Junto Nakatani’s Road to a Mega-fight plus Notes on the Best Boxers from Thailand WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani, whose name now appears on several of...
Bygone Days: Muhammad Ali at the Piano in the Lounge at the Tropicana Among other things, Las Vegas in “olden days” was noted for its lounge...
In his first fight in his native Liverpool since February of 2020, Nick Ball successfully defended his WBA title with a 10th-round stoppage of SoCal veteran...
IBF/WBO world middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly, generally regarded as the best of the current crop of middleweights, retained his IBF title today in Sydney, Australia, with...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 299: Golden Boy in Saudi Arabia and More A small brigade of Mexican and Latino-American fighters gathered at the beautiful Mayan Theater in...
This reporter chanced upon Manny “Flick” Savoy yesterday afternoon at a boxing gym in Las Vegas. That afforded me an opportunity to get his take on...
Women’s fights were bursting out all over this past weekend. The bout that warranted the most attention, one could argue, was the match between Alycia Baumgardner...
A word of remembrance about James Earl Jones who died on September 9 at age 93. Born in Mississippi during the height of segregation, raised by...
Terri Harper Wins Third Division World Title Encounters in previous battles were key. Terri Harper proved to Rhiannon Dixon that winning a WBO welterweight world title...
Mikaela Mayer emerged the winner over Sandy Ryan after a furious battle to lift the WBO welterweight world title by majority-decision on Friday. It was close....
This weekend the city that was synonymous with boxing in the 1980’s, Atlantic City, will play host to its annual celebration of the sport that once...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 298: Female World Title Fights and More Buckle up. A trio of female world title fights lead the charge this week in New...
On May 2, 2023, an opinion piece I wrote for The Guardian ran beneath the headline “The Bravest Thing Anthony Joshua Can Do is Retire from...
Nigel Collins had his first byline boxing story appear more than five decades ago and is still going strong. There have been many changes since that...
Twenty years ago, on July 30, 2004, Mike Tyson was knocked out in the fourth round by Danny Williams before a crowd of 17,273 at Freedom...
In front of a massive crowd, IBF heavyweight titlist Daniel Dubois knocked out the highly-favored Anthony Joshua and left no doubt on Saturday who’s the best...
Undercard Results from London where Hamzah Sheeraz Made Short Work of Tyler Denny A record crowd was expected at London’s Wembley Stadium for tonight’s boxing card...
Jaime Munguia Stops Erik Bazinyan on a Show with a Shocking Upset on the Undercard Top Rank was at the Desert Diamond Arena in the Phoenix...
A raucous sold-out Irish crowd saw Callum “King” Walsh return to native soil and quickly decimate Poland’s Przemyslaw Runowski by knockout to retain a regional title...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 297: Callum Walsh in Dublin, Anthony Joshua and More All eyes point toward the British Isles this weekend and the American wild west....
