TULARE − Richard Torrez Jr.’s run toward a perfect 10-0 boxing record can be traced back to 1945 when his grandfather Manuel Torrez founded the Tulare Athletic Boxing Club. That’s 79 years of Tulare ...
“If I was not damaged, you think I’d be doing boxing?” Derek Chisora said to Tris Dixon in February. That every boxer has to be damaged to begin with to want to swap head shots for a living is a ...
Bob Arum is fast approaching his 92nd birthday, and as one of his few concessions to age, he moves a lot more slowly than he did even a decade earlier. Arum, a Harvard-educated attorney who served in ...
It's been over two years since Tulare boxer Richard Torrez Jr. turned pro. During that span, the Mission Oak High School grad has continued his undefeated run, winning his first nine fights. All of ...
GLENDALE, Arizona – Richard Torrez Jr. kept letting his hands go, and Joey Dawejko kept losing his mouthpiece. The repeated cycle led to 2021 U.S. Olympic silver medalist Torrez (11-0) recording a ...
Torrez Jr. (10-0) has clinched all his wins via knockout and was last seen in the ring with Brandon Moore in a fight that ended with a fifth round KO handing Brandon Moore his first defeat as he was ...
Richard Torrez Jr. can't remember a moment when his father, Richard Torrez Sr., wasn't involved in his life. That tight-knight bond has helped carry Torrez Jr. during his amateur, Olympic and ...
Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov earned gold in the super heavyweight final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a unanimous decision victory over Richard Torrez Jr. of the U.S. Plus, gold medals were ...