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…
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, the USA sent four men and four women, and the results were one Bronze Medal.
Leading the Men’s team, Orlando, Florida’s Omari Jones at welterweight #156 was the lone medal winner. He posted a pair of wins before losing a…
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…
Promoter Eddie Hearn insists that former WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov deserved the win over challenger Terence Crawford on August 3rd in Los Angeles.
Hearn has found some solace in that approximately 30% of the fans believe that Madrimov (10-1-1, 7 KOs) deserved 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…
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh is excited about making a mega-card with Terence Crawford vs. Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Shakur Stevenson vs. William Zepeda sharing the same card.
Ortiz’s Controversial Win Taints Card
It’s unclear whether Turki has changed his mind about Vergil (22-0, 21 KOs)…
Chris Eubank Jr believes a Spring 2025 fight with Canelo Alvarez may be in play. | Photo by Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images
Chris Eubank Jr says there aren’t many big options on the table for Canelo at…
Edgar Berlanga says he will “counter” everything Canelo Alvarez throws on September 14th in their headliner at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) says WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight champion Canelo (61-2-2, 39 KOs) is “soft” because he’d shown compassion…
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…
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis’ dad/trainer, Derek ‘Bozy’ Ennis, says Boots would have knocked out WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov if he’d been fighting him on August 3rd instead of Terence Crawford.
Bozy states that ‘Boots’ Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) would have fought Madrimov (10-1-1, 7…