AUSTRALIA’S SCOTT DEFEATS NIGERIA’S ORIOLA
Nigeria’s Itunu Oriola was outclassed by hosts Australia’s Kaye Scott in the women’s welterweight class at Sunday’s 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Nigeria’s Itunu Oriola was outclassed by hosts Australia’s Kaye Scott in the women’s welterweight class at Sunday’s 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Jessie Lartey defied the odds to overcome the tough challenge of Louis Macharno Colin of Mauritius to emerge winner of their round of 16 light welterweight cliffhanger at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia on Sunday.
WINDHOEK – Namibia’s Matias Hamunyela lost to Kenya’s Shaffi Hassana on Friday at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Queensland, Australia. The bout was held in the men’s 46-49 kg category. Hassana won 3-2 in the Round of 16 after three rounds of boxing.
Enterprising and stylish Samuel Yaw Addo of Ghana battled to a convincing victory over Sikiru Ojo of Nigeria in an all-West African bantamweight clash at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
Team South Africa’s boxing campaign at the Commonwealth Games took an early blow on Friday after Siyabulela Mphongoshi lost. Mphongoshi was the first of just two boxers in the team to fight when he took on Sri Lanka’s Thiwanke Ranasinghe.
Abdul Wahid Omar, one of Ghana’s biggest hopes of getting to the medal zone, lost his first fight at the 21st Commonwealth Games to Australian Harry Garside by a 5-0 unanimous decision at the 60kg weight division.
Nigeria boxing dropped back to back losses today. It began when Osita Umeh suffered defeat in boxing’s male welterweight 69kg event on Thursday as he was outclassed by India’s Manoj Kumar at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
A Namibian team of 28 athletes will be out to emulate their predecessors when the 21st Commonwealth Games start on the Gold Coast, Australia on Wednesday.
The 10 Kenyan boxers competing in this year’s Commonwealth Games in Queensland city of Gold Coast, Australia are out to end the drought of gold medals that goes back nearly 25 years.
Light heavyweight Nickson ‘King’ Abaka is seeking to claim his maiden global title as he prepares for next week’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.