JOSEPH AGBEKO CALLS FOR GOV’T TO SUPPORT AMATEUR BOXERS
Two-time bantamweight world champion, Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko, has called on authorities to invest in the national boxing team, the Black Bombers, before they qualify for the Olympic Games.
Two-time bantamweight world champion, Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko, has called on authorities to invest in the national boxing team, the Black Bombers, before they qualify for the Olympic Games.
For the first time since his release from prison in 2009, Namibia boxing legend and two-time world champion, Harry “The Terminator” Simon, has publicly opened up about his trials and tribulations as a boxer and how prison impacted his outlook on life.
Professional boxing is tentatively scheduled to resume in Japan in May.
WBO super-middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders saw his license suspended by British authorities on Monday after filming a video in which he gave men a detailed explanation on how to strike their wife or significant other while self-isolating due to coronavirus.
The Nigerian Boxing Board of control (NBBofC) has extended their suspension of all public boxing events indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Kenya boxing team captain Nick Okoth believes it is about time to let the late Robert Wangila Napunyi rest in peace.
Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley benefitted from revised eligibility rules to both get voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) two years earlier than expected.
An International Olympic Committee taskforce has been called “irresponsible” after the Turkish Boxing Federation said two fighters and a coach who took part in a Tokyo 2020 qualifying event in London in March had since tested positive for coronavirus. The Boxing Road to Tokyo competition at the Copper Box was called off after three…
It’s been announced that world amateur champion Oleksandr Khyzhniak from Ukraine was elected AIBA Athlete’s commission chair, and a European amateur champion from Italy, Irma Testa, became the vice-chair.
Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have a new date for their third fight, but organizers are insisting the move isn’t because of the coronavirus pandemic.