For roughly a century, until very recently, the Detroit Tigers centerfielder Ty Cobb stood as Major League Baseball’s unimpeachable career leader in batting average – at .366. Then, on May 29, baseball made a change and the “Georgia Peach” was … well, impeached.
In…
Sixty years after Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight title at the Convention Center in Miami Beach, Nico Ali Walsh – the grandson of “The Greatest” – will step foot on South Beach soil for the first time on June 29,…
Nine-time United States (U.S.) National champion and four-time National Golden Gloves titleholder Morelle “Big Blessed” McCane qualified for the Paris (France) 2024 Olympics (in the welterweight division) in December 2023 when she finished second at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. She defeated…
Alberto Puello has demanded a fight against WBC junior welterweight No. 1 contender Sandor Martin, arguing that titleholder Devin Haney should be stripped of his belt following his recent loss to Ryan Garcia.
Puello (23-0, 10 KOs), 29, from the Dominican Republic, secured the…
The documentary series on McGuigan’s Gym has already started to enhance the career prospects of some of their leading fighters.
All four episodes of STABLE: The Boxing Game were aired on BBC One, in the weeks before Ellie Scotney’s victory in April over Segolene…
It has been 18 months since Felix Cash last fought, but now – with new trainer Adam Booth – he challenges for the European middleweight title.
Cash (16-0, 10 KOs) will meet champion Tyler Denny on Saturday at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham,…
Regarding 6-foot-1 Rafael Espinoza, the tallest featherweight titleholder in boxing history, as little more than a sideshow is a good way to get yourself hurt. One imagines challenger Sergio Chirino took Espinoza much more seriously than that in the ring Friday, and all he has…
Commentator Tim Bradley was impressed with the fourth-round knockout victory by WBO featherweight champion Rafael Espinoza (25-0, 21 KOs) over challenger Sergio Chirino (22-2, 13 KOs) on Friday night at the BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
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After the bout, Bradley…
Andres Cortes fell short of making weight, failed to keep pace with his opponent’s work rate in the ring and appeared to run out of gas at the end of Friday’s fight with Abraham Nova at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
All Cortes did was…
Undefeated WBO featherweight champion Rafael Espinoza (25-0, 21 KOs) made it look easy in a voluntary defense of his title by obliterating Sergio Chirino (22-2, 13 KOs) by a fourth-round knockout on Friday night at the BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
The tall, stork-like Espinoza…