On Saturday night, November 20, Terence Crawford successfully defended his WBO 147-pound title with a tenth-round knockout of Shawn Porter before a sold-out crowd of 11,568...
Terence Crawford will finally have a chance to reshape the narrative of his (so far) middling stint in the welterweight ranks when he defends his 147-pound...
Few professional boxers have a plan for what they will do when they can no longer box. Jessie Vargas is an exception. The LA-born, Las Vegas-raised...
Hand Greg Bishop an assignment and he’s going to be equally comfortable writing about the NFL, MLB, college basketball, the Olympics or boxing. Bishop began covering...
Close the book. And it’s a thick one on Filipino superstar Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao. When Pacquiao first arrived in the late 90s it wasn’t with great...
Nothing Lasts Forever, Not Even Manny Pacquiao’s Exquisite Ring Career If there is one thing I’ve learned as a temporary passer-through during the millions and millions...
Manny Pacquiao has made it official. On Wednesday, Sept. 29, the living legend announced on his twitter platform that he was retiring from boxing to give...
Whoever coined the phrase that “you can’t please ’em all” might have been referring to someone like Doug Blackburn, one of the rare dissenters in assessing...
Avila Perspective, Chap 152: Oscar and Oscar and More There’s a saying in the entertainment business “the show must go on.” That seems to apply in...
“Old soldiers never die-they just fade away,” said General Douglas MacArthur in his final goodbye to Congress back in 1951. A couple of old soldiers in...