Chinedu Okeke, a Nigerian professional boxer, will be up against a Senegalese, Abdulkareem Ba (Sniper) in an Intercontinental Championship duel billed for Sunday, July 8, 2018 at the famous Iba Mar Diop Stadium in Dakar, Senegal.
Top boxing promoter Rodney Berman says skeptics are in danger of failing to enjoy the current successes of a number of SA boxers if they focus in harking back to the past.
It’s been a full week since the World Boxing Association ordered a mandatory fight between Anthony Joshua and Alexander Povetkin to be signed within 24 hours and WBN understands the contest is not yet inked for September.
Golden Boy CEO Oscar De Hoya is feeling the intensity level rising for Canelo Alvarez prepares to lock horns with his main rival on September 15.
This afternoon, at the World Boxing Organization (WBO) headquarters in Puerto Rico, the purse bid was held for the mandatory fight between WBO lightweight world champion Raymundo Beltran (35-7-1 , 21 KOs), from Mexico, and first-ranked Roman Andreev (21-0, 15 KOs), from Russia.
Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) is grappling with shortage of female boxers; something which makes it difficult to have a pool of female boxers representing the country at the international stage.
A company based in Nigeria is suing former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather to get their money back.
The winner of WBC Interim World Champion Regis Prograis vs top challenger Juan Jose Velasco on July 14 will enter the 140lb edition of the second season of the World Boxing Super Series.
Newly-crowned WBO world super bantamweight champion Isaac Dogboe plans to stay busy. Only four months after his title winning effort, Dogboe will make his first defense on August 25th versus Hidenori Otake, likely on US soil.
With less than two weeks until Manny Pacquiao takes on Lucas Matthysse, his coaches believe the 39-year-old will be in great condition.