Experienced lightweight Nick Okoth and light heavyweight Elly Ajowi lead the National Boxing Team; twelve boxers for the African qualifiers of the World Boxing Championships that boxes-off in Congo Brazzaville from tomorrow to June 24. At long last, the team flew out to the Central African country on Friday morning after Boxing Association of…
Those who thought Olusegun Ajose drew inspiration from the fact that his father was a boxer and later a coach, got it wrong. In fact, he actually wanted to be a basket baller until he was beaten up by a girl. This led him to the boxing ring. Ajose, who in 2012 lost his bid…
WATCH: Ward-Kovalev II Weigh-in Video — Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev weighed in ahead of their upcoming rematch tonight. Ward (31-0, 15 KO’s), the unified light heavyweight champion, is rated by BoxingAfrica.com as the best fighter in the world. Kovalev (31-1-1, 26 KO’s), who lost his light heavyweight belts to Ward via controversial decision…
Namibia’s Walter “The Executioner” Kautondokwa is still undefeated. Kautondokwa retained his WBO Africa middleweight title, and picked up the IBF Africa middleweight title, with an impressive fifth round TKO of Ghana’s Obodai Sai.
Less than 24 hours remain until “Explosive Fight Night” ignites. In the main event, Ghana’s Obadai Sai will throw down versus Namibia’s Walter Kautondokwa for Kautondokwa’s WBO Africa middleweight title and the vacant IBF Africa crown. Sai-Kautondokwa is set to take place tomorrow night in Accra, Ghana’s Bukom Boxing Arena. Gates are expected…
LAS VEGAS (June 15, 2017) – Unbeaten prospect Eddie Ramirez has made big leaps towards his world title dreams in the last year and he will continue on his path on Tuesday, June 20 when he takes on Erick Bone in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS on FS1 and BOXEO DE…
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Kampala — The Bombers, the Uganda amateur boxing team, travels Friday to Brazzaville, Congo for the Africa Confederation Boxing Championship. All, except Reagan Ssimbwa who boxed at the 2015 All-Africa Games, are eyeing a continental debut and have no teammate or coach around to paint them a clear first-hand picture of Africa’s most prestigious…
The Islington Boxing Club came away with two gold medals and a silver from the Hull Box Cup at the weekend. The club entered four of their young boxers, including Kerm Sertten (under-38kg), Jenson Curtin (under-54kg), Jay Jay Curtin (under-60kg) and Connor Daly (under-50kg). And Daly had the easiest time of it as he claimed…
Russian boxer Georgy Kushitashvili and some other members of the Russian amateur boxing delegation have been barred from entering Ukraine on the grounds that they had previously visited Crimea, Russian Boxing Federation press secretary Vlada Romanova said. “We are in a cordon now. We are being deported because we have been to Crimea,” Romanova…