Super Featherweight Boxing

LAS VEGAS — Robert Guerrero is from Gilroy, California's garlic capital of the world. His greatest fight stages have been in San Jose and Ontario. And his most compelling pre-fight publicity stop was on evangelist Pat Robertson's "700 Club."...

  Join Times boxing writer Lance Pugmire at 1 p.m. today for a live discussion of the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero fight. Guerrero is a heavy underdog in the fight against the undefeated Mayweather, but as Pugmire wrote Thursday, that's...

Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will make the first defense of his World Boxing Council super-welterweight title Saturday on HBO, returning home to Guadalajara to fight veteran English fighter Ryan Rhodes (45-4, 31 knockouts). Alvarez, 20, won the belt...

Even though Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez have fought twice before, their score remains unsettled. The fighters' 2004 featherweight title bout resulted in a draw. When they met again in 2008, Pacquiao won a super-featherweight title by split...

John R. Alison Decorated WWII ace fighter pilot John R. Alison, 98, a World War II fighter pilot who helped lead a daring and unprecedented Allied air invasion of Burma, died of natural causes Monday at his home in Washington, D.C., his family said....

Genaro "Chicanito" Hernandez, who ascended through the Southern California boxing ranks to become a two-time world super-featherweight champion, died Tuesday after more than two years of battling cancer, his friend and boxing publicist Bill Caplan said....

It must be a financial problem with Erik Morales. "Thanks God, economically, I'm OK," the legendary three-division world boxing champion from Mexico said Tuesday at L.A. Live's ESPNZone, where he appeared to promote his April 9 junior-welterweight pay-...

Four of the five undercard bouts from Honda Center have ended before the completion of the second round. Middleweight James Kirkland marked his comeback from a two-year hiatus that included a prison stay on a gun charge by knocking out......

Fight promoter Top Rank is expecting a visit from world lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez at its 3 p.m. weigh-in Friday for the Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley fight. It's significant because it will be Marquez's first public step away from Top......

Golden Boy Promotions Chief Executive Richard Schaefer said Wednesday that he has finalized a Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Matthew Hatton fight on HBO at Honda Center on March 5 and is nearing other interesting agreements. The "Boxing After Dark" card...