By Ron Valderrama: Light middleweight Gabriel Rosado has arrived in Phoenix, Arizona to begin the last leg of his training camp for his upcoming bout with J’Leon Love on May 4.

By Derek Bonnett: The first week of the month of April played quite a few April Fools on the SecondsOut top ranked fighters in action. It was the week of the upset as the world’s top flyweight lost to a terrific looking upstart in China. Another flyweight contender lost on the cards to an underdog and as a result lost his SecondsOut ranking.

World-ranked Vincente Martin Rodriguez from Argentina was surprisingly stopped inside three rounds by Sergio Escobar at the Club Deportivo San Vincente in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday evening.

World rated light welterweight Thomas Dulorme scored a clear eight round unanimous decision win over Ben Ankrah at the Coliseo Guillermo Angulo in Carolina, Puerto Rico on Saturday.

In a rematch of their October 2012 draw, billed “Unfinished Business”, Adrian Taihia came out on top after 10 close rounds against Gunnar Jackson to capture the vacant WBF Oceania Super Middleweight title at the ABA Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday.

WBA female bantamweight champion Irma “Torbellino” Garcia retained her title via 10 round split decision over Janeth Perez at the El Chamizal Sport Center in Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico on Saturday.

By Derek Gionta: "The Pittsburgh Kid" Paul Spadafora, 48-0-1 (19), continued his world title quest on Saturday night by defeating Denver’s "Red Hot" Robert Frankel, 32-13-1 (6), by a ten round unanimous decision at Chester, West Virginia’s Mountaineer Racetrack and Gaming Resort. With the win, Spadafora picked up the NABF junior welterweight title.

London light middleweight Michael Norgrove, who collapsed following a bout with Tom Bowen nine days ago, has died.

By Ron Valderrama: China’s Zou Shiming in his pro debut defeated Eleazar Valenzuela in a 4- round bout from the Venetian Resort in Macao, China. Shiming, a two-time Olympic champion and trained by Freddy Roach, started throwing punches from the opening bell. Zou did well dodging punches and throwing some nice shots on Valenzuela.

English boxer Jamie McDonnell believes his army of supporters, and opponent Julio Ceja’s lack of a well-stamped passport, will be crucial in sweeping him to world title victory when the pair clash Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster on May 11.

By Jason Pribila – In the classic 1994 film, The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s “Red” used the following quote when discussing Andy Dufresne’s escape from prison. “Oh Andy loved geology. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really….pressure and time.”

All the boxers weighed in Friday ahead of the Top Rank promoted card at the Cotai Arena in Macao, China on Saturday night.

Quotes from the weigh In ahead of the massive Top Rank promoted event at the Cotai Arena in Macao, China on Saturday.

Promoter Frank Maloney has hit out at claims that Tony Thompson has not agreed to face David Price in a rematch.

Undefeated super-featherweight prospect Joel Diaz Jr. continued to impress with another knockout victory on the Lou Savarese promoted show at the Bayou Event Center in Houston, Texas on Thursday.

Goodwin Promotions in association with Robert Waterman stage their first Eurosport show tonight (April 5), Thursday the two title fights weighed in.

Mexico’s next big boxing superstar and WBC light middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez faces WBA champion Austin Trout in a unification battle at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on April 20-and the 22 year-old Mexican is out for revenge.

Former world champion Giovani Segura is training in Montebello, California, in the hope of facing WBC flyweight silver champion Edgar Sosa,hopefully in May.

Two of the biggest punchers in the heavyweight division are just weeks away from a collision.

Jerry Glick reporting from ringside: Yuri Foreman, 155, Brooklyn, NY had an easy night against a small junior-middleweight who lacked the skills to compete at Foreman’s level. Gundrick King, 156, Tuscaloosa, AL, tried his hardest to avoid Yuri’s snappy jab, but it hit its target with a mind numbing regularity.

Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in association with Roy Jones Jr. & TNT Promotions presents “Live Boxing” on Saturday April 6th, 2013. In the Main Event, Paul Spadafora attempts his next step of fighting himself into another shot at a World Championship when he faces Rob Frankel.

The Robert Waterman promoted card scheduled for the Peterborough Arena on April 12 has been postponed.

Danny Garcia and ,Zab Judah took part in a national conference call on Wednesday ahead of their WBA and WBC light welterweight title fight at the Barclays Center in New York, USA on April 27.

Peter Quillin and Fernando Guerrero took part in a national conference call on Wednesday ahead of their WBO middleweight title fight at the Barclays Center in New York, USA on April 27.

Thomas Dulorme faces a tough test at the Coliseo Guilermo Angulo in Carolina, Puerto Rico on Saturday(April 6) night when he faces the dangerous African boxer, Ben Ankrah.

