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Twenty years after her final fight in 2001, Kathy Collins has an announcement to make. She’s retired. “I didn't know that I really needed to make a formal announcement that I've retired,” laughs Collins. “I think everybody has kinda figured that out at this point.”
By Thomas Gerbasi - The professional boxing debut. A stressful moment in any case, but particularly so if you happen to be the grandson of “The Greatest.” But Nico Ali Walsh isn’t blinking in the days leading up to his Saturday bout against Jordan Weeks, even as he receives the type of attention and scrutiny few debuting pros get.
Fresh from an upset win over Heather Hardy in May, Canada’s Jessica Camara will return to the ring on August 20 for a pivotal bout against Argentina’s Victoria Bustos that will air on UFC FIGHT PASS.
By Thomas Gerbasi - They might be boxing’s oddest couple, Manny Pacquiao and Sean Gibbons, formally the Senator and the President. Not that Gibbons is pulling rank on the future Hall of Famer...
By now, Adam Kownacki expected to be back on the winning track after a rematch with Robert Helenius on July 24 in Las Vegas. But boxing being boxing, his bout on the undercard of the third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder was postponed with the entire show until October 9, leaving him to dial back the intensity of his camp when he should have been peaking.
When it gets to the championship rounds and Stephan Shaw has to dig deep to win the big fight, don’t worry about him hitting the wall. He’s been there already. Literally. And there are the marks to prove it.
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 about him as a fighter?
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 sneer or a laugh, or both.
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 eliminator and the return of a former world champ after a long layoff.
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 the coronavirus, the Australian challenger is not in Sydney with his wife and two kids, relaxing after more than three months away in America while he waits to be rescheduled.