A sequel to the most anticipated boxing event in years is near as Lineal Middleweight World Champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO’s) & WBC/WBA/IBF Middleweight World Champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KO’s) will clash in a historic & highly anticipated 12-round rematch Saturday, May 5.
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BROOKLYN – When unbeaten heavyweight Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz faces WBC Heavyweight World Champion Deontay Wilder Saturday, March 3 live on SHOWTIME from Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING™, he will be looking to make history not just for Cuban boxing, but for all Hispanic or Latino fighters. Ortiz has a…
The Black Bombers, Ghana’s national boxing team, are in Lagos, Nigeria, finalizing preparation as training winds down for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, set to start on April 4th.
MBABANE – Just as he promised, Rofhiwa Maemu brushed aside his weight issue on the eve of this fight to retain his WBA Pan African featherweight title after just three rounds at the Royal Swazi Convention Centre on Friday night. Maemu weighted 250 grams more than the maximum of 57.153kg his division allows. …
Zimbabwean amateur boxers got two gold, three silver and three bronze medals at the Zone 4 Championships that ended on Saturday in Maputo, Mozambique. Seven countries, Botswana, South Africa, Seychelles, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and hosts Mozambique took part at the week-long tournament. Mozambique were the overall winners with five gold medals, followed by…
Callum Smith booked a place in the Ali Trophy Super Middleweight Final after defeating Nieky Holzken on points in Nuremberg. The judges scored it 118-110 and 117-111 twice all in favour of the English WBC Diamond Champion. The Liverpudlian was due to fight German veteran Jurgen Braehmer but he was forced to pull out early in…
Only four female boxers have made it to the “Hit Squad,” the Kenya boxing team which will represent the country in the Commonwealth Games set for the Gold Coast, Australia from April 4-15. The quartet represented the country in the inaugural India Open Boxing tournament in Delhi from January 28 to February 1. …
Boxing legend Azumah Nelson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Geodrill Limited, Dave Harper have presented boxing equipment to the national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers to prepare them ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games to be held in Gold Coast, Australia.
LOWELL, Mass. – Eleven New England champions were crowned last night during the New England Tournament of Champions at historic Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Central New England snapped the Western New England’s four-year reign in team scoring to capture the covered Bill Hoar Memorial Award as Most Outstanding Team. The New England Tournament of Champions,…