Lightweight Boxing

Canelo Alvarez brings it home to unify titles

2013-04-20 21:55:00

It's one thing to talk. The great ones back it up. In avenging his brother's loss and letting his fists fly against a respected, defense-based, unbeaten world champion, Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez unified the super-welterweight division Saturday...

Las Vegas: Treasure Island to host lightweight boxing match April 12

2013-04-01 08:00:00

The match is still on for April 12 at Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Angelo "La Cobra" Santana will take on Bahodir Mamadjonov (12-1, 8 KOs) from Uzbekistan.� [Updated, 1:58 p.m. April 8: An earlier version of this post said Angelo "La...

HBO drops involvement with Golden Boy fighters

2013-03-20 20:33:00

After watching an exodus of fighters that included Floyd Mayweather Jr., Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan to rival network Showtime, HBO announced this week it will stop broadcasting fights involving boxers promoted by Los Angeles’...

East L.A.'s Frankie Gomez ready to start campaign toward title shot

2013-02-01 13:54:00

Oscar De La Hoya said he has ordered his matchmaker to start intensifying the opposition for East Los Angeles boxing prospect Frankie Gomez. “Without blowing smoke, he is the real deal and I want to start moving him faster than we have,”...

Boxer Hector 'Macho' Camacho dies days after being shot in head

2012-11-24 06:38:00

Hector “Macho” Camacho, a former three-division boxing champion who had 88 professional fights against a who’s who of legendary opponents stretching from Ray Mancini (whom he defeated in 1989) to Oscar De La Hoya (who beat him by...

Don Chargin recalls glory days of boxing at Olympic Auditorium

2012-11-08 18:40:00

Boxing keeps turning up the volume on the hype. Apparently, if you sell it loudly, fewer will notice if it is lousy. Oscar De La Hoya, never lousy in the ring, was presenting a card of boxers at a media gathering the other day for a Saturday night show...

Enrique Bolanos dies at 87; boxer lost lightweight title 3 times in L.A.

2012-06-07 23:11:00

Enrique Bolanos, a Mexican boxer who three times fought for and lost the world lightweight title in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, died Monday. He was 87. Bolanos died of heart failure at a convalescent facility near his Pasadena home, said his wife of...

Brandon Rios of Oxnard has WBA lightwight belt stripped [Updated]

2011-12-02 16:33:24

Lamont Peterson chooses Amir Khan rematch and Vegas over L.A.

2012-02-10 11:25:33

Boxer Patricia Manuel pulls out of Olympic trials with injury

2012-02-14 16:33:53

Done deal: Robert Guerrero, Marcos Maidana to fight in San Jose on Aug. 27

2011-06-20 16:34:03

L.A. Times June MMA Rankings

2011-06-20 16:34:03

Katie Taylor, arguably the best women's amateur in the world, is a heavy favorite in the lightweight division (132 pounds). Flyweight Mary Kom, a mother of two from India, is a five-time world champion. Little-known fact: Women's boxing was on the schedule in St.

2012-07-25 19:44:01

The first black American world boxing champion, Joe Gans was named the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder Nat Nick Fleischer and called by H.L. Mencken "probably the greatest boxer who ever lived." Gans knocked out Frank Erne to win the title and

2012-05-02 14:07:48

Jonathan Winter (L) and Brian De Regt of USA collapse after the Lightweight Men's Double Sculls Final B during day six of the World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro in Cambridge, New Zealand.

2010-11-04 00:00:00