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What to watch: Boxing’s big weekend

Reuters

For as long as I can remember being a boxing fan [1], there’s always been a big fight involving a Mexican/Mexican-American boxer on or around September 16 (México’s Día de la Independencia, in case you didn’t know).  It’s no secret that Latino fans are the fuel that powers boxing in this country (big-time promoter Bob Read More

Cinnamon: The next best thing in boxing

The last two decades of boxing have given us some great Mexican boxing champions: Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, and Oscar de la Hoya (he’s Mexican-American but we’ll claim him). You’re probably reading this and thinking, “WHERE IS JULIO CÉSAR CHÁVEZ?!” Hey, slow down, I’m getting there. No disrespect to these other Read More