Apr

Exclusive: Sugar Ray Leonard talks welterweight division, RING Top 10

Living legend Sugar Ray Leonard spoke to RingTV.com’s Tom Gray about all-time greats and the current state of boxing’s glamor division, and answered the ever-burning question of who would win a Leonard-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight.

Mar

Floyd Mayweather Jr. to host Saturday presser for May 3 PPV event

by Doug Fischer

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will host a press conference to formally announce his Showtime PPV matchup against Marcos Maidana May 3 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The press event will take place at 12-noon PT and will be streamed live by Showtime Sports.

Mar

Marcos Maidana awaits daughter’s birth, all else on hold

by Lem Satterfield

WBA welterweight titleholder Marcos Maidana is hoping to be ringside at Alvarez-Angulo, and to start training in California on March 10 for his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., but all that will have to wait until after his daughter is born.

Feb

Floyd Mayweather Jr. picks Marcos Maidana over Amir Khan

by Lem Satterfield

Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced on Monday, his 37th birthday, that he will fight Marcos Maidana in a welterweight title bout on May 3 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, choosing the power-punching Argentine over England’s Amir Khan.

Feb

Dougie’s Monday mailbag

by Doug Fischer

Fans stick up for Amir Khan (as an opponent for Floyd Mayweather Jr.), Sergio Martinez, Gennady Golovkin, the heavyweight division, and lesser-known fighters in competitive bouts in this week’s Monday mailbag. Enjoy!

Feb

Amir Khan eyes ‘Plan B’ for May, if not Floyd Mayweather Jr.

by Lem Satterfield

Amir Khan credited Floyd Mayweather’s promotional prowess in adding Marcos Maidana as a possible May 3 opponent, while considering the reality that he might have to fight someone other than Mayweather in May or early April.

Feb

Floyd Mayweather Jr. to promote Feb. 28 ShoBox card

by Lem Satterfield

Super middleweight prospect J’Leon Love will face Vladine Biosse in the main event of a Feb. 28 ShoBox: The New Generation card promoted by Mayweather Promotions at the Turning Stone Resort Casino Event Center in Verona, N.Y., Showtime announced on Friday.

Feb

Advisor: Marcos Maidana would ‘sacrifice’ to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.

by Lem Satterfield

Marcos Maidana’s manager said that the Argentine slugger cited the expected mid-March birth of his daughter as a reason he would not be ready for an April rematch with Adrien Broner, but a potential bout with Floyd Mayweather “would be a different story.”

Feb

Dougie’s Monday mailbag

by Doug Fischer

Readers comment on Amir Khan’s reaction to Floyd Mayweather’s mind games, Vasyl Lomachenko’s record-breaking gamble, the heavyweight rankings, GGG hype, and come up with a strange boxing fantasy situation in this week’s Monday mailbag. Enjoy!

Feb

Manny Pacquiao: Floyd Mayweather Jr. has ‘many alibis’

by Lem Satterfield

Manny Pacquiao accused Floyd Mayweather Jr. of having “many alibis” for not fighting him during a Wednesday studio interview with ESPN’s Keith Olbermann.