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Former world champion Winky Wright will return from an eight-month layoff when he enters the ring against Grady Brewer on Dec. 11 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan.

A southpaw who will turn 38 on Nov. 26, Wright is coming off of consecutive losses by decision to Bernard Hopkins and Paul Williams in July 2007 and this past April, respectively.

Wright (51-5-1, 25 knockouts) owns victories over former world champs Shane Mosley and Felix Trinidad, and fought to a disputed draw with former undisputed middleweight (160 pounds) champion Jermain Taylor.

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Abner Mares is a promising bantamweight with an impressive record of 19-0. Standing at just 5-foot-5, Mares packs a mean punch, and he proved it in the 2004 Olympics as an outstanding amateur.

In this FanHosue exclusive, we catch up with the young fighter and learn more about his past, his work-ethic and who people tell him he looks like.

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An eye injury kept two-time world champion Israel Vazquez out of the ring for 19 months. This Weekend in downtown Los Angeles, Vazquez made his comeback in a Hollywood fashion.

Vasquez went nose to nose with Angel Priolo (30-7) in a thrill of a fight that kept the fans on the edge of their seats. In this FanHouse exclusive we hear from Vazquez and Priolo along with Vazquez's Promoter Frank Espinosa.

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Cheescake. That's about the worst thing Bernard Hopkins said he will ever put into his body.

"I'm not a vegetarian. I don't smoke, don't drink, I work out and I don't put caffeine in me. But I'll admit to eating a lot of cheesecake," said Hopkins, a 44-year-old whose professional boxing skills have long belied his age.

"Other than that, I haven't eaten that many sweets since I got out of prison" in 1988, said Hopkins. "We'll put the best gas in our car, but put the worst things in our body."

Hopkins will put his relative youth, experience and longevity on the line yet again on Dec. 2 in a 12-round light heavyweight (175 pounds) bout when he he takes on Enrique Ornelas at Temple University's Licouras Center in his hometown of Philadelphia.

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If there is one thing boxing star Omar Figueroa does not look like, it's a boxer. But the kid can fight, and it's because of his skills that Golden Boy Promotions signed him to a deal. In this FanHouse exclusive, Omar tells us how sparring with world champ Amir Khan led to his contract.

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It's been over two years since the May 2007 fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Oscar De La Hoya, which Mayweather won in a split decision.

Yet when you listen to Mayweather talk about De La Hoya, it seems he is still trying to promote that fight, trashing De La Hoya, wondering why anyone would love him.

In this FanHouse exclusive hear what Floyd has to say, get Oscar's reaction and find out what Mayweather thinks of the upcoming Amir Kahn - Dmitry Salita fight.

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Former undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins will fight hard-punching Enrigue Ornelas on Dec. 2 at the Liacorous Center on the campus of Temple University in his hometown of Philadelphia.

The 12-round light heavyweight matchup for Hopkins (49-5-1, 32 knockouts) precedes an agreed-upon rematch with Florida's multi-champion Roy Jones (54-5, 40 KOs) that is slated for perhaps late January or early February, assuming Jones gets through his cruiserweight bout on the same night against Austrailia's Danny Green (27-3, 24 KOs).

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After having to sit out for almost two years due to an eye injury, two-time world champion Israel Vazquez is poised to get back in the ring Oct. 10th to face Angel Priolo. In this video, we ask Vazquez about his conditioning, how he got his name and what message does he have for his fans.

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Puncher to Promoter is an upcoming documentary about Oscar De La Hoya that chronicles the fighter's transformation from his early childhood life as the product of a poor, underprivileged Latino family living in East L.A., into that of an Olympic gold medalist, a world champion and a top promoter.

"What audiences will find is that in the process of Oscar's ups and down, and through the course of his wins and his losses, they can learn -- as Oscar did -- to take failure and use it as a foothold on success," film director Leigh Simons promises. "Through the experiences outlined in Oscar's life through this film, the audience will relate."

FanHouse recently talked to Simons for this exclusive interview below.

Mark Taffet, Senior Vice President of HBO Sports Pay Per View, said Floyd Mayweather "clearly has proven his star status by generating the kinds of pay per view numbers that very few men in the history of the sport have ever generated."

FanHouse spoke to Taffet, the man in charge of HBO's Pay Per View, as he addressed Mayweather, the Nov. 14 megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, the cable giant's "hunger to go younger" initiative geared toward drawing America's youth to the sport of boxing, and how the organization determines which fights are deserving of pay television status during this exclusive interview.