Bradley edges Marquez by split decision: live round-by-round updates
Follow our live round-by-round updates of tonight’s welterweight clash during which WBO beltholder Tim Bradley retained his belt by split-decision over Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas.
read moreSalido KOs Cruz in seventh: live round-by-round updates
Follow our live round-by-round updates of tonight’s featherweight title bout during which Orlando Salido scored a seventh-round knockout of Orlando Cruz in Las Vegas. The HBO Pay Per View broadcast began at 6:00 p.m. PT.
read moreBaysangurov-Hernandez added to Golovkin-Stevens card
A fight between former WBO junior welterweight beltholder Zaurbek Baysangurov and Freddy Hernandez has been added to the Gennady Golovkin-Curtis Stevens card on Nov. 2.
read morePhoto gallery: Bradley-Marquez weigh-in
WBO welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley and challenger Juan Manuel Marquez on the scales along with featherweights Orlando Salido and Orlando Cruz, and others from Saturday’s card in Las Vegas. Photos by Naoki Fukuda.
read moreBradley, Marquez weigh-in ripped and ready for welterweight showdown
Tim Bradley weighed in at a ripped-and-ready looking 146 pounds for his Saturday WBO welterweight title defense against Juan Manuel Marquez on Friday in Las Vegas. Marquez weighed in at lean and muscular 144.5 pounds.
read moreCommentary: Cruz exposes boxing’s homophobic issues
Orlando Cruz, an openly gay boxer who fights on the Tim Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez undercard, has received as much media coverage as the two pound-for-pound-rated main event fighters. He deserves the attention for challenging and exposing boxing’s homophobic underbelly.
read moreLem’s latest: Cruz heard ‘gay slurs’ during fights
Openly gay boxer Orlando Cruz on dealing with homophobia in boxing: “I’m in a sport that is very macho. Sometime in the ring, people would should gay slurs at me before I came out.”
read moreChavez-Vera II in talks for February
The rematch of last month’s controversial unanimous-decision win for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. over Bryan Vera could be headed for Texas in February, according to Bob Arum.
read moreWalters to face Garza on Garcia-Martinez card
Hard-hitting Jamaican Nicholas Walters will make his Top Rank debut against Alberto Garza on the undercard of the Mikey Garcia-Roman Martinez fight on Nov. 9.
read moreLomachenko focused on Ramirez, not Salido-Cruz or Rigondeaux
Two-time Olympic champ Vasyl Lomachenko, who goes pro on Saturday, advises boxing fans to “be patient.” “I will be doing big things and you’ll be witnesses when I do them.”
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