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...
WBO Title-holder Emanuel Navarrete Defends at Banc of California Stadium LOS ANGELES-World champions are gathering at a busy street corner of Los Angeles that has been...
Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame Honoring Hopkins, Goossen, Chacon and Others When people think of Nevada they mostly envision Las Vegas. But the elongated “Silver State”...
Crosstown rivalries were the bedrock for prizefighting in Los Angeles and always have been for more than a century. Norwalk’s Javier Molina (17-2, 8 KOs) meets...
It was the biggest Los Angeles fight in decades when Oscar “The Golden Boy” De La Hoya agreed to meet Sugar Shane Mosley for not only...
Though Southern California produced the first ever featherweight world champion when Solly “Garcia” Smith captured it in the 1890s, the sparsely populated region
Pomona’s Sugar Shane Mosley announced he was retiring from the boxing game after 24 years as a professional. At one time he was considered the best...