Michael Woods

1 month ago | nyfights.com | Michael Woods

Scot England found out the hard way you don’t play boxing on Tuesday night in Nashville. The 58 year Tennessee old man stepped to the line against a 23 year old foe Jashawn Hunter and quite quickly understood that his pro career would not be lengthy. Down went England on the “Country Box” card at the hands of North Carolina’s Hunter, who came in 0-6, right away in the first. England rose, showing big heart, but the ref saw he was on iffy legs, and waved it off in round one in Nashville.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.