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Referee Tony Weeks on stopping IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson's triumph over ex-titleholder Kendall Holt in the eighth round: "Some fighters just have too much heart, and we have to save them from themselves."

Referee Tony Weeks will make his East Coast debut with Friday night's Lamont Peterson-Kendall Holt fight at The D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C.

Micky Ward on referee Pat Russell's stoppage of Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado: "You'd rather be a punch too early than a punch too late, so I think that the referee did a good job of stopping it."

Everyone is anticipating violence in the junior welterweight clash between Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado. As far as who wins, RingTV.com sought the opinions of several boxing insiders.

Unbeaten former lightweight titleholder Brandon Rios on his Oct. 13 clash with undefeated 140-pound contender Mike Alvarado: "It's going to be a very violent, very bloody fight. It's going to be a can't-miss fight."

Two years after being in the fight of his life in the boxing ring, Diego Corrales lost his life in a motorcycle accident.

Wladimir Klitschko will have a return bout with Tony Thompson on July 7, nearly four years to the day after having stopped Thompson in the 11th round.

WBA lightweight beltholder Brandon Rios on Johnny Murray: "I think that he's a warrior who wants to brawl like me."

Roger Mayweather: "I said, 'your daddy's out [of jail], you go and train with him. Now if things don't work out between you and your daddy, then you just come back to me."

'At the end of the day, they have families,' said Floyd Mayweather Jr., who often thinks about deceased former champions Genaro Hernandez, Diego Corrales and Arturo Gatti.