Looking back on my debut as a boxing promoter on Sept. 30 at the National Guard Armory, it turned out to be the most important experience of my life. The fights were exciting. Some ended in ways I expected, others did not, and that is what I love about boxing–the unknown. There was a little [More...]
When you compare boxing to any of the four major sports—baseball, football, basketball, ice hockey–you will notice there are simply two guys in the ring battling. Yet you rarely to hear a fighter say he did it on his own. Fighters don’t do it alone! The pressure may be on them the night of the [More...]
Ray Robinson, not the original Sugar Ray Robinson but the New Ray Robinson, carries the name of an all-time great. At heart, though, he’s simply a down-to-earth guy trying to make his own way in the world. I asked the New Ray Robinson to talk about himself, but the first thing he wanted to do [More...]
Last Friday (Sept. 9) at the Asylum Arena in South Philadelphia there was a boxing card promoted by Peltz Boxing, Don Chargin and Golden Boy. A quick look at the results were as follows: King Gabriel Rosado defeated Keenan Collins, of Reading, PA, over 10 rounds to win the PA State Junior Middleweight Championship. Rosado, [More...]
Boxing in Philadelphia can be as erratic as the stock market–up and down, up and down. Philadelphia is fortunate now because the local fight game is on its way up. Not because boxing is more popular now than it was 10 years ago, but because many of the fighters coming out of Philadelphia are hot. [More...]
Gyms and Trainers Did you ever go into a boxing gym and it was hummin’? When you walk into one that is popping with activity you can cut the atmosphere with a knife. All kinds of people are around when the gym is busy–young kids, teenagers, men and women. Many of them are trying to [More...]
A decade ago contracts in boxing did not mean as much as they do now. You could locate a fighter the day of the fight and have him fight that same night. Not only did the commission allow it, but also pre-fight medical exams were not as intense as they are now, there were more [More...]
Philadelphia, PA—Undefeated welterweight prospect Ronald Cruz, of Bethlehem, PA, takes the biggest step of his young professional career when he takes on steel-chinned Anges Adjaho, of Buffalo, NY, in a scheduled eight-round contest Friday evening, Sept. 9, at the Asylum Arena, 7 West Ritner Street. The Cruz-Adjaho contest will serve as the semifinal to the [More...]
On fight night boxing changes from a team sport to an individual sport. There is not much left for the team to do, it is all up to the fighter at that point. Saturday night, super bantamweight Teon Kennedy lost his first fight, along with his NABA and USBA titles. Everyone watching was thinking the [More...]
I remember going to a fight at the Legendary Blue Horizon with my dad about five or six years ago and thinking that I wanted to work there. In September of 2009, I went to the Blue and asked for an internship. I knew it was going to be a long shot but I got [More...]