Stylish Devin Haney couldn’t get the knockout against former champion Yuri Gamboa but showed off superior fighting skills in retaining the WBC lightweight title and winning...
Cuban Stalwarts Ortiz and Sanchez Dominate on a Fast Card in L.A. Two Cuban heavyweights, one a rising contender and the other a former two-time world...
Deontay Wilder’s Lame Excuse Gets No Brownie Points for Originality Deontay Wilder had 43 pro fights under his belt before he suffered his first pro loss....
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — James Patterson is one of the world’s bestselling authors and a brand unto himself. He has written or co-authored more...
Mid-week shows are becoming more common in boxing as impatient promoters clear up a backlog of postponed fights without waiting for the lockout to be lifted....
Avila Perspective, Chap 112: Devin Haney and More Now that two major sports have ended their seasons only prizefighting and American football remain. Last week we...
Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin is the latest prominent athlete to test positive for the coronavirus. Povetkin’s rematch with Dillian Whyte, scheduled for Nov. 21, has been...
Boxing Exhibitions: Side Show, New Angle, or Something Else? Maybe it started with Floyd Mayweather Jr’s TKO over brash MMA star Conor McGregor in 2017. The...
HITS and MISSES: Halloween Weekend Edition It was an absurdly busy weekend in boxing, so let’s get right to all the action. Here are boxing’s biggest...
The Top Ten Light Flyweights of the Decade: 2010-2019 Light-flyweight was the most challenging division in this series by distance. The top three are split by...
Savannah Marshall Captures a World Title on the Usyk-Chisora Card Cruiserweights are not heavyweights as Oleksandr Usyk discovered in winning by decision over true heavyweight Dereck...
Japan’s Naoya “Monster” Inoue proved his mastery with a knockout win over Australia’s determined Jason Moloney to retain the WBA and IBF bantamweight world titles on...
A night of knockouts in San Antonio ended with the most brutal knockout of them all when Gervonta “Tank” Davis sent Leo Santa Cruz to dreamland...
In a fight that was a lot closer than most folks expected, Oleksandr Usyk overcame Dereck Chisora, winning a unanimous decision on scores of 117-111, 115-113,...
A savage Jaime Munguia uppercut led to a knockout victory over Tureano Johnson but it was nip and tuck for several rounds in the Mexican fighter’s...
A Halloween-Inspired Homage to Bernard Hopkins A TSS CLASSIC — It is that time of year. The late-October autumn air on the East Coast is crisp...
Avila Perspective, Chap 111: Munguia, Tank and The Monster Here come some more hardcore fights. As the end of the year approaches contracts must be honored....
It’s been largely lost in the ragout, at least on this side of the pond, but Saturday’s busy fight docket includes the return of Oleksandr Usyk,...
Diego Armando Magdaleno, the son of a former semi-pro soccer player, was named for Argentine soccer star Diego Armando Maradona. But Diego’s father Jesus is hardly...
WBA “super” 130-pound champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis, short (5’5½”), short-armed (a 67½-inch reach) and powerful, has been described by some as a miniature Mike Tyson, which...
