By Keith Idec - UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Avery Sparrow “got excited” while watching Justin Pauldo come in way overweight Friday morning. The lightweight from Philadelphia was on standby, preparing to
DAZN has clearly taken over the SuperFly racket. The global sports streaming service added an appetizer to a weekend which will feature the most anticipated fight on the 1st quarter schedule. Former l
By Keith Idec - UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Rolando Romero reiterated Thursday that he wanted to fight Jackson Marinez on Saturday night, not Justin Pauldo. In Romero’s mind, Marinez squandered his chan
By Cliff Rold - The enduring incarnation of the Jr. Featherweight division has only been around since the mid-1970s. Damn if it hasn’t made its mark in the years since. Great talent comes and goes thr
By Cliff Rold - Welcome back, Mykquan Williams. That’s the first sentence said to the 22-year-old as he prepares for his ShoBox bout against fellow unbeaten Yeis Gabriel Solano. The next one is, how l
As Mondays go, this one was pretty big. Not only was it the 35th incarnation of a holiday honoring a leader taken far too soon from his calling, but it also marked another anniversary of the birth of
By Corey Erdman - Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares” is now the unofficial anthem for Philadelphia sports, a tale of ambition in the face of horror and reveling in success achieved against all odds.
By Thomas Hauser - Fred Levin, the Pensacola attorney who with his brother Stanley guided Roy Jones through the glory years of Jones's ring career, died on January 12, 2021, of complications from COVI
By Dan Rafael - If Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis has his way his next fight will be against fellow lightweight star Ryan Garcia. Davis and Garcia have both been outspoken about wanting to fight each other, es
By Tris Dixon - A huge amount of talk in boxing as 2021 opens surrounds the red-hot lightweight division. Boxing has its own Fab Five, with Vasiliy Lomachenko, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Dav
By Keith Idec - Tevin Farmer wants what the former IBF junior lightweight champion contends he is owed. Now that Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov has contracted COVID-19 and cannot challenge Joseph Diaz Jr. on F
By Cliff Rold - Ray Leonard was 23. Wilfred Benitez was 21. Erik Morales was 22. Marco Antonio Barrera was 26. Roman Gonzalez was 25. Juan Francisco Estrada was 22. Their fights marked not just memora
By Thomas Gerbasi - In a few weeks, the nearly 7,000-mile trip from Athens, Greece to Big Bear, California begins again for Andreas Katzourakis. It’s not pleasant, it’s not something to look forward t
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Don't look now, but boxing is on a roll in 2021. Gradually relegated from the mainstream by the rise of MMA and a prolonged dearth of transcendent stars, the sweet science finish
“I can’t even put it into words,” said Josh Kelly, explaining the disappointment that his fight with David Avanesyan was again postponed due the most recent UK coronavirus lockdown. “The world keeps s
By Corey Erdman - Back in 2015, it looked as though there was another outlier coming from the Inoue family. Takuma, the younger brother of Naoya, had blazed his way through the first six opponents of
By Cliff Rold - Throughout the week, BoxingScene has provided readers their choices for the annual boxing Oscars (or Emmys, or Golden Globes, or Nickelodeon Kids or whatever trophies one most anticipa
By Jake Donovan - With the growing likelihood of only getting one fight in for the year, Teofimo Lopez Jr. was going to make it count. The unbeaten 23-year old Brooklyn native did just that, not only
By Keith Idec - Alexander Povetkin was down twice, battered and all but out. Dillian Whyte was on the verge of finishing the Russian contender entering the fifth round August 22. The heavy-handed cont
By Thomas Gerbasi - There really should have been a better storyline behind Jeison Rosario’s fifth-round stoppage of Julian Williams, a bout that earned Boxing Scene’s Upset of the Year award for 2020