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Lightweight Gabriel Flores Jr. will enter the ring for his 26th professional bout with a new face in his corner: former world champion Nonito Donaire, who grew up in the Bay Area and now serves as an assistant trainer for Flores. Flores will fight…

Lightweight Gabriel Flores Jr. will enter the ring for his 26th professional bout with a new face in his corner: former world champion Nonito Donaire, who grew up in the Bay Area and now serves as an assistant trainer for Flores. Flores will fight…

Lorenzo Powell has a unique sparring regimen. On Mondays and Fridays, the lightweight spends 18 hours – 12 of them driving – devoted to boxing. Powell and his coach Marty Chima travel from Sacramento, California, to Los Angeles at 2am, reaching the boxing gym he will…

The date was April 18, 2015. Nine months shy of a full decade ago. That was the night Andrzej “Andrew” Fonfara, aged 27, stopped Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, aged 29, in the ninth round of a light-heavyweight bout atop a Showtime card at what was…

The date was April 18, 2015. Nine months shy of a full decade ago. That was the night Andrzej “Andrew” Fonfara, aged 27, stopped Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, aged 29, in the ninth round of a light-heavyweight bout atop a Showtime card at what was…

It is often said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression but Solomon Dacres gets the opportunity to do just that in Birmingham on Saturday night.  In November, and just days after signing with Queensberry Promotions, Dacres, 8-0 (2…

I n this week’s can’t-miss mailbag, trainer Stephen “Breadman” Edwards talks about similarities and differences between Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Terence Crawford, looks at some of the best bouts that can be made today, and discusses the ability to listen and work towards different strategies.…

For the first time in five years, Ekow Essuman finds himself without a belt, but the former British and Commonwealth welterweight champion has picked up the scent of another title. Essuman, who will challenge English welterweight champion Owen Cooper (10-0, 4 KOs) in Birmingham,…

Junto Nakatani made a successful first defence of his WBC bantamweight title – and a significant statement – by stopping Vincent Astrolabio in the opening round.  On paper, it looked like Nakatani, 28-0 (21 KOs), would be given a few rounds’ work by the Filipino…