WILDER OFFERS APOLOGY TO MASCOT, NETWORK DENIES INJURY
Deontay Wilder has apologiZed if a punch he landed on a mascot on a television show led to an injury to the person inside the costume.
CHAOS FOLLOWES MOHAMMED-SACKEY BOUT
A hasty and confusing decision by a Beninois referee brought Ghana boxing on its knee Saturday night as fans took over the inner perimeter of the boxing ring with chairs and bottles to chase out the officials, assaulting others in the process.
CRAWFORD DISMANTLES BENAVIDEZ, SCORES 12TH-ROUND TKO
OMAHA, Nebraska – Terence Crawford’s second welterweight fight wasn’t quite as easy as his 147-pound debut, particularly early. But he plugged on.
BUATSI BLASTS AVERLANT INSIDE ONE
Ghanaian-born Brit Joshua Buatsi was at his destructive best as he blasted aside Tony Averlant inside the first three minutes at the Metro Radio Arena on Saturday.
PHIRI KO’S NXOKWANA IN RETURN
Zambia’s female Boxing sensation, Catherine Phiri, won a non-title super bantamweight fight via TKO against South Africa’s Asandiswa Nxokwana at the Government Complex in Lusaka.
TETE SURVIVES STIFF CHALLENGE FROM ALOYAN, ADVANCES TO SEMI-FINALS
South Africa’s Zolani Tete (28-3, 21 KOs) successfully defended his WBO Bantamweight World title, in the battle of southpaws, by outpointing Russian Mikhail Aloyan in Saturday’s Ali Trophy Quarter-Finals at the Ekaterinburg Expo, Ekaterinburg Russia.
BUKOM FIST OF FURY: WEEK ONE RESULTS
Boxing fans defied the rains on Friday night, to witness the week one of the “Bukom Fist of Fury Boxing League and Championship Fight Nights.”
TETE VS. ALOYAN: FINAL WEIGHTS
South Africa’s Zolani Tete and Mikhail Aloyan made weight ahead of their Ali Trophy Quarter-Finals on October 13 at the Ekaterinburg Expo, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
WATCH: CRAWFORD, BENAVIDEZ ERUPT AT WEIGH-IN
Following Friday’s weigh-in, Terence “Bud” Crawford and Jose Benavidez Jr. had to be separated at the weigh-in. The trash talk led to Crawford (33-0, 24 KOs) being shoved, and then throwing a punch at the WBO welterweight world title challenger Benavidez (27-0, 18 KOs) – as they collide on Saturday at the CHI Health Center…
SENEGAL FIRST AFRICAN COUNTRY TO HOST YOUTH OLYMPICS
The Olympics are finally coming to Africa—at least its youth games. In 2022, Senegal will host the fourth summer youth Olympic games, the first to take place on the African continent.