Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek continued his pursuit of a title fight by defeating Michael Grant by unanimous decision Saturday night at the Prudential Center.

The victory enabled the 33-year-old Adamek, the former IBF cruiserweight champion, to improve to 42-1 overall and 5-0 as a heavyweight. Adamek also has 27 knockouts.

Former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito was denied a license Wednesday to fight in California, leaving a significant hurdle in the way of a proposed bout against Manny Pacquiao.

Margarito was suspended for at least a year after an illegal, plaster-like substance was found in his hand wraps before a January 2009 bout against Shane Mosley at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Margarito’s hands were rewrapped and he lost the WBA title fight.

Canada’s Jean Pascal retained his WBC light heavyweight title by beating Chad Dawson on points Saturday after the fight was stopped in the 11th round.

The fight was halted after an accidental clash of heads opened a deep cut above Dawson’s right eye and prevented the American from continuing.

It went to the scorecards, and Pascal (26-1) got the win over Dawson (29-1) when the judges turned in two cards of 106-103 and another of 108-101.

Devon Alexander retained his WBC and IBF junior welterweight titles with a unanimous 12-round decision over Andriy Kotelnik on Saturday night.

Alexander (21-0) won 116-112 on all three cards.

The 23-year-old St. Louis native scored enough points early to withstand a late charge from Kotelnik (31-4-1), a 31-year-old former WBA super lightweight champion from Ukraine.  Read on for more…

Juan Manuel Marquez unanimously outpointed Juan Diaz on Saturday night, picking apart his younger opponent to retain the WBA and WBO lightweight titles.

Marquez captivated the crowd at the Mandalay Bay Events Center with precise punching and slick defense in a rematch that was nearly as entertaining as the fighters' thrilling first meeting, which Marquez won on a ninth-round stoppage in February 2009.

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum has informed Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will move up to the junior middleweight division to challenge Antonio Margarito for the vacant WBC title on November 13. Margarito's team will once again attempt to get him a license to box in Las Vegas. If that moves fails, the fight will take place in Monterrey, Mexico.

Timothy Bradley could tell from the opening bell that Luis Carlos Abregu might be much more trouble than he had imagined.

Bradley spent the next 12 rounds staying out of trouble so he could stay in the conversations around the biggest fights in boxing.

Bradley kept his unbeaten record intact with a bruising unanimous decision over Abregu on Saturday night, surviving a tough move up to welterweight with his usual superb technical fighting.

Don't hold your breath for the "Fight of the Century." The most anticipated fight to never happen won't happen again this year. Perhaps it never will. Ever.

Floyd Mayweather Jr., one of the craftiest defensive boxers in the history of the sport, has decided not to risk his undefeated record against Manny Pacquiao, the relentless Filipino fighter who has won an unprecedented seven world championships in seven different weight classes. They have never met in the ring and the sport and industry of boxing desperately wanted a gigantic moneymaker and potentially gargantuan showdown.

Zab Judah made quick work of Jose Armando Santa Cruz, then delivered a concise message about the state of his boxing career.

"I just want to say that I'm back," he said. "I want everyone to make sure that they didn't forget about me."

Judah used his left jab to batter Santa Cruz before knocking him out in the third round of a junior welterweight bout at the Prudential Center on Friday night.