Watch Showtime’s fantastic  ‘All Access’ series as they go behind the scenes in New York for the Austin Trout V Miguel Cotto fight. ‘Epilogue’ follows the fighters as they meet in Madison Square Garden where Trout wins with a 12-round unanimous decision to become the king of New York.

Puerto Rico’s favourite fighting son Miguel Cotto can expect another tumultuous reception at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Saturday evening when he attempts to regain his WBA World Light-Middleweight title from New Mexico’s Austin Trout.

The 32 year old three division world champion from Caguas shall enter as a 4-11 favourite but it’s certainly no foregone conclusion against the naturally larger and unbeaten 27 year old southpaw who seeks to break into the Big Time himself.

Former light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan believes he is in top earner Floyd Mayweather’s sights as one of the few boxers that is still doing big TV and gate numbers.

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao literally put paid to the ‘boxing is dead’ proclamations this week by topping Forbes list of the highest-paid athletes in the world.

Forbes.com named Mayweather its highest-paid athlete over the last year. Mayweather earned $85 million (£54m), knocking golfer Tiger Woods out of the top spot that he has held since 2001.

Former world welterweight champion Antonio Margarito has become the third leading boxer to retire this week joining, fellow veterans Shane Mosley and Winky Wright in the pension queue.

Having been in the Money Team corner for Floyd Mayweather’s recent mega-fight with Miguel Cotto it seems pop star extraordinaire Justin Bieber has got the taste for the noble art. Here is recent footage of him hitting the heavy bag in Mike Tyson’s garage while the former undisputed heavyweight king does his best Bundini Brown impression.

Floyd Mayweather’s unanimous decision win over Miguel Cotto on May 5 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas generated 1.5m pay-per-view buys and $94m (£58.5m) in PPV revenue, HBO announced on Friday.

Shane Mosley rolled back the years to put on a spirited performance against Mexican sensation Saul Alvarez but could not stop the rising star running away with a unanimous points win to retain his WBC light-middleweight title.

The 21-year-old Mexican was given the verdict over the American veteran 119-109 on two of the judges' scorecards, while and the third had it 118-110.