The last few weeks have produced two big upsets involving fighters from the Orient. On July 28, Chinese superstar Zou Shiming was stopped in the 11th...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — This week, the pay-per-view undercard for Mayweather-McGregor was formally announced. As much as I hate the main event, I must applaud the...
The late Stanley Weston, who had a long association with The Ring magazine, rising from copy boy to publisher, once said that he really didn’t like...
Some say the hardest thing in sports is to hit a major league slider. And maybe that is so, if the slider was thrown by Hall...
I’ve never been much of a pound-for-pound list guy. Until recently I never placed any stock in those lists because they serve no real purpose. Everyone...
The boxers going through their exertions weren’t the only ones working up a sweat at the Mayweather Boxing Club gym in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon,...
LOS ANGELES-Charles Huerta emerged from a foul infested brawl as the technical decision winner over Mexico’s Miguel Gonzalez on Thursday evening. A mostly pro-Huerta crowd saw...
Thomas “Hitman” Hearns leads a heavy duty roster of greats into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame this weekend in Las Vegas. Detroit’s Hearns will be...
Terence Crawford meets Namibia’s Julius Indongo at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 19th on ESPN. At stake are all the meaningful belts...
A favorite son returns to the spotlight when Charles Huerta faces Miguel Gonzalez in a super featherweight main event on Thursday in the City of Angels....
Lots of athletes have nicknames. Some are carryovers from childhood, some are self-invented, still others are the products of imaginative publicists or promoters seeking to coin...
Corona is a small town that once was home to one of the greatest bantamweights who ever lived back in the 1940s. But one sweltering hot...
He participated in 29 heavyweight title bouts compiling a record of 25-4. Yes, Wladimir Klitschko 64-5 (53) fought with a version of the title on the...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — This past week, we saw Raymundo Beltran (34-7-1, 21 KO’s) move a step closer to another crack at a world title belt...
The sports heroes and the music of our youth have a particularly evocative hold on us as we grow older. Recently, I was watching The Willows...
The fandom is over the top with the emergence of boxing’s next must-see fighter. He is Vasyl Lomachenko 9-1 (7), the current holder of the WBO...
It’s never a good thing for a fighter to look past his next opponent but for fans and boxing writers it’s perfectly acceptable to consider what...
LOS ANGELES-Vasyl “High Tech” Lomachenko bedazzled the technically challenged Miguel Marriaga to win by technical knockout and retain the WBO junior lightweight world title on Saturday...
The lush history of Argentine boxing has been replete with almost uninterrupted achievements since the early ’70s, but there is a noticeable group of blank pages...
INDIO, Ca.-Mauricio “El Maestro” Herrera won the welterweight battle on Friday and Jesus Soto Karass captured the hearts of fans in a back and forth skirmish...
