ESPN Boxing News
Three weeks ago I wrote that as long as Floyd Mayweather wouldn't fight Manny Pacquiao, the fight I preferred to see was Pacquiao in a third match with rival Juan Manuel Marquez, not Pacquiao against Antonio Margarito, which is the fight Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is intent on making. I am not alone in my opinion. I received many tweets from the Fight Freaks agreeing with me that they'd rather see Pacquiao face Marquez again rather than the disgraced Margarito, who was pummeled by Shane Mosley...
If Tomasz Adamek wants an idea of how he'll size up against the big boys of the heavyweight division, he'll get one in the form of 6-foot-7 Michael Grant.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., who has steadfastly refused to answer questions about the most recent round of failed negotiations for a fight with Manny Pacquiao, has unleashed a racist and homophobic rant against the Filipino star.
A National Park spokeswoman says body of boxing promoter Bob Arun's son has been found on a Washington mountain peak.
ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" season came to an end last week, but there will be more live boxing on various ESPN platforms in the fall until the series returns in January.
Zab Judah has not fought on HBO in more than two years, but that could change if plans in the works are finalized.
Lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez has agreed to fight Michael Katsidis at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas on Nov. 27.
Mzonke Fana has earned an impressive unanimous decision over Cassius Baloyi to win the vacant IBF junior lightweight title in a matchup of South Africans.
Bernard Hopkins is slated to meet newly crowned light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal Dec. 18 in Quebec City, both sides told ESPN.com on Tuesday. 
Antonio Tarver will make his heavyweight debut Oct. 15 against Nagy Aguilera in a scheduled 10-rounder either in Memphis or Southern California.
The postponed fight between featherweight titlist Juan Manuel Lopez and former two-division champion Rafael Marquez has been rescheduled.
Vyacheslav Senchenko retained his welterweight title with a unanimous decision over Charlie Jose Navarro on Monday night, though the unbeaten Ukrainian needed to work a bit harder than most people expected.
Former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs said Monday he would make current WBC titleholder Vitali Klitschko his "30-second, first-round victim" when they meet later this fall.
Kimbo Slice will leave MMA for the boxing ring.
Citing an eye injury, super middleweight titlist Mikkel Kessler of Denmark pulled out of the Super Six World Boxing Classic on Wednesday, putting his career in question and throwing the tournament into disarray.
Disgraced former welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito was licensed to box by Texas regulators on Thursday, paving the way for him to meet pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao for a vacant junior middleweight belt. 
Timur Ibragimov scored a 10th-round technical knockout over India's Gurchuran Singh in a bout between 1996 Olympians on Tuesday night.