Super Middleweight Boxing

Lucas Matthysse vowed to deliver an impressive performance against Lamont Peterson Saturday night. He lived up to his promise with a spectacular victory. Matthysse used his trademark power to register a third-round TKO over Peterson in a duel of...

Amir Khan’s comeback fight Saturday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena will be preceded by boxing’s return to network television. Leo Santa Cruz (22-0-1, 13 knockouts), the 24-year-old International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion, will...

Unbeaten super-middleweight champion Andre Ward will defend his two belts Jan. 26 against former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in the first boxing match at USC’s Galen Center. Oakland’s Ward (26-0, 14 knockouts) is ranked by most...

Former World Boxing Association flyweight champion Eric Morel (46-2, 23 KOs) of Puerto Rico won a unanimous decision over a game Jose Silveira (12-6) of Mexico in a junior-featherweight bout, highlighting a six-fight undercard to Saturday's bantamweight...

HBO Sports has replaced the resigned Ross Greenburg as president, selecting Showtime Sports President Ken Hershman, boxing officials confirmed Thursday. Hershman is scheduled to assume his duties in January, according to an HBO official. Hershman's...

Recent boxing tournaments have been plagued by injuries, cancellations and delays -- see Showtime's appreciated but flawed efforts to crown a unified super-middleweight and bantamweight champion. Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions,...

Four of the five undercard bouts from Honda Center have ended before the completion of the second round. Middleweight James Kirkland marked his comeback from a two-year hiatus that included a prison stay on a gun charge by knocking out......

Shane Mosley's trainer Naazim Richardson found by studying film big flaws that helped Bernard Hopkins upset previous unbeatens Felix Trinidad and Kelly Pavlik. Thursday, Richardson said he's found a repeated weakness in Manny Pacquiao that will help 8-to-...

Freddie Roach, the five-time trainer of the year who has supervised Manny Pacquiao's rise to superstardom, has agreed to take on a prominent role in coaching U.S. Olympic boxers. Roach announced Saturday he will open his Wild Card Boxing Club......

As Showtime's vice president of sports programming, Ken Hershman is tasked with juggling the best interests of both forms of combat sports: boxing and mixed martial arts. In the hours before Hershman's network presents a major Strikeforce MMA card with......