Special Section: 2009 Beaufort Water Festival
  • Former boxing champ Gatti found dead in Brazil
    Former boxing champion Arturo Gatti, whose epic trilogy with Micky Ward branded him one of the most exciting fighters of his generation, was found dead in a hotel room in the posh seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas early Saturday.
  • Darchinyan, Agbeko ready to put words aside
    Vic Darchinyan's insults sting about as much as his punches, and considering he's a four-time champion in two weight divisions, Joseph "King Kong" Agbeko wasn't surprised at what he heard during the run-up to their bantamweight title fight on Saturday night.
  • Moreno keeps bantamweight title
    Anselmo Moreno successfully retained his WBA bantamweight title Saturday with a 12-round split decision over Frenchman Mahyar Monshipour.
  • Big payday could help Mayweather fend off IRS
    Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said rumblings about his financial troubles are nothing more than rumors, but public records obtained by The Associated Press show the boxer nicknamed "Money" owes about $6.4 million to the Internal Revenue Service and others.
  • Mourning Alexis Arguello: A ring legend gone too soon
    Try as I might, I can't be as eloquent as my colleagues in this business when it comes to expressing genuine sorrow over the passing of former three-division champion Alexis Arguello, who was found dead in his Nicaraguan home on Wednesday.
  • Pryor recalls epic brawl with Arguello
    Nearly three decades ago, a ferocious puncher and a brilliant ring tactician waged one of boxing's epic brawls under the twinkling lights of the Orange Bowl in Miami, a fight so big that few remember Roberto Duran was on the undercard.
  • Lopez stops Lontchi in nine
    Juan Manuel Lopez scored a one-sided ninth round TKO over previously unbeaten Oliver Lontchi at Boardwalk Hall Saturday to successfully defend his WBO Junior Featherweight title.