On Saturday, WBC/IBF light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and welterweight Vergil Ortiz Jr kept their perfect knockout skeins alive. Beterbiev, now 16-0, and Ortiz, 17-0, have...
Important fights were staged today in Moscow and London, precursors to the nightcap in Fort Worth, Texas. In London, two fighters trained by Shane McGuigan turned...
Boxing will heat up big-time in May. Canelo Alvarez will defend his WBC 168-pound title on May 8 against Billy Joe Saunders. Two weeks later, WBC/WBO...
I started this series in 2018, selecting ten fascinating heavyweight prospects and committing to follow them until such time as they were eliminated or entered the...
Boxers Fighting the Best and Doing It Again for the First Time: Part Two As mentioned in Part One, the phrase “cherry picking” gained meaningful traction...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 120: Boxing’s Best Pound for Pound When Saul “Canelo” Alvarez first stepped into a prize ring in the USA in 2008 it never...
In the mad scramble to get a piece of the boxing money pie, the following categorizing seems appropriate: Pure Exhibitions Chavez Sr. vs. Jorge Arce (with...
It was the last big-fight weekend in the United States, so there were plenty of HITS and MISSES to consider this time around. The boxing world...
HITS and MISSES: AJ’s Mandatory Destruction of Kubrat Pulev and More It was another big weekend in boxing. While most of the world was glued to...
Canelo Alvarez Threepeats as the BWAA’s Pound-for-Pound King NEWS RELEASE: It’s been a while since the Boxing Writers Association of America conducted its bimonthly pound-for-pound top-10...