Puerto Rico

Few fighters in boxing history lived a life as rich, multidimensional, and culturally influential as Jose Torres , the former light heavyweight champion…...

Walter Crucce, the retired Argentine boxer, is a name that resonates with the golden era of boxing in Argentina. Born on September 5, 1974, in Las Flores…...

Ace Rusevski, born on November 30, 1956, in Kumanovo, then part of SFR Yugoslavia and now North Macedonia, is a name that resonates with the spirit of boxing…...

Puerto Rican lightweight Luis “El Artesano” Cruz challenged IBF champion Robert Easter Jr. on February 10, 2017, in Toledo, Ohio. Easter retained the title by…...

Juan Nazario is a former Puerto Rican professional boxer who competed at lightweight. His career included three defining fights with fellow Puerto Rican…...

UFC 8: David vs. Goliath took place on February 16, 1996, at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. The card paired an openweight…...

Tae-Ho Kim, also recorded as Kim Tae-Ho, was a South Korean amateur and professional boxer. Born on June 5, 1952, he represented South Korea in the…...

Luis A. Cruz, known as “El Artesano,” is a Puerto Rican professional boxer from Las Piedras. His documented career includes a 2017 challenge for the…...

José Miguel Cotto Vázquez is a Puerto Rican boxer from Caguas and the older brother of four-division world champion Miguel Cotto. José represented…...

David Santos reached an IBF super featherweight championship opportunity against Carlos Hernández on February 1, 2003, in Las Vegas. The contest ended with a technical decision after an accidental head clash, adding a difficult conclusion to a career that also included an IBA featherweight championship....

Davey Armstrong represented the United States at the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Olympics, with Pan American Games gold between those appearances. The Tacoma boxer developed a substantial amateur résumé before moving into the professional lightweight ranks in 1980....

Orlando Cruz represented Puerto Rico at Sydney 2000 and later challenged for WBO world titles in two professional weight divisions. Cruz made headlines…...

The Páez rematch changed his standing The rivalry began on July 8, 1995, in Las Vegas. Ramos was awarded a fifth-round disqualification when Páez struck him while he was down. The result was controversial, and contemporary coverage questioned the circumstances around the ending. A rematch was arranged for September...

Jonathan Oquendo’s career was shaped by perseverance and repeated tests against top-level opposition. The Puerto Rican featherweight contender scored a…...

Career Milestones and Fight Results That chance came against Greg Haugen, the reigning IBF lightweight champion, at Tacoma Dome on April 11, 1988. The stakes were clear, but the finish was anything but. Their scheduled fifteen-round contest was stopped in the eleventh after an accidental head clash left Haugen...

A comeback win for a title Machado entered the October 2017 fight with Corrales undefeated and ranked among the leading super-featherweights. The bout’s title status shifted at the weigh-in: Corrales missed the 130-pound limit and was stripped, leaving Machado eligible to win the WBA’s regular championship. Corrales still made...

Román “Rocky” Martínez’s world-title career came in three distinct runs. He won the WBO super-featherweight belt in England, lost it in Scotland, then…...

Pedro Montañez built a reputation that followed him from Cayey, Puerto Rico, to the big boxing rooms of New York. Known as “El Torito de Cayey,” he was a durable, busy lightweight whose career brought him close to the world championship twice. Neither title fight went his way, but...

The road to Bayamón Escalera had earned that homecoming through a long championship run. On July 5, 1975, he traveled to Japan and knocked out Kuniaki Shibata in the second round to claim the WBC title. The Puerto Rican built ten successful defenses, establishing himself as a force at...

A champion’s timing Pedraza turned professional in 2011 and climbed through the super featherweight ranks unbeaten. In June 2015, he outpointed Andrey Klimov to win the vacant IBF title. He defended it against Edner Cherry and Stephen Smith before meeting the young Gervonta Davis in 2017. Davis stopped him...