Edwin Valero stopped a game Antonio DeMarco in the ninth round of their WBC lightweight title fight in Monterrey, Mexico, on Saturday night.

Tomasz Adamek retained his IBF International heavyweight title when he beat Jason Estrada on points in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night.

Daiki Kameda became the WBA flyweight champion by beating Denkaosen Kaowichit of Thailand on points in Kobe, Japan, in Saturday night.

Tomasz Adamek would have fitted well into the heavyweight division circa 1970, when the giants of boxing were not really giants.

WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is negotiating to finalise a showdown with Russian Nikolai Valuev in the German city of Gelsenkirchen on May 29.

Floyd Mayweather will take on Shane Mosley in a welterweight bout on May 1 after an agreement was reached on drug-testing procedures.

Former world champions Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones will meet in April in a rematch of their middleweight fight 17 years ago.

Manny Pacquiao has been named fighter of the decade by the American Boxing Writer's Association, along with winning his third award as fighter of the year.

Mlungisi Dlamini, one of South Africa’s most promising fighters, has been killed in a motorcar accident near Harrismith in KwaZulu-Natal.

Roman Gonzalez retained his WBA minimumweight belt when he stopped Ivan Meneses in the fourth round of their fight in Puebla, Mexico, at the weekend.