There is a common occurrence in boxing whereby a new champion’s first title defence takes place in his hometown against a soft challenger. And even though...
The two fighters are cut from the same plain-patterned cloth. They are businesslike, bordering on boring, really, if you are looking for some verbal sizzle to...
LOS ANGELES-After the thrill of victory has subsided what do you do next if you’re WBO junior featherweight titleholder Daniel Ponce De Leon? Well you accept...
The third season of the fight-game reality show The Contender kicked off on ESPN on Tuesday evening and we got our first look at the super...
Undefeated female super featherweight Maureen Shea of the Bronx, New York, is thrilled that she will be opening the black-tie show at Cipriani on Wall Street...
Promoters are touting the November 3 super middleweight showdown between Joe “Pride of Wales” Calzaghe and Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler in Cardiff, Wales, as “arguably the...
Referee Benjy Esteves Jr. has been an amateur or professional referee for the better part of the last quarter century. He is confident enough in his...
PASCUA YAQUI NATION – It was a bitter hard fight, but there were no personal hard feelings after Luis Ramon “Yori Boy” Campas edged out a...
Three weeks ago, I interviewed KO specialist Victor Oganov for another publication, and he didn't act like the owner of a 100% knockout percentage. I'm not...
HIGHLAND, Calif. -Ryan Healy captured the Max mixed martial arts lightweight title with a technical knockout over San Diego’s Ryan Bixler in the first round at...
Miguel Huerta (25-8-1, 17 KOs) came in from one controversial fight against “Kid Diamond” and almost stepped into another one as referee Laurence Cole fumbled his...
A bunch of writers were sitting around, shooting the bull, as we waited for Evander Holyfield and Sultan Ibragimov to show up at the Hard Rock...
PASCUA YAQUI NATION – Luis Ramon “Yori Boy” Campas becomes one of the few major fighters to reach a conking centennial, with his one hundredth pro...
Six or seven years ago the prospect of a Roy Jones Jr – Felix “Tito” Trinidad showdown would have had boxing fans reaching for their wallets...
Ricardo Mayorga was silent, and you know when that happens, he’s either busy smoking and drinking, or he’s plotting out his next outrageous verbal barrage. Word...
Kermit Cintron has hit a different level as a professional, as he’s the owner of the IBF welterweight title, and he showed that his work with...
COACHELLA, CALIF.-Ignoring the heat is not a problem for IBF lightweight titleholder Julio “The Kidd” Diaz. It’s just another day in Coachella where desert temperatures are...
He’s a tantalizing talent, a well-schooled amateur with pop in both hands, and when he unleashes a shot from deep down, and fires with all his...
About a month before his August 25th fight against Benito Fernandez, cruiserweight Bobby Gunn sent out a press release to announce that he would be donating...
Two former boxers, one now a Korean-American business owner and the other a Mexican-American longshoreman, who fought each other in a professional boxing match before a...
