A Changing of the Guard: Cecilia Braekhus and More By David A. Avila As Norwegian prizefighter Cecilia Braekhus walked into the boxing ring at night, soft notes drifted from the Sam Cooke melody “A Change is Gonna Come.” Never was a song more prophetic. A new welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill was crowned last Saturday […]
Seniesa Estrada: Her Vicious Knockout Sent Shockwaves By David A. Avila People went out of their minds when Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada blitzed Miranda Adkins with a lightning three and four-punch combination that rendered her unconscious in seven seconds. Cries of mismatch, fix and horror erupted from all points of the world in all […]
Light Flyweight Showcase Features Seniesa Estrada and More By David A. Avila One of the hottest weight divisions shows off this week with two major televised bouts featuring light flyweights. Light flyweight Kim Clavel (11-0, 2 KOs) of Canada meets New York’s Natalie Gonzalez (6-0, 1 KO) on Tuesday July 21, at the MGM […]
Hanna Gabriels Talks About Costa Rica, Claressa Shields, Three Minute Rounds and More By Felipe Leon For some fighters, their biggest battles are not fought in a boxing ring. That is the case for current WBA super welterweight champion Hanna Gabriels (20-2-1, 11KO) of Costa Rica. The 37-year-old mother of one survived sexual […]
Three-Minute Rounds or Bust Say Top Female Fighters By David A. Avila As female prizefighting re-emerges from coronavirus limbo a clarion call to make a change to three-minute rounds has been established by two of the sport’s top performers Claressa Shields and Seniesa Estrada. Otherwise known as the G.W.O.A.T. and Lil’ G.W.O.A.T. Shields and […]
Ewa Piatkowska: Poland’s Best Fighter is Ready for America By Felipe Leon Despite tasting some success in their home country many fighters, male or female, always look towards the United States as the “Promised Land.” That is no different for former WBC super welterweight champion Ewa Piatkowska (14-1, 4KO) of Poland. “I […]
Why Amanda Serrano Refused the Fight and More Female Fight News By David A. Avila A jump start of women’s prizefighting recently took place though not on television as female boxers clashed in Europe. But the big news was the announcement that the most anticipated female fight of the year was not going to […]
Looking at the Light Flyweights and Claressa Gets B.E.T. Nomination By David A. Avila Light flyweights are like a drop of nitroglycerine; tiny but dangerous. One of the most overlooked weight divisions has to be the tiny light flyweights who soaking wet step on scales weighing under 108 pounds. Usually they can and do […]
Alicia Napoleon-Espinosa By Felipe Leon Former WBA super middleweight champion Alicia Napoleon-Espinosa (12-2, 7KO) of Lindenhurst, New York, might have thought her toughest fight to date was her last. Last January, Napoleon-Espinosa lost a razor-thin decision against undefeated Elin Cederoos (8-0, 4KO) of Sweden live on Showtime. The back-and-forth affair set the […]
CANADA’S MARIE-EVE DICAIRE By Felipe Leon As the sports world, and particularly boxing, looks for ways to get back to normal amid this pandemic, one of the most anticipated fights of the year is still looking for a date. Without COVID-19, this past Saturday we would have witnessed the unification world title fight between […]