Super Lightweight Boxing News

WBA super lightweight/junior welterweight champion Amir Khan demolished Dmitriy Salita in the first round on Saturday night at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England.

Gavin Rees put his name back in lights by being crowned light-welterweight Prizefighter champion at London Olympia on Friday night.

Four - time world champion Joel Casamayor and three-time champ Zab Judah both earned victories in their returns to the ring on Friday night.

Heavy underdog Miguel Cotto will carry the hopes of his native Puerto Rico on his shoulders in next month's mega fight against Filipino Manny Pacquiao.

Former world champions Zab Judah and Joel Casamayor headline "Road to Redemption," a nationally and internationally televised double main event card Friday, Nov.

Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach will demand referees impose automatic disqualification for any deliberate low blow landed during the Filipino's challenge for Miguel Cotto's WBO welterweight title.

For eight weeks, Devon Alexander's diet consisted of oatmeal, bananas, egg whites and vegetables.

For eight weeks, Devon Alexander's diet consisted of oatmeal, bananas, egg whites and vegetables.

IN MEMORY OF VERNON FORREST: Before Junior Witter and Devon Alexander entered the ring for their WBC super lightweight championship fight, a montage of highlights honored the late Vernon Forrest, the former junior middleweight champion who was tragically killed last weekend in Atlanta.

Devon Alexander won the WBC 140-pound title Saturday night when Junior Witter quit before the ninth round of their bout for the vacant belt, citing a hand injury.

RANCHO MIRAGE: Britain's Junior Witter fights for the vacant World Boxing Council super lightweight crown on Saturday in a card that countryman and rival champion Amir Khan will watch closely.

At a time boxing needed something to lift its spirits, it got nothing but disappointment in Palm Springs Saturday night where two championship fights ended in unsatisfying controversies.

The family of Arturo Gatti has hired a prominent U.S. pathologist to oversee a second autopsy in the death of the ex-boxing champ.

The former world super featherweight and super-lightweight champion, Arturo Gatti, committed suicide while on holiday with his wife earlier this month, police in Brazil say.

Campbell Posted by Matt Knowles on 07.31.2009 The WBO super lightweight title is at stake this Saturday night as reigning champ Timothy Bradley accepts the challenge of former unified lightweight king Nate Campbell! Before we get going on the upcoming bout, we the 411mania crew would like to send further condolences to the friends and families of ...

Among the entourage that led Cory Spinks into the ring for his championship fights several years ago was a wide-eyed aspiring professional boxer from Vashon High named Devon Alexander.

Thursday: Charles Huerta vs. Derrick Dickson, 6, featherweights . * Friday: Card headlined by Julio Diaz-Victor Cayo, 10, super lightweights; . * Friday: Marvin Quintero vs.

Sofia Bella Gatti, the 3-year-old daughter of slain former champion boxer Arturo Gatti, reduced a church full of mourners to tears when she sang at her father's memorial service earlier today at St.

Years ago, long before he captured a silver medal for Canada at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Mark Leduc's mother came all the way from England to visit him at Collins Bay Penitentiary.

Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan lived up to his hype with a unanimous decision over WBA super lightweight champ Andreas Kotelnik .