Omar Figueroa Jr. takes a break from handing out beatdowns to hand out school supplies
The ring is engulfed by book bags, brightly colored folders and boxes of Kleenex—mounds of school supplies in the place where fighters normally get schooled.
Leo Santa Cruz vs Abner Mares among all-time biggest fights between Mexican-Americans
Las Vegas put the fight game in a headlock decades ago, its glamor attracting boxing’s grit like the opposite pole of a casino-size magnet. Prior to that, though, it was another Western city that helped anchor the sport, serving as a cultural and geographical counterbalance to an East Coast stronghold.
Deontay Wilder set to make his PBC debut against France’s Johann Duhaupas
Undefeated heavyweight champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder is ready to drop a payload of fists on his latest target, and this time, he’s going international.
How seeing his big brother get robbed in the ring turned Leo Santa Cruz into a better fighter
It was a loss that wasn’t, a would-be win that dissipated as quickly as the smoke that must have been clouding the judges’ eyes.
Steve Cunningham feels bamboozled after disappointing draw with Antonio Tarver
Steve Cunningham’s words are testing his gag reflex, like verbal ipecac. As he speaks about the man he faced in the ring Friday night, he sounds as if he’d just swallowed a bug—a bug with pinchers the size of pruning shears.
Lucian Bute pounds out a TKO victory in concussive comeback fight
How do you make up for a wasted year—and then some? By wasting the other dude in the ring with the kind of sweat-spraying left hands that make eyes black and opponents blue.
Grace under pressure: How Leo Santa Cruz is handling the hype heading into his showdown with Abner Mares
The pressure fighter points to his temple when asked how he’s coping with all the pressure suddenly directed his way.
Steve Cunningham confronts some less-than-great decisions in his Greatest Hits
Steve Cunningham doesn’t have a problem with European dudes, though the feeling likely isn’t mutual: He’s dished out more punishment to fighters from that continent than Jägermeister has to collegiate livers.
