It may be six months since Christopher Diaz’ last fight, but the Puerto Rican featherweight’s fans have not forgotten him, and he expects that they will fill up the Caribe Royale Orlando in his adopted home state of Florida to see him try to snap a t...
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By Thomas Gerbasi - Some words stick with you. The honesty may be flippant, it may be intentional, but whatever it may be, it gives you an insight into the mind of a fighter that you don’t often get in a world of manufactured quotes and cliches you c...
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By Thomas Gerbasi - Less than a month before Saul “Canelo” Alvarez invaded the light heavyweight division for the first time and knocked out Sergey Kovalev in 11 rounds in November 2019, Dmitry Bivol was preparing for another defense of his WBA title...
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By Thomas Gerbasi - Call me crazy, but I just can’t see someone with the first name Franchon working a 9 to 5 somewhere. With a name like that, you’ve got to be destined for something special. Franchon Crews-Dezurn’s parents knew. “The funny thing is...
By Thomas Gerbasi - By the time boxers like Errol Spence Jr. reach that pay-per-view headliner spot and close in on 30 pro fights, they’re usually a finished product. There’s the good, the bad, and the ugly - things for an opponent to avoid and areas...
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By Thomas Gerbasi - When Shane Mosley was an unbeaten lightweight champion, wrecking everyone in his path and looking like he’d never lose a prizefight, he told me that he knew that “0” wouldn’t last forever, that someone, somewhere would have his nu...
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It’s not the Mandalay Bay, STAPLES Center, Barclays Center or any other huge venue Kenny Porter has worked as the coach for his son Shawn. But it’s boxing, he has a chance for his fighters to get work and better themselves, and that love is still the...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Back in Espirito Santo, Brazil, Touro Moreno thought he had a couple mixed martial arts fighters in his home in the form of sons Yamaguchi and Esquiva Falcao. But from an early age, it was clear that boxing was where they were hea...
By Thomas Gerbasi - When reminded that July will mark four years since her professional debut, Estelle Mossely laughs. “It's going really fast. Now will be the first time I will fight in another country because all my fights were in France, and after...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Through an amateur career that took him to the 1992 Olympics for Team USA and a 47-fight pro career that saw him win a world title and fight the best of the best at 154 and 160 pounds, Raul Marquez never got rattled. Sure, he had...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The comeback. Boxing’s dirty word. These days, it’s pinned on every fighter who suffers a loss, even if that fighter lost for the first time, and in a title unification bout, no less. So, as Jose Carlos Ramirez prepares to make th...
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Marqus Bates doesn’t need boxing. A 35-year-old married father of a teenage son, Bates works as a union truck driver, and it’s a steady gig, but there’s still something in his chest and his gut that makes him put on the gloves and get into a sanction...
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