Mia St. John
Oh yeah! Local Pro Boxers go a perfect 7-0 on the weekend
On Friday night, April 15, 2016, at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, super featherweight Genaro “El Conde” Gamez (1-0, 1 KO) of San Diego had little if any trouble sending his opponent Archie Weah (1-6) of Norcross, Georgia into Lala land. The amateur sensation’s first round KO victory in his debut came at the […]
Photos from Evander Holyfield’s 50th Birthday Party
On October 19, 2012, I was at Evander Holyfield’s 50th birthday party at Julien’s Auctions on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. For a guy who doesn’t party much, I had a wonderful time. The establishment featured a relaxed atmosphere, open bar, hors d’oeuvres, conversations with some delightful people which included many celebrities, several Olympians, boxing icons and […]
Headlines for the San Diego Boxing Community on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012, featherweight David Barragan, part-owner of the House of Boxing Gym on Reo Drive in San Diego, was on the undercard of the Mia St. John versus Christy Martin bout up at the Table Mountain Casino in Friant, CA. The heavy hitting Barragan wasted little time and soon opened a cut over the […]
Best pound for pound female boxers to meet
Friday evening, Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm (30-1-3), the current women’s pound for pound champion pitched a shutout against Victoria Cisneros (5-12-2, 1 KO) at the Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The bout was a rematch of an earlier meeting in which Holm beat Cisneros 100-90 and 99-91 twice. In that bout […]