Liliana, mostly known as Lily, is a nonbinary media communications badass and founder of Xicana Boxing. Lily's love for boxing goes back to watching boxing as a child in Nayarit, Mexico, and through an illegal black box when immigrating to California in 2001. A mom of two kids and four cats, Lily enjoys thrifting for trinkets, true crime rabbit holes, trash television and the devils lettuce.
This past Thursday, April 16, Lester Martínez continued to earn recognition for carrying Guatemalan pride into boxing’s bigger conversations. Just weeks after I wrote about the framing of his title win in my zine, questioning the narrative of “firsts” and what it really means to represent Guatemala on the global stage, Martínez stood inside the […]
The momentum Shadasia Green carried into Friday night at Madison Square Garden came to a sudden and unsettling halt. What was supposed to be another step toward a long-discussed showdown with Claressa Shields instead turned into a reminder of how quickly plans in boxing can disappear, as Lani Daniels delivered a ninth-round stoppage to claim […]
Oleksandr Usyk is not pretending this is anything other than what it is, bringing his usual, casual demeanor to today’s press conference. Standing across from Rico Verhoeven at the “Glory in Giza” press conference, the unified heavyweight champion looked comfortable, almost amused, as the questions came in. Others fans, however, wonder why a fighter of […]
The spotlight may sit on Alycia Baumgardner vs. Bo Mi Re Shin, but the title fight’s undercard lineup definitely feels intentional about where women’s boxing is headed. Most Valuable Promotions’s first U.S. installment of its year-round women’s platform lands April 17 at Madison Square Garden, airing live on ESPN, and while Baumgardner’s title defense carries […]
Fighting out of San Diego and originally from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, Jorge Chavez, known as “El Niño Dorado,” isn’t slowing down after the biggest win of his career, and his fan-friendly style has already landed him his next opportunity. Fresh off a back-and-forth war in Palm Desert that earned him the WBA Continental USA […]
Javier “El Guerito” Zamarron is not overthinking it anymore. The nerves are still there, but they are no longer something that controls him. “I’m in my double digit fights, I don’t even care,” Zamarron told Boxing Social. “They show up a little bit… but I just believe in my preparation and my hard work in […]
The conversations around the future of women’s boxing have been popular in recent years, and this week was no exception. Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, made it clear what he believes should be next for Katie Taylor. Speaking on the direction of the sport’s biggest names, Bidarian pointed to Caroline Dubois as the […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — For Vito Mielnicki Jr., the connection to home was built long before the lights, before the televised cards, before the expectations. Now as he looks to climb up the rankings, he carries his hometown and Italian heritage close to his heart every time he enters the ring. “I’m an Italian kid from […]
WBO and Ring super flyweight champion Mizuki Hiruta is taking her title run global. Set to defend her belts on the undercard of “Glory in Giza” in Giza, Egypt, on May 23, Hiruta is chasing recognition, and doing it her way. The memes weren’t lying. The Hello Kitty girlies are dangerous. Hiruta, who has leaned […]
Yoenli “YoYo El Diablo” Hernández walked away with the win on March 28 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, but it was not the moment he felt he earned. Fighting on the undercard of the Sebastian Fundora vs. Keith Thurman headline fight, Hernández (10-0, 9 KOs) delivered a dominant showing against Terrell Gausha […]
Caroline Dubois has spent fight week talking about legacy fights, undisputed champions, and moving up in weight. Still, the immediate task remains a lightweight unification bout against Terri Harper on Sunday, April 5. Dubois, 23, has made it clear that she views the matchup as part of a larger plan; one that includes a year-end […]
LAS VEGAS — Sebastian ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora looked sharper, more composed, and defensively responsible in ways we hadn’t consistently seen before. The volume was still there, the pressure still relentless, with this version of Fundora controlling the pace instead of just relying on chaos to win exchanges. Fundora broke Thurman down over six rounds […]