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Chinese amateur star Zou Shiming got a grand reception complete with dragons and bikini girls in Las Vegas, where he met Top Rank CEO Bob Arum and staged a public media workout with trainer Freddie Roach.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.'s case regarding his positive drug test for marijuana metabolites following September's loss to Sergio Martinez will be heard on Feb. 28, according to Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer.  

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming arrived in Los Angeles on Monday night.

Newly-crowned RING and WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia has had nasal reconstruction on the broken nose that he suffered during last month's technical-decision victory over Orlando Salido.

Unbeaten WBO welterweight beltholder Tim Bradley will make the first defense of his title against Russian Ruslan Provodnikov on March 16 at The Home Depot Center ini Carson, Calif.

Unbeaten junior welterweight Brandon Rios will face fellow top-10 contender Mike Alvarado in a March 30 rematch of their bloody brawl that ended with Rios winning a seventh-round stoppage last October.

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.

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum is targeting WBA and WBO flyweight titleholder Brian Viloria for an April 6 defense of his belts opposite Juan Francisco Estrada in Macau.

Attorneys for Julio Cesar Chavez have requested a maximum six-month suspension and a $10,000 fine as a penalty for his positive drug test for marijuana following September's loss to Sergio Martinez. Chavez can be suspended for up to a year and fined the entire amount of his $3 million purse, or a combination of both.

Top Rank announced the signing of two-time Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming, of China, who lists Muhammad Ali and Jackie Chan as his heroes.

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum is pretty confident that fans will see THE RING/WBO junior featherweight champion Nonito Donaire Jr., against unbeaten WBA 122-pound titleholder Guillermo Rigondeaux on April 27.

Does the presence of referee Steve Smoger favor the power of Gennady Golovkin or the potential for improvisational creativity from the rugged Gabriel Rosado?

WBO featherweight titleholder Orlando Salido aspires to a similar performance against Mikey Garcia as he had during two knockout victories over Juan Manuel Lopez. 

Will Manny Pacquiao's next fight, likely against Juan Manuel Marquez, take place outside of the United States?

Sugar Ray Leonard on Juan Manuel Marquez's stoppage of Manny Pacquiao: "When someone goes down, face-first like that...let me tell you, I was very, very concerned about Pacquiao."

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum will suggest that Manny Pacquiao have a neurological examination despite calling two doctors' "eye-balling" assessments of Parkinsons' disease in the fighter "ludicrous."

Sugar Ray Leonard on Adrien Broner: "I've been watching this kid, man, and this kid, man, he's a talent. That kid has it. He's one of those rare fighters that has the entire package. He has everything."

IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson will defend his crown against ex-titleholder Kendall Holt on Feb. 22 in Peterson's home town of Washington, D.C.

Unbeaten junior welterweight Brandon Rios would love to face Mike Alvarado, Danny Garcia or Lucas Matthysse, among others, and laments the rift between his promoter Top Rank and rival Golden Boy.

Julio Cesar Chavez's positive post-fight drug test case will be reviewed in February; Plus, a Paul Williams update and a look at 6-foot-5 junior middleweight prospect Alantez Fox.

Attorneys for former WBC middleweight titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will address his positive post-fight drug test for marijuana as well as his future before the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Tuesday. 

IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson could face Kendall Holt on Feb. 22 at the D.C. Armory.

An injury to RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward's right shoulder has forced the cancelation of a scheduled March 2 defense against former middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik.

An injury to RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward's right shoulder has placed his scheduled March 2 title defense against former middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik in doubt.

Tim Bradley-Lamont Peterson II and the anticipated Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado rematch could be in the works for March, according to Top Rank CEO Bob Arum.

Former RING middleweight and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins recounts his experiences at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.

Junior featherweight prospect Joseph Diaz Jr., a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, has signed with Golden Boy Promotions.

The post-fight drug tests for Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao returned negative for anabolic steroids, masking agents and marijuana, according to Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

Thailand's former titleholder Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym is out of Saturday night's fight with WBA junior featherweight beltholder Guillermo Rigondeaux.

Promoter Bob Arum on the notion from some members of the media that Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao IV would not do well: "That's why they're reporters and I'm a promoter."

Juan Manuel Marquez spoke to the boxing media after his vindicating one-punch knockout of arch-rival Manny Pacquiao. This video and all RingTV videos are now available on your mobile devices.

Manny Pacquiao got the firefight he wanted from Juan Manuel Marquez, only to get burned. 

The uncle and trainer of Floyd Mayweather said he would like for his next fight to be against Tim Bradley.

Saturday night's fourth bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez has sold out at the MGM Garden Arena, producing a live gate of $10.5 million.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. plans to fight twice in 2013 against opponents to be determined on May 4 and Sept. 14, the two Mexican holiday weekends. 

Manny Pacquiao says Juan Manuel Marquez can "prove something" by abandoning his counter-punching style and standing, "toe-to-toe," against him on Saturday night.

Rapper-turned-promoter 50 Cent envisions a clash between former featherweight titleholder Yuriorkis Gamboa and lightweight sensation Adrien Broner, and says he's the man who can make Mayweather-Pacquiao happen.

WBO welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley could return to the ring on Feb. 9, and managerial and promotional stablemate Brandon Rios could get a shot at Manny Pacquiao on April 20.

Brandon Rios: "I just want to prove everybody wrong and to show everybody that when I make my weight, and I'm where I'm supposed to be at, there's no stopping me."

Will Juan Manuel Marquez finally defeat Manny Pacquiao? Read on for the opinions of 27 boxing insiders.

Unbeaten WBA middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin will be after his 12th straight knockout victory against Gabriel Rosado on Jan. 19 at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Austin Trout wished his 88-year-old great grandmother, Dorothy Johnson, "Happy birthday 'Nanna' Johnson," after Saturday night's unanimous decision victory over Miguel Cottto.

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

The prospect of a highly-anticipated clash of junior featherweights between Abner Mares and Nonito Donaire was among the many topics broached by Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer in New York on Wednesday.

The Jan. 26 clash featuring RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward and former undisputed middleweight titleholder Kelly Pavlik unites promoters Bob Arum, Dan Goossen and Don King. 

Austin Trout "will see, on Saturday, the best Miguel Cotto ever," says Cotto, who is unbeaten in seven fights at New York's Madison Square Garden, and in nine bouts overall in The Big Apple.

Hector "Macho" Camacho was both the consummate showman and skilled practictioner, and despite his flaws outside the ring he earned respect inside it. RingTV.com collected the thoughts of boxing insiders following his passing.