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By David A. Avila LONG BEACH, Ca.-A cool autumn night saw welterweights and minimumweights share main events for a MarvNation fight card on Saturday. Ukraine’s Eduard Skavynskyi (15-0, 7 KOs) experienced a tangled mess against the awkward Alejandro Frias (14-10-2) but won by decision after...

Matchroom Boxing was at the sprawling Royale Caribe Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida tonight with a card that aired on DAZN. The main event was a ho-hum affair between super lightweights Richardson Hitchins and Jose Zepeda. SoCal’s Zepeda has been in some wars in the past, notably his savage...

Joe Joyce activated his rematch clause after being stopped in the sixth frame by Zhilei Zhang in their first meeting. In hindsight, he may wish that he hadn’t. Tonight at London’s Wembley Stadium, Zhang stopped him again and far more conclusively than in their first encounter. In the first...

By Arne K. Lang If you happen to be up in Harlem this Saturday, they are holding a little shindig at the Polo Grounds Towers Community Center in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Better late than never, as they say. The centennial of this storied fight was actually...

By David A. Avila Oscar De La Hoya sat with a satisfied look inside his glittering building on Wilshire Boulevard, unveiling plans to stage a welterweight showdown between southpaw contenders next month. Lately, the six-division world champion turned promoter from nearby East Los Angeles has...

By Arne K. Lang In a surprise announcement, Matchroom honcho Eddie Hearn has announced that Conor Benn will return to the ring this Saturday on the undercard of his promotion at the Caribe Royal in Orlando, Florida. Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) is matched against Mexico’s Rodolfo Orozco who is 32-3-3...

Kenshiro Teraji, the best Japanese boxer not named Naoya Inoue, successfully defended his WBC and WBA 108-pound titles in the Koto City ward of Tokyo tonight (before dawn in parts of the U.S.) with a ninth-round stoppage of South African veteran Hekkie Budler. Although Budler had his moments...

By David A. Avila COMMERCE, Ca.-Mexico’s William “Camaron” Zepeda unleashed his revved-up style against Mercito Gesta and steamrolled the always tough fighter for a knockout midway through the scheduled 12-round regional lightweight title fight on Saturday. It was only in doubt for a round...

By David A. Avila Tijuana played host to a lightweight slugfest that saw hard slugging Angel Fierro survive an onslaught from Brayan Zamarripa to retain a regional title by split decision on Friday night on the Matchroom Boxing card. Tijuana’s Fierro (22-1-2, 17 KOs) walked in seeking to...

By Arne K. Lang Top Rank was in the Lone Star State tonight with a Mexican Independence Day Weekend card in Corpus Christi featuring a title defense by IBF world featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez. In the opposite corner was LA’s Joet Gonzalez, a two-time world title challenger. The...

By David A. Avila COMMERCE, Calif.-Within a few miles of Oscar De La Hoya and half his team’s old stomping grounds in East L.A., Golden Boy Promotions staged their press conference with a touch of old fashion promoting on Thursday. World champion Yokasta Valle, lightweight contenders William...

By Arne K. Lang Sandy Ryan turns 30 on Saturday. She won’t be celebrating; there’s no time for it. Ms. Ryan and her coach Clifton Mitchell will be in transit travelling from her training camp in Las Vegas to Orlando, Florida where she has a date with Jessica McCaskill on Sept. 23 on a Matchroom...

By Arne K. Lang Top Rank Boxing will be in Corpus Christi, Texas, this coming Friday with a show headlined by an IBF world featherweight title fight between defending champion Luis Alberto Lopez and former world title challenger Joet Gonzalez. Mexicali’s Lopez brings an 11-fight winning streak...

By Arne K. Lang Camille Estephan’s Eye of the Tiger Promotions was at a government-owned casino in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada tonight with a card that ran for six hours on ESPN+. In the main event, Christian Mbilli dominated and ultimately stopped Demond Nicholson in a brutal fashion. The end...

By David A. Avila INDIO, Ca.-Rising welterweight Raul Curiel out-worked Brooklyn’s defensive-minded Courtney Pennington and won by surprise stoppage in the last round with mere seconds remaining in the regional title fight on Thursday. Pennington never touched the canvas. “He was a great...

By Arne K. Lang During the 1950s when boxing was all over the TV dial, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sponsored a series of Wednesday Night fights. What goes around, comes around, as they say, and down in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, promoter Garry Jonas has resurrected the format. The latest edition...

By David A. Avila In the last 40 years the month of September usually means one major Las Vegas boxing card will center around Mexican Independence Day. Not this year. MMA grabbed the spot most holy to boxing promoters and usurped the September 16th date for its own Mexican themed fight card...

By Arne K. Lang On Nov. 20, 2011, barnstorming boxer Eric “Butterbean” Esch appeared in Council Bluffs, Iowa. A cult fighter who had earned his spurs on the Toughman circuit and was a familiar face to fans of boxing and professional wrestling, “The Bean” carried 375 pounds on his 5-foot-11...

By David A. Avila Turnabouts are fair play as said in America. Chris Eubank Jr. avenged a knockout loss to Liam Smith with a dominant knockout win in a rematch between British middleweights on Saturday. Ironically, Eubank (33-3, 24 KOs) knocked down Smith (33-4-1, 20 KOs) in the same fourth...

By Arne K. Lang Boxing in the U.S. was dormant on Labor Day Weekend, but it was business as usual across the big pond where important shows were staged on the first day of September in Glasgow, Scotland, in Bolton, England, and in Holstebro, Denmark. Glasgow In an event that had the flavor of...