In the sport of boxing, the “B-side” fighter tends to have several hurdles that they must overcome if they want to secure an upset over the “A-side” or “home” fighter. Normally the fighter with these advantages happens to be a prospect on the rise, a contender who is a certified

Tomorrow night in the co-main event to Alycia Baumgardner’s first undisputed title defense at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, a potential future superstar will be stepping into the squared circle for the first time as a professional boxer. Andy Cruz was an all-time great Cuban amateur. He compiled a

It is now official that Katie Taylor will face Amanda Serrano for all four of the lightweight world titles held by Taylor, on April 30th, at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York live on DAZN. Presale begins at 12noon ET on Thursday February 3, with tickets on

The current WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing USA and all of his fights will be broadcast DAZN, the newly founded streaming sports platform. Rungvisai is best known for defeating Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez twice, the second time via brutal knockout, as

Middleweight “King” Gabriel Rosado has gotten the marquee win of his career by beating prospect Luis “Cuba” Arias in a 12-round round bout for a regional version of WBO title taking place at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kansas. The bout was weird. Arias pushed Rosado back early as Rosado

WBO junior welterweight world champion Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker (25-0-3, 17 KOs) refused to let the judges have any say on his title defense against Alex “El Cholo” Saucedo (28-1, 18 KOs) on Friday night at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as Hooker stopped Saucedo in the

Canelo Alvarez is now very rich. So rich over the course of the next five years he will make a million per day for one calendar year, in short, 365 million, one million more than Floyd Mayweather’s contract with Showtime. What’s the catch, well it all, but assures us in

2008 British Olympian and WBA super flyweight champion Kal Yafai (24-0 14KOs) made a successful professional debut in the United States as he defeated David Carmona (21-6-5 9KOs) in a 12-round bout despite it not being for Yafai’s WBA super flyweight title as David Carmona missed weight by nearly 4

Fight of the Year – Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs Daniel Jacobs had been disrespected, belittled and largely marginalized going into his bout with Gennady Golovkin as whispers of being dropped by Dmitry Pirog loomed heading into fighting the furious puncher, Golovkin. What happened instead was a modern day classic in

Carl Frampton had a decent, but not noteworthy 2015 as it appeared the super bantamweight was either not what he was cracked up to be or outgrew the 122 lbs. weight class. In 2016, we as fight fans learned that it was the later as Frampton put together two stellar