Ike “The President” Ibeabuchi, born and raised in Nigeria, competed from 1994 to 1999 in the heavyweight division. where he finished with a perfect (20-0-0, 15 KOs) record. As a teenager back in 1990, Ibeabuchi was poised to enlist in the Nigerian military until he saw the biggest boxing upset of all time—the classic James…
Floyd Mayweather Jr. will continue his exhibition tour. The newly Hall of Fame-enshrined former five-division champion and pound-for-pound king has confirmed his next exhibition fight, which will come against mixed martial artist Mikuru Asakura. The event will take place as part of a Rizin Fighting Federation show this September in Japan on RIZIN Fight…
In an epic toe-to-toe encounter, Roarke Knapp beat Brandon Thysse on a 12-round split decision, in a rematch at Emperors Palace, near Kempton Park, on Saturday night, to win the vacant African Boxing Union junior middleweight title.
The boxing world has lost one of the greatest Puerto Rican fighters in history. BoxingScene.com is saddened to report the passing of former two-division champion Carlos Ortiz, who passed away on Monday in New York at age 85. News of his death came the day after a three-class International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF)…
Rising Ghana prospect Samuel Takyi couldn’t have asked for a better weekend.