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...
The featured bout on tonight’s card at the MGM Bubble was a match between 2008 Olympians. It was a competitive match on paper, but Jose Pedraza...