In their January bout in Temecula, Calif., Forrest was coming off consecutive wins over previously undefeated Shane Mosley, two impressive victories that not only gave him the WBC 147-pound title, but ...

WBC junior middleweight champion Vernon Forrest (40-2, 29 KOs), following his dominating eleven-round stoppage of Michele Piccirillo, called for a trilogy with Ricardo Mayorga. “I would love to have a ...

LAS VEGAS — Ricardo Mayorga, relentlessly throwing punches from every angle, took a majority decision over Vernon Forrest on Saturday night to retain his WBC and WBA welterweight titles.

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LAS VEGAS -- Ricardo Mayorga stuffs chicken in his mouth as he steps on the scales at weigh-ins. He's been known to light a cigarette in the ring. Sometimes he speeds in his car, and his mouth is ...

Listen to Ricardo Mayorga and you can almost hear Don King roar. "Only in America," King would say. For Mayorga, it's true. He's living his dream far from his childhood poverty in Nicaragua, and he's ...

Ricardo Mayorga kept throwing big shots until one landed. When it did, Vernon Forrest was no longer undefeated and no longer a champion. Mayorga dropped Forrest with a vicious right hand in the third ...