Rob Brant returned to his home state of Minnesota for the first defense of the WBA middleweight belt he won in Las Vegas with an upset...
Two Southern California based prizefighters known for their longtime preference for slugging over slickness, will take center stage. Both have withstood years of punishment with their...
About to turn 40 years old on the 29th of March, the giant Cuban Luis Ortíz is pressured equally by both his age and the demands of...
The first edition of the World Boxing Super Series was a mixed bag. Season Two appears to be hanging on by a thread. The inaugural World...
Today Eddie Hearn, the head of the boxing division of Matchroom Sport, the firm founded by his father, and the promoter of WBA/WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Anthony...
It was a remarkable weekend in February as two massive fight cards scarcely 130 miles apart drew large crowds on the same night despite television and...
“Losing but Winning” was the title of one of my most recent TSS stories. The theme was that sometimes a fighter loses but leaves the ring...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — Rob Brant was once considered a top prospect. He was a decorated amateur and put on some early performances in his pro...
“Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse” is a 1950s mantra often, and wrongly, attributed to actor James Dean, star of Rebel Without a...
In an era when so many big fights start after midnight for bleary-eyed viewers in the Eastern Time Zone, today’s show in Fresno, a Top Rank...
INDIO, Calif.-Underdog Andrew Cancio ripped away the WBA super featherweight world title from Puerto Rico’s Alberto Machado with a murderous body attack and became the first...
RINGSIDE REPORT BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT RAYMUNDO DIOSES — Undefeated WBA super featherweight champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis needed less than a full round to defend his title...
Boxing returns tonight to the sports park in Carson, California, that served as the temporary home of the Los Angeles (nee San Diego) Chargers. A super...
The ending came suddenly and unexpectedly, a bolt from the blue that no one in the standing-room-only audience could have anticipated. Well, no one with the...
ONTARIO, Calif. – An upset win in the main event and a scintillating knockout lit up the Friday night fights. Mexico’s Luis Saavedra (8-6, 3 KOs)...
Some might refer to it as a mugging, but a mugging takes a bit of planning and solid execution though the distinction between the two is...
After days of rainfall pummeling the coasts of California now it’s boxing’s turn to take a few swings of its own. In three days five fully...
The next step up from a swelling sense of confidence for a young, undefeated fighter is, well, overconfidence. Arrogance, even. When you are accustomed to nothing...
Rocky Lockridge, a former world super featherweight champion who participated in a slew of memorable bouts in the 1980s, has reportedly died at age 60. The...
BOOK REVIEW BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MIKE CAHILL — I just finished reading Jonathan Eig’s “Ali: A Life.” Although I enjoyed the first half of the book,...
