Mikey Garcia: Back in Ring and Wants title at 135
By Rich Mancuso Mikey Garcia knows how the boxing business works and the undefeated two-time world champion from Oxnard California has that first hand experience dealing with the politics of boxing. He has been idle for two-and- a-half years because of a promotional dispute and now the wait is over. [...]
Leo Santa Cruz: Not ready to concede title to Frampton
Photo by PremierBoxingChampions By Rich Mancuso Leo Santa Cruz is in that fight mode and ready to defend his featherweight championship in a few weeks at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn as part of a main event to be televised on Showtime Championship Boxing. He is in the final stages [...]
John Ruiz: Former Latino Heavyweight Champion Now an Observer
Photos By: Al Bello/Getty Images By Rich Mancuso John Ruiz the former WBA heavyweight champion and first Latino of Puerto Rican descent to have that distinction casually works the room at fight shows when he can up in his neck of the woods in Massachusetts He poses for photos and [...]
Resto will never forget the Collins saga
By Rich Mancuso One of the ugliest incidents in pro boxing history has been recalled and documented on HBO Sports revolving around the evening of June 16, 1983 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Billy Collins Jr, after his fight with Luis Resto was never the same and [...]
Garcia proud to be a champion and at welterweight
By Rich Mancuso Danny Garcia the three-time champion at super lightweight, junior welterweight and now the WBC holder of their welterweight title remains focused and ready for major fights at 147, a division in the sport of boxing that has some of the elite fighters looking for supremacy. And he [...]
Verdejo: Is he the next Cotto from Puerto Rico?
By Rich Mancuso Felix Verdejo may never live up to expectations of Miguel Cotto. That consensus is what the boxing world believes but there are those in the sport who say that comparing the two fighters is not fair. Cotto, of course is the first four-division champion from Puerto Rico [...]
