New York middleweight Jacob Solis is back. The 6’0″ 34-year-old, who has been out of the ring since last spring, has been medically cleared and returns Saturday at Tropicana Atlantic City carrying a record of 7-0-1 with 6 knockouts. He faces veteran Jeremy Ramos (14-16, 4 KOs) on a card presented by Boxing Insider Promotions. […]
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No division in boxing carries the cultural weight of the heavyweight class. A heavyweight title fight has always been more than a sporting event — it has been a referendum on power, courage, and, at its best, the human condition itself. From the smoke-filled arenas of the 1940s to the flood-lit mega-stadiums of the modern […]
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By Larry Goldberg In Season 6 of The Sopranos, Patsy Parisi tries to shake down a new Starbucks-type coffee chain the same way the mob always extorted the local spots. The manager doesn’t flinch. It’ll have to go through corporate in Seattle, he tells them. They try to intimidate him with threats of vandalism and […]
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By: Sean Crose “The Ryan Garcia fight is the biggest fight in boxing, in my opinion,” so WBO welterweight world champion Devin Haney told Ring Magazine’s Inside the Ring program. “It does so much for me and my career, my resume, but like I said, he has to be realistic in these negotiations. I’m not […]
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In a sport where mismatches at the club level are often the norm, the six-round bout between Lia Lewandowski (3-0, 1 KO) and Indeya “Azucar” Rodriguez (6-8-3, 1 KO) stands out as something increasingly rare on a regional card — a genuinely competitive fight between two serious fighters with something to prove. The bout, scheduled […]
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Inside the $5 Billion Machine That Just Sat Down at Boxing’s Table Ask anyone in boxing who’s behind Zuffa Boxing and you’ll get the same answer: Dana White. They’re not wrong. White is the face, the voice, and the force of personality driving the promotion’s entrance into the sport. But if that’s where your understanding […]
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For 45 years, HBO was boxing. From George Foreman flattening Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 22, 1973, to Cecilia Braekhus defending her undisputed welterweight crown in a quiet Carson, California, arena on December 8, 2018, no brand in any sport carried more weight than those three letters. HBO didn’t just broadcast boxing. It […]
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Boxing Insider’s Club Boxing Series returns to the Tropicana Showroom in Atlantic City on Saturday, March 7, with a six-bout card featuring a blend of undefeated prospects and proven regional talent from New Jersey, New York, and beyond. The entire card will stream free on the BoxingInsider YouTube channel. Doors open at 6:00 PM with […]
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Bites, riots, phantom punches, loaded gloves, and a man who parachuted into a heavyweight title fight. These are the moments that stopped the sport cold. Boxing has given us some of the greatest athletic achievements in human history. It has also given us moments so bizarre, so infuriating, and so downright surreal that the only […]
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Boxing has always lived in the gray areas. The sport is scored by humans, governed by fractured sanctioning bodies, and shaped by promoters whose financial interests don’t always align with competitive fairness. The result is a history littered with disputed outcomes, outright scandals, and moments that made fans question whether the fix was in. Some […]
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