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...
There’s no doubt about it. It was the worst decision of the year. Miguel Huerta (27-8, 17 KOs) had just been shorted of what seemed to...
This story, like any other, would be plenty different in another era. There was a time that the pride of Philly boxing (this side of the...
The Fernando Vargas/ Ricardo Mayorga bout scheduled for Sept. 8 at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 8 has been postponed, after a Vargas...
LAS VEGAS-You can’t teach an old dog new tricks but Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Randy “The Natural” Couture had plenty of surprises in beating Brazil’s...
“Fight back, fight back, you have to fight back, or I'm gonna have to stop it!” referee Herb Dean screamed at the tail end of the...
DUBLIN, Ireland — Going into Saturday’s bout with European 122-pound champion Bernard Dunne, most insiders reckoned Spain’s 21-year-old Kiko Martinez was an unworthy mandatory challenger with...
