Japan’s Shigeoka Brothers Fight for Titles This Weekend For the experienced Sweet Scientist, the early manifestation of a Japanese prospect among the world-class is hardly a...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (Liveright Publishing Company) with art by Youssef Daoudi...
Once again Brian Mendoza toppled the favorite and ended Sebastian Fundora’s undefeated streak by explosive knockout to win the interim super welterweight title fight on Saturday....
When Japan’s undefeated Junko Nakatani abandoned the WBO flyweight belt to campaign at 115, San Antonio’s Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez was inspired to go in the other...
Kenshiro Teraji TKOs Late Sub Anthony Olascuaga; Inoue Wins Too Kenshiro Teraji, in his second reign as the WBC world title-holder at 108 pounds and now...
Is the West Coast the best coast? Perhaps, perhaps not. But a stacked deck of Western U.S. boxing saturates this weekend. It’s not a surprise when...
Hunger can make anyone dangerous and Venezuela’s Angelino Cordova fought like a starving dog in out-working former world champion Angel Acosta to win the WBO International...
Bobby Hinds, who passed away last month at age 91, would have likely spent most of his adult life behind prison walls if not for boxing....
When Marlon Tapales (36-3) out of The Philippines, and Murodjon Akhmadaliev (11-0) out of Uzbekistan meet atop a deep card in the Boeing Center at Tech...
Top Rank was at the Hard Rock Hotel-Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma tonight with a card that aired on ESPN+. The featured bout was a match between...
Amid the holding and grappling former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua got the win by unanimous decision against the shorter Jermaine Franklin to finally return to the...
We don’t get many great ones in Scotland. Ken Buchanan, who was confirmed to have died today, was one of them, having held the lightweight championship...
HOLLYWOOD, Ca.-Smack in the middle of glitzy Hollywood, two champions, Vasyl Lomachenko and Devin Haney, arrived to meet the press on Thursday despite another unusual California...
“I have never seen anything like it,” said Glenn Azar, a world traveler who at age 51 was visiting Las Vegas for the first time. “There’s...
The last undisputed heavyweight champion was Lennox Lewis who held the WBA, WBC, and IBF belts after outpointing Evander Holyfield in their rematch at Las Vegas...
The media room at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was as underpopulated as North Dakota this weekend. Only a handful of America’s A-list boxing writers...
LAS VEGAS-David “The Mexican Monster” Benavidez proved too strong and simply overpowered Caleb Plant after a tight early half of the fight to win going away...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 229: Benavidez, Plant and NCAA Hoops in Vegas If you know the history of Las Vegas, it’s endured a number of phases since...
Camille Estephan’s “Eye of the Tiger” promotions returned to the Montreal Casino tonight with an 8-bout card capped by an intriguing match between super middleweights Christian...
If you ask former sportswriter Steve Marantz when was boxing’s Golden Age, he’s quick with a response. His answer just so happens to coincide with the...
