By Thomas Gerbasi - A lot of boxers say they were born to fight. Some of them are right. Rising welterweight star Jaron “Boots” Ennis definitely fits the latter category as the son of Derek “Bozy” Ennis Sr. and the brother of Derek “Pooh” Ennis and F...
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After fighting eight of his first nine fights in Tijuana, Mexico, featherweight prospect Darren Cunningham got an education few of his Stateside peers could claim. I imagine there were boos, maybe a bottle or two hurled toward the ring, that kind of...
In a time when boxers with 4-0 records are screaming for title shots while the best fights in the sport are taking place on social media, the honesty of middleweight Quatavious Cash is refreshing. At 29, he’s entering his physical prime, he’s got an...
By Thomas Gerbasi - When the late, great Marvelous Marvin Hagler got his first world title shot against Vito Antuofermo in 1979, it was in his 50th pro fight. Let that sink in for a second. Regis Prograis, as old school as we have in the modern era,...
Maricela Cornejo could probably do anything she wanted to do in this world and be successful. She chose to be a fighter, and though walking up those four steps into the ring 16 times is enough proof of where her heart is at, it was in fight 17 that s...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Amanda Serrano is happy. She’s got herself a fight. And not just any fight, but the type of SuperFight she has been waiting her entire career for. So let’s just say she’s not walking under ladders or letting black cats cross her p...
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The city of Lafayette, Louisiana has produced a pair of pretty solid mixed martial artists in former UFC champs Daniel Cormier and Dustin Poirier, but in recent years, there hasn’t been much to brag about in the city from the boxing side of the comba...
Jerry Izenberg doesn’t hesitate when asked if we will ever see a night like the one that took place in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971. “No,” said the Hall of Fame writer for the Newark Star Ledger of the first bout between Joe...
Want to know how dedicated 18-year-old Vito Mielnicki Jr. is to the fight game? When arranging an interview to discuss his Saturday bout against Noe Lopez, he asked if February 14 was a good day. I let him know that one of the reasons why I’ve stayed...
Stay in this business long enough and skepticism becomes your default mode. So, when it was announced that a new book on Joe Frazier was hitting the shelves, there was no way that Glenn Lewis’ Sparring with Smokin’ Joe was going to tell me anything n...
All things considered, Xander Zayas didn’t have much to complain about in 2020. While the world was turned upside down, the welterweight prospect turned 18, graduated high school, and fought four times, improving his pro record to 6-0 with five knock...
It was sparring day for Adam Lopez on February 3. A little over a week out from his Saturday bout against Jason Sanchez, his first trip to the ring since June of last year, you might expect the 24-year-old to have a few nerves. Not about fighting, be...
