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By David A. Avila Never underestimate a Puerto Rico versus Mexico fight. Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez needed all 12 rounds to defeat Puerto Rico’s super strong Edgar Berlanga and retain the unified super middleweight championship on Saturday. Berlanga never quit. “He’s very...

In his first fight back after being dominated and stopped by pound-for-pound king Naoya Inoue in a fight for super bantamweight supremacy in July of last year, Stephen Fulton nipped upset-minded Carlos Castro, improving to 22-1 (8) in his first start as a featherweight. The verdict was split...

Rocky Hernandez Improves to 36-2 with a Controversial TD in Hermosillo Matchroom was in northwestern Mexico tonight in the city of Hermosillo for a card that aired on DAZN. In the featured bout, super featherweight Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez was awarded a technical decision over Thomas Mattice...

Avila Perspective, Chap. 296: Canelo vs Berlanga and More Never underestimate the Mexico versus Puerto Rico rivalry. Undisputed super middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico has fought Puerto Ricans before and should know it is never easy. But this time he chose to toe the line...

By Arne K. Lang If one happens to be fan of both traditional boxing and MMA, then one has a choice to make this Saturday. Canelo Alvarez will be in action at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas defending his lineal 168-pound world title against Edgar Berlanga and two miles away in a competing...

By Arne K. Lang Today in Perth, Australia, Alex Winwood stepped up in class in his fifth pro fight with the aim of becoming the fastest world title-holder in Australian boxing history. But Winwood (4-0, 2 KOs heading in) wasn’t ready for WBA strawweight champion Thammanoon Niyomtrong, aka...

By David A. Avila Super welterweight contender Callum Walsh worked out for reporters and videographers at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, Calif. on Thursday, The native of Ireland Walsh (11-0, 9 KOs) has a fight date against Poland’s Przemyslaw Runowski (22-2-1, 6 KOs) on Friday, Sept. 20 at...

By Arne K. Lang The Sept. 11, 1964 fight between Dick Tiger and Don Fullmer marked the end of an era. The bout aired on ABC which had taken the reins from NBC four years earlier. This would be the final episode of the series informally known as the “Friday Night Fights” or the “Fight of the...

By Thomas Hauser Adam Pollack has written eleven books about boxing's early gloved champions including a three-volume study of Jack Dempsey. Volume Three of the Dempsey trilogy (which covers The Manassa Mauler's ring career subsequent to Dempsey-Firpo) has just been published by Win by KO...

By Arne K. Lang Undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue, a massive favorite, improved his ledger to 28-0 (25 KOs) with a seventh-round stoppage of TJ Doheny tonight at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo. The match was terminated after only 16 seconds of the seventh round after Doheny twisted...

By Arne K. Lang Caleb Plant returns to the ring on Sept. 14 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Plant, a former 168-pound world title-holder whose only two losses came against the top dogs in the division – Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez – hopes to get back in the title hunt at the expense...

By David A. Avila South Central L.A.’s Diego Pacheco knocked out Poland’s Maciej Sulecki with a body shot that not only retained his super middleweight titles but places him in the hunt for the world title on Saturday “I felt great,” said Pacheco who is ranked #1 at 168 pounds by the WBO...

By Arne K. Lang “The legend lives on,” intones ring announcer Mark Shinock by way of introducing Nico Ali Walsh. As boxing fans know, Walsh is the grandson of Muhammad Ali who during his storied career as a boxer and activist became the most recognizable man on the planet. A middleweight, Ali...

By David A. Avila LOS ANGELES-Southern California boxing takes center stage again on Saturday. Years ago, beginning in the 1920s, major battles between boxing promoters took place in Los Angeles within miles of each other at the Olympic Auditorium and Hollywood Legion Stadium. Now global...

By Arne K. Lang Junior middleweight Nikita Tszyu, the son of the great Kostya Tszyu and younger brother of Tim Tszyu, had to dig deep today to overcome Aussie countryman Koen Mazoudier and maintain his unblemished record. Both fighters were wobbled at times during the bout at Sydney's ICC...

By Arne K. Lang This is a golden era for Japanese boxing. Japanese fighters own all the meaningful hardware at 118 and 122 pounds. That’s eight belts in all, four of which are the property of undisputed super bantamweight kingpin Naoya Inoue, the first Japanese boxer in history to sit atop the...

By David A. Avila No riot this time. Floyd Mayweather brought his extravaganza to Mexico City and filled up the stands with two exhibitions and an abundance of Mexican-style fights on Saturday. Big banging Mexican fighter Alan Picasso (29-0-1, 16 KOs) slugged it out with Azat “Crazy A”...

By David A. Avila Even when Floyd “Money” Mayweather was a youngster his reputation as a superb boxer was known. Back in the 1990s he was gathering interest from promoters and fans like a bright light attracts moths. Decades have passed but interest remains in Mayweather. The five-division...

By Arne K. Lang Jarrett Hurd and Jeison Rosario, two former world title-holders whose careers had hit the skids, locked horns tonight in a middleweight match-up in Plant City, Florida. On paper, this fight, a must-win for both combatants, was one of the strongest offerings in the bi-monthly...

By Arne K. Lang At the dawn of 2019, IBF junior middleweight champion Jarrett “Swift” Hurd was widely considered the best 154-pound boxer on the planet. Hailing from the D.C. suburb of Accokeek, Maryland, Hurd was coming off a fourth-round stoppage of Jason Welborn in the third defense of the...