BY MICHAEL NELSON of The Cruelest Sport

Tavoris Cloud defends his IBF light heavyweight title against Gabriel Campillo tonight at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. As par for the course for Cloud, it’s been a while.

Abner Mares needed a wheelman last night to make a clean getaway in Las Vegas, and he found one in referee Russell Mora, who sped Mares to the Showtime bantamweight tournament championship by burning rubber across poor Joseph Agbeko, thereby making

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport

Perseverance is probably the key word to describe the 16-year career of Ryan Rhodes, and perseverance is what he will need most when he enters the ring against superstar-in-waiting Saul Alvare...

By Carlos Acevedo

Amir Khan has finally secured an opponent for April 16 and will be facing Irishman Paul McCloskey at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England. The delay in opponent was not unexpected, since Team Khan seemingly...

By Michael Nelson of The Cruelest Sport

Devon Alexander has had his sights set on Timothy Bradley for nearly two years. In a rare instance of a “marinated” fight that didn’t become spoiled, he’ll have his...

By Carlos Acevedo

Quintessential professional Juan Manuel Marquez faces gore-thirsty Michael Katsidis on Saturday night in what promises to be a minor masterpiece of violence at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. If Marquez, now 3...

By Carlos Acevedo

Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams, two contemporary boxers actually worthy of the honorific “prizefighter,” meet for a second time when they face off at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday ni...

By Carlos Acevedo

Amir Khan and Marcos Maidana, two of the top junior welterweights in the world, finally meet in a potentially explosive bout on December 11 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Khan, who won a Si...

By Carlos Acevedo

Five years is a long time in boxing. Sam Peter, who earns a rematch and a monster paycheck against Wladimir Klitschko tomorrow in Frankfurt, Germany, has lived a virtual lifetime since losing a decision to Klits...

By Carlos Acevedo

With the recent announcement that Golden Boy Promotions will be sandbagging its Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora pay-per-view with Carlos Baldomir (who will be 20 years older than his opponent) and Vivian Har...