CORPUS CHRISTI, TX — Top Rank on ESPN will kick off its 2018 season with a sensational Super Bowl weekend world championship event. GILBERTO “Zurdo” RAMÍREZ , Mexico’s super middleweight champion with the matinee idol looks, defending his world title. Ramírez (36-0, 24 KOs), from Mazatlan, Mexico, will make his third defense of his…
Rafael Garcia, the always-smiling and beloved boxing lifer who worked as a trainer, cutman and hand-wrapper to some of the sport’s biggest names, died on Tuesday due to complications from leukemia. He was 88. Born in Mexico, Garcia worked in boxing for most of his life and spent recent decades living in Las Vegas, where…
New York’s downtown Manhattan turned into a mini-Bukom on Tuesday afternoon at the Overthrow Boxing Club in Greenwich Village. Students from the After-School All-Stars program were treated to boxing lessons from Overthrow trainer Alicia Napoleon as well as fighters from Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing Promotions. As always, Holyfield was the star of…
Ghana’s Rafael Mensah (31-0, 23 KO’s) will fight for the World Boxing Association (WBA) super featherweight world title. The WBA has ordered champion Albert Machado (19-0, 16 KO’s) from Puerto Rico to defend his belt against Mensah, the No. 2 rated WBA super featherweight. A statement by the WBA reads: In the Super Featherweight…