Tristan Kalkreuth, a cruiserweight from Carrollton, Texas, turned 22 yesterday (Nov. 8). To celebrate, such as it were, he planned to go bowling. Anything more lavish...
B-Hop’s Latest Hall of Fame Extends Beyond the Ring Thomas Wolfe’s celebrated novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, published posthumously in 1940, paints a rather bleak...
A pair of Southern California pugilists Alexis Rocha and Giovani Santillan meet in the prize ring in LA this weekend. They represent a countless number of...
Eric Griffin passed away a week ago Saturday (Oct. 7) at age 55 at a hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana. Griffin was no great shakes as a...
Avila Perspective, Chap, 254: Canelo, Jim Lampley and More Boxing Back to Vegas! Back to Vegas! I’m sure those aren’t words philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau would have...
Oscar De La Hoya sat with a satisfied look inside his glittering building on Wilshire Boulevard, unveiling plans to stage a welterweight showdown between southpaw contenders...
COMMERCE, Calif.-Within a few miles of Oscar De La Hoya and half his team’s old stomping grounds in East L.A., Golden Boy Promotions staged their press...
A masterful storyteller, Lance Pugmire spent nearly two decades covering sports for the Los Angeles Times. He is the most-recent recipient of the prestigious Nat Fleischer...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 246: Undefeated Welterweight Kings, Seniesa and More When Terence Crawford meets Errol Spence Jr. in the prize ring in Las Vegas it marks...
It’s the end of the Thompson Boxing era. Many boxing promotions tested the waters in the Southern California area known as the Inland Empire, but only...