This Saturday night in London’s O2 Arena, two heavyweight clashes of no small matter are set to unfold under the Frank Warren Promotions banner. Daniel Dubois,...
Japan’s revered Ryota Murata entered the Park Theater to a large contingent of Japanese fans who traveled across the Pacific Ocean to see him vanquish the...
In May of last year, Eddie Hearn, the head of the boxing division of Matchroom Sport, signed an eight-fight deal with the live-streaming distributor DAZN worth...
As far back as he can remember, Randy Gordon always wanted to be in boxing. To do what, exactly, he had little clue. All that mattered...
THREE PUNCH COMBO – This coming weekend is loaded with fight cards. On these various cards, a number of prospects will be in action. Perhaps the...
Two-time Olympian Nordine Oubaali successfully defended his WBC world bantamweight title today (July 6) with a TKO over Arthur Villanueva who bowed out after six rounds....
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...
Ajagba vs. Joyce: A Heavyweight SuperFight on Track for 2021 Every successful speculator, from P.T. Barnum to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg to today’s pitchers of...
If someone is wildly passionate about boxing and has followed it for years, he or she just might be an aficionado; that is, an enthusiast, addict,...
Statistically speaking, Joseph Parker is involved in the wrong sport. Yes, the 27-year-old Parker is a former WBO heavyweight champion, not so very long ago widely...
Small town guys from Southern California wrapped up world title belts recently. Who’s next? Riverside’s not exactly Blythe or Imperial, Calif. but when it comes to...
