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Adrien Broner talks to Tha Boxing Voice about his Saturday night main event against Paulie Malignaggi, and says that there's no amount of money that can get him to face "big brother" Floyd Mayweather.

Welcome to another results column. The previous week's edition can be found here. There were some very interesting fights this week. ------------------------ 2013-06-10 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan Camcorder Shingo Wake TKO9 Eita Kikuchi OPBF super bantamweight title Tadashi Yuba UD8 Kengo Nagashima ------------------------ 2013-06-13 Orion Function Centre, Campsie, New South Wales, Australia Fox Sports Australia Billel Dib TKO8 Dylan Sendeckyj Australian super featherweight title Shane Quinn TKO2 Adam Lovelock Dylan Emery TKO2 Kurt Finlayson Mohammed Elomar SD6 Takamori Akita ------------------------ 2013-06-13 The Trusts Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand Sky Arena Joseph Parker TKO2 Frans Botha Hopefully this means Botha will finally retire. But I don't want to belittle Parker's performance. He appears to be a promising heavyweight prospect. His record now stands at 6-0. Arlene Blencowe UD10 Daniella Smith (100-91, 100-91, 100-91) Vacant WIBA / WBF female light welterweight titles Matthew Wood UD3 Colin Lane This was one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Two of the shortest light heavyweights you're likely to ever see in the ring, both around 4.5 feet tall, fought their assess off for the Dwarf Championship of the World. Round 1 is a leading candidate for ROTY. It will definitely make my 2013 compilation video. Bryce Casey UD3 Nickson Clark For a "celebrity boxing" match I was pleasantly surprised. These 2 guys really tried to kick each other's asses. It wasn't fixed. Then again, they aren't really celebrities, either... Jordan Tuigamala UD4 Jody Allen Marcel Botha UD4 Jeremy Sebastian Marcel, the son of Frans, made a successful pro debut. ------------------------ 2013-06-14 Centro de Educación Física N° 6, Las Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina TV Publica Maria Elena Maderna MD10 Enis Pacheco (94-94, 98-90, 97-91) WBO female lightweight title Mauro Gabriel Escobar TKO3 Cristian Raul Cespedes Carlos Daniel Aquino TKO4 Luciano Daniel Lasa ------------------------ 2013-06-14 Salle Marcel Cerdan, Poissy, Yvelines, France MCS Zakaria Attou UD12 Luca Michael Pasqua (115-111, 114-111, 113-112) Vacant WBC Mediterranean light middleweight title Yvan Mendy UD10 Marvin Petit (96-94, 97-93, 96-94) France lightweight title ------------------------ 2013-06-14 Rome, Lazio, Italy RaiSport / Cicalone productions Massimiliano Buccheri UD10 Roberto Cocco (98-91, 99-92, 97-92) Italy super middleweight title Orial Kolaj KO2 Paata Aduashvili Mirco Ricci PTS6 Jindrich Velecky ------------------------ 2013-06-14 Water Front Congress SAS Radisson, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Sport Diana Prazak TKO8 Frida Wallberg This upset for the WBC female super featherweight title will be covered in depth at a later date, among all the other major upsets in female boxing for the year 2013 (there have been a lot). For right now I'll just give you my scorecard: 67-66 Wallberg, who took rounds 1, 2, 3, and 4 before she was almost fatally stopped in round 8. She's no longer in critical condition but she may never box again. Open scoring revealed all 3 judges had the fight 39-37 after 4 rounds. From the 4th onward I felt Prazak's pressure and body punches were slowly wearing Wallberg down. ------------------------ 2013-06-14 Provincial Stadium, Chaiyaphum, Thailand Thai TV 3 Petchbarngborn Kokietgym UD12 Ardin Diale (115-113, 117-111, 115-113) This battle for the vacant WBO Oriental super flyweight title could have gone either way. Diale was the more polished boxer but his lack of activity and languishing on the ropes cost him. ------------------------ 2013-06-14 South Mountain Arena, South Orange, New Jersey, USA ESPN Juan Carlos Payano TKO7 Jundy Maraon Two unbeaten bantamweights entered. One left with his streak intact. Yenifel Vicente TKO4 Jorge Diaz Vacant WBC FECARBOX super bantamweight title Anthony Gangemi MD4 Anthony Prescott (38-38, 40-36, 39-37) Antoine Douglas RTD3

By Steve Kim: The first time Johnathon Banks faced Seth Mitchell back in November, there was quite a bit going on in his life. With the sudden passing of legendary trainer Emanuel Steward in October, he was thrust into the position of taking the reins as lead trainer for Wladimir Klitschko, who just happened to face Mariusz Wach in Germany. This just one week before his own bout with Mitchell in Atlantic City. And in the midst of all this, Banks attended Steward’s funeral in Detroit on the way

