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...
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...
Vera decisions Mora by questionably wide scores in South Texas
SAN ANTONIO – If you come to Texas and fight a Texan you have to beat that Texan down. Californian Sergio Mora returned...
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...
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...
Rua stops Vera in four round War
Former Pride Middleweight and UFC Light Heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua scored a fourth round stoppage over Brandon Vera in a Light Heavyweight bout...
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...
Oosthuizen outlasts Bryant at Broadway Boxing
Dibella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing was back with a bang at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City as Thomas Oosthuizen (19-0-1, 11 KO’s, 167lbs)...
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,...
Ghost story
Just south of Tucson in November 2007, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero made the definitive statement of his prizefighting career. Defending an actual world...
Promoter DeGuardia stable after serious car accident
Just hours after promoting a stellar show at the Paramount Theater, Star Boxing promoter Joe DeGuardia was in a serious car accident that left...
Guerrero Shines in Welterweight Debut
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA -- Some questioned whether former 126, 130 and recent 135-pound titleholder Robert Guerrero could handle a true welterweight in his first...
London is the first round in boxing’s fight to resurrect itself
Boxing attempts to become more than just Olympic history in London during the next couple of weeks in a fight to reclaim an identity...
Promociones PM Returns to Tijuana
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA – Former world champion turned promoter Diego “Pelucho” Morales is back giving young aspiring fighters in the border city opportunity to...
Hopkins to commentate August 11 Cloud – Pascal fight for Showtime
Reliable sources have told 15rounds.com that legendary world champion Bernard Hopkins will be a guest color analyst for the August 11 IBF Light Heavyweight...
Adults gone missing in Cincinnati
Cincinnati’s Adrien Broner (24-0) is not the next Floyd Mayweather. At best, he is New Mayweather, a product that compensates for recent layoffs...
Cano wins interim Super Lightweight crown with technical decision over Perez
Pablo Cesar Cano won the WBA Interim Super Lightweight title with a seventh round majority technical decision over previously undefeated Johan Perez on Cancun,...
Reasons on a scorecard that a fallen Khan can come back
Amir Khan, who wears lightning bolts on his dark trunks, is a lightning rod for controversy, especially in the week after Danny Garcia stopped...
A solution for the Sept. 15 conflict: Move Canelo-Lopez to Sept. 14 at the...
You know the cliché. It’s trotted out after nearly every controversial decision. Yeah-yeah, reasonable people can disagree. Trouble is, that’s all they ever...
Garcia stops Khan in stunner
LAS VEGAS – Danny Garcia calls himself Swift. Now we know why. He was swift to emerge from anonymity. He was swift to impose...
Khan, Garcia are light on the scale in a weigh-in light on the buzz
LAS VEGAS – Amir Khan and Danny Garcia were light on the scale Friday at a weigh-in that included all of the...
Learning from defeat? Khan can
A zero on the right side of a rare won-lost ledger can be a doughnut hole full of illusions. It’s hard to confront...
Reevaluating the Filipino Flash
In February local fans attended “Welcome to the Future” in San Antonio’s Alamodome to see how Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would finally fare against...
Donaire unifies 122 lb title with decision over Mathebula
Nonito Donaire defended the WBO and captured the IBF Super Bantamweight title with a twelve round unanimous decision over Jeffrey Matthebula at the Home...
Soto-Karass stops Gonzalez in Five
Jesus Soto-Karass scored an entertaining fifth round stoppage over Euri Gonzalez in a scheduled ten round Super Welterweight bout at the Hanger at OC...
Fortuna Makes a Statement
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Rising featherweight prospect Javier Fortuna flashed the speed, athleticism and power that combine to make him one of the most...
Comeback Map: Look for signs to see if Pavlik is ready for the next...
Kelly Pavlik is somewhere in the middle of that comeback story few can resist, especially in a business with a soft spot in...
The “K9” cure
Here’s one more reason to attend fights whenever possible rather than sit complacently on a couch feeling satisfied by a medium that tells you...
Looking ahead: The next pound-for-pound generation
The furor surrounding Tim Bradley’s victory over Manny Pacquiao is more of the same in a tiresome, if not redundant, succession of...
Machito time, European girls and blue-raspberry slurpees
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday, Hector “Machito” Camacho Jr., fighting for the first time in 16 months, dropped an overmatched opponent on the red canvas...
