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Fight For The Future: With Ward-Dawson, Martinez-Chavez and Canelo-Lopez, it’s underway
It’s hard to know whether September’s promise is a new dawn or just a familiar set of oncoming headlights in another head-on collision with...
Why I’ll be in Oakland this weekend
Saturday evening in Oakland, Calif.’s Oracle Arena super middleweight world champion Andre Ward will defend his title against light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson....
Golovkin attempts the next step in an American adventure started by Jirov
What's known about Kazakhstan by a U.S. audience that gets most of its news from late-night comedians probably comes from the film, Borat,...
Garcia Aims to Remain Unbeaten in “America’s Finest City”
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – The long-running fight series at the Four Points by Sheraton San Diego ends the summer with a bang as it...
Portrait of a barroom tough’s first visit to a boxing gym
Javier pulls open the matte-gray door and sees the fresh black and yellow paint and so much heat. The gym’s heat is palpable,...
Fighting in his Backyard, Sanchez Overcomes Leyva
FAIRFIELD, CALIFORNIA – Welterweight prospect Alan Sanchez survived some tense moments but kept his impressive recent run rolling with a tenth-round stoppage of fading...
Griffin Looks to Lay the Pavement for His Road Back
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – One would have to think coming so close to a crack at a world title and coming up just short would...
A few entries for August’s empty scorecard
The dog days of August, an unexpected offseason, is full of more idle speculation than medal winners among the American men at...
Walking among masterpieces, thinking about failure
FORT WORTH, Texas – Our beloved sport continues its mid-year recess, a deserted time before the mania of September. There were no fights...
Breidis Prescott outpoints Francisco Figueroa in Miami, Barthelemy remains unbeaten.
Warriors Boxing Promotions presented Miami Warfare II at the Miami Airport Convention Center in Miami tonight and the crowd was treated to a delight...
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A Few Good Men: The nominees for a tough American job
USA Boxing's search for a national coach might be as futile as winning an Olympic medal. After the American men came home from the...
VINNY LaMANNA: BOXING MANAGER
He didn’t start out as most in the boxing business but Vinny LaManna has accomplished a lot in his twenty-plus years in boxing.
LaManna, who...
Martin, St. John Geared up for Part Deux
CLOVIS, CALIFORNIA – Tonight at the Table Mountain Casino in Friant, California, two longtime rivals square off in what is being billed as the...
Martin-St. John Rivalry Alive and Well
Back in December of 2002, the two most well-known faces in women’s boxing at the time squared off in a crossroads bout of sorts,...
Observations about local fight promotion from behind black cocktail dresses
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday saw the return of national figures and national Spanish-language television, Telefutura this time, to the northernmost fraction of Alamodome, a...
Peterson to keep IBF belt
Dan Rafael of espn.com reports that Lamont Peterson will be able to keep his IBF Jr. Welterweight belt after a failed test for elevated...
Staying Home: Jose Benavidez Jr. is happy he went to the pros instead of...
It’s hard not to think about Jose Benavidez Jr. while watching the sad and inevitable demise of American boxing at the London...
Magdaleno Puts Away Davis as Expected
Super featherweight prospect Diego Magdaleno continued his run through the lower rungs of the division with a fourth-round stoppage over faded trial horse Antonio...
A call for military intervention
For a brief time Friday, the hours between the elimination of Team USA’s last male boxer and his reinstatement on appeal, the 2012 Men’s...
Judges Hand it to the Wrong Fighter, Steal One in Canyonville
CANYONVILLE, OREGON -- On a Saturday night that featured excellent fights, but horrendous scoring nearly all the way through, unbeaten and wholly untested Mike...
What resurrection? Robbery still the story of Olympic boxing
We were hoping for a rebirth. Instead, we got another robbery.
On a day when I had hoped to write...
Fight is On: Mike Wilson Returns Home to Oregon on Saturday
The on again, off again return of former amateur star Mike Wilson is on again. After days in which it looked as though the...
A Big Apple Dream
As a child born and raised in South Africa, Thomas Oosthuizen, dreamed of fighting in New York City. Even at a young age,...
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