January 2021 - Hannibal Boxing

Bad Bennie: Carlos Monzon Faces “Bad” Bennie Briscoe

January 22, 2021 Don Stradley

The following is an excerpt from Don Stradley’s book, A Fistful of Murder: The Fights and Crimes of Carlos Monzon. *** Bennie Briscoe was such a badass that Monzon deliberately changed his style for their […]

Strong Feelings: Kazuto Ioka Outclasses Kosei Tanaka

January 5, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

On the last day of last year, super-flyweight Kazuto Ioka delivered a near-perfect defense of his title, dismantling Kosei Tanaka over eight excellent rounds at the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Japan. That seems an apposite […]