Monthly Archives: August 2024

Renowned trainer Bob Santos has described a possible Terence “Bud” Crawford and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez showdown at 168 pounds as a “step too far” for the newly-crowned WBA junior middleweight champion. Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) became a four-division world champion after a unanimous decision…

Trainer Rudy Hernandez believes that three-division titleholder Junto Nakatani, who has held titles as a flyweight and junior bantamweight before becoming the bantamweight champion, will be the best he has ever trained.  In July, Nakatani knocked out Vincent Astrolabio in the first round to…

As if two fighters nearing a title shot, bringing close to a 100 percent knockout rate isn’t enough, Saturday’s Vergil Ortiz-Serhii Bohachuk junior-middleweight bout now has the full attention of the sport’s new fight-making wizard, Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh. Texas’ Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs),…