Stoyka Krasteva took a hard road to get to the gold at women’s flyweight, and it must feel that much more fulfilling. Krasteva had a stern test in the first round against Nguyễn Thị Tâm, who matched her aggressive spirit and volume, but couldn’t sway the judges. The second round

Galal Yafai seems like a superstar in the making. No other gold medalist showed as much power over their weight class as did Yafai, as he seems like he could fight for a world title quickly, as Great Brittan’s gold medalist, to me looks like a fighter who could take

Christian Robles is more than likely a fighter you’re unfamiliar with fighting in a division, flyweight, that is often neglected by major television networks with the exception of superstars like Roman Gonzalez, Michael Carabajal, and Ivan Calderon, who forced major networks to take notice and televise their bouts. Robles is

Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez was 88-0 as an amateur, but that is really hard to verify, but nonetheless, Gonzalez was one of the best amateurs ever and more than likely the best Nicaraguan amateur ever. Chocolatito didn’t choose to go to the Olympics but rather turned professional at 18-years-old in 2005.

Tomorrow from the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane, Kansas, KO Night Boxing LLC presents 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Nico Hernandez fights for the IBA flyweight title in the main event. Nico Hernandez 112 vs. Szilveszter Kanalas 110.8 Andrey Afonin 225.4 vs. Pedro Rodriguez 245.8 Oleksandr Teslenko 216.8 vs. Terrance Marba 214.4

Lesser known McWilliams Arroyo (17-3 14KOs) picked up the biggest win of his career by defeating HBO mainstay Carlos Cuadras in the co-main event of Super Fly 2 from The Forum in Inglewood, CA. Arroyo started very fast as Cuadras found himself on the backfoot quickly.Cuadras rocked Arroyo in the second

IBF Flyweight champion Donnie Nietes successfully defended his title against Juan Carlos Reveco in a bout that he dominated from start to finish and forced Reveco to have to fight defensively as Nietes was soundly in control in front of a packed house at the Forum in Inglewood, CA.  Nietes most

Flyweight Jonathan “Bomba” Gonzalez (20-2-1, 12 KOs) scored a razor-thin ten round split decision over  Ricardo “Meserito” Rodriguez (16-6, 5 KOs) on Friday night at the Osceola Heritage Park Events Center in Kissimmee, Florida. The bout is the early contender for fight of the year although the obscurity of it may hurt

Srisaket Sor Rungvisai did it again! The super flyweight WBC champion stopped the one time annointed pound-for-pound king Roman Gonzalez in the 4th round of their rematch. The bout was all Rungvisai who dominated from start to finish capping the performance off with two knockdowns, the second of which Gonzalez could

Naoya Inoue (14-0 11KOs) made his U.S. debut against Antonio Nieves at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA.   Inoue controlled the action from the onset, Nieves was game and had moments, but just was outgunned. Inoue dropped Nieves with a left hook to the body in the fifth round.