Southern California’s Mikaela Mayer vs Baby Nansen in NYC By David A. Avila New York City has a reputation of being a fast-paced city with zooming subways, and darting taxis. It’s a city of hustlers. Mikaela Mayer fits right in. Every time she enters a boxing ring you better not blink. Since dispensing her […]
Shelly Vincent: A Survivor, Back in the Ring By Felipe Leon. When it comes to a sport, there can’t be anything more difficult than professional boxing. Yes there is baseball where you have to hit a 100 mile-per-hour fastball within a split second and there is football where if you have the ball […]
Fresh Faces: Alycia Baumgardner By Felipe Leon The story of how 23-year-old Alycia Baumgardner (5-0, 4KO) got into boxing is not all that different except for one exception: half African-American and a quarter Korean and a quarter Japanese, the aggressive-in-the-ring Baumgardner of Freemont, Ohio, was raised by a Mexican stepfather who introduced […]
Melissa St. Vil Travels To Finland For World Title Shot By Felipe Leon There is no bigger opportunity in boxing than a chance to challenge for a world title. Despite holding the WBC Silver super featherweight title, Haitian-born Melissa St. Vil (10-2-4, 1KO) of Brooklyn, New York, will get a shot at the […]
Female Fight News Feb. 12, 2018 Heather Hardy vs Ana Julaton By David A. Avila Normally we do not cover MMA but an extraordinary matchup pits Heather “The Heat” Hardy against Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton in two clashes: one in the cage and another in the boxing ring. It’s a two-part confrontation. It has […]
Mikaela Mayer Goes the Distance
27-year old up and coming prospect Mikaela Mayer was taken to the four round distance for the first time
New York City’s First Look at Olympian Mikaela Mayer on Saturday
Mikaela Mayer was never the boxer groomed from childhood nor was she the favorite
Female Fight News for week of Dec. 4, 2017 Sulem Urbina By David A. Avila America finally catches up. After years of female prizefighting from the U.S. taking a back seat to the rest of the world the women in the states are finally getting recognition. Two former amateur stars appear on major fight […]
Yazmin Rivas: “I Want To Be the Best So I Have To Fight the Best” A historic female bout will take place on Saturday, January 14th, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano (30-1-1, 23KO) of Puerto Rico will defend her WBO super bantamweight title against former WBC bantamweight […]
Televised Grudge Fight in NYC: Heather Hardy vs Shelly Vincent and Fight Notes Undefeated super bantamweights collide when New York’s Heather “The Heat” Hardy meets Providence’s Shelly “Shelitos Way” Vincent on a televised fight card. It’s a grudge fight. Hardy (17-0, 4 KOs) looks forward to proving her worth against hard charging Vincent (18-0. 1 […]