Kenya’s pugilist Fatuma Zarika will now defend her World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight title against former world champion Catherine Phiri from Zambia on November 25 in Nairobi. Zarika, who was training in the US in readiness for her mandatory title defence in a rematch against Jamaican Alicia Ashley on August 4 in Texas,…
Growing up in far-flung Ncojane, Mmusi Tswiigi did not envisage standing a good chance of progressing in his chosen sport path, boxing. The Prisons Boxing Club member has risen to become one of the country’s most feared boxers. Born in Ncojane village in June 17, 1991, Tswiigi fell in love with boxing at…
HAMBURG, September 3 /TASS/. A Swiss court will consider on who will head the international amateur boxing federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym AIBA, in mid-September, AIBA President Wu Ching-kuo told TASS on Saturday. During the AIBA Executive Committee meeting in Moscow in late July, 13 members of the committee initiated a vote…
Namibia’s WBO Africa lightweight champion Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses will be out to prove he’s getting better, sharper and amazingly faster with age when he puts his title on the line against Tanzania’s Saidi Mundi. Hitman will confront Mundi in the main fight of the ‘No Mercy Part 7’ Boxing Bonanza on September 9…
South African junior-lightweight champion Phila Mpontshana makes the first defense of his title when he meets Lucky Monyebane at the Portuguese Hall in Turfontein on Sunday afternoon. Mpontshana (12-1; 6), from Mdantsane, made his pro debut on 12May 2012 at the Orient Theatre in East London and scored a four-round points victory over Nkosikho…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Boxing Board of Control (ZNBBC) has admitted that they bungled after Kenyan boxers were left stranded in Harare without their purse money following a tournament last week. Kenyan boxers George Otieno and Bernard Ardie were part of the foreign contingent that took part in the event held at the…
Inability to secure sponsors to partner with the Sunny Clay Boxing Academy has stalled the proposed 2017 edition of the annual championship. Sunday Nwamuda, Head Coach of the academy, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. Nwamuda said that corporate bodies and individuals who promised to…
Punches are flying in and outside the ring at the amateur boxing world championships in Germany this week as a bitter power struggle rages for control of the historic Olympic sport. In one corner in Hamburg is Wu Ching-Kuo, the embattled Taiwanese president of ruling body the AIBA and an influential member of the…
BROOKLYN (Aug. 30, 2017) – A trio of 154-pound world champions will defend their titles as part of a SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING tripleheader headlined by Erislandy Lara defending against undefeated Terrell Gausha, in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions on Saturday, October 14 live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT) from Barclays Center,…
CARSON, CALIF. (August 30, 2017) – Sensational three-division champion Leo “El Terremoto” Santa Cruz will defend his featherweight world title against Chris Avalos, while four-time world champion Abner Mares defends his 126-pound championship against once-beaten Andres Gutierrez at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. on a show presented by Premier Boxing Champions live on FOX and…