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Junior welterweight Mike Alvarado has signed to face former lightweight beltholder Brandon Rios in an HBO-televised bout on Oct. 13. 

Junior welterweight Mike Alvarado has agreed in principle to a clash with former WBA lightweight titleholder Brandon Rios on Oct. 13 at The Home Depot Center on the Nonito Donaire-Toshiaki Nishioka undercard.

Manny Pacquiao's advisor and promoter are on their way to the Philippines to discuss the fighter's next move, which could be a return bout with either Tim Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez or Miguel Cotto.

A WBO junior lightweight bout between Roman Martinez and Miguel Beltran Jr. will be on the undercard of the HBO Pay Per View-televised main event featuring RING middleweight champ Sergio Martinez and WBC beltholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Sept. 15. 

WBO junior featherweight beltholder Nonito Donaire will defend his crown against former titleholder Toshiaki Nishioka on Oct. 13 at Home Depot Center. Brandon Rios makes his junior welterweight debut against Mike Alvarado on the undercard.

WBA junior featherweight titleholder Guillermo Rigondeaux will pursue his fourth straight knockout victory against Robert Marroquin on Sept. 15 in Las Vegas.

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum applauds the creation of TMT Promotions by rapper 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr., saying it will energize the sport and possibly set the stage for Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.

Manager Cameron Dunkin's plan for Mikey Garcia is to match him against Orlando Salido in the fall, while the hope for Brandon Rios is a fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.

Richard Schaefer: "Adrien Broner is obviously going to be one of the superstars in the sport of boxing."

Vanes Martirosyan could face Erislandy Lara in a junior middleweight eliminator bout for the right to face WBC beltholder Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.

Undefeated junior middleweight Vanes Martirosyan is being considered for a clash with WBA middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin on Aug. 25.

Feisty at fifty: Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. says RING middleweight champion Sergio Martinez has "been talking a lot of bulls--t." Martinez meets his son, WBC beltholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., on Sept. 15 in Las Vegas.

Ringtv.com asked a panel of boxing insiders what will happen when WBO junior featherweight beltholder Nonito Donaire faces his tallest opponent yet in IBF counterpart Jeffrey Mathebula on Saturday.

An investigation by the Nevada attorney general has determined that there was no criminal activity involved in Tim Bradley's split-decision victory over Manny Pacquiao on June 9.

A Nov. 10 rematch with either Tim Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez or Miguel Cotto appears to be the likely scenario for Manny Pacquiao, while a highly-anticipated mega bout against Floyd Mayweather Jr. is considered a long shot.

The decision to move Kelly Pavlik to Oxnard, Calif., has clearly paid off and trainer Robert Garcia, manager Cameron Dunkin and Pavlik himself are all feeling a sense of rejuvenation around his career.

Tim Bradley has vacated the WBO's 140-pound belt in the wake of his split-decision victory that dethroned Manny Pacquiao for the organization's 147-pound title.

The Sergio Martinez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. promotional press tour will cover Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and Mexico.

Nonito Donaire's manager, Cameron Dunkin, calls the WBO junior featherweight titleholder "pound-for-pound, maybe the best fighter in the world."

WBO 122-pound titleholder Nonito Donaire says he wants to unify the junior featherweight division beginning with IBF beltholder Jeffrey Mathebula, who he faces on July 7 in Carson, Calif.

Manny Pacquiao told media in Manila, Philippines that he wanted to "get that title" back from Tim Bradley, whose controversial split-decision dethroned Pacquiao as WBO welterweight titleholder on June 9.

Undefeated welterweight prospect Jessie Vargas signed a promotional contract with Top Rank, the Las Vegas-based promotional company announced on Tuesday.

A five-member panel of international judges has unanimously scored in favor of Manny Pacquiao against Tim Bradley after watching video of Bradley's disputed split-decision win that dethroned Pacquiao as welterweight titleholder on June 9.  

In the wake of the Tim Bradley-Manny Pacquiao fight controversy, HBO's Harold Lederman says boxing should employ the best judges for the biggest fights, no matter what.

Juan Manuel Marquez on Tim Bradley-Manny Pacquiao: "I think that Pacquiao beat Bradley maybe by four points, because I had Pacquaiao winning eight rounds and Bradley winning four rounds."

HBO commentator Jim Lampley calls Duane Ford, one of two referees who had Tim Bradley defeating Manny Pacquiao, "a standup guy." Ford will be a guest on Lampley's Fight Game, which airs Saturday night.

Tim Bradley on the Manny Pacquiao fight: "I wanted this, and I won it. You saw me raise my hands before the third card was even announced, because I was like, 'I won.'"

Bob Arum on Tim Bradley-Manny Pacquiao: "We have to have everybody, including myself and everybody connected with the fight in for some serious questioning."

Trainer Freddie Roach says he had a bad feeling as soon as he heard the first scorecard being read after Manny Pacquiao's fight against Tim Bradley.

Nevada Commission executive director Keith Kizer said that he will review the video of Tim Bradley's decision over Manny Pacquiao separately with each the three judges.

Promoter Bob Arum calls the notion that he somehow influenced the results of Tim Bradley-Manny Pacquiao "not true," and "preposterous."

Tim Bradley on the fight with Manny Pacquiao: "I told my trainer, Joel Diaz, that I might have broken a bone in my left foot because I heard a pop. And he said, 'well, what do you want to do?' And I said, "well, I want to continue on and to fight like a champion.'"

WBA junior featherweight titleholder Guillermo Rigondeaux delivered the kind of performance his promoter was looking for, as he floored Teon Kennedy five times on the way to Saturday night's fifth-round knockout victory.

Nonito Donaire: "I wouldn't even mind finding somebody who tests positive and prove that my ability is better in a natural way -- regardless if he's on it -- and that I can still beat him."

Yuriorkis Gamboa could be at Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley title matchup that is being promoted by Top Rank, despite legal issues between himself and the fight promoter.

Former three-time welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito announced that he is retiring from boxing on his Facebook page on Thursday.

Tim Bradley on Manny Pacquiao: "I'm ready. I'm ready to shock the world. I'm ready to do whatever it takes to win this fight. It's going to be a great fight. Let's get it on, baby. It's going to be a war."

Manny Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, believes the fighter's marital troubles might have factored in to his sub-par performance against Juan Manuel Marquez in November.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather were close to finalizing a deal to fight in 2010, according to documents.

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.

Bob Arum on Mike Jones: "Depending on how Mike does in this fight with Randall Bailey, you know, he would be in the future mix for Manny Pacquiao or for Tim Bradley."

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." 

Nonito Donaire and Brandon Rios will be the featured fighters in an HBO-televised double-header from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., on July 7.

Although he calls Tim Bradley a "handsome" fighter, Manny Pacquiao's ready to mess up the challenger's pretty face. 

Juan Manuel Marquez won't be fighting on July 14, but could re-enter the ring sometime this summer.