(Mikey Garcia, left, lays waste to JuanMa Lopez; Photo credit: Getty Images) Boxing fans are back into the swing of being hit with big fights left and right. True, boxing has no "season," per se, but recent years have seen summer and autumn pump out some of the biggest events. Many of us had hoped the Mikey Garcia vs. Juan Manuel Lopez meeting would produce more two-way fireworks than it did, but we're getting no breather, no chance for tears to well up, because Paulie Malignaggi and Adrien Broner hook up this coming weekend. And this week on TQBR Radio, Bad Left Hook's James Foley and TQBR's own Patrick Connor are covering it all, joined by Eric Raskin of Grantland, ESPN and the Ring Theory podcast. Click this link to tune in live at a special time of 5 p.m.Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern, or download the episode later via iTunes, or Stitcher Radio.

By Miguel Maravilla Photo: Big Joe Miranda WBA/IBO Middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (26-0, 23 KOs) of is two weeks away from his showdown against Matthew “Mack the Knife” Macklin (29-4, 20 KOs) . The champion held a press conference … Continue reading →

A world title doubleheader headlined by featherweight titlist Abner Mares defending against former titleholder Jhonny Gonzalez is close to being finalized for Aug. 24, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com on Tuesday night.

Photos: Tom Casino/SHOWTIME WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi, his challenger Adrien Broner, heavyweight combatants Johnathon Banks and Seth Mitchell, super middleweights Sakio Bika and Marco Antonio Periban, who fight for the vacant WBC belt formerly held by Andre Ward and … Continue reading →

By Ron Jackson Zukile “Tyson” Filana who fought as a featherweight in the professional ranks from 1994 to 2000 died in the Booth Hospital in Cape Town on Saturday June 15, 2013. Filana who resided in Cape Town made his … Continue reading →

In case you still can't believe it's actually going to happen, here's the first official face-to-face meeting between Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez ahead of their September 14 mega-fight on Showtime pay-per-view (photo via Golden Boy on Facebook): Mayweather (44-0) and Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO) will be meeting in what will undoubtedly be the biggest fight of 2013, and one of the biggest sporting events, period. The fight, titled "The One," is expected to do monster numbers, possibly the biggest since Mayweather's record-setting win over Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. And as far as the gate in Vegas goes, they may even be able to top the gross total brought in from ticket sales, which would set a new all-time record. We've got just about three months of what is going to be a major promotional blitz left to go, including an 11-city media tour. Here are the details on that: Monday, June 24New York, NYLocation: Times SquarePedestrian Walk on Broadway Between 46th & 47th StreetsNew York, NY 10036Fan Arrival Time: 2:00 p.m. ETPress Conference Begins: 3:00 p.m. ETTuesday, June 25Washington, DCLocation: The Howard Theatre620 T Street NWWashington, DC 20001Fan Arrival Time: 12:00 p.m. ETPress Conference Begins: 1:00 p.m. ETWednesday, June 26Grand Rapids, MILocation: Houseman Field2055 Rosewood Avenue SWGrand Rapids, MI 49503Fan Arrival Time: 11:00 a.m. ETPress Conference Begins: 12:00 p.m. ETChicago, ILLocation: Chicago Theatre175 North State StreetChicago, IL 60601Fan Arrival Time: 5:00 p.m. CTPress Conference Begins: 6:00 p.m. CTThursday, June 27Atlanta, GALocation: Atlantic Station1380 Atlantic Drive (Central Park between Rosa Mexicano and Strip)Atlanta, GA 30363 Fan Arrival Time: 12:00 p.m. ETPress Conference Begins: 1:00 p.m. ETFriday, June 28Miami, FLLocation: Bayfront Park100 Chopin Plaza (In front of InterContinental Miami hotel)Miami, FL 33131Fan Arrival Time: 12:00 p.m. ETPress Conference Begins: 1:00 p.m. ETSunday, June 30Mexico City, MexicoLocation information to be announced separately.Monday, July 1Houston, TXLocation: Union Station at Minute Maid Stadium (Main entrance of stadium)501 Crawford StreetHouston, TX 77002Fan Arrival Time: 12:00 p.m. CTPress Conference Begins: 1:00 p.m. CTSan Antonio, TXLocation: The Alamo300 Alamo PlazaSan Antonio, TX 78205Fan Arrival Time: 5:00 p.m. CTPress Conference Begins: 6:00 p.m. CTTuesday, July 2Phoenix, AZLocation: Herberger Theater222 East Monroe StreetPhoenix, AZ 85004Fan Arrival Time: 11:00 a.m. MTPress Conference Begins: 12:00 a.m. MTLos AngelesLocation: Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE777 Chick Hearn CourtLos Angeles, CA 90015Fan Arrival Time: 6:30 p.m. PTPress Conference Begins: 7:30 p.m. PT

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