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Marcos Maidana will compete in his second straight welterweight bout against Jesus Soto Karass on the undercard of a Showtime-televised main event featuring WBC junior middleweight titleholder Saul Alvarez.

Lucas Matthysse will face Ajose Olusegun on the Devon Alexander-Randall Bailey card Sept. 8 on Showtime. No site has been determined.

Unbeaten junior middleweight beltholder Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will defend his WBC crown against Josesito Lopez on a Showtime broadcast from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Sept. 15.

Devon Alexander will apparently get a shot at his third title belt before his hometown fans in St. Louis opposite IBF welterweight titleholder Randall Bailey on Sept. 8.

Southpaw junior middleweight contender Erislandy Lara has signed with advisor Al Haymon.

Promoter Lou DiBella: "I don't care who you are, if Randall Bailey hits you on the button, you're going to be knocked out."

The next fight for Lucas Matthysse could be a clash of hard-hitting Argentines with countryman Marcos Maidana.

Hard-hitting IBF welterweight titleholder Randall Bailey calls Devon Alexander "a full-blown midget," adding Tim Bradley "doesn't want a part of fighting me -- not even in his wildest dreams."

Junior welterweight contender Lucas Matthysse hopes to earn his third straight victory by knockout against former three-division beltholder Humberto Soto on Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Can aging RING middleweight champion Sergio Martinez stop young juggernaut Julio Cesar Chavez, the unbeaten WBC beltholder? The two are scheduled to meet in a pay-per-view showdown this fall.

Newly-crowned IBF welterweight titleholder Randall Bailey could face former junior welterweight beltholder Devon Alexander on Aug. 25 on Showtime

Josesito Lopez says he is motivated by the fact that Victor Ortiz has been named as the Sept. 15 opponent for WBC 154-pound titleholder Saul Alvarez in advance of his June 23 bout with Ortiz.

WBO junior welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley believes that he will beat Manny Pacquiao rather easily.

Tim Bradley on Manny Pacquiao: "He's got a huge fight looming over his head. The fight that everybody wants to see is Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao...but he's got to deal with me on June 9."

Bob Arum: "Tim Bradley is so confident that it's scary. I mean, he is absolutely 100 percent convinced that he's winning the fight" against Manny Pacquiao on June 9.

Tim Bradley: "It feels great to get the fight with Manny Pacquiao. It’s going to feel even better when I beat him. You can take that to the bank." 

Tim Bradley on fighting left-handers such as Manny Pacquiao: "It's just like riding a bike to me now. It's become second nature. Southpaws are easy to dominate now."

Trainer Freddie Roach says Manny Pacquiao will "beat Tim Bradley pretty easily" and is sticking to the comparison he made between Bradley and Pacquaio's second-round KO victim, Ricky Hatton.

Tim Bradley on Manny Pacquiao: "This guy is beatable. I'm going to prove it to everybody." 

WBO junior welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley will be featured on HBO's Portrait Of A Fighter on Saturday night in advance of his June 9 clash with WBO welterweight beltholder Manny Pacquiao.

Paulie Malignaggi on his knockout of Vyacheslav Senchenko: "Considering all of the pressure in this fight, and considering the circumstances surrounding this fight, you could make a case that this was my best and most complete performance."

Devon Alexander has joined advisor Al Haymon's star-studded list that includes Floyd Mayweather, Andre Berto, Adrien Broner, Paul Williams, Gary Russell Jr., Seth Mitchell and Chris Arreola.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be profiled on HBO's "Floyd Mayweather: Speaking Out" in April in advance of his May 5 showdown with Miguel Cotto.

Trainer Robert Garcia welcomes Marcos Maidana into a stable that already includes Nonito Donaire, Brandon Rios, Kelly Pavlik and Mikey Garcia. 

Tim Bradley:  "Any day, week or month of the year, you can come and drug test me. It's all natural over here with Tim Bradley. Natural. God-given talent."

WBO junior welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley will be facing a left-hander for the third straight fight when he meets WBO welterweight beltholder Manny Pacquiao on June 9.

Tim Bradley does not believe that Manny Pacquiao's out-of-the-ring troubles will bother the Filipino icon, whom he says he will "dominate" when they fight on June 9.

Abner Mares and Eric Morel will face each other for the WBC's junior featherweight belt vacated by Toshiaki Nishioka, and Robert Guerrero will meet Selcuk Aydin for the organization's interim welterweight title.

Undefeated cruiserweight contender Lateef Kayode has his eyes, and his ire, focused on former light heeavyweight champ and fellow 200-pound contender Antonio Tarver.

Can Juan Manuel Lopez avenge the upset loss he suffered last April and regain his title, or does Orlando Salido simply have his number? Boxing experts give their picks.

Devon Alexander is flying high after his dominant performance over heavy puncher Marcos Maidana on Saturday, but the new addition to the ranks of welterweight players still finds reason to criticize himself.

Junior welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley has now stood shirtless and face-to-face with Manny Pacquiao, and has determined himself to be the bigger and stronger man going into their June 9 clash on HBO Pay Per View.

Ken Hershman ran down an HBO lineup that includes fights such as Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley, Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson II, Lamont Peterson-Amir Khan II, Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin, and Brandon Rios-Yuriorkis Gamboa.

Will it be Devon Alexander the boxer, or Marcos Maidana the banger who is victorious in Saturday night's HBO-televised welterweight clash?

Manny Pacquiao wants to defend his WBO welterweight belt against Tim Bradley, fight perhaps twice more, and then, call it a career.

Adrien Broner: "For Eloy Perez, this is the biggest night of his life. For me, this is just another night of boxing. For me, it's just the same s--t, different toilet."

Marcos Maidana and Devon Alexander will provide urine samples to be tested for illegal drugs and steroids by an independant organization both before and after the fight on Feb. 25.

Missouri commission director, Tim Lueckenhoff, says Marcos Maidana's manager wanted to test for performing enhancing drugs, insinuating that Maidana's opponent on Feb. 25, Devon Alexander, has used "illegal drugs."

Devon Alexander says he won't run from Marcos Maidana, a Feb. 25 welterweight bout that he predicts will be "an action-packed fight."

The trainer of IBF light heavyweight titleholder considers his fighter to be better than RING/WBC champ Bernard Hopkins.

Marcos Maidana on Devon Alexander: "Sooner or later, I will catch him. And once I catch him, I will knock him down."

Although Lamont Peterson has received an offer from Golden Boy Promotions for a rematch with Amir Khan, Tim Bradley is an option.

Tim Bradley: "I think that Lamont Peterson should come and see Tim Bradley, and (try to) get some revenge. That sounds good to me."

Devon Alexander could face fellow 140-pound contender Marcos Maidana in a welterweight bout in February.

Devon Alexander's trainer said "fans can expect an all-out war" in a proposed bout with fellow junior welterweight contender Marcos Maidana.

Devon Alexander: "Everyone's going to see how good I can be at 147, especially Paulie Malignaggi, I promise you that."

Victor Ortiz's manager says the fighter will demand Olympic-style random drug testing for the rematch with Andre Berto.

HBO is considering a rematch between Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto as part of a doubleheader with Devon Alexander versus Paulie Malignaggi.

Bob Arum is targeting a Brandon Rios-Yuriorkis Gamboa fight for sometime in 2012, but says that Tim Bradley is a distant possibility for Manny Pacquiao.

Rolando Arellano: "If the opportunity puts him in a position to go for a title, and Victor Ortiz doesn't mind playing the politics that go with that, then I'll go ahead and start to position him against a Devon Alexander."