Team Nigeria athletes preparing for the Commonwealth Games billed for April 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia have intensified preparations in various camps across the nation. The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports began its first phase of camping on December 17, 2018 in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja. Boxers, Table tennis and Para…
WHEN Boxing Scotland was deemed not fit for purpose by auditors in 2008, a decision that saw the governing body lose all of its funding, it was a precarious time for the sport. Boxing had gone from being one of Scotland’s most prominent sports to teetering on the edge of oblivion. When in a…
Rilwan Oladosu, the rising lightweight boxing star, won the N2.5 million cash prize attached to the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy for the best boxer at GOtv Boxing Night 13. Oladosu defeated Kehinde “Ijoba” Badmus at the event which took place at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island. His hand speed and ring IQ simply overwhelmed…
Cape Town – South Africa has lost a boxing legend with news of the death of former champion and trainer Willie Toweel. Leading boxing writer Ron Jackson reported on supersport.com that Toweel, 83, died on Christmas evening. Toweel, who was born in 1934, won the bronze medal in the flyweight division at the…