Light Heavyweight Boxing

In addition to a compelling main event Oct. 23 at Honda Center pitting heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and unbeaten contender Cain Velasquez, the UFC has added two other notable bouts to the card. Former light-heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz will fight....

On Easter Sunday, Richard Schaefer was in Las Vegas a day after the forgettable Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones Jr. rematch. A married father of three boys, ages 12 to 15, Schaefer had to handle his work assignment delicately around his wife......

More than four years have passed since Tito Ortiz last won in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and the charismatic Huntington Beach fighter finds himself nearly a 2-to-1 underdog in Las Vegas sports books for Saturday night's light-heavyweight UFC...

Burke Emery runs a local watering hole called Champ's Lounge in Clairemont, but at one time he was the toast of an entire country for his boxing ability. "I had a hell of a right hand," Emery said. Emery first used that right hand as a kid growing up in...

UFC has issued a statement in response to Monday's arrest of Tito Ortiz by Huntington Beach police for alleged domestic violence against Jenna Jameson. "We're all aware of it, and any comment would be best handled by the authorities," UFC......

Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White confirmed to The Times on Sunday that he had fired popular heavyweight Kimbo Slice, citing ineffectiveness, and welterweight Paul Daley, because of a post-fight sucker punch Daley delivered to Saturday-...

The Ultimate Fighting Championship's popularity is spiking upward again, with a sold-out Saturday night card in Las Vegas pitting former light-heavyweight champions Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans at UFC 114 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. And UFC...

As Showtime's vice president of sports programming, Ken Hershman is tasked with juggling the best interests of both forms of combat sports: boxing and mixed martial arts. In the hours before Hershman's network presents a major Strikeforce MMA card with......

Jon Jones continued to show his potential as a future Ultimate Fighting Championship light-heavyweight champion Sunday when he dominated 39-year-old Vladimir Matyushenko in the "UFC on Versus 2" main event at the San Diego Sports Arena. Jones scored a...

Riverside's Cris Arreola weighed in Thursday at 250 1/2 pounds for his Saturday night heavyweight boxing match versus Poland's Tomasz Adamek, who weighed 217. Arreola wasn't fazed by the number, with members of his training team noting he weighed 246........

Administrator4: UFC light-heavyweight champion is here and ready for your questions. Who's here and ready to take on the Iceman? topstryker: Here Lakermark: Chuck, when you faught Quinton Jackson, the punch before the actual punch that knocked you...

Las Vegas -- THE audience has paid to see blood and will not be disappointed. When the arena plunges into darkness, they rise as one: an 8-year-old in a skullcap that says "Punishment," a tourist in a T-shirt that says "Legalized Brutality," a young...