GHANA’S BLACK BOMBERS WIND DOWN TRAINING
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.
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.
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…
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.
NAIROBI, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — Kenya will have American Hanif Abdullah leading the coaching pool of the boxing team ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast in April. Abdullah, who is in the country, has been hired to improve the skills and fighting tactics of Kenyan national boxing team, Hit Squad. This…
The Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF), yesterday, released the final list of male and female boxers that would represent the country at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which takes place in Australia, in April. The trials held at the Brai Ayonote Gymnasium, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, saw the judges watch 16 national boxers for two days,…
Bode Ademisoro, the Secretary of Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF), on Friday said plans were underway to organize an invitational boxing championship between Nigeria and Ghana in Lagos in March. Ademisoro told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the championship would be part of preparations for the 2018 Commonwealth Games to hold in Gold…
Boxing, one of the oldest sports of them all, with a proud, proud tradition at the highest level of amateur boxing in the Olympic games dating back years, is being looked at in a very adverse light now by the IOC (international Olympic Committee). “The thing here is flexibility”, Samaranch, who also heads the…
If you are a staunch reader of the Bible or rubbed shoulders anywhere in Sunday school, you are surely familiar with the story of the Israelites who spent thousands of years in Egypt as slaves. Their moment came and they were led out of Egypt under heavy resistance from the Pharaoh at the time.…
The newly elected Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation executive has set the wheels in motion ahead of this year’s Commonwealth Games. The federation’s top brass has named an 18 member squad and is settling for nothing less than the proverbial KO in the games. The eighteen-strong squad, whose names were submitted to the Commonwealth…