Avila Perspective Chap. 54: Quakes, Super Middleweights and the Globe Theater Earthquakes or not, the flood of prizefighters into Southern California boxing gyms continues. They come...
The recent deaths of two former ring personalities went largely unnoticed. On June 26, Willie “The Worm” Monroe passed away at age seventy-three. Three weeks earlier,...
LOS ANGELES – Welterweight sluggers Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Antonio Orozco met at the historic El Cholo’s restaurant in Los Angeles to greet the media on...
O’Shaquie Foster was sitting alone in the dark on an unforgiving concrete floor in a Texas jail cell. Sweltering heat. No windows. No lights. The power...
The question for the third quarterly survey of 2019 was “Where do you see the sport/business of boxing 10 years from now?” Thirty-six noted boxing buffs...
This past Saturday there were big shows in Houston and in Providence, Rhode Island, that went head-to-head on Showtime and DAZN respectively. Lost in the shadows...
This coming July 4th marks the 100th anniversary of the Dempsey-Willard fight. More than a big fight, Dempsey vs. Willard came to be seen as the...
Jermall Charlo’s Houston homecoming at NRG Arena went longer than most people probably expected it would. Still, in the end, the local champ earned the hard-fought...
Tonight’s show in Providence, Rhode Island, promoted by Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Sports, had a strong international flavor. A Pole, a Dominican, a New Zealander, an Aussie,...
IBF champion Richard Commey couldn’t lose his world lightweight title, but still found former champion Raymundo Beltran, who didn’t make weight, one tough customer before winning...