Boxing Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Adam Pollack has written eleven books about boxing’s early gloved champions including a three-volume study of Jack Dempsey. Volume...
Undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue, a massive favorite, improved his ledger to 28-0 (25 KOs) with a seventh-round stoppage of TJ Doheny tonight at the...
Caleb Plant returns to the ring on Sept. 14 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Plant, a former 168-pound world title-holder whose only two losses...
South Central L.A.’s Diego Pacheco knocked out Poland’s Maciej Sulecki with a body shot that not only retained his super middleweight titles but places him in...
“The legend lives on,” intones ring announcer Mark Shinock by way of introducing Nico Ali Walsh. As boxing fans know, Walsh is the grandson of Muhammad...
LOS ANGELES-Southern California boxing takes center stage again on Saturday. Years ago, beginning in the 1920s, major battles between boxing promoters took place in Los Angeles...
Junior middleweight Nikita Tszyu, the son of the great Kostya Tszyu and younger brother of Tim Tszyu, had to dig deep today to overcome Aussie countryman...
Tomoki Kameda, Japan’s “Little Mexican,” and the Glory Days of Japanese Boxing This is a golden era for Japanese boxing. Japanese fighters own all the meaningful...
No riot this time. Floyd Mayweather brought his extravaganza to Mexico City and filled up the stands with two exhibitions and an abundance of Mexican-style fights...
Even when Floyd “Money” Mayweather was a youngster his reputation as a superb boxer was known. Back in the 1990s he was gathering interest from promoters...
Jarrett Hurd and Jeison Rosario, two former world title-holders whose careers had hit the skids, locked horns tonight in a middleweight match-up in Plant City, Florida....
At the dawn of 2019, IBF junior middleweight champion Jarrett “Swift” Hurd was widely considered the best 154-pound boxer on the planet. Hailing from the D.C....
France’s highly-ranked Christian Mbilli bludgeoned his way to victory by unanimous decision over Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko in a clash between two of the sport’s top super...
Mikaela Mayer seeks to become a world title-holder in a third weight class when she challenges WBO welterweight champion Sandy Ryan in the featured bout in...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 292: Route 66 and Great Fights at Mandalay Bay A familiar feeling of energy races through me like extra-caffeinated coffee whenever I drive...
Uzbekistan, a central Asian country of about 36 million people, formerly part of the Soviet Union, has supplanted Cuba as the dominant force in amateur boxing....
LAS VEGAS-Vergil Ortiz Jr. survived two flash knockdowns and a savage bloody slugfest to emerge the winner by majority decision over Ukraine’s Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday....
Results and Recaps from Albuquerque where Angelo Leo Starched ‘Venado’ Lopez Fighting in his hometown for the first time in nine years, Angelo Leo scored a...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 291: Vergil Ortiz and Serhii Bohachuk Hate Decisions These dudes don’t like judges. In a combined 46 pro fights involving Serhii Bohachuk and...
The 2015 bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas stands as the richest prizefight in history by a...
