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...
Unlike last weekend, there wasn’t just one big fight card for everyone to watch. Instead, the boxing audience in the United States primarily had two separate...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Carlos Monzon was born into extreme poverty in Argentina on August 7, 1942. He was mean, violent, surly, brutal, arrogant,...
Tonight’s PBC show at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Casino, billed as a “Showtime Special Edition,” was to feature Sergey Lipinets against Kudratillo Abdukakhorov in the main event....
WBC super flyweight world titlist Juan Francisco Estrada led a triumvirate of world title fights with a sizzling knockout victory over Mexican rival Carlos Cuadras to...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Fury’s Next Opponent, Lomachenko Redux and More It wasn’t long ago that Bob Arum was talking about potting Fury-Wilder III at Las...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 110: Chocolatito, Lipinets and More In the middle of the former Aztec Empire, now called Mexico City, a series of super flyweight world...
The Top Ten Flyweights of the Decade: 2010-2019 As we near the end of a lengthy series, a reminder of our criteria. These are decadal lists,...
Some years ago, Matt Podgorski (a former boxing official) came up with a formula for evaluating the performance of boxing judges worldwide by determining the percentage...
“—C’mon!” said Teofimo Lopez with two seconds left in the 12th round. It was a Brooklyn thing to say on a Brooklyn-type Saturday night, and Lopez...
Boxing is back! Okay, boxing had technically been back for a few months now. But didn’t it seem to be more fully back to normal with...
Teofimo Takes Over: Upsets Lomachenko Four belts were at stake tonight when Vasiliy Lomachenko locked horns with Teofimo Lopez at the MGM Grand Bubble. There were...
England’s Lewis Ritson survived the trickery of Mexico’s Miguel Vazquez to win a regional title by split decision on Saturday. Ritson (21-1, 12 KOs) was lining...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 109: Lopez vs. Loma and More Its LatinX versus “High Tech,” it’s Brooklyn versus Oxnard and its’ a clash between brash and cool....
Saturday’s match between Vasyl Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez at the MGM Grand “Bubble” is the most-talked-about fight since Wilder-Fury II– and the good news for fight...
In December 2017, a few days prior to Vasiliy Lomachenko’s dominant performance against Guillermo Rigondeaux, who quit on his stool after six rounds at the Theater...
Famed but understated and beloved by all who met him, Ricardo Jimenez passed away this recent weekend. Jimenez, 64, began as a journalist and worked for...
The WBC’s ‘Franchise’ Sticker and More Judges Add to Boxing’s Numbers Glut My late Cuban mother-in-law said a lot of things in her thick accent that...
Appraising the best superflyweights of the past decade was fascinating, not least because of the many excellent fights delivered throughout, but also because of the matchmaking...
Mexico’s Emanuel Navarrete jumped on Ruben Villa early and used his relentless attack to win the vacant WBO featherweight title by unanimous decision on Friday. Navarrete...
