Avila Perspective, Chap. 135: Danny Roman and Super Bantamweights Perform in L.A. The super bantamweight division was virtually unknown by most fans of prizefighting for the...
COLOGNE – There are many questions to be answered regarding Mahmoud Charr’s scheduled fight against Christopher Lovejoy this Saturday night at a training facility along the...
On Sunday, Feb. 26, 1961, Sugar Ray Robinson arrived in Las Vegas for his match six days later with Gene Fullmer at the two-year-old Las Vegas...
Music was the lifeblood of the youth culture when I was young. I came of age during the “Golden Age of Rock and Roll” and expanded...
Eddy Reynoso was named the TSS Trainer of the Year for 2019 and 2020. He’s poised to three-peat. Reynoso, who grew up watching his father Jose...
Canelo Conquers BJ Saunders Before a Record Crowd in Texas Tonight’s card at AT&T Stadium attracted an announced crowd of 73,126, smashing the previous record for...
Felix “Tuto” Zabala, the patriarch of a Miami-based boxing promotion firm, died on Thursday, May 6, from respiratory failure at age 83 after a long illness....
Avila Perspective, Chap. 134: Mexico vs World A couple of Mexican champions lead the way to the Texas fight card as Saul “Canelo” Alvarez seeks to...
Jacob “Stitch” Duran is the most famous cutman in the world. But this past November, when he was working the first of the four Triller shows...
More than 60,000 fight fans are expected to gather at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, on Saturday. The turnout for the fight between Saul...
“Felix has a sparkling personality, a flashy fighting style, and he’s good. He’s also f-a-s-t.” The quote is from Thomas Hauser who wrote those words in...
The late heavyweight Mitch Rose could not translate his Golden Gloves amateur skills to the pro ranks. He retired with an underwhelming 2-11-1 mark, but he...
The news coming out of Puerto Rico regarding lightweight contender Felix Verdejo is troubling. Yesterday (Saturday, May 1) it was reported that Verdejo was a “person...
Andres “Andy” Ruiz was a 20/1 favorite over former sparring partner Cristobal “Chris” Arreola. One would be hard-pressed to name another recent fight that anchored a...
Former heavyweight titlist Joseph Parker survived an early knockdown by Dereck Chisora and rallied back to win by split decision and retain credibility as a heavyweight...
Sunny Edwards, whose style harks to some of the great cuties in boxing history, turned in the best performance of his career today at venerable York...
A Philosophy Professor and a Boxing Coach, Gordon Marino Wears Dissimilar Hats Academia and scholarship are prim and proper and generally take place in ivy-covered brick...
Few if any heavyweights of Mexican descent are sought by major boxing promoters and that’s the world Chris “the Nightmare” Arreola entered back in 2003. Arreola...
Seven weeks after announcing his retirement, Evander Holyfield had an about-face. The impetus was a two-day rally he attended in Philadelphia led by controversial televangelist Benny...
PART ONE OF A TWO-PART STORY. Evander Holyfield made his pro debut at Madison Square Garden in 1984 and had his final fight at a concert...
