Layla McCarter: The BKB Champ Talks with The Boxing Tribune
. Layla McCarter has taken female boxing to the next level. Saturday night, the six time world boxing champion became the first “Big Knockout Boxing” women’s champion, winning the lightweight title...
View ArticleUnder the Radar: April 10th – 11th, 2015
Jessie Magdaleno 4/10 – Victor Emilio Ramirez (21-2, 17 KO’s) vs. Ola Afolabi (21-3-4, 10 KO’s) – Villa La Ñata Sporting Club, Benavídez, Buenos Aires, Argentina Afolabi is a former interim WBO...
View ArticleA “W” for Chavez, NC for Hardy: The Women’s Weekly Wrap Up
. Former IBF light flyweight champion Yessica Chavez (22-4-3, 4 KO’s) won the vacant WBC International light flyweight title with a 10 round unanimous decision over Norj Guro (7-5-1, 4 KO’s) at Centro...
View ArticleMatthysse vs. Provodnikov: The Boxing Tribune Preview
. This one has “Fight of the Year” written all over it. When Lucas Matthysse (36-3, 34 KO’s) and Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KO’s) face off this Saturday, the fans can look forward to a battle to be...
View ArticleUnder the Radar: April 16th – 18th, 2015
Shinsuke Yamanak (r) defends his WBC bantamweight title for the eighth time 4/16 – Shinsuke Yamanaka (23-0-2, 17 KO’s) vs. Diego Ricardo Santillan (23-1, 15 KO’s) – Prefectural Gymnasium, Osaka,...
View ArticleHead to Head at Buckhead: The Women’s Weekly Wrap Up
This Saturday, April 25th, the Buckhead Fight Club in Atlanta Georgia will host the Women’s International Clash of Champions. The event, an Olympic style duel will pit the U.S. elite women boxers...
View ArticleUnder the Radar: April 22nd – 25th, 2015
Sadam Ali (r) fights on the Klitschko-Jennings under-card this Saturday 4/22 – Juan Carlos Reveco (35-2, 19 KO’s) vs. Kazuto Ioka (17-1, 10 KO’s) – Prefectural Gymnasium, Osaka, Osaka, Japan Defending...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part One)
Willie “Macho” Classen Boxing is a blood sport, and an unsuccessful one for the majority of its participants. As a spectator we see the glory and the money that a successful career in the sweet...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part 2)
Leavander “Hook” Johnson “…health and safety of fighters must be protected to the greatest extent possible…national, uniform health and safety regulations must be instituted and enforced.” – Lou...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part Three)
Deuk-Koo Kim “Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That’s what makes it so beautiful.” ― Brian D’Ambrosio, Life in the Trenches Alexander McKay (3-2) Born 1804, Died June 3rd,...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part Four)
Pintor vs. Owen “Boxing is a sport where you can never take anything for granted. The smallest margin of error alter your career…and life.” – Samuel Ha, mightyfighter.com Johnny Owen (25-2-1, 11...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part Five)
Willie James vs. Ed Sanders “Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.” ― Wayne Kelly Jimmy Doyle (42-7-3, 14 KO’s) Born: 8-1-1924, Died:...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part Six)
Greg Page vs. James Tillis Greg Page (58-17-1, 48 KO’s) Born: 10-25-1958, Died: 4-27-2009 Page is a former USBA and WBA world heavyweight title holder who faced many of the top contenders of the late...
View ArticleFallen Warriors (Part Seven)
thefightcity.com Frankie Campbell (33-4-2, 26 KO’s) Born: 1904, Died: 8-25-1930 This is one of the most horrific deaths in the sport. Campbell died after having his brain separated from the connective...
View ArticleOrtiz vs. Berto II: The Boxing Tribune Preview
Tomorrow night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, “Vicious” Victor Ortiz (31-5-2, 24 KO’s) and Andre Berto (30-4, 23 KO’s) square off or the second time in the Premier Boxing Champions...
View ArticleOrtiz & Han Retain Titles in Dominant Fashion
World Champions Jenifer Han (14-3-1, 1 KO) and Anabel Ortiz (20-3, 3 KO’s) both had successful outings this past weekend, defending their world titles on separate cards. At Malecon Turistico in Sonora,...
View ArticleMoreno Defeats Voraberger: The Women’s Weekly Wrap Up
Former light flyweight champ Esmeralda Moreno (33-8-1, 11 KO’s) became a two time, two-division world title holder this weekend when she defeated three belt champ Eva Voraberger (20-5, 10 KO’s) at...
View ArticleWatch: BroScienceLife featuring Terence Crawford
Undefeated WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford recently made a guest appearance with Dom Mazzetti on BroScienceLife’s most recent video, “Lifters vs. Fighters”. If you’re unfamiliar...
View ArticleU.S. Televised Boxing Schedule, week of 5-8-2016 *Eastern Standard Time
sport.sky.it 5/13 (Friday) 7pm Go Fight Live gfl.tv (PPV internet stream) CES Boxing Peter Manfredo Jr. vs. Vladine Biosse (10) Khiary Gray Pitts vs. Quinton Willis (8) + 7 under card bouts 10pm...
View ArticleThe Fistic Flashback: 4-7-1991, Holmes-Berbick…II?
This was one of the more comical WWE moments for the sweet science, when Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick engaged in an impromptu rematch of sorts, not in the ring however, but in the streets of...
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