LAS CRUCES, N.M. – When Abraham “Abie” Han (16-0, 10KOs), steps into the ring to face Bloomfield, New Mexico’s Joseph Gomez (18-5, 8KOs), Saturday night at Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, he will officially be making the move up to the middleweight division. The move from the light middleweight to middleweight was not necessarily one […]
Late Satuday night, Chavez Dojo’s Joby Sanchez, was awarded a five-fight contract with the east coast’s largest mixed martial arts promotion, Xtreme Fighting Championships. The tryouts were a one day event that took place at the Fighting Arts Academy in Springfield, Massachusetts. “I don’t know if it’s really hit me yet,” said Sanchez. The 2009, […]
For the second time in his mixed martial arts career Tim “The Dirty Bird” Means (17-3-1), will be stepping into a UFC octagon. This Friday night Means will be taking on Justin Salas (10-3) on the UFC on FX 3 card. Their fight will air on the FuelTV portion of the preliminaries. Fighting out of […]
CARSON, C.A. – It was supposed to be a coming out party for Austin “No Doubt” Trout in his WBA Super Welterweight contest against Delvin Rodriguez. As they say in boxing “styles make match-ups”. The contest was the typical, slow paced, very good technical fighter in Trout, against a puncher-brawler in Rodriguez; southpaw versus orthodox […]
Thursday afternoon, SWFight.com was on hand at the last Four Warned- Antonio Tarver vs. Lateef Kayode card press conference . The video below is a segment from Delvin Rodriguez and Austin Trout’s portion of the presser. The fights take place June 2nd at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California and live on Showtime. Quotes: Rodriguez: […]
Patiently, Las Cruces, New Mexico’s WBA Super Welterweight champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout (24-0, 14KOs) has been waiting for his time to shine in the New Mexico boxing Zia sun. A victory this Saturday against top ten contender, Delvin Rodriguez (26-5-3, 14KOs) in Carson, California, on perhaps the most stacked boxing card of the year […]
This week 30 members of the Gracie Barra Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy from Albuquerque will participate in the World International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation Championship in Long Beach, California. Among them will be professional mixed martial artist and BJJ instructor Rafael “Barata” Freitas. The 125lb flyweight class is the lightest recognized by the unified rules […]
Close sources have confirmed that Johnny Tapia’s wife Teresa Tapia found her husband dead in their bedroom earlier today. Tapia was a five time world champion. He first came into prominence when he defeated Henry Martinez for the WBO Super Flyweight title at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He fought an epic battle with […]
To prepare to his upcoming WBA Super Welterweight title fight against Delvin Rodriguez , Austin Trout has been working with strength and conditioning coach and longtime friend Shukree Shabazz. Shabazz grew up in Chaparral, New Mexico. He is the brother of New Mexico standout amateur boxer, soon to be pro, Sijuola Ade Shabazz. Shukree started […]
On this date in 1968 Robert Lloyd Foster (56-8-1, 46KOs) or widely recognized as Bob Foster, became New Mexico’s first world champion when he defeated Nigeria’s Dick Tiger by 4th round knockout to claim both the WBC and the WBA Light Heavyweight titles. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 27th 1938, Foster fought for […]