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Both Abner Mares and Leo Santa Cruz are causing a buzz after stepping up in weight and knocking out their respective opponents.

"I think that this is the fight where I proved that I'm a pound-for-pound fighter," said Abner Mares, who knocked out Daniel Ponce de Leon to take his WBC featherweight belt, making him a three-division beltwinner.

Abner Mares: "I actually added something different to my training camp, and it's called 'Mexican Judo.' It's 'ju-don't know if I'm going to box, or ju-don't know if I'm going to brawl, but you do know that I'm going to win.'"

RING junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is expected to be ringside for Saturday night's clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Abner Mares recognizes that fellow two-divsion beltholder and current WBC featherweight titleholder Daniel Ponce de Leon represents "stepping into a heavier weight class" and "going in against a heavy puncher."

Read on for a lot of fan feedback on Guillermo Rigondeuax’s unanimous decision over Nonito Donaire in this week’s Monday mailbag. Fans are split on whether the fight was one-sided or close and whether it was entertaining or a total stinker. Enjoy!

Former WBC 122-pound titleholder Abner Mares on his upcoming fight with Daniel Ponce de Leon on the Mayweather-Guerrero card: "I'm taking this big step and I hope that we can steal the show that night."

Former WBC 122-pound titleholder Abner Mares on the Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux junior featherwieght championship bout: "I see Nonito winning by knockout. I estimate a seven-round knockout by Nonito if Rigondeaux doesn't just run and box all night."

Frank Espinoza, who manages two-division beltholder Abner Mares and WBC featherweight titleholder Daniel Ponce de Leon, says that a Mares-Ponce de Leon clash at 126 pounds could happen if Ponce de Leon defeats Jayson Velez on March 2.

Abner Mares is vacating his WBC 122-pound belt in order to campaign at 126 pounds. The former bantamweight beltholder had hoped to unify junior featherweight titles with RING/IBF/WBO 122-pound champ Nonito Donaire.

IBF bantamweight titleholder Leo Santa Cruz aspires to the greatness of Mexican predecessors such as Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., Juan Manuel Marquez and Oscar Larios.

Nonito Donaire said he wants to "clean out" the 122-pound division by defeating Jorge Arce, Abner Mares and Guillermo Rigondeaux, in that order. 

WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares calls a clash with RING, IBF and WBO champion Nonito Donaire "the only fight for me."

Abner Mares took a giant step foward in his career with his convincing unanimous-decision victory over talented Anselmo Moreno on Saturday in Los Angeles.

RingTV.com editor Doug Fischer gives his post-fight thoughts on Abner Mares' unanimous decision victory over Anselmo Moreno immediately after the junior featherweight showdown at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Watch Abner Mares and Anselmo Moreno weigh-in for their junior featherweight showdown at Staples Center on Nov. 10. IBF bantamweight titleholder Leo Santa Cruz and Alfredo Angulo also weighed in for thier undecard bouts.

WBC 122-pound titleholder Abner Mares and his challenger Anselmo Moreno easily made weight on Friday at Staples Center in L.A., the site of their Showtime-televised showdown on Saturday. Mares weighed 121.8 pounds; Moreno weighed 120.8.

Leo Santa Cruz's days are numbered at bantamweight, but the unbeaten IBF titleholder will remain at 118 pounds at least until the end of the year. He defends his belt against Victor Zaleta on the Abner Mares-Anselmo Moreno undercard at Staples Center on Saturday.

Junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo, who meets Raul Casarez on Saturday night, plans to donate his long hair to the charity Locks of Love, which assists children who suffer hair loss as a result of chemotherapy to treat cancer.

RingTV's Dominic Verdin spoke to WBC 122-pound titleholder Abner Mares and WBA bantamweight beltholder Anselmo Moreno about their anticipated Showtime-televised showdown on Saturday followng a public workout in Los Angeles.

WBC 122-pound titleholder Abner Mares says he's evolved into a complete fighter capable of turning back the challenge of highly respected Anselmo Moreno, who says he's ready to win a hard-fought championship bout when they meet on Saturday.   

The combatants of the stacked Showtime-televised card topped by Abner Mares’ WBC 122-pound title defense against Anselmo Moreno on Nov. 10 will hold a public workout at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles today.

"I'm very hungry for this fight, and that's what's going to carry me to victory," said once-beaten Anselmo Moreno, who will make his 122-pound debut on Nov. 10 against undefeated WBC tltleholder Abner Mares.

If Abner Mares could have chosen an opponent other than Anselmo Moreno, he said, "I would have taken, hands down, the Nonito Donaire fight."

