Last Saturday night’s KO performance by Luis Ortiz in Washington, DC registered with HBO subscribers as an average of 740,000 viewers tuned in for the matchup with Tony Thompson. The fight peaked at 807,000 viewers. The viewership numbers marked a 20...
by David P. Greisman - The first boxing card I covered live was Mike Tyson’s final bout, when he quit against Kevin McBride and I asked a question in the post-fight press conference that made him curse. It probably didn’t ever take much to make Tyson...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'King Kong' Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) continued his rapid descent up the heavyweight division, knocking Tony 'The Tiger' Thompson (40-7, 27 KOs) down twice before finishing him with a huge kno...
In the past two years, two future Hall of Fame inductees have been in the corner of Jessie Vargas. First it was Roy Jones Jr., who worked with Vargas ahead of his fight against Antonio DeMarco in November 2014. Then it was Erik Morales, who trained V...
Washington, DC - Jessie Vargas (27-1, 10 KOs) became a two division world champion with a ninth round stoppage of previously unbeaten 2008 Olympian Sadam 'World Kid' Ali (22-1, 13 KOs) to capture the vacant WBO welterweight world championship.
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Fresh from a stunning knockout of Bryant 'By-By' Jennings and eager to continue his quest to be the best heavyweight in the sport, WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'The Real King Kong' Ortiz (24-0, 21 KOs) will face former world title chal...
Things balance out in life, especially in boxing. Jessie Vargas may be an example of that. Vargas has been criticized for decision victories that have gone his way and the merry-go-round of trainers that have worked with him in recent years....
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Jessie Vargas realizes he wasted entirely too many opportunities during his loss to Timothy Bradley. By the time Vargas finally landed a right hand he had tried setting up several times earlier in their 12-round bout, it was too late. It obviously...
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Sadam Ali (22-0) is less than two weeks away from his first crack at a title. The unbeaten welterweight will face former super lightweight champion Jessie Vargas (26-1) on March 5th at The DC Armory in Washington DC for the vacant WBO welterweight t...
Luis Ortiz is set for his fourth fight in a span of just nine months as he takes on veteran heavyweight Tony Thompson. Their non-title fight takes place Saturday evening at the D.C. Armory in Washington D.C., airing live on HBO. As pointless as...
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