It's fair to say that 2017 has been a decent year for fight fans, though it sort of feels like things are only just starting to warm up. With that said the next week or so is red hot with notable fights featuring Asian fighters. From next Sunday, February 26th, to the following Saturday, March 4th, we have a genuinely stacked run of days. The action kicks off, as mentioned, … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: April 16th – 18th, 2015
4/16 – Shinsuke Yamanaka (23-0-2, 17 KO’s) vs. Diego Ricardo Santillan (23-1, 15 KO’s) - Prefectural Gymnasium, Osaka, Osaka, Japan It’s the eighth defense of the WBC bantamweight crown for Yamanaka, who’s stopped five of hios last six opponents. Santillan is a former WBC Latino and WBC Mundo Hispano title holder in the same weight class. Though undefeated, he hasn’t … [Read more...]
Japanese Boxing on the Rise
by Ted Sares Fall seven times, stand up eight —Japanese proverb. Boxers from Argentina have had their surge but it has slowed down considerably. Eastern European fighters continue to rise as Gennady Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev, Wladimir Klitschko, Vasyl Lomachenko, Ruslan Provodnikov, and Evgeny Gradovich and now Artur Beterbiev make great fights in different global … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: October 16th – 22nd, 2014
10/16 – Joseph Parker (10-0, 9 KO’s) vs. Sherman Williams (36-13-2, 19 KO’s) - The Trusts Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand “Tank” Williams is the latest on the New Zealanders run through the American stepping stones. So far Parker has faced familiar names like Frans Botha and Brian Minto, and puts his WBO Oriental and PABA heavyweight titles up in this one. Williams is a guy … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: Fights That Didn’t Make the Big Headlines – April 18th – 23rd, 2014
4/18 – Maurice Harris (26-18-2, 11 KO’s) vs. Andrey Fedosov (24-3, 19 KO’s) - Horseshoe Casino, Hammond, Indiana The “win some-lose some” Harris is still going at it at age 38. The heavyweight gatekeeper has faced fighter from all walk of life over the years and though he’s never managed to win the big one, he has derailed the careers of some up and comers along the way. … [Read more...]