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...
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...
