If Terence “Bud” Crawford isn’t the sport’s top pound-for-pound fighter, he’s at least on the very short list of contenders (a list that became shorter when...
World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman had made it known that his organization was considering a new weight class. It’s now official. The category will be...
Golden Boy Promotions, the company founded by Oscar De La Hoya, brought Saul “Canelo” Alvarez into the fold in January of 2010. At the time, Alvarez...
Cuban Stalwarts Ortiz and Sanchez Dominate on a Fast Card in L.A. Two Cuban heavyweights, one a rising contender and the other a former two-time world...
Deontay Wilder’s Lame Excuse Gets No Brownie Points for Originality Deontay Wilder had 43 pro fights under his belt before he suffered his first pro loss....
Mid-week shows are becoming more common in boxing as impatient promoters clear up a backlog of postponed fights without waiting for the lockout to be lifted....
Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin is the latest prominent athlete to test positive for the coronavirus. Povetkin’s rematch with Dillian Whyte, scheduled for Nov. 21, has been...
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,...
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...