Mirco Cuello defeated Rudy Garcia by wide unanimous decision and retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) International featherweight championship this Friday night. The Argentinian returned to the United States, specifically to the Boeing Center at Tech Port, San Antonio, and gave a great performance to win the decision on a 99-90 scorecard by the three…
Erika Cruz returned to the ring in great shape on Friday night and won the World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Americas super bantamweight belt by defeating Melissa Odessa Parker at the Auditorio Municipal Fausto Gutierrez Moreno, in Tijuana, Mexico. The former world champion won by unanimous decision with cards of 99-91, 99-91 and 98-92 to…
†The best always misses one prayâ€, says an old saying, and I missed not one but four, in the recent and extensive work on the prominent presence of Mexican boxers in the universal arena. I missed four names in the account I wrote almost from memory, using The Record Boxing Books, 1998 edition, volume…
Kenshiro Teraji and Hekkie Budler will step into the ring on Monday at the Ariake Arena, in Koto-Ku, Japan, to fight for the World Boxing Association (WBA) junior flyweight belt and the WBC crown. The Japanese champion will make a new defense of his title against the South African veteran in a fight that promises…
With the purpose of giving a new impulse to Venezuelan boxing, the World Boxing Association will implement in the country its development program called WBA Future Of Boxing, which aims to offer a platform for young prospects in the sport. The Turmero Centro Recreacional Yesterday will be the epicenter of this plan, with a first…
The current Spanish light heavyweight champion, Carlos Lamela will return to the ring to face the Argentinean Camilo Castagno next Saturday, September 16 at the Club de boxa, la cubierto in Badia del Valles, Catalonia. The duel agreed to eight rounds will be the main fight of the card under the organization of Team Solé…
American Ramon Cardenas will have a great opportunity this weekend to obtain the second World Boxing Association (WBA) regional belt in his career when he faces Panamanian Rafael Pedroza at the Boeing Center at Tech Port, in San Antonio, Texas. The local fighter will seek the pioneering body’s Continental Latin American super bantamweight belt against…
William Zepeda visited the Ford Boulevard Elementary School & Dual Language Academy to meet with students and employees of the Los Angeles institution on the eve of his fight against Mercito Gesta this Saturday. The Mexican will defend his belt against the Filipino at the Commerce Casinoe this weekend and while he is getting in…
Saul Alvarez will return to the United States as the top boxing star to face Jermell Charlo in an intriguing fight on September 30 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. With just over two weeks to go before the fight, the Mexican had a public workout that could be seen around the world through…
Jermell Charlo is working like never before for his September 30 fight against Saul Alvarez. The American knows that this is possibly the most important fight of his career and this week he had a public training session as part of the promotion of the fight. Charlo will move up two categories to challenge the…
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Americas lightweight champion, William Zepeda, arrived in California for his fight against Mercito Gesta this Saturday in defense of his regional belt. The Mexican will face a big test in his career in the ring of the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles County, where he intends to defeat a…
When people talk about boxing with friends who are fans of the sport, they almost always allude to Mexico as a land of fighters of renowned courage in the ring and agree that it is the Latin American country that has produced the largest number of world champions in the region, some 170, only surpassed…