Although WBA welterweight beltholder Paulie Malignaggi has been mandated to face unbeaten Diego Chaves, he prefers a rematch with Ricky Hatton.

Manny Pacquiao began training in Hollywood on Monday for his fourth clash with Juan Manuel Marquez, which is slated for Dec. 8 at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

IBF bantamweight titleholder Leo Santa Cruz will try to remain unbeaten when he defends against Mexico's Victor Zaleta on Nov. 10 on Showtime.

Fans prefer newly crowned RING 122-pound champ Nonito Donaire to stay at junior featherwieght and face the Abner Mares-Anselmo Moreno winner or Guillermo Rigondeaux to moving up to featherweight, according to a RingTV.com poll.

Unbeaten bantamweight titleholder Leo Santa Cruz will make the second defense of his IBG crown against Victor Zaleta on the Nov. 10 undercard of Abner Mares-Anselmo Moreno in Los Angeles.

Welterweight titleholder Paulie Malignaggi and middleweight contender Danny Jacobs will appear in separate fights at The Barclays Center in their native Brooklyn on Oct. 20.

WBO light heavyweight titleholder Nathan Cleverly will face Ryan Coyne in a clash of unbeatens on Nov. 10 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The fight, on the Abner Mares-Anselmo Moreno undercard, will be Cleverly's second-ever bout on U.S. soil.

Unbeaten WBC 122-pound titleholder and WBA bantamweight beltholder talk to RingTV's Dominic Verdin about their anticipated showdown at Staples Center in L.A. on Nov. 12. Mares also talks about facing the winner of Donaire-Nishioka and eventually fighting Leo Santa Cruz.

Abner Mares continues his run of facing world-class fighters on Nov. 10 when he fights THE RING's No. 1-rated bantamweight Anselmo Moreno, who is arguably the best boxer the unbeaten 122-pound beltholder has ever faced.

Two-time welterweight titleholder Andre Berto could challenge IBF junior middleweight beltholder Cornelius Bundrage on Nov. 24, although he's been mentioned as a potential rival to WBO 147-pound titlewinner Tim Bradley on Dec. 15.

Abner Mares will put his unbeaten streak on the line against Anselmo Moreno on Nov. 10 at The Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo will have been out of the ring for more than a year when he meets Raul Casarez on Nov. 10.

WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares calls Leo Santa Cruz a smaller version of Antonio Margarito and considers Anselmo Moreno to be one of the sport's premiere fighters.

IBF welterweight titleholder Randall Bailey has suffered a back injury that has forced the postponement of his defense against Devon Alexander, originally scheduled for Sept. 8.

Showtime's Stephen Espinoza once said of co-existing with HBO that "there is room for two very successful, very active networks in boxing."  

Golden Boy Promotions CEO plans to sign several Olympic boxers prior to their pro debuts, but questions the relationship of AIBA, amateur boxing's governing body, with professional boxing.

WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares, lightweight contender Sharif Bogere and featherweight prosepct Gary Russell Jr. could be a part of a big weekend that includes 2012 Olympian pro debuts, Oct. 13-14, on Showtime and CBS.

Images from Anselmo Moreno's ninth-round KO defense of his WBA bantamweight title against David De La Mora in El Paso, Texas.

Abner Mares turned in the performance of his career, dominating Eric Morel to win the vacant WBC junior featherwieght title Saturday in El Paso, Texas.

Abner Mares, Eric Morel, Anselmo Moreno and David De La Mora looked ripped and ready for their co-featured bouts on tonight's Showtime broadcast (9:30 p.m. PT/ET) from El Paso, Texas, during yesterday's official weighin.

Middleweight Fernando Guerrero has injured his left biceps, forcing him out of his ShoBox: The new Generation bout against Chris Fitzpatrick this Friday.

Eric Morel on Abner Mares: "His style is perfect for mine. I'm aware of his power and I'm aware of everything that he can bring. I'm confident that I can pull it off."

Lateef Kayode's cruiserweight bout with former light heavyweight titleholder Antonio Tarver is to headline a Showtime-televised, quadruple-header from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., on June 2.

Gary Russell Jr. injured his left ankle during a sparring session on Friday that will force him off an April 21 card whose junior featherweight bout features Abner Mares against Eric Morel.

Golden Boy and the United Kingdom's BoxNation will team up to broadcast the upcoming Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto fight and others to British fans, starting in April.

Both IBF bantamweight titleholder Abner Mares and Joseph Agbeko weighed in at 117.75 pounds for their anticipated Showtime-televised rematch in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 3.