Martha Salazar vs Alejandra Jimenez took place on Friday, March 18th in Cancun, Mexico. The fight saw longtime WBC Heavyweight champion Salazar defending her title against the up and coming young fighter in Jimenez. PIC: The new WBC Female heavyweight world champion, Mexico’s Alejandra “La Tigre” Jimenez. Our friends at The Boxing Channel had […]
Boxer Kali Reis – This past February 19th, Kali Reis captured the vacant Universal Boxing Federation Female World Middleweight title with a first round TKO over rugged veteran Victoria Cisneros. Check out the Kali Reis interview in this video from our friends at The Boxing Channel. When Reis reflects back on a 2015 that saw […]
Uruguay’s Chris Namus deserves credit for trying to make a fight of it against Cecilia Braekhus. Braekhus lived up to expectations as the “First lady” put on a strong display in her first fight in 15 months. The fight was Saturday, February 27th at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany and the fight aired […]
This Saturday, February 27th World Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus (27-0) faces the challenge of Uruguay’s Chris Namus (21-3) at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany. Cecilia Braekhus vs Chris Namus marks the first time in 15 months that Braekhus, who is nicknamed “The First Lady”, has fought. This Friday afternoon, both ladies came in under […]
Sindy Amador is a former light flyweight world champion now living in Southern California. As a fighter Amador had very little amateur experience and still was able to compete professionally at the highest level. She fought some of the best in her weight division and fans loved her pressure style. Amador, 32, was forced to […]
Diego Morilla, a bilingual boxing writer since 1995, is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He has written for numerous online publications including ESPN.com and ESPNdeportes.com. His very first article for The Sweet Science won first place in the 2015 BWAA writing contest in the Boxing Column category. He writes from […]