“Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around,” the eponymous Calvin once said in Bill Watterson’s legendary comic strip Calvin and Hobbes . Boxing seems to apply the same principle to those who lose close, controversial decisions.
In this case,…
Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz (18-2-1, 9 KOs) got back to his winning ways with a blistering fourth-round knockout of veteran Cristian Mino (24-10-2, 17 KOs) of a scheduled ten-round contest on Friday night at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida.
The massive-looking Ortiz dropped Mino…
IBF light welterweight champion Liam Paro says Richardson Hitchins doesn’t like “fast, fast-paced” fights, and that’s what he plans on making it for him on December 7th in their 12-round clash at the Roberto Clemente Coliseo in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Paro (25-0, 15 KOs)…
For Gabriela Fundora, boxing came naturally, at an early age as a family affair.
Florida’s Fundora, 22, has risen to the top echelon of the sport and currently holds the IBF flyweight title. On Saturday, she will come up against WBC, WBA and WBO…
The rematch from a controversial decision that happened in July between Robson Conceicao and O’Shaquie Foster will stream live this Saturday on ESPN+. The vast majority of boxing folks believed Foster did enough to get his hand raised in the summer. On paper officially it…
Juan Francisco Estrada’s loss earlier this year to Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez will wind up being the final fight at 115 pounds for the former lineal junior bantamweight champion.
Estrada will be heading three pounds north, a member of his camp confirmed during a Thursday…
Lightweight contender Floyd Schofield (17-0, 12 KOs) and his opponent Rene Tellez Giron (20-3, 13 KOs) both weighed in on Friday and will be meeting this Saturday night at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
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Schofield and Giron…
Floyd Schofield and Rene Tellez Giron weighed 134.4 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in for their 12-round lightweight contest in the main event on DAZN this Saturday, November 2nd. Schofield (17-0, 12 KOs) continues progressing toward a world title shot.
(Credit: Golden Boy / Cris Esqueda)
Golden…
Padraig McCrory returned to winning ways with a decision victory over Leonard Carrillo on Friday in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
McCrory was boxing for the first time since his loss to Edgar Berlanga earlier in the year, and he dropped Carrillo in the first on…