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.
Fernando Guerrero gets mentally tough in his Greatest Hits
The mental game is every bit as important as the physical work that happens in the ring, and Fernando Guerrero (27-3-0, 19 KOs) knows it. It’s a lesson that will play out for him Friday when he takes on Caleb Truax (25-2-2, 15 KOs) at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Bounce TV from Full Sail Live in Winter Park, Florida.
How heady hip-hop and an African god of thunder play into the type of fighter Jamal James has become
“Shango” is on the phone explaining what “Shango” means. Hint: Think of a different version of Thor, and with a double-headed ax in place of that big-ass hammer as weapon of choice.
The Moment: Peter Quillin vs Michael Zerafa
Michael Zerafa was “switched on and very confident” for his American debut Saturday against Peter Quillin at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
