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Promising Prospect: Dante Kirkman
The San Francisco Bay Area has a crop of young fighters beginning to emerge that may make up the next wave of world champions...
WBA #5 super middleweight contender Darius “DFG” Fulghum plans to deliver a Splash Performance...
LOS ANGELES (February 10, 2025) – Undefeated super middleweight Darius “DFG” Fulgham (13-0, 11 KOs), No. 5 in the world by the World Boxing Association...
Off and On: Canelo’s reported plans take him to Crawford, then Jake Paul and...
By Norm Frauenheim
Surprise, surprise, the Canelo Álvarez-Terence Crawford fight was off. Then, faster than flipping a light switch, it was back on. For the...
Promising Prospect: Ethan Perez
Last month, The Ring Magazine named Robert Garcia as 2024’s Trainer of the Year, an accolade he previously achieved back in 2011 and 2012....
WBC Grants Cruiserweight Noel Mikaelyan Next Championship Fight
The legendary boxing promoter Don King received the email below from WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman regarding highly regarded cruiserweight Noel Mikaelyan (27-2, 12 KOs)....
Early Results from Las Vegas: Cuello Stops Olivo in Ten
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Before David Benavidez and David Morrell lock horns in a light heavyweight championship eliminator in the main event of a...
Benavidez-Morrell: Lots of talk, still a pick-em fight
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS — Words, mostly the four-letter variety, have been exchanged. So have threats, insults and all of the rest. David Benavidez...
Benavidez and Morrell Ready for War in Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – The first must-see fight of 2025 takes place this coming Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena as power-puncher David Benavidez takes...
David Benavidez: The Monster Roars
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS — Two days before opening bell, promoter Tom Brown promises violence. Minutes later, David Benavidez says enough to enrage David...
David Benavidez talks loud, talks trash
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS — If trash talk is a reliable way to measure David Benavidez’ readiness, it’s at the top of the scale...
Promising Prospect: John Easter
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – This coming Saturday night, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, a mouth-watering light heavyweight unification bout takes center stage...
Las Vegas’ Kaipo Gallegos Back Home on the Big Stage
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – It can be debated when Vegas became the boxing capital of the world. Of course, New York was once the...
Pacheco Survives Nelson in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Undefeated 23-year-old super middleweight contender Diego Pacheco turned back the challenge of Steven Nelson, scoring a twelve-round unanimous decision at...
Dalton Smith Knocks Out Ouizza in 1st
Dalton Smith remained undefeated with an opening round stoppage of Walid Ouizza in a scheduled 12-round super lightweight bout in Nottingham, ENG.
Smith floored Ouizaza...
Things No Longer Cordial Between Pacheco and Nelson Ahead of Saturday
Highly-regarded super middleweight Diego Pacheco meets fellow unbeaten Steven Nelson at the Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in the headlining bout of...
Naoya Inoue: On the road and in search of more of himself
By Norm Frauenheim
Naoya Inoue’s astonishing career continues without any apparent limits.
There are 10 straight knockouts, 22 in title fights. There are four titles in...
Benavidez-Morrell: David-versus-David, a stage setter in a February twin bill
By Norm Frauenheim
Benavidez-Morrell, David-versus-David, is intriguing on several levels in a fight primarily significant because it’s a new year’s first real stage-setter for a...
More Questions: Teofimo Lopez’ latest move hard to figure
By Norm Frauenheim
A New Year started out a lot like the old one with news this week that suggests 2025 will be more idle...
Good, Bad and the Stupid: A look back and a hopeful look ahead
By Norm Frauenheim
Say goodbye to the good, bad and the stupid. 2024 was a lot like so many other years on boxing’s roller-coaster ride...
Oleksandr Usyk: A warrior fighting with a purpose bigger than himself
By Norm Frauenheim
Legacy is this generation’s tired cliche. Actually, it’s more than just that. It’s silly, a refrain repeated by fighters more idle than...
Usyk2Fury: Repeat or rewrite?
By Norm Frauenheim
Oleksandr Usyk, never a man of many words, has had even fewer this week, just days before a sequel that has all...
Jaime Munguia makes plans for a New Year by staying busy
By Norm Frauenheim
Busy is a vanishing fundamental in boxing these days, although likable Jaime Munguia continues to practice the old-school art-form this week with...
Next Up? Rafael Espinoza fighting for possible shot a Valdez-Navarrete winner
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX — Rafael Espinoza is in line for a possible shot at the Oscar Valdez-Emanuel Navarrete junior-lightweight winner if he beats Robeisy...
Black Hat: Navarrete ready to prove it still fits
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX — Emanuel Navarrete arrived at a news conference without his trademark. The black cowboy hat wasn’t there. For years, it has...
Oscar Valdez in a tough fight to turn a rematch into a rivalry
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s rematch with a chance at becoming a rivalry.
Emanuel Navarrete-Oscar Valdez 2 on Dec. 7 in Phoenix was never envisioned after Navarrete...
Benavidez-Morrell: Something real after the carnival
By Norm Frauenheim -
It’s the first significant fight in a New Year. That’s mere coincidence, but it’s also appropriate.
David Benavidez-versus-David Morrell on February...
Tyson-Paul: Netflix is the sure winner in an exhibition full of fears for Tyson
By Norm Frauenheim -
Mike Tyson has been making a fool out of himself and just about everybody around him for decades. Maybe, he’ll...
Two Kings: Boots and Bam, a bet on the future
By Norn Frauenheim-
Matchroom is calling it Two Kings, which is a couple of face cards from Four Kings, George Kimball’s terrific book about a...
New Deal: Boxing hopes for one as Bam Rodriguez embarks on another chapter
By Norm Frauenheim
He’s a little guy about to embark on a second chapter, also a significant one with the potential to be the...
Vazquez Decisions Gonzalez in U.S. Debut
MODESTO, CALIFORNIA – Jose Luis Vazquez scored a hard-fought eight-round unanimous decision over veteran gatekeeper and local favorite Giovannie Gonzalez to remain unbeaten in...
Vazquez Set for Clash with Gonzalez in Modesto
MODESTO, CALIFORNIA – Undefeated prospect Jose Luis Vazquez makes his United States debut against longtime local favorite Giovannie Gonzalez in the main event of...
Usyk-Fury 2: Fury promises nothing drastic, just more focus
By Norm Frauenheim -
On the career map, redemption is a risky stop. Retirement is right around the corner. So, too, is a rematch.
It...
Introducing Pedro Juarez
In recent years, more and more fighters have taken their shot at competing in both mixed martial arts and professional boxing, to varying degrees...
Common Sense? There is none in acronym’s threat to strip Beterbiev
By Norm Frauenheim
An old line is as current as ever this week because of the acronyms, which continue to prove that the only thing...
