Super featherweight contender Rafael Mensah and his promoter, Landmark Promotions, have a deal in place with Don King Promotions for an upcoming world title fight. A contractual agreement reached between Landmark Promotions, managers of Mensah and Don King Promotions stipulates that the Bukom boxer faces off with Puerto Rican, Jose Luis Martinez Machado, between…
Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh on Saturday maintained his unbeaten record as he defeated Ernest Amuzu from Ghana by unanimous decision in the Rajasthan Rumble fight in front of a packed Sawai Mansingh stadium in Jaipur. Vijender, who didn’t have the ideal preparation coming into this bout, didn’t need to go all out throughout…
WINDHOEK – Namibia’s former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Africa Cruiserweight champion, Vikapita Meroro, lost to Maxim Vlasov of Russia on Thursday evening in a non-title cruiserweight bout. In a fight that was monitored on the live streaming website Youtube by Nampa, the Namibian boxer was knocked out with one minute 16 seconds left in…
BROOKLYN – Undefeated 135-pound world champion Robert Easter will defend his IBF Title against former world champion Javier Fortuna in the co-main event of Errol Spence Jr. vs. Lamont Peterson live on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) on Saturday, Jan. 20 from Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING® and presented by Premier Boxing…
LAS VEGAS – Two-division world champion Danny “Swift’’ Garcia returns to the ring to take on former world champion Brandon “Bam Bam’’ Rios in a welterweight showdown on Saturday, February 17 live on SHOWTIME at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and presented by Premier Boxing Champions. In the co-feature, boxing’s youngest…
Newly-crowned African Boxing Union (ABU) super lightweight champion a 21-year-old Anisha Bashir has been given K 1 million cash for winning the title following a technical knockout (TKO) ninth-round victory over Kenyan Consolota Musanga in Nairobi, Kenya. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Samuel Tembenu presented the cash to Bashir on behalf of the…
The decision by the MTC board chairperson, Elvis Nashilongo, to question why the company continues to enrich South Africans has divided the telecommunications giant. Documents seen by The Namibian show that the stand-off involves some senior executives at the company and Nashilongo, who is being accused of meddling in the company’s operational matters. …
Jaipur, India: WBO Asia Pacific and Oriental Super Middleweight Champion Vijender Singh has refused to take African middleweight champion from Ghana Ernest Amuzu lightly, however, insisting that he is physically and mentally prepared to defend his two titles at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on December 23 in Jaipur. The Indian boxing sensation will be…
SAN ANTONIO – Undefeated three-division world champion Mikey Garcia and unbeaten IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion Sergey Lipinets were face to face for the second straight day Tuesday at a press conference in San Antonio to discuss their main event showdown taking place Saturday, Feb. 10 live on SHOWTIME (10:15 p.m. ET/PT). The matchup of…
Nigeria’s Olaide Fijabi will now fight Tanzania’s Shadrack Kobero for the vacant African Boxing Union (ABU) light welterweight title at GOtv Boxing Night 13 scheduled to hold on 26 December at Landmark Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Kobero was, on Sunday, approved by the ABU to replace Kenya’s Michael Odhiambo, who has been forced to pull…