Nothing is easy in boxing, but Joseph Diaz Jr. could have taken an easier route for his lightweight debut this weekend than fighting Javier Fortuna. But that’s just not the way the former 130-pound world champion is built. So, what does that say abou...
By Thomas Gerbasi - If someone told a young Gilberto Ramirez early in his amateur boxing career that he would eventually be one of the sport’s rising stars, a world champion and an ambassador for his native Mexico, such words would be met with a snee...
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Fresh off a May 14 event that featured Jessica Camara’s upset of Heather Hardy, Lou DiBella is stepping up to the plate again on August 20 with perhaps the best all-female card seen in years, featuring two world championship fights, a title eliminato...
By Thomas Gerbasi - George Kambosos Jr. is not going home. Not yet. Despite the uncertainty around a date for his challenge of undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez Jr. after their June 19 bout was called off due to Lopez testing positive for...
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Abel Aparicio is the youngest looking 31-year-old in boxing (and maybe in life). It’s a reason for us old folks to root against him, but the soft-spoken featherweight is such a class kid, that you can’t. So since we have to hope he does well when he...
By Thomas Gerbasi - It wasn’t a typical day in the Blue Moon Boxing Gym a couple months back when Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales showed up and chatted with a young man doing his part to keep the featherweights relevant in 2021, Adam Lopez.
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By Thomas Gerbasi - As cool under pressure as one of the four fighters he featured in the Showtime documentary series The Kings, director Mat Whitecross didn’t expect to feel any nerves creeping in as episode one premiered last Sunday night. That coo...
It was the phone call Floyd Schofield Sr. didn’t expect to get, but when he got it, he knew what he had to do. He had to come get his son, Floyd Jr. “His grandmother called me to go pick him up and said he was in foster care,” he said. “So I took the...
Javier Martinez should have been preparing for a trip to the Olympics in Tokyo right about now as a member of Team USA competing in the 165-pound weight class. He’s not. Instead, the Milwaukee native is in Las Vegas, 3-0 as a pro and looking to make...
Settling back in his training home of Los Angeles after spending the bulk of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Ireland, Stevie McKenna was preparing for Saturday’s bout against Damian Haus when he got a call. Junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor...
It’s long been one of boxing’s mysteries, or at least that’s what we’re told. When it comes to the big fights not happening, we are given endless excuses, or as the non-combative combatants might say, reasons. Sometimes, we’re told, it’s just one of...
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