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Mar 11, 2025 | nyfights.com | Michael Woods

“So, at age 12, boxing comes into my life,” current Massachusetts resident and ascending pro boxer Luis Pita Oliva says. “While I was at school, several coaches were going to look for new students, they showed a video and they asked you if you wanted to enter that sport. ”I told them I didn’t like it but I didn’t have a head for anything else. This was a way to look for a different life than the one I had. Yes, videos of the Olympics impacted me.

Mar 11, 2025 | nyfights.com | Michael Woods

Rolly Romero aka Rolando Romero aka Rollies aka the Guy You Love To Hate got stopped Saturday night in round eight of his battle with Isaac Pitbull Cruz in Las Vegas in support of the PBC/Prime debut on Amazon’s streaming service. Predictably, many watchers applauded extra loud when the Mexican hitman Cruz took it to the Las Vegas resident Rolly Romero, and forced the ref to stop the contest at 56 seconds elapsed in the eighth. I wasn’t applauding, virtually or otherwise, at the time.

Mar 11, 2025 | nyfights.com | Michael Woods

Who amongst you doesn’t like the feeling of impending collision between two fits power punching heavyweights? That’s the apex, that’s the milieu that can make a collection of rooters shake and roar in amazement and excitation at a distinct level. Really, as far as sport and the entertainment realm as a whole, an epic boxing match can induce an unparalleled chill.

Mar 11, 2025 | nyfights.com | Promoter Michael Reyes |Michael Woods

So many of these announcement, it feels like, although it could be that it merely feels that way, in the context of a species working iffy through identity crises. Gary Shaw died, damn, I was made aware when my guy Abe G messaged me the Rick Glaser X post. Fuck, I said to myself, when was the last timeI talked to Gary? How old was Gary? Beginning of 2022, and the native of New Mexico, who made New Jersey and Florida home, was born April 11, 1944. His passing came on the day of his birth.

Mar 11, 2025 | nyfights.com | Michael Woods

So, a couple hours passed after word dropped that Ryan Garcia was three pounds over the 140 pound limit. He posted that he was going to weigh in…Garcia kept posting, unrepentant:Garcia seems to be following the path as suggested by Floyd Mayweather a few months back. He’s not apologizing, insuring that some folks will be now more invested in seeing the fight, to watch him get his ass kicked. The NYSAC weigh in unfolded at Barclays.