NIGERIA PLACES BID TO HOST ANTHONY JOSHUA BOUT
Nigeria has bid to host the next title defense for WBA/IBF/WBO World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Joshua.
OKWIRI WILLING TO GIVE UP AFRICAN TITLE FOR CHANCE AT OLYMPICS
African middleweight champion Rayton Okwiri says he is ready to give up his championship if keeping it will prevent him from representing Kenya at the Olympic qualifiers in Dakar.
VIDEO: GARCIA-REDKACH, HURD-SANTANA WEIGH-IN
Check out Friday’s weigh-in for tonight’s welterweight showdown between former two-division world champion Danny “Swift” Garcia and Ivan Redkach, live at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in a PBC on SHOWTIME headliner.
GARCIA-REDKACH, HURD-SANTANA WORKOUT QUOTES
Two-division world champion Danny “Swift” Garcia and hard-hitting Ivan “El Terrible” Redkach showed off their skills at a media workout Wednesday before they battle in a WBC Welterweight Title Eliminator headlining action this Saturday, January 25 live on SHOWTIME from Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING™, in a Premier Boxing Champions event.
ANTHONY JOSHUA LIKELY TO FACE KUBRAT PULEV NEXT
Unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua likely will face Kubrat Pulev, one of his mandatory challengers, after a deadline to make a deal was extended.
PAULUS AMBUNDA TO RETURN APRIL 18
Former three-time world champion Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda will battle Zimbabwean journeyman Tinashe Mwadziwana for the newly established World Africa Boxing Association world super bantamweight title in Harare on April18.
KENYA BOXERS STEP UP TRAINING FOR OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS
Kenya’s boxing team preparations for the Africa qualifiers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have gone a notch higher at the Kenya Police Service Mathare Depot, Nairobi County.
“BUKOM FIST OF FURY” TO BE EXTENDED TO OTHER REGIONS
The Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), together with the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) has launched this year’s edition of the boxing league dubbed: “Bukom Fist of Fury”, with the focus on extending it to the various regions after its first edition on January 31 at the Bukom Boxing Arena.
SOUTH AFRICA LEGEND PETER MATHEBULA DIES AT 67
Peter Mathebula, the first black South African to win a world boxing title, has died at the age of 67.
NAMIBIA PLANS TO SEND 12 BOXERS TO OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS
The Namibia Boxing Federation is planning to send 12 boxers to Dakar, Senegal for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualification tournament scheduled for February 20-29, 2020.