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Adrien Broner's unanimous decision over Daniel Ponce de Leon, and Paulie Malignaggi's win over Jose Miguel Cotto will both be featured by Golden Boy Classics on Fox Deportes this Saturday.

RING and WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia: "Before I became the world champion, I wanted the biggest names in the game to show everybody what type of fighter I was, and at the time that was Yuriorkis Gamboa."

Oscar De La Hoya on Floyd Mayweather-Saul "Canelo" Alvarez: "Mayweather will stand in the pocket and fight. He'll run and he'll box, but he'll also stay in the pocket and fight, which can make him vulnerable to being hit."

Adrien Broner's trainer Mike Stafford plans to "unleash" a "more vicious" version of the WBC lightweight beltholder on Paulie Malignaggi, who Broner challenges for the WBA welterweight title on July 22.

Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler weighed 167.9 and 166.7, respectively, in advance of Saturday's HBO-televised super middleweight clash.

Miguel Cotto could be closing in on a date for his ring return this year, and the list of possible opponents includes a lot of heavy hitters.

Unbeaten three-division titlewinner Abner Mares on a potential matchup with prospect Gary Russell Jr.: "Whenever this fight with Gary Russell were to happen, we'll find out then if I'm tailor-made for him."

Unbeaten featherweight prospect Gary Russell Jr. says he wants to challenge the unbeaten elite likes of Abner Mares or Yuriorkis Gamboa.

Both Abner Mares and Leo Santa Cruz are causing a buzz after stepping up in weight and knocking out their respective opponents.

"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.

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.'"

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."

Middleweight Danny Jacobs twice floored Keenan Collins on his way to a fourth-round stoppage in Brooklyn on Saturday.

Junior middleweight Boyd Melson scored a fifth-round knockdown against rival Edgar Perez, of Chicago, on the way to a six-round unanimous decision at Barclays Center on Saturday night.

Adrien Broner on his Friday morning confrontation with Paulie Malignaggi, who fights on June 22: "He was scared. You all seen that. He thought he had seen a ghost, and I ain't talking about Robert Guerrero."

Yuriorkis Gamboa will return to the ring for a clash of unbeatens against Colombian Darley Perez on the June 8 card that also features RING and WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson against Adonis Stevenson.

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."

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."

After scoring a first-round knockdown, a bloody Michael Perez had to settle for a majority draw with Lonnie Smith.

IBF lightweight beltholder Miguel Vazquez will face WBO counterpart Ricky Burns as part of an EPIX-televised quadrupleheader on March 16.

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.

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.

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.

Junior middleweight Jorge Melendez's fourth-round knockout of James Winchester represented the first time the loser had been stopped.

Oscar De La Hoya on the BB&T series: "For the first event, we wanted to bring a world class fight, and that is exactly what you have in Johan Perez vs. Steve Forbes."

Miguel Cotto weighed 153.6 to Austin Trout's junior middleweight limit 154 in advance of Saturday night's fight at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Adrien Broner on Saturday's clash with Antonio DeMarco: "It's definitely a defining fight for me. Not only is it a defining fight, but it's a fight that can cross me over into another world that a lot of boxers can't go to."

WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares calls a clash with RING, IBF and WBO champion Nonito Donaire "the only fight for me."

"I'm very hungry for this fight, and that's what's going to carry me to victory," said once-beaten Anselmo Moreno, who will make his 122-pound debut on Nov. 10 against undefeated WBC tltleholder Abner Mares.

If Abner Mares could have chosen an opponent other than Anselmo Moreno, he said, "I would have taken, hands down, the Nonito Donaire fight."

Of unbeaten lightweight Adrien Broner, hall-of-famer and fellow Cincinnati native Aaron Pryor says it's okay to be "a little bit cocky... but you gotta win."

Adrien Broner on his anticipated showdown with WBC lightweight titleholder Antonio DeMarco and his critics: "They will never give me the credit when it's due...even if I go in and I knock this guy out in the first round."

Promoter Gary Shaw says if his fighter, WBC lightweight titleholder Antonio DeMarco, "hurts Adrien Broner at all, then he knows how to finish him." Broner challenges DeMarco in Atlantic City, N.J., on Nov. 17 on HBO.

WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares calls Leo Santa Cruz a smaller version of Antonio Margarito and considers Anselmo Moreno to be one of the sport's premiere fighters.

IBF light heavyweight titleholder Tavoris Cloud's defense against Jean Pascal may be in jeopardy for the fall, according to Pascal's promoter, Yvon Michel.

Super middleweight Edwin Rodriguez will face Jason Escalera on Sept. 29 -- six years to the day from when his twin children barely survived their premature birth.

WBO junior lightweight beltholder Adrien Broner says he will move up to 135 pounds after Saturday night's defense against Vicente Escobedo.

Former cruiserweight titleholder Enzo Maccarinelli has been banned for six months following a positive test for an illegal substance, according to the United Kingdom Anti-Doping Agency.

Adrien Broner says upsets happen in boxing for two reasons: The losers are not him, and they are not Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Undefeated junior lightweight titleholder Adrien Broner, who defends his WBO title against Vicente Escobedo in his native Cincinnati on July 21, will be featured in HBO's short documentary "2 Days: Adrien Broner" on July 7.

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.

Hard-hitting IBF welterweight titleholder Randall Bailey calls Devon Alexander "a full-blown midget," adding Tim Bradley "doesn't want a part of fighting me -- not even in his wildest dreams."

Former junior lightweight title challenger Eloy Perez, who tested positive for cocaine use after losing to Adrien Broner in February: "I'm focusing on myself. I'm just trying to figure things out. I'm disappointed with myself."

Undefeated featherweight prospect Gary Russell Jr. will return to the ring on June 30 against Chris Perez of Mexico.

Will the young wolf, Abner Mares, out-gun the old fox, Eric Morel, when they meet in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday night for the vacant WBC 122-pound crown? Boxing insiders give their picks.

Eloy Perez's former handlers, Garcia Management, and Golden Boy Promotions' CEO, Richard Schaefer, say they are both available to support him despite his positive post-fight drug test for cocaine after the recent loss to Adrien Broner.