Featherweight Boxing

2011 is here so lets raise a pint and cheers to a a much improved boxing landscape than what we saw in 2010.  Several fighters are on the cusp of superstardom.  Lets take a look at 11 fighters that are a must see in 2011 (in no particular order). -...

Heavyweight 1. Cain Velasquez 2. Junior Dos Santos 3. Fabricio Werdum 4. Brock Lesnar 5. Alistair Overeem 6. Antonio Silva 7. Shane Carwin 8. Fedor Emelianenko 9. Frank Mir 10. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira The longtime reign of Fedor Emelianenko as......

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......

It’s all about the wedge, rope sole Espadrille and ’70s-inspired, well -- anything this spring and summer. And there’s no shortage of bright, colorful and just plain fun shoes to slip on once warm weather hits. A Canadian company called....

Heavyweight 1. Cain Velasquez 2. Junior Dos Santos 3. Fabricio Werdum 4. Brock Lesnar 5. Alistair Overeem 6. Antonio Silva 7. Shane Carwin 8. Fedor Emelianenko 9. Frank Mir 10. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira With the UFC's parent company purchasing Strikeforce,...

Strikeforce runs its first major Showtime event since being purchased by UFC parent company Zuffa on Saturday night in San Diego. The show, one of Strikeforce's stronger cards of the past couple years, is headlined by a pair of title......

Heavyweight 1. Cain Velasquez 2. Junior Dos Santos 3. Fabricio Werdum 4. Brock Lesnar 5. Alistair Overeem 6. Antonio Silva 7. Shane Carwin 8. Fedor Emelianenko 9. Frank Mir 10. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira The newest season of the Ultimate Fighter......

From Brightside Events, a nonprofit group in the Baldwin Park area: Two events coming in early May will benefit the Sebastian Haul Fund, which helps greyhound groups pay for transporting greyhounds from Florida adoption groups to other groups outside of...

With 55,000 people and an $11 million gate expected for Saturday’s UFC 129 event from Toronto, it’s easy to forget that UFC’s popularity boom is still less than six years old. When Kobe Bryant won his first NBA title, UFC......

UFC runs the biggest live event in its history Saturday night from Toronto. The sold-out show will be attended by approximately 55,000 fans and is headlined by a UFC welterweight title fight between Georges St. Pierre and Jake Shields. Also......

Greg Goossen, a former Dodgers catcher who played six seasons in the major leagues, then dabbled as a boxing trainer and was a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman in more than a dozen films, was found dead Saturday at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 65. --...