The All African Boxing Board of Control (AABBC) and Alpha Male Sports Entertainment played host to the first round of bouts last Saturday for a multinational boxing competition taking place in The Gambia. The four-nation competition brought together boxers from The Gambia, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Conakry at the Alpha Male Boxing Academy. …
Anthony ‘Can You Dig It?’ Yigit (19-0-1, 7 KOs) is set to make a historic defence of his European Super Lightweight Championship against Sandor Martin (29-1, 10 KOs) on Saturday, September 30 at the Solnahallen in Stockholm, Sweden. This fight will be the first time in over fifty years that the European title has been contested on…
Kenya’s stylish lightweight boxer Nick Okoth will be going for gold at the forthcoming 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships slated to throw off on August 25 in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Okoth, who has been shaping up at St Teresa’s church gymnasium over the past two weeks, said his main objective will be…
The embattled president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) defiantly claimed on Saturday that he was still in charge of the body despite moves by rival executives to oust him. In a phone interview with AFP from Taipei, Wu Ching-kuo accused his AIBA rivals of trying to pull off “a military coup” and insisted…
KAMPALA (Xinhua) — Muzamir Kakande interrupts his boxing training session to answer a telephone call critical to his day to day life. He is a fish monger and this is what he does for a living. He is also passionate about boxing. In fact, he is Africa’s boxing champion in the welter weight category.…
LOS ANGELES – Accomplished Super Heavyweight amateur and 2016 Olympian Efe Ajagba and fellow Nigerian Heavyweight amateur standout Efetobor Apochi have signed-on to become the latest promising young fighters to join the Ringstar Sports roster. Both fighters will make their professional debuts on the Premier Boxing Champions event headlined by Victor Ortiz vs. Saul Corral…
The Boxing Association of Kenya has appealed to the Government to release funds to help in the national team’s preparations ahead of the World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, Germany, from August 25 to September 3. BAK Vice President Albert Matito said the funds would enable the federation and the technical bench to work out…
MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. The Russian capital of Moscow and the country’s southern resort city of Sochi will be the venues in case the Russia’s bid wins to host the 2019 World Boxing Championship, Umar Kremlev, the president of the Boxing Federation of Russia (BFR), told TASS on Monday. “We are proposing the cities…
The president of amateur boxing’s governing body, AIBA, is set to be ousted from his position with instability and financial turmoil growing at the organization. Wu Ching-kuo will be asked to step down after 13 members voted to pass a motion of no confidence in the president with a further two abstaining from voting…
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has claimed a settlement agreement has been reached with Azerbaijani company Benkons MMC to repay a $10 million (£8 million/€8.5 million) loan following reports they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Benkons director Hamid Hamidov had reportedly claimed there was no schedule to repay the loan that was given…