“Lionell ‘Lonnie B’ Thompson is a former professional boxer…” So reads the opening sentence of a blurb about him that popped up on the internet. Except...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 233: The Rocket Rise of Ryan Garcia Waiting in the Tuesday sunshine, atop a lush green Beverly Hills cliff, reporters of all shapes...
Japan’s Shigeoka Brothers Fight for Titles This Weekend For the experienced Sweet Scientist, the early manifestation of a Japanese prospect among the world-class is hardly a...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (Liveright Publishing Company) with art by Youssef Daoudi...
Once again Brian Mendoza toppled the favorite and ended Sebastian Fundora’s undefeated streak by explosive knockout to win the interim super welterweight title fight on Saturday....
When Japan’s undefeated Junko Nakatani abandoned the WBO flyweight belt to campaign at 115, San Antonio’s Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez was inspired to go in the other...
Kenshiro Teraji TKOs Late Sub Anthony Olascuaga; Inoue Wins Too Kenshiro Teraji, in his second reign as the WBC world title-holder at 108 pounds and now...
Is the West Coast the best coast? Perhaps, perhaps not. But a stacked deck of Western U.S. boxing saturates this weekend. It’s not a surprise when...
Hunger can make anyone dangerous and Venezuela’s Angelino Cordova fought like a starving dog in out-working former world champion Angel Acosta to win the WBO International...
Bobby Hinds, who passed away last month at age 91, would have likely spent most of his adult life behind prison walls if not for boxing....