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By Thomas Gerbasi - In just 13 pro fights, WBO super flyweight champion Naoya Inoue has lived up to his nickname “Monster.” But his next opponent, Cleveland’s Antonio Nieves, isn’t losing any sleep thinking about what he’s going to be facing in their bout on September 9. “I’m sleeping like a baby,” Nieves laughs. “I...
By Thomas Gerbasi - This wouldn’t be the case for everyone, but it’s almost fitting that Jarrell Miller wants to do an interview at 11pm on the Monday of fight week. “The main thing is relaxing,” he laughs. “You’re not in the club, you’re not hanging out, you’re at home chilling.” It’s the kind of thing you would expect fro...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The resume of Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez ensures that he will never have to resort to trash talk or hyperbole to promote a fight. But if anything was needed to sell his September 9 rematch with Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, the Nicaraguan took care of that with one sentence as he insists that the second b...
Mexico's Fidel Monterrosa upset the Long Island fans in the junior middleweight opener, spoiling the homecoming of local favorite Tommy Rainone via unanimous decision. Scores for Monterrosa in an ugly, foul and clinch-filled six rounder were 58-54 twice and 57-55. Both fighters lost a point from referee Ron Lipton for fouls in the final round. With the win, Monterrosa moves to 38-13-1 with 30 KOs; Rainone falls to 26-8-1 with six KOs.
NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New York -In a battle of former world champions who were coming back from long layoffs, Omar “Panterita” Figueroa (27-0-1, 19 KOs) dropped Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (33-6-1, 18 KOs) five times for a third round stoppage.
NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New York - Long Island's Seanie Monaghan waited a long time for his big fight on the world stage, but it didn't pan out the way he hoped, as former Olympian Marcus Browne scored a spectacular second-round TKO that continued to raise the Staten Islander's stock in the light heavyweight division.
NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New York - In a battle of Polish heavyweight contenders, Adam Kownacki (16-0, 13 KOs) got the biggest win of his career with a fourth round stoppage of Artur Szpilka (20-3, 15 KOs)
Seanie Monaghan isn’t smiling yet. Sure, he managed a slight grin when meeting Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana during a press stop earlier this week, but as far as an ear to ear, blinding smile of happiness, that won’t happen until after Saturday’s fight with Marcus Browne. It’s the fight Monaghan has been waiting for, a nationally televised bout in his home city of Long Island, one where he can make his case for a world title shot and let that world know that he’s more than a local hero with a stellar record.
Kenneth Sims Jr. may not have known how good a boxer he was as he compiled win after win on the amateur circuit, but soon, the hardware told the tale, as he began to win too many trophies to keep at home in Chicago. “I started giving them away to my cousins and my grandmother as I got older,” he laughs. “I kept some of them, but a lot of them I gave away. Once I started winning nationals and getting the belts they give out, and the medals, I started giving the trophies away.”
In the city of Weslaco, Texas, a place populated by less than 40,000 people, Omar Figueroa was able to get away in peace. As he healed the injuries that kept him away from the ring since December 2015, the former world lightweight champion wasn’t bombarded with questions about his future in the ring or whether he had one at all. For a while, he was just Omar.