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…
Kenya’s Elizabeth Andiego surprised Mongolia’s powerhouse Munkhbat Myagmarjargal in the women’s middleweight preliminary match to give Kenya their first win at the ongoing India Open International. Andiego, whose boxing career almost ended with a motorbike accident two years ago, fought with precession to win the bout on points. Andiego became the first Kenyan woman…
Rwandan athletes are not popular when it comes to the Olympics or Commonwealth Games; the reason is that the country has never won any medal in either competition. But Jean Pierre Cyiza (pictured) hopes to make Rwanda famous for boxing at least in the future before he hangs his gloves. At the age…
The national boxing team will miss the Commonwealth Games scheduled for April 4-15 in Queensland, Australia, the National Olympic Committee (RNOSC) president, Ambassador Valens Munyabagisha has confirmed. Boxing was among the five disciplines that had been selected for the games – others are; athletics, cycling, beach volleyball and Para power lifting. However, according…