You might think the idea of Alex Winwood challenging for a world title at 27 years old and with just four pro fights under his belt makes him a young man in a hurry, but the native of Bunbury, Australia, doesn’t see it that way.…
Within minutes, the frontrunners for Knockout of the Year and Fight of the Year transpired inside a 575-mile radius of the southwestern U.S. as Angelo Leo and Vergil Ortiz Jr. prevailed on an unexpected and fine night for boxing.
Reflecting on those events on…
Vergil Ortiz Jr. deserved the decision over Serhii Bohachuk. He won more rounds. He spent more time in control than Bohachuk. And he showed some good boxing skills.
The two knockdowns he suffered were legitimate. But he recovered well from them – especially the…
There is no climax in sport as dramatic and violent as the one-punch knockout.
Angelo Leo was the latest orchestrator of such a finish when, on Saturday night, one fateful blow ripped Luis Alberto Lopez from consciousness in the 10 th round of…
They were born nine months apart, they turned pro three months apart, and they climbed the ranks simultaneously such that, as the 2010s gave way to the 2020s, these were indisputably the two most promising prospects in the welterweight division.
Jaron “Boots” Ennis and…
Stephanie Simon, a 29-year-old Marine Corps captain, has navigated a male-dominated world from her days as an eighth-grade wrestler to her time in the Marine Corps. Soon she hopes to make her mark in professional boxing.
Simon, who won the 2023 Olympic Trials but…
There’s so many steps in the process of training a fighter, and it all rushed upon Robert Garcia Saturday night as he met his unbeaten junior middleweight Vergil Ortiz Jr. at the close of the ninth round.
Ortiz, 26, had fought 21 prior bouts…
_1693495708.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "Chris Eubank Jr. plotting huge 12 months – including a date with Canelo Alvarez in May")
Chris Eubank Jr. is back and he sounds determined to make up for lost time.
Eubank, 33-3 (24 KOs), hasn’t stepped foot in the ring since last September when he impressively rebounded from the first stoppage defeat of his career to even the score…
Guido Vianello has a personal score to settle against Russia’s Arslanbek Makhmudov when they fight on Saturday (August 17).
Italy’s Vianello (12-2-1, 10 KOs) told BoxingScene that Makhmudov (19-1, 18 KOs) has been a familiar foe since they fought over a…