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...
Unlike last weekend, there wasn’t just one big fight card for everyone to watch. Instead, the boxing audience in the United States primarily had two separate...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Carlos Monzon was born into extreme poverty in Argentina on August 7, 1942. He was mean, violent, surly, brutal, arrogant,...
Tonight’s PBC show at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Casino, billed as a “Showtime Special Edition,” was to feature Sergey Lipinets against Kudratillo Abdukakhorov in the main event....
WBC super flyweight world titlist Juan Francisco Estrada led a triumvirate of world title fights with a sizzling knockout victory over Mexican rival Carlos Cuadras to...
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...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 110: Chocolatito, Lipinets and More In the middle of the former Aztec Empire, now called Mexico City, a series of super flyweight world...
The Top Ten Flyweights of the Decade: 2010-2019 As we near the end of a lengthy series, a reminder of our criteria. These are decadal lists,...
Some years ago, Matt Podgorski (a former boxing official) came up with a formula for evaluating the performance of boxing judges worldwide by determining the percentage...