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By Thomas Gerbasi - After a victorious return to the ring in December after a 13-month layoff from the ring, former two-division world champion Jessie Vargas expected to take a couple months off from serious training, but his team told him to stay ready just in case something came together sooner than expected. H...
Former world super middleweight champion Jeff Lacy is back for another fight – this one in a courtroom - and “Left Hook” is coming out swinging according to a lawsuit filed Friday morning in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia - Atlanta Division.
By Thomas Gerbasi - March 23, 2017 should have been the best night of Jason Quigley’s career. He scored a near-shutout win over popular brawler Glen Tapia to lift his pro record to 13-0, and he did it in an ESPN-televised main event. But almost as soon as the decision was read, the news hit that in the process of win...
Ryan Martin admits that he was a little stir crazy as a seemingly endless four-month training camp in Big Bear, California finally came to a close. “It’s been quite a journey,” he laughs. “It’s very beautiful up there. But it’s very hard work.” Martin finally made his way down the mountain, making weight for his Tuesday main event against Luis Eduardo Florez at The Avalon in Hollywood, and now he can finally get back to the fun part of this whole thing. He’s happy for that end of things, but as the kids say these days, he’s trusting the process, and the process to get to Tuesday night was four months with coach Abel Sanchez and his gang of killers.
By Thomas Gerbasi - There’s no way of proving this, but I don’t think I’m going out on a limb in suggesting that Willy Vlautin wasn’t just the biggest Colin Jones fan in Reno, but the only one. Seriously, who but the most diehard of stateside fight fans even knew of the gritty Welshman who brought a 24-1 re...
By Thomas Gerbasi - With WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder fresh from a knockout win over Luis Ortiz earlier this month, and WBA / IBF titlist Anthony Joshua about to unify with WBO boss Joseph Parker at the end of March, the last name on the lips of any of them is Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller. The unbea...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Being patient about anything at the age of 18 is a Herculean task at best. Now imagine being told that your professional boxing debut, the night you’ve always dreamed of – and in the big room at Madison Square Garden, no less – is not happening. That was the test issued to former Irish amateur sta...
One-half of the third title fight on Saturday’s Deontay Wilder-Luis Ortiz card at Barclays Center, Alicia Napoleon – who faces Femke Hermans for the vacant WBA female super middleweight title - always has a lot more on the line than her male counterparts. She still has to train for the fight, promote the fight and fight the fight, but when she steps between the ropes, she’s not just representing herself, but every woman who wants the same opportunities the men of the sport get.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Addition by subtraction. It’s boxing’s logic, and the way the sport often levels the playing field and provides opportunities that weren’t there before. So, as Andre Ward removed Sergey Kovalev’s aura of invincibility with a series of shots to the midsection less than a year ago, he opened up the po...
By Thomas Gerbasi - In a boxing universe where many fighters seem to roll out of bed and into a world title shot, unbeaten junior welterweight contender Regis Prograis had to do a little bit more to get his crack at the interim WBC title against Julius Indongo on March 9. Okay, a lot. Spending September in his...