Brandon Adams Bursts Bohachuk’s Bubble in Puerto Rico Ring City USA, a new promotional entity, debuted on Nov. 19, 2020 with a show staged in the...
It’s one thing to get to the top, but it’s something else entirely to remain there for more than half a century. Jerry Izenberg, longtime sports...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 126: Viva Puerto Rico, Claressa Shields, Canelo and More In the age of Covid-19 fights get canceled and re-arranged and that’s found here...
Boxing will heat up big-time in May. Canelo Alvarez will defend his WBC 168-pound title on May 8 against Billy Joe Saunders. Two weeks later, WBC/WBO...
Jack Dempsey, who has been matched by Jack Goodfriend to fight at the Hippodrome Monday, May 31 is expected to arrive from Reno within a day...
While many Canelo fights end up in some fan’s memory bank, that probably won’t be the case given what occurred this past Saturday night in Miami....
Canelo Alvarez’s rout of grossly overmatched Avni Yildirim has once again cast a harsh light on the “mandatory challenger” gambit employed by the sport’s world sanctioning...
Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez dismissed Avni Yildirim like a bothersome fly to retain the WBA and WBC super middleweight titles by technical knockout in a mandatory...
New Zealand heavyweights Joseph Parker and Junior Fa met four times as amateurs and each man won twice. On Saturday night in Auckland, they met for...
The big buzz this week in boxing was the enormous fee ponied up by the video-sharing, social-networking service Triller to lasso Teofimo Lopez’s lightweight title defense...
Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) defends the WBA and WBC super middleweight titles against Avni Yildirim (21-2, 12 KOs) on Saturday Feb. 27, at...
I started this series in 2018, selecting ten fascinating heavyweight prospects and committing to follow them until such time as they were eliminated or entered the...
The upcoming fight between Joseph Parker and Junior Fa at a 12,000-seat arena in Auckland is well-marinated. “Momentum is slowly building,” wrote New Zealand sports journalist...
HITS and MISSES: Oscar Valdez, Adrien Broner and More Boxing was in full swing again over the weekend, so there was plenty of action to consume...
Showtime served up a tripleheader from Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on Saturday night, February 20. The centerpiece was the newly reformed, more responsible, and more mature...
A battle between Mexican warriors saw Oscar Valdez prove that hunger can be a powerful weapon as he out-boxed and then knocked out Miguel Berchelt to...
In the media kit for tonight’s PBC boxing card at the Mohegan Sun, Stephen Espinoza, the President of Sports and Event Programming for Showtime, called Adrien...
Surging Avanesyan TKOs ex-Olympian Kelly It seemed that David Avanesyan’s best days were behind him when he was overpowered by Egidijus Kavaliauskas in February of 2018....
Bob Arum called him the handsomest young boxer to come down the pike since Muhammad Ali. Arum was referencing Paddy Donovan. Of course, Arum didn’t rope...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 124: Super Featherweights Collide and More Many expect a Mexican battle of epic proportions to erupt when Miguel Berchelt defends the WBC super...
