Orlando Cruz is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who competes in lightweight division. Cruz was born in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, and during his amateur career he represented Puerto Rico at the Olympic Games in Australia. Cruz went down in history for being the fixer boxer to come out as gay while still competing professionally. This led to him being inducted... read full bio
The only fighter to win eleven world titles in six different weight classes, and as CEO of Golden Boy Promotions the first Hispanic to own a national boxing promotional firm, Oscar de la Hoya is one of the most charismatic and beloved figures in the history of the sport. From the podium he recounts the thrilling story of his journey... read full bio
Patricia Alcivar, also known as “Patty Boom Boom”, is an American-Colombian former professional boxer, model, actress, and competitive road and adventure racer. Alcivar was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, but grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Alcivar was raised in an abusive household and she moved out at 15 and worked a part-time job to support herself while finishing... read full bio
Paul “The Ultimate” Vaden is a retired professional boxer who has previously held the IBF light middleweight championship and holds a professional record of 29 wins, 3 losses with 16 knockout victories. Vaden has been inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame, the Breitbard Hall of Fame, and the West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame. Since retiring from boxing,... read full bio
Peter Manfredo Jr., also known as “The Pride of Providence”, is an American professional boxer who is a former IBO middleweight champion. Peter has competed in middleweight and super middleweight divisions and has challenged twice for upper-level world titles, at middleweight and super middleweight, and has won the NABO, IBU and European Boxing Association light middleweight titles. Peter is the... read full bio
Ray Mancini, also known as “Boom Boom”, is an American former professional boxer who has competed in lightweight and light welterweight divisions. Since retiring, Mancini has done work as an actor as well as a sports commentator. Mancini has previously held the WBA lightweight title. He is the son of Lenny Mancini who was previously a professional boxer as well.... read full bio
Riddick Bowe is a retired American professional boxer who fought in 45 fights over the course of his career, won 43, won 33 by KO and lost one match. He is also known as the nickname, “Big Daddy”. Bowe reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and after turning professional, became a two-time world heavyweight champion. Bowe has also represented... read full bio
Roberto Duran is a former professional boxer who is known as one of the most talented boxers of all time. His nickname is Manos De Piedra which translates to Hands of Stone. Many even consider him the greatest lightweight of all time. He held world titles at four different weights—lightweight (1972–79), welterweight (1980), light middleweight (1983–84) and middleweight (1989). He... read full bio
At first glance, you would not suspect Roy Jones, Jr. to be the superb melding of talent, personality, and charisma that he is. The quiet, even pensive individual, is a world-renowned boxing superstar…professional basketball player…musical producer and performer…entertainer…actor…and all-around nice guy. Cited as the best ‘Pound for Pound’ fighter in the world, Jones is the undisputed Light Heavyweight Champion of... read full bio
Ryan Garcia, also known as The Flash, or KingRy, is an American professional boxer who has competed in super featherweight and lightweight divisions. Garcia has held the WBC Silver lightweight title and has been featured in The Ring magazine as the world’s fifth best active lightweight and has been ranked seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and tenth by... read full bio
Scott Piercy is a professional golfer from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has won the PGA Tour a total of three times. His wins include the Barbasol Championship, the RBC Canadian Open, and the Reno-Tahoe Open. Piercy has also played at the Sony Open in Hawaii, the Shell Houston Open, the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas, and the... read full bio
Sergio Martinez, also known as “Maravilla”, is an Argentine former professional boxer who has competed in welterweight, light middleweight, and middleweight divisions. Martinez has previously held the WBC super welterweight title, the IBO super welterweight title, and the unified WBC, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal middleweight titles, the latter of which he successfully defended six times. Martinez was born in... read full bio
Shane Mosley, also known as “Sugar”, is an American former professional boxer who has competed in lightweight, welterweight, and light middleweight divisions. Mosley has held multiple world championships in the three weight classes including the IBF lightweight title, the WBA (super) and WBC welterweight titles; the WBA (Super), WBC and Ring magazine light middleweight titles. He has also been a... read full bio
Shannon Briggs, also known as “The Cannon”, is an American professional boxer who has competed in the heavyweight division. Briggs has previously held a world heavyweight championship twice, including the lineal title as well as the WBO title. He is known for his punching power holding an 88.3% knockout-to-win ratio. Briggs was born in Brooklyn, New York, and by the... read full bio
Steve Cunningham, also known as “USS”, is an American professional boxer who has competed in the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. He has previously held the IBF cruiserweight title twice. Cunningham’s nickname, USS, is in reference to the fact that he served in the US Navy on the aircraft carriers USS America and USS Enterprise. Cunningham served in the navy for... read full bio
Terry Norris, also known as “Terrible”, is an American former professional boxer who competed in the light-middleweight division. Norris was a previous three-time world champion in the light-middleweight division. During his amateur career, Norris won four Texas State Golden Gloves titles. He went on to turn professional after fighting Jose Luis Cordova, which he won. Over the course of his... read full bio
Timothy Bradley, also known as “Desert Storm”, is an American former professional boxer who has competed in both light welterweight and welterweight divisions. He has held multiple world championships in the two weight classes including the WBC light welterweight title twice, the WBO light welterweight title, and the WBO welterweight title. Bradley was born in Palm Springs, California, and after... read full bio
Troy Ross, also known as, “The Boss”, is a Guyanese-Canadian boxer who has competed in the cruiserweight and light heavyweight divisions. Ross was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and he is the son of retired boxer Charles Amos. Ross has previously competed in the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur where he earned a silver medal in the light heavyweight division. He... read full bio
Victor Ortiz, also known as “Vicious”, is an American professional boxer and actor who has competed in light welterweight and welterweight divisions. Ortiz was born in Garden City, Kansas, and was thrown into boxing by his father. He had a rough childhood with both his mother and father leaving him and his siblings and forcing them into the foster care... read full bio
Vinny Pazienza, who was once known as Vinny Paz, is a legendary figure in the boxing world. Pazienza's odyssey, which included overcoming life-threatening ailments and winning world titles, is proof of the resilience of the human spirit. This piece explores Vinny Pazienza's extraordinary life, including his ascent to popularity, the terrifying car accident that almost ruined his career, and his... read full bio
