Willie Monroe Jr. hasn’t ever seemed to catch a break. A seemingly lifelong underdog despite having a highly decorated amateur record of 128-14 with 72 of his wins coming by way of knockout. Monroe, the nephew of Willie “The Worm” Monroe, who beat Marvin Hagler, joined the family business in

Daniyar Yeleussinov, the 2012 and 2016 Kazakh Olympian Daniyar Yeleussinov, who won a gold medal in 2016, might have learned a lesson in choosing his words better after this past weekend. Yeleussinov was set to fight on Gennady Golovkin’s return against Steve Rolls on June 8th in New York, but

A slew of Northern California fighters will be in action in Mexico tonight in Tijuana, Mexico as women’s bantamweight Dalia Gomez of Oakland, Ca by way of Oxnard, Ca, Lennard Davis of Oakland, Ca, and Vincent Avina of Manteca, Ca hit the ring tonight. The bouts will more than likely

2008 Puerto Rican Olympian and two-division world champion Jose Pedraza seem to have been in the shadow of 2012 Puerto Rican Olympian Felix Verdejo, for his whole career, but this Saturday in Florida, Pedraza looks to add a bit more distance between himself and fellow countryman, Verdejo. Pedraza is fighting

Devin Haney is one of those special fighters that don’t come around often. We have a few of them right now, but no need to list them in this piece. Haney is a young, 20-year-old, beating up most people he spars in the gym with clips of these beatdowns ending

One of the marquee fights ahead of the June 8th stacked card from Reno, Nevada topped by WBO featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez versus Jason Sanchez has added some more Northern California talent to the bouts taking place at the Reno Convention Center. Though it was announced last week that

Deontay Wilder essentially brought to light a philosophical question in terms of boxing viewership with his recent comments linked below – that made the viewer of boxing have to question; how much violence in boxing is too much? For those that didn’t see Wilder’s media workout at Gleason’s Gym in

Boxing’s preeminent action superhero, Oscar Valdez, will make the sixth defense of his WBO featherweight world title Saturday, June 8 against the upset-minded Jason “El Alacrancito” Sanchez at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Valdez-Sanchez and the 10-round light heavyweight showdown between title-hungry contenders Sullivan Barrera and Michael Seals will be televised

Tomorrow, Friday, May 10th, from the DoubleTree in Sacramento, Ca, Uppercut Promotions returns with a card featuring local unsigned talent. First fight is at 7:30. Below are the weights. Mike Guy 168 vs. Marco Delgado 168David Melgoza 148 vs. Federico Malespina 147Ivan Vergara 129 vs. Guadalupe Arroyo 132Anthony Hernandez 166

WBO super bantamweight world champion Emmanuel Navarrete (26-1 22KOs) was largely unknown last December, somewhat assumed by most to be a stay busy fight for then-champion Isaac Dogboe (20-1 14KOs), who seemed to have star written all over him. No one informed Navarrete though. Navarrete soundly outboxed Dogboe, who looked