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Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete, but at the same time

Oct. 11, 1992: Lopez vs Lin

The nickname of all-time great Mexican pugilist Ricardo Lopez is “El Finito,” which translates to “The Fine One.” Sometimes a

We started with the middleweights, then the bantamweights, followed by the light heavyweights. Continuing our rankings of the greatest boxers

A while back your preferred independent combat sports website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and

Yesterday the late, great Pernell Whitaker would have turned 57, but he was taken from us in 2019, far too soon,

Greatness has a soft spot for grit. In the ring, Juan Manuel Marquez had grit in spades. He showed it

“Before each round Ricardo looks up at the heavens, then goes out to kill, kill, kill. It’s like he’s asking

While sports like hockey and basketball have only experienced the effects of globalization relatively recently, boxing has forever been a

It’s a sad tale, but a classic one, told many times in boxing: the proud, old king saddles up for

Looking back, it’s easy to forget that until the early 1970s and his punishing wars with Bonavena, Frazier, Norton and

Cuba’s messy political issues in the last half-century have made for countless stories of struggle and triumph, though more the