Trainer Freddie Roach is so impressed with double Olympic champion Zou Shiming that he believes the Chinese born boxing hero can become a world champion after just six fights. At the age of 32 the light flyweight prospect does not have time on his side but Roach is so impressed with his charge so far that he believes he will be a champion in no time at all.

Deontay Wilder will be crossing the Atlantic to take on Audley ‘A-Force’ Harrison in the co-featured fight headlined by Amir Khan Vs Julio Diaz at Motorpoint Arena Sheffield on Saturday 27 April.

By Cody Kaye: Australian super featherweight Will Tomlinson will make the third defence of his IBO title, when he steps into the ring against two-time former IBF champ Malcolm Klassen, on May 16 at the Melbourne Pavilion in Melbourne, Australia.

WBO super featherweight champion, Roman “Rocky” Martinez, traveled today to China, where he will be facing undefeated Diego Magdaleno this Saturday, April 6, at the Venetian Casino & Resort in Macao, China.

Heavyweight contender Tyson Fury has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and is set to explode at Madison Square Garden in New York on April 20 when he takes on Steve USS Cunningham.

Commonwealth Light-Heavyweight Champion Ovill McKenzie and Enzo Maccarinelli will face each again at Wembley Arena on Saturday 20th April after their first fight ended in a storm of controversy.

Firat Arslan has signed a promotional deal Team Sauerland.

Brian Rose is targeting a clash with WBO light middleweight champion Zaurbek Baysangurov after his showdown against Joachim Alcine on April 20 at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.

By Derek Gionta, ringside: Monessen, Pennsylvania’s Sammy Vasquez Jr. headlined another Team Vasquez-promoted card entitled Double Duty III at Elizabeth, PA’s Courttime Sports Complex on Saturday night. The welterweight prospect defeated Minnesota’s Hector Orozco over six one-sided rounds.

Sergey Rabchenko’s performance in Monaco on Saturday night received a Royal seal of approval.

Local rivals Gunnar Jackson and Adrian Taihia are set to clash for the vacant WBF Oceania Super Middleweight title on April 5 at the ABA Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand.

By Don Smith: My story about Fan Base Promotions dropping Arizona boxer Jesus Gonzales from their roster of fighters drew the ire of a unidentified Gonzales ally who called me on Sunday afternoon (3/17/13) at my home to vent.

Liam Walsh will defend his WBO European Lightweight title against former two-time WBO Champion Scott Harrison on Saturday 20th April at Wembley Arena.

By Derek Bonnett: The theme of the last week of March in the sport of boxing was "Razor Close Decisions". Among the SecondsOut ranked fighters in action, four fighters’ futures were impacted by a single point. That was the margin of difference for Mike Alvarado and Brandon Rios and Pedro Guevara and Raul Garcia.

By Danny Winterbottom ringside Tony Bellew’s (19-1-1, 12K0s) path to a shot at the light heavyweight world title held by Chad Dawson hit a roadblock in Liverpool on Saturday March 30 in the form of Malawi born Isaac Chilemba (20-1-2, 9Kos) as the pair battled to a 12 round draw inside the Echo Arena.

With a last minute pull-out from the original opponent, French Champion Bastien Rozeaux, it was nerve-wrecking to the end if a suitable substitute would be found to fight Timur Akhundov for the vacant WBF Featherweight title on Saturday (March 30) in Kiev, Ukraine.

By Mike Sloan at ringside: In the night’s co-feature in Las Vegas, Terence Crawford was expected to truly be tested for the first time in his career against Colombian bomber Breidis Prescott.

By Mike Sloan at ringside in Las Vegas:Mike Alvarado has stated many times since his epic first bout with Brandon Rios that it was stopped prematurely. Some agreed, some didn’t. He’s professed profusely many a time since that he’ll have a better result whenever he met Rios again. On Saturday night inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center, he did just that.

Joseph “Smokey” Hilongwa produced a fine performance by outworking a never say die Sibusiso Twani of South Africa to win the vacant WBF Intercontinental Super Flyweight title in Namibia on Friday (March 29).

It looks like Anthony Crolla and Derry Mathews will have to face each other for a third time after battling to a thrilling 12 round draw at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on Saturday.

Tony Bellew was held to a frustrating 12 draw against Isaac Chilemba in a battle for the WBC silver light heavyweight title at the Echo Arena in Bellew’s home city of Liverpool on Saturday night.

Kazakhstan born puncher Gennady Golovkin took just three rounds to take out Nobuhiro Ishida from Japan to successfully defend his WBA and IBO middleweight titles in Monte Carlo on Saturday night.

This week SecondsOut’s big fight prediction is the Brandon Rios vs Mike Alvarado rematch made for the WBO interim light welterweight title at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Breidis Prescott will have to wait a little longer before he receives his title shot against Khabib Allakhverdiev. Allakhverdiev injured his elbow last week in camp and was forced to pull out of his title defense in Las Vegas tonight.

Both Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado made weight ahead of their WBO interim light welterweight clash at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on Saturday.