MORUTI MTHALANE SNUBBED AT 2018 BOXING SOUTH AFRICA AWARDS
Boxing South Africa has announced the nominees for the 2018 Annual Award, to be held on Friday, May 17, at the Sandton Convention Centre.
Boxing South Africa has announced the nominees for the 2018 Annual Award, to be held on Friday, May 17, at the Sandton Convention Centre.
Shelly Finkel, the co-manager for WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, has indicated that his boxer has a full plate of fights in the works for 2019 – and a unification with Anthony Joshua is more likely for 2020.
Middleweight contender Walter Kautondokwa of Namibia has a new opponent for his May 10 bout in Harare, Zimbabwe.
WBC, WBA, Lineal middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) and IBF middleweight world champion Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) made their grand arrivals today at the MGM Grand Resort and Casino in Las Vegas ahead of their 12-round unification fight.
Check out Eric Armit’s comprehensive fight report in The Week in Boxing – May 1, 2019:
A deal is nearly finalized for WBA/WBO/IBF World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Joshua to face against Andy Ruiz Jr on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
After a slow start Jackson Chauke came back to win the vacant South African flyweight boxing title when he stopped Thabang Ramagole at two minutes 54 seconds into the ninth round at a packed Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday afternoon.
IBF middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs is confident that he will own two more world titles on Saturday. Jacobs will face WBC, WBA world champion Canelo Alvarez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Commonwealth Games silver medalist Christine Ongare and Nairobi light-heavyweight Joseph Onyango were the star attractions at the just concluded Kenya Open Championship at Charter Hall Nairobi.
LAS VEGAS – Errol Spence Jr. couldn’t help himself. The unbeaten IBF welterweight champion chastised promoter Bob Arum once Spence learned that the Terence Crawford-Amir Khan fight likely drew less than half the pay-per-view buys as his win against Mikey Garcia produced last month.