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Garcia loses title at weigh-in, but wins fight on TKO in AAC's first big boxing...

Garcia (32-0, 26 KOs) won the first major boxing event at the AAC, defeating challenger Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30 KOs) by TKO, 1:35 seconds into the fourth round.

Up-and-coming U.S. boxer goes for lightweight title in Dallas

Boxer Terence Crawford has had a little more time to prepare for his NABO lightweight title bout against Alejandro Sanabria Jr. on Saturday at the American Airlines Center than for his prior match.

Boxing tragedy inspires Blanchard's first opera

Griffith originally wanted to design women's hats, but was encouraged by his employer at a Garment District factory to take up boxing to support his family in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

'Tapia' film on late NM boxer set to premiere

KOAT-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/19rx1eR) that "Tapia" is scheduled to be shown Saturday at the Los Angeles Film Festival and will feature some of the late boxer's final interviews.

Boxing fans turn out to meet top featherweights in advance of big fight

More than a boxing fan, 16-year-old Nester Frayre of Fort Worth, an amateur boxer himself, was more than excited to meet one of his heroes Wednesday.

No fighting words, just hyping words for boxers

Around those fight events, Garcia said he hopes to take in all that the Metroplex offers, meeting old boxing fans and introducing the sport to as many new fans as possible.

Boxers give pep talk to Fort Worth youth

The arms of Derick Rodriguez, a fifth-grader at Carter Elementary School, pumped like pistons as he punched Tony Lopez, an up-and-coming professional boxer, over and over in the stomach.

Boxer, with more women in Senate, pushes military to end sexual assaults

Boxer also became involved in congressional inquiries into the Tailhook scandal, where dozens of women and several men were sexually assaulted by Navy and Marine officers at a Las Vegas convention.

Boxer admits disorderly conduct in NYC gun case

A boxer who went to the check-in counter at an airport with a handgun in his luggage and was arrested on firearm possession charges pleaded guilty on Tuesday to disorderly conduct.

George Foreman hopes family promotion business carries a punch

Foreman said when he was boxing he would have never dreamed he'd be in the promotion business, but he doesn't miss fighting much because of the constant state of pain he experienced while competing.

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