Those lightweights. Whether junior lights, super lights or lightweights, it’s the 130-140 divisions where most of boxing’s young stars are found now or in the past....
Avila Perspective, Chap. 289: East LA, Claressa Shields and More East Los Angeles has long been a haven for some of the best fighters around if...
Richie Sandoval, who won the WBA and lineal bantamweight title in one of the biggest upsets of the 1980s and then, not quite two years later,...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 272: Super Lightweights – Teofimo Lopez, Tito Mercado and More One of the best fighters ever, Aaron Pryor, was a super lightweight....
The TSS Female Fighter of the Year plus 2023’s Indelible Moments Our beautiful sport lives on. We had one of the best years in boxing in...
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...
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...
History repeats itself when it comes to the welterweights. Every generation or so a crop of welterweights grabs the attention of not only boxing fans, but...
Mexican style prizefighting arrives in the Inland Empire with undefeated burgeoning middleweight star Jaime Munguia and female boxing legend Mariana “Barbie” Juarez this weekend. Both have...
Once upon a time the name Ferocious Fernando Vargas stirred up the blood of many a Southern California boxing fan and others. Based in Oxnard, California,...