In a shocker, Japan’s Sho Kimura has won the WBO flyweight title with an 11th round stoppage of Zou Shiming in Shanghai. Shiming was making the...
Picking crops can change anyone’s life with its grueling daily bending and stooping. It’s a major reason that Eduardo Garcia, the patriarch of the fighting Garcia...
The year of big name fighters facing each other continues this weekend at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York where former four division title holder...
In 1945, the police arrested 14-year-old Joe Barboza for breaking and entering. He was packed off to the infamous Lyman Reform School in Westborough, MA, a...
The best, most enthralling books, be they fiction or non-fiction, of necessity must engage readers in at least one of two ways. One is the subject...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — Adrien Broner (33-2, 24 KO’s) faces Mikey Garcia (36-0, 30 KO’s) on Saturday night in a pivotal junior welterweight bout. The fight...
In most boxing circles it’s as if things are pretty much settled in the middleweight division, and it’s just a matter of who comes out on...
It was close to noon on August 12, 1982 when the radio blurted out four times in Spanish, “Salvador Sanchez is dead – I repeat –...
After more than a month in hospitals 1,000 miles away injured boxer Daniel Franco finally returned to his Southern California roots. A special chartered plane that...
It was reported in the early days of 1905 that former welterweight and middleweight contender Tommy West was shot five times by a man named Paul...
ANAHEIM, CALIF.-With all the advantages of being a natural super lightweight Ismail Muwendo defeated the much shorter but more skillful Efrain Esquivias by decision on Friday....
Forget Brexit. A lost Empire is now regained. The Revolutionary War avenged. It might be hard to fathom today in the land of Donald J. Trump...
When Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero first stepped into the prize ring, all I remember was a camel was involved. Thinking back on that day on April...
In a year when a lot of fights that we thought we’d never see are being made and some are actually coming to fruition, there’s another...
Like it or not, the Mayweather-McGregor fight is one of the biggest sports stories in years and the betting component is a big part of it....
Most boxers have that one (or two) fights that define their careers. Of course none can top Buster Douglas when it comes to that one fight...
“It’s easy to like Las Vegas the same way it’s easy to like an honest hooker. Neither one pretends to be anything but what they are....
THREE PUNCH COMBO — There were several significant bouts this past weekend and with that several good performances. Let’s get the crystal ball out and look...
THE HAUSER REPORT — It was a good night for the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island in New York but a bad night for...
INGLEWOOD, CALIF.-WBC super featherweight titlist Miguel Berchelt proved his win was not a fluke and led the fight card with a successful defense of his world...
