Sabitu Oladejo, Assistant Coach of Niger State Boxing Council, says the provision of requisite facilities for the sport will likely produce boxers of the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jnr. Oladejo this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja ahead of the upcoming showdown between Mayweather Jnr. and…
Former World Champion Krzysztof Glowacki (27-1, 17 KOs) and fellow Polish star Mateusz Masternak (39-4, 26 KOs) have signed-up to act as reserves in the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight quarter-finals. Assuming they are not needed to act as reserves, the fighters will box on the undercards of the quarter-final they are assigned to.…
Team Georgia boxing brought home several championships after concluding its summer season with sanctioned USA Boxing tournaments in Dallas, Texas, Mesquite, Nevada and Independence, Missouri over the final three weeks of July. Led by Michael Lugo, the owner of east Cobb’s Lugo’s Boxing and Fitness Gym and the Junior Olympics chairperson of the Georgia…
ACCRA, GHANA – There was a festive atmosphere at Kotoka International Airport as the UK squad touched down Sunday night, brimming with confidence. They’ll have an opportunity to back up their words with their fists this Saturday night against local counterparts in Azumah Nelson’s Fight Night, Round IV: Ghana vs. UK. The combatants…
Former two-time world champion Paulie Malignaggi was brought in by Conor McGregor to help the UFC prepare for his August 26th showdown versus Floyd Mayweather. But when McGregor released photos of Malignaggi getting tagged and what appeared to him getting knocked down, Paulie unceremoniously left McGregor’s camp. Since then, Malignaggi has been making the rounds,…
Nigerian-born British world boxing heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has put an end to the ‘rift’ he had with fellow British boxer Amir Khan over an alleged affair with Khan’s wife Faryal. Joshua was falsely accused by Khan of sleeping with Faryal after an apparently photoshopped picture of Joshua and Faryal was sent to the…
Amateur boxing’s world governing body AIBA has been plunged deeper into civil war after the beleaguered organisation filed a criminal complaint against members of its own executive committee in Switzerland. The move comes after a Swiss court rejected a bid by members of the International Management Committee – ostensibly, those executive committee members who passed a…
LAS VEGAS – It was “The Notorious” Conor McGregor’s turn to meet with the media on Friday from UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas, a day after Floyd “Money” Mayweather did the same in advance of their Saturday, Aug. 26, headlining attraction of a SHOWTIME PPV event from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Here is what McGregor had to say Friday:…
Francisco Alemán, María Flores and her older brother, Jesús Flores (pictured from left, Jesús Flores, his sister, María Flores and Francisco Alemán), recently made their junior amateur boxing biographies a bit stronger. Alemán and the Flores siblings – along with Jett Blackwell – each won U.S. National Junior Golden Gloves championships in a weeklong…
LAS VEGAS – Floyd “Money” Mayweather opened up the Mayweather Boxing Club on Thursday for a media workout ahead of his highly anticipated matchup against UFC champion Conor McGregor on Saturday, Aug. 26 in the headlining attraction of a SHOWTIME PPV event from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Joining Mayweather at the media workout…