Welterweight Boxing News

In this Jan. 19, 2002, file photo, Johnny Tapia celebrates after defeating Argentina's Eduardo Alvarez during the international featherweight boxing contest in London.

Now that Michael Hunter has achieved his goal of making it to the Olympics, the Las Vegas heavyweight has a new objective before making his run at the medal podium in London come August.

London, May 27: Former IBF welterweight champion Amir Khan has said that he is clean and can take dope tests any time.

On June 20 WBA #11 ranked light welterweight Khabib Allakhverdiev will try to make another giant leap up in class.

Mexican superstar and WBC light middleweight titlist Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will defend his belt against former two-time WBO Welterweight Champion Paul "The Punisher" Williams on September 15 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mike Dallas Jr. and Javier Castro will take a step closer to realizing that dream on June 22 when they battle it out in a WBO Latino Junior Welterweight Championship fight televised on ESPN's "Friday Night Fights" at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, CA.

Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Amir Khan has almost got his hands back on one of the two belts he lost to Lamont Peterson last December, and is likely to go into his 14 July fight with the rising Philadelphian star, Danny GarcA a, as the World Boxing Association light-welterweight champion.

Don Chargin Productions and Golden Boy Promotions will help kick off the Summer of 2012 this Saturday night when TeleFutura's "Solo Boxeo Tecate" broadcasts a hard-hitting card featuring two intriguing headline matchups from Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

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Karim Mayfield staggered Raymond Serrano at the fourth-round bell, and then landed a solid right hand less than a minute into the fifth that stopped the challenger in the NABO junior welterweight title fight Friday night.

The bout has been arranged after Khan's rematch against Lamont Peterson for the WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles, which was due to be staged earlier this month, was cancelled after Peterson failed a drug test.

Philly boxers Jesse Hart, Mike Jones, and Teon Kennedy will fight on the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley undercard.

Khan, 25, was originally scheduled to face Lamont Peterson earlier this month in a rematch for the WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles.

Carl Froch v Lucian Bute. Click here to bet. Click here to bet on boxing with Sky Bet! Click here for more boxing news Amir Khan is poised to fight for the WBC light-welterweight title after champion Danny Garcia agreed to a July 14 showdown.

Jones takes on former two-time world champion Randall 'The Knockout King' Bailey for the vacant IBF welterweight belt, Kennedy will battle WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and Hart, son of Philadelphia Middleweight legend Eugene "Cyclone" Hart will be making his pro debut.

Amir Khan is seeking an opponent after announcing he will fight in Anaheim, California, on July 7 following the cancellation of his rematch against drug cheat Lamont Peterson.

As fans have surely read by now, former WBC welterweight champ Andre Berto failed a recent random drugs test, coming up positive for norandrosterone, and his scheduled June 23rd rematch with Victor Ortiz is now in serious doubt.