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By Thomas Gerbasi - Boxers have many reasons to be jealous of Shawn Porter. He’s a former world champion, he has a chance to win another title this weekend when he faces Keith Thurman, and he’s one of those rare individuals who is generally liked by most people in the fight business. But if you’re a pro...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Joe Smith Jr. doesn’t think about the broken jaw anymore, only when reporters bring it up in interviews. “Yeah, that’s about it,” the Long Island light heavyweight laughs. And if asked, he insists that the jaw – fractured twice in the lone loss of his career against Eddie Caminero in August of 2010 – is a...
By Thomas Gerbasi - NEW YORK - The night before the Puerto Rican Day Parade, Vasyl Lomachenko made Madison Square Garden’s Theater a mini-Ukraine, thrilling a crowd of 4,545 with a master class against Rocky Martinez before scoring a chilling knockout in the fifth round that earned him the WBO junior lightweight title.
The Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York - After two less than thrilling outings, rising Puerto Rican star Felix Verdejo got the knockout he wanted, finishing Mexico's Juan Jose Martinez in the fifth round, retaining his WBO Latino lightweight title in the process.
The Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York - Zou Shiming'?s defense of his WBO international flyweight title was a painful exercise to witness thanks to a bizarre game plan from Hungary's Jozsef Ajtai, but the two-time Olympic gold medalist from China dealt with it and logged his eighth pro win by way of a 10-round unanimous decision.
Wasting absolutely no motion, Bayamon native Jean Carlos Rivera was a model of patience as he stalked and punished Mexico?s Heriberto Delgado for five rounds before closing the featherweight bout in the sixth and final round.
It’s very possible that Marc Ratner is the only person in the fight game that no one has anything negative to say about. That alone should warrant his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame this Sunday in Canastota, New York.
By Thomas Gerbasi - It’s one of boxing’s unwritten rules. If a promoter chooses to put a Puerto Rican boxer in a major fight in New York City on the night before the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, that red, white and blue-clad Boricua is not supposed to lose. Yes, put him in tough, like Miguel Cotto had Paulie Malignaggi, Zab...
By Thomas Gerbasi - For those of us of a certain age, boxing began and ended with Muhammad Ali, who passed away at 74 Friday night from a respiratory issue, according to a family spokesman. He was our gateway drug, impossible to ignore or turn away from, and with that personality, he opened up a whole new world unlike any other.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Julian Ramirez is stumped. Granted, it might be an unfair question, but “El Camaron” comes up empty when asked what the first HBO fight he ever saw was. “I’ve watched so many fights, I don’t know,” he laughs. And though the point of the question was to set the stage for how big of a deal...