Nine national team pugilists, popularly known as ‘The Bombers’, sealed their slots to the Africa Boxing championships after winning their selection trial bouts on Sunday at Lugogo indoor stadium arena. Shadir Musa, Wasswa Ssali, Joshua Kizza, Geoffrey Kakeeto, Juma Miiro, Muzamir Kakande, Shafiq Kiwanuka, Yusuf Babu and Reagan Ssimbwa clinched their places. At…
The Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward Ubosi, has said that the House was committed to raising boxers that would represent the country at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. Speaking to the newsmen on Monday in Enugu, Ubosi said the Assembly was committed to seeing that Enugu State joined athletes from other…
The 2014 All Africa Youth Games bronze medalist Jean Pierre Cyiza has insisted he is aiming for nothing less than a gold medal at the forthcoming AFBC African Boxing Championships in Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo from May 27 – June 4. The 23-year-old, who says he was inspired to take up boxing by…
Otjiwarongo-Khomas region amateur boxers dominated proceedings during Saturday’s MTC Sunshine Regional Cup held at Otjiwarongo over the weekend, displaying great courage and cadence to win the annual amateur boxing tournament for the third successive time. Close to 150 amateur boxers from all 14 regions of the country converged at Otjiwarongo’s Swanewelder Hall over the…
Gideon Quartey, the deceased president of the Ghana Amateur Boxing Federation (GABF), was laid on Saturday, May 13. Quartey died on March 15, only few hours to the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) elections. Prior to his death he had complained about heart pains. Saturday’s burial service was held at the forecourt of the Ghana…
Back-to-back Olympian Benson Gicharu is content with amateur boxing and has no plans to join the bare-chested game anytime soon. Gicharu, who qualified for two consecutive Olympics in London and Rio said despite requests from several managers and promoters to join pro ranks, he is sticking with amateur boxing. Gicharu skipped the second leg of…
Seventeen boxers from Prisons and DTC Boxing clubs will take part in a boxing tournament hosted by the Booysen Boxing Club in Johannesburg, South Africa on May 20, 2017. The team of three women and 14 men was invited by the DSCUD boxing, a local boxing club that promotes professional and amateur boxers. …
The national amateur boxing team’s participation in this year’s Africa Confederation Championships and East Africa Championships hangs in the balance. With the continental championships nearly two weeks away, the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) is yet to raise Sh46 million for the competition. Tanzania is among countries that have confirmed their participation in…
Twenty-four members of the Ghana national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers, are continuing their non-residential camping and preparations for the 2017 Africa Boxing championship with daily training at the Accra Sports Stadium. The team consists of 20 men and four women. They have been training for three weeks ahead of the stiff competition,…
OTJIWARONGO – Amateur boxers at Otjiwarongo are training hard in preparation for the MTC Sunshine Regional Cup this weekend. The event is set to take place at the Swanevelder Hall here from Friday till Sunday. About 12 amateur boxers have been training for this event at the Otjiwarongo Amateur Boxing Academy for the past two…