instead, Juarez must make do with fighting young …

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 …