As the temperature continued to cool across most of the United States during the first full weekend in November, the boxing schedule kept heating up. The...
Avila Perspective, Chap 112: Devin Haney and More Now that two major sports have ended their seasons only prizefighting and American football remain. Last week we...
HITS and MISSES: Halloween Weekend Edition It was an absurdly busy weekend in boxing, so let’s get right to all the action. Here are boxing’s biggest...
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...
Avila Perspective, Chap 111: Munguia, Tank and The Monster Here come some more hardcore fights. As the end of the year approaches contracts must be honored....
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...
WBA “super” 130-pound champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis, short (5’5½”), short-armed (a 67½-inch reach) and powerful, has been described by some as a miniature Mike Tyson, which...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Fury’s Next Opponent, Lomachenko Redux and More It wasn’t long ago that Bob Arum was talking about potting Fury-Wilder III at Las...
“—C’mon!” said Teofimo Lopez with two seconds left in the 12th round. It was a Brooklyn thing to say on a Brooklyn-type Saturday night, and Lopez...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 108: Knockdowns, Featherweight Title Fight and More Followers of boxing were abuzz throughout the social media world after super lightweights Jose “Chon” Zepeda...