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Olympic gold medalist and former featherweight beltholder Yuriorkis Gamboa will meet Colombia's Darley Perez in an HBO-televised lightweight match on June 8 in Montreal.

Showtime's Stephen Espinoza: "Floyd Mayweather is still, without question, the No. 1 pay per view star in boxing, and, actually, in all of sports."

Floyd Mayweather Jr., Robert Guerrero, Abner Mares and Daniel Ponce de Leon all tested negative following their post-fight drug tests on May 4. 

Floyd Mayweather was a guest on the Jimmy Fallon Show on Tuesday night to talk about last Saturday's unanimous-decision win over Robert Guerrero.

Floyd Mayweather's unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero will be re-aired on Saturday night on Showtime. The Abner Mares' WBC featherweight title-winning TKO of Daniel Ponce de Leon will also re-air on the cable network.

Abner Mares addressed the boxing media after winning the WBC featherweight title by knocking out Daniel Ponce de Leon on the Mayweather-Guerrero undercard. Leo Santa Cruz, who fought and won on the undercard, also spoke.

Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer said "hopefully" Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Saul Canelo Alvarez will happen on Sept. 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

"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.

RingTV.com editor Doug Fischer gave his thoughts on the "MAY DAY" PPV event from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Fischer was impressed with Floyd Mayweather and Abner Mares, both of whom exhibited elite form while defeating Robert Guerrero and Daniel Ponce de Leon.

Action shots from featherweight Abner Mares' ninth-round stoppage over Daniel Ponce de Leon on the Mayweather-Guerrero undercard.

Abner Mares dropped Daniel Ponce de Leon twice en route to scoring an impressive ninth-round stoppage in the co-featured bout to the Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero event on Saturday in Las Vegas. Mares won the WBC featherweight title.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero on the scales in Las Vegas, plus undercard bouts Daniel Ponce de Leon-Abner Mares and Leo Santa Cruz-Alexander Munoz.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. looks to be in prime shape for Saturday's clash with Robert Guerrero, who says he can't wait "to get down."

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.'"

Leo Santa Cruz on Saturday's junior featherweight fight with Alexander Munoz: "On Saturday, we're going to make it a war. I'm going to go out there and try to finish him before the end of the 10 rounds."

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.

Fans expect Abner Mares to earn his third world title in a third weight class when he challenges WBC featherweight beltholder Daniel Ponce de Leon in the co-featured bout to the Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero showdown in Las Vegas on Saturday.

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."

The fighting peers of junior middleweights Austin Trout and Saul Alvarez offer their thoughts on who will win Saturday night's Showtime-televised clash of unbeatens.

Middleweight contender Matthew Macklin claims that he will handle unbeaten WBA titleholder Gennady Golovkin in similar fashion to how Bernard Hopkins knocked out then-undefeated Felix Trinindad in the 12th round.

Unbeaten welterweight contender Kell Brook has suffered yet another foot injury that could jeopardize his scheduled challenge to IBF beltholder Devon Alexander for the third time.

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."

"I'm going to win. Without a doubt, I'm going to win. This fight is personal because Trout beat my brother," Saul Alvarez said of his April 20 championship match with Austin Trout in Showtime's All-Access: Canelo vs. Trout Preview.

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."

Floyd Mayweather called Robert Guerrero "a solid, tough competitor" during Saturday night's interview on CBS between games during the NCAA's Final Four.

Former IBF bantamweight titleholder Leo Santa Cruz and undefeatd middleweight prospect J'Leon Love will compete in separate bouts on the undercard of the May 4 Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero Showtime Pay Per View event.

Closed circuit tickets for the May 4 Showtime Pay Per View-televised clash between Floyd Mayweather and Robert Guerrero will go on sale on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Fans will have the option of watching Floyd Mayweather's May 4 defense against Robert Guerrero on the big screen in movie theaters.

Lamont Peterson on the hard-hitting Lucas Matthysse: "I don't think he's going to pose any problems for me."

Floyd Mayweather on Robert Guerrero: "42 have tried, 42 have failed. He will be number 43."   

Floyd Mayweather Jr. was keen on his May 4 defense against Mexican-American Robert Guerrero being complimented by an all-Mexican clash between Abner Mares and Daniel Ponce de Leon.

Mexico-born Abner Mares' challenge to Mexican featherweight beltholder Daniel Ponce de Leon has been added to the May 4 Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero pay-per-view undercard.

Former 140-pound titleholder Amir Khan could get a stiff test from former 135-pound titleholder Julio Diaz on April 27 in Khan's native England.

Abner Mares will challenge WBC featherweight titleholder Daniel Ponce de Leon on April 20 on Showtime, the former bantamweight and junior featherweight titleholder and his management team, Espinoza Boxing, announced on Twitter on Monday evening.

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.

Unbeaten featherweight prospect Gary Russell Jr. will return to the ring on March 2 opposite Russian standout Vyacheslav Gusev on the Daniel Ponce de Leon-Jayson Velez undercard in New York City.

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.

Now fighting in the limelight after coming out in October, featherweight contender Orlando Cruz says he wants a title shot against the winner of Orlando Salido vs. Mikey Garcia.

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."

Unbeaten featherweight contender Gary Russell Jr. wants to fight four times in 2013, the last time for a world title belt.

Super middleweight contender Sakio Bika could face Nikola Sjekloca for the WBC's interim belt on Feb. 16, according to Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer.

Former RING light heavyweight and middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins will be 48 years old by the time he enters the ring for a proposed clash with IBF 175-pound titleholder Tavoris Cloud on March 9.

Fights involving multi-belt winners Floyd Mayweather, Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley are part of the plans of Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer for the year 2013. 

Yuriorkis Gamboa rose from a ninth-round knockdown after twice dropping Michael Farenas on the way to Saturday night's unanimous decision for the WBA's interim junior lightweight belt.

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.

Unbeaten former featherweight beltholder Yuriorkis Gamboa will meet southpaw Filipino Michael Farenas on the Dec. 8 Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV card.

WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares and eight-division titlewinner Manny Pacquiao handed out free Turkeys at different venues over the weekend.