The 2023 Pan American Games concluded this past weekend in Santiago, Chile. The tournament is part of the qualification process for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The boxers who advanced to the final round of the tournament automatically qualify for the 2024 games, and we had five American boxers accomplish that

The 2023 Pan American Games officially kicked off today from Santiago, Chile. There are thirteen boxers, six female and seven male, that are representing the United States in the games and hoping to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games. I was fortunate enough to be able to interview one of

Women’s Amateur Boxer: Rashida Ellis 2021 Winner: Oshae Jones Rashida Ellis had a solid year leading her to the award. Ellis, a 2020 Olympian, firmly held her place on the USA Boxing roster as she even holds the last win over Beatriz Ferreira, who she beat in May, in order

As we get to the halfway point in the year, here is Lukie’s take on the awards as we head into a stacked summer schedule of boxing. Boxer Of The Year 2021 winner: Canelo Dmitry Bivol – After defeating Canelo Alvarez, the consensus pound-for-pound best fighter in the world, Bivol

The past week or so, USA Boxing took a team to Ecuador, to face the other international teams from the Americas, as USA Boxing appears to be in a good place, securing quite a few medals in the process. Have trouble watching, or you don’t like amateur boxing, but want

The bouts are set, and Team USA is ready to bring home some gold medals from Guayaquil, Ecuador at the 2022 AMBC Elite Championships, as the competition starts tomorrow. Here is what you should about Team USA Boxing, and those on the team. Men’s 2021 Elite Men’s World Champion Jahmal Harvey,

Oshae Jones – Sure, Jones is probably unhappy with her Olympic result of a bronze medal, but Jones was the lone Olympic medalist from a team full of talent, now signing with Split-T Management is headed to the pro ranks for 2022.  Jones is a fantastic amateur boxer, who has

Men’s Flyweight region (110-119 lbs.) Steven Navarro, YM 119 – One of my favorite fighters in the country, Navarro is the total package of discipline, skill, smarts, and dedication. Navarro is going to be tough for anyone to beat, and at the junior Pan-Am Games it took everything the Cuban

These are just my views and observations from the Junior Olympics in Lubbock, Texas, and by no means are they the end-all, be-all in terms of what occurred, but this is what stood-out to me, to help give further exposure to young-and-deserving fighters fighting in the USA Boxing system. Stand-Out

Per usual, this is my cheat sheet for who I am currently following, this is by no means a ranking or whatever you call it, it is simply fighters I am drawn to, and achieving great things in the amateurs, and my observation upon them. Below are the seven fighters