Tall order: Jamal James looks to use his height to his advantage against Juan Carlos Abreu
By now, Jamal James is used to playing the tree to a bunch of would-be lumberjacks. Redwood-tall for the 147-pound division at 6-foot-2, James has grown accustomed to dudes coming at him like human hatchets in an attempt to chop him down to size.
Jamal James bumped up to headlining slot on Bounce TV card after Caleb Truax forced to bow out
Golden Gloves runner-up and unbeaten professional Jamal James (17-0, 9 KOs) will take on Dominican heavy hitter Juan Carlos Abreu (18-1-1, 17 KOs) in a battle of 147-pounders in the main event on tonight’s Bounce TV card from Full Sail Live in Winter Park, Florida.
With a heavy heart after losing his mother, Julian Williams has continued his winning ways
Two years ago this month, Julian Williams laced up the gloves, climbed up the steps and slipped through the ropes—just as he’d done countless times since he first started boxing at age 12.
Feeling Minnesota: Jamal James assesses the truth behind his home state stereotypes
They shoot from the womb in North Face jackets. They talk funny. The men all dress like Paul Bunyan while the women sport the dimensions of Babe the Blue Ox. These are but a few of the stereotypes that blanket Minnesotans like snow does their home turf at least 13 months out of the year. But how much truth is there to these clichés? We thought we’d ask a local boxer, Jamal James, to find out.
Caleb Truax enjoying the full-time fight life
Before he fought Daniel Jacobs on April 24 in Chicago, Caleb Truax lived the kind of everyman life you normally only see in hardscrabble underdog boxing flicks.
Omar Figueroa Jr. exasperated after elbow injury knocks him off September 26 card
Omar Figueroa Jr. was at his crowd-pleasing best in 2013. That year, he scored consecutive first-round knockouts, followed by a unanimous-decision victory over Japan’s Nihito Arakawa, whom he floored once each in the second and sixth rounds to claim a 135-pound world title.
Heavyweights to collide October 13 as unbeaten Gerald Washington battles Amir Mansour on FS1
Gerald Washington was 30 years old when he made his professional boxing debut. You’ll forgive his opponents for being skeptical of that fact.
‘Sergeant’ Sammy Vasquez Jr. takes Jose Lopez to boxing boot camp in TKO win
Left! ... Left! ... Left, right, left!: “Sergeant” Sammy Vasquez marched all over Jose Lopez on Tuesday, but with his fists in place of his feet.
