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For many involved, there will be few happier moments during this weekend's International Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremonies than when Fred Sternburg takes his turn at the podium to make his speech.

Ivan Calderon, the brilliant two-weight world champion and new International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, revealed that he was influential in the 2007 fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.


Naoya Inoue and Luis Nery worked out of a brief clinch, and the southpaw Nery was crouched slightly lower than Inoue. Seeing his opponent’s head at shoulder level, Inoue popped him in the chin with a short left uppercut, but there wasn’t much on it — not enough to deter Nery from letting loose with a full-force left cross. And with Inoue’s right glove lowered as he wound up to follow his left uppercut with a right cross, Nery’s left landed perfectly on the junior featherweight champion’s exposed jaw, twisting him 180 degrees as he spun counterclockwise to the canvas for the first time in his career.

Manny Pacquiao’s advisor Sean Gibbons has said the Filipino legend has given himself a nine-month window to fight again before hanging up his gloves for good.


It's a good thing ego weighs nothing. Oscar De La Hoya says Ryan Garcia is fine to make weight for Saturday's fight with Devin Haney – while also describing his fighter as a "cash cow" and "like a Tiger Woods."

On Friday night, 19-year-old Tom Welland looked every inch the professional as he outpointed the decent Marvin Solano over six man-making rounds at London’s York Hall, but if the unbeaten featherweight has his way he will once again pull on an amateur vest and compete at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

While New York styles itself as the Mecca of Boxing, the bright lights of Las Vegas have been the sport's biggest attractant for decades. Is Saudi Arabia just another pretender or the greatest threat to Sin City's title?