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By Thomas Gerbasi - When talking about his first 12 months as a professional boxer, Shakur Stevenson appears to be a lot more mature than most 20-year-olds. He says he’s happy with his progress and his 4-0 record, particularly the two Madison Square Garden wins over Carlos Gaston Suarez and Oscar Mendoza that constitute the two knockouts on that perfect slate, but that there is r...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Brian Viloria shouldn’t be a little over two weeks away from a world title fight against Artem Dalakian. Not at flyweight, not at 37 years old. Doesn’t he know that 112-pound fighters are supposed to be washed up at 30 and in retirement at this age? Doesn’t “The Hawaiian Punch” realize that the m...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Soccer never had a chance once Jon Fernandez walked into the local boxing gym. “I was playing football when I was 14,” he said. “My uncle took me to the boxing gym and I got amazed by the sport.” Now he’s the one doing the amazing. Just 22 years old, the junior lightweight from Bilbao, Spain is 14...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Boyd Melson has a way of making us all look bad. It’s not intentional, of course, but one look at the body of work he’s compiled in a little more than 36 years on this Earth can make you question some of the decisions you’ve made in life. Like the first responders who run to danger and not away from it...
When Adam Kownacki blasted through former world heavyweight title challenger Artur Szpilka in four rounds last July, it came as a surprise to some. Maybe not that Kownacki won, but the manner in which he did so. The unbeaten Brooklynite wasn’t surprised. “I kinda knew it was gonna be the way it was,” he said. “I had a very tough camp and I trained very hard. I did a four-week camp in Poland with Tomasz Adamek and then sparred a bunch of good southpaws like Otto Wallin and Cam Awesome. They gave me great work and I was doing good in sparring, so I knew that the fight would be good too.”
By Thomas Gerbasi - Nearly four years ago, I had a chat with Marcus Browne about his early years in the sport, and he talked about always wanting the belts, golden gloves and medals his friends and gym mates were getting. He got them, ultimately making it all the way to the 2012 Olympics as a member of Team USA. To...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Ask Iago Kiladze how he happened to settle in Los Angeles, and his answer is as to the point as you can get. “I can get things here that I could not get there to go further in boxing,” he said through his sister and translator, Nino. “There” is both his native Georgia and the place where he spent n...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The fight game may slow down around the holidays, but as soon as Evander Holyfield’s The Real Deal Boxing announced their WBC welterweight tournament just before Christmas, company COO Eric Bentley’s phone and email got hot. “We’ve had about a dozen to a dozen and a half application...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Call it the perfect storm. What do you get when you take a boxer with an Olympic pedigree as an amateur and put him in a pro situation where he not only gets to compete on high-profile cards in his formative days, but also has a little domestic rivalry to deal with as well? You get BoxingScene...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The toughest 115-pound fighter in the world is now the toughest policeman on the force in Sisaket Province, but crime fighting isn’t cutting into Srisaket Sor Rungvisai’s day job as the WBC super flyweight champion yet. “I started with the police already, but it’s not impacting my training as a boxe...