When Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao finally go head to head on May 2 at MGM Grand Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, history will be made.

The man who beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. lives across the street from a burned-out coffee hut with a giant banana painted on its back wall. Around the bend, leaning in the tall grass, is a corroded shed holding ancient farming equipment. Every so often a horse trots down the craggy road, pulling a splintered cart and a rider toward the center of one of this country’s poorest towns.

Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, who turned 55 on Thursday, has seen it all during a legendary career as a cornerman to the world's greatest fighters. But he told AFP Thursday that training Manny Pacquiao to face the unbeaten Floyd Mayweather in boxing's most lucrative fight yet will be "the biggest challenge of my life".

After legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach gave me Mike Tyson’s phone number at his Wild Card gym in Los Angeles in the spring of 2010, he giggled “You’ll never fucking get in there, kid.” But a short time later, on Easter Sunday, I entered Tyson’s Henderson, Nevada home through a thick cloud of marijuana smoke and met him for the first time.

Manny Pacquiao scored six knockdowns and dominated virtually every minute of the fight to win a lopsided unanimous decision against Chris Algieri.

Muhammad Ali has given us plenty of memorable quotes over the years, but now his ongoing fight with Parkinson's disease has made it difficult for him to speak entirely...

The tough-talking promoter and manager who made Lennox Lewis World Champion now lives as a woman called Kellie

In 1955, an African-American boxer in New Orleans named Joe Dorsey sued the state of Louisiana for the right to fight against white opponents. What started out as a chance to advance his career wound up changing sports and culture in the state forever.

Males may have bigger bones and stronger jaws to better withstand getting hit in the face

One of the very few women judges in boxing history rose to the pinnacle of her sport, judging dozens of title fights, until two controversial decisions ended it all. This is the story of CJ Ross.

Marcos Maidana did everything Saturday night but beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., taking him 12 tough rounds before losing a majority decision.

Wladimir Klitschko retains all for of his World Heavyweight Title belts with his dominant defeat of Leapai.

Writing about boxing sometimes adopts a heroic perspective on the sport. This seems especially common in a certain kind of popular journalism. When a boxer gets into the ring, he's seen as entering a magic theatre of virtue and vice cut off from the rest of the world. For the fight's duration his actions assume a kind of moral transparency, defining him as noble or ignoble.

Boxer-turned-politician Vitali Klitschko on Saturday pulled out of the race for Ukraine's president, throwing his weight instead behind a billionaire businessman. His announcement came as Russia reiterated it had no intention of sending troops into Ukraine - responding to Western warnings over a military buildup on the border following Moscow's annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

Fifty years after he first won the heavyweight title, explore 10 surprising facts about boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

Vitali Klitschko, who has not defended his WBC heavyweight title in 15 months and is one of the central figures involved in the political unrest in his native Ukraine, vacated his belt Monday.

Undercard boxing matches between no-name fighters don’t usually get much attention. But a bout on Saturday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden (broadcast on HBO) pitting a Cuban-born fighter against one from the former Soviet republic of Dagestan has shocked the boxing world.