After hundreds of punches were thrown, countless fights were completed, and resilient champions were crowned, the three long days of boxing at USF had come to an end, and regardless of the results, the university was proud to host this historic event. On April 11, 12, and 13 the United States Intercollegiate Boxing (USIBA) First [...]

The tough, resolute visage of Head Coach Angelo Marino, who is teaching one of his boxing and social justice classes, yields to a (relatively) friendly grin as we recognize each other. As I would soon find out, this commanding red box is the round timer; reminiscent of the color scheme found in traffic lights, green means that the round is starting, yellow that there’s only thirty seconds left in the round, and red is stop. The fighters of true dedication do not anticipate the red: they can’t wait for the green.

This past Friday, 32 fighters from 17 different clubs descended upon War Memorial Gym for the 9th Annual Hilltop Cup, the largest amateur boxing tournament in California. Boxers from all corners of the United States turned out to test their mettle in the ring for three furious two-minute rounds. As the host, USF Boxing was [...]

Judgement Day in the boxing world

As attention fades from our school’s fizzling basketball season, many USF students will spend the coming weeks crossing off days on their calendars leading up to the nine-day-long hiatus demarcated by an exclamatory statement of this sort: “SPRING BREAK!!”. But for Trenton Stonerock and a handful of other resolute members of the University of San [...]

The USF Boxing Team makes a valiant effort at the SF Winter Boxing Championships

Profile on this week's Hilltop Cup fighter, JR Abellon.

The sixth annual hilltop boxing cup was dominated by the dons who won the majority of the fights against local bay area schools

The Hilltop cup was back for its fifth consecutive year, the event featured boxers from schools all over the Bay Area.