David Morrell Jr. defected from his native Cuba in June 2018. He left his family behind and escaped to Mexico via speedboat under the cover of darkness. He spent more than a year there waiting for a ...

The 6-foot-1 Cuban prodigy made quick work of his first opponent. The fight with Yendris Rodriguez Valdez at The Armory in downtown Minneapolis lasted all of 65 seconds before a vicious uppercut ...

Boxer David Morrell Jr. and his Minneapolis-based training crew were running a few weeks ago on the back roads around Barnum, with Morrell in the lead and everyone else in tow. All of the sudden “O,” ...

David Morrell Jr. wants to fight David Benavidez or Canelo Alvarez next. The unbeaten Cuban southpaw will settle, however, for the former super middleweight champion who has lost only to Alvarez and ...

Smith has yet to fight since his unanimous decision over countryman Joshua Buatsi to claim the WBO interim belt last February 22 in Riyadh. The win came as part of the loaded card topped by Dmitry ...

David Morrell Jr. put Mario Cazares to sleep with an easy knockout win on Sunday night. Morrell was facing Cazares in Minneapolis for the WBA super middleweight title. It didn’t take Morrell long to ...

Cuban-born, Minneapolis-based boxer David Morrell defended his WBA World Super Middleweight title with a 12th-round knockout of previously unbeaten Aidos Yerbossynuly at the Minneapolis Armory on ...

David Morrell Jr. was sitting on a couch inside the large training center for Circle of Discipline boxers in Barnum, Minn. It was a light workout day in the run-up to Morrell's fight with Mario ...