JOLIET – More than 500 amateur boxers traveled to Charleston, West Virginia last week to compete in the 2017 USA Boxing Junior Olympics. Among them was Joseph “Jojo” Awinongya of Joliet, and he came home a champion. Awinongya was among 12 fighters from Illinois competing, and he won the 9-to-10-year-old, 85-pound division. …
Amateur boxing in Belfast is to receive funding in the region of £45,000 over the next four months. Belfast City Council agreed to support the Amateur Boxing Strategy following a vote at City Hall on Monday night. The proposal to continue the funding was made by Sinn Fein Councillor Matt Garrett and was won by…
AUSTRALIA — July 1, 2017 — WBO World welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao travels to Brisbane, Australia to face unheralded challenger Jeff Horn. Pacquiao is a monster favorite but Horn is determined to prove the oddsmakers wrong.