Avila Perspective, Chap. 308: SoCal Rivals Rocha and Curiel Rumble and More Decades ago, battles between regional warriors were as common as freeway traffic in Los...
Oscar De La Hoya sat with a satisfied look inside his glittering building on Wilshire Boulevard, unveiling plans to stage a welterweight showdown between southpaw contenders...
Nestled in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, Steve Springer, a former sportswriter who for nearly 35 years covered several sports including the world of boxing, is at...
Los Angeles has always had this deep, dark unknown side to it especially when it comes to boxing. At the beginning of the 1900s prizefighting took...
Through the passage of a quarter century, Tris Dixon has been at various times an amateur boxer, trainer, editor and writer. And for all this, it’s...
When ‘The Beast’ Ruled Boxing in Tampa A week from Sunday, the fifty-fifth Super Bowl will be played in Tampa, Florida. At various times, the city...
Many count Castillo vs. Corrales (2005) as their favorite. Fans of an earlier generation were partial to Graziano vs. Zale (1947), Pep vs. Saddler (1949), DeMarco...
Most boxing careers reflect a variation of a bell-shaped curve. The downward slope on the right-hand side indicates the decline of the fighter in question. Sometimes,...
The decade of the 1970’s was a great one for boxing and the Southern California scene was especially a hotbed. Throw a dart and you’d come...
Don Fraser’s entire career in boxing was spent in Southern California, but his influence extended far beyond his domain. This is reflected in the fact that...