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RING and WBO featherweight champion Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia will try to remain undefeated against former 122-pound and featherwieght beltholder Juan Manuel Lopez on June 15 in Dallas, Texas.

Tavoris Cloud's trainer, Abel Sanchez -- who trained Terry Norris to brutally defeat Sugar Ray Leonard -- says his fighter is "about to retire another legend on Saturday night" when Cloud faces 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins.

Tavoris Cloud on Bernard Hopkins' outfit at Wednesday's press conference: "It was funny to just turn around and to just see a grown man with a ski mask on standing there and not saying nothing to nobody."

Don King, who promotes IBF light heavyweight titleholder Tavoris Cloud and once promoted Cloud's March 9 challenger Bernard Hopkins, is expected to make an appearance on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" tonight.

Junior flyweight Zou Shiming, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time world amateur champion from China, will be making his professional debut on April 6 as part of a show that will be televised by HBO2 from Macao.

Ageless Hall of Fame ring announcer Michael Buffer will be profiled on HBO's debut series "Cornered" on March 5.

FUTURE OF BOXING: Former world heavyweight champs, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis talk about the importance their mothers had in molding and supporting them to become men who would one day win the biggest prize in sports.

HBO's exiting Larry Merchant: "I'm proud to be associated with so many talented people who made us into a groundbreaking network."

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.

Former RING light heavyweight and middleweight champ Bernard Hopkins is being targeted for a comeback on March 9 opposite 175-pound titleholders Nathan Cleverly, Beibut Shumenov or Tavoris Cloud.

Boxing luminaries gathered at the Ballagio Hotel in Las Vegas to celebrate the inauguration of the WBC pension fund, in an event sponsored by Swiss luxury watch maker Hublot.

In response to threats against him, RING middleweight champion Sergio Martinez is being guarded by an armed security force in advance of his Sept. 15 clash with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Promoter Don King, who turns 81 on Aug. 20, invited Pygmies to the "Rumble In The Jungle," claims to be able to communicate with Floyd Mayweather in "ghetto-ese," and once killed a man -- just a few stories from the life of the man who coined the phrase "Only in America."

Oscar De La Hoya on his absence from THE RING's Top 10 list of fighters who have achieved Olympic and professional success: "I really don't mind, because I don't need my head to be blown up any more than it already is."

With the 30th Modern Olympiad in the history books and many of the boxing standouts of the London Games considering professional careers, RingTV.com historian Lee Groves compiled a list of the 10 best boxers who have combined Olympian heights with pro glory.

The death of boxing historian Bert Sugar leaves a hole in the heart of the sport, say his colleagues and admirers.

Fighting in his hometown for the first time in his professional career, Zab Judah believes that his big-fight experience will be too much for young Vernon Paris, and that "Super" will be wearing a belt again after March 24.

Sugar Ray Leonard said Angelo Dundee never doubted he would defeat Marvin Hagler, even after Leonard was nearly knocked out by a sparring partner five days prior to the fight.

Angelo Dundee, the beloved former trainer of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard among other hall-of-fame enshrined fighters, has died at the age of 90.

Seth Mitchell's knockout of Timur Ibragimov sheds light on the American heavyweight's plight against foreign dominance. Click here for a video interview with the unbeaten prospect.

On his 80th birthday, Top Rank Inc. Bob Arum discusses things he would change about boxing, among other subjects.

The first loss of Joe Frazier's career was one of the most crushing defeats ever suffered by a reigning heavyweight champion. The April 1973 issue of THE RING covered Frazier's second-round knockout to George Foreman.

Joe Frazier took a long victory lap after defeating Muhammad Ali, and by the start of 1973 fans were ready to see him in a real fight. Could undefeated George Foreman compete? THE RING provided its pre-fight analysis.  

The boxing world remembers 'Smokin' Joe Frazier -- the fighter, the legend, and the man. 

Muhammad Ali is praying for Joe Frazier, who is battling cancer and whose documentary will be screened on Tuesday in New York. 

Sugar Ray Leonard: "Bernard Hopkins is an anomaly. Bernard is one of those rare breeds that just doesn't exist anymore. He's like a George Foreman. You cannot doubt him or count him out."

Larry Merchant discusses the fiery post-fight exchange with Floyd Mayweather Jr., and offers some opinions on how "Money" and Pacman would fare against past fighters.

Angelo Dundee on Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao: "Mayweather wins. I just don't know why Mayweather's not fighting him. He walks around saying that he's the best fighter in the world? Well, fight the sucker."

Former undisputed Lennox Lewis, who turns 46 in September, lists his children, contentment and induction into the International Hall of Fame among the reasons he will never fight again.

Having once lectured Kelly Pavlik on the potential for destroying himself, Bernard Hopkins believes he has the right answers should the struggling fighter seek his advice