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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, my mother and my father have the most basic names,
Dillian Whyte doesn’t care what you think about his chances of unseating Tyson Fury as the WBC heavyweight champion this Saturday in London’s Wembley Stadium.
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 where he believes he can pin a loss on a perfect record.
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 number.
The tattoo on Summer Lynn’s left wrist reads “Memories” and the welterweight from Chicago already has a healthy stack of them despite being just 20 years old.
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 there, even if it’s in a strip mall in Atlanta.
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 headed.
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 this I want to start to fight where boxing is really a big sport, like in the USA, in England.”
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 his ups and downs like anyone who competes in this sport long enough, but did you ever see him sweat? Nah.
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 the walk to the ring for the first time since a May defeat at the hands of Josh Taylor, it’s all about the “comeback,” the return, the homecoming to Save Mart Arena in Fresno.