Lightweight Boxing News

WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi, and members of his team, have released several photos on the social networks, which they claim shows "proof" that WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner once supported the Brooklyn boxer several years ago.

ATLANTIC CITY , May 15 - The explosive May 18 match-up between unbeaten contenders Shawn Porter and Phil Lo Greco at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey will air as part of the event's SHOWTIME EXTREMEA telecast live at 7 p.m. ET/PT . 2012 British Olympic Bronze Medalist Anthony Ogogo will also participate one of the featured undercard ... (more)

Barely a month after losing for the first time as a professional, the former WBA lightweight champion was dancing around his living room in Oxnard, Calif., with his kids after his manager informed him he'd landed the biggest fight of his career.

I attended the Malignaggi-Broner press conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 4th a few hours before the Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero fight and undercard bouts.

Photograph: Scott Heavey/Getty Images Ricky Burns drew on all his considerable courage and resolve to overcome a fierce mid-fight beating and force the previously unbeaten knockout artist from Puerto Rico, JosA© GonzA lez, to quit after nine rounds, the Scot's WBO lightweight title safe for another day.

Manchester's John Murray had cause for a double celebration this week. The 'Murray Machine' became a father and also learned that the BBBoC have cleared him to fight again, pending successful completion of a medical.

Malignaggi, 32, is not convinced by the hype surrounding unbeaten Broner, who is stepping up from lightweight to challenge the WBA welterweight champ.

Filipino Manny Pacquiao at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles. Pacquiao will return to the ring in Macau in November.

Luis Sandoval catches up with WBC lightweight king Adrien Broner as he drops more verbal bombs on WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi.

Michael Koncz, the adviser to eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao, watched Floyd Mayweather's dominant performance over Robert Guerrero on Saturday night.

Nearly five months after being knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao has decided on his next opponent: former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios.

Luis Sandoval catches up with WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner to discuss his upcoming fight with WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi.

Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr didn't give Robert 'The Ghost' Guerrero a ghost of a chance as he gave the over-hyped, over-matched challenger a clinical boxing lesson to win a unanimous twelve round decision at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

WBC lightweight champion and WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi meet up again in Las Vegas inside of the MGM Grand in advance of their June 22nd clash at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Watch the bizarre ending of former boxing champion Ricardo Mayorga's MMA debut in Nicaragua at Omega MMA.

Members of Team Malignaggi arrived to the official press conference in Las Vegas, wearing shirts that sent a direct message to WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner.

BoxingScene.com recently caught up with WBA interim-super feather weight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa who faces Darley Perez on June 8th in Montreal as part of a HBO televised doubleheader that will be headlined by WBC light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson facing Adonis Stevenson.

At Mannhein, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko vs. Francesco Pianeta, 12, for Klitschko's IBF-IBO-WBO-WBA Super World heavyweight titles.

It was April 20, 2002, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was challenging Jose Luis Castillo for the WBC lightweight title.

After being out of the ring nearly 15 months, it took a few rounds for Cleveland's Miguel "Silky Smooth" Gonzalez to get into proper rhythm.