Boxer’s Widow Sues Top Rank For $1 Million » LAS VEGAS (CN) – The promoter and widow of former world boxing champ Diego Corrales demand $1 million from Top Rank for a nonchampionship pay-per-view bout that they say cost them income because the competitor failed to make weight… NICK DIVITO, www.courthousenews.com

WWE Aside, Mayweather Focused On Marquez » Haven’t we seen this movie before? • In Rocky III, while Rocky Balboa is busy enjoying the spoils that come with being a champion — including fighting a wrestler played by Hulk Hogan for charity — hungry challenger Clubber Lang toils away in relative obscurity knocking out chumps left and right as he waits for his opportunity to dethrone the king… Patrick Gutierrez, msn.foxsports.com

Abner Mares’ Life Has Been A Fight From The Start » Always poor and sometimes homeless as a child, Mares found success as a boxer, then suffered health setbacks. Now, with trainer Joe Diaz in his corner, he’s trying to get his career back on track… Kevin Baxter, www.latimes.com

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WBO Champ Miguel Cotto Won’t Cry Uncle Vs. IBF Champ Joshua Clottey » WBO welterweight champ Miguel Cotto will meet IBF champ Joshua Clottey in a title unification match at Madison Square Garden on June 13. It will be the fourth time in five years that Cotto has fought at the Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day Parade… TIM SMITH, www.nydailynews.com

Is Clottey Catching Cotto At Just The Right Time? » Miguel Cotto’s rumble with his uncle Evangelista sounded a heckuva lot more interesting than just about any heavyweight title fight we’ve seen in the last few years, didn’t it? Such passion, such fury…why couldn’t most of Wladimir Klitschko’s recent foes have summoned half that energy and zest for combat?… Michael Woods, www.thesweetscience.com

Many Options For Rebounding Cotto  NEW YORK – Boxers are rarely the same after taking the kind of beating that Miguel Cotto absorbed from Antonio Margarito in their welterweight title fight in July. • Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo were only shells of themselves after their epic 2005 lightweight title match. David Reid was barely competitive again following a pummeling he took from Felix Trinidad in 2000… By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports