Latino Pride: PBC fighters celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
If you were to convene a roundtable of boxing’s greatest historians and ask them to tick off the most impactful elements that have made the sport what it is today, it wouldn’t take but a few beats before Latino fighters would enter the conversation.
Trojan horse: Former USC lineman Gerald Washington trades the gridiron for the boxing ring
A refrigerator weighs 300 pounds. A full keg of beer comes in at roughly half that. A Neapolitan mastiff tips the scales at an average of 170 pounds (at least 30 of which is jowls). Stuff the latter two into the former and plant that bad boy on Gerald Washington’s shoulders. Dude can handle it.
Miguel Vazquez learns the importance of preparation in his Greatest Hits
You could reasonably assume Miguel Vazquez never did a stint in the Boy Scouts, judging by his Greatest Hits.
Heavy hitter Julius Jackson powers his way up the 168-pound ladder, thanks to a little help from his dad
Some sons who follow in their father’s career footsteps are reluctant to lean on their old man for advice, preferring instead to make their own way. Julius Jackson is quite the opposite.
Having made his way across the pond, Lee Selby is eager to show America—and Fernando Montiel—what he’s made of
Lee Selby, who became a 126-pound world champion earlier this year, is set to make his U.S. debut later this month. And as fight night nears, the native of Barry, Wales, in the U.K. can’t contain his enthusiasm any more than a 5-year-old on Christmas Eve.
Miguel Vazquez tested early in his career with two fights against Canelo Alvarez
Some kids graduate from swimmies to the doggie paddle before they come around to the breaststroke and butterfly; some just jump feetfirst into the lake and take it from there.
Rising 175-pound contender Edwin Rodriguez to battle unbeaten Michael Seals on November 13
It doesn’t take but a quick glance at Edwin Rodriguez’s bona fides to realize the Dominican Republic native is a skilled boxer.
Deontay Wilder eyes a quick return to the ring. But first, it's Sea-Doo time.
If you should happen upon a certain lake in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the coming days, don’t trip if you see a 6-foot-7-inch fellow being pulled behind a fast-moving watercraft, arms in place of ski ropes, like a human inner tube—a human inner tube that just turned a Frenchman’s grill into the facial equivalent of a crumpled milk carton.
