Boxing News

Shane Mosley, right, connects with Ricardo Mayorga, of Nicaragua, in the sixth round during a 12 round junior middleweight boxing match, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, in Carson, Calif. Shane Mosley won in the 12th round by knockout. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)

Mosley stops Mayorga in final second to win bout

AP - Sun Sep 28, 3:17 AM ET

CARSON, Calif. - Shane Mosley stopped Ricardo Mayorga with one second left in the 12th round of their junior middleweight bout Saturday night to possibly put himself in line for a title shot.

  • Juan Manuel Marquez, left, of Mexico, lands a punch to the face of Joel Casamayor, of Cuba, in the fourth round of their 12-round lightweight boxing match in Las Vegas, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Marquez floors Casamayor in big lightweight debut AP - Sun Sep 14, 5:37 AM ET

    LAS VEGAS - Juan Manuel Marquez needed about three rounds to get comfortable as a lightweight. After that, he was nothing but bad news for Joel Casamayor.

  • British boxer Ricky Hatton, center, his new coach Floyd Mayweather Sr, right, and his trainer Lee Beard pose next to a cake to celebrate his 30th birthday before a press conference publicising his IBF light-welterweight fight against Paulie Malignaggi in Manchester, England, Monday Oct. 6, 2008. Hatton will fight Malignaggi in Las Vegas on Nov. 22. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
    Mayweather Sr. sends Hatton on tough birthday run AP - Mon Oct 6, 2:10 PM ET

    ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, England - Ricky Hatton had no time to celebrate his 30th birthday Monday. His new trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr., made sure of that.

  • WBC welterweight champion Sergio Mora, right, lands a right to the face of Vernon Forrest in the ninth round of their WBC super welterweight title boxing match in Las Vegas, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    Forrest batters Mora, recaptures 154-pound crown AP - Sat Sep 13, 11:47 PM ET

    LAS VEGAS - Vernon Forrest emphatically reclaimed his WBC 154-pound title Saturday night, battering Sergio Mora in a lopsided unanimous decision that re-established the 37-year-old veteran as an elite junior middleweight.