By MARK LORENZANA Several days ago, British former world champion boxer and Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan announced his retirement. Khan is an exciting fighter who has dynamite in his fists but, unfortunately, a glass jaw — while he regularly lit up his opponents, knocking out 21 of them, five of his own six losses came by brutal stoppage. I
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By MARK LORENZANA The last time I saw Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez really hurt and in serious trouble inside the boxing ring was against José Miguel Cotto, the older and less-accomplished brother of multiple-time world champion and recent International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Miguel Angel Cotto. In that fight, the shorter Cotto stormed out of the gate swinging, determined to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Maybe Mexican boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez never saw the saga of movies on trigger-happy detective “Dirty Harry,” as wonderfully portrayed by that always-well-admired actor Clint Eastwood. In several of those movies, somewhere near the end, after beating an apparently unbeatable criminal, Dirty Harry would tell the previously invincible crook: “A man’s gotta know his limitations.” Bang! Actually,
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By MARK LORENZANA “I want to be one of the greatest Mexican fighters of all time.” This was the confident answer of Óscar Valdez Jr. — a two-time Olympian who represented Mexico in Beijing 2008 and again in London in 2012 — when asked at a pre-fight interview before his scheduled bout against World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight champion
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Nov. 6, Guadalajara-born boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez became the first Mexican fighter to ever unite all four belts in the super-middleweight division after knocking out American fighter Caleb Plant in the 11th round of the duo’s Las Vegas duel. Álvarez now boasts the belts and titles for the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, World
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Thursday, May 20, the creation of a national post-secondary level education program in sports training. “We are going to create a career, a profession, at the upper secondary level, for the training of sports technicians,” AMLO said during his daily morning press conference. “Nationwide, there will be
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican boxer Saul “Canelo” Álvarez’s eighth round knockout of British Billy Joe Saunders, who was previously undefeated, late Saturday, May 8, gave the Guadalajara native a title never achieved before by a Mexican fighter: total champion of an entire weight class. Boxing is a notoriously difficult sport to become absolute champion of due to the multitude of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Mexican Tourist Resort Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Saturday visited the largest of the three islands, popularly known as “Las Marías,” off the coast of Nayarit in the Pacific Ocean. During his visit, AMLO announced that in three months the archipelago, which once served as a federal prison, would open up to tourists as
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By RICARDO CASTILLO World super middleweight boxing champion Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez on Saturday, Feb. 27, outpunched Turkish challenger Avni Yildirim to retain his World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) belts at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. During the first two rounds, the 30-year-old Álvarez, a native of Guadalajara, México, studied Yildirim’s style, and by the third round ,he
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cabeza de Vaca Jumps the Gun After Tamaulipas Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, along with his fellow National Action Party (PAN) deputies, headed by minority leader Carlos Romero Hicks, took the facility nearly by storm on Wednesday, Feb. 24, and held a press conference claiming that he was a victim of a witch hunt being directed
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