Madrimov vs. Walker: Inviting Tragedy
By Caryn A. Tate on August 18, 2020
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Fighters are hard-pressed to admit that they’re hurt. (photo: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom)
Even when proper precautions are taken, sometimes there can still be a negative outcome. But what about when there are clear warning signs that go unheeded, such as in Walker’s case? It’s inviting a tragic outcome… READ MORE
Herring retains title via DQ over Oquendo
By Robert Ecksel on September 5, 2020
The champ intended to box, while the challenger came to brawl. (Mikey Williams/Top Rank)
“I wasn’t too satisfied with my performance, to be honest with you,” said Herring after the fight. “I didn’t want it to end like that. I’m disappointed with the outcome. But my team felt it was too much. So we just had to stop it or whatever…” READ MORE
Boxing News by Richard E. Baker
December 5, 2022
The fight was an impressive victory for Saracho who seemed not the least bit winded or tired. He is ready to step up his game in the next fight...
August 21, 2022
Big guys at a boxing match always remind me of the Do Son buffalo fighting contests in Vietnam. Andy Ruiz (34-2-0) and Luis Ortiz (33-2-0) are two such buffalos…
If Not This Year, Then Maybe Next
September 3, 2022
There is an iciness about her that keeps others at a distance. Don’t tread on me. She occasionally looks up and eyes the gym with a cold stare…
September 19, 2022
The fight was an impressive victory for Saracho who seemed not the least bit winded or tired. He is ready to step up his game in the next fight...
July 12, 2022
Daniel Garcia, a true Philly fighter, is a quiet modest man and is financially secure enough that he does not have to fight out of desperation to pay his bills…
Cota Disgusted at Opponent Selection
May 21, 2022
Cota is what is called a reliable professional opponent, always puts up a good fight and, against top opponents, often loses. He never disappoints in the ring…
May 22, 2022
Benavidez spent time covering up on the ropes but it seemed he was just killing time to prolong the fight. Lemieux’s corner tossed in the towel in round 3…
June 5, 2022
He read “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” the story of Rocky Graziano, and then saw the movie starring Paul Newman. He was hooked. He wanted to box...
July 27, 2022
Sweat drips from under his headgear, drips in rivulets down his cheeks and dribbles over his chin. His t-shirt is soaked and clings to his body...
Gessuri Brito—Episode 5—From Prospect to Opponent
March 15, 2022
Now, having been down twice in three fights including a knockout, is the career over? One thing is certain...
March 25, 2022
The bouts in Bellevue were first class and competitive and not the usual blather of mismatches usually found on such shows…
Stuffing the Dynamite with Powder
April 23, 2022
Reynolds has been training at the new Moreno Gym in Auburn, Washington. The gym is a state-of-the-art facility featuring everything a boxer needs including housing…
May 4, 2022
The one-time “Baddest Man on the Planet” has tamed the beast, which took some doing, turning the ferocious man-eater into the pussycat we know today…
May 17, 2022
The best of today’s boxers are technical wizards. What many of them lack is guts. They are too careful with their opponents and too cautious in the fight...
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Gessuri Brito—Episode 4—Why Boxing?
August 15, 2021
Almost anyone can learn to box. Work is the difference between success and mediocrity; work and luck and things inside a person that cannot be taught...
September 19, 2021
He has been accused of being lazy, combative, uninterested, unmotivated, and a general pain-in-the ass. He is all of that and much more…
October 31, 2021
Training sons is not an easy task. Sons forget what their fathers have given up for them and often appear ungrateful. No good deed goes unpunished…
November 14, 2021
Benavidez tried his best. He had to lose about 70 pounds of candy and chips for the fight. Hours spent watching “Days of our Lives” were difficult to shed…
November 15, 2021
Benavidez brought nothing new to the fight. There is nothing new he can bring unless he grows another arm. He is a complete fighter…
March 3, 2021
One is always too cold to know how cold it is in Montana. Once the temperature drops to the level of tree limbs cracking in half, what difference does the cold make?
Jalapeño Popper—Episode 3—Debut
March 5, 2021
That first walk to the ring must feel like it takes forever. The crowd in Great Falls, Montana, was anxious for a fight, any kind of activity that would let them out of the house…
March 24, 2021
Many of the best fighters are not champions and many champions are little more than contenders. Not being a champion may be a convenient excuse to avoid a fight…
March 29, 2021
The decision for a young boxer to go pro is partially made for boxers in the United States. The law does not say how old he can be but how young he cannot be…
The "Habanero Kid,"Luis Gallegos, Wins First Victory
May 10, 2021
The hand wraps feel good, just enough padding and tension. You are here to establish your dominance…
David Benavidez, a Hawk Seeking a Meal
February 14, 2021
After Benavidez beat Dirrell he has been calling out Caleb Plant. Plant has responded with a tweet-full of excuses. “He acts like a woman on twitter,” said Benavidez…
February 5, 2021
He has always been an in-your-face kind of fighter, a non-stop banger exciting to watch. He will exhaust an opponent by walking him down. He also hits very hard...
January 25, 2021
Thinking Simmons was finished, he showered him with bombs coming all the way from Canada. LeCoure learned that not every stunned fighter goes down…
January 26, 2021
Reyes picked up the black & white picture and held the shot in both hands. He outlined his face and body with his finger. “I look fat,” he said. “You are fat,” replied Javier…
February 4, 2021
Brito stayed in Washington. With David Benavidez, Abraham Martinez, and Jose Valenzuela training in Big Bear for future fights the gym here feels fairly empty…
January 16, 2021
Word spread and I expected a number of calls. People in the boxing game often call me thinking I might have some information that might benefit them. I don’t…
January 21, 2021
Think of all the great fighters we have known, boxers who have put their lives on the line yet could not eat in certain restaurants or stay in certain hotels…
January 22, 2021
She brings something more into the ring than just boxing. She likes putting on a show. Costumes are fine but there is no greater show than a good fight with plenty of action…
January 23, 2021
“I always thought he would be one of the greats. You can’t be great if you don’t fight the best and Benavidez is currently the best super middleweight in the world…”
January 1, 2021
The last bit of news concerns the very popular heavyweight Chauncy Welliver. He was rushed to the hospital suffering from a very dangerous case of covid…
The Jalapeño Popper Ready for Pro Debut
October 21, 2020
When Brito decided he did not like the amateurs, he and his father decided to do something different, an interesting experiment. His father kept him in the gym…
October 24, 2020
The Buddhists say all sorrow lies in the past and dwelling there is not the best choice. We have a tendency to glorify such times…
December 4, 2020
Finding fights in the time of covid is tough. Fights have gone the way of the blacksmith, the party line telephone, and silent movies. Many gyms have been closed…
Mike Gavronski—Once More into the Breach
December 24, 2020
If David Morrell wins, he goes on to more money and more fame. If Mike Gavronski loses, he falls into the well paid opponent category…
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December 27, 2020
The corner wanted to continue. Gavronski was not yet beaten into insensibility, still able to almost speak a complete sentence, and still recognizable as human…
Television Exposure Does a Fighter Good
October 9, 2020
Heavy bags hang like bats from the ceiling accompanied by four round body bags dangling as if from two enormous bulls...
October 9, 2020
“When I started boxing I used the ropes a lot. Being there came naturally to me. I learned how to swing back to the center whenever I liked…”
KO, or Not KO, that is the question
October 12, 2020
Many shot fighters say they can make a comeback, that they have been reborn and renewed. Flores is hardly a shot fighter. He is more a throwback fighter...
October 13, 2020
“It was a sign. I left college sold everything I had, and moved to Los Angeles. I would stay in boxing and I would become a champion…”
October 15, 2020
At the fights she glides to her seat like an apparition of Athena, goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. Athena is often depicted with a helmet and a spear…
July 28, 2020
Boxers are constantly screwed. Chicanery in the game seems to be the normal. He was not going to let that happen to his boys…
August 1, 2020
Every fight is the biggest fight of a serious boxer’s life, every fight a step forward or backward on what he hopes to be a successful career…
August 9, 2020
"Usta be a fighter needed 50 bouts before he could fight for a championship. Now they fight for them on television after 10 or fifteen fights; and they don’t know nothing…"
August 17, 2020
The long walk was not the walk of heroes, of cheering crowds, and of flashing lights. Both men entered the ring through a wave of silence, nothing to arouse the spirits...
From one side of the ring to the other
September 6, 2020
When boxers get smart they start to think about their health and the best ways to collect a payday without getting hurt. When that happens a day job is in order…
June 10, 2020
Sure, the fights were not much, a few young scrappers getting a bit of paid exercise, but something is usually better than nothing...
April 3, 2020
Forty men worked all night to erect a suitable ring, the sand packed hard, covered with boards, and blanketed with a resin-coated canvas…
Chauncy and the Chocolate Factory
March 10, 2020
Chauncy was learning on the job and was quickly gaining a following, more as an oddity than as a boxer. He should have been the first Butterbean…
Duane Ford—a Lifetime in Boxing
January 31, 2020
A short, soft-spoken man with a lovely wife, he sits in the lobby of the Legends Casino in Toppinesh, Washington nursing a cup of coffee...
February 24, 2020
He first looked old and beaten like a rich man who had just lost his fortune in the stock market and did not know how to get the money back...
December 15, 2019
He was redeemed by earning a 10-round unanimous decision over Vladimir Nikitin to retain his WBO Intercontinental featherweight belt...
January 11, 2020
Steve Nelson is another Midwest boxer, the new hotbed since Bud Crawford proved one does not have to be born in L.A., New York, or Las Vegas…
Roy Jones Jr. Moves on Washington
January 15, 2020
To have a fight with any BoxRec stars in the Northwest is a treat. Jones is bringing several. He and the casino appear to be a perfect fit...
Dannie Williams on the Comeback Trail
January 17, 2020
Keys clearly had the better skills. Trouble was, he did not throw enough of them. Someone forgot to tell him that throwing punches is a big part of boxing...
January 31, 2020
Delgadillo has also fought mostly winning opponents, the bouts staged in Texas where tough boxers abound. This bout promised to be all action...
A dull fight for fans, a great fight for Canelo
November 7, 2019
"He was defensive, he was closing up his guard. All he was doing was trying to establish points, but we knew what was coming..."
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Tortoise vs. Tortoise: Wilder stops Ortiz again
November 24, 2019
Today’s boxers live in fear. They are afraid of stiff competition; they are afraid of losing; they are afraid of getting hurt...
December 15, 2019
He was redeemed by earning a 10-round unanimous decision over Vladimir Nikitin to retain his WBO Intercontinental featherweight belt...
Jermell Charlo Wants to Make History
December 25, 2019
He wanted no judges involved in the decision and decided to throw as many ineffectual punches as he could hoping he might miss the air...
January 6, 2020
He wanted no judges involved in the decision and decided to throw as many ineffectual punches as he could hoping he might miss